ICANN, Verisign Begin Testing Root Zone File Production Sans NTIA Authorization Step
ICANN said it and Verisign began a 90-day “parallel testing” period last week to verify that data contained in the Root Zone Management System-produced (RZMS) root zone file will remain reliable after the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition is completed.…
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ICANN and Verisign proposed parallel testing of the root zone file as part of their August proposal to NTIA on root zone management. Parallel testing is meant to determine whether the production RZMS process and a testing version of the process that doesn’t include NTIA’s authorization step will produce identical versions of the root zone file, ICANN said Friday. A successful test shouldn’t include any “unexplained differences” in the two root zone file versions, ICANN said in a news release. Verisign will publish daily comparison reports of the two root zone files throughout the 90-day testing period, while ICANN will produce a monthly report on the test results, ICANN said. All Verisign reports since the testing period’s start April 6 showed no differences in the parallel root zone file versions, the company said.