GAC Public Safety Working Group (PSWG)

Work Efforts

The GAC regularly considers a broad range of public policy issues impacting the DNS and other matters regarding the functions of ICANN. This work can result in consensus advice for the ICANN Board or public comment guidance to the ICANN community. This part of the website shares information related to those ongoing topics and activities.

Status: Active

Date Formed: 12 Feb 2015

The GAC's Public Safety Working Group (PSWG) focuses on aspects of ICANN’s policies and procedures that implicate the safety of the public.

The current strategic objectives of the PSWG, as detailed in its 2023-2024 Work Plan are as follows:

Develop and Support DNS Abuse and DNS related unlawful activity mitigation methods and capabilities
Promote lawful access to and accuracy of domain name registration data
Effective PSWG operations and stakeholder relations

The PSWG was established in February 2015 at ICANN52 in Singapore (see section V.10. of GAC Communiqué) and its Terms of Reference were adopted in June 2015 at ICANN53 in Buenos Aires.

The PSWG is currently chaired by three co-chairs:

Cathrin Bauer-Bulst, European Commission
Laureen Kapin, United States Federal Trade Commission
Chris Lewis-Evans, United Kingdom, National Crime Agency

Reference

PSWG Operations

For more Working Group Documentation: see Ongoing Work or Documenation sections below.

Status and Ongoing Work

The Working Group is following its work plan which is currently being updated for the 2023-2024 period.

Meeting and Records

Feb

2023

Pre-ICANN76 PSWG Conference Call

Closed Meeting

Mar

2022

ICANN73 - Session 10 - GAC Public Safety Working Group Update and DNS Abuse Discussions

18:30 - 19:15 UTC

Materials:

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Topics: DNS Abuse

Feb

2022

Pre-ICANN73 PSWG Conference Call

Closed Meeting

Nov

2021

PSWG Conference Call - 23 November 2021

Closed Meeting

Members

Documentation

Filter Documents

Title	Date	Type
PSWG Work Plan 2020-2021 Date: 16 Mar 2020 Type:	16 Mar 2020		1584391200000
PSWG Work Plan 2018-2019 (14 March 2018) Date: 14 Mar 2018 Type:	14 Mar 2018		1521028800000

PSWG Work Plan 2020-2021

PSWG Work Plan 2018-2019 (14 March 2018)

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