Nomination of Mike Roberts

[<tony.ar.holmes@xxxxxx>]

I second this nomination.

 

Tony

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Cade [mailto:marilynscade@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 06 May 2006 04:19
To: 'Marilyn Cade'; gnso-nominations@xxxxxxxxx
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Full Name of Nominee: Mike Roberts 

Email address :mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Country of citizenship of Nominee; United States 

 

Full name of nominator: Marilyn Cade

Email address of nominator: mscade@xxxxxxx

 

 

I am hereby nominating Mike Roberts as a candidate for election to the
ICANN board from the GNSO Council.

 

As we all look to the future for the Internet, it is clear that ICANN,
in its role in coordinating the technical parameters of the global
Internet, and in addressing the post WSIS environment, faces a
continually evolving set of challenges, ranging from dealing with the
implications of IDNs, to the introduction of a broadband Internet, to
changes in traffic characteristics such as the introduction of sensor
based applications, to the move into mobile devices as the dominant
access mechanism to the Internet. Security issues are a growing part of
ICANN's focus. And, the issue of a single authoritative root and how to
best examine questions that ensure end to end interoperability in this
changing world, while supporting competition, fairness, and transparency
are confronting ICANN. 

 

I believe that Mike Roberts can make a significant contribution at the
Board level, as it fulfills its leadership role as ICANN, addresses
these challenges, and others that it faces.  Mike Roberts expertise,
executive management experience, and technical understanding of ICANN's
role and responsibly are quite unique and will make an immediate
contribution to ICANN's board and its role in leadership. 

 

Mike has a wealth of experience in interacting with the diverse global
technical, business and higher education community at the senior
executive level, including long standing interactions with technical and
business representatives from academia, government, and multi national
corporations. Mike's experience as an executive responsible for
performance and budget are a much needed set of skills within the Board
leadership. Mike's ability to help to build consensus within the ICANN
board and his ability to reach into the Internet community to
"feasibility test" on possible activities make him a strong candidate
for the Board position from the GNSO.  As ICANN addresses how best to
address the changing relationship with governments, Mike will be a
steadfast proponent of private sector leadership - a key issue to
ICANN's very existence. Mike is a senior leader in the Internet
community, and commands the respect of others in the technical
community; business community, and with governments.  

 

Most recently, Mike is a policy consultant in the field of Internet
technology, services and product development, with a specialization in
research and higher education issues.  Mike was part of the private
sector leadership who supported the privatization of the functions that
ICANN now coordinates, and served as the first President and CDO of
ICANN from 1998 to 2001. 

 

Mike is well known to the ICANN and broader Internet community due to
his long standing leadership in a variety of areas which have advanced
the creation and adoption of the Internet. He has a demonstrated and
current active understanding of the challenges before ICANN and the
impact of ICANN's decisions on the global Internet community.  His
commitment to iCANN's success is well documented, including his active
engagement at a constituency level, upon leaving the role as President
and CEO of ICANN. 

 

Mike is in a very unique space of having no conflicts of interest and
not representing clients before ICANN on economic or policy matters.
Through his membership in the Business Constituency and attendance at
ICANN meetings, he has a very current understanding of the challenges
before ICANN. In the early 90's Mike was co-founder, Trustee and the
first Executive Director (seconded from Educom) of the Internet Society,
whose purpose is to promote the use of the Internet and guide its
further development for both public Interest and private enterprise
purposes.  Prior to joining EDUCOM, a consortium of 600 universities and
colleges where he was responsible for networking and telecommunications
programs, he was at Stanford University as Deputy Director of
Information Technology Services, with executive responsibilities in
computing, communications and information systems programs. 

 

Mike is author, co-author and editor of numerous publications on
networking. He has testified before the US Congress numerous times on
topics ranging from the Internet, the national Research and Education
Network (NREN) and ICANN. Mike is also a member of ACM and IEEE. 

 

I am pleased to nominate Michael (Mike) Roberts as a candidate to the
Board from the GNSO.