[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 230 (Tuesday, December 1, 1998)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 66102-66104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31828]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
41 CFR Part 101-35
RIN 3090-AG79
User Fees; Network Registration Services
AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide Policy, GSA.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: This proposed rule establishes fees for registration services
provided by GSA to Government agencies and commercial organizations in
order to provide and maintain unique global names and network addresses
for X.400 Private Management Domains (PMRD) and the X.500
Organizational Units (OU), Administrative Authority Identifiers (AAI)
and Internet .GOV Domain names.
DATES: Comments must be submitted February 1, 1999 to be considered in
the formulation of the final rule.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to Mr. Jack L. Finley,
Director, Center for Electronic Messaging Technologies (TOT), General
Services Administration, 1800 F Street, NW, Suite G-222, Washington DC
20405. E-mail comments may be sent to jack.finley@fed.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jack L. Finley, 202-501-3932.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model uses naming
hierarchies in order to provide global unambiguous identities. The
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines two major
naming hierarchies or ``trees.'' The ISO 3166 Codes for the
Representation of Names of Countries assigns the United States with an
alpha-2 code of US and a numeric code of 840. The American National
Standards Institute (ANSI) has assigned the Federal Government with the
alpha code of ``GOV'' and the numeric code of 101.
Another ISO naming structure is ISO 6523, Structure for the
Identification of Organizations. The British Standards Institute (under
ISO authority) has issued an International Code Designator (ICD) of
0005 to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The
NIST has delegated the responsibility of managing and administering the
ICD of 0005 to the GSA. The NIST has also delegated to GSA the
authority for the namespace ``U.S. Government'' as an organization
domain subordinate to country level of ``US'' for the purposes of
Governmentwide Directories (X.500/LDAP).
X.400 PRMD
The GOSIP standard is based on the Open Systems Interconnection
(OSI) profile, which incorporate several series of international
protocol standards. The X.400 series define a protocol for electronic
Messaging Handling Systems (MHS). Top level Management Domains (MD) are
assigned and delegated into
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Administrative Management Domains (ADMD) and subordinately Private
Management Domain (PRMD). The GSA assigns the PRMDs for the U.S.
Government using a prefix of the characters ``GOV+'' followed by the
assigned name. For example, a PRMD for the Department of Transportation
may be shown as P=GOV+DOT. The service provided by GSA allows
government to use unique PRMD names, regardless of the ADMD provider.
X.500/LDAP
The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication
Standardization Sector (ITU-T) issued a X.500 Series of Recommendations
for distributed directory services. The GSA has developed a
governmentwide X.500 schema for a Distributed Information Tree (DIT).
Under C=US, O=U.S. Government, agencies may establish a directory
container as an Organizational Unit (OU). The GSA also provides
operational Directory Support Services at the C=US level to public
entities in cooperation with ANSI. Services include root Directory
Systems Agents (DSA) with links to other Top Level Domains (TLD). The
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers will also require
registration services and operational services to connect with the
distributed X.500 DSAs.
Object Identifier (OID)
In the context of this document, an arc is a point where branches
of the hierarchical tree are connected together and to the superior
reference. The GSA is responsible for registration of technical objects
identifiers under the arc joint-iso-ccitt(2) country(16) us(840)
organization(1) us-government(101) as well as (joint-iso-ccitt(2)
countries(16) usa(840) US Government). There is a second US branch of
the OID tree, 1.2.840 (iso(1) member-bodies(16) usa(840) US
Government(101), but new registrations are made under the
2.16.840.1.101 arc. Typical use of Object Identifiers (OID) is to
identify attributes and object classes that are not currently described
in OSI standards.
NSAP AAI
Globally unique network addresses are important in communicating
across various networks. The GOSIP V2 profile established a method of
assigning Network Service Access Point (NSAP) addresses using the ICD
47 0005 (ISO 6523) under the authority of the NIST. The administration
and registration of the ICD is delegated to the GSA. The octet
following the ICD is 80 to indicate that the remaining octets are in
the GOSIP V2 format. An Administrative Authority Identifier (AAI)
consisting of three octets are delegated to organizations in order to
complete the assignments of network addresses. Thus, a registration for
a GOSIP NSAP AAI will be:
47 0005 80 NNNNNN (where N is assigned by GSA)
The organization may use the remaining octets to further define
according to their requirements.
INTERNET .GOV and FED.US DOMAIN NAMES
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has delegated to GSA through
the Federal Networking Council (FNC), the authority to manage and
administer the GOV (dot-gov) domain used by Internet Domain Name
Service (DNS). The GSA is also providing second-level domain
registrations in the GOV domain (e.g. Fed.gov). Similarly, the GSA is
providing second-level domain registrations in the fed.us domain under
authority from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Internet
registration services are limited to Federal, State, and local
Government organizations. GSA is not responsible for and will not
charge fees for any further delegation of a domain name assigned to an
agency. For example, if USDA were to register usda.fed.us, the
registrations such as region1.usda.fed.us would be the responsibility
of the domain manager for USDA.
B. E.O. 12866
GSA has determined that this proposed rule is not a significant
regulatory action for the purposes of Executive Order 12866 of
September 30, 1993.
C. Regulatory Flexibility Act
The proposed rule is not expected to have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities within the meaning of
the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601, et seq.
D. Paperwork Reduction Act
The Paperwork Reduction Act does not apply because the proposed
regulation does not impose recordkeeping or information collection
requirements, or the collection of information from offerors,
contractors, or members of the public which require the approval of the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under 44 U.S.C. 501, et seq. This
rule is also exempt from Congressional review prescribed under 5 U.S.C.
801 since it relates solely to agency management and personnel.
List of Subjects in 41 CFR Part 101-35
Archives and records, Computer technology, Government property
management.
Therefore, it is proposed that 41 CFR 101-35 be amended as follows:
PART 101-35--TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT POLICY
1. The authority citation for part 101-35 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 40 U.S.C. 486(c) and 31 U.S.C. 9701.
2. Subpart 101-35.7 is added to read as follows:
Subpart 101-35.7--Network Address Registration
Sec.
101-35.701 Scope of subpart.
101-35.702 Registration services.
101-35.703 Procedures for using GSA's registration services.
101-35.704 Fee schedule.
101-35.705 Method of payment.
Subpart 101-35.7--Network Address Registration
Sec. 101-35.701 Scope of subpart.
This subpart addresses registration services provided by GSA to
Government agencies and the public.
Sec. 101-35.702 Registration services.
(a) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Department of Commerce has designated GSA as the Government Open
Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) Address Registration Authority
for unique naming assignments of X.400 Private Management Domains
(PRMD), X.500 Organizational Units (OU) and Network Service Access
Point (NSAP) Administrative Authority Identifiers (AAI). (See FIPS PUB
146-2, Section 5.2.1.) GOSIP registration is limited to government
agencies, with the exception of NSAP AAI's, which may be used by
commercial organizations to identify private Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) networks.
(b) For purposes of global interoperability, GSA will operate an
X.500/LDAP Directory Service at the ``country=US'' level and at the
``O=U.S. Government'' level. Federal Agencies may link operational
directories to the ``O=U.S. Government'' and Commercial organizations
may link ``country=US'' level in accordance with the fees set forth in
section 101-35.704.
(c) The National Science Foundation (NSF) has delegated to GSA
through the Federal Networking Council (FNC), the authority to manage
and administer the
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GOV (dot-gov) domain used by Internet Domain Name Service (DNS). The
GSA is also providing second-level domain registrations in the GOV
domain (e.g. Fed.gov). Similarly, the GSA is providing second-level
domain registrations in the fed.us domain under authority from the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Internet registration
services are limited to Federal, State, and local Government
organizations. GSA is not responsible for and will not charge fees for
any further delegation of a domain name assigned to an agency. For
example, if USDA were to register usda.fed.us, the registrations such
as region1.usda.fed.us would be the responsibility of the domain
manager for USDA.
Sec. 101-35.703 Procedures for using GSA's registration services.
Individuals or organizations who wish to register or would like
more information should contact the registration officials at GSA by
sending an e-mail message to registration@fed.gov or by web access at
http://registration.fed.gov.
Sec. 101-35.704 Fee schedule.
GSA will assess Government agencies and commercial organizations
nominal fees to cover the cost of registration and other services as
listed in the table below. The fees are based on anticipated costs for
providing the services and are consistent with industry charges.
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Recurring
Service Set-up (Annual)
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(a) Network Address Registration (GOSIP)...... $1000.00 $500.00
(b) Governmentwide Directory Operation (X.500/
LDAP)........................................ 1000.00 500.00
(c) Domain Name Registration 250.00 50.00
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Note to 101-35.704. Set-up fees may be waived at the discretion
of the GSA. When levied, set-up fees include annual fee for one
year.
Sec. 101-35.705 Method of payment.
GSA will invoice registrants according to the fee schedule in
section 101-35.704. Government registrations must be paid by credit
card (IMPACT). Commercial organizations are encouraged to pay by credit
card. All other payments should be made to GSA Registration Services,
1800 F Street NW, Suite G-222, Washington, DC 20405.
Dated: July 30, 1998.
G. Martin Wagner,
Associate Administrator for Governmentwide Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-31828 Filed 11-30-98; 8:45 am]
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