May 21st 2009: ICANN published it's 2009‐2012 Strategic Plan.
"Security,stability and resiliency will remain a top priority and ICANN will work
effectively with other Internet stakeholders to enhance and protect the security and stability of the Internet, paying particular attention to ICANN's mission to protect the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet's systems of unique identifiers."
ICANN is moving forward with its commitment to enhance DNS Security through DNSSEC, working with Verisign and the NTIA implementing root level resource public key infrastructure practices in the Top Level Domain (TLD) community. ICANN has been working with the Internet Registry's using DNSSEC to sign the reverse parts of the Internet Tree in an effort to authenticate ip addressing and boarder gateway routes through rPKI.
ICANN is investigating implications for the root server system as a whole, with regard to a series of potential changes within the DNS including the implementation of new gTLDs and IDNs, along with possible implementation of DNSSEC signing of the root zone over the following 18 months. Their report on this study is expected September 2009.
ICANN staff plans to work with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University to leverage the SEI Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF) to ensure its security, continuity and risk management programs incorporate best practices, and to measure improvements to maturity over time.
For the complete Plan Draft view:
Security, Stability and Resiliency Program
The international community is calling for more international control of ICANN. I don't know what will be the international response to ICANN's design plans for 2009-2012. There are a lot of outreach programs listed in this document to international country code top level domain operators and registry's, but I don't know if this design will be enough to satisfy the international community's request for more control.
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