[CCWG-ACCT] Another Stress Test to discuss

[Steve DelBianco]

Per a request from Adam Peake, we applied another of our stress tests against the draft package of proposed accountability measures.

This is for stress test #17, shown below and on page 2 of the attached document.

Stress Test:
#17. ICANN attempts to add a new top-level domain in spite of security and stability concerns expressed by technical community or other stakeholder groups.
Consequence: DNS security and stability could be undermined, and ICANN actions could impose costs and risks upon external parties.

Existing Accountability Measures:
In 2013-14 the community demonstrated that it could eventually prod ICANN management to attend to risks identified by SSAC (security certificates and name collisions such as .mail, .home, etc.).

NTIA presently gives clerical approval for each delegation to indicate that ICANN has followed its processes.  NTIA could delay a delegation if its finds that ICANN has not followed its processes.  Not clear if that would/could have been a finding if ICANN attempted to delegate a new TLD such as .mail or .home

CCWG Proposed Accountability Measures:
One proposed measure is to empower the community to force ICANN’s board to implement a recommendation arising from an AoC Review – namely, 9.2 Review of  Security, Stability, and Resiliency.

Another possibility is to empower the community to force ICANN to respond to recommendations from advisory committees like as SSAC.

If the board took a decision to reject or only partially accept SSAC recommendations, the community could be empowered to challenge that board decision and/or refer to IRP.

Preliminary Conclusions:
This threat is partially related to the transition of IANA stewardship

Existing measures were adequate to mitigate the risks of this scenario.

Proposed measures enhance community’s power to mitigate the risks of this scenario.

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