This is the Draft FY20 Operating Plan for the ICANN organization that Q mentioned in post #2883. Lots of documents to dig through here - see links in website.

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/fy20-budget-2018-12-17-en

ICANN Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget and Five-Year Operating Plan Update

Brief Overview

Purpose:

Focusing on ICANN's commitment to the multistakeholder model, ICANN's Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget and the current year update to the Five-Year Operating Plan are provided for community discussion and public comment. ICANN seeks structured feedback on the plans described in these documents. The documents incorporate improvements on previous years based on regular interaction with the ICANN community and reflect FY20's planned accomplishments towards the Five-Year Strategic Plan, (adopted by the Board in October 2014.)

Current Status:

The draft documents provided for this proceeding have been prepared and published for public review and comment. They describe ICANN's plans for FY20 and include the plans to be carried out by PTI and IANA. Consultations were conducted on PTI's draft FY20 plans during Summer and Fall of 2018. A Report of Public Comments on the FY20 PTI and IANA Operating Plan and Budget was published in December 2017. The updated PTI Operating Plan and Budget is scheduled to be adopted by the PTI Board 19 December 2018. The sections of the plans relating to PTI are therefore already finalized and are included in these documents to provide a complete picture.

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Part 2:

This is a 71-page pdf of the ICANN Draft FY20 Operating Plan

Thought this was interesting, especially since Obummer had moved the whole effort to outside the US Government: The Government and IGO Engagement (GE) team will have nine positions in FY20. Most are in Geneva. Three are in Los Angeles, New York, and Brussels respectively.

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/proposed-opplan-fy20-17dec18-en.pdf

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Draft FY20 Operating Plan

17 December 2018

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Part 3:

ICANN is looking for a few good people. If Q can't wrest control of the internet away from this group, then I hope that Q can pack the group with our own good people!

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-19-en

Application Deadline Extended for ICANN and PTI Leadership Positions

LOS ANGELES – 19 February 2019 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Nominating Committee (NomCom) has extended its application deadline for ICANN and PTI leadership positions. The new deadline is Friday, 22 March 2019 at 23:59 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The NomCom is accepting applications and recommendations for the following positions:

• Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors.

• One member of the PTI Board of Directors.

• Three regional representatives to the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) – one from the Asia, Australia, and Pacific Islands region, one from the Latin America and Caribbean Islands region, one from the Africa region.

• Two members of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council.

• One member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council.

New Application Process and Deadline

There is a new online candidate portal that has replaced the previous platform. After creating an account, candidates will receive an automated email from either no-reply@email.zenginehq.com or no-reply@webportalapp.com. For additional questions, please contact NomCom Staff Support at nomcom2019@icann.org.

For full consideration, the NomCom must receive applications by 22 March 2019, 23:59 UTC. There will be no grace period for candidates to complete their application forms on the new online candidate portal. Applications that remain incomplete at the end of this period will not be considered.

• Submit your application through the online candidate portal.

• Submit candidate recommendations through the online form.

All applications are confidential. The successful candidates will be announced by September 2019 and will assume their positions after ICANN66 Annual General, which runs from 2-7 November 2019.

Meetings, Travel, Reimbursement, and Compensation

The open ICANN and PTI leadership positions require regular participation in teleconferences and may involve significant international travel, including to ICANN's three annual Public Meetings. The three Public Meetings directly following the start of the new positions are: ICANN66 in Montréal, Canada (2-7 November 2019), ICANN67 in Cancún, Mexico (7-12 March 2020), and ICANN68 in Kuala Lumpur (22-25 June 2020).

Reasonable and properly documented expenses incurred during the course of service will be reimbursed.

ICANN Board members have the option to receive compensation in accordance with the resolution passed by the Board on 30 July 2014, but it is not required. (See Board Member Compensation.)

More Information

To learn more, visit the 2019 NomCom website. If you have any questions or comments, please email nomcom2019@icann.org.

About ICANN

ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.

Intro to ICANN:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web

An easy, interesting read

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This is the ICANN story Q posted about from an AFP tweet:

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-22-en

ICANN Calls for Full DNSSEC Deployment, Promotes Community Collaboration to Protect the Internet

LOS ANGELES – 21 February 2019 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) believes that there is an ongoing and significant risk to key parts of the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure.

In the context of increasing reports of malicious activity targeting the DNS infrastructure, ICANN is calling for full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured domain names. The organization also reaffirms its commitment to engage in collaborative efforts to ensure the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet’s global identifier systems.

As one of many entities engaged in the decentralized management of the Internet, ICANN is specifically responsible for coordinating the top-most level of the DNS to ensure its stable and secure operation and universal resolvability.

On 15 February 2019, in response to reports of attacks against key parts of the DNS infrastructure, ICANN offered a checklist of recommended security precautions for members of the domain name industry, registries, registrars, resellers, and related others, to proactively take to protect their systems, their customers’ systems and information reachable via the DNS.

Public reports indicate that there is a pattern of multifaceted attacks utilizing different methodologies. Some of the attacks target the DNS, in which unauthorized changes to the delegation structure of domain names are made, replacing the addresses of intended servers with addresses of machines controlled by the attackers. This particular type of attack, which targets the DNS, only works when DNSSEC is not in use. DNSSEC is a technology developed to protect against such changes by digitally 'signing' data to assure its validity. Although DNSSEC cannot solve all forms of attack against the DNS, when it is used, unauthorized modification to DNS information can be detected, and users are blocked from being misdirected.

ICANN has long recognized the importance of DNSSEC and is calling for full deployment of the technology across all domains. Although this will not solve the security problems of the Internet, it aims to assure that Internet users reach their desired online destination by helping to prevent so-called “man in the middle” attacks where a user is unknowingly re-directed to a potentially malicious site. DNSSEC complements other technologies, such as Transport Layer Security (most typically used in HTTPS) that protect the end user/domain communication.

As the coordinator of the top-most level of the DNS, ICANN is in the position to help mitigate and detect DNS-related risks, and to facilitate key discussions together with its partners. The organization believes that all members of the domain name system ecosystem must work together to produce better tools and policies to secure the DNS and other critical operations of the Internet. To facilitate these efforts, ICANN is planning an event for the Internet community to address DNS protection: The first is an open session during the upcoming ICANN64 public meeting on 9-14 March 2019, in Kobe, Japan.

As we learn more information, updates may be provided. For information about ICANN64, visit https://meetings.icann.org/kobe64.

About ICANN

ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.