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The RSSAC may publish advisories, reports, and statements within its mandate of advising the ICANN community and Board as well as documents related to its own administration and work.

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Number Name Date
RSSAC000v8 RSSAC Operational Procedures 25 January 2024
RSSAC001v2 Advisory on Service Expectation of Root Servers 01 August 2023
RSSAC002v5 Advisory on Measurements of the Root Server System 22 June 2023
RSSAC060 RSSAC Input on Bylaws Amendments and Documents to Implement the NomCom2 Review 31 May 2023
RSSAC000v7 RSSAC Operational Procedures 28 November 2022
RSSAC047v2 RSSAC Advisory on Metrics for the DNS Root Servers and the Root Server System 3 February 2022
RSSAC059 RSSAC Advisory on Success Criteria for the Root Server System Governance Structure 17 November 2021
RSSAC058 Success Criteria for the RSS Governance Structure 17 November 2021
RSSAC000v6 RSSAC Operational Procedures 13 October 2021
RSSAC057 Requirements for Measurements of the Local Perspective on the Root Server System 9 September 2021
RSSAC056 RSSAC Advisory on Rogue DNS Root Server Operators 7 July 2021
RSSAC055 Principles Guiding the Operation of the Public Root Server System 7 July 2021
RSSAC054 Statement on ICANN's Root Name Service Strategy and Implementation 16 December 2020
RSSAC053 Statement on IANA Naming Function Review Initial Report 2 December 2020
RSSAC052 Statement on Recommendations for an Early Warning System for Root Zone Scaling 25 November 2020
RSSAC000v5 RSSAC Operational Procedures 8 September 2020
RSSAC023v2 History of the Root Server System 17 June 2020
RSSAC051 RSSAC Statement on Draft Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) FY21-24 Strategic Plan 2 June 2020
RSSAC050

RSSAC Statement on Identification of Root Server Operators
中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF]

13 May 2020
RSSAC049 RSSAC Statement on Joining the Empowered Community 14 April 2020
RSSAC002v4 RSSAC Advisory on Measurements of the Root Server System 12 March 2020
RSSAC048 RSSAC Input on Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report 12 March 2020
RSSAC047 RSSAC Advisory on Metrics for the DNS Root Servers and the Root Server System 12 March 2020
RSSAC026v2 RSSAC Lexicon 12 March 2020
RSSAC046 RSSAC Statement on IANA's Proposal for Future Root Zone KSK Rollovers 29 January 2020
RSSAC045 RSSAC Statement on Threat Mitigation for the Root Server System 3 December 2019
RSSAC044 Report from the RSSAC October 2019 Workshop 29 October 2019
RSSAC000v4 RSSAC Operational Procedures 23 October 2019
RSSAC043 Report from the RSSAC April 2019 Workshop 4 June 2019
RSSAC042 RSSAC Statement on Root Server Operator Independence 17 May 2019
RSSAC041 RSSAC Advisory on Organizational Reviews 5 October 2018
RSSAC040 Recommendations on Anonymization Processes for Source IP Addresses Submitted for Future Analysis 7 August 2018
RSSAC039 RSSAC Statement Regarding ICANN's Updated KSK Rollover Plan 7 August 2018
RSSAC038

RSSAC Advisory on a Proposed Governance Model for the DNS Root Server System
中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF]

15 June 2018
RSSAC037

A Proposed Governance Model for the DNS Root Server System

Executive Summary: 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF]

15 June 2018
RSSAC036 RSSAC Statement on the Draft Final Report of the Second Organizational Review of the RSSAC 14 June 2018
RSSAC035 RSSAC Statement on the Draft Final Report of the Second Organizational Review of the Nominating Committee 11 May 2018
RSSAC034 Report from the RSSAC May 2018 Workshop 9 May 2018
RSSAC033 RSSAC Statement on the Distinction Between RSSAC and Root-Ops 24 April 2018
RSSAC032 Feedback on the Independent Review of the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) Assessment Report for Public Consultation 28 March 2018
RSSAC031 Response to the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Subsequent Procedures 02 February 2018
RSSAC030 RSSAC Statement on Entries in DNS Root Sources 04 November 2017
RSSAC029 Report from the RSSAC October 2017 Workshop 28 October 2017
RSSAC000v3 RSSAC Operational Procedures 23 October 2017
RSSAC028 Technical Analysis of the Naming Scheme Used For Individual Root Servers 03 August 2017
RSSAC027 May 2017 Workshop Report 16 June 2017
RSSAC026 RSSAC Lexicon 14 March 2017
RSSAC025 RSSAC October 2016 Workshop Report 04 November 2016
RSSAC024 Key Technical Elements of Potential Root Operators 04 November 2016
RSSAC023 History of the Root Server System 04 November 2016
RSSAC022 Response to the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Subsequent Procedures 06 October 2016
RSSAC021 RSSAC Statement Concerning The Impact of the Unavailability of a Single Root Server 08 September 2016
RSSAC000v2 RSSAC Operational Procedures 30 June 2016
RSSAC020

RSSAC Statement on Client Side Reliability of Root DNS Data
中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF]

28 June 2016
RSSAC019 RSSAC Workshop 2 Report 26 June 2016
RSSAC002v3 Advisory on Measurements of the Root Server System 06 June 2016
RSSAC018 RSSAC Statement on the Transmission of the ICG and CCWG-Accountability Proposals 10 March 2016
RSSAC017 RSSAC Statement of Work and Scope for RSSAC002 v3 04 February 2016
RSSAC016 RSSAC Workshop 2015 Report 07 January 2016
RSSAC002v2 Advisory on Measurements of the Root Server System 07 January 2016
RSSAC015 RSSAC Statement on CCWG-Accountabiltiy Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 22 December 2015
RSSAC001 Advisory on Service Expectation of Root Servers 04 December 2015
RSSAC003 Report on Root Zone TTLs 16 September 2015
RSSAC014 Comment from the RSSAC on the "Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to the Global Multistakeholder Community" 04 September 2015
RSSAC013 Statement of Scope and Work for "History and Technical Analysis of the Naming Scheme Used for Individual Root Servers" 09 July 2015
RSSAC012 RSSAC Public Comment on CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1 Draft Report 05 June 2015
RSSAC011 IAB Liaison to the RSSAC 12 Februray 2015
RSSAC010 RSSAC Statement of Scope for "Root Zone TTLs" 11 February 2015
RSSAC009 RSSAC Statement on the Increase of the DNSSEC Signature Validity Period for the DNS Root Zone 17 December 2014
RSSAC002 Advisory on Measurements of the Root Server System 20 November 2014
RSSAC000 RSSAC Operational Procedures 25 September 2014
RSSAC008 RSSAC Statement at the ICANN Accountability Town Hall During IGF 2014 02 September 2014
RSSAC007 RSSAC Statement of Scope for "Measurements of the Root Server System" 10 July 2014
RSSAC006 RSSAC Statement of Scope for "Service Expectations of Root Servers" 10 July 2014
RSSAC005 RSSAC Guidance to Representatives on the "NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group" 10 July 2014
RSSAC004 RSSAC Input on "Draft Proposal, Based on Initial Community Feedback, of the Principles and Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA's Stewardship of the IANA Functions" 08 May 2014
Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."