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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 2:23 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>ICANN News Alert -- Attention Domain Name System: Your 30-Year Scheduled Maintenance Is Overdue!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"></a><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.icann.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=PRM-avPjUdzlspJki7ecdd5LMFAFvXVxdqv6D7re8vM&s=Rh7A1_lLsw4f0SROx750ke2QqZH5z28_sOoWaMvW77Q&e="><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/icann-primary-logo-94x94-en.png" alt="ICANN"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">News Alert<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D2018-2D04-2D17-2Den&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=PRM-avPjUdzlspJki7ecdd5LMFAFvXVxdqv6D7re8vM&s=jXzvQI3w2sH0YXUVS7Ml49GzxM589KofL6mFneRJL30&e="><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-04-17-en</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Attention Domain Name System: Your 30-Year Scheduled Maintenance Is Overdue!
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">17 April 2018</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">LOS ANGELES – 17 April 2018 – The Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is pleased to announce that the ICANN
Domain Name System (DNS) Symposium (IDS 2018) will be held Friday, 13 July 2018, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It takes place back-to-back with this trimester's conference of the Internet Engineering Task Force (</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ietf.org_how_meetings_102_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=PRM-avPjUdzlspJki7ecdd5LMFAFvXVxdqv6D7re8vM&s=vHTd5fDjN1fcupFp2nNJjBQXwK2oehQnEqFoZ-1gNEE&e="><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">IETF
102</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">). The theme for IDS 2018 is "Attention Domain Name System: Your 30-year scheduled maintenance is overdue."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">The Domain Name System is well into its thirties. The DNS began as an exercise to improve the scaling properties of mapping host names on the ARPANET to Internet addresses, and to help
decentralize email box names. In thirty years, we have evolved from the early experimentation and implementation of the formative domain name standards to a distributed name resolution system with millions of name servers that process billions of queries daily.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">The DNS runs exceptionally well – most users think of it as rock solid. But perhaps the system could be made healthier, or could be improved to support further innovation. What if we
put the DNS through a scheduled maintenance with the kind of full diagnostic assessment routinely recommended for high-performance vehicles?</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">For IDS 2018, we are extending an invitation to members of the research, academia, and operational communities. We'd like you to share experiences, data, or innovative thinking on how
we might improve the DNS, or how we might foster innovation by adapting the DNS to support emerging identifier needs.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Symposium topics include:</span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Transport issues such as DNS over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and protocols for DNS beyond User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Operational issues related to the DNS's maturity level, such as those stemming from scaling or protocol complexity.
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Security issues relating to confidentiality, integrity, and authentication.
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Role of the DNS in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) incidents and mechanisms for mitigation.
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Use of the DNS for new applications and new useful DNS data types.
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Emerging identifier systems and their competition and coexistence with the DNS.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">We are soliciting proposals for presentations. Please send a one-paragraph description of your proposed topic to
</span><a href="mailto:ids-proposals@icann.org"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">ids-proposals@icann.org</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> by 1 June 2018.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">For more information, including schedule and venue information, please visit:
</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_ids&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=PRM-avPjUdzlspJki7ecdd5LMFAFvXVxdqv6D7re8vM&s=hEILUNZNTk6dKp9OUjTuWIS2kx8I5656iLjAE5D5Y9Q&e="><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">https://www.icann.org/ids</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">About ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your
computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community
of participants from all over the world.</span></p>
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