Applicant Information

Does or will this RSP have a publicly verifiable, third-party certification (e.g. ISO 27001) held directly by the organization and relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have processes and controls to manage physical access to infrastructure and systems, including building access controls, security cameras and/or other sensors, physical environmental monitoring and safety equipment, and alarm systems related to the physical infrastructure?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have processes and controls to manage non-physical access to infrastructure, including network access from both internal systems and external Internet systems, intrusion detection systems, security information and event management systems, network firewalls, network segmentation and isolation, user identification and authentication, and authorization schemes?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have processes and controls pertaining to the selection of vendors and equipment suppliers, management and maintenance of assets while in use, procurement of assets, and safe disposal of assets?

Yes

Does or will this RSP routinely renew and keep safe all cryptographic material necessary for the operation of the RSP?

Yes

Does or will this RSP secure (e.g. encryption, tamper detection, etc…) at-rest data relevant to the operation of the RSP, including but not limited to DNSSEC if applicable?

Yes

Does or will this RSP secure (e.g. encryption, tamper detection, etc…) in-transit data relevant to the operation of the RSP, including but not limited to DNSSEC if applicable?

Yes

If applicable, does or will this RSP have security controls for data in virtualized environments, including controls relevant to both on-premises or private virtualization environments as well as public clouds, network isolation, memory isolation, process isolation, and hypervisor access controls?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have a senior executive primarily in charge of and responsible for security?

Yes

Does or will this RSP conduct background checks, both initial and on-going, of personnel and vendors relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP comply with BCP 38?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement routing security of some nature, such as automated route filters, RPKI route origin validation, or other operational practices defined by the Internet Society and Global Cyber Alliance’s Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented, regular, and active practices for the maintenance of hardware relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented, regular, and active practices for the maintenance, upgrading, and patching of software relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented, regular, and active practices for the lifecycle of hardware relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented, regular, and active practices for the secure development of software?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented contingency plans for extraordinary scenarios regarding the maintenance of hardware relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented contingency plans for extraordinary scenarios regarding the maintenance, upgrading, and patching of software relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented contingency plans for extraordinary scenarios regarding the lifecycle of hardware relevant to the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented contingency plans for extraordinary scenarios regarding the development of software?

Yes

Does or will this RSP use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to manage all systems relevant to operation of the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP use automated orchestration to manage all systems relevant to the operation of the registry services under application?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have at least two Tier III (as defined here: https://uptimeinstitute.com/tiers) or equivalent data centers having no inter-dependencies?

Yes

Does or will this RSP use hardware security modules (HSMs) certified to at least FIPS 140-3 Level 3?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 4033 (“DNS Security Introduction and Requirements”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 4034 (“Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 4035 (“Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 4509 (“Use of SHA-256 in DNSSEC Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Records (RRs)”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 6840 (“Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNS Security (DNSSEC)”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 6781 (“DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 7583 (“DNSSEC Key Rollover Timing Considerations”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement RFC 9276 (“Guidance for NSEC3 Parameter Settings”)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP implement any of RFC 6605 (“Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) for DNSSEC”), RFC 5702 (“Use of SHA-2 Algorithms with RSA in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC“), and/or RFC 8080 (“Edwards-Curve Digital Security Algorithm (EdDSA) for DNSSEC”)?

Yes

Describe the processes and procedures to be used to practice and ensure a successful KSK rollover for both emergency and non-emergency situations, including coordination with the MAIN RSP and IANA.

KSK rollovers are performed manually as they require manual interaction with IANA. When our DNSSEC signing policy requires a key rollover our monitoring system informs us. Operations then instructs OpenDNSSEC to start the KSK rollover. We do have regular controls that ensure that sufficient keys are available for the rollover. Then OpenDNSSEC will introduce the new KSK and starts double signing the DNSKEYs with the old and the new KSK. After respective TTLs are expired, OpenDNSSEC informs us that is now safe to exchange the DS records in the root zone. Depending on the contract with the TLD applicant, we either inform the application about the changes it has to request with IANA, or we also submit and optionally approve the DS changes to IANA. As soon as the new DS is available in the root zone (and wait some more extra “zone propagation delay”) OpenDNSSEC gets informed that the new DS is deployed. This will finish the KSK rollover in OpenDNSSEC. During the whole process, our constantly applied DNSSEC monitoring keeps track of proper DNSSEC validation. For emergency rollovers, a dedicated “standby” ZSK and KSK are published in the zone and the respective DS is available in the root zone. The standby keys are safely stored offline and can be imported into a software HSM and activated in OpenDNSSEC.

Does or will this RSP compartmentalize (e.g. virtualization) the DNSSEC service in such a manner that each compartment (e.g. containers, virtual machines, physical machines) is dedicated to DNSSEC (excluding system services such as monitoring, remote access NTP)?

Yes

Does or will this RSP regularly exercise DNSSEC service continuity actions?

Yes

Does or will this RSP be capable of transferring all applicable operations to another RSP as defined by the Material Subcontracting Arrangement Technical Questions?

Yes

Does or will this RSP participate in coordinated Emergency Back-end Registry Operator (EBERO) transitions, including but not limited to maintaining the DNSSEC chain of trust, of hosted gTLDs when the business relationship of this RSP and the Registry Operator is not in good standing?

Yes

Does or will this RSP monitor for faults inside its own network?

Yes

Does or will this RSP monitor for faults from a point outside any of its own networks?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented processes for aggregation and triage of faults?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have documented processes to mitigate faults once detected?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have processes to minimize faults during maintenance of systems, including both automated processes and manual change control processes?

Yes

Does or will this RSP have personnel capable of reacting to and mitigating faults 24 hours per day of every day of every year of service?

Yes

Provide documentation regarding any RSP functions currently being served for any gTLD, the domain names of the gTLDs, and all service disruptions for each gTLD in the past six months, where a service disruption is defined by Specification 10 of the ICANN Registry Agreement (2024).

We are RSP for the following gTLDs: - .berlin (MAIN / DNS / DNSSEC) - https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/berlin.html - .hamburg (MAIN / DNS / DNSSEC) - https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hamburg.html - .versicherung (MAIN / DNS / DNSSEC) - also acting as the Registry Operator - https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/versicherung.html - .ikano (MAIN / DNS / DNSSEC) - https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ikano.html In the last 6 months, we experienced no service disruptions for any of the listed TLDs.