[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-12-02-en ________________________________ Seeking Panel Members for New gTLD Public Interest Commitment Dispute Resolution 2 December 2014 ICANN plans to expand the Standing Panel responsible for administering the Public Interest Commitment Dispute Resolution Procedure (PICDRP), which supports the New gTLD Program. Parties with relevant experience and the desire to serve the Internet community are invited to submit expressions of interest. "PICDRP Standing Panel members play an important role in upholding the integrity of the Domain Name industry and protecting the public interest," said Akram Atallah, president of ICANN's Global Domains Division. The PICDRP is designed to serve the interests of the Internet community. When a report arises alleging that a registry has violated its public interest commitment(s) as outlined in its contract with ICANN, members of the PICDRP Standing Panel can be called upon to review the report, and if necessary, recommend remedies to ICANN. Therefore, all Standing Panel members must be impartial and independent. Download the official Call for Expressions of Interest<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/picdrp-eoi-02dec14-en.pdf> [PDF, 110 KB] to serve on the PICDRP Standing Panel. ICANN welcomes applicants with international dispute resolution experience and a sound technical understanding of the Internet and the Domain Name System. Expertise in any of the following areas is also highly desired: * Contract interpretation * Cross-cultural issues * Cyber security * Judicial and/or legal work * Licensing * Online content * Public policy * Regulatory environments * Social research * Trademark protection # # # Media Contact Gwen Carlson Director, GDD Communications Los Angeles, CA Tel: +1 310 578 8653 Email: gwen.carlson@icann.org<mailto:gwen.carlson@icann.org> About ICANN ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: www.icann.org<https://www.icann.org/>