[council] Updated GNSO Council statements of interest - 27 June 2007

[council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear All, Please find the updated statement of interest from Ute Decker, IPC Council representative, Avri Doria GNSO Council Chair, Robin Gross, NCUC and the new IPC Council representative, Cyril Chau. They are ordered according to constituencies: 1. Registrar Constituency 2. Commercial and Business Users Constituency 3. Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency 4. Non Commercial Users Constituency 5. Intellectual Property Interests Constituency 6. gTLD Registries constituency 7. Nominating Committee appointees to the GNSO Council Please let me know if there are any other updates you would like made. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Glen ...................................................................... Ross Rader - - Registrar Constituency I am the Director of Research and Innovation for Tucows Inc., an ICANN accredited registrar and Internet services vendor. Tucows is a minority shareholder in Afilias LLC, with roughly an 8% shareholding. Neither Tucows, nor I, is in possession of, nor have access to Registry Sensitive or Registry Proprietary information as defined by any relevant registry operating contracts as a result of this relationship. Tucows provides consulting and application hosting services to other registrars and Internet services providers. I am not an officer, director, consultant, or employee of any of these customer organizations nor am I specifically involved in providing services to them. The URL for this statement is: http://www.byte.org/blog/_WebPages/StatementofInterestsforRossRader.html ........................................................................ Thomas Keller - - Registrar Constituency I'm a full time employee of Schlund+Partner AG. Schlund+Partner AG is ICANN accredited and is conducting business with almost all major gTLDS and ccTLDs. Schlund holds a minority share in Afilias LLC for investment purposes.Besides domain name registrations Schlund is mainly offering webhosting and email services to end users. I'm a member of the DENIC Technical Advisory Council. ....................................................................... ....................................................................... Commercial and Business Users Constituency Alistair Dixon - Commercial and Business Users Constituency I am a Regulatory and Industry Advisor for TelstraClear, a New Zealand-based wholly owned subsidiary of Telstra Corporation. My role consists of providing advice and representing TelstraClear in its interactions with the New Zealand Government and regulators. TelstraClear is a full service telecommunications provider and operates ISP businesses in New Zealand. TelstraClear is a registrar in the .nz domain. TelstraClear's parent company Telstra Corporation is a telecommunications provider that has businesses and customers throughout the world though principally in the Asia-Pacific region. I have no employment, contract, financial interest or other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars. ....................................................................... Philip Sheppard - Commercial and Business Users Constituency I am Public Affairs Manager for AIM - European Brands Association, a Brussels-based trade association involved in public affairs activities. AIM represents the branded goods industries in Europe on key issues which affect the ability of brand manufacturers to design, distribute and market their brands. AIM's membership groups 1800 companies of all sizes through corporate members and national associations in 21 countries. These companies are mostly active in every day consumer goods. AIM's mission is to create for brands an environment of fair and vigorous competition, fostering innovation and guaranteeing maximum value to consumers. I hold various non-remunerated directorships unrelated to ICANN. I am a contact point for several domain names. Honorary positions: - President 2007 International Public Relations Association (IPRA), the global professional association for the PR profession. - I am a Freeman of the City of London. ...................................................................... Mike Rodenbaugh - Commercial and Business Users Constituency I am employed full-time by Yahoo! Inc., as Senior Legal Director. I have been elected to the GNSO Council by the Commercial and Business Users Constituency. Yahoo! is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. I engage ICANN issues from Yahoo!'s perspective as a premier online brand and diversified business, highly valuing the perspectives of our customers, partners and users. Yahoo! has hundreds of thousands of online business customers and partners which advertise and provide services to our global audience. We are interested in seeing all of these businesses succeed and grow. These businesses work with Yahoo! because we have earned one of the world's largest audiences, requiring that the 'user perspective' remain extremely important to us always. And, of course Yahoo! is a famous brand that is extremely challenging to protect and enforce online, worldwide. I believe businesses of all types and sizes share our interest in the rapid growth of internet commerce, balanced with fair protection of existing property interests. I look forward to working with the Council to address the many serious issues that existing businesses encounter as a result of ICANN policy. ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ISPCP Constituency Anthony Harris - ISPCP Constituency I am under contract as full time executive director of CABASE, a non-profit Internet industry association, incorporated as such in Argentina since 1999. - consulting work done for ICANN - NONE - consulting work done for a gtld or cctld registry, or current applicant to become a gtld or cctld registry - NONE - consulting work done for a registrar - NONE - employment with a registry or registrar - NONE .......................................................................... Greg Ruth - ISPCP Constituency I am a Senior Consultant for Verizon Business, a global communications, security and technology provider. My duties consist primarily of providing consulting services. As a multi-national organization, Verizon Business has many customer and vendor relationships, and some of those relationships may include ICANN accredited registrars, registries as well as members of other GNSO constituencies. In the normal course of my duties, I have no knowledge of which ICANN related organizations my company is contractually involved with. My position and responsibilities in Verizon Business do not allow me any decision making power, personal involvement, responsibility or other interest in determining or carrying out the contractual relationships in which my company enters. As a global network provider, my company's interest in ICANN is for the security and stability of the Internet. I do not have any relationships or duties outside my company that would involve any issues of interest to or conflict with ICANN, and my duties in the GNSO. This statement of interest will be maintained at: http://www.icannwiki.org/Greg_Ruth_-_statement_of_interest ......................................................................... Tony Holmes - ISPCP Constituency I am employed within BT Group's Chief Technology Office with the responsibility for determining numbering, naming and addressing policy and strategy for BT Group PLC. BT is a large ISP and infrastructure provider and operates in many countries across the world. BT is also an accredited ICANN Registrar, but is not currently operational. I participate in, and hold official positions in a number of other technology focused technical and policy making bodies at both the national and international level, none of which cause conflict with my work in ICANN. I have no employment, contract, financial interest or other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except BT. I am an elected representative of the ISP and Connectivity Providers Constituency to the GNSO. ....................................................................... ....................................................................... Non Commercial Users Constituency Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users Constituency I am a representative of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency on the GNSO Policy Council. I am the Executive Director of IP Justice, an international civil liberties organization based in San Francisco that promotes balanced intellectual property laws and free expression in a digital environment. IP Justice is a California not-for-profit corporation and public charity under 501(c)(3). I am also licensed to practice law throughout California, and serve on the Board of Directors of the Union for the Public Domain, a not-for-profit corporation based in Washington DC. From 1999-2002, I was an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). In 2006 I was appointed to advisory group of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). ...................................................................... Norbert Klein – Non-Commercial Users Constituency I am at present a consultant to a Cambodian non-government organization, the Open Forum of Cambodia, which was created in 1994 to facilitate and to foster communication – not only electronic communication – in the conflictive, post-civil war Cambodian society. My relation to the Internet, and since 1999 to ICANN, originated from the fact that I created in 1994 the first possibility for people in Cambodia to have access to e-mail, and in 1996 I created the possibility to have an e-mail address in Cambodia: .kh Neither I nor the Open Forum of Cambodia have registered a top level domain – we use a secondary domain for our organization, under the ccTLD of Cambodia, .kh For myself, I use a webmail account by the German provider GMX, a GMX ProMail account, for which I pay the normal set fees. Neither we as an organization, nor I as an individual, own or have in any other way an economic interest in any IT or ICT company or related holding. ........................................................................... Mawaki Chango - Non Commercial Users Constituency I am currently a full-time Ph.D. student and Graduate Assistant, and I represent the Non-Commercial Users Constituency on the GNSO Council. In addition, I am involved in social activism through my participation in ACSIS (African Civil Society for Information Society), as ICT policy advocator, and advisor to the ACSIS’ President. Over the last five years, I have been involved as a consultant with UNESCO, the International Development Research Centre, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Dakar), the Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo), and EvalNet (Johannesburg). I have never been involved in any business related to the distribution and operation of Internet resources. ...................................................................... ...................................................................... Intellectual Property Interests Constituency Ute Decker - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency Revised Statement of Interest - GNSO Council I am a lawyer based in London and an employee of Microsoft. I participate in the work of the Council as an individual member of the Intellectual Property Constituency. I do not represent Microsoft's interest of views in the IPC or on the GNSO Council. I do not have a financial or other interest in any registrar or registry. .................................................................... Cyril Chua - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency I am a partner in a law firm. Our clients are usually IPR owners like Microsoft, the Entertainment Software Association, Association of American Publishers etc. I have checked with all my partners and none of my partners have done any work for any domain name registrants and could not think of issues of conflict. ......................................................................... Kristina Rosette - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency I am employed as a Special Counsel by Covington & Burling LLP (“Covington”), a general practice law firm with over 600 lawyers in five offices in three countries. I am resident in Covington’s Washington, DC office and am a member of the District of Columbia bar. I specialize in Internet and trademark matters, and represent trademark owner clients in connection with such matters. Among my responsibilities, I develop and implement offensive and defensive domain name registration, Internet monitoring, and enforcement strategies; reclaim domain names through negotiation, arbitration (under the UDRP, .biz STOP, and .mobi Sunrise Challenge policies, thus far), and litigation; and advise clients on the use of keywords and sponsored links. In connection with advising firm clients of generally noteworthy trademark- or Internet-related developments, I have also provided information and updates on domain name system developments (e.g., posting of reports for public comment, announcements of new policies such as the Domain Name Transfer Policy, .eu Sunrise requirements). All such communications have been, and will continue to be, based solely on publicly available information and documents. From time to time, I register or acquire in my own name domain names for firm clients. I am currently the registrant of several domain names, both on behalf of firm clients and in an individual capacity. From time to time and as circumstances warrant, I have completed and submitted Whois Data Problem Reports on behalf of firm clients. Since 2004, I have been a member of the Registration Practice and DNS Administration Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association’s Internet Committee. I have determined that Covington does not represent ICANN and does not represent any clients in matters in which ICANN is an adverse party. Covington did represent the International Cooperative Alliance in connection with the formation and establishment of DotCooperation LLC, the .coop registry operator, but that matter has been closed for some time. I have also determined that Covington neither represents any gTLD or sTLD registry operator in matters relating to its capacity as a registry operator nor represents any client in matters adverse to such registry operators as registry operators. Based on the responses to my inquiries, Covington does not represent any ccTLD registry operator in its capacity as a registry operator nor does it represent any client in matters adverse to any ccTLD registry operators as registry operators. To the best of my knowledge, Covington does not represent any ICANN-accredited registrar in its capacity as a registrar nor does it represent any firm client in a matter adverse to a registrar as registrar. From time to time, Covington has represented firm clients in intellectual property matters adverse to registrars, and it is likely to do so periodically in the future. I have not been involved in such matters. It is possible that a firm client is an ICANN-accredited registrar, but, if so, Covington does not represent it in such matters. .......................................................................... .......................................................................... gTLD Registries constituency Cary Karp - gTLD Registries constituency I am Director of Internet Strategy and Technology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), an agency of the Swedish government. This is a full-time salaried position. I serve in a similar capacity for the International Council of Museums (ICOM) of which I am an individual member and NRM is an institutional member. I receive a small additional honorarium for that activity. I hold a non-remunerated position as the President and CEO of the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma), the Sponsoring Organization for the .museum TLD. NRM is the largest museum in Sweden and charged with advising private and corporate entities in that country in matters relating to its sphere of expertise. I am regularly involved in such action. Current activity includes a joint initiative with NIC-SE, the operator of the .se ccTLD, which is collaborating with NRM in a project in the context of the Swedish national "Year of Cultural Diversity 2006". I also advise NIC-SE in general matters relating to IDN. I may from time to time receive separate honoraria for advisory services provided as a result of my position at NRM, and may be similarly compensated for writing and speaking engagements. ICOM is an NGO maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. I am directly involved in activity conducted by ICOM in its relationship with UNESCO. I represent MuseDoma in the gTLD Registry Constituency and am the elected representative for the sTLDs on the GNSO Council. I conduct no other activity with, and have no other interests of any kind that involve, entities maintaining business or contractual relationships with ICANN. ........................................................................ Chuck Gomes - gTLD Registries constituency 9 December 2006 I am Vice President of Policy and Compliance for VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign is the registry operator for the .com and the .net gTLDs and also provides backend registry services in support of Global Name Registry for the .name gTLD and Employ Media for the .jobs gTLD. VeriSign is also the registry operator for two ccTLDs, .cc for the Cocos and Keelings Islands and .tv for Tuvalu. As an employee who supports VeriSign’s naming services business, I do often have access to Registry Sensitive information including information about registrars. With regard to both our gTLD and ccTLD registration services businesses as well as other VeriSign businesses, our customers and business associates have interests in various ICANN policy issues and may be members of other GNSO constituencies and/or supporting organizations. In addition to registry agreements with ICANN for .com and .net, VeriSign also has obligations to the U.S. Department of Commerce through a cooperative agreement that was initiated in 1993 and has been amended many times since then. Those obligations include providing the A and J root servers as well as support to ICANN in implementing changes in the root zone file. As such, VeriSign is a member of the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee and also works closely with IANA staff in the processing of root zone changes. As a representative elected to the GNSO Council by the unsponsored gTLD registry members of the gTLD Registry Constituency (RyC), I am required by the Constituency’s Articles of Operation to represent the views of those members and the full Constituency as applicable, not my own or VeriSign’s. In that regard, I will endeavor to always qualify any personal statements as such and will follow-up with the RyC to obtain their position. I own shares of VeriSign stock and hold options to purchase additional shares, but the amount of shares I currently own plus the potential shares I could possibly own if I exercised all options is a miniscule number relative to the total number of VeriSign shares. ....................................................................... Edmon Chung - gTLD Registries constituency December 22, 2006 I am currently serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation Ltd. DotAsia is the registry operator and sponsor for the ICANN Sponsored gTLD ".ASIA". DotAsia is a not-for-profit membership based organization incorporated in Hong Kong. The current members of DotAsia includes 20 ccTLDs (".AF", ".BT", ".CN", ".ID", ".IN", ".IR", ".JP", ".KH", ".KR", ".KZ", ".MN", ".MO", ".NU", ".NZ", ".PH", ".SG", ".TJ", ".TW", ".UZ" and ".VN") in the Asia community and 3 regional organisations: APNIC, APNG and PAN. APNIC is an RIR in the ICANN ASO. Prior to joining DotAsia, I was the Creative Director of Afilias Ltd. Afilias is the registry operator for the ICANN gTLD ".INFO". Afilias also provides registry services to other ICANN gTLDs, including ".ORG", ".AERO" and ".MOBI", as well as other ccTLDs including ".IN", ".AG", ".GI", ".SC", ".HN", ".BZ", ".VC", ".MN", ".LA", and ".SG". ............................................................................. ............................................................................. Nominating Committee appointees to the GNSO Council Sophia Bekele - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council I represent a California based, privately held company, CBS Enterprise Group, which is engaged in international business. As part of its portfolio of services, the company provides systems integration services through CBS International, which delivers domain registration, web hosting and email services to end users via a reseller, agreement with registrars. Less than 10% of CBS's business is derived from these services. In my personal capacity, I do not have any of my moneys, invested in companies that are in the registrar businesses. I do not believe that any activities of the Council or ICANN could have a material effect on the work I do at CBS International. .................................................................... Avri Doria - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council http://psg.com/~avri/icann-stmt-interest.html I am an independent research consultant and an adjunct professor at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. I also have a recurring contract with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as a consultant to its secretariat. I have no employment, contract, financial interest, share ownership or any other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except as a registrant of several domain names. As part of my volunteer activities I give advice to various representatives of indigenous nomadic and semi-nomadic populations on Internet topics which include the possibility of obtaining an TLD. I am currently involved in activities that may lead to the creation of an non governmental organization (NGO) whose primary purpose would be to assist indigenous groups as well as populations from the less developed nations, NGOs active in representing the needs of these populations, and other advocacy groups, in obtaining a presence on the Internet. These activities may involve providing assistance in obtaining a TLD, including assistance in raising the necessary funding for a TLD, when that is an appropriate solution to their goals. ...................................................................... Jon Bing - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council 26 December 2006 I am a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, holding a chair in Computers and Law created 1988. I work within the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, (http://www.jus.uio.no/iri/english/index.html) an institution I co-funded in 1970. This makes me an old-timer within this area of law, consequently I also have broad research interests – an inheritance from the time one thought “computers and law” was a very narrow and esoteric field. I have worked extensively with legal information systems, text retrieval and knowledge based methods related to this. My interests in substantial law includes data protection (or privacy), intellectual property law applied to computer programs, databases, integrated circuits, and other material in machine-readable form, and media and communication law. I have in the past been member of the General Board of the Norwegian Research Council, and am currently chairing a research program on vulnerability and society within the NRC. I am a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, doctor honoris causa of Stockholm and Copenhagen, a former Visiting Professor of King’s College (University of London), and have collected many embarrassing honorary prizes or titles. A sketchy home page may be found at http://www.jus.uio.no/iri/english/nrccl/people/associates/bing.html. The NRCCL is mainly financed by the state through the University budget, but accept external contracts. Among these are projects financed by the European Communities (though not a member of the EU, Norway participates on equal standing within the research co-operation), funds made available from the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs (the funds are used to sponsor various activities related to copyright), and funds from NORID, which operates the Norwegian country domain .no. These latter funds are used for our research on Internet governance, which is taught in our international Master of Law and Information Communication Technology programme. This sponsorship has gone on from 2004, and English language anthology is expected to be published 2007. A set of ethical rules ensures the independence of the NRCCL from any outside source of funding. I have in the past been consultant to several international organisations; these include OCED (both ICCP and PUMA), the EU Commission, UNESCO, WIPO, and UNDP. I have also been Norwegian delegate to specialised functions within OECD, WIPO, European Cultural Fund and UNESCO. Currently I am member of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme (ending 2007). Nationally, I have served within may administrative or legal functions related to culture, for instance chair of the Art Council, Film Council, Cassette Tax Foundation etc, member of the Royal Commissions of the Freedom of Expression (which lead to an amendment of the Constitution), The Royal Commission of Copyright, and the Commission on Converging Technologies. I currently chair the Data Protection Tribunal. I published my first collection of short-stories 1967, and with my fellow writer Tor Åge Bringsværd is often given the blame from having introduced science fiction to Norway. I have since them – under by own name or the joint by-line Bing & Bringsværd – published stories, novels, dramatic works for stage, television, and radio, and the libretti of four operas. I have translated a large number of fiction and non-fiction works (among them Bill Gates’ autobiography), and edited more than twenty science fiction anthologies. In Norway, I may be better known as an author than anything else. My next novel will be a juvenile scheduled for publication spring 2007. I have served as the legal advisor to creative writers in Norway 1970-90, which certainly has influenced my perspective with respect to intellectual property. Currently, I am partner in the law firm Bing & Co (http://www.bing.no/ ), which mainly has a “back-office” function with respect to other law firms, but also manages my somewhat extensive commercial lecturing. ............................................................................. Alan Greenberg - At Large Advisory Committee liaison to the GNSO Council Other than my ALAC and GNSO participation, I have neither a business relationship nor substantive any involvement with either ICANN or organizations significantly affected by decisions or recommendations made by ICANN or its constituent bodies. ................................................................................. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org