USC Statement of Intent									22 December 2010
DNS Data Sharing



Ongoing smooth operation of the DNS root zone is critical for Internet operation. Deeper analysis of DNS 
query and response attributes will promote; academic research, enhanced understanding of name service evolution, 
and support critical ongoing operations of the DNS system. In support of this effort, USC/ISI collects the 
public queries made to its authoritative DNS nameservers and the public responses made to those queries.  To 
the best of our knowledge, these queries and responses have no personal data elements.

Data to be shared is owned by USC. It consists of public root zone query and response data. USC is willing to 
share this data on a non-discriminatory basis to the community.  Some criteria for access to this data are:


       For lawful use only
       Non defamatory to USC
       For Non-commercial use
       May be used in derivative work, but these must reference USC
       Re-distribution rights to shared data retained by USC


For additional information, please contact:  hostmaster@b.root-servers.org