Operations are managed on a per root cluster basis. The following represents the advised initial best practices that will be reviewed by the NSMs upon the requirements and the results of the engaged projects.

The dot-root Secretariat keeps a log of all the reported events at the E-mail address:

• log@dot-root.com - this system will test various systems of origin validation.
• a copy of this log may be implemented to provide global supervision. Such supervision will act as a service, and may be replicated by each root system.
  
• the Name Servers are under permanent third party remote alarm control.
• alarms are reported to the supervisory log.
• different reboot solutions will be tested.
• different machine mutual authentication solutions will be experimented with.

Every Day

• the data from the TLD Managers and other roots are collected.
• the bind and djbdns roots files are generated as well as the forwards ISP files.
• the discrepancies are reported to the supervisory log and to the other root administrators.
• upon decision of the root manager the root file may be rebuilt after new data collection.
• the root file is loaded on the cluster master machine.
• the root file is loaded on the ftp public access site.
• the TLD database is loaded on the ftp public access site.
  
• the DNS configuration of the test ULDs are updated, rebuilt and reloaded.
• the previous day(s) log files will be unloaded.

Control

Third party control is provided by Members of the Monotoring Committee.

Statistics

Statistics are made available to participating projects.