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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">After serving 3 years as our first vice chair for policy coordination, I'm
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">In the past 3 years, I believe we have raised members' </span><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">awareness</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> and </span><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">participation</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> in
policy matters. One tool for raising <u>awareness</u> is our regular policy calendar. Another is ad-hoc emails where I attempt to succinctly cover a relevant issue with links to external docs and prior BC positions. </span></font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Raising
<u>participation</u> levels remains a challenge, since members' time is limited because of other obligations. Still, we published 13 positions/statements on key policy issues during 2012. </span></font></span>And we made significant policy impacts outside
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">First, we led the CSG in advocating implementation improvements for the gTLD expansion. We published an extensive list in January, leading to the "CSG list of 8" in Toronto. Several improvements from that list
are still alive in the Strawman, while others have been incorporated in the RAA negotiations and latest registry agreement for new gTLDs.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Second, BC members have been critical to review teams required by the Affirmation of Commitments,
including Whois and Security & Stability. The BC also led the drafting of metrics and targets for 60 measurements to evaluate the new gTLD program in terms of Consumer Trust, Consumer Choice, and Competition. This work will feed into another Affirmation-mandated
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<div>In this role I also support our BC representatives on GNSO Council. As they are directly engaged in policy debates and voting, our Councilors deserve timely and specific guidance from the BC membership on relevant issues.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">In
the year ahead, the BC must press general business interests at ICANN. In just a few months, </span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">ICANN will begin delegations of new gTLDs, including single-registrant TLDs for
BC member companies. As</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> new gTLDs are launched we'll quickly assess the effectiveness of </span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">rights
protection mechanisms. Beyond new gTLDs, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">ICANN will be implementing recommendations and conducting additional reviews mandated by the Affirmation of Commitments. </span></span></font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">If the membership returns me to this post, I would continue working on the quantity and
quality of our statements and positions. </span></font>I am sure that BC members have additional ideas on how the vice chair for policy coordination could be more effective. If re-elected, I look forward to hearing those ideas.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">For 12 years I have been executive director of NetChoice, a coalition of e-commerce
companies and online services, including AoL, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, NewsCorp, Overstock, Reed-Elsevier, TrueCar.com, VeriSign, Yahoo, and several thousand small online sellers, primarily in the US. (see </span><a href="http://www.netchoice.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">http://www.netchoice.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> )
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">I set the policy agenda for NetChoice and frequently testify at international
fora, before the US Congress, and in state legislatures, on issues relating to Internet governance, e-commerce taxation, privacy, and consumer protection. I represent NetChoice at ICANN meetings and at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). I also publish
research and policy documents and maintain a blog at </span><font color="#541A8B"><u><a href="http://blog.netchoice.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">http://blog.netchoice.org</span></a></u></font><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">I have no financial ownership or management role in any registries, registrars or other firms that are, or aspire to be, contract parties with ICANN. Please note that one of my member companies is a large registry
operator, and some of my member companies have applied for new gTLDs. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The nature of my interest in ICANN is to maintain the integrity and availability of e-commerce and internet services.</span></font></span></div>
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<div>Steve DelBianco</div>
<div>Executive Director</div>
<div>NetChoice</div>
<div><a href="http://www.NetChoice.org/">http://www.NetChoice.org</a> and <a href="http://blog.netchoice.org/">http://blog.netchoice.org</a></div>
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