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Dear Jonathan,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/03/2015 15:04, Jonathan Robinson
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Following receipt of this communcation
from Alan Greenberg, Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee,
I am able to report that by a unanimous vote of the ALAC,
Olivier Crepin-Leblond has been selected as the ALAC Liaison
to the GNSO Council. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">This appointment is effective
immediately and runs through to the end of the 2015 Annual
General Meeting. Olivier replaces Cheryl Langdon-Orr who was
unable to continue in post due to a technicality.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Thanks to Cheryl and welcome to Olivier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
Thank you very much for your warm welcome. It is really a pleasure
to be given the opportunity to work with the GNSO Council and help
bridge the relationship between the GNSO and the ALAC. I already
know many Councillors but for those with whom I have not had the
chance to interact, let me introduce myself. I have been an Internet
user since 1988, a few days before the Internet was hit by its first
virus/worm (RTM worm). An engineer by trade, I have a Bachelor of
Engineering from King's College, London, a PhD (Reduction of Delay
in Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks) from Imperial College ,
London and a specialised Masters in Competitive Intelligence &
Knowledge Management from SKEMA, Sophia Antipolis, France. I started
a small company, Global Information Highway Ltd back in 1995 and
have started dozens of other businesses since, consulting &
selling some of them off. I have lived in Cannes, London, Toulouse
and New York and now live between Cannes, London and Basel
(Switzerland). My first ICANN meeting was in Paris, 2008 - I had
refused to be directly involved in ICANN since its beginnings in
1998, having lived through the early years of the DNSO flame wars
& direct Board elections débâcle and having been involved in the
work of the Internet Ad-Hoc Committee (IAHC) which rivalled the
ICANN proposals in 1997.<br>
At ICANN I have been on too many working groups than I can recall.
Member of the STI CWG, DSSA CWG, Consumer Metrics CCI, CWG IANA,
ALAC Chair from AGM 2010 to AGM 2014, now ALAC Vice Chair, ATRT2 in
2013, Co-Chair of the CCWG on Internet Governance, etc. I could have
joined many of ICANN's Communities but went for the ALAC as I was an
Internet end user before being an Internet techie, a business owner,
consultant, academic (I lecture from time to time), etc. In 1990 I
seriously considered building a portfolio of domain names but as a
poor student, I opted for a healthy university social life.<br>
These days, with ICANN having eaten the majority of my time when I
was ALAC Chair, I sustain myself mostly through trading stocks - and
have listed any stock I hold that's somehow ICANN-related, in my SOI
on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36211634">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36211634</a><br>
As if all of this was not enough I'm also the Chair of the UK
England Chapter of the Internet Society, having been a member since
circa 1993. etc. etc. more on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.gih.com/ocl.html">http://www.gih.com/ocl.html</a>
if you are ever interested.<br>
<br>
You'll note one of my defaults already: I sometimes ramble on, so
I'll stop here. I should have probably added that I am honoured to
work with all of you and hope that we can all work together to prove
that the multi-stakeholder model of Governance works.<br>
<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gih.com/ocl.html">http://www.gih.com/ocl.html</a>
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