1. TWNIC mDNS Business Plan Kenny Huang TWNIC JET Meeting, Beijing 28 August 2000

2. Outline Business Model Market Operation

3. Business Model

4. 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

5. Regulatory Issues Primarily in –Ensuring competition, –Protecting user interests, or –Controlling legal monopolies

6. 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

7. Market

8. Demand For mTLD Registration 11744 33301 66922 97276 88456 Source : TWNIC

9. Operation

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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