The ICANN Security, Stability, and Resiliency of the Domain Name System Review Team (SSR2) reconvened after being paused since October 2017 and held an in-person meeting from 22-24 August. The review team has on-boarded new members, selected leadership, reviewed completed work to date, and updated its scope/terms of reference. We also are refreshing our workplan and outreach plan, and moving forward with our substantive work.
The review team welcomes input on all of its activities via email to input-to-ssr2rt@icann.org (publicly archived list). As the review team continues its fact-finding phase and develops initial findings and recommendations, we encourage community input on our work. We plan to meet at ICANN63 in Barcelona, Spain, in October, and we look forward to discussions with community members there.
Our August Meeting Objectives
The primary objectives of the meeting were to onboard new members, select review team leadership, agree on means of working together productively to reach consensus, and agree on a scope of work/terms of reference for the review. A complete list of meeting objectives can be viewed here [DOCX, 55 KB], and a record of the meeting can be found here. The review team believes that it has successfully met all of these objectives and looks forward to tackling the work ahead and engaging with the ICANN community.
The meeting was facilitated by Phil Khoury from Cameron. Ralph. Khoury Consulting Services, and supported by ICANN Staff. The review team thanks them all for their contributions to what was a productive meeting.
Our New Members and Leadership
Five new volunteers were appointed to the review team—Kimberly (KC) Claffy, Russ Housley, Scott McCormick, Rao Naveed bin Rais, and Laurin Weissinger. That brings the review team membership to 15. The full team membership list can be found here. All were in attendance at our August meeting held in Washington, D.C; 13 attended the meeting in-person, 2 attended remotely. The new members were successfully brought up to speed on the work of the review team to date.
The review team decided on the following leadership structure: The Chair will be Russ Housley, and the Vice Chairs will be Denise Michel, Eric Osterweil, and Laurin Weissinger.
Our Work
The review team approved an updated scope/terms of reference, reviewed work to date, and is working on an updated workplan and communications/outreach plan. These all will be publicly posted on the Review Team's wiki, as well as sent to the ICANN Board and Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees.
Our scope/terms of reference describe the focus of the review team's work, which is guided by ICANN's Bylaws, and includes a timeline of the review milestones, leadership and membership responsibilities, how we make decisions and conduct our work, and other guidelines. The review team intends to continue regular outreach and communications to keep the ICANN community apprised of progress towards milestones.
How can people get involved in the SSR2 Review?
Visit the Review Team's wiki for the latest news, updates, and opportunities to participate, including how to become a review team observer; share your expertise on SSR2 issues; and subscribe to the SSR2 mailing list for calendar invites, agendas, and "read only" access to mailing list exchanges.
The Review Team will continue to reach out to the community at every key step, and we will soon provide more details in our updated outreach and communications plan. Here's our current timeline:
- By ICANN63: Workplan, Communications Plan, gathering & assessing facts
- During ICANN63 (Barcelona): Face-to-face (F2F) meeting, engagement with community
- By ICANN64: Gathering & assessing facts, creation of draft report
- During ICANN64 (Kobe): F2F meeting, presentation of draft report and engagement with community
- By ICANN65: Public comment period (40 days), comment resolution
- During ICANN65 (Marrakesh): Presentation of final report, engagement with community and final delivery of it to board