DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee

Submitted by namdhapha on Tue, 2008-05-06 20:27.
  • The ICANN Bylaws describe the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee as follows:

        • There shall be a DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee. The initial chairman of the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee shall be appointed by the Board; subsequent chairs shall be elected by the members of the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee pursuant to procedures adopted by the members. The responsibility of the Root Server System Advisory Committee shall be to advise the Board about the operation of the root name servers of the domain name system. The Root Server System Advisory Committee should consider and provide advice on the operational requirements of root name servers, including host hardware capacities, operating systems and name server software versions, network connectivity and physical environment. The Root Server System Advisory Committee should examine and advise on the security aspects of the root name server system. Further, the Root Server System Advisory Committee should review the number, location, and distribution of root name servers considering the total system performance, robustness, and reliability.

           
  • ICANN Director Jun Murai has been appointed Chair of this committee.

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  • Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with U.S. Government

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  • Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with U.S. Government

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  • Organizational meeting for the Committee occurred in Singapore on March 2. Additional meetings have occurred in Minneapolis, MN, USA on March 16; San Jose, CA, USA on June 21; and Oslo, Norway, on July 12.

  • Public notes for each RSSAC meeting will be posted as they become available.
  • Excerpts from the ICANN bylaws and the Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce regarding the areas of responsibility for which RSSAC advises ICANN can be found here. Please send mail to Suzanne Woolf woolf@icann.org with any questions.