[ALAC-Announce] Announcement from the ALAC Executive Committee concerning the Public Call by the Stability, Security, and Resilience of the DNS Review Team (SSR-RT)

[ICANN At-Large Staff]

Dear All, 

 

Please find below the addendum to the ALAC statement. Apologies for not
including it in the initial message. 

 

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Addendum:

 

Several late comments have come to light since the filing of the first
version of this ALAC Statement. Based on input from these comments we have
modified our consensus response to Question 4 to more broadly represent the
diversity of our community:

 

Recent events, like the one that happened to .fr a few weeks ago, due to a
software bug, seem to demonstrate the infrastructure may not be ready yet
for the full, ubiquitous deployment of DNSSEC.

 

Some of our members believe that relaxing the pressure for the deployment of
DNSSEC and proceeding carefully would allow all operators in the DNS chain
to gain additional experience and mitigate the risks.

 

This would include the new gTLD program, where registries and their backend
providers are mandated to deploy DNSSEC from day one.

Others believe that the cost and complexity of deploying DNSSEC is likely to
decrease with time and therefore look forward to making DNSSEC mandatory for
all new gTLDs. As a result, small new registries from developing countries
are not likely to be affected as much by higher costs as initially thought.

 

The long-term benefits of DNSSEC implementation are likely to outweigh its
short term trade-offs and the ALAC would therefore cautiously warrant the
full deployment of DNSSEC for all new gTLDs, provided smaller sized
applicants are allowed a period of adaptation for them to be able to sign
their zone.

 

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Regards,

Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, 

ICANN At-Large Staff

 

 

From: ICANN At-Large Staff [mailto:staff at atlarge.icann.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:36 PM
To: alac-announce at atlarge-lists.icann.org
Cc: 'Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond'; ICANN At-Large Staff
Subject: Announcement from the ALAC Executive Committee concerning the
Public Call by the Stability, Security, and Resilience of the DNS Review
Team (SSR-RT)
Importance: High

 

Dear All, 

 

Please see below an important message from Olivier Crépin-Leblond, ALAC
Chairperson, regarding the ALAC Statement on the Public Call by the
Stability, Security, and Resilience of the DNS Review Team (SSR-RT):

 

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Dear All,

 

Since the ALAC Statement on the Public Call by the Stability, Security, and
Resilience of the DNS Review Team (SSR-RT), which was kindly drafted by
Patrick Vande Walle with input from the community, was sent to the ICANN
staff in charge of the public comment on this subject, there has been
renewed discussion at the RALO level, about the contents of the statement,
specifically the answer to Question 4.

 

A sizeable number of late comments showed that there was substantial support
among At-Large members for DNSSEC to be mandatory for all new gTLDs. This
would mean the possibility of several abstentions in the current ALAC vote.

 

As a result, and considering the fact that the answer to the question, as it
was presented in the ALAC statement, would risk not accurately reflecting
the ALAC consensus based on input from the edges of the community, the
Executive Committee and I have taken the unprecedented decision of
interrupting the ALAC vote *today* and appending an addendum to the
Statement, with a new vote starting Monday on the Statement plus addendum.

 

For your information, a copy of the proposed addendum reflecting the late
comments is provided below.

 

At this stage, I would like to emphasize that this is an exceptional measure
- and therefore urge everyone to pay more attention to the messages ICANN
At-Large Staff sends out asking for comments, so as to be able to provide
input *during* the comment period. Having to recall statements in this
manner is detrimental to the smooth process of ALAC comments and puts an
undue and unfair workload on At-Large Staff and volunteers.

On this occasion, the message from the ALSes was clear and we hope that,
thanks to the proposed addendum, the ALAC Executive Committee has answered
your concerns.

 

Best regards,

 

Olivier Crépin-Leblond

on behalf of the ALAC Executive Committee

 

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Regards,

Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, 

ICANN At-Large Staff