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<p class=MsoNormal>I have edited my Statement of Interest to provide more
specificity as to the nature of my clients and prospective clients, and to update
the status of my relationship with Yahoo! wrt to ICANN. Here is the
edited version, the last two paragraphs have changed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Statement of Interest</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'>Mike Rodenbaugh - Commercial and
Business Users Constituency<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I am owner of Rodenbaugh Law, a member of the Business and Commercial Users
Constituency. I am an attorney licensed in California. I conduct much of my
business via the internet. I advise and represent entities and
individuals with various commercial interests in domain names and other forms
of intellectual property, and with varying interests in internet commerce.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I am personally concerned about the security and stability of the Internet,
as it is increasingly the backbone of our society, critical to global commerce,
communications and safety. So I am interested in ICANN's role in managing and
coordinating the technical and policy aspects of the Internet. I am mindful of
the many enormous benefits of the internet that are fostered by ICANN policy,
and seek for ICANN policy to develop in ways that will enhance the growth of
internet commerce and communications. I am also concerned about various,
serious harms enabled by policies of ICANN and its contracting registries and
accredited registrars, or by lack of effective policy. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Businesses and their customers are experiencing increasingly severe harm
from phishing, malware distribution, hacking and other forms of online crime
and intellectual property infringement. For many years I served as in-house
counsel at Yahoo! Inc., working increasingly to protect Yahoo! users and their
commercial and personal interests, as well as Yahoo!'s commercial interests,
against these increasing worldwide threats. I believe that these harms will
continue to rapidly grow, unless DNS policies are adapted to help fight them.
So I strive for DNS policy that helps to mitigate those threats as much as
reasonably possible. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>On occasion, I may have clients with similar concerns, or who have other
policy interests at ICANN. As a representative elected to the GNSO Council by
the collective members of the Business Constituency, I am required by the
Constituency's Charter to support and otherwise remain faithful to approved
positions of the Constituency as applicable, rather than my own views or those
of any client I may have at any given time. To the extent that any client seeks
my representation or advocacy in any ICANN forum, I would further disclose the
identity of such client and their interest in the matter at the time of that
representation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Generally my clients are online businesses that do not have a contract with
ICANN, though I may represent contracting parties from time to time in matters
unrelated to ICANN policy, for example in a commercial transaction or dispute
resolution. I also intend to represent businesses that seek new top-level
domains in the upcoming process contemplated by ICANN. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Moreover, I consult and provide advice to Yahoo! Inc. with respect to
Yahoo!'s interests at ICANN, and provide legal services to Yahoo! in a variety
of other matters. Yahoo! is interested in the continued accessibility of
WHOIS information, development of stronger rights protection mechanisms to curb
abusive registrations, development of IDN TLD domain space, and the release of
single-letter, second-level domain names in existing gTLDs, among other issues
relevant to ICANN.<o:p></o:p></p>
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