ENUM

Fully Accredited

The Instra Corporation is a globally accredited organisation dedicated to providing ENUM and VoIP services to enterprises world-wide. Australian ENUM domains can be registered through Instra for research and development purposes.

Fully Accredited

AARNet is Australia's Advanced Academic and Research Network and operates for the Australian Universities and CSIRO, and is available for Australian Researchers to obtain ENUM numbers.

To become an accredited Trial Registrar for the ENUM Trial, companies are required to be administratively and technically accredited. An application form must be completed and a Registry-Registrar agreement signed.

Please contact AusRegistry International at info@enum.com.au for a copy of the application and agreement.

The following information is intended to familiarise interested parties with AusRegistry International’s requirements for administrative and technical Registrar accreditation for the ENUM Registry Trial.

The technical accreditation process cannot commence until interested parties have been provisionally accredited. In order to receive technical accreditation from AusRegistry International for stage 1 of the Trial you will be required to perform the following primary functions:

•	Provide ENUM registration services including completing all required checks on the Registrant of an ENUM domain and verifying their eligibility of an ENUM service.
•	Provide management interfaces for a Registrant to return and manage their ENUM domain, including the ability to update their contact details and update ENUM name server or NAPTR record details, etc.
•	Provide transfer services - the ability to accept a transfer from a new client and/or for a Registrant to transfer away from your Registrar business
•	Provide password retrieval services for the ENUM domains under your management

The ability to perform the above functions will be tested in two parts:

Part A tests your technical abilities to perform the above functions in either category: Using the EPP Protocol or via the Registrars Administration Interface (Web).

Part B AusRegistry International uses a checklist to test your system's registration and management tools (website) to see if all functions are available and operational.

It is important to note that whilst becoming a technically accredited Registrar for the Trial is a relatively straight forward process, it does require a large amount of time and effort to build a comprehensive registration system. (This is dependant on the level of efficiency you wish to achieve).

It is also worth noting that if/when the Trial progress to stage 2, additional requirements may be imposed on Registrars and testing of these additional requirements may be required.

The protocol used to interface with the Registry is the IETF's EPP version 1.0 protocol.

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3730.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3731.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3732.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3733.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3734.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3735.txt
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4114.txt

A Registrar must also have a good knowledge of:

1.	The DNS system (see below: RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC1101, RFC2181, RFC2182 and RFC3007)
2.	The use of Name Servers
3.	What a glue record means
4.	NAPTR records and their formats
5.	Regular expressions
6.	The Registry - Registrar model
7.	WhoIs protocol (see RFC-954) and its intended use. (Please Note: This is not for the lookup of Domain Names, EPP provides procedures by which the availability of a domain name can be checked.)

In order to complete the above functions AusRegistry International has developed two interfaces, an EPP based protocol interface and an HTTPS based administration web site. Use of either interface is dependant on a Registrar's volume of sales and their technical capabilities.

Part A - Technical Abilities
Registrars must pass a technical abilities test in AusRegistry International’s OT&E environment. A test is available from each category below.

1. Registrars Admin Interface
The Admin Interface is a website based around the EPP protocol implemented by the Registry. It provides a manual method of performing the commands on the Registry. This manual process is relatively time consuming compared to the protocol method and impracticable for those processing large amounts of registrations. It also provides ENUM domain reports, accounting reports and the ability to manage Registrar passwords.

2. EPP Protocol
The Registry also offers a standard EPP version 1.0 compliant SSL based server. To ensure a smooth connection process to this service, AusRegistry International provides development toolkits, available for C++, Java and Perl. The Java toolkit will run on both Windows and *nix platforms. The C++ is currently only supported on *nix platforms. Registrars are also free to develop their own custom interfaces to the Registry using the EPP protocol directly. These interfaces need to be fully EPP version 1.0 and SSL compliant (see RFCs referenced above) to function correctly with the Registry.

When connecting to the Registry in this fashion Registrars are able to provide quick turnarounds of ENUM domain registrations and fully automate their entire systems. Note: Any Registrar who passes the OT&E certification at this level is automatically qualified to use the admin interface described above. The suggested method for constructing a Registrar system using these toolkits is to keep a client side database. This will be updated by your web scripts. Then, a job is run that reconciles the changes in your database with the Registry.
Which ever method you choose it will require a certain level of system development on your behalf. The process requires dedication, time and a significant level of programming and DNS experience.

Part B - Check List

The second part of AusRegistry International’s technical accreditation involves testing your system's registration and management tools to see if all functions are available and operational.

AusRegistry International will use a check list to ensure your systems are able to perform the following technical requirements:

1. Submit to Registry
Confirmation that an ENUM domain creation successfully reaches AusRegistry International. This will be done by registering a test ENUM domain.

2. Update Registrant details / ENUM information publicly available
Confirmation that ENUM domain and contact details can be updated once an ENUM domain creation has been processed. Confirm that updated ENUM domain and contact information is correctly reflected in the AusRegistry International Database.

3. Registrant access to ENUM details
Confirm a Registrant's ability to access information pertaining to their ENUM service e.g. full contact details, expiry dates, NAPTR/NS records, etc.

4. Transferring
Confirm that your ENUM service transfer system is fully functional.

5. Updating DNS / Delegation tools
Test delegation tools, to determine method and speed.

6. Registry key recovery tool
Test both automatic retrieval and form retrieval.

7. EPP poll message management
Confirm that the Registrar either reads or has built an EPP POLL message interface.

Completion of the check list could take up to two business days depending on your system’s ability to process certain functions e.g. a transfer.

If we are unable to perform a required function you will be provided with a breakdown of the exact problem and a method for its resolution.

The ability to perform all technical requirements will be necessary in order to be granted full technical accreditation.

To receive further information on the Registrar accreditation process for the ENUM Trial, please contact AusRegistry International on +61 3 9866 1990 or info@enum.com.au.

Please contact AusRegistry International on +61 3 9866 1990 or info@enum.com.au for information on the cost of becoming an accredited Registrar for the ENUM Trial.