Re: [ga] CRADA reports

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 12:56 22/01/03, vinton g. cerf said:
>we agree this is of high importance!
>we're working on it and hope to have releasable information soon.

This would be of high interest.

With the ICP-3 compliant dot-root project we have started to implement a 
DNS real life test bench. It is a triple (right now) parallel root server 
systems. The target is first to stabilize these three systems - one (today 
with 8 machines) is a strict test copy of the RSSAC. It will serve as a 
reference system and to test the DNS evolution/projects in a single root 
file mode. We hope we can have a forth root system soon, so we would have a 
fully three parallel system, necessary for consistency mutual checks and 
full  verification of the automated root file generation (from TLD 
Managers' data).

When we have enough root servers from enough different countries and when 
our internal procedures and ULDs (test TLDs aliased as community SLDs) 
start being stable enough we will open the system to every interested DNS 
oriented project manager. Hopefully by mid-2003 (we hoped earlier but 
things take time). In the meanwhile we are working on the reporting tools 
and monitoring. Our target is to provide a DNS test system as requested by 
ICP-3, in a complete real life approach: mixing technical, societal and 
political aspects, what the "mission creep" taught us the real world is. So 
we might test also economical and governance models.

Everyone interested in helping with editing or any other contributions 
(local machine hosting: USA, South America) or in joining with a test root 
server machine (low test load) is welcome. This is an internet global 
community project the European test roots have catalyzed, but we have/plan 
partners from several other parts of the world, including, and this what is 
exciting, developing countries. So Africa for example will share in 
building the Internet of the future and can share in testing solutions 
fitting their own needs and vision of the nets. As such we really feel we 
are part of the WSIS effort.

A part from root automated generation, now pre-tested for nearly one year, 
we are now considering the automated generation of a full test IANA file. 
We are working on a consolidated reporting tool using a specialized web 
service (it is necessary to have comparative reports by root systems), then 
an alarm system and an underlay network. We also hope to be able to run 
around 1100 test TLDs first, and then 35.000 by mid-2003, all of them 
hopefully with real test daily traffic (so there is an actual random load 
at user request's every TTL). This will be reported for information to the 
IETF when we find an experienced benevolent Editor. We are completing right 
now two studies (250 pages) on the project and the management of ULDs (in 
French) and looking for sponsors now the project has probably taken off. 
BTW, would ICANN not help?

So we know root systems are important and that it takes time to help. But 
we also start seing that a small team can catalyse and deliver  :-)
jfc