Proposing a move of .gov data to CISA

[h-m-f-t]

The .gov top-level domain is moving to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. As part of that move, CISA is interested in maintaining .gov data: particularly domains, but probably website info too. I'm filing this issue to raise awareness about moving this data and begin a discussion about impact.

The tentative plan is to move the .gov data to https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-home (a repo that transferred from the GSA org last week). I expect the change to look somewhat similar to this commit in a dotgov-home branch; feedback welcome on approach. I know some GSA teams maintain some of the website data. We're happy to share maintenance with you.

Eventually, we'll serve this data from a public API and not have it manually dumped to GitHub, but we'll continue publishing domain data regularly until that time.

I'd like to move this data in few weeks' time, maybe ~29 March? Very interested in giving folks enough time to make any updates necessary so they continue to have access, though.

[h-m-f-t]

Here's what I'm thinking:

• I'll begin updates to .gov domain data at dotgov-home Monday, April 19th.
• A week later, the 26th, I'll replace the content in current-full and current-federal with a brief note on the move and link to the new data.
• Moving the website data is also on the list but it's less of a priority to me to move in April.

[h-m-f-t]

• I've updated .gov domain data at the newly created https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data repo. (New: vacunas.gov, vaccines.gov, and typo-supportive vacine.gov/vacines.gov!) I don't anticipate any additional updates of .gov domain data here.
• Next Monday, April 26th, I'll replace the content in current-full and current-federal here at GSA/data with a brief note on the move and link to the new repo.

[h-m-f-t]

This has been completed. We actually cloned the repo and have been updating .gov files since April.