Best Practices by TechOps

About Us

TechOps is an initiative first founded in April 2017 by the ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) to address technical and operational needs and challenges. In this process, it became clear that an additional joint initiative with the ICANN Registry Stakeholder Group (RySG) is necessary. Our mutual goal is to create an open space to exchange experiences, to discuss ideas, and ideally to create best practices. In September 2017, the RrSG and RySG kicked off the joint group with its first remote meeting. Since that time, we had many calls and face to face meetings, during those we have been working on many topics, such as Maintenance, Reports, Domain Transfers.

The work of the group focuses on technical matters, mostly related to registration related systems and services within the shared registry system (SRS), such as Extensible Provisioning Protocol ("EPP) or Registration Data Access Protocol ("RDAP") (as opposed to resolution-related services like Domain Name System ("DNS"), although they do overlap). We also work towards Universal Acceptance initiatives, such as EAI and IDN as they relate to the registration of domain names and the related provisioning and storage at registries and registrars.

Members

Techops members come from the following companies

Members of gTLD registries and ICANN-Accredited Registrars that are contracted with ICANN (and participating as members within their respective stakeholder groups) can participate in the Techops activities, contributing towards evolving standards that enhance the reliability, security and integrity of the shared registration system (SRS). Below are some of the companies that are participating in Techops that have furnished their logos and permission to display them. Many other companies, such as Verisign, Amazon and Google also participate in their respective roles within the group activities.

If you are a member of Techops and want your company's logo added, or are interested in joining in to our important work, and are a member of the RySG or RrSG and some of your software developers, product managers, or other colleagues from within RySG or RrSG member companies want to join or participate, please contact your respective Stakeholder Group Secretaries.

Publications, Papers, Projects and Presentations

Documents and best practices we are working on, or we are supporting

What is the workflow, and what are the next steps for our documents? It usually starts with a discussion, and then we begin drafting a first paper, which we iteratively improve. If we think it is good enough, we are publishing it. We usually discuss the work we are supporting, and then we provide feedback.

Current IETF Regext WG Drafts

Meetings

The group usually meets up remotely every two to four weeks (depending upon the outputs of the various policy development processes within the ICANN community, standards evolutions within the IETF, etc) and virtually or in-person at ICANN Meetings 🄰 and 🄲 as well as the GDD/GDS Summits. We also have a mailing list for regular interaction, correspondance and peer assistance.