Discuss mailing list

[Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net>]

ADDITION — Please consider the following as part of this discussion:

Section VI: Peered Network Guidelines

This section only applies to peered networks added to the OpenNIC root zone after this proposal has passed a vote of the community; networks peered prior to that date SHOULD consider this document a good guideline to follow. This section does not apply to any TLDs operated by OpenNIC. 

Peering with another alternative DNS root SHOULD represent a mutual two-way relationship.

The peered network:

- MUST provide access to OpenNIC’s TLD namespaces, without exception.

- MUST be willing to make every attempt to operate their network and the peering relationship in the long-term, to maintain stability.

- MUST provide a proxy Tier 1 server dedicated to peering with OpenNIC, that will be used as the authority for their namespaces by other OpenNIC servers. This server should follow all Tier 1 server guidelines.

- MUST provide a representative, to be available at a certain email contact and on the OpenNIC Mailing List.

- SHOULD be in operation for at least one (1) year.

- SHOULD have an abuse process in place to prevent malware on their namespaces.

- SHOULD be held accountable to OpenNIC abuse policies, especially in regard to malware.

- SHOULD provide registrations available to any user on all namespaces.

- SHOULD NOT be held accountable to OpenNIC organizational policies.

- Will OPTIONALLY provide a representative to be available on the #opennic IRC channel on Freenode, for immediate communication for time-sensitive issues.

OpenNIC:

- SHALL provide access to the peered network’s namespaces.

- SHOULD provide access to every namespace the peered network hosts.

- SHOULD NOT be required to host a Tier 1 server acting as a bridge between the two networks.

- SHOULD NOT blacklist access to any domains on the peered network from the Tier 1 network. 

Failure to meet these requirements may result in the disintegration of OpenNIC and the peered network’s agreement.

Jonah