BRDA Deposits

Bulk Registration Data Access (BRDA) is a backup deposit program mandated by ICANN for most gTLD registrars (ccTLDs are not required to provide BRDA deposits). Some information related to BRDA can be found at:

https://icannwiki.com/Onboarding_Information_Request#BRDA

BRDA deposits are generated by the RdeStagingAction job. This is the same job that generates RDE deposits. Its Javadoc goes into great detail about how it's implemented.

The RDE task performs BRDA processing at 00:00:00 UTC every Tuesday. RDE runs every day, but only performs the following BRDA steps on Tuesday (configurable via the @Config("brdaDayOfWeek") parameter):

Check the BRDA Cursor
Create a staging file named:
- gs://{PROJECT-ID}-rde/TLD_YYYY-MM-DD_thin_S1_R0.xml.ghostryde
Enqueue a BrdaCopyTask and roll forward the cursor

The BRDA copy task reads the previous file and creates two files:

    gs://{PROJECT-ID}-icann-brda/TLD_YYYY-MM-DD_thin_S1_R0.ryde
    gs://{PROJECT-ID}-icann-brda/TLD_YYYY-MM-DD_thin_S1_R0.sig

If you see an xml.ghostryde file but not the others, an error has occurred during the process. If you see the files in the {PROJECT-ID}-icann-brda bucket as well, the process has completed successfully.

Once the files have been created, they must be stored on an sFTP server from which ICANN can pull the files. The Nomulus project does not provide this last step; you will need to set up an sFTP server yourself, and copy the files from Google Cloud Storage to the server.

The cursor can be checked using the nomulus pending_escrow command.

Generating BRDA deposits manually

Get a list of "REAL" (as opposed to TEST) TLDs. Doublecheck that the command output doesn't contain any TLDs for tests.

$ registry-tool -e production list_tlds --fields=tldStr,tldType | grep REAL | awk '{print $1}' > realtlds.txt`

Generate .ryde and .sig files of TLDs specified for given date(s) in the current directory.

$ mkdir /tmp/brda.$$; for date in 2015-02-26 2015-03-05; \
    do for tld in $(cat realtlds.txt); \
    do nomulus -e production create_brda_deposit --tld=${tld} --watermark=${date}T00:00:00Z --outdir=/tmp/brda.$$ & sleep 30; \
    done; \
    done

Store the generated files to the GCS bucket.

$ gsutil -m cp /tmp/brda.$$/*.{ryde,sig} gs://{PROJECT-ID}-icann-brda/`

Mirror the files in the GCS bucket to the sFTP server.

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