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Saturday, July 09, 2005
Say NO to APJII!
Prolog
At
the end of 1997, I went back to Indonesia from my studies and work in
Canada. The .ID domain management in Indonesia at that time was in a
confusing state. Nobody wanted to manage it. Universitas Indonesia (UI)
- the original maintainer - was in a fight with APJII (the Association
of Indonesian ISP).
In the end, IANA gave me a mandate to manage the
.ID domain. Since then, I manage the .ID domain with open management.
There are problems, but mostly minors.
Until recently, when
APJII (again) is trying to take over the .ID domain management from my
team. Here’s a short info to give you a head start.
Short summary
APJII
(the association of ISP in Indonesia) is trying to takeover the .ID
domain management in Indonesia. They have tried and will try everything
to take over.
Long description
I’ve been managing the .ID domain since the end of 1997. At that time, nobody wanted to run the domain management.
First
of all, a brief description of how we run things. To run the .ID
domain, I am assisted by several domain admins. Each of these domain
admins is responsible for second level
domains. For example, there
is a domain admin for AC.ID, then there is also a different domain
admin for CO.ID, etc. These domain admins are volunteered based. (No ne
get paid, except for the CO.ID admin who is also helping the day to day
operation.) All of this was done informally. I am personally
responsible for everything. We use “IDNIC” as the name of our operation.
There
is a fee to register a domain, except for sch.id, go.id, and mil.id
(which is allocated for schools, government, and military - they are
free). Most of the domains are registered with one time fee, except for
web.id which has a yearly fee. In the future we would like
to
implement a yearly fee to make sure that there are no dead domains
(domains that are not used at all). Billing was outsourced to APJII
(the association of Indonesian ISP).
To serve the domain users
better, we are now in the process of using registrar-registry, just
like gTLDs. We would like to be the registry and stick with policy and
backend. Whereas registrars are doing the business.
To implement
this concept we have to formalized the organization. We decided to
create a formal entity, which consists of all the domain admins (the de
facto operational). This organization is a non-profit oriented. We are
in the process of discussing the by-laws publicly (through open mailing
list).
Now… the issues.
APJII (the associations of ISP)
feels that they are being left out. They insisted that they should be
part of the registry (AND registrar). They do not like the
registrar-registry concept. So, they sent mails.
- First
mail stated that we cannot use the word / brand “IDNIC” anymore since
they have trademarked the name IDNIC. (in 1998) (Yes, they have done
this without my knowledge. It was a stab in my back.) - They
will use the name IDNIC to serve IP allocation and AS numbers, which
they are doing right now. (Note: apparently, this is just the beginning
of the take over)
We have no choice but to stop using the name IDNIC in our services. We are now using “ccTLD-ID”
as our name. (And we have changed IANA database.) We move forward with
our registrar-registry programme. Currently, we have selected 5
registrars.
The next letter was a threat to sue me.
A
couple of months ago, APJII have an election and new officials were
announced. As part of the election process, they also have programme.
To my disbelieve, one of the programme was to create an entity called
IDNIC that manages IP numbers *AND* domain name. I have no doubt that
they will send a letter to ICANN to redelegate that mandate to them.
Since this is their internal organization issue, I could not (and would
not) do anything. But I have to give you a warning.
A few days
ago, they went to the Government and asked the Gov to support APJII (or
they use the name ID-NIC) as the domain management in Indonesia. Now, I
am pretty sure APJII will send an email to IANA/ICANN as well, asking
for a redelegation to them.
Just to give everybody a head start.
Regards
Budi Rahardjo
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