[council] Updated GNSO Council statements of interest - 7 June 2007

[Robin Gross]

Hi Glen.

Another slightly updated statement.  Thanks.

Robin


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Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users Constituency

I am a representative of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency
on the GNSO Policy Council.  I am the Executive Director of IP
Justice, an international civil liberties organization based in San
Francisco that promotes balanced intellectual property laws and
free expression in a digital environment.  IP Justice is a California
not-for-profit corporation and public charity under 501(c)(3).  I am
also licensed to practice law throughout California, and serve on
the Board of Directors of the Union for the Public Domain, a
not-for-profit corporation based in Washington DC.   From 1999-2002,
I was an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF).  In 2006 I was appointed to advisory group of the
UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF).



GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG wrote:

> [council[at]gnso.icann.org]
>
> Dear All,
>
> Please find the updated statement of interest from Ute Decker, IPC
> Council representative.
>
> They are ordered according to constituencies:
> 1. Registrar Constituency
> 2. Commercial and Business Users Constituency
> 3. Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency
> 4. Non Commercial Users Constituency
> 5. Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
> 6. gTLD Registries constituency
> 7. Nominating Committee appointees to the GNSO Council
>
> Please let me know if there are any other updates you would like made.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Kind regards,
>
> Glen
> ......................................................................
> Registrar Constituency
> Bruce Tonkin - Registrar Constituency - GNSO Council chair
>
>
> I am employed full-time as Chief Technology Officer 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.
> ....................................................................
>
>
> Ross Rader - - Registrar Constituency
>
>
> 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
> ........................................................................
>
>
> Thomas Keller - - Registrar Constituency
>
>
> I'm a full time 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 webhosting and email services to end users.
> I'm a member of the DENIC Technical Advisory Council.
> .......................................................................
> .......................................................................
> Commercial and Business Users Constituency
>
>
> Alistair Dixon - Commercial and Business Users Constituency
>
>
> I am a Regulatory and Industry Advisor for TelstraClear, a New
> Zealand-based wholly owned subsidiary of Telstra Corporation. My role
> consists of providing advice and representing TelstraClear in its
> interactions with the New Zealand Government and regulators.
>
>
> TelstraClear is a full service telecommunications provider and operates
> ISP businesses in New Zealand.  TelstraClear is a registrar in the .nz
> domain. TelstraClear's parent company Telstra Corporation is a
> telecommunications provider that has businesses and customers throughout
> the world though principally in the Asia-Pacific region.
>
>
> I have no employment, contract, financial interest or other business
> relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars.
> .......................................................................
>
>
> Philip Sheppard - Commercial and Business Users Constituency
>
>
> I am Public Affairs Manager for AIM - European Brands Association, a
> Brussels-based trade association involved in public affairs activities.
> AIM represents the branded goods industries in Europe on key issues
> which affect the ability of brand manufacturers to design, distribute
> and market their brands. AIM's membership groups 1800 companies of all
> sizes through corporate members and national associations in 21
> countries. These companies are mostly active in every day consumer
> goods. AIM's mission is to create for brands an environment of fair and
> vigorous competition, fostering innovation and guaranteeing maximum
> value to consumers.
>
>
> I hold various non-remunerated directorships unrelated to ICANN.
> I am a contact point for several domain names.
> Honorary positions:
> - President 2007 International Public Relations Association
> (IPRA), the global professional association for the PR profession.
> - I am a Freeman of the City of London.
> ......................................................................
>
>
> Mike Rodenbaugh - Commercial and Business Users Constituency
>
>
> I am employed full-time by Yahoo! Inc., as Senior Legal Director.  I
> have been elected to the GNSO Council by the Commercial and Business
> Users Constituency.
>
>
> Yahoo! is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked
> Internet destinations worldwide.  Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people
> to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge.  I
> engage ICANN issues from Yahoo!'s perspective as a premier online brand
> and diversified business, highly valuing the perspectives of our
> customers, partners and users.
>
>
> Yahoo! has hundreds of thousands of online business customers and
> partners which advertise and provide services to our global audience.
> We are interested in seeing all of these businesses succeed and grow.
> These businesses work with Yahoo! because we have earned one of the
> world's largest audiences, requiring that the 'user perspective' remain
> extremely important to us always.  And, of course Yahoo! is a famous
> brand that is extremely challenging to protect and enforce online,
> worldwide.
>
>
> I believe businesses of all types and sizes share our interest in the
> rapid growth of internet commerce, balanced with fair protection of
> existing property interests.  I look forward to working with the Council
> to address the many serious issues that existing businesses encounter as
> a result of ICANN policy.
> ........................................................................... 
>
> ........................................................................... 
>
> ISPCP Constituency
>
>
> 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
>
>
> .......................................................................... 
>
>
>
> Greg Ruth - ISPCP Constituency
>
>
> I am a Senior Consultant for Verizon Business, a global communications,
> security and technology provider. My duties consist primarily of
> providing consulting services. As a multi-national organization,
> Verizon Business has many customer and vendor relationships, and some
> of those relationships may include ICANN accredited registrars,
> registries as well as members of other GNSO constituencies. In the
> normal course of my duties, I have no knowledge of which ICANN related
> organizations my company is contractually involved with. My position
> and responsibilities in Verizon Business do not allow me any decision
> making power, personal involvement, responsibility or other interest in
> determining or carrying out the contractual relationships in which my
> company enters. As a global network provider, my company's interest in
> ICANN is for the security and stability of the Internet. I do not have
> any relationships or duties outside my company that would involve any
> issues of interest to or conflict with ICANN, and my duties in the
> GNSO.
>
>
> This statement of interest will be maintained at:
>
>
> http://www.icannwiki.org/Greg_Ruth_-_statement_of_interest
> .........................................................................
>
>
> Tony Holmes - ISPCP Constituency
>
>
> I am employed within BT Group's Chief Technology Office with the
> responsibility for determining numbering, naming and addressing policy
> and strategy for BT Group PLC.
>
>
> BT is a large ISP and infrastructure provider and operates in many
> countries across the world. BT is also an accredited ICANN Registrar,
> but is not currently operational.
>
>
> I participate in, and hold official positions in a number of other
> technology focused technical and policy making bodies at both the
> national and international level, none of which cause conflict with my
> work in ICANN. I have no employment, contract, financial interest or
> other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except
> BT.
>
>
> I am an elected representative of the ISP and Connectivity Providers
> Constituency to the GNSO.
> .......................................................................
> .......................................................................
> Non Commercial Users Constituency
>
>
> Robin Gross - Non Commercial Users Constituency
>
>
> I represent the Non-Commercial Users Constituency on the GNSO Policy
> Council.  I am the Executive Director of IP Justice, an international
> civil liberties organization based in San Francisco.  IP Justice is a
> California not-for-profit corporation and 501(c)(3).  I am also licensed
> to practice law throughout California, and serve on the Board of
> Directors of the Union for the Public Domain, a not-for-profit
> corporation based in Washington DC.  I teach international copyright law
> at Santa Clara University School of Law.  From 1999-2002, I was an
> intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
> ......................................................................
>
>
> Norbert Klein – Non-Commercial Users Constituency
>
>
> I am at present a consultant to a Cambodian non-government organization,
> the Open Forum of Cambodia, which was created in 1994 to facilitate and
> to foster communication – not only electronic communication – in the
> conflictive, post-civil war Cambodian society.
>
>
> My relation to the Internet, and since 1999 to ICANN, originated from
> the fact that I created in 1994 the first possibility for people in
> Cambodia to have access to e-mail, and in 1996 I created the possibility
> to have an e-mail address in Cambodia: .kh
>
>
> Neither I nor the Open Forum of Cambodia have registered a top level
> domain – we use a secondary domain for our organization, under the ccTLD
> of Cambodia, .kh
>
>
> For myself, I use a webmail account by the German provider GMX,  a GMX
> ProMail account,  for which I pay the normal set  fees.
>
>
> Neither we as an organization, nor I as an individual, own or have in
> any other way an economic interest in any IT or ICT company or related
> holding.
> ........................................................................... 
>
>
>
> 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.
> ......................................................................
> ......................................................................
> Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
>
> Ute Decker -  Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
> Revised Statement of Interest - GNSO Council
>
> I am a lawyer based in London and an employee of Microsoft.  I
> participate in the work of the Council as an individual member of the
> Intellectual Property Constituency.  I do not represent Microsoft's
> interest of views in the IPC or on the GNSO Council.  I do not have
> a financial or other interest in any registrar or registry.
>
> ....................................................................
>
> Kiyoshi I. Tsuru -  Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
>
> I, the undersigned, Kiyoshi I. Tsuru am a partner with the law firm of
> BELLO, GALLARDO, MORALES Y TSURU, S.C., in Mexico City. I specialize in
> Intellectual Property matters. I serve as a member of the Advisory
> Committee of NIC Mexico, which is in turn a member of the ccNSO of
> ICANN. From time to time, I have served as outside counsel to NIC
> Mexico. I am the country manager for Mexico of the Business Software
> Alliance (BSA) and a WIPO Panelist regarding disputes between domain
> names and trademarks.
> .........................................................................
>
>
> Kristina Rosette  - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
>
>
> I am employed as a Special Counsel by Covington & Burling LLP
> (“Covington”), a general practice law firm with over 600 lawyers in five
> offices in three countries.  I am resident in Covington’s Washington, DC
> office and am a member of the District of Columbia bar.
> I specialize in Internet and trademark matters, and represent trademark
> owner clients in connection with such matters.  Among my
> responsibilities, I develop and implement offensive and defensive domain
> name registration, Internet monitoring, and enforcement strategies;
> reclaim domain names through negotiation, arbitration (under the UDRP,
> .biz STOP, and .mobi Sunrise Challenge policies, thus far), and
> litigation; and advise clients on the use of keywords and sponsored
> links.  In connection with advising firm clients of generally noteworthy
> trademark- or Internet-related developments, I have also provided
> information and updates on domain name system developments (e.g.,
> posting of reports for public comment, announcements of new policies
> such as the Domain Name Transfer Policy, .eu Sunrise requirements).  All
> such communications have been, and will continue to be, based solely on
> publicly available information and documents.
> From time to time, I register or acquire in my own name domain names
> for firm clients.  I am currently the registrant of several domain
> names, both on behalf of firm clients and in an individual capacity.
> From time to time and as circumstances warrant, I have completed and
> submitted Whois Data Problem Reports on behalf of firm clients.
> Since 2004, I have been a member of the Registration Practice and DNS
> Administration Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association’s
> Internet Committee.
> I have determined that Covington does not represent ICANN and does not
> represent any clients in matters in which ICANN is an adverse party.
> Covington did represent the International Cooperative Alliance in
> connection with the formation and establishment of DotCooperation LLC,
> the .coop registry operator, but that matter has been closed for some
> time.  I have also determined that Covington neither represents any gTLD
> or sTLD registry operator in matters relating to its capacity as a
> registry operator nor represents any client in matters adverse to such
> registry operators as registry operators.  Based on the responses to my
> inquiries, Covington does not represent any ccTLD registry operator in
> its capacity as a registry operator nor does it represent any client in
> matters adverse to any ccTLD registry operators as registry operators.
> To the best of my knowledge, Covington does not represent any
> ICANN-accredited registrar in its capacity as a registrar nor does it
> represent any firm client in a matter adverse to a registrar as
> registrar.  From time to time, Covington has represented firm clients in
> intellectual property matters adverse to registrars, and it is likely to
> do so periodically in the future.  I have not been involved in such
> matters.  It is possible that a firm client is an ICANN-accredited
> registrar, but, if so, Covington does not represent it in such matters.
>
>
> .......................................................................... 
>
> .......................................................................... 
>
> gTLD Registries constituency
>
>
> Cary Karp -  gTLD Registries constituency
>
>
> I am Director of Internet Strategy and Technology at the Swedish
> Museum of Natural History (NRM), an agency of the Swedish government.
> This is a full-time salaried position.
>
>
> I serve in a similar capacity for the International Council of Museums
> (ICOM) of which I am an individual member and NRM is an institutional
> member. I receive a small additional honorarium for that activity.
>
>
> I hold a non-remunerated position as the President and CEO of the
> Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma), the Sponsoring
> Organization for the .museum TLD.
>
>
> NRM is the largest museum in Sweden and charged with advising private
> and corporate entities in that country in matters relating to its
> sphere of expertise. I am regularly involved in such action. Current
> activity includes a joint initiative with NIC-SE, the operator of the
> .se ccTLD, which is collaborating with NRM in a project in the context
> of the Swedish national "Year of Cultural Diversity 2006". I also
> advise NIC-SE in general matters relating to IDN.
>
>
> I may from time to time receive separate honoraria for advisory
> services provided as a result of my position at NRM, and may be
> similarly compensated for writing and speaking engagements.
>
>
> ICOM is an NGO maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having
> consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social
> Council. I am directly involved in activity conducted by ICOM in its
> relationship with UNESCO.
>
>
> I represent MuseDoma in the gTLD Registry Constituency and am the
> elected representative for the sTLDs on the GNSO Council.
>
>
> I conduct no other activity with, and have no other interests of any
> kind that involve, entities maintaining business or contractual
> relationships with ICANN.
> ........................................................................
>
>
> Chuck Gomes - gTLD Registries constituency
> 9 December 2006
>
>
> I am Vice President of Policy and Compliance for VeriSign, Inc.
> VeriSign is the registry operator for the .com and the .net gTLDs and
> also provides backend registry services in support of Global Name
> Registry for the .name gTLD and Employ Media for the .jobs gTLD.
> VeriSign is also the registry operator for two ccTLDs, .cc for the Cocos
> and Keelings Islands and .tv for Tuvalu.
>
>
> As an employee who supports VeriSign’s naming services business, I do
> often have access to Registry Sensitive information including
> information about registrars.  With regard to both our gTLD and ccTLD
> registration services businesses as well as other VeriSign businesses,
> our customers and business associates have interests in various ICANN
> policy issues and may be members of other GNSO constituencies and/or
> supporting organizations.
>
>
> In addition to registry agreements with ICANN for .com and .net,
> VeriSign also has obligations to the U.S. Department of Commerce through
> a cooperative agreement that was initiated in 1993 and has been amended
> many times since then.  Those obligations include providing the A and J
> root servers as well as support to ICANN in implementing changes in the
> root zone file.  As such, VeriSign is a member of the DNS Root Server
> System Advisory Committee and also works closely with IANA staff in the
> processing of root zone changes.
>
>
> As a representative elected to the GNSO Council by the unsponsored gTLD
> registry members of the gTLD Registry Constituency (RyC), I am required
> by the Constituency’s Articles of Operation to represent the views of
> those members and the full Constituency as applicable, not my own or
> VeriSign’s.  In that regard, I will endeavor to always qualify any
> personal statements as such and will follow-up with the RyC to obtain
> their position.
>
>
> I own shares of VeriSign stock and hold options to purchase additional
> shares, but the amount of shares I currently own plus the potential
> shares I could possibly own if I exercised all options is a miniscule
> number relative to the total number of VeriSign shares.
> .......................................................................
>
>
> Edmon Chung - gTLD Registries constituency
> December 22, 2006
>
>
> I am currently serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation Ltd.  DotAsia
> is the registry operator and sponsor for the ICANN Sponsored gTLD
> ".ASIA".  DotAsia is a not-for-profit membership based organization
> incorporated in Hong Kong.  The current members of DotAsia includes 20
> ccTLDs (".AF", ".BT", ".CN", ".ID", ".IN", ".IR", ".JP", ".KH", ".KR",
> ".KZ", ".MN", ".MO", ".NU", ".NZ", ".PH", ".SG", ".TJ", ".TW", ".UZ" and
> ".VN") in the Asia community and 3 regional organisations: APNIC, APNG
> and PAN.  APNIC is an RIR in the ICANN ASO.
>
>
>
> Prior to joining DotAsia, I was the Creative Director of Afilias Ltd.
> Afilias is the registry operator for the ICANN gTLD ".INFO".  Afilias
> also provides registry services to other ICANN gTLDs, including ".ORG",
> ".AERO" and ".MOBI", as well as other ccTLDs including ".IN", ".AG",
> ".GI", ".SC", ".HN", ".BZ", ".VC", ".MN", ".LA", and ".SG".
> ............................................................................. 
>
> ............................................................................. 
>
>
>
> Nominating Committee appointees to the GNSO Council
>
>
> Sophia Bekele - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council
>
>
> I represent a California based, privately held company, CBS Enterprise
> Group, which is engaged in international business.    As part of its
> portfolio of services, the company provides systems integration services
> through CBS International, which delivers domain registration, web
> hosting and email services to end users via a reseller, agreement with
> registrars.  Less than 10% of CBS's business is derived from these
> services.
>
>
> In my personal capacity, I do not have any of my moneys, invested in
> companies that are in the registrar businesses.  I do not believe that
> any activities of the Council or ICANN could have a material effect on
> the work I do at CBS International.
> ....................................................................
>
>
> Avri Doria - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council
> http://psg.com/~avri/icann-stmt-interest.html
>
>
> I am an independent research consultant and have no employment,
> contract, financial interest, share ownership or any other business
> relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except as a holder,
> and fee payer, of several domain names in .com, .net and .org.
>
>
> As part of my volunteer activities I have spoken to and given advise  to
> various representatives of indigenous nomadic and semi-nomadic
> populations on the topic of obtaining an TLD.
> ......................................................................
>
>
> Jon Bing - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council
> 26 December 2006
>
>
> I am a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, holding a
> chair in Computers and Law created 1988. I work within the Norwegian
> Research Center for Computers and Law,
> (http://www.jus.uio.no/iri/english/index.html) an institution I
> co-funded in 1970. This makes me an old-timer within this area of law,
> consequently I also have broad research interests – an inheritance from
> the time one thought “computers and law” was a very narrow and esoteric
> field. I have worked extensively with legal information systems, text
> retrieval and knowledge based methods related to this. My interests in
> substantial law includes data protection (or privacy), intellectual
> property law applied to computer programs, databases, integrated
> circuits, and other material in machine-readable form, and media and
> communication law. I have in the past been member of the General Board
> of the Norwegian Research Council, and am currently chairing a research
> program on vulnerability and society within the NRC. I am a member of
> the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, doctor honoris causa of
> Stockholm and Copenhagen, a former Visiting Professor of King’s College
> (University of London), and have collected many embarrassing honorary
> prizes or titles. A sketchy home page may be found at
> http://www.jus.uio.no/iri/english/nrccl/people/associates/bing.html.
>
>
> The NRCCL is mainly financed by the state through the University budget,
> but accept external contracts. Among these are projects financed by the
> European Communities (though not a member of the EU, Norway participates
> on equal standing within the research co-operation), funds made
> available from the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs (the funds are
> used to sponsor various activities related to copyright), and funds from
> NORID, which operates the Norwegian country domain .no. These latter
> funds are used for our research on Internet governance, which is taught
> in our international Master of Law and Information Communication
> Technology programme. This sponsorship has gone on from 2004, and
> English language anthology is expected to be published 2007. A set of
> ethical rules ensures the independence of the NRCCL from any outside
> source of funding.
>
>
> I have in the past been consultant to several international
> organisations; these include OCED (both ICCP and PUMA), the EU
> Commission, UNESCO, WIPO, and UNDP. I have also been Norwegian delegate
> to specialised functions within OECD, WIPO, European Cultural Fund and
> UNESCO. Currently I am member of the International Advisory Committee of
> the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme (ending 2007). Nationally, I
> have served within may administrative or legal functions related to
> culture, for instance chair of the Art Council, Film Council, Cassette
> Tax Foundation etc, member of the Royal Commissions of the Freedom of
> Expression (which lead to an amendment of the Constitution), The Royal
> Commission of Copyright, and the Commission on Converging Technologies.
> I currently chair the Data Protection Tribunal.
>
>
> I published my first collection of short-stories 1967, and with my
> fellow writer Tor Åge Bringsværd is often given the blame from having
> introduced science fiction to Norway. I have since them – under by own
> name or the joint by-line Bing & Bringsværd – published stories, novels,
> dramatic works for stage, television, and radio, and the libretti of
> four operas. I have translated a large number of fiction and non-fiction
> works (among them Bill Gates’ autobiography), and edited more than
> twenty science fiction anthologies. In Norway, I may be better known as
> an author than anything else. My next novel will be a juvenile scheduled
> for publication spring 2007.
>
>
> I have served as the legal advisor to creative writers in Norway
> 1970-90, which certainly has influenced my perspective with respect to
> intellectual property. Currently, I am partner in the law firm Bing & Co
> (http://www.bing.no/ ), which mainly has a “back-office” function with
> respect to other law firms, but also manages my somewhat extensive
> commercial lecturing.
> ............................................................................. 
>
>
>
> Alan Greenberg - At Large Advisory Committee liaison to the GNSO Council
>
>
> Other than my ALAC and GNSO participation, I have neither a business
> relationship nor substantive any involvement with either ICANN or
> organizations significantly affected by decisions or recommendations
> made by ICANN or its constituent bodies.
>
>
> ................................................................................. 
>
>
>
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>
>
>