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Byron HollandPresident and CEO
January 2013
Canadian Internet Registration Authority
Agenda
1. What CIRA does and how2. Current Activities3. CIRA History and Governance4. Internet History and Governance5. Questions?
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Mission
CIRA’s mission is to foster the development of .CA as a key public resource for all Canadians by providing stable, secure and trusted domain name services, and by taking a leadership role in shaping Canada’s Internet for the benefit of .CA domain holders.
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Vision
CIRA’s vision is to be a world-class Internet Registry that is recognized and valued by the Internet community and Canadians.
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Values• We believe that fairness, transparency and high ethical
standards are the foundation of our culture.• CIRA is committed to a collaborative team environment
that seeks continuous improvement and breakthrough ideas through innovation.
• At CIRA we are committed to exceeding stakeholder expectations through excellence in operations, service delivery and engagement.
• We believe in having a positive influence in the communities where we provide service and do business.
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Primary Roles of CIRA
Ensure effective stewardship of .CA:
1. Operate DNS in 100% uptime environment
2. Operate .CA Registry
3. Manage .CA brand
4. Develop and implement policies that
support Canada's Internet community
5. Represent .CA interests internationally
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Who is CIRA?• The registry that operates the country code Top-Level
Domain for Canada (the .CA ccTLD).• A thick Registry that currently has over 2 million
domain names under management.• CIRA processes:
– 250,000,000 DNS queries per day.– 5,000 registration requests per day.– 4,000,000 WHOIS queries per day.
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Who is CIRA?
• Staff of 60 full time employees • Revenues of $15.6 million in FY12• Has about 150 certified Registrars• Has approximately 1.2M Registrants and approximately
15,000 Members
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CIRA History and Governance
CIRA History
• University of British Columbia.• Canadian Domain Name Consultative Committee .• Founding Board of Directors.• Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).
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CIRA Governance
• Not-for-profit corporation• Member-driven• 1999 Binder Letter to CIRA:
– Recognizes CIRA as the administrator of the .CA domain space.
– Requests a structure predicated upon:• Conducting CIRA's activities in an open and
transparent manner that ensures wide public access to all relevant information.
• Following fair and sound business practices.
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CIRA Governance – Cont’d
• Binder Letter to CIRA cont’d:– Ensuring an appropriate balance of representation,
accountability and diversity on the Board of Directors for all categories of stakeholders.
– Applying for domain names being as quick and easy as applying for domain names in other top level domains, and priced competitively.
– Reducing conflicts between persons granted domain names and other Fights holders, including trade-marks or business names.
– A system that facilitates and encourages entry for new players including registrars.
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Canadian Market Share
Source: Dr. Zook Q2 2012 Canadian Domain Names Report, .CA Registry Database
Q2 2007
Q3 2007
Q4 2007
Q1 2008
Q2 2008
Q3 2008
Q4 2008
Q1 2009
Q2 2009
Q3 2009
Q4 2009
Q1 2010
Q2 2010
Q3 2010
Q4 2010
Q1 2011
Q2 2011
Q3 2011
Q4 2011
Q1 2012
Q2 2012
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
62.5%
53.6%
20.4%
30.3%
com Market Sharenet Market Shareorg Market Shareinfo Market Sharebiz Market Shareca Market Share
Five Year Average Growth Rates Specific TLDs
Source: CIRA Benchmarking Research, Competitive Analysis Matrix
fr au br ca nl se uk no us de eu cn
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40%
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Global TLD Growth 2007-2012
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CIRA’s Strategic Objectives
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What CIRA does:
.CA Product:• Develops and maintains its own registry software
supporting two interface formats.• Recently redesigned registry software and related
policies. • Owns and operates its registration primary and backup
data centres.• Operates the To Be Released (TBR) system.• Operates WHOIS service.• Operates a worldwide DNS secondary infrastructure.
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Channel and Customer Relations:• Certifies and re-certifies Registrars.• Manages and enforces the Registrar Agreement.• Manages major Certified Registrar issues (financials,
sales, going out of business, etc.).• Holds regular consultations and meetings with
Registrars.• Manages and enforces the Registrant Agreement.• Handles Registrant complaints.
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What CIRA does:
What CIRA does:
Governance:• Runs annual elections for the Board of Directors.• Holds a formal Annual General Meeting (AGM).• Publishes an annual report.• Publicly publishes the minutes of its Board meetings
and audited financial statements.
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What CIRA does:
Other: • Operates the CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Process (CDRP).• Operates bilingually.• Participates in relevant national and international
groups, initiatives and fora.
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How We Do It:
• Three year strategic planning cycles.• Engagement with the Canadian Internet
community.• Participation in international technical and
policy forums.• A high-performing team located in Ottawa.
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CIRA Policies• Canadian Presence Requirements:
– For Registrants.– For Registrars.
• CIRA Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP). • WHOIS Policy.• Low barrier to entry for Registrars.• Competitive Registry.• Protection of the Registrant by the Registry.• Registrants are the members of the corporation.
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Current Activities
Internationalized Domain Names
• French-accented characters, such as û, à, ç, ë, and œ.
• Available since January 13, 2013.• Every French character variant of a .CA domain is
part of a bundle. (For example, the bundle for cira.ca would include variants such as cirà.ca, çira.ca, cîra.ca, çïrâ.ca, and all other combination of accented French and standard ASCII characters)
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Product Improvements
DNSSEC• RFCs for adding digital signatures to DNS data.• Provides authenticity of data.• Adds secure delegations from parent to child,
creating trust hierarchies (“path of trust”).• Provides provable denial of existence.• Compromised name servers detected and ignored.• DNS data manipulation detected and ignored.• DNSSEC enabled for .CA in January 2013.
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Canadian Internet Forum• CIF process began in 2009. • National dialogue with Canadians on Internet-related
issues.• Bottom-up, grass roots, multi-stakeholder process. • Third CIF began in November 2012. • National event: Ottawa, February 28, 2013 in Ottawa.• Online discussion forum.• Output presented to the Internet Governance Forum. • Cif.cira.ca
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Community Investment Program (CIP)
• Initiatives ultimately work toward providing benefits to Canadian Internet users.
• CIP is funded through the annual operating planning process.
• Initiatives will encompass a range of activities.• Activities will be both CIRA or 3rd Party
developed/managed and fall within the scope of our corporate objects.
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Community Investment Program (CIP)
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Continue to fund Internet related initiatives internally that are close to core of business
Consider supporting the establishment of a Canadian organization
Launch an “arms length” Advisory Committee of the Board to administer and distribute funds to third parties in support of Internet Related Activities
Three Overall Thrusts
Internet History and Governance
History of the Internet
• Began in 1960s and 1970s as a tool for research and military use.
• By 1990s commercial services began showing up.
• 10 years ago 100 million people were online.
• Today 2 billion people are online – and growing.
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Internet Governance
• Internet Society (ISOC), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• Internet Governance Forum (IGF)– First Canadian IGF (CIF) - February 2011
• Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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ICANN• Coordinates the Internet’s identifiers.• Responsible for IANA function.• Develops global internet naming policy• IDN ccTLDs (e.g. Chinese, Arabic, and Russian characters
instead of latin characters) available since November 2009 at first level: 12 IDN ccTLDs have been delegated, with several more pending delegation:– Egypt: مصر.– Tunisia: تونس.– Russian Federation: .рф
• New gTLDs (e.g. .sport, .music, .berlin) in 2013.• CIRA plays important role in ICANN policy development:
ccNSO, working groups.
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ICANN Cont’d
↕CIRA
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UN’s Role
Internet Governance Forum:• Multi-stakeholder format: governments, civil society,
academia, the technical community, and Internet users.• A forum for Internet-related discussions. International Telecommunication Union (ITU):• Coordinates and manages global telecommunications traffic. • Traditionally have had little to do with Internet traffic. • New treaty (International Telecommunications Regulations)
negotiated in October – included Internet-related provisions. Canada did not sign.
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World Conference on Information Technology
• Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December 2012.
• Discuss the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) for 1st time in 25 years.
• New ITRs include provisions that extend the ITU’s reach over the Internet.
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World Conference on Information Technology
• Canada refused to sign, nor did 1/3 of member states.
• Contentious issues: – Secrecy surrounding proposals.– Definition of operating agency could include
ISPs. – Spam-related provisions.
• Possible creation of ‘two-tier Internet’.
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Questions?
Byron HollandPresident and CEOCanadian Internet Registration Authority
(CIRA)
http://cira.caTwitter: @CIRA001 @CIRAnews1-877-860-1411
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