SAC070 was published on 28 May 2015. All SSAC publications can be found at https://www.icann.org/groups/ssac/documents.
| Recommendation | Description | Current Phase |
|---|---|---|
| Recommendation 1 | Recognizing alternatives to the PSL have been discussed (see Appendix A), the SSAC recommends the IETF and the applications community consider them for further specifications and possible standardization through the IETF process. | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 2 | The IETF should develop a consensus definition of "public suffix" and other associated terminology (e.g. "private suffix"). | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 3 | To close the knowledge gap between registries and popular PSL maintainers, ICANN and the Mozilla Foundation should collaboratively create informational material that can be given to TLD registry operators about the Mozilla PSL. | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 4A | The Internet community should standardize the current approach to PSLs. Specifically: Recommendation 4a: ICANN, as part of its initiatives on universal acceptance, should encourage the software development community (including the open source community) to develop and distribute programming and operating system libraries implementing robust (i.e. authenticated, timely, secure, accountable) distribution mechanisms for PSLs. These libraries should be written across all common platforms and operating systems in a way as to ensure consistent and standard interpretation of a given PSL across all platforms. | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 4B | Application developers should use a canonical file format and modern authentication protocols as specifications to this work. | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 4C | Application developers should also replace proprietary PSLs with well-known and widely accepted PSL implementations such as the Mozilla PSL and the proposed IANA PSL (Recommendation 5). | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 5 | IANA should host a PSL containing information about the domains within the registries with which IANA has direct communication. Such a PSL would be authoritative for those domains. Such a list should include, at a minimum, all TLDs in the IANA root zone. | CLOSED |
| Recommendation 6 | ICANN should explicitly include use and actions related to a PSL as part of the work related to universal acceptance. | CLOSED |
