ICANN official announces Chinese experts selected as key players

March 31 news, recently, ICANN official announced some of the new members of the organization, the Internet domain Name System Beijing Engineering Research Center (ZDNS) senior researcher Dr. Zhangjianchang, The lab director, Dr. Marty, was selected as a member of the ICANN IANA functional transfer Design Group (TEAM,DT), the Internet Root Server Advisory Committee Expert Group (ICANN RSSAC Caucus). The selection of the two experts gives Chinese experts an opportunity to participate in the "top design" of the key functions of the Internet domain Name System, and is also an important symbol of China's contribution to the internet community.

 
The ICANN IANA functional Transfer Design group consists of several teams, each composed of 5-6 experts in the relevant field, with the basic task of forming expert advice on some key issues in the IANA handover process, submitted to the IANA functional Transfer team (CWG IANA Transitions) to help the team form a final handover report on domain name management. Dr. Zhangjianchang was elected to the D-design Group (dt-d), and the Dt-d team was composed of six members, including ICANN CTO, CWG member, RSSAC (root server Security Advisory Committee) and top-level domain board representatives, from key global stakeholders, The main research direction is whether to continue to maintain the U.S. government's approval of the IANA root zone files.
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It is well known that, for historical reasons, the IANA is responsible for the generation of Internet root files (the addition, deletion, and modification of top-level domains), but before handing over the root zone file to the relevant authorities, obtain the national Communications and Information Administration (NTIA) belonging to the U.S. government's Ministry of Commerce Audit。 For a long time, this power of the United States government has been widely criticized by the international community as an important symbol of the US's unilateral "control" of the Internet. At a critical juncture in the handover of the IANA function, Dr. Zhangjianchang's election made the voice of the Chinese Internet community more responsive to the idea and stance of more and more interest, and an important symbol of China's contribution to the internet community.
 
In the Internet domain Name System, the root server is the starting point of Internet address positioning, is the user access to the Internet, is to help the internet to achieve "interconnection" the most important infrastructure. The current Internet domain Name System has 13 root servers, distributed in 4 countries, of which 10 root servers are deployed in the United States, and the remaining 3 are deployed in the UK, Sweden and Japan respectively. Dr. Marty was elected to the Internet Root Server Advisory board (the root Servers System Advisory Committee, RSSAC), composed of representatives from the operating organization of the Internet root server, Responsible for providing the ICANN board with decision support for root server operational security and management mechanisms. Based on information from ICANN, the Internet Root Server Advisory Committee panel was set up to help ICANN's root server Advisory board carry out technical research and decision analysis, particularly the evolution of the Internet root server's operating mechanism and architecture.
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Dr. Marty, the director of the Laboratory of the Beijing Engineering Research Center, has been a visiting scholar in the United States BBN Company in 2013 to participate in the RPKI (Internet Basic Resources certification system) related technology research and development work;The National informatization Expert Advisory Committee topic "IPV6 Transition Plan Research" as well as "IPV6 address management Plan research" and so on, he also is ICANN's root area Chinese top-level domain name generation rule Expert Group member.
 
The domain name Engineering Center has long been committed to promoting Internet root technology research, actively tracking the latest development of international domain name technology and industry, extensive international cooperation and exchanges in the international domain name industry organizations advocating the interests of the Chinese community, participate in relevant technical standards development, Promote the improvement of our country's independent innovation ability. We believe that future Chinese Internet workers will also make more contributions to the Internet.