ALAC: Advice to the ICANN Board on Subsequent Procedures (R-03D)
| Date Issued | Document | Reference ID | Current Phase |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAC: Advice to the ICANN Board on Subsequent Procedures (R-03D) | AL-ALAC-ST-0421-02-01-EN (R-03D) | Phase 2 | Understand |
Description:
Therefore, if the ICANN Board sought to agree with the suggested “holistic approach”, then the ALAC strongly urges the Board to also ensure that not only must those community discussions take place promptly, but that they be completed with outcomes put in place prior to the launch of the next round of applications for New gTLDs. To this end, we believe it is imperative for the ICANN Board consider the following inputs:
- Prior ALAC Advice on DNS Abuse;
- The SSR2 Final Report recommendations touching on contracts, compliance, and transparency around DNS Abuse;
- The SSAC’s proposition in SAC114 Recommendation 3 regarding best practices for mitigation of the domain name abuse;
- The SSAC’s proposal in SAC115 for a Common Abuse Response Facilitator to streamline abuse reporting and minimizing of abuse victimization, as well as the call to ensure a much wider community participation in broadening the definition of DNS Abuse to one that is not merely confined to the perspectives of contracted parties; and
- An expected proposal for concrete action on DNS Abuse Mitigation arising from the work being undertaken by the GAC Public Safety Working Group (PSWG).
STATUS UPDATES
| Date | Phase | Type | Status Updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 2 | Phase Update | As noted at the joint Board-ALAC session at ICANN75, the Board greatly appreciates the ALAC's responses to the Board's questions. The Board continues to review and consider the ALAC advice, to determine whether, in addition to informing the Board’s deliberations, there are actionable items that may require Board action before (or after) the Board takes action on the SubPro policy recommendations. The Board anticipates that this exercise will be completed in the first half of 2023 and that a response to the advice would come at the time of action on the SubPro Final Report – or shortly thereafter. |
| Phase 2 | AP Feedback | Without question, discussions surrounding DNS Abuse, within the ICANN community, have intensified considerably since ICANN66. The ALAC have endeavored to take a leadership role in these discussions and engage constructively with the rest of the community. There have also been some very promising voluntary efforts including the Framework for Domain Generation Algorithms and the Framework for Trusted Notifiers. ICANN org too has engaged in valuable efforts including the DAAR and direct efforts regarding Conflicker. A new plan for DAAR is pending and the ALAC anticipates that the next version will prove more actionable. It is a certainty that efforts to combat DNS Abuse will be ongoing and never reach anything close to perfection. The ALAC wishes to clarify that perfection is not our goal but rather the establishment of official metrics, related to DNS Abuse, goals established for improvement and measurement of efforts against those goals. Again, to be clear, the ALAC does not suggest that the Board dictate the substance of these objectives, but instead demand that such metrics and objectives be put in place, by the community, including measurable objectives that precede the launch of a new round. It would be the intention of the ALAC to participate in the community discussions around what might represent reasonable objectives. The ALAC looks forward to discussing this further with the Board to achieve the most possible clarity because creating an impossible task, to prevent a new round is most certainly not the objective of the Advice. Instead, the ALAC take a new round to be a given and are looking to accomplish as much as possible, with regards to DNS Abuse, before a new round is initiated. Definition of DNS Abuse The At-Large community have not yet reached consensus on a definition of DNS Abuse. Consequently, the ALAC has no intention to endorse the CPH definition per se. Instead, the ALAC wishes to table the discussion of definition and simply work with the CPH definition as it is the only definition around which there is community consensus. The ALAC believes there is plenty that can be done to combat DNS Abuse, as defined by the CPH, in the near term, and that those efforts should be the priority. As the ALAC believes that the landscape of DNS Abuse will continue to evolve, thus expanding the definition of DNS Abuse in some way, corresponding anti-abuse measures must be continuously updated to also recognize and address new forms of harm being perpetrated by bad actors. |
| Phase 2 | Clarifying Question | The Board seeks recognition that efforts are taking place and that, by necessity, such efforts will be ongoing and never truly complete. Additionally, the Board has asked if the ALAC agrees with the CPH definition of DNS Abuse. |
| Phase 2 | Phase Change | Now Phase 2 |
| Phase 1 | Phase Update | Acknowledgment sent to ALAC |
