TWNIC mDNS Business Plan

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TWNIC mDNS Business Plan

• Kenny Huang
• TWNIC
• JET Meeting, Beijing
• 28 August 2000

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Outline

• Business Model
• Market
• Operation

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Business Model
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What Problems Are We Solving

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

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Regulatory Issues

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

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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

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Market
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Demand For mTLD Registration
97276
88456
66922
33301
11744
Source TWNIC
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Operation
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Future Organization Structure
TWNIC
.TW Registry
.COM Registry
Other TLD Registry
Affiliate
TLD Registrar
Affiliate
Partnership
Partnership
Registrar
Registrar
Registrar
Registrar