GAC Public Safety Working Group (PSWG)

Dossiers de travail

Le GAC examine régulièrement un large éventail de dossiers de politique publique ayant des conséquences sur le DNS, ainsi que d’autres questions concernant les fonctions de l’ICANN. Ce travail peut aboutir à des avis consensuels adressés au Conseil d'administration de l’ICANN ou bien à des recommandations pour la communauté de l’ICANN sous forme de commentaires publics. Cette partie du site web contient des informations liées à ces dossiers et activités en cours.

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 two co-chairs:

Cathrin Bauer-Bulst, European Commission
Gabriel Andrews, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation

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.

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