<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Apologies to everyone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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 has been sleeping in the quarantine section of my e-mail account waiting to be discovered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Apologies again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Respectfully,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Edward Morris</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">A few vignettes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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> </span>that truly understand the development of intellectual monopoly law and policy, and challenge it’s backdoor expansion through ICANN policy development.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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> </span>We need to fix this and will.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">If selected, I 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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Why do any of this? Why commit to the hours I know this position will require?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">I have an extensive professional background in both human rights and political campaign organization.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Despite being a relative ICANN novice, I do have extensive education in internet governance and related fields.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">In addition, I have earned short term diplomas and degrees, mostly in human rights, <span> </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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">I know of no conflicts of interest I may currently have.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial">Although ICANN will assuredly try to avoid the issue, I do believe that the recently released <span> </span>Tallinn Manual (which applies humanitarian law to cyber conflict) (available at: <a href="http://issuu.com/nato_ccd_coe/docs/tallinn_manual_draft?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222">http://issuu.com/nato_ccd_coe/docs/tallinn_manual_draft?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222</a> ) 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>