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.aero the Domain of Aviation

.aero the Domain of Aviation. .aero Naming conventions. How .aero could facilitate access to information related to Air Transport ?. Dot Aero Council. .aero the Domain of Aviation. Serving the AirTransport Community:. And also: Industry Associations, Media, General Aviation,

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.aero the Domain of Aviation

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  1. .aero the Domain of Aviation .aero Naming conventions How .aero could facilitate access to information related to Air Transport ? Dot Aero Council

  2. .aero the Domain of Aviation Serving the AirTransport Community: • And also: • Industry Associations, • Media, • General Aviation, • Business/Corporate Aviation • Individuals, • Recreation, Air Sports • Pilots, Engineers, Dot Aero Council

  3. .aero the Domain of Aviation What to do with a Structured Namespace ? • What has been already defined, • the Airline Naming convention Dot Aero Council

  4. .aero the Domain of Aviation .aero Naming conventions: Dot Aero Council

  5. .aero the Domain of Aviation Airline Naming convention IATA rp1784 and 2-Chars A/L Designators § • Adopted by IATA members at PSC in Oct 2002 • Recommends use of 2 character A/L designator • Codes at 2nd level Domain (2LD) • All 2-characters Airline Codes reserved already for A/L holder • Convention for third Level (3LD), one and two character names • reserved for Office Function Designators, other names open for each A/L usage Examples § ba.aero nw.aero … Dot Aero Council

  6. .aero the Domain of Aviation Fast access to Airline Web sites Some examples of standard functional usage The reservation page URL of some Airlines, or a new name, Qantas https://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer_ir1.htmlrm.qf.aero Royal Jordanian http://reservation.rja.com.jo/hfhtml/rjavf.htmlrm.rj.aero Lufthansa https://www.lufthansa.com/aerodyn/fb_main.aero?pos=DE&l=en&p=fly rm.lh.aero Dot Aero Council

  7. .aero the Domain of Aviation and also simplified addressing for Messaging • The RP1784 recommends a naming convention for e-mail addresses. Predictive Names and Addresses : •        3-letter location identifier code •        2-letter office function code (OFD) •        The « @ » symbol •        2-character airline designator code •        “.” a period •        The top level domain (aero) • Examples: • gvahq@xs.aero • hdqrz@ua.aero. Dot Aero Council

  8. .aero the Domain of Aviation What else to do with a Structured Namespace ? 2. Opportunities, Dot Aero Council

  9. .aero the Domain of Aviation Under study conventions, Flight-Numbers and City-Pairs § – These have been « reserved » from the beginning of .aero Registry operation, for future usage by A/Ls and A/Ps 3-letters Airport Location Identifiers and ACI § – 3-letters Airport Location Identifiers registration has been restricted, waiting for DAC to advise … Dot Aero Council

  10. .aero the Domain of Aviation .aero Naming conventions: Dot Aero Council

  11. .aero the Domain of Aviation Usefulness of these Industry Codes and .aero ? § These codes are generally well known, from Inside and Outside the Industry: Airline and Airport codes, Flight-Numbers, City-pairs, are easy to remember identifiers, By implementing such naming convention in the Internet world, the Industry provides their professionals and passengers with a worldwide standard, enabling simple and fast access to web applications, from PCs and Mobile Terminals(Mobile Telephones, PDAs) Access to information for Passengers § Status of Flights (Arrivals/Departures), Schedules, Bookings, Frequent-Flyer information, Could be directly retrieved, in a « standard » way, anytime, anyplace: in any A/P, for any A/L Dot Aero Council

  12. .aero the Domain of Aviation Information for passengers (pulled, not SMS like) Status of Flight: lh3772.gva.aero (from Geneva a/p computer) or lh3772.aero (from Lufthansa computer) Routes, by City-pairs: gva-lhr.aero (by GVA A/P ), then Schedules, by City-pair, A/L, date Or ba.aero, then schedules, why not booking, seat purchase, Also services for frequent flyers, initiatives taken by each A/L Use of a common « language », easy to remember, to communicate with A/Ls, A/Ps Dot Aero Council

  13. .aero the Domain of Aviation Information for Staff ,pulled [Intranet], and I-M • Internet, Intranet, and simple Addressing scheme combined with « Instant Messaging (I-M) » (chat), the possibility of communications using small text messages, in complement of voice (téléphone, radio) and messaging, for operations, in an A/P environment. • For example: baggage@gva.aero, fuel@gva.aero Conversations by I-M are slower and less interruptive than by telephone, but can be more precise, more easily shared widely, more easily saved and reused.I-M combines features of both e-mail and telephones. Use of a common « language », to communicate within A/Ls, A/Ps Dot Aero Council

  14. .aero the Domain of Aviation More conventions … e-mail for airports § – Common naming scheme examined with ACI, ICAO identifiers § – 2-letters Country-Codes, 4 letters airport/airfields identifiers And all kinds of « objects » like aircraft-identifiers, Air WayBills, § e.g. F-BPRA.aero, HB-GFU.aero, or N-12073.aircraft.aero, 125-12345675 , .. Dot Aero Council

  15. .aero the Domain of Aviation Whythese opportunities now ? Availability of Standards, Technology, Data, and .aero Naming ! Dot Aero Council

  16. Standards Mobile Technologyand consumer Products .aero the Domain of Aviation .aero the Top Level Domain of Aviation « Traveller Service Points » + Mobile phones,Smartphones,Laptops, PDAs, PCMCIA boards, GSM/GPRS Wi-Fi (802.11b) Opportunitiesfor new Services Opportunity for Mobile Services Information(existing data and applications) .aero Naming Conventions A/L systems, A/P systems Dot Aero Council

  17. .aero the Domain of Aviation Howto implement this ? Maximize the value of .aero DNS ! Dot Aero Council

  18. .aero the Domain of Aviation .aero Domain Name System defines a Structured Namespace • Powerful, Distributed system (5 Top level DNSs for .aero) • Extremely Reliable (> 99.999 % uptime) • Capable to accomodate millions of names • Simple to implement for enabling these new services Dot Aero Council

  19. .aero the Domain of Aviation How this is implemented ? Take advantage of the structured Namespace, and use the DNS features: Register all flight-Numbers, (by the operating A/L), possibly also by the From A/P and the To A/P, (or as a managed service) Register all City-pairs, (by the originating A/P) Implementation, using TLD Domain Name System, can be simple and very efficient Dot Aero Council

  20. .aero the Domain of Aviation Implementation Reliability and speed are the objectives For fast access, all objects like Codes, Flights, City-Pairs, … are registered in .aero TLD DNS Use of DNS, Service (application) provided by A/L, A/P, … or shared (managed by SITA, …) DNS Database Application Client Application Database Database Dot Aero Council

  21. .aero the Domain of Aviation Conclusion Establishing and using a predictive Naming structure is an opportunity for the Air Transport Community: • to offer new services to the consumers, • and to streamline the Industry communications using state-of-the-art technology. What are your views ? Dot Aero Council

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