[governance] Milestone Agreement Reached Between ICANN, and F Root Server Operator, Internet Systems Consortium

[Karl Auerbach]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm

> (there
> have been a few papers by Karl Auerbach and that's all).

Back in 2005 - Towards the end of 
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000192.html one can see some 
suggested terms for such an agreement.

(It's amusing that I have so often been told by various people that I'm 
living in the past and keep resurrecting older (aka "inconvenient"?) 
issues.  Seems like the past still has some life in it after all... )

It is also amusing that ISC's principal (Paul Vixie - a person who 
deserves a permanent internet halo) is also involved in an alternate 
root system - ORSN http://european.ch.orsn.net/ )

Will this agreement provide for third party beneficiary rights - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_beneficiary -  so that it can 
be enforced even if ICANN, as it and its ombudsman have a tendency to 
do, look the other way if things go awry?

Anyway here's the list:

     * Servers must be operated to ensure high availability of 
individual servers, of anycast server clusters, and of network access paths.

     * Root zone changes should be propagated reasonably quickly as they 
become available.

     * User query packets should be answered with dispatch but without 
prejudice to the operator’s ability to protect itself against ill formed 
queries or queries that are obviously intended to cause harm or overload.

     * User query packets should be answered accurately and without 
manipulation that interferes with the user’s right to enjoy the 
end-to-end principle and to be free from the undesired introduction of 
intermediary proxies or man-in-the-middle systems.

     * Operators should coordinate with one another to ensure reasonably 
consistent responses to queries made to different root servers at 
approximately the same time.

     * There should be no discrimination either for or against any query 
source.

     * Queries should be given equal priority no matter what name the 
query is seeking to resolve.

     * There should be no ancillary data mining (e.g. using the queries 
to generate marketing data) except for purposes of root service capacity 
planning and protection.

     * The operator must operate its service to be reasonably robust 
against threats, both natural and human.

     * The operator must demonstrate at reasonable intervals that it has 
adequate backup and recovery plans. Part of this demonstration ought to 
require that the plans have been realistically tested.

     * The operator must demonstrate at reasonable intervals that it has 
adequate financial reserves and human resources so that should an ill 
event occur the operator has the capacity (and obligation) to recover.

		--karl--

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