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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:23 PM
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN Approves Name Collision Occurrence 
Management Framework | Special IP Address (127.0.53.53) Alerts System 
Administrators of Potential Issue

 

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News Alert


https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-01-en

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ICANN Approves Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework | Special IP 
Address (127.0.53.53) Alerts System Administrators of Potential Issue


1 August 2014

ICANN today announced the approval of the Name Collision Occurrence Management 
Framework 
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/name-collision-framework-30jul14-en.pdf>
  [PDF, 634 KB] by the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC). The 
framework implementation requirements were developed with input from many 
sources including the ICANN community, a report published by JAS Global 
Advisors LLC, and advice from the Security and Stability Advisory Committee 
(SSAC).

The framework is designed to mitigate the impact of name collisions in the 
domain name system (DNS), which typically occur when fully qualified domain 
names conflict with similar domain names used in private networks. When this 
occurs, users can be taken to an unintended Web page or encounter an error 
message.

To address this issue, the framework calls for registry operators to use a 
technique called "controlled interruption" to alert system administrators that 
there may be an issue in their network. Specifically, an IPv4 address – 
127.0.53.53 – will appear in system logs, enabling a quick diagnosis and 
remediation.

"We now have a well-defined methodology for mitigating name collisions for 
delegated top-level domain names and a path forward for registries to unblock 
certain second-level domains in their list," said Akram Atallah, president of 
ICANN's Global Domains Division. "These operational processes, which were 
developed in conjunction with the multistakeholder community, will help to 
ensure the security of the domain name system."

Atallah went on to note that ICANN will provide information to and work with 
the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) to consider whether policy 
work on developing a long-term plan to manage gTLD name collisions issues 
should be undertaken.

ICANN will be holding webinars 
<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-08-01-en>  to discuss details 
of the Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework and answer questions on 
12 August 2014 – Session 1 will take place at 01:00-02:30 UTC and Session 2 
will be from 15:00-16:30 UTC.


Overview: Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework Implementation


ICANN registry operators are obligated to comply with requirements in the Name 
Collision Occurrence Management Framework, which include:

*       Acting on name collision reports from ICANN within two hours of receipt 
of the report during the first two years of the life of the top-level domain 
(TLD), measured from the time of delegation of the TLD;
*       Implementing continuous controlled interruption for a 90-day period.

ICANN obligations include:

*       Monitoring the registry's implementation of the controlled interruption 
to ensure compliance with contractual requirements;
*       Coordinating an emergency response for name collision reports only 
where there is a reasonable belief that the name collision presents a clear and 
present danger to human life; and
*       Working within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and with 
other relevant technical communities to identify a mechanism for IPv6 IP 
addresses that provides similar functionality to that being used in IPv4 (the 
loopback IP address 127.0.53.53).

The Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework also calls for the 
delegation of .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL to be deferred indefinitely. ICANN will 
collaborate with the technical and security communities to determine the best 
way to handle these strings in the long term.

For more information on name collisions please visit 
https://www.icann.org/namecollision 
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12-06-en> .


About ICANN


ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To 
reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your 
computer – a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know 
where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the 
world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN 
was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with 
participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, 
stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the 
Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. 
It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But 
through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an 
important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more 
information please visit: www.icann.org <https://www.icann.org/> .

[UPDATE: The date of the Session 1 webinar on the Name Collision Occurrence 
Management Framework has changed. It will now take place from 01:00-02:30 UTC 
on 12 August 2014.]

  
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