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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">ICANN Releases Identifier Systems SSR Activities Report</h2>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">7 February 2017</p>
<p>As part of our continuing commitment to transparency and accountability, ICANN's Identifier Systems Security, Stability and Resiliency (OCTO SSR) department is pleased to publish its activities report for calendar year 2016. You can find the 2016 report
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_octo-2Dactivities-2D2016-2D03feb17-2Den.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=j_yS7LITn1zW57FP931Lwh_ddi0TZaPDurkAsYqfDMA&amp;e=">
here[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 261 KB].</p>
<p>This reports describe the activities that are performed to maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet's global identifier systems. These activities include collaboration with, global security and operations groups and public safety
 communities where ICANN staff serves in several roles.</p>
<p>Depending on the engagement or request, our staff:</p>
<ul>
<li>offers security or DNS subject matter expertise; </li><li>facilitates cooperative action among ICANN and other communities to maintain Identifier System Security, Stability, and Resiliency;
</li><li>conducts research; </li><li>engages with public and private sector actors in capability building related to Identifier Systems SSR;
</li><li>supports the daily efforts of security or operations communities to mitigate the misuse or harmful use of the Identifier Systems (in particular, DNS or domain name registration services).
</li></ul>
<p>The 2016 activities reports highlights our collaboration and stakeholder activities from July 1 through December 31, 2016. We summarize activities we perform as part of our identifier system SSR threat awareness and preparedness remit and provide progress
 reports on analytics or productivity improvement projects as well. At this time, we are also publishing a complementary report, OCTO SSR Training Metrics: Investigating Identifier Systems Abuse or Misuse. You can find this report
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_octo-2Didentifier-2Dsystems-2Dtraining-2Dmetrics-2D2016-2D03feb17-2Den.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=zVkUZjRXJWuq6cML9fdCQbyaSfzazunrjqi4ywoEAKM&amp;e=">
here[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 545 KB].</p>
<p>For more information about IS-SSR click <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_resources_pages_is-2Dssr-2D2014-2D11-2D24-2Den&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=azqdYwlJ28hRfss4gdOR--XkmgOtAsqwPgQZVLnyqJM&amp;e=">
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/is-ssr-2014-11-24-en[icann.org]</a>.</p>
<p>The 2H 2015 report is available <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_is-2Dssr-2Dupdate-2D2h-2D2015-2D26feb16-2Den.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=W9CiwkXro5Z2ZeuvIqnOP0gVo2gnAsx8v-dIctn56bg&amp;e=">
here[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 429 KB]</p>
<p>The 1H 2015 report is available <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_is-2Dssr-2Dupdate-2D1h-2D2015-2D20jun15-2Den.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=FHXhzOBif22vHoKatW9SqcFSIsQmPoM3jAi734pbA2s&amp;e=">
here[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 2.85 MB].</p>
<p>The 2H 2014 report is available <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_is-2Dssr-2Dupdate-2Ds2-2D2014-2D21jan15-2Den.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=flBO-66osCs7D_B5_S4wwOU6jeY5Uc96_rGlxvq8U8w&amp;e=">
here[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 328 KB].</p>
<p>The 1H 2014 report is available <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_identifier-2Dsystem-2Dupdate-2D30jun14-2Den.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&amp;m=Wa3YVgIGJvvMnvP9S6lxxMjgnDktnGWy1HpmGMNdR_E&amp;s=JSBOpAPCb0RP0Y23WmRaSC06yRCArRA2QroCXdvj06w&amp;e=">
here[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 73 KB].</p>
<p>Please contact <a href="mailto:john.crain@icann.org">John Crain</a> or <a href="mailto:dave.piscitello@icann.org">
Dave Piscitello</a> with questions, comments or suggestions.</p>
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