The Board receives recommendations from a variety of sources from the ICANN community, including advice from the Advisory Committees as set forth in Article 12 of ICANN's Bylaws.
This page provides information on the status of Advice to the Board from the following Committees identified below:
- At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)
- Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC)
- Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC)
- Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)
The tables below list open Board Advice from the ALAC, RSSAC, RZERC, and SSAC, and the corresponding parsed items. For detailed information about a specific item, click on the appropriate wiki page link to be directed to that Board Advice's landing page. The tables below do not include Board Advice submitted by the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC); status of GAC Advice can be viewed here.
As part of the Process Documentation Initiative in 2017, a workflow document and handbook were created to provide more transparency into the Board Advice Process.
Please send inquiries to the Action Request Register (ARR) Team at advice@icann.org.
Summary of Open ALAC Advice
To access detailed information for all open and closed ALAC Advice items, click here. Date Issued Reference ID / Wiki Page Link Document Open Items Closed Items Deferred Items Joint Statement - ALAC & GAC Enabling Inclusive, Informed and Meaningful Participation at ICANN: A Joint Statement by ALAC and GAC 2 0 0 AL-ALAC-ST-1219-03-00-EN ALAC: DNS Abuse 8 0 0 AL-ALAC-ST-1123-01-00-EN ALAC: Closed Generics 1 0 0
Summary of Open RSSAC Advice
To access detailed information for all open and closed RSSAC Advice items, click here.
Summary of Open RZERC Advice
To access detailed information for all open and closed RZERC Advice items, click here. Date Issued Reference ID / Wiki Page Link Document Open Items Closed Items Deferred Items RZERC002 Recommendations Regarding Signing Root Zone Name Server Data (R-2A) 0 3 2 RZERC003 Adding Zone Data Protections to the Root Zone R-1 3 1 0
Summary of Open SSAC Advice
To access detailed information for all open and closed SSAC Advice items, click here. Date Issued Reference ID / Wiki Page Link Document Open Items Closed Items Deferred Items 3 0 0 3 0 0 Report of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee on Root Scaling 0 4 1 SSAC Comment on Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs Report 0 11 3 1 1 2 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 SSAC Advisory Regarding Access to Domain Name Registration Data 6 3 2 SSAC Comments on Evolving the Governance of the Root Server System 2 2 0 1 0 0 SSAC Comments on the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Draft Final Report 7 0 0 1 7 0 SSAC Report on Urgent Requests in the gTLD Registration Data Policy 3 0 0 1 0 0
