Public Comment
Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report
Open Date
24 January 2020 23:59 UTC
Close Date
20 March 2020 23:59 UTC
Staff Report Due
17 April 2020 23:59 UTC
Brief Overview
Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding is on behalf of the second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team. The Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review is mandated by ICANN's Bylaws (Article 4, Section 4.6(c)) to review "ICANN's execution of its commitment to enhance the operational stability, reliability, resiliency, security, and global interoperability of the systems and processes, both internal and external, that directly affect and/or are affected by the Internet's system of unique identifiers that ICANN coordinates."
Current Status: The SSR2 Review Team seeks to solicit input on its draft report.
Next Steps: The SSR2 Review Team will carefully consider comments received and amend the report as it deems appropriate and in the public interest before submitting its final report to the Board. The final report will be published for Public Comment in advance of the Board's consideration.
Your Comment: The full text of your submission, including your comment, along with your name and email address, will be published in the Public Comment archive on ICANN org's website. Note: The publication of submissions may be delayed until after a mailing list moderator reviews the submission in order to reduce off-topic messages and unsolicited commercial advertisements. If you have any questions regarding public comment, please contact public-comment@icann.org.
Section I: Description and Explanation
This Public Comment proceeding is on behalf of the second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team who seeks to solicit input on its draft report. The report contains findings and recommendations in four key areas:
- Implementation and impact of recommendations from the first SSR review.
- Key stability issues within ICANN.
- Security, stability, and resilience of the Domain Name System (DNS).
- Future challenges.
Section II: Background
The Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review is mandated by ICANN's Bylaws (Article 4, Section 4.6(c)) to review "ICANN's execution of its commitment to enhance the operational stability, reliability, resiliency, security, and global interoperability of the systems and processes, both internal and external, that directly affect and/or are affected by the Internet's system of unique identifiers that ICANN coordinates."
Per the Bylaws, the issues that the review team for the SSR Review ("SSR Review Team") may assess are the following:
(A) security, operational stability and resiliency matters, both physical and network, relating to the coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers;
(B) conformance with appropriate security contingency planning framework for the Internet's system of unique identifiers; and
(C) maintaining clear and globally interoperable security processes for those portions of the Internet's system of unique identifiers that ICANN coordinates.
(iii) The SSR Review Team shall also assess the extent to which ICANN has successfully implemented its security efforts, the effectiveness of the security efforts to deal with actual and potential challenges and threats to the security and stability of the DNS, and the extent to which the security efforts are sufficiently robust to meet future challenges and threats to the security, stability and resiliency of the DNS, consistent with ICANN's Mission.
(iv) The SSR Review Team shall also assess the extent to which prior SSR Review recommendations have been implemented and the extent to which implementation of such recommendations has resulted in the intended effect.
Section III: Relevant Resources
Section IV: Additional Information
- SSR2 Review Team wiki space: https://community.icann.org/x/AE6AAw
- Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review page on icann.org: https://www.icann.org/resources/reviews/specific-reviews/ssr
- Final Report of the first Security, Stability, and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR1): https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-report-20jun12-en.pdf
- SSR1 Review implementation wiki page: https://community.icann.org/x/tYdCAw
- Analysis of Comments
Comments Closed
Report of Public Comments