NZOC Monthly Report for December 2006

NZRS Report

NZRS have produced their monthly report for December 2006.  Main points NZOC would like to highlight with Council are:

• System availability for December was 99.97% against the SLA standard of 99.9%

• Total outage time of 13 minutes and 10 seconds was due to micro outages

• The scheduled maintenance window was not utilised

• Performance times for key transactions for December are in the following table:

• DNS SLA standards met

Server                           % Availability

Performance Stress Testing

The figures are derived from the 'stress testing' of the name servers. 1201 UDP and 121 TCP transactions are used.   Measurements are in milli-seconds.

The measurements for the Primary name servers and NS1, NS2 and NS3 are taken by running the programme on the individual servers.

SRS Zone Pushes

These figures show the average time taken from the point that the first Primary begins the zone push to the time that the last of the secondary’s acknowledges that it is up to date.

• The total number of WHOIS queries increased from 1,568,000 to 1,743,000.

• The level of active .nz domain names increased from 257,872 to 261,283. An increase of 3,411.

.nz Policies and Procedures

2.1       Registrar Compliance

• Correspondence on an issue is continuing between the DNC and a registrar.

• A registrar has apologised to people who received a general promotional email from them well after they had transferred all business away from them.  They have also agreed to make changes in how they get people to opt in to receive notices.

2.2              Policy Reviews

A second consultation paper regarding the review of the Registering, Managing and Cancelling Domain Names Policy has been published and public comments are being sought.  No submissions had been received as at the end of December.  The deadline for responding has been extended to 14 February 2007. The paper can be seen at http://dnc.org.nz/rmc-2ndconsult.

2.3              Applications 

No applications for access to the zone file, or for a new second level domain, were received over the month.

Registrar authorisation and connection

One more registrar was authorised in December but there were no more connections to the production environment over the month.

Other .nz matters

• NZOC met on 11 December.  A copy of the minutes can be seen at http://dnc.org.nz/content//Minutes_11_Dec_06.pdf. As per the notification at the meeting, the DNC Office is moving to change its name to “Domain Name Commission” rather than “The Office of the Domain Name Commissioner”.

• A call for nominations for the Registrar Advisory Group was sent out with a deadline around mid January.  It is expected that the ‘new’ RAG group will meet in February so their views can be sought on any submissions received as part of the second consultation into the Registering, Managing and Cancelling Domain Names Policy.

Dispute Resolution Service (DRS)

 
Fourteen new disputes were received in December and there were a total of 18 live disputes progressing through the system.  

DNC Office   

 
A replacement Dispute Support Officer was recruited.  Jayne Boyle started in December allowing some overlap for training before Hilary Pope’s last day.

Financial

 
Financial report as at the end of December 2006

Frank March

Chair, NZOC