[gnso-osc-ccc] REVISED: GNSO Communications and Coordination Team (CCT) participants and Statements of Interest

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Please find the GNSO Communications and Coordination Team (CCT) participants 
and statements of interest below in alphabetic order.

Please note that this kick-off meeting will be held on Sunday 1 March in Mexico 
City in the GNSO working room Don Diego 4. Final details and agenda will be 
published later.

All statements of interest will be entered on the Wiki 
https://st.icann.org/icann-osc/index.cgi?operations_steering_committee_osc

The staff support is Rob Hoggarth and Julie Hedlund.

The following participants have not provided statements of interest nor 
indicated whether they will be attending the work team meetings in person or 
remotely in Mexico City. We encouraged you to respond as soon as possible for 
planning purposes.

Catherine Sigmar- gTLD Registries Constituency

Remote participation will be arranged and the details will be published shortly.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,

Glen

Participants:

1. Sedar Acir - Registar contact for Turkish Registry

2. Mason Cole - Registrar Constituency - Interim chair

3. Chris Chaplow - Commercial and Business Users Constituency - remote 
participation

4. Steve Holsten - gTLD Registries Constituency

5. Zbynek Loebl - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
  
6. Catherine Sigmar- gTLD Registries Constituency 

7. Antonio Tavares - Internet Service and Connectivity Providers Constituency

8. Jaime Wagner - Internet Service and Connectivity Providers Constituency

9. Nick Wood - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency  - remote 
participation

1. Sedar Acir - Registar constituency
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I am the general manager of Alantron BLTD, an ICANN accredited domain name 
registrar. I serve as the primary contact for corporate relations of my company 
at this time.

Currently I am not holding any corporate shares, stocks or any other kind of 
financial interest materials either at my company or any other company or 
parties which may have commercial relations with Alantron, or ICANN.

During my participation within the ICANN work group I may take the commercial 
interests of my company into account. I may express my company's point of view 
whereever necessary. I am in the authority to represent my company which is a 
foreign and a small/medium sized registrar.

I do not have any arrangements with any group or constituency regarding my 
participation at the work team.

2. Chris Chaplow - Statement of Interest - Commercial and Business Users 
Constituency 
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I am Chris Chaplow a member of the Commercial and Business Users Constituency 
and founder and Managing Director of regional commercial information portal 
Andalucia.com and Web Development Company Andalucia Web Solutions based in 
Estepona, Malaga, Spain. 

Andalucia Com SL is the company behind the "Information about Andalucia" 
website which was created in 1996. Andalucia.com set the trend in southern 
Spain, being one of the first sites to offer clear, concise information about 
the region primarily for the tourist, the foreign resident, and the 
international investment market. The site receives over 450,000 visitors every 
month and remains  the most visited website about Andalucia.

Andalucia Web Solutions provides intelligent, search engine friendly web 
design, optimisation, internet marketing consultancy, hosting, databases, 
content management systems, and other related internet services that help our 
clients achieve success from their web presence. 

I have no financial ownership or interest with registries or registrars 
directories 

I have no financial ownership or senior management/leadership interest in 
registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in ICANN 
policy or any entity with which ICANN has a transaction, contract, or other 
arrangement

My commercial interest in ICANN GNSO policy development outcomes is consistent 
to any Internet based business. I register and manage domains on behalf of my 
clients including defending their IP interests using in the UDRP.  
I am the contact point for several hundred domain names. I am briefing clients  
with respect to cybersquatting and cybersecurity problems.  I also advise those 
clients about ICANN and its policies including advising clients who are  
considering applying for new gTLD's. 
   
I am often interviewed and contribute in the local media about Internet and  
domain name issues affecting business. 

I represent  only myself and my companies and look to defend the interests of 
small business. 
There are no arrangements or agreements between myself  and any other group, 
constituency or person(s) regarding my selection as a WT member.

I am an elected member of the 'Governing Council' of the 'British Chamber of 
Commerce in Spain' and therein hold the position of "Communication Officer".

3. Mason Cole - Registrar Constituency  - Interim chair
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I am a Vice President of Oversee.net, responsible for corporate communications 
and industry relations.  In this capacity I am the primary representative for 
ICANN participation for Oversee and its operating companies.

Oversee maintains multiple registrar accreditations, each of which maintain 
registrar accreditation agreements with ICANN.

I currently serve as secretary of the Registrar Constituency.  

I am representing no other party with regard to my work with the OSC.  I am not 
an officer, director, consultant or employee of any other member of this 
constituency or any other ICANN constituency.

4. Steve Holsten - gTLD Registries Constituency
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2 February 2009

I am Director of Policy and Compliance for VeriSign, Inc.  VeriSign is the 
registry operator for the .com, .net and .name gTLDs and also provides backend 
registry services in support of 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.

In participating in the working group, I will act as a representative of 
VeriSign, but will also endeavor to solicit and represent the views of other 
stakeholders as appropriate, although I have no formal arrangement with any 
other stakeholders.  In that regard, I will endeavor to qualify any personal 
statements and will follow up with other constituencies 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 not material relative to the total 
number of VeriSign shares.

5. Zbynek Loebl - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency 
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1.       Current vocation, employer and position

I have been a self-employed lawyer based in Prague, Czech Republic. During the 
past year I have managed, as an external counsel, the UDRP implementation at 
the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC). Before that I was a partner of CEAG, a 
regional law firm based in Prague. I am in the process of establishing my own 
law firm.

2.       Type of work performed in 1 above

I have been a technology and IP lawyer.

3.       Identify any financial ownership or senior management/leadership  
interest in registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties 
in ICANN policy or any entity with which ICANN has a transaction, contract, or 
other  arrangement

As mentioned above, I have managed, as an external counsel on the basis of a 
mandate agreement, UDRP implementation for the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC). 
This mandate is now ending, due to the CAC's UDRP launch on 12 January 2009. I 
may be involved with the CAC in new mandates in the future, which may or may 
not be related to ICANN policy.

4.       Identify any type of commercial interest in ICANN GNSO policy 
development outcomes.  Are you representing other parties?

Except for the (almost finished) CAC mandate disclosed above I have no other 
commercial interest in ICANN policy development at the moment. I volunteered 
principally due to my personal interest in ICANN mission and ICANN environment, 
nevertheless as a technology and IP lawyer I probably will represent clients 
with commercial interests in ICANN policy development in the future.

5.       Describe any arrangements or agreements between you and any other 
group, constituency or person(s) regarding your nomination or selection as a 
work team member.

6. Catherine Sigmar- gTLD Registries Constituency - No statement of interest 
provided
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7. Antonio Tavares - Internet Service and Connectivity Providers Constituency
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1       I´m member of the ISPCP constituency 

2       Nowadays I own a Telecom company oriented to give services over VoIP 
technology . I´m President of DIALDATA TELECOMUNICAÇÕES

3       I´m Vice President of the Administration Council of NIC.br the 
operational arm of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, acting as always 
as volunteer. 

4       I do not have any other functions or charges that connects myself on 
touch with Registrars or any interest in ICANN GNSO  development.

5       I have no conflict of interest in participating in the referred
working teams.

8. Jaime Wagner - Internet Service and Connectivity Providers Constituency
========================================================================

I am a member of the ISPC constituency. I have no arrangements or agreements 
with the ISPC or any member(s) of ISPC or with any other constituency regarding 
my nomination as a work team member.

1. I am President at Plug In Internet S/A www.plugin.com.br
   Plug In is a Brazilian private company specialized in Internet hosting, both 
shared and dedicated.
   Since December 2007 Plug In has a close partnership with UOL, the largest 
Brazilian ISP.
   
   I am also represent ISP's in CGI, Brazilian Internet Steering Committee.
This is an elected position with a mandate of two years (2008 and 2009).

2. At Plug In my work is general management.

3. Both Plug In and UOL act as registrars, but this is a minor portion of their 
businesses.

4. I have no other direct commercial interest in ICANN GNSO policy development 
outcomes. I do represent four Brazilian ISPs associations in CGI.

5. I have no arrangements or agreements between with any other group, 
constituency or person(s) regarding my nomination or selection as a work team 
member.


9. Nick Wood - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency
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1.       Current vocation, employer and position

In charge of domain name management company working with Intellectual property 
owners and the professionals who advise them.

Employed by Com Laude.

Position: Managing Director
 
2.       Type of work performed in 1 above

Responsible for vision of company, P&L, all marketing & communications
 
3.       Identify any financial ownership or senior management/leadership  
interest in registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties 
in ICANN policy or any entity with which ICANN has a transaction, contract, or 
other  arrangement

Com Laude is the trading name of NomIQ which is an ICANN accredited registrar. 
I am the co-owner and MD of Com Laude and NomIQ.

We have consulted with Deloitte on validation matters in the past. Deloitte has 
been retained by ICANN in the past.

On behalf of clients and other contacts, we may be players in the New gTLD 
process
 
4.       Identify any type of commercial interest in ICANN GNSO policy 
development outcomes.  Are you representing other parties?

I am representing the Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN
 
5.       Describe any arrangements or agreements between you and any other 
group, constituency or person(s) regarding your nomination or selection as a 
work team member.



Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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