At-Large Workspace: Draft Final Report of The Second Security and Stability Advisory Committee Review (SSAC2)

Public Comment Close	Statement Name	Status	Assignee(s)	Call for Comments Open	Call for Comments Close	Vote Open	Vote Close	Date of Submission	Staff Contact and Email	Statement Number
03 December 2018	Draft Final Report of The Second Security and Stability Advisory Committee Review (SSAC2)	COMMENT	Bastiaan Goslings Seun Ojedeji Hadia Elminiawi	27 November 2018	29 November 2018				Lars Hoffmann lars.hoffmann@icann.org

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Brief Overview

Purpose: The purpose of this public comment is to solicit feedback on the draft final report[PDF, 3.18 MB] of the second Security and Stability Advisory Committee Review (SSAC2).

Current Status: Analysis Group, the independent examiner conducting the SSAC2 Review, has published its draft final report for public comment. The draft final report [PDF, 3.18 MB] contains both an assessment of the SSAC and recommendations for improving its operations. This public comment proceeding follows the publication of the assessment report. Findings included in the assessment report were discussed with the community via several consultations.

Next Steps: The draft final report will be available for public comment until 2 December 2018. Analysis Group will present the draft final report during a public session at ICANN63 in Barcelona, Spain, and during a webinar on 20 November 2018 at 21:00 UTC. To request an invitation to the webinar, please send an email to mssi-secretariat@icann.org. Analysis Group will consider input received from the public comment process, ICANN63 session, webinar, and any other feedback received, for possible inclusion in the final report. The final report is expected to be published in December 2018.

Section I: Description and Explanation

Analysis Group, the independent examiner conducting the second Security and StabilityAdvisory Committee Review (SSAC2), is seeking feedback on its draft final report [PDF, 3.18 MB].

As with all Organizational Reviews, the SSAC2 Review is following a two-phased approach in which the independent examiner first completes its assessment and then makes recommendations to address the findings noted during the assessment. This approach is expected to contribute to more useful and relevant recommendations by providing an opportunity for the community and the independent examiner to discuss what works and what needs improvement before the independent examiner develops recommendations to address the observed situations.

Section II: Background

The purpose of the SSAC Review is to determine (i) whether the SSAC has a continuing purpose in the ICANN structure, (ii) if so, whether any change in structure or operations is desirable to improve its effectiveness and (iii) whether the SSAC is accountable to its constituencies, stakeholder groups, organizations and other stakeholders.

The SSAC advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the security and integrity of the Internet's naming and address allocation systems. This includes operational, administrative, and registration matters. SSAC engages in ongoing threat assessment and risk analysis of the Internet naming and address allocation services to assess where the principal threats to stability and security lie, and advises the ICANN community accordingly.

Section III: Relevant Resources

Webinar on the draft final report wiki page
ICANN63: SSAC Review RWP Public Meeting
Assessment report wiki page

Section IV: Additional Information

Section V: Reports

FINAL VERSION SUBMITTED (IF RATIFIED)

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FINAL DRAFT VERSION TO BE VOTED UPON BY THE ALAC

The final draft version to be voted upon by the ALAC will be placed here before the vote is to begin.

DRAFT SUBMITTED FOR DISCUSSION

The first draft submitted will be placed here before the call for comments begins. The Draft should be preceded by the name of the person submitting the draft and the date/time. If, during the discussion, the draft is revised, the older version(S) should be left in place and the new version along with a header line identifying the drafter and date/time should be placed above the older version(s), separated by a Horizontal Rule (available + Insert More Content control).

27 November 2018 - Seun Ojedeji

We appreciate the opportunity to provide comment on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) review. The ALAC has considered the report and would like to make a few remarks:

Recommendation 1. We support the recommendation for SSAC to continue to exist as an advisory body within ICANN and we indeed support their effort in engaging the other part of the ICANN community.

Recommendation 2: The ALAC supports the intent behind this recommendation, however the ALAC will appreciate that while SSAC prepare its advice in a format that better communicate to the Board, she should also write them in such a way that will enable other part of the ICANN community easily understand the advice especially to the At-Large community that has members without certain level of technical background.

Recommendations 3&4: To the extent that we support this, we do hope that the process will not become a vetting exercise where critical substance of the advice to the Board is lost; We hope that the Independence of the SSAC at giving undiluted advice will remain upheld

Recommendation 14: While ALAC currently have a liaison to SSAC, we are also open to a SSAC liaison to ALAC. However we understand that this may be somewhat demanding on SSAC given the relatively few number of SSAC members

Recommendation 17: ALAC supports the recommendation to improve how SSAC provide updates to the ICANN community through their various leadership. We will suggest that such communication also be copied to applicable SO/AC liaisons to SSAC.

Recommendation 21&22&24&25: ALAC supports the recommended actions to improve the membership based of SSAC and the quality of its members. ALAC would like to encourage diversity within SSAC membership as much as possible.

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