SSAC Documents | Reports by Number
SSAC Reports by Number | SSAC Reports by Category | SSAC Correspondence
SSAC Reports are focused on technical aspects of Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR) issues.
| [SAC121]: | SSAC Briefing on Routing Security (9 June 2022) English [PDF] |
| [SAC120]: | SSAC Input to GNSO IDN EPDP on Internationalized Domain Name Variants (28 April 2022) English [PDF] |
| [SAC119]: | Feedback to the GNSO Transfer Policy Review PDP WG (5 August 2021) English [PDF] |
| [SAC118]: |
SSAC Comments on Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team – PHASE 2A (15 July 2021) SSAC Comments on Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team – PHASE 2A Version 2 (17 November 2021) Addendum to SAC118v2: Additional Rationale for Recommendation 3C (30 November 2021) |
| [SAC117]: | Report on Root Service Early Warning Systems (13 July 2021) English [PDF] |
| [SAC116]: | SSAC Comments on the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Final Report (22 March 2021) English [PDF] |
| [SAC115]: | SSAC Report on an Interoperable Approach to Addressing Abuse Handling in the DNS (19 March 2021) English [PDF] |
| [SAC114]: |
SSAC Comments on the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Draft Final Report (11 February 2021) SAC114 Cover Letter (11 February 2021) Addendum to SAC114: Additional Context for Recommendation 1, Recommendation 3, Recommendation 7, and Additional References (24 February 2022) |
| [SAC113]: | SSAC Advisory on Private-Use TLDs (18 September 2020) English [PDF] |
| [SAC112]: | Minority Statement on the Final Report of the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Phase 2 Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) (20 August 2020) English [PDF] |
| [SAC111]: | SSAC Comment on the Initial Report of the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Phase 2 Expedited Policy Development Process (4 May 2020) English [PDF] |
| [SAC110]: | SSAC Comments on the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report (19 March 2020) English [PDF] |
| [SAC109]: | The Implications of DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS (12 March 2020) English [PDF] |
| [SAC108]: | SSAC Comments on the IANA Proposal for Future Root Zone KSK Rollovers (29 January 2020) English [PDF] |
| [SAC107]: | SSAC Comment to NIST on Quantum Cryptography Algorithms (3 December 2019) English [PDF] |
| [SAC106]: | Comments on Evolving the Governance of the Root Server System (8 August 2019) English [PDF] |
| [SAC105]: | The DNS and the Internet of Things: Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges (3 June 2019) English [PDF] |
| [SAC104]: | SSAC Comment on Initial Report of the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Expedited Policy Development Process (21 December 2018) English [PDF] |
| [SAC103]: | SSAC Response to the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process Working Group Initial Report (3 October 2018) English [PDF] |
| [SAC102]: | SSAC Comment on the Updated Plan for Continuing the Root KSK Rollover (20 August 2018) English [PDF] |
| [SAC101]: | SSAC Advisory Regarding Access to Domain Name Registration Data (14 June 2018) English [PDF] SSAC Advisory Regarding Access to Domain Name Registration Data version 2 (12 December 2018) English [PDF] Addendum to SAC101 version 2 (12 December 2018) English [PDF] |
| [SAC100]: | SSAC Response to the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process Working Group Request Regarding Root Scaling (22 December 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC099]: | SSAC Response to the ICANN Internationalized Domain Name Guidelines Working Group (17 November 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC098]: | SAC098: The Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review (SSR2) (04 October 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC097]: | SSAC Advisory Regarding the Centralized Zone Data Service (CZDS) and Registry Operator Monthly Activity Reports (12 June 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC096]: | SSAC Comment on the CCWG-Accountability-WS2 Draft Framework of Interpretation for Human Rights (30 May 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC095]: | SSAC Advisory on the Use of Emoji in Domain Names (25 May 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC094]: | SSAC Response to the Request for Advice Relating to the 2012 New gTLD Round (22 May 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC093]: | SSAC Comments on the Draft Recommendations of the CCWG-Accountability-WS2 on SO/AC Accountability (18 May 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC092]: | SSAC Input to the Cross Community Working Group on Accountability Work Stream 2 Human Rights (12 March 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC091]: | SSAC Comment on Identifier Technology Health Indicators (20 January 2017) English [PDF] |
| [SAC090]: | SSAC Advisory on the Stability of the Domain Namespace (22 December 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC089]: | SSAC Response to ccNSO Comments on SAC084 (12 December 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC088]: | SSAC Response to the ccNSO evaluation of SAC084 (06 November 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC087]: | SSAC Response to the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on Next Generation gTLD Registration Directory Services – Second Outreach (19 October 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC086]: | SSAC Response to the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures -- Seeking Community Comments (19 October 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC085]: | SSAC Response to the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on the Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms in all Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) (19 October 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC084]: | SSAC Comments on Guidelines for the Extended Process Similarity Review Panel for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process (31 August 2016) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC083]: | SSAC Comment on Proposed Amendments to New gTLD Registry Agreement (11 July 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC082]: | SSAC Response to the Request for Advice Relating to the 2012 New gTLD Round (03 June 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC081]: | SSAC Response to Request for Input on Next Generation gTLD RDS to Replace WHOIS Policy Development Process (PDP) (25 May 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC080]: | SSAC Approval of CCWG-Accountability Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations (02 March 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC079]: | SSAC Advisory on the Changing Nature of IPv4 Address Semantics (29 February 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC078]: | SSAC Advisory on Uses of the Shared Global Domain Name Space (16 February 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC077]: | SSAC Comment on gTLD Marketplace Health Index Proposal (22 January 2016) English [PDF] |
| [SAC076]: | SSAC Comment on the CCWG-Accountability 3rd Draft Proposal (21 December 2015) English [PDF] |
| [SAC075]: | SSAC Comments to ITU-D on Establishing New Certification Authorities (03 December 2015) English [PDF] |
| [SAC074]: | SSAC Advisory on Registrant Protection: Best Practices for Preserving Security and Stability in the Credential Management Lifecycle (03 November 2015) English [PDF] |
| [SAC073]: | SSAC Comments on Root Zone Key Signing Key Rollover Plan (05 October 2015) English [PDF] |
| [SAC072]: | SSAC Comment on the Cross Community Working Group on Naming Related Functions Proposal (24 June 2015) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] ا日本語 [PDF] Português [PDF] 한국어 [PDF] |
| [SAC071]: | SSAC Comments on Cross Community Working Group Proposal on ICANN Accountability Enhancements (05 June 2015) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] Português [PDF] 日本語 [PDF] 한국어 [PDF] |
| [SAC070]: | SSAC Advisory on the Use of Static TLD / Suffix Lists (29 May 2015) English [PDF] 日本語 [PDF] |
| [SAC069]: | SSAC Advisory on Maintaining the Security and Stability of the IANA Functions Through the Stewardship Transition (10 December 2014) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] Português [PDF] Türkçe [PDF] |
| [SAC068]: | SSAC Report on the IANA Functions Contract (10 October 2014) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC067]: | Overview and History of the IANA Functions (15 August 2014) English [PDF] [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC066]: | SSAC Comment Concerning JAS Phase One Report on Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions (06 June 2014) English [PDF] |
| [SAC065]: | SSAC Advisory on DDoS Attacks Leveraging DNS Infrastructure (18 February 2014) English [PDF] |
| [SAC064]: | SSAC Advisory on Search List Processing (13 February 2014) English [PDF] |
| [SAC063]: | SSAC Advisory on DNSSEC Key Rollover in the Root Zone (07 November 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC062]: | SSAC Advisory Concerning the Mitigation of Name Collision Risk (07 November 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC061]: | SSAC Comment on ICANN¹s Initial Report from the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (06 September 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC060]: | SSAC Comment on Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs Report (23 July 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC059]: | SSAC Letter to the ICANN Board Regarding Interdisciplinary Studies (18 April 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC058]: | SSAC Report on Domain Name Registration Data Validation (27 March 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC057]: | SSAC Advisory on Internal Name Certificates (15 March 2013) English [PDF] |
| [SAC056]: | SSAC Advisory on Impacts of Content Blocking via the Domain Name System (09 October 2012) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC055]: | SSAC Comment on the WHOIS Review Team Final Report (14 September 2012) English [PDF] |
| SSAC Letter to the ICANN Board on the New Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Process (02 July 2012) English [PDF] |
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| [SAC054]: | SSAC Report on the Domain Name Registration Data Model (11 June 2012) English [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] |
| SSAC Comment on the ICANN FY13 Budget: Impact on SSAC Productivity (08 June 2012) English [PDF] |
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| SSAC Comment on the ICANN Draft Roadmap to Implement SAC 051 (05 April 2012) English [PDF] |
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| [SAC053]: | SSAC Report on Dotless Domains (23 February 2012) English [PDF] |
| [SAC052]: | SSAC Advisory on Single-Character Internationalized Domain Name Top-Level Domains (31 January 2012) English [PDF] |
| [SAC051]: | SSAC Report on WHOIS Terminology and Structure (19 September 2011) English [PDF] |
| [SAC050]: | DNS Blocking: Benefits Versus Harms – An Advisory from the Security and Stability Advisory Committee on Blocking of Top Level Domains at the Domain Name System (14 June 2011) English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC049]: | SSAC Report on DNS Zone Risk Assessment and Management (03 June 2011) English [PDF] |
| [SAC048]: | SSAC Comment on the Orphan Glue Records in the Draft Applicant Guidebook (12 May 2011) English [PDF] |
| [SAC047]: | SSAC Comment on the ICANN gTLD Registry Transition Processes Model (15 April 2011) English [PDF] |
| [SAC046]: | Report of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee on Root Scaling (6 December 2010) English [PDF] |
| [SAC045]: | Invalid Top Level Domain Queries at the Root Level of the Domain Name System (15 November 2010 with corrections) English [PDF] |
| [SAC044]: | A Registrant's Guide to Protecting Domain Name Registration Accounts (05 November 2010) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC043]: | SSAC Comment on the JAS Report on the IANA Process for Implementing Root Zone Change Requests and on the IANA Explanatory Memoranda (5 October 2010) English [PDF] |
| [SAC042]: | SSAC Comment on the Root Scaling Study Team Report and the TNO Report (17 December 2009) English [PDF] |
| [SAC041]: | Recommendation to prohibit use of redirection and synthesized responses by new TLDs (10 June 2009) English [PDF] |
| [SAC040]: | Measures to Protect Domain Registration Services Against Exploitation or Misuse (19 August 2009) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] 日本語 [PDF] 한국어 [PDF] |
| [SAC039]: | SSAC Review of SSAC (15 October 2009) English [PDF] |
| [SAC038]: | Registrar Abuse Contacts (26 February 2009) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC037]: | Display and usage of Internationalized Registration Data: Support for characters from local languages or scripts (21 April 2009) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] 中文 [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] |
| [SAC036]: | SAC036a: Letter of Transmittal to ICANN Board, SSAC Comments on the Draft ICANN Strategic Plan for 2009-2012 (11 February 2009) English- Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] SAC036b: SSAC Comments on the Draft ICANN Strategic Plan for 2009-2012 English [PDF] English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC035]: | Test Report: DNSSEC Impact on Broadband Routers and Firewalls (16 September 2008) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] Summary Results [XLS] Detailed Results [XLS] |
| [SAC034]: | Comment on the FY09 Operating Plan and Budget (20 June 2008) English [PDF] |
| [SAC033]: | Domain Name Registration Records and Directory Services (22 July 2008) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC032]: | Preliminary Report on DNS Response Modification (20 June 2008) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] 中文 [PDF] |
| [SAC031]: | SSAC Review of the After Action Report for the gTLD Registry Failover Exercise conducted 24-25 January 2008 (23 April 2008) English [PDF] |
[SAC030]: | Survey of DNSSEC Capable DNS Implementations English [HTML] |
| [SAC029]: | SSAC Endorsement of Proposed Amendment to the ORG registry agreement, Security Extensions for the DNS - DNSSEC (17 April 2008) English [PDF] |
| [SAC028]: | SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks (26 May 2008) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] Français [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] 中文 [PDF] |
| [SAC027]: | SSAC Comment to GNSO regarding WHOIS studies (7 February 2008) English [PDF] |
| [SAC026]: | SSAC Statement to ICANN and Community on Deployment of DNSSEC 30 January 2008) [English [PDF] |
| [SAC025]: | Fast Flux Hosting and DNS (SAC025) (28 January 2008) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] Français [PDF] Español [PDF] Русский [PDF] العربية [PDF] 中文 [PDF] |
| [SAC024]: | Report on Domain Name Front Running English [PDF] |
| [SAC023]: | Is the WHOIS Service a Source for email Addresses for Spammers? (SAC023) (23 October 2007) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC022]: | Domain Name Front Running (SAC022, SAC024) (20 October 2007) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC021]: | Survey of IPv6 Support Among Commercial Firewalls (SAC021) (5 October 2007) English [PDF] |
| [SAC020]: | SSAC Response to IDN Program Director regarding ICANN's proposal for IDN deployment at the root level of the DNS (23 July 2007) English [PDF] |
| [SAC019]: | SSAC Response to Comment Sought on DNS Root Zone Glue Policy (16 March 2007) English [PDF] |
| [SAC018]: | Accommodating IP Version 6 Address Resource Records for the Root of the Domain Name System (23 March 2007) English - Executive Summary [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC017]: | Testing Recursive Name Servers for IPv6 and EDNS0 Support (12 February 2007) English [HTML] |
| [SAC016]: | Testing Firewalls for IPv6 and EDNS0 Support (30 January 2007) English [HTML] |
| [SAC015]: | Why Top Level Domains Should Not Use Wildcard Resource Records (10 November 2006) English [HTML] |
| [SAC014]: | Information Gathering Using Domain Name Registration Records (28 September 2006) English [PDF] |
| [SAC013]: | SSAC Response to ICANN Letter re: Tralliance Proposed New Registry Service (6 September 2006) English [HTML] |
| [SAC012]: | SSAC Comments to the ICANN Board of Directors on Proposed Global Policy for Allocation of IPv6 Address Space (14 July 2006) English [PDF] |
| [SAC011]: | Problems caused by the non-renewal of a domain name associated with a DNS Name Server (7 July 2006) English [PDF] |
| [SAC010]: | Renewal Considerations for Domain Name Registrants (29 June 2006) English [PDF] Español [PDF] |
| [SAC009]: | Alternative TLD Name Systems and Roots: Conflict, Control and Consequences (SAC009) (31 March 2006) English [PDF] |
| [SAC008]: | DNS Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks (SAC008) (31 March 2006) English [PDF] |
| [SAC007]: | Domain Name Hijacking Report (SAC007) (12 July 2005) English [PDF] |
| [SAC006]: | Redirection in the COM and NET Domains (9 July 2004) English [PDF] |
| [SAC005]: | DNS Infrastructure Recommendation (1 November 2003) English [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [Comments]: | Selection of New Sponsored TLDs English [HTML] |
| [SAC004]: | Securing The Edge (17 October 2002) English [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC003]: | WHOIS Recommendation (1 December 2002) English [HTML] English [PDF] |
| [SAC002]: | ICANN DNS Security Update (4 January 2002) English [HTML] |
| [SAC001]: | DNS Security Reading List (November 2001) English [HTML] |