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<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:normal'>Below please find my updated Statement of
Interest. I have revised and replaced the last two paragraphs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:normal'>I have noted an issue with the ICANN site, that
maintains an old version of my Statement of Interest at <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rodenbaugh-soi-30jan08.shtml">http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rodenbaugh-soi-30jan08.shtml</a>,
in addition to the updated version of Jan. 30, 2008, <a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rodenbaugh-soi-30jan08.shtml">http://gnso.icann.org/council/soi/rodenbaugh-soi-30jan08.shtml</a>.
I support that prior SOI’s remain posted on the site, but it should be
made clear that they have been updated and provide a link to the updated
version at the top. Presently, both Yahoo! and Google return the oldest
version highest in its search results, and that can cause confusion among
interested members of the community. (It confused me!) So I suggest
that ICANN Staff should please confirm that the older versions of all SOIs will
contain the suggested notice and link to the most recent version.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:normal'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>Mike Rodenbaugh<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:normal'>GNSO Councilor<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Statement of Interest</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mike Rodenbaugh - Commercial and
Business Users Constituency</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
am owner of Rodenbaugh Law, a member of the Business and Commercial Users
Constituency. I am an attorney licensed in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>. 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. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. 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. To the extent that any client seeks my
representation or advocacy in any ICANN forum, I would further disclose the
existence of such client and their interest in the matter at the time of that
representation.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
currently advise a for-profit entity in a business venture that will apply for
a new gTLD when ICANN opens the domain space in 2009, and I am personally
engaged in a second for-profit business venture that intends to apply for
another new gTLD through that ICANN process. I may consult on other,
similar projects in the future. In addition, I advise Yahoo! and several
other clients with respect to cybersquatting and cybersecurity problems that
they suffer, which problems are enabled (often unknowingly) by ICANN
contracting parties and by ICANN policies or lack thereof. Therefore I
also advise those clients about ICANN, and advocate at ICANN some of their
views that ICANN policies should change and/or be adopted to mitigate these
problems.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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