ICANN 67
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| Dates: | March 7-12, 2020 |
| Location: | Virtual |
| Website: | ICANN 67 (registration required) |
ICANN 67 was held as a virtual community forum in March 2020. It was the first meeting to be fully virtual as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The original host was Cancun, and the time zone for meeting scheduling was Eastern Standard Time. ICANN 67 had 1,752 attendees, 130 countries/territories represented, and 65 sessions.[1]
Sessions[edit | edit source]
GNSO[edit | edit source]
The GNSO held 19 sessions including GNSO policy development process (PDP) working group meetings, Stakeholder Group and Constituency work meetings, and a GNSO Council meeting.
- The EPDP Team finalized its draft recommendations on Priority 2 topics:
- the display of information of affiliated vs. accredited privacy/proxy providers,
- data retention,
- city field redaction, and
- feasibility of unique contacts to have a uniform anonymized email address. The EPDP Team included these recommendations in its Addendum
on Priority 2 items for Public Comment.[2]
- The New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group held three sessions on
- whether to allow closed generic top-level domains;
- Global Public Interest topics such as Mandatory Public Interest Commitments (PICs), Voluntary Public Interest Commitments, tentatively called Registry Voluntary Commitments (RVCs), DNS Abuse, and Verified TLDs; and
- Draft recommendations on GAC Advice and GAC Early Warning.
- The Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs PDP working group reviewed the draft Phase 1 Initial Report, with 26 preliminary
recommendations, 17 specific community questions, and 24 proposals. The working group deliberated RPM-related recommendations of the Temporary Specification team and the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team.
ALAC[edit | edit source]
The At-Large Community
- held two policy workshops on DNS Abuse and a cross-community roundtable on Cybersecurity and geopolitics in a multistakeholder environment,
- held policy workshop on DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), and
- reviewed its At-Large Structure (ALS) Mobilization Plan.
RSSAC[edit | edit source]
The RSSAC held two work sessions to revise two RSSAC statements, “Identification of the Root Server Operators” and “Joining the Empowered Community.”
SSAC[edit | edit source]
The SSAC held a DNSSEC and Security workshop, that discussed:
- Key Signing Key (KSK) Rolls
- DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS
- DNSSEC via third-party DNS Providers
The SSAC also summarized for the public its publications since ICANN 66:
- SAC109: The Implications of DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS
- SAC108: SSAC Comments on the IANA Proposal for Future Root Zone KSK Rollovers
- SAC107: SSAC Comment to NIST on Quantum Cryptography Algorithms
- SSAC2020-06: SSAC Public Comment on the Initial Report of the New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross-Community Working Group
- SSAC2020-05: SSAC Public Comment on Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3) Draft Report
Finally, the SSAC gave updates on:
- the Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP),
- DNS abuse,
- a Scan of Threats to Internet Naming and Addressing,
- the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data, and
- the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report.