Hi. Here’s the draft text I have before take-off ;)  Let me know if this is what you had in mind – if you want more or less – if you want to highlight in more detail some of the issues we’re recommending purusuing.  No pride of authorship – feel free to change or give direction.

Best,

Denise

Denise Michel

Domain Name System Strategy & Management

Facebook, Inc.

denisemichel@fb.com

The ICANN SSR Subgroup had a very productive two-day, fact-finding meeting at ICANN headquarters. The subgroup met with a number of ICANN staff subject matter experts  and discussed a range of issues relating to the completeness and effectiveness of ICANN’s security processes and the effectiveness of the ICANN security framework (including activities connected to the SSR2 ToR and implementation of SSR1 recommendations). The subgroup will update its contribution to the SSR2 workplan and post more fulsome documentation of how the subgroup’s work has advanced and issues that we’re preparing to bring to the full SSR2 Team for consideration.

Meanwhile, here’s a high-level summary of the fact-finding meeting. The subgroup reviewed, submitted questions & information requests about, and discussed early observations about:

• ICANN’s Security Framework and emerging threats.
• ICANN’s Risk Management Framework.
• ICANN’s Business Continuity strategies, objectives, plans and procedures.
• ICANN’s operational planning and controls, and prioritized activity recovery strategy.
• ICANN’s Incident Response Structure
• ICANN’s root server operations
• ICANN’s Domain Division activities that relate to SSR objectives, including new gTLD program safeguards, new gTLD Registry Agreement (Registry Operator)
• Back-End Registry Operator (BERO)
• Emergency Back-End Registry Operator (EBERO)
• Registry Data Escrow (RyDE) - Data Escrow Agent (DEA)
• Abuse reports, including SADAG and DAAR (Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse & Domain Abuse Activity Reporting)
• EBERO data, processes, smoke-testing, providers
• Registry Data Escrow (RyDE) - Data Escrow Agent (DEA)
• Centralied Zone Data Service (CZDS) data, compliance, failures, plans
• SLA Monitoring System (SLAM)
• Vetting of registrar and registry operators as relates to SSR, and measurement & impact of malicious conduct by contracted parties, data escrow breaches, etc.
• SSR objectives in ICANN’S standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Root server system SSR