About this site

zonedata.org is a non-commercial resource for research and proposals concerning DNS zone data distribution. It currently hosts one proposal: verifiable incremental (delta) zone files through ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service, prepared for discussion at ICANN87.

Disclosure §

This domain was registered by Leo Angelo as a neutral, non-commercial home for this work. There are no products, no paid services, no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking on this site. The site makes no external network requests.

The test name used in the proof of concept, zone-delta.net, was registered by the proposal authors for that test. It is not offered through this site; it serves a single page explaining the test.

Leo Angelo is a member of the ICANN Business Constituency and works professionally in identity and access management and in the domain name industry. Hafiz Farooq is a co-author of the proposal and works in enterprise security operations at Aramco. The proposal is made in a personal and Business Constituency capacity and does not represent the positions of any employer.

Should a community working group form around this proposal, the authors are open to community co-stewardship of this resource.

Contact §

Feedback is welcome through the ICANN Business Constituency, or by email: [email protected].

Colophon §

This site is a set of static HTML pages with one stylesheet, no JavaScript requirement, and self-hosted fonts. Like the proposal itself, it tries to do one thing verifiably and without unnecessary machinery.