[council] GNSO Council members Conflict of Interest Statements 27 Jan. 2006

Fri Jan 27 23:38:56 UTC 2006

GNSO Council members Conflict of Interest Statements

Bruce Tonkin - Registrar Constituency - GNSO Council chair

I am employed full-time by Melbourne IT Limited.

Melbourne IT has a registrar accreditation agreement with ICANN.
Melbourne IT also has a contractual relationship with most gtld
registries (for a current list see
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html), and many cctld
registries as a registrar.   Melbourne IT holds ten percent of the
shares in Neulevel, the operator of the .biz registry.
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Ross Rader - - Registrar Constituency

In relation to conflict of interest with ICANN or the work it is
responsible for, I have no employment, contract,  financial interest  or
other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars  except
as current holder, and fee payer, of several domain names  in .com, .net
and .org.

Statement of Interests
I am the Director of Research and Innovation for Tucows Inc., an ICANN
accredited registrar and internet services vendor. Tucows is a minority
shareholder in Afilias LLC, with roughly an 8% shareholding. Neither
Tucows, nor I, is in possession of, nor have access to Registry
Sensitive or Registry Proprietary information as defined by any relevant
registry operating contracts as a result of this relationship. Tucows
provides consulting and application hosting services to other registrars
and internet services providers. I am not an officer, director,
consultant, or employee of any of these customer organizations nor am I
specifically involved in providing services to them.

The URL for this statement is:
http://www.byte.org/blog/_WebPages/StatementofInterestsforRossRader.html
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Thomas Keller - - Registrar Constituency

I'm a fulltime employee of Schlund+Partner AG.

Schlund+Partner AG is ICANN accredited and is conducting business with
almost all major gTLDS and ccTLDs. Schlund holds a minority share in
Afilias LLC for investment purposes.Besides domain name registrations
Schlund is mainly offering wehosting and email services to end users.
I'm a member of the DENIC Technical Advisory Council.
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Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users Constituency
I have no conflicts of interest.
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Philip Sheppard - Commercial and Business Users Constituency
I have no conflicts of interest.
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Anthony Harris - ISPCP Constituency

I am under contract as full time
executive director of CABASE,
a non-profit Internet industry association,
incorporated as such in Argentina since
1999.

- consulting work done for ICANN - NONE
- consulting work done for a gtld or cctld registry, or current
    applicant to become a gtld or cctld registry - NONE
- consulting work done for a registrar - NONE
- employment with a registry or registrar - NONE
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Mawaki Chango - Non Commercial Users Constituency

I am currently a full-time Ph.D. student and Graduate Assistant, and
I represent the Non-Commercial Users Constituency on the GNSO
Council. In addition, I am involved in social activism through my
participation in ACSIS (African Civil Society for Information
Society), as ICT policy advocator, and advisor to the ACSIS’
President.
Over the last five years, I have been involved as a consultant with
UNESCO, the International Development Research Centre, Open Society
Initiative for West Africa (Dakar), the Eduardo Mondlane University
(Maputo), and EvalNet (Johannesburg). I have never been involved in
any business related to the distribution and operation of Internet
resources.
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Bret Fausett - At Large Advisory Committee representative to the GNSO
Council

I am an attorney, living and working in Los Angeles, licensed to
practice law in California (United States). I serve on the GNSO as a
liaison from the At Large Advisory Committee, which is charged with
representing the interests of end users in all of ICANN's activities. I
do not accept legal or consulting work for companies that have business
before the GNSO or ICANN.

In my personal capacity, I have less than 20% of my savings invested in
companies that are in the registry services and registrar businesses,
including Tucows, Verisign, and Neustar. I do not believe that any
activities of the Council or ICANN could have a material effect on the
value of my investments.
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org