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ICANN's mission is to ensure the '''stable''' and '''secure''' operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article1 Section 1.1, ICANN Bylaws]</ref> Its core values are to reflect the functional, geographic, and cultural '''diversity''' of the Internet at all levels of policy development and decision-making; ensure a bottom-up, '''multistakeholder''' policy development process is used to ascertain the [[Global Public Interest]]; and make its processes '''accountable''' and '''transparent'''. ICANN's technical commitment is to maintain a single, global authoriative Root.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article1 Section 1.2, ICANN Bylaws]</ref>
ICANN's mission is to ensure the [[SSR|stable, secure, and resilient]] operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article1 Section 1.1, ICANN Bylaws]</ref> Its core values are to reflect the functional, geographic, and cultural '''diversity''' of the Internet at all levels of policy development and decision-making; ensure a bottom-up, '''multistakeholder''' policy development process is used to ascertain the [[Global Public Interest]]; and make its processes '''accountable''' and '''transparent'''. ICANN's technical commitment is to maintain a single, global authoriative Root.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article1 Section 1.2, ICANN Bylaws]</ref>
ICANN's technical mission includes:
# coordinating the allocation of the Internet's unique identifier systems, such as [[Domain Name]]s, [[IP Address]]es, autonomous system (AS) numbers and protocol port and parameter numbers;
# coordinating and facilitating the stability, security and resiliency and policy of the aforementioned systems;
# collaborating in these systems' technical protocol development;
# maintaining and operating the [[Root Server Operator|L-root]];
# managing [[ICANN Organization|ICANN's operations and internal systems]]; and
# providing a [[ITI|publicly accessible information resource]] on these functions for the [[ICANN Commmunity|greater Internet community]].
Thus, its '''mission- and value-driven initiatives''' have come to include policies, organizational additions, operational improvements, and other strategies to ensure that ICANN's commitments are realized.
==A Stable Internet==
==A Stable Internet==
''Timeline of ICANN's interpretation of security threats and its reactions''
''Timeline of ICANN's interpretation of security threats and its reactions''
* May 2012: ICANN defines it role in DNS Security as "the capacity to protect and prevent misuse of Internet unique identifiers."<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/draft-statement-of-icanns-role-and-remit-in-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-the-internets-unique-identifier-systems-17-05-2012 Draft Statement of ICANN's role/remit in SSR, Public Comment Proceedings, ICANN]</ref>
* May 2012: ICANN defines it role in DNS Security as "the capacity to protect and prevent misuse of Internet unique identifiers."<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/draft-statement-of-icanns-role-and-remit-in-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-the-internets-unique-identifier-systems-17-05-2012 Draft Statement of ICANN's role/remit in SSR, Public Comment Proceedings, ICANN]</ref>
==A Resilient Internet===
''Timeline of ICANN Plans to Ensure the Internet Can Bounce Back''
* 2012:
:* 05/17/2012: In its draft response to Recommendations #1 and #3 from the Security, Stability & Resiliency Review Team (SSR RT), ICANN defined Resiliency as “the capacity of the unique identifier system to effectively withstand/tolerate/survive malicious attacks and other disruptive events without disruption or cessation of service.”<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/draft-statement-of-icanns-role-and-remit-in-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-the-internets-unique-identifier-systems-17-05-2012 Draft Statement of ICANN's role/remit in SSR, Public Comment Proceedings, ICANN]</ref>
* 2013:
:* March 2013: Activities for FY 14 focused on supporting a healthy ecosystem, to provide the foundation for a more stable, reliable, and resilient Internet for the global community. This approach focuses on an Internet that is sustainable or healthy, stable and resilient. A system that is sustainable for the future. We need to collectively concentrate on the ecosystem's "ability to maintain its structure and function over time in the face of external stress."<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ssr-plan-fy14-06mar13-en.pdf SSR Plan FY 2014, ICANN]</ref>
==A Unified, Global Internet==
==A Unified, Global Internet==