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Identifier Systems SSR Activities Reporting

20 June 2015
By
John Crain

John Crain

SVP & Chief Technology Officer

John is responsible for leading ICANN organization (org)’s efforts to improve knowledge about the identifiers ICANN helps coordinate and disseminate this information to the Internet community. He is also responsible for oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.

A member of the org executive team, John works with staff and the community to enable and enhance capabilities that improve the overall security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet’s identifier systems and associated infrastructures. He also represents ICANN in operational and technical dialogues and forums to ensure the community’s engagement with these programs.

Prior to his time at ICANN org, John worked as part of the executive management team at RIPE NCC in Amsterdam. RIPE NCC is the regional Internet registry (RIR) that provides Internet resource allocations for Europe and surrounding areas. John has been directly involved in the administration of Internet identifiers since his start at RIPE NCC in 1995 and has worked in all areas of Internet Protocol (IP) address administration. John also has extensive experience in Domain Name System (DNS) administration and managing Internet infrastructure services. Before becoming involved in Internet administration, John worked as a design engineer in composite materials research and development. In that role, John was also responsible for local area networking of computer aided design systems and for writing and developing custom software applications.

 and Dave Piscitello

Dave Piscitello

In addition to the U.N. six languages, this content is also available in

As part of our continuing commitment to transparency and accountability, the Identifier Systems SSR department is pleased to publish our activities report for the first half of 2015 (1H 2015).

Our activities reports describe the activities we perform to maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet's global identifier systems. These activities include collaboration with ICANN, security and operations, and public safety communities, where our staff serves several roles.

Depending on the engagement or request, our staff

  • offers security or Identifier System subject matter expertise,
  • facilitates cooperative action among ICANN and other communities to maintain Identifier System SSR,
  • conducts research, or
  • supports the daily efforts of security or operations communities to mitigate the misuse or harmful use of the Identifier System or domain name registration services.

The 1H 2015 activities report highlights our collaboration and stakeholder activities from January 1 through June 15, 2014. We summarize activities we perform as part of our identifier system SSR threat awareness and preparedness remit. We provide progress reports on analytics or productivity improvement projects as well.

Our 1H 2015 report is available here [PDF, 2.85 MB].

The 2H 2014 report is available here [PDF, 328 KB].

The 1H 2014 report is available here [PDF, 73 KB].

Please contact John Crain or Dave Piscitello with questions, comments or suggestions.

Authors

John Crain

John Crain

SVP & Chief Technology Officer
John Crain

John Crain

SVP & Chief Technology Officer

John is responsible for leading ICANN organization (org)’s efforts to improve knowledge about the identifiers ICANN helps coordinate and disseminate this information to the Internet community. He is also responsible for oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.

A member of the org executive team, John works with staff and the community to enable and enhance capabilities that improve the overall security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet’s identifier systems and associated infrastructures. He also represents ICANN in operational and technical dialogues and forums to ensure the community’s engagement with these programs.

Prior to his time at ICANN org, John worked as part of the executive management team at RIPE NCC in Amsterdam. RIPE NCC is the regional Internet registry (RIR) that provides Internet resource allocations for Europe and surrounding areas. John has been directly involved in the administration of Internet identifiers since his start at RIPE NCC in 1995 and has worked in all areas of Internet Protocol (IP) address administration. John also has extensive experience in Domain Name System (DNS) administration and managing Internet infrastructure services. Before becoming involved in Internet administration, John worked as a design engineer in composite materials research and development. In that role, John was also responsible for local area networking of computer aided design systems and for writing and developing custom software applications.

Dave Piscitello

Dave Piscitello

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