[gnso-pro-wg] Updated Statements of Interest for the PRO-wg 2 March 2007

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Dear Working Group Members,

Please find the Statements of Interest provided by the working group
members to date. Please let me know if I have missed any.

see agenda:
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-pro-wg-27feb07.htm

Interest Statements from:
Kristina Rosette - IPC - Working Group Chair
Lance Griffin - IPC
Victoria McEvedy - IPC
Kelly Smith - IPC
Peter Gustav Olson - IPC
Mike Rodenbaugh - CBUC
Michael Palage - IPC, CBUC, gTLD Registries c
Tim Ruiz - Registrar c
Margie Milam - Registrar c.
Jon Nevett - Registrar c.
John Berryhill - Registrar c.
David Maher - gTLD Registries c
Jeff Neuman - gTLD Registries c
Avri Doria - Nominating Committee to the GNSO Council

Please let me know if the membership list is complete.
Members
Philip Sheppard - CBUC
Mike Rodenbaugh  - CBUC
Frank Schilling - CBUC
Kelly.w.Smith - IPC
Lance Griffin - IPC
Kristina Rosette - IPC
Ute Decker - IPC
Peter Gustav Olson - IPC
Mawaki Chango - NCUC
Victoria McEvedy - NCUC
Margie Milam - Registrar c.
Steve Miholovich - Registrar c.
John Berryhill - Registrar c.
Jon Nevett - Registrars c.
Tim Ruiz - Registrar c.
Jeff Neuman - gTLD Registries c.
David Maher - gTLD Registries c.
Edmon Chung  - gTLD Registries c.
Mike Palage - gTLD Registries c. CBUC, IPC
Jon Bing - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council
Avri Doria - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council
Eun-Joo Min - WIPO

Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen
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STATEMENTS OF INTEREST
Statement of Interest for KRISTINA ROSETTE for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am employed as a Special Counsel by Covington & Burling LLP
(“Covington”), a general practice law firm with over 600 lawyers in five
offices in three countries.  I am resident in Covington’s Washington, DC
office and am a member of the District of Columbia bar.  Since 2004, I
have been a member of the Registration Practice and DNS Administration
Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association’s Internet
Committee.  I am also the Intellectual Property Constituency
representative for North America to the GNSO Council.

I specialize in Internet and trademark matters, and represent trademark
owner clients in connection with such matters.  Among my
responsibilities, I develop and implement offensive and defensive domain
name registration, Internet monitoring, and enforcement strategies;
reclaim domain names through negotiation, arbitration, and litigation;
and advise clients on the use of keywords and sponsored links.  With
specific regard to the previously implemented protective mechanisms, I
have advised clients of participation and registration requirements,
have assisted in asserting claims and securing registrations, and have
initiated challenges to third-party registrations under the .biz STOP
and .mobi Sunrise Challenge policies.  I prepared the INTA Internet
Committee’s informal comments to EURid regarding Commission Regulation
(EC) No. 874/2004 and was one of the committee members who met with the
leadership of the PricewaterhouseCoopers .eu validation team pre-launch
to discuss questions and issues of concern to trademark owners.

I have determined that Covington does not represent ICANN and does not
represent any clients in matters in which ICANN is an adverse party.
Covington did represent the International Cooperative Alliance in
connection with the formation and establishment of DotCooperation LLC,
the .coop registry operator, but that matter has been closed for some
time.  I have also determined that Covington neither represents any gTLD
or sTLD registry operator in matters relating to its capacity as a
registry operator nor represents any client in matters adverse to such
registry operators as registry operators.  Based on the responses to my
inquiries, Covington does not represent any ccTLD registry operator in
its capacity as a registry operator nor does it represent any client in
matters adverse to any ccTLD registry operators as registry operators.
To the best of my knowledge, Covington does not represent any
ICANN-accredited registrar in its capacity as a registrar nor does it
represent any firm client in a matter adverse to a registrar as
registrar.  From time to time, Covington has represented firm clients in
intellectual property matters adverse to registrars, and it is likely to
do so periodically in the future.  I have not been involved in such
matters.  It is possible that a firm client is an ICANN-accredited
registrar, but, if so, Covington does not represent it in such matters.

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Statement of Interest for Lance R. GRIFFIN for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am Executive Counsel, Corporate Legal, at The Walt Disney Company
(“Disney”), a leading media and entertainment company with interests in
studio entertainment, parks and resorts, consumer products and media
networks.  I am responsible for issues involving Internet piracy,
including domain names and related issues.  Prior to joining Disney, I
was an associate at the New York office of White & Case, and represented
a variety of clients with respect to intellectual property issues,
including issues involving domain name registration during the sunrise
process.  I am a member of the Bars of Massachusetts and New York.


I have served in various positions on INTA committees since 2003, and am
currently Vice-Chair of the Treaty Analysis Committee.  I also serve as
Disney’s representative to the IACC’s Internet subcommittee.


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Statement of Interest for VICTORIA McEVEDY for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I focus on intellectual property and media law and am resident in
London.    I am qualified in England and in New York State and
previously worked for Morgan Lewis and Bockius and Wilmer Cutler and
Pickering.   I have substantial experience of trade mark litigation and
took the first case to the House of Lord under the 1994 Trade Marks Act,
based on the harmonizing Directive.  I am an independent expert to
Nominet’s .co.uk Panel,  and also to the .EU Panel.   I am also on
WIPO’s Panel of Arbitrators.

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Statement of Interest for  KELLY W. SMITH for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am employed by Intel Corporation as a Senior Attorney, Trademarks &
Brands.  Intel Corporation is the owner of several famous trademarks,
including the INTEL and PENTIUM marks. I am resident in Intel's
headquarters in Santa Clara, California and am a member of the
California state bar. Since 2004, I have been a member of the
Registration Practice and DNS Administration Subcommittee of the
International Trademark Association's Internet Committee. In addition to
my general representation of Intel in trademark clearance, licensing,
and enforcement issues, I manage Intel's worldwide domain name
portfolio, making decisions regarding offensive and defensive domain
name registration, developing domain name enforcement strategies, and
asserting challenges to abusive domain name registrations. As a member
of the above-referenced subcommittee, I assisted in preparing comments
concerning the rights protection mechanisms proposed by applicants for
sponsored TLDs, and (with others) met with the leadership of the
PricewaterhouseCoopers .eu validation team pre-launch to discuss
questions and issues of concern to trademark owners.

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Statement of Interest for PETER GUSTAV OLSON for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am an attorney at Plesner, one of the largest law firms in Denmark.
Before joining Plesener in 2000, I was at Internationalt Patent-Bureau,
a large Danish patent and trademark agency, where I was webmaster in
1996 and set up their domain name registration service in 1997. Though I
was born and raised in the U.S., I have been living in Denmark for more
than 20 years, and am a member of the Washington D.C. Bar (inactive
status) as well as the Danish Bar. I have been a member of the
International Trademark Associaton (INTA) Internet Committee from
1997-2001 and again from 2003 to the present. In this regard I assisted
in forumlation of the ICANN UDRP in 1999 and was one of the committee
members who met with the leadership of the PricewaterhouseCoopers .eu
validation team in 2005 to discuss questions and issues of concern to
trademark owners.

I specialize in Internet and trademark matters, with special emphasis on
European issues, including the CTM, where I am an authorized
representative before OHIM (the European Community Trademark (CTM)
authority), and Dot-eu, where I am an ADR Panelist.

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Statement of Interest for MIKE RODENBAUGH - Commercial and Business
Users Constituencyfor the Working Group to Protect the Rights of Others
(PRO)

I am employed full-time by Yahoo! Inc., as Senior Legal Director.  I
have been elected to the GNSO Council by the Commercial and Business
Users Constituency.

Yahoo! is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked
Internet destinations worldwide.  Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people
to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge.  I
engage ICANN issues from Yahoo!'s perspective as a premier online brand
and diversified business, highly valuing the perspectives of our
customers, partners and users.


Yahoo! offers scores of different services to businesses and users,
linked from our Everything Yahoo! page
(http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/), and from our Yahoo!

International page (http://world.yahoo.com <http://world.yahoo.com/> ) .
Yahoo! resells domain name registration services via Yahoo! Small
Business, as one feature of many communication, marketing and merchant
solutions we offer to businesses (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com
<http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/> ).

We are interested in seeing all of these businesses succeed and grow.

These businesses work with Yahoo! because we have earned one of the
world's largest audiences, requiring that the 'user perspective' remain
extremely important to us always.  And, of course Yahoo! is a famous
brand that is extremely challenging to protect and enforce online,
worldwide.

I believe businesses of all types and sizes share our interest in the
rapid growth of internet commerce, balanced with fair protection of
existing property interests.  I look forward to working with the Council
to address the many serious issues that existing businesses encounter as
a result of ICANN policy.

Yahoo! is interested in release of reserved, single-letter names, as set
forth in our letter to the ICANN Board dated 6 December, 2005

(http://www.icann.org/correspondence/filo-to-icann-12dec05.pdf) and
subsequent public comments in the PDP regarding existing registry
contracts.


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Statement of Interest for  MICHAEL PALAGE for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

 I am currently a member of the following three GNSO Constituencies: the
Business Constituency (BC); the Intellectual Property Constituency
(IPC), and Registry Constituency. Within the BC I participate and vote
on behalf of my consulting company. I also participate within the IPC as
licensed attorney admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania and Florida,
however, under the IPC charter I have no voting rights as an individual
IP attorney. My involvement within the Registry Constituency is on
behalf of dotCoop the registry operator of the .COOP sTLD for whom I
serve as a consultant/advisor; however, Carolyn Hoover is the designated
voting representative for dotCoop.



My participation within this Working Group will be in an individual
capacity in which I will attempt to share my rather extensive background
on this particular subject matter including: participating in the
original drafting of the UDRP as the Chair of the Registrar
Constituency; as Chair of ICANN's Working Group B that was tasked with
the protection of famous trademark in the original WIPO Domain Name
Report; as author of the original Sunrise concept as discussed in the
Working Group B Final Report; as a consultant to Afilias who was
involved in the drafting and implementation of their Sunrise process;
and as a consultant to mTLD in connection with the drafting of their
Sunrise and Premium Name processes.



In addition to serving as a consultant/advisor to dotCoop, I also
currently serve as a consultant to Afilias the registry operator of the
.INFO TLD. I also provide consulting services to ccTLD operators,
registrars, and other registration authorities on an as needed basis on
a wide range of topics. I have also provided expert testimony in state
and Federal court on behalf of various brand holders and law enforcement
agencies in connection with domain name and internet related matters.



Previously I served as the Chair of the Registrar Constituency from its
inception in 1999 until 2003, when I served a three-year term on the
ICANN Board of directors (2003-2006).


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Interest Statement of TIM RUIZ for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

February 20, 2007

I am Vice President of Corporate Development and Policy for The Go Daddy
Group, Inc. The Go Daddy Group companies include eight ICANN accredited
registrars, each of which may benefit from the possible introduction of
new gTLDs.

GoDaddy.com, one of the Go Daddy Group registrars, is a member of the
dotMOBI Advisory Group (MAG). I represent GoDaddy.com on the MAG. The
MAG, among other activities, is involved in recommending policy to mTLD,
the dotMOBI Registry Operator.

GoDaddy.com is a member of, and I am CTO and Vice Chair of the
Registrars’ Constituency of the GNSO. While I was not elected by the
Constituency to serve on this Working Group, I am on the Executive
Committee of the Constituency and feel an obligation to present and
discuss various Constituency members’ views to the Working Group as they
are made known to me.

GoDaddy.com is also a member of the United States Council for
International Business (USCIB). The USCIB is a member of the Business
Constituency of the GNSO. Our primary interest in the USCIB is the DNS
and Internet Identifiers Working Group. The USCIB and aforementioned
Working Group include members who have an interest in the introduction
of new gTLDs and how such introduction may be structured in regards to
the protection of existing rights of others, particularly Trademark and
other Intellectual Property (IP) rights.

My primary interest in this Working Group is the opportunity to provide
input on the necessity of protecting IP rights during the launch of new
gTLDs, and if it is determined that such protection is necessary,
providing input on the process so that mistakes of the past are not
repeated. I have previously submitted a brief white paper on the subject
of Sunrise and Landrush to the GNSO and have attached it separately in
the interest of full disclosure.

Tim Ruiz
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

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Statement of Interest from MARGIE MILAM for the Working Group
to Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of
MarkMonitor, Inc., an ICANN accredited registrar based in Boise Idaho,
and am responsible for MarkMonitor’s ICANN policy initiatives.
MarkMonitor is the leading corporate domain registrar focusing primarily
on managing the large and complex global domain portfolios of
multinational corporations.  MarkMonitor provides additional value added
services to its corporate clientele, such as online brand protection and
fraud prevention services.  MarkMonitor actively participates in the
sunrise launches of gTLDs and ccTLDs by developing procedures and
programs to assist clients manage the sunrise process.  MarkMonitor is
affiliated with a number of registrars utilized in connection with the
launch of ccTLD and gTLDs, such as in the launch of .eu.

My primary interest in working with this group is to identify ways of
simplifying and standardizing sunrise procedures as a registrar that
actively participates in the launch of new TLDs.

MarkMonitor is a member of INTA, IACC, Anti-Phishing Working Group, and
LES.    I currently serve as MarkMonitor’s representative on the ICANN
Registrar Constituency, and serve on the Internet Committee of IACC and
the INTA Services Committee.  I am also  frequent speaker on
intellectual property issues.

Prior to joining MarkMonitor, I was a partner with the Los Angeles
global law firm, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman, representing many
international clients with respect to general corporate and intellectual
property issues.
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Interest Statement of JON NEVETT for the GNSO Working Group on
Protecting the Rights of Others
February 27, 2007

I am Vice President of Network Solutions, LLC, responsible for policy,
government affairs, and business ethics.  Network Solutions includes
three ICANN accredited registrars, each of which may benefit from the
possible implementation of new TLDs.



Network Solutions is a member of the Registrar Constituency (“RC”) of
the GNSO.  In May 2006, I was elected Chair of the RC.  While I was not
elected by the RC to serve on this Working Group, I am on the Executive
Committee of the RC and have an obligation to present and discuss
various RC members’ views to the Working Group as they are made known to me.



Network Solutions also is a member of the United States Council for
International Business (USCIB). The USCIB is a member of the Business
Constituency of the GNSO. Our primary interest in the USCIB is the DNS
and Internet Identifiers Working Group, of which I am Co-Chair.  The
USCIB includes members who will have an interest in the implementation
of new TLDs.



I also serve on the Direct Marketing Association’s Interactive Marketing
Board.



My primary interest in the Working Group is the opportunity to provide
input on the necessity of protecting Intellectual Property rights during
the launch of new gTLDs.  If it is determined that such protection is
necessary, providing input in the process so that ICANN arrives at a
fair method of registration of domain names related to the intellectual
property rights of prospective registrants.
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Statement of Interest for JOHN BERRYHILL for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am a former treasurer of the Registrar Constituency, and continue to
maintain the RC treasurer on behalf of its current treasurer.  I was a
member of ICANN Working Group B on protection of famous names, the GNSO
UDRP Review Task Force, and the ICANN Delete Policy Task Force.

I participate in the Registrar Constituency as the voting representative
of Domain Name Sales Inc., and I am a consultant to ICM Registry, a TLD
applicant, in connection with intellectual property issues.

I have represented both complainants and respondents in dozens of domain
dispute proceedings, including the UDRP, the .biz STOP, the .eu ADR, the
.us USDRP, the .us Nexus USnDRP, .mobi Sunrise Challenges, and the US
Anti Cyber-Piracy Consumer Protection Act.  I represent trademark owners
and challengers before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and
the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, as well as in obtaining "sunrise"
domain registrations in the .info and .eu TLD's during their respective
launches.

I have a doctorate in electrical engineering, am admitted to practice in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the federal courts therein, am a
registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, and maintain a law practice in the vicinity of Philadelphia, the
Cradle of Liberty and City of Brotherly Love.


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Statement of Interest for DAVID W. MAHER for the Working Group to
Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am Senior Vice President - Law and Policy of Public Interest Registry,
a nonprofit corporation responsible for management of the registry of
the .ORG top level domain. From 1999 until 2002, I was Vice President -
Public Policy of the Internet Society. In 2002, I became founding
Chairman of the Board of Public Interest Registry, and served in that
capacity until August, 2004.
I am a member of the Bar of New York, Illinois and Wisconsin and a
registered patent attorney with the US  Patent and Trademark Office. I
am a director of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern
Illinois, Inc. I am a retired partner of the law firm, Sonnenschein Nath
& Rosenthal, LLP, in the US, and have no connection at this time with
any of its present or former clients. I am a member of the WIPO
Arbitration & Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals.
I am a member of the Visiting Committee to the Divinity School at the
University of Chicago, a member of  the American Law Institute and
various other professional organizations, but have no policy making
responsibilities in any of those organizations.
David W. Maher

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Statement of Interest from JEFFREY J. NEUMAN, Esq.for the Working Group
to Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am the Senior Director of Law, Advanced Services & Business
Development for NeuStar, Inc.  NeuStar, is the registry operator
for the .biz generic Top-Level Domain and the .us country code TLD.
NeuStar also provides back-end registry services for the .travel and
.tel TLDs.  In addition, in April of 2006, NeuStar acquired UltraDNS
Corporation who provides managed DNS services for several thousand
enterprise customers in addition to providing DNS-related services for a
number of gTLDs and ccTLDs, including .info, .mobi, .org and .uk.

I started my career as an intellectual property attorney advising and
representing a number of large clients on the protection of their
trademarks and copyrights on the Internet in the mid 1990s.  In 1997, I
became an active member I the American Intellectual Property Law
Association, a large supporter of the Intellectual Property Constituency
at the time, and was the primary drafter of the original
Sunrise/Daybreak processes in 2000.

Shortly thereafter I began working for NeuStar, Inc. and was responsible
for the creation, implementation and administration of all policies
related to the launch and management of the .biz top-level domain.  As
many of you know, for .biz, we did not launch a Sunrise process, but
successfully administered an IP Claims process which provided an
opportunity for IP owners to notify .biz applicants of their claimed
intellectual property rights in particular .biz domain names.

In late 2001, NeuStar was awarded a contract to administer and operate
the .us TLD where we were required to launch a formal Sunrise process.
Dot-us was the first top-level domain (either ccTLD or gTLD) to launch a
Sunrise process that actually verified the information submitted through
applications with the applicable national patent and trademark office.

Since 2002, I have advised a number of sponsored TLDs on their launch
processes, including the .travel domain, which successfully launched
without any Sunrise or other Intellectual Property protection services.

I look forward to serving on this group.


Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq.
Sr. Director, Law, Advanced Services  & Business Development
NeuStar, Inc.
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Statement of Interest from AVRI DORIA for the Working Group
to Protect the Rights of Others (PRO)

I am a nomcom Appointee to the council, and believe that part of my
responsibility as a volunteer to the council is to participate in as
much of the work as possible.  I am employed as a research consultant at
Luleå University of Technology in Sweden where my funding comes from
general University funds, Swedish nation research funding and ETRI, a
research institute funded by the S. Korean government.  I also have a
contract doing QoS R&D for a Swedish start-up and am occasionally
employed as a consultant to the secretariat of the IGF.  I do not belong
to any of the ICANN constituencies, though I do belong to several of the
organizations that are members of the NCUC.  I am also a registrant of
several TLDs.

My primary interest in this WG has to do with a concern that the
necessary protections for trademarks be balanced with the necessity of
protecting the public  from the loss of common words from the commons.
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