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Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review is mandated by ICANN Bylaws (Section 4.6(c)), to periodic review of 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.

The Board took action on 10 March 2022 to defer the Third Review of Security, Stability and Resiliency of the Domain Name System. See the Board resolution here.

Click here to learn more about SSR. Click here to get involved in ICANN reviews. 

*The first Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR) Review was initiated under the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC). Further to a recommendation made by the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (Work Stream 1), AoC Reviews were incorporated into ICANN Bylaws in May 2016 as a result of the IANA Stewardship Transition

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Report: http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/ssrt-draft-report-15mar12-en.pdf

Public comment box: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/ssrt-draft-report-15mar12-en.htm

Announcement: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15mar12-en.htm 

Do you wish to participate in the SSR Webinar?

Friday, 11 May - 11:00 UTC or 19:00 UTC

Please send an email to alice.jansen@icann.org by Thursday, 10 May - 23:59 UTC to receive details.

On 15 March 2012, the Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR RT), constituted under the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), published its Draft Report and Recommendations [PDF, 2 MB] for public comment to inform their work in producing a Final Report.

Translations of the report are available:

• العربية [PDF، 721 كيلو بايت]
• 简体中文 [PDF, 751 KB]
• English [PDF, 2 MB]
• Español [PDF, 683 KB]
• Français [PDF, 821 KB]
• Русский [PDF, 926 KB]

Consistent with its initial announcement, the SSR Review Team now invites the Community to participate in a public webinar with a view to presenting its draft report and recommendations and soliciting the Community's feedback on its findings and conclusions.

The public webinar will take place on Friday, 11 May 2012. Two sessions will be scheduled to accommodate different timezones i.e. at 11:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The sessions are expected to last 60 minutes. They are duplicates and will be conducted in English only. The meeting will be run in an Adobe Connect room with a slide presentation along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you are not able to participate in either of the live sessions, the recording of the session will be made available shortly after the meeting. Staff is always available to answer any questions that you email to alice.jansen@icann.org.

In order to participate, please RSVP via email to alice.jansen@icann.org by Thursday, 10 May – 23:59 UTC to receive the call details. Please indicate which call you would like to join, Friday at 11.00 UTC or Friday at 19.00 UTC (to convert those times into your local time, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html). We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with log-in and dial-in details. Please DO NOT RSVP to any other ICANN staff members e-mail address.

For more information on the Security, Stability & Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (SSR RT), please refer to: http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/ssr

SSR - RT2 - Mandate:

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Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) Excerpt:

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9.2 Preserving security, stability and resiliency+: ICANN has developed a plan to enhance the operational stability, reliability, resiliency, security, and global interoperability of the DNS, which will be regularly updated by ICANN to reflect emerging threats to the DNS. ICANN will organize a review of its execution of the above commitments no less frequently than every three years. The first such review shall commence one year from the effective date of this Affirmation. Particular attention will be paid to: (a) security, stability and resiliency matters, both physical and network, relating to the secure and stable coordination of the Internet DNS; (b) ensuring appropriate contingency planning; and (c) maintaining clear processes. Each of the reviews conducted under this section will assess the extent to which ICANN has successfully implemented the security plan, the effectiveness of the plan to deal with actual and potential challenges and threats, and the extent to which the security plan is sufficiently robust to meet future challenges and threats to the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet DNS, consistent with ICANN's limited technical mission. The review will be performed by volunteer community members and the review team will be constituted and published for public comment, and will include the following (or their designated nominees): the Chair of the GAC, the CEO of ICANN, representatives of the relevant Advisory Committees and Supporting Organizations, and independent experts. Composition of the review team will be agreed jointly by the Chair of the GAC (in consultation with GAC members) and the CEO of ICANN. Resulting recommendations of the reviews will be provided to the Board and posted for public comment. The Board will take action within six months of receipt of the recommendations.