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Announcement
9 May 2000
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ICANN Creates At Large
Election and Nominating Committees
(May 9, 2000) The Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the appointment
of Election and Nominating
Committees that will play key roles in the process by which
five At Large Directors of ICANN will be selected later this
year through a global online election.
The At Large Members of ICANN are individuals
who have indicated an interest in participating in ICANN. They
will vote to select five Directors for the ICANN Board, one from
each of five defined geographic regions (Africa, Asia/Pacific,
Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, and North America). With nearly
15,000 applications so far, ICANN's At Large Membership outreach
effort has been greeted with notable enthusiasm among the members
of the global Internet community.
Today's announcement marks the beginning
of the first phase of this selection process. The Nominating
Committee will nominate a set of At Large candidates. At the
same time, ICANN's Election Committee will solicit and select
an outside vendor for the online voting system, and complete
detailed recommendations for ICANN's campaign and voting procedures,
including independent oversight and monitoring.
Following this first phase, there will
be
- a petition period, in which candidates
who were not nominated by the Nominating Committee can seek a
place on the ballot by attracting a minimum threshold of support
from At Large Members in her/his region via online petition;
- a campaign period; and
- the vote of the At Large Members.
About the Election Committee
The Election Committee will develop detailed
recommendations on the ICANN election procedures, subject to
public review and comment prior to ICANN's next meetings in July.
The Election Committee will propose the rules that will apply
in this election for campaigning, voting, measures to prevent
vote fraud, and independent oversight and monitoring. The Committee
will solicit proposals from third-party vendors of online voting
systems, and will recommend a vendor to the Board. To read more
about the Election
Committee, its charter, and its members, please see http://www.icann.org/elcom/.
The Committee's membership includes experts
in electronic voting, Internet infrastructure and security and
election oversight and monitoring. The members of the Election
Committee are:
Greg Crew is currently Chairman of the
Australian Communications Industry Forum Ltd., Chairman of the
Australian Information Technology Engineering Centre Ltd., and
a non-executive director of ERG Ltd. (Perth) and of Silicon Wireless
Ltd. (California). He was Chief Executive Officer of Mercury
Communications Ltd. (UK) (1993-95) and Chief Operating Officer
of Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd. (1991-93). He was one of
the nine initial Directors of ICANN. He lives in Australia.
Charles Costello became director of the
Carter Center's Democracy Program in December 1998. Previously,
he was director of the Center for Democracy and Governance at
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) since shortly
after its creation in 1994. From 1993-94, he headed the USAID
mission in post-conflict El Salvador, overseeing programs to
help demobilize forces, support reformed political institutions,
and rebuild civil society. At USAID since 1975, he also had headed
USAID missions in Ecuador and Guatemala and served in Kenya and
Bolivia. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala and staff
member in Colombia, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University
of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
He lives in the United States.
Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Senior Technical
Staff Member in the Secure Systems Research Department at AT&T
Labs-Research Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, New Jersey.
She is chair of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
(P3P) Specification Working Group and co-chair of the P3P Interest
Group at the World Wide Web Consortium. Her research has focused
on a variety of areas where technology and policy issues interact,
including online privacy, electronic voting, and spam. Dr. Cranor
received her doctorate degree in Engineering & Policy from
Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. She lives in the
United States.
Patrik Fältström works at Tele2/Swipnet.
He works on technologies involving everything from directory
services, indexing technologies, electronic mail and DNS, especially
internationalization issues. He is one of two area directors
of the Applications Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force,
and is a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group. He
has been involved in Internet standardization since 1989. Since
1994 he has been helping the Swedish Tax Authorities to deliver
live election results over the Internet to newspapers and radio
and tv stations. He lives in Sweden.
Ken Fockler is the President of Tenac Consulting,
a company he founded in 1997 after the wrap up of CA*net Networking
Inc., where he was President from 1992 to 1997. He is a Director
of ICANN, chosen by the Address Supporting Organization. He lives
in Canada.
Hans Kraaijenbrink is a member of the Executive
Board of ETNO, the European Telecommunications Network Operators
association, located in Brussels. He is also Manager, European
Policy and Regulation with Royal KPN N.V., the Netherlands where
he is responsible for European and international regulatory strategic
affairs. He was one of the nine initial Directors of ICANN. He
lives in the Netherlands.
Nguyen Huu Dong is Senior Political Affairs
Officer at the Department for Political Affairs of the United
Nations. Since 1998, he has been General Coordinator for a UNDP
project on assistance to electoral observers in Mexico. Beginning
in 1989, he has been involved in UN electoral missions in Nicaragua,
Haiti, El Salvador, Eritrea, South Africa, Nigeria, and East
Timor. He has been a member of UN need assessment missions for
electoral missions to El Salvador, Eritrea, Mozambique, South
Africa, Guyana, Nicaragua, Liberia, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Mali,
Haiti, the Central African Republic, Western Sahara, Mexico,
Guinea, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. He has been a member of UN electoral
follow-up and report missions to Djibouti and the Seychelles.
He has been coordinator of international electoral observation
in Ethiopia (1992) and Nigeria (1999). He holds degrees from
the Université de Lausanne (B.A.), the Université
de Paris-Sorbonne (M.A.), and the Université de Paris-V/Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Ph.D.). He lives in Mexico
City and New York.
About the Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee will identify
and nominate outstanding candidates to stand for election to
the ICANN Board. This committee will actively seek input (such
as recommendations and expressions of interest) from all members
of the Internet community. Procedures will be announced shortly.
The Nominating Committee will complete its work by the end of
July, after which the election process will proceed to the petition,
campaign, and voting phases. For more information on the Nominating
Committee, please see
http://www.icann.org/nomcom/.
The members of the Nominating Committee
are:
Linda S. Wilson is president emerita of
Radcliffe College, presently on sabbatical leave after serving
as president for a decade, and one of the nine initial Directors
of ICANN. She lives in the United States.
Jean-François Abramatic is Chairman
of W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, and a Director of ICANN
selected by the Protocol Supporting Organization. He lives in
France.
Dr. Mads Bryde Andersen is a professor
of private law at the University of Copenhagen. He is chairman
of the Danish Internet Forum (the registrar for the .dk domain).
He lives in Denmark.
John Klensin is Internet Architecture Vice
President of AT&T. He is also Chair of the Internet Architecture
Board. He lives in the United States.
Jun Murai is currently Professor, Faculty
of Environmental Information, Keio University (Japan); Adjunct
Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations
University; Instructor at Tokyo University of Art and Music;
President of the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC); General
Chairperson of the WIDE Project (a Japanese Internet research
consortium); Vice Chairperson of the Japanese chapter of the
Internet Society; and Vice President of the Japanese Internet
Association. He is a member of the board of the Internet Society,
and one of the intial Directors of ICANN. He lives in Japan.
Charles Musisi is an Internet consultant,
and the delegated administrator of the ccTLD for Uganda (.ug).
He helped build Uganda's first networks, and currently runs the
East Africa Help Desk. He is a member of the Board of Trustees
of AfriNIC. He lives in Uganda.
Alejandro Pisanty is currently Coordinator
for Open and Distance Education at UNAM, the National Autonomous
University of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico. He also serves
as Chairman of the Board of CUDI, Corporación Universitaria
para el Desarrollo de Internet, the Mexican Internet 2 Consortium,
as well as of ISOC Mexico. He is a Director of ICANN, selected
by the Domain Name Supporting Organization. He lives in Mexico.
About ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) is a technical coordination body for the
Internet. Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the
Internet's business, technical, academic, and user communities,
ICANN is assuming
responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed
under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups.
Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment
of the following identifiers that must be globally unique for
the Internet to function:
- Internet domain names
- IP address numbers
- protocol parameter and port numbers
In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable
operation of the Internet's root server system.
As a non-profit, private-sector corporation,
ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of
the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation
of global Internet communities; and to developing policy through
private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes
the participation of any interested Internet user, business,
or organization. See http://www.icann.org.
For more information on ICANN's At Large Membership, see http://members.icann.org.
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