^{III TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES AND PLAN (RFP SEction D15)}

JVTeam brings together the experience and technical capabilities to implement a TLD Registry that will provide significant benefits to the Internet community.

The NeuStar/Melbourne IT Joint Venture's (henceforth the JVTeam) proposed technical solution provides two co-active data centers in Sterling, Virginia and Chicago, Illinois each of which is capable of processing the full TLD registrySRS data-center workload plus multipleand six nameserver sites geographical dispersed globally to protect against natural or man-made disasters. The benefit to ICANN and the Internet community is a solid architecture designed to maintain the stability of the Internet and promote user confidence.

Section III is organized in has five three subsections as required in the ICANN RFP:

III.1 describes JVTeam technical capabilities and expertise.

III.2 and subparagraphs III.2.1 through III.2.14 is our detailed plan for providing the registry SRS data-center operator's technical services. This plan builds on the resources and successful experience described in Paragraph III.1.

Since there is no significant amount of work being performedwill be performed by subcontractors, there is no need to answerresponse is necessary for III.3. D15.3 lists any technical functions that will be provided by NeuStar subcontractors, and describes the proposed subcontractors' capabilities and resources

D15.4 describes the special provisions that we have made to accommodate the extraordinary demand that may be anticipated during the early period after a new TLD name becomes available.

D15.5 is a discussion of how our technical proposal satisfies ICANN's  Criteria for Assessing TLD Proposals. 

(NOTE: IS D15.4 AND D15.5 CORRECT. I DON'T SEE IT ON THE MATRIX.)

ICANN's criteria for accessing TLD Proposals considers several technical issues that will be extensively reviewed. The following table summarizes ICANN's technical issues and JVTeam's response.

TECHNICAL COMPONENTS OF SUCCESS
Issue	JVTeam Response	Benefit to ICANN
Maintain the Internet's Stability
Continued and Unimpaired Operation throughout the delegation period worldwide	A world-class SRS system architecture with co-active redundant data centers and nameserver data centers located worldwide	The architecture provides the flexibility, scalability, and reliability to meet stringent service levels and workloads.
Minimize unscheduled outages for registry or registration systems due to technical failures or malicious activity of hackers	Co-active redundant data centers with two-way replication and dual-homed telecommunications links to nameserver data centers High-availability cluster architecture in each center Internet firewall with intrusion detection, and stringent security authentication processes	Architecture seamlessly handles hardware failures and natural and man-made disasters with near zero downtime and zero impact on Registrars
Ensure consistent compliance with technical requirements in TLD registry operation.	Institute stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) covering performance. Network and cluster-management software monitors and reports on these service levels.	ICANN and the Internet community are kept continuously informed of our status in meeting the SLAs.
Effects of the