ICANN Newsletter | Week ending 30 May 2014
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Announcements This Week
Registrars Stakeholder Group (RrSG) Charter Revisions (May 2014)
30 May 2014 | In March 2014, the Registrars Stakeholder Group (RrSG) submitted a set of Charter revisions to the Staff for processing in compliance with Phase I of the Process For Amending GNSO Stakeholder Group and Constituency Charters.
Pre-ICANN 50 Policy Update Webinar
30 May 2014 | The ICANN Policy Development Support Team will provide a Policy Update Webinar on Thursday 12 June at 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC, summarizing policy activities across the ICANN policy development community including the ongoing Transition of Stewardship of the IANA Functions, ICANN Accountability, and Cross-Community efforts.
One-Week Extension to the Public Comment and Reply Periods on Enhancing ICANN Accountability Process
29 May 2014 | In response to ensuring the community has sufficient time, while also having the process in parallel to, and informing, the process to Transition NTIA's Stewardship of the IANA Functions, there is a one (1) week extension of the comment period to 6 June.
ICANN Registrar Contact Information Database (RADAR) Password Reset
28 May 2014 | ICANN has taken its registrar contact information database (RADAR) offline temporarily. This action was taken as a precautionary measure after it was learned that an unauthorized party viewed data in the system. ICANN has found no evidence of any unauthorized changes to the data in the system.
DNS Risk Assessment (1st Iteration) for Public Consultation
28 May 2014 | In November 2013 at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires, the ICANN Board adopted the ICANN DNS Risk Management Framework ("Framework") and in February 2014 a group of selected ICANN staff undertook an initial (limited scope) DNS risk assessment using the Framework.
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