[Fwd: [council] RE: Updated Statement of Interest for Mike Rodenbaugh]

[Robin Gross]

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Subject: 	[council] RE: Updated Statement of Interest for Mike Rodenbaugh
Date: 	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:58:43 -0700
From: 	Mike Rodenbaugh <mxrodenbaugh at yahoo.com>
To: 	GNSO Council <council at gnso.icann.org>



I need to clarify that my business name is Rodenbaugh Law (a sole
proprietorship/DBA, not an LLC), and add the following sentence to my
Statement of Interest: I currently am retained by Yahoo! Inc. to
represent Yahoo!’s interests at ICANN, including but not limited to its
interest in the continued accessibility of WHOIS information,
development of stronger rights protection mechanisms to curb abusive
registrations, development of IDN TLD domain space, and the release of
single-letter, second-level domain names in existing gTLDs.

I have made these changes in below text, which should be considered my
complete and updated SOI.

Kind regards,

Mike Rodenbaugh

GNSO Councilor, Business Constituency

*From:* Mike Rodenbaugh [mailto:mxrodenbaugh at yahoo.com]
*Sent:* Monday, September 24, 2007 5:40 PM
*To:* GNSO Council
*Subject:* Updated Statement of Interest for Mike Rodenbaugh

I am owner of Rodenbaugh Law, a member of the Business and Commercial
Users Constituency. I am an attorney licensed in California. I advise
and represent entities and individuals with various commercial interests
in domain names and other forms of intellectual property, and with
varying interests in internet commerce.

I am personally concerned about the security and stability of the
Internet, as it is increasingly the backbone of our society, critical to
global commerce, communications and safety. So I am interested in
ICANN’s role in managing and coordinating the technical and policy
aspects of the Internet. I am mindful of the many enormous benefits of
the internet that are fostered by ICANN policy, and seek for ICANN
policy to develop in ways that will enhance the growth of internet
commerce and communications. I am also concerned about various, serious
harms enabled by policies of ICANN and its contracting registries and
accredited registrars, or by lack of effective policy.

Businesses and their customers are experiencing increasingly severe harm
from phishing, malware distribution, hacking and other forms of online
crime and intellectual property infringement. For many years I served as
in-house counsel at Yahoo! Inc., working increasingly to protect Yahoo!
users and their commercial and personal interests, as well as Yahoo!'s
commercial interests, against these increasing worldwide threats. I
believe that these harms will continue to rapidly grow, unless DNS
policies are adapted to help fight them. So I strive for DNS policy that
helps to mitigate those threats as much as reasonably possible.

On occasion, I may have clients with similar concerns, or who have other
policy interests at ICANN. As a representative elected to the GNSO
Council by the collective members of the Business Constituency, I am
required by the Constituency's Charter to support and otherwise remain
faithful to approved positions of the Constituency as applicable, rather
than my own views or those of any client I may have at any given time.
To the extent that any client seeks my representation or advocacy in any
ICANN forum, I would further disclose the identity of such client and
their interest in the matter at the time of that representation.

I currently am retained by Yahoo! Inc. to represent Yahoo!’s interests
at ICANN, including but not limited to its interest in the continued
accessibility of WHOIS information, development of stronger rights
protection mechanisms to curb abusive registrations, development of IDN
TLD domain space, and the release of single-letter, second-level domain
names in existing gTLDs.