TWNIC mDNS Business Plan Kenny Huang TWNIC JET Meeting, Beijing 28 August 2000
Outline Business Model Market Operation
Business Model
What Problems Are We Solving 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
Regulatory Issues Primarily in Ensuring competition, Protecting user interests, or Controlling legal monopolies
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
Market
Demand For mTLD Registration 97276 88456 66922 33301 11744 Source : TWNIC
Operation
Facilities Hardware Software 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
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
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
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
Technology System Software Architecture Encoding Support Application BIND revision Architecture Roaming model DNS Forwarder DNS gateway (code conversion) Revised ZLD Encoding Support BIG5,GB,UTF8,UTF5,RACE(TBC) Application
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
Future Organization Structure TWNIC .TW Registry .COM Registry Other TLD Registry Affiliate TLD Registrar Affiliate Partnership Partnership Registrar Registrar Registrar Registrar