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Domain Name Policies and Standards
Policies and standards relating to domain names in government.
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- Domain Names and Allocation Standard
- A domain name is a unique name used to identify a resource, e.g. a website. Readable, contextual domain names reinforce the intent of the resource and provide users with a useful mnemonic for continued use. Managed domain name allocation ensures a consistent, best‐practice approach to resource naming and that users can readily identify when they are interacting with a genuine Victorian Government resource.
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- Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector - in pdf format (81kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A report from the Public Sector Information Domain of the Chief Technology Officer Council's cross-Government Enterprise Architecture - Interim paper, Version 1.0, October 2009. "... This document defines the design considerations and guidance by which UK public sector Universal Resource Identifier (URI) sets should be developed and maintained. They are designed both to encourage those that definitively own reference data to make it available for re-use, and to give those that have data that could be linked, the confidence to re-use a URI set that is not under their direct control..."
- Help shape URI standards for the UK Public Sector
- by James T. Cabinet Office Digital Engagement Blog, 12 October 2009. "As part of the government's work on open standards and especially Linked Data for publishing, we have been working on Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and how we should use them..."
- Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide - in pdf format (2123kb)
This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Ramaswamy Chandramouli and Scott Rose. National Institute of Standards and Technology, May 2006 (SP800-81). "... This document provides deployment guidelines for securing DNS within an enterprise. Because DNS data is meant to be public, preserving the confidentiality of DNS data pertaining to publicly accessible IT resources is not a security objective. The primary security goals for DNS are data integrity and source authentication, which are needed to ensure the authenticity of domain name information and maintain the integrity of domain name information in transit. This document provides extensive guidance on maintaining data integrity and performing source authentication..."
- NIST releases standards for securing domain names
- By Wade-Hahn Chan. Federal Computer Week, May 17, 2006. "The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new guidelines for securing the Domain Name System (DNS) yesterday. Special Publication 800-81 details threats and how best to approach them as well as specific recommendations on secure configurations for domain names and their associated mechanisms..."
This category last updated: 13 December 2005
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