ccTLD Workshop Amsterdam Junio 2004

1. UY (Uruguay) ccTLD Workshop Amsterdam Junio 2004 Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

2. Agenda • Policies issues • Technical issues • Plans UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

3. Policies • Delegated by IANA in 1990 to Informatic Central Service (SeCIU) of the “Universidad de la República”(University of the Republic). • This University is: - established by the Constitution - by-laws is national law - the only public university UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

4. Agenda • RAU – Red Académica Uruguaya (Uruguayan Academic Network) is administrated by SeCIU • The members are universities (public and privates), research institutes, etc. • Among its functions is the administration of the UY domain. UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

5. Policies • UY domain is structured in second levels domains.(No domain registers directly under UY) • Follow general principles of the RFC-1591 • The register has an anual fee of U$S 25 for manteinance (public education is free of charge) UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

6. Policies • Dispute resolutions: - Arbitration between the parties - Ordinary court • The registrant must accept the arbitration procedures when he signs registers documents. UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

7. Policies • Second level structure: • edu.uy (261) • org.uy (406) • gub.uy (144) • mil.uy (2) • net.uy (93) • com.uy (6986) UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

8. Policies UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

9. Policies • COM.UY - Administrated by ANTEL (the public telecomunication company)since 1994. • It has minor differences with the other subdomains in: registry requirements dispute resolution policies whois policies UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

10. Policies • At the moment, there are no important problems with the actual UY administration. • There are no formal instances to discuss DNS issues. • However there are good relations between all the actors in these matters. • Actors: ISPs, ANTEL, URSEC (government regulator body of telecomunications), NGOs, general users. UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

11. Technical • Servers: • Internet Access: 6 Mbps Cisco routers Cisco Pix Firewall • Hardware: Sun • Software: Solaris Bind 8.4 and Bind 9.2 UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

12. Technical • Staff Hardware and Software support: staff of RAU • Administration Support: staff of SeCIU UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

13. Technical • Register System Linux server Apache (www server) Perl Scripts Ripe Whois – public data Wisis data base – private data (another server) UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

14. Plans • Scaling the register system • Evaluate the Registry-Registrar model. • Use TSIG for zone transfers • IPv6 – allow AAAA records access to register system by IPv6 protocol UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya

15. Thanks • Monica Soliño • Sergio Ramírez UY (URUGUAY) Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya Universidad de la República - Red Académica Uruguaya