<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Apologies to everyone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I've been sitting here dumb and happy thinking my response to the EC questions were sent out on the mailing list over a week ago. I was traveling in Turkey following the IGF and inadvertently sent the replies using an e-mail address that was not recognized by the friendly computers in Syracuse. The message was bounced and as been sleeping in the quarantine section of my e-mail account waiting to be discovered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Many thanks to Bill to alerting me to his nonreceipt of my responses in his e-mail this morning. That promoted me to search for the message and discovering the problem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Well, at least you can be assured that if fortunate enough to be chosen for the EC any information system we put in place will have to be user friendly. Otherwise it appears I won't be able to handle it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Apologies again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Respectfully,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Edward Morris</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">1. Why do you want to serve on the
EC?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">---</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">A few vignettes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">1. About a year ago, December 6<sup>th</sup>
to be exact, I was in Dublin at a session on the internet and trademark law
that was sponsored by the International Trademark Association. Attendees were
generally house counsel for multinational corporations along with a few
marketing gurus. To hear them talk, the new gTLD program was a disaster
comparable with the Holocaust, numerous world wars and your generic ethnic
cleansing. This program, and ICANN, was the greatest threat to capitalism the
world has ever faced.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Fair enough. Over the years I’ve
gotten to know representatives of brand owners, like them personally, but
understand that their reality is very different than ours. I look at ICANN and
it’s history and see an organization largely captured by i.p. interests, with
the NCUC one of the few components with members<span style> </span>that truly understand the development of intellectual
monopoly law and policy, and challenge it’s backdoor expansion through ICANN
policy development.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">A consensus emerged at this meeting
that the new gTLD program may turn into their perceived ICANN’s worst
nightmare: that once operational, the multinational corporations possessing the
new gTLD’s will take a more active interest in ICANN, will start attending
meetings and, in the word’s of one speaker, will “Occupy ICANN”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">2. At about the time of the Prague
meeting, which I attended, distribution of the privacy letter became an
imperative. I had a meeting scheduled on another matter with the President of
one of the Baltic states. What a great opportunity to do my best to get the
privacy commissioner of this country involved in the battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I had one simple request. I wanted
the letter to be signed by our acting chair, preferably on some sort of
letterhead. There was some effort to help me in this regard but nothing
concrete. I wound up handing the President a print out of the letter, sans
signature and letterhead. It was not taken seriously.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">3. I’m a bit cynical when I hear the
words “change” or “breath of fresh air” applied to leaders, political or
organizational. Some saw the appointment of Fadi Chehade as a revolutionary
occurrence. My initial view was that one American alumnus of Stanford
University was replaced by another American graduate of Stanford University.
Diversity? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Nevertheless there have been some
encouraging signs. Words of "transparency" and "balance" are ones that, defined
appropriately, are positives for our Constituency. Yet, the word “efficiency”
and the backgrounds of some executive appointees do give cause for concern. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Policy aside, the new ICANN appears
to prioritize concepts more associated with business than with legislative
organs. Efficiency is not always democratic or representative. We need to
ensure that an efficient ICANN respects the multistakeholder model in reality
as well as in words.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">---</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I’m not a career ICANNer. You do not
want to have an Executive Committee composed of six of me. I do not yet have
the institutional knowledge or cross Constituency relationships needed on the wider
E.C. Yet it is precisely that lack of experience that, if selected, will make
me a valuable component of a multifaceted E.C. that needs to operate within a
changing ICANN and outside of it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I hope to ask questions that need to be asked that those more historically involved with ICANN might not think of.
I’ve already been quite vocal on the need to change institutional impediments
that exist to bringing in new members. We need to be more transparent in our
membership process and we need to act much quicker. The quality of people and organizations
we want and need in this Constituency must feel valued from the day they apply
or they will spend their times and energy elsewhere. I’ve already had people whose
interest was stimulated by interactions with Constituency members decide not to
proceed with the NCUC whilst waiting for a membership decision. Other
opportunities appeared and they got tired of waiting for us to accept them. <span style> </span>We need to fix this and will.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I’m not sure exactly where Bill will
want to put me in his portfolio based E.C. but I think my core talents lay in
areas we need help in: organization, recruitment and communication. I have a
lot of experience working in and running political campaigns. Those skills are
transferable to the E.C. position. I’m particularly interested in building an
internal communication structure more suited to project based work, in addition
to our more policy based listserv. Several members in Baku told me that simply
setting and publicizing deadlines is difficult in the current set up. We need
to take full advantage of technology to better organize our efforts so we can
be both effective and more inclusive in creating policy output. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I’d also like to try to avoid
situations I’ve often seen since joining the NCUC where individual members are
making heroic efforts to singlehandedly draft a policy document to meet an
impending ICANN deadline that our Constituency has largely ignored.
Organization, communication, project based platforms. We need to improve our
efforts in these areas and will.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I think I can make a difference in
these facets of the NCUC. This is the skill set I offer. It is not the core,
though, of why I want to serve. I offer my services because of my affinity for
the history, policy perspectives, and people in the NCUC and my desire to see
the Constituency grow and flourish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">This Constituency is the heart and
soul of both the internet and of ICANN. I was a student at the University of
Southern California in the late 1980’s. I didn’t understand the significance of
all of this, to me the internet was how I could save money on phone calls to my
girlfriend at Stanford by writing computerized notes to her, but I do know the
culture in which it was created. It was a distinctly noncommercial environment
and, we should never forget, commercial use online was prohibited during the
early stage of the net. Our Constituency was the (nonmilitary) internet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Today the number one use of the
internet is social media. The platforms may be provided by commercial entities
but the use itself is principally noncommercial. E-mail follows along those
lines. We are the only group in ICANN in a position to affect policy decisions
concerning the DNS who represent those who actually use the internet in the
manner it was intended to be used at it’s creation and as it is primarily used
today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I don’t mean to diminish the
contributions of other stakeholders. Yet I feel no obligation to take a
backseat to any of them. I had a conversation with a GAC member in Baku who
detested our position on the IOC/IRC matter and questioned the legitimacy of
the NCSG itself. I got the feeling he didn’t think any of us showered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I fear this is the type of attack
that will become more common in a more corporate, “professionalized” ICANN. I
spoke to one of our more active members in Baku who told me all she wanted was
a brochure and card describing the NCUC so she could appear the equal of (member
of another stakeholder group) at meetings. I think that is a reasonable
request.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">In this new ICANN world appearance
and perception count for a lot more than perhaps they should. Yet it is reality
and we need to upgrade in these areas for the long haul. The pre-ICANN outreach
programs are a wonderful perception changing and building activity I hope we
can continue and use as outreach to other stakeholdrs as well as to those who
might be interested in the NCUC itself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">If selected, hope to work with others on the EC
to use my skill set to help our Constituency work on a more equal footing with
other better financed and supported stakeholders. I’d like to try targeted
recruiting with the goal of creating a deeper and more diverse bench of
membership expertise. Increased membership numbers are nice but numbers do not
get quality work done. We need quality as well as quantity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Why do any of this? Why commit to the
hours I know this position will require? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Very simply, I want to help upgrade
our Constituency so we can actively and successfully represent those whose
interests are our raison d'être: the billions of noncommercial internet users
worldwide who are depending upon us to secure for them a free, fair and open
internet. We’re needed more than ever as commercial interests prepare to
“Occupy ICANN”. Simply put, I just want to do my part so the wonders of the
internet are there for future generations to enjoy and explore.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">2. Provide a brief biography of
recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the
Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional
experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts
of interests you might have.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I have an extensive professional
background in both human rights and political campaign organization. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Most of my activity in the human
rights field has been field based. During the Yugoslavian conflict I spent most
of my time setting up refugee camps in countries and regions beset by massive
forced migration. In a war environment, often negotiating with future war
criminals, I developed skills that I think will serve me well on the EC. I
learned to listen, to not take things too personally, to deal with a wide
variety of people and to function on little rest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">My career as a political operative
began in third grade when I was excused from class to lap envelopes for George
McGovern. I spent my senior year of high school roaming the country for Ted
Kennedy. I’ve been working extensively on campaigns ever since.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I’ve worked both in North America and
in Europe. I served as state coordinator in two Presidential primary campaigns
(McGovern’s ’84 campaign and in 1992 as the coordinator in seven states for
Governor Jerry Brown) and also spent a year of my life in the Nordic region
campaigning against E.U. membership for Sweden and Finland. I’ve worked
professionally in the U.K. on both Labour and Liberal Democratic campaigns. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Most recently I worked for the
Arizona Democratic Party focused on Representative Gabrielle Giffords
re-election campaign. It was the attempted assassination of Representative
Giffords that caused me to return to Europe, take some time off to study (a
postgraduate degree in Cyberlaw at the University of Leeds) and reflect upon
life itself. At the time of the shooting I was gearing up for Representative
Giffords putative 2012 run for the U.S. Senate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Running a campaign requires extensive
organizational and communicative abilities. I believe the skills I’ve developed
on campaigns can be applied to an E.C. position.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Despite being a relative ICANN
novice, I do have extensive education in internet governance and related
fields.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">My bachelors degree from the
University of Southern California was in the fields of political science and
history. I also have been awarded a Master of Comparative Law diploma from the
University of Lapland in Finland (thesis: grey market imports) and hold an LLM in
intellectual property law from Queen Mary, University of London. I’m currently
enrolled part time in the cyberlaw program at the University of Laeeds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I have completed both the Internet
Law Program at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School and the European Summer
School of Internet Governance in Meissen. The Swedish School of Economics and
Business Administration in Helsinki has awarded me a Diploma in Cyberspace
marketing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">In addition, I have earned short term
diplomas and degrees, mostly in human rights, <span style> </span>at the postgraduate level from both Abo Akademi and the
University of Turku in Finland, the University of Stockholm and the American
University of Paris.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I’ve recently spent time at NATO’s
Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence in Tallinn and am attempting to develop
some competence in cyber conflict issues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I have previously served as a Fellow of the Center of the Study of the Presidency in Washington and at the Nordic Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I know of no conflicts of interest I
may currently have. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">3. The EC performs several functional
responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time
commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis?
Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings
of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I am willing and able to make the EC
position my highest professional priority during the forthcoming year and can
make a firm commitment to work any and all hours that may be needed to
accomplish our goals.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I should be able to attend all online
meetings of the Executive Committee and will attempt to attend all ICANN
meetings during my time on the EC, assuming my finances and meeting costs
properly align.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">4. Communication with the membership
is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">As an EC we need to issue regular
communiqués to the membership. This should be part of an overall communications
strategy we need to develop and implement at the first instance.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">I’ll also provide my e-mail and
messaging contact information to all members at the start of my term and
encourage them to contact me personally if I can clarify or provide any
information to them of EC activity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">5. How do you foresee NCUC’s
function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if
any, need more attention and why? Be concise (200 words maximum).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial">I agree with those who are positioning the NCUC as a policy
oriented, as opposed to membership oriented, Constituency. We have subject
matter expertise and need to exploit that.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial">Once we’ve rebuilt our infrastructure and expanded our
membership, I would be interested in revisiting an idea I first heard in Prague
about becoming an ICANN+ group. My sense is a lot of the issues we have an
interest in have both an ICANN and external dimension. We may want to have a
mechanism to expand our reach at the appropriate time.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial">We need to be vigilant about unjustified attempts to expand
i.p. rights. I published last year about the nonuse trademark created during
Sunrise B of .XXX . I.P. interests are back again with more sunrise blocking
proposals in the new gTld’s. We need to strongly oppose them as well as oppose any
attempt to create a Famous Marks list.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial">Two emerging issues we may need to evaluate in the context
of ICANN: social media and cyber conflict. I have a journal article coming out
in the spring questioning whether the UDRP and WHOIS are less relevant when
malfeasors can simply migrate to social media platforms. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial">Although ICANN will assuredly try to avoid the issue, I do
believe that the recently released <span style> </span>Tallinn Manual (which applies humanitarian law to cyber
conflict) does attribute some potential responsibility to ICANN in the case of
cyber conflict. We may want to start thinking about about these issues before
any potential crisis, rather than after.</span></p>