Dear Kim and the WHOIS Review Team,

I am honored to be nominated as Chair of this Team, and if elected, I would be pleased to serve. My warm thanks to Kim for the nomination, and James, Emily, Sharon and Lynn for their endorsement. As I mentioned at the end of our call, we are a great group for the challenging work ahead, and I am very impressed by the range of experiences and expertise we bring together.

I would like to recommend that we also elect a Vice Chair. With the many meetings ahead, by telephone and in person, it will be good to have a Vice-Chair provide continuity of leadership and assist with the duties of the Chair.

For this position, I would like to nominate Emily Taylor. Emily served as the Director of Legal and Policy for Nominet (.UK) from 2000 to 2009. There she led the creation of Nominet’s WHOIS policy, working closely with law enforcement and privacy regulators, as well as other internal and external stakeholders. Emily represents the ccNSO on our Review Team and also served as Director of Counsel for European Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR). She is intricately familiar with the complexity of the issues represented by the Whois from a ccTLD perspective, and brings a wealth of experience in the challenges of bottom-up, consensus policy processes in this area.

Best wishes,

Kathy Kleiman

Director of Policy

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From: rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Kim G. von Arx
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 12:39 PM
To: Olof Nordling
Cc: rt4-whois@icann.org
Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] Chair nominations invited for the WHOIS Review Team

All: 

Thank you very much for a very fruitful and productive call on Wednesday.  I thought it went exceptionally well considering that many of us do not know each other at all.    

In line with one of our agenda items for next week, I would like to nominate Kathy Kleiman to be the chair of this committee.  Kathy has been involved in the ICANN world from its inception and has significant experience in the industry and the WHOIS issues.  She was one of the co-chairs of a special Whois conference which took place in conjunction with the 2005 ICANN meeting and tried to educate and inform the stakeholders, objectively, of the different views on WHOIS ranging from law enforcement to public interest groups.  Kathy understands the issues that are of concern to each of the major constituencies of ICANN and can, as she has shown in the past for many sensitive issues, guide the discussions and resolutions to an outcome that is acceptable to all parties involved.  In light of that, I submit that Kathy's proven credibility, expertise, skills, integrity and sense of fairness will give all of us the assurance that no one group will receive preferential treatment, but all will be on equal footing. 

I am looking forward to speaking with all of you again next week. 

Best wishes, 

Kim 

On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:13, Olof Nordling wrote:

Dear Review Team members,

This is a gentle reminder about a key aspect brought up at our first conference call– nominations for the role of Chair are very welcome indeed! Please consider volunteering yourself – or nominating one of your team colleagues. Initiatives in this regard will be most appreciated!

Thanks in advance – and wishing you all a nice weekend.

Best regards

Olof  

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