At-Large ICANN Strategy Panels Workspace

Designed to help catalyze transformation and advance ICANN’s role, ICANN Strategy Panels are advisory in nature and serve as an integral part of a framework for cross-community dialogue. They report to the ICANNPresident and CEO and their quintessential objective is to inform and support ICANN’s public planning process. The Strategy Panels’ work and output is designed to be informative and will not go straight to implementation.

How to submit feedback: The community is invited to share feedback via the Strategy Panel’s mailing lists:

• Identifier Technology Innovation – Email: itipanel@icann.org; 
• ICANN Multistakeholder Innovation – Email: msipanel@icann.org;
• Public Responsibility Framework – Email: prfpanel@icann.org;
• ICANN’s Role in the Internet Governance Ecosystem – Email: ioepanel@icann.org.

All input is publicly archived.

The recommendations are varied and wide-reaching, from partnering in a study to define an architectural vision for DNS in 2020 to organizing participants by topic rather than constituency groups to adapting ICANN’s cultural to a multi-lingual and multi-cultural one.

Highlights of recommendations by each panel are included below.  For more information, please refer to each panel’s full report.

Identifier Technology Innovation Recommendations [PDF, 1.76 MB]
Email: itipanel@icann.org 

• DNS use in the infrastructure will continue to grow; DNS use in the User Interface (UI) is challenged by search-based alternatives, mobile interfaces, etc.
• ICANN should publish more DNSSEC signed data for reserved labels, etc.
• In cooperation with IETF et al, do a study to define an architectural vision for DNS in 2020.
• Design & prototype open root publication.
• Design a shared zone control system for the root.
• Perform collision exercises to test the ease of implementing [ICANN 2013].

ICANN Multistakeholder Innovation Recommendations [PDF, 1.76 MB]
Email: msipanel@icann.org

• ICANN should adopt an evolutionary approach that embraces experimentation and empirical evidence. The 16 proposals identified include the following:
• Making all of ICANN’s data freely available and downloadable in machine-readable formats.
• Moving from stakeholder engagement to global engagement.
• Using expert networks to provide oversight to ICANN officials.

Public Responsibility Framework Recommendations [PDF, 1.76 MB]
Email: prfpanel@icann.org

• Streamlining of current ICANN public responsibility activities under a Public Responsibility Department (PRD).
• Strengthening ICANN Regional Engagement Strategies.
• Commissioning research to enhance understanding of links between Internet Governance and Development.
• Exploring the establishment of an external foundation to operate in the philanthropic space. 

ICANN’s Role in the Internet Governance Ecosystem Recommendations [PDF, 1.78 MB]
Email: ioepanel@icann.org

• Consolidation and simplification of root zone management.
• Globalize, not internationalize, the structure of ICANN and its associated or related institutions.
• ICANN develop tailored AOC documents to be used to establish bilateral or multilateral, documented relationships between and among ICANN and ecosystem partners that wish to participate.
• Globalize the process for accountability within Internet ecosystem.

To support community consideration and input, an interactive webinar with the four panel chairs will be held in early March 2014. A public session also will be conducted at the upcoming ICANN 49 meeting in Singapore (March 2014). Details will be shared in due course.

The Draft Reports are being translated into the 5 UN languages. Public comment archives may be consulted at:

• Identifier Technology Innovation: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/itipanel/;
• ICANN Multistakeholder Innovation: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/msipanel/;
• Public Responsibility Framework: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/prfpanel/;
• ICANN’s Role in the Internet Governance Ecosystem: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ioepanel/.