TWNIC mDNS Business Plan

Kenny HuangTWNIC

JET Meeting, Beijing28 August 2000

Outline

• Business Model• Market• Operation

Business Model

What Problems Are We Solving

• Problem 1– Lack of marketing and technology capability– S1: Initiate whole set of mDNS related projects,include TA

Net mDNS deployment project,mDNS research project, mDNS-Email project, Microsoft joint development project

• Problem 2– System Interoperability – S2: CDNC mDNS Roaming Testbed, JET

• Problem 3– Slow pace on system deployment, service delivery– S3: Creating new registrars. Privatization study

Regulatory Issues

• Primarily in– Ensuring competition,– Protecting user interests, or– Controlling legal monopolies

Executive Strategy• Phase 1 : Exploration

– Launch multilingual domain name trial service (2Q 2000)

– System development• Phase 2 : Production Management

– Revise mDNS trial service – System Interoperability (Roaming model)– Production system feasibility study (include DRP)

• Phase 3 : Production and Collaboration– new name space and registration policy– New registrars

Market

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20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

1997/12 1998/12 1999/12 2000/08(eng) 2000/08(cht)

.教育.台灣

.組織.台灣

.網路.台灣

.商業.台灣

.idv.tw

.com.tw

.org.tw

.net.tw

.gov.tw

.edu.tw

Demand For mTLD Registration

11744

33301

66922

9727688456

Source : TWNIC

Operation

Facilities

• Hardware– SUN Ultra 2– 200Mhz CPU * 2– 256Mb– hard disk: 3.3G– Network: fast ethernet

• Software– OS: Solaris 2.6– web server: Netscape Enterprise 3.5– database: Oracle 7.3.4

Networks

• Name systems have fully redundant internal networks from servers to border routers with 10/100Mbps switched Ethernet

• Name systems are collocated on high reliable network POPs where direct peer with major tier1 ISPs

Operations

• Unix platform, 24x7 operation• Monitoring of site availability• Load sharing and caching architecture• Server configurations, back-end network

and database integration• Daily incremental backup and full

monthly off-site storage

Customer Service

• Assigned technical team from RFP through installation, operation, and trouble handling, 24x7

• On-site help-desk provide 8x5 customer inquiry service and trouble reporting

• Real-time, Web-based customer reporting systems

Technology

• System Software– BIND revision

• Architecture– Roaming model– DNS Forwarder– DNS gateway (code conversion)– Revised ZLD

• Encoding Support– BIG5,GB,UTF8,UTF5,RACE(TBC)

• Application

Multilingual Email System

• Email System V1.0 :– OS : Linux 6.2 – Software : ELM, MAIL (8-bit clean)– WEB Email Service Provided

• Trial operation in TWNIC and Academia Sinica

Future Organization Structure

.TWRegistry

TLDRegistrar

RegistrarRegistrar

.COMRegistry

Other TLDRegistry

TWNIC

Affiliate

Affiliate

Registrar Registrar

Partnership

Partnership