Security%20and%20Stability%20Advisory%20Committee

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Security and Stability Advisory Committee

• Presentation to wwTLD
• Vancouver
• November 29, 2005

Steve Crocker, chair steve_at_stevecrocker.com
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Topics

• Structure
• Operation
• Example SSAC Topics
• ccTLD focus

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Structure

• Committee of roughly 20 experts
• Volunteers
• Key staff support
• Broad participation across component
  constituencies
• Board committee
• Advises ICANN board, staff, supporting activities
• And the overall community

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SSAC Members

• Alain Aina
• Jaap Akkerhuis
• KC Claffy
• Steve Crocker
• Johan Ihren
• Rodney Joffe
• Mark Kosters
• Allison Mankin
• Ram Mohan

• Russ Mundy
• Frederico Neves
• Jon Peterson
• Ray Plzak
• Mike St. Johns
• Doron Shikmoni
• Bruce Tonkin
• Paul A Vixie
• Suzanne Woolf

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Others

• Dave Piscitello - ICANN Fellow
• Jim Galvin - Exec
• Daniel Karrenberg - Invited Guest
• Stefano Trumpy - GAC Liaison
• Patrik Fältström - IAB Liaison

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Example Topics

• Domain Name Hijacking
• Major report in Luxembourg
• Potential follow up in the future
• DNS Security protocol deployment
• Spun off as parallel, large effort
• Workshop Wed 900 to 1130
• IDNs and alternate roots
• Starting to dig into the details

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ccTLD focus?

• IDNs
• How many approaches?
• What are the key issues?
• Stability
• Provisions against abrupt cessation
• IANA interactions
• Increased reliability and trust