Moderator:
Bruce Tonkin - ICANN Board, Vice Chair
Panel Members:
- Don Blumenthal – Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)
- Evan Leibovitch – At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)
- Chuck Gomes – GNSO Registry Stakeholder Group (RySG)
- Avri Doria – GNSO Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG)
- Steve DelBianco - GNSO Business Constituency (BC)
- Brian Winterfeldt - GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC)
- James Bladel - GNSO Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG)
- Aparna Sridhar - Google
Panel Questions
1. What is from the perspective of your community the main priority with regard to the discussion on policy vs. implementation
2. Do you believe that an overall framework could be created for all policy implementation activities within ICANN or should specific models be created that would apply for ASO/ccNSO/GNSO policy implementation activities?
3. One of the questions that was raised in the staff discussion paper is how to deal with instances where no consensus can be reached on key issues or competing ‘policy advice’ is received from different SO/ACs? From your perspective, should additional mechanisms be developed that would ‘force’ cross-community engagement and decision-making (see for example EU conciliation procedure http://www.se2009.eu/en/meetings_news/2009/11/4/how_does_the_conciliation_procedure_work.html) or should alternative approaches be explored?
4. What should be the next step in addressing this issue? Some have suggested the creation of a cross-community WG. What is your view on this approach? Are there certain elements that would need a cross-community approach while others should be addressed within respective SO/ACs?
Agenda
Welcome – David Olive, ICANN, VP Policy Development Support (2 minutes)
Introduction of the panel, outline of the session – Bruce Tonkin, ICANN Board, Vice-Chair (3 minutes)
Short presentation of staff paper and comments received in response to public comment forum – Marika Konings, ICANN, Sr. Policy Director (5 minutes)
Question 1 - What is from the perspective of your community the main priority with regard to the discussion on policy vs. implementation
Response Panel (10 minutes)
Comments / questions from the floor (8 minutes)
Question 2 - Do you believe that an overall framework could be created for all policy implementation activities within ICANN or should specific models be created that would apply for ASO/ccNSO/GNSO policy implementation activities?
Response Panel (10 minutes)
Comments / questions from the floor (8 minutes)
Question 3 - One of the questions that was raised in the staff discussion paper is how to deal with instances where no consensus can be reached on key issues or competing ‘policy advice’ is received from different SO/ACs? From your perspective, should additional mechanisms be developed that would ‘force’ cross-community engagement and decision-making (see for example EU conciliation procedure http://www.se2009.eu/en/meetings_news/2009/11/4/how_does_the_conciliation_procedure_work.html) or should alternative approaches be explored?
Response Panel (10 minutes)
Comments / questions from the floor (8 minutes)
Question 4 - What should be the next step in addressing this issue? Some have suggested the creation of a cross-community WG. What is your view on this approach? Are there certain elements that would need a cross-community approach while others should be addressed within respective SO/ACs?
Response Panel (10 minutes)
Comments / questions from the floor (8 minutes)
Conclusion & Next steps – Bruce Tonkin (8 minutes)
Bios:
Bruce Tonkin
Dr Bruce Tonkin is an Australian citizen and is currently Chief Strategy Officer for Melbourne IT Limited, where he is responsible for managing the development of the company's strategic and operating plans, strategic initiatives with major customers and suppliers, and managing evaluation of merger and acquisition opportunities.
Bruce holds a bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1st class honours) and a Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering. Before joining Melbourne IT in 1999, he worked in small private engineering consulting businesses, universities, and industry research laboratories (e.g., AT&T Bell Labs in the 1980s). Bruce is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Don Blumenthal
Don Blumenthal is Senior Policy Advisor to the Public Interest Registry, concentrating on security and stability, privacy, DNS abuse, and law enforcement related issues. He is a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, and also currently participates in the Thick Whois PDP Working Group, the ICANN Domain Security and Stability Analysis Working Group, and the Whois Survey Drafting Team. In addition, Don is an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, teaching courses on information policy, enterprise security planning, contemporary privacy issues, and cybercrime and cybersecurity.
Evan Leibovitch
Evan Leibovitch is Vice‐Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and a representative of the North American region. Previously he was the first Chair of ICANN's North American Regional At-‐Large Organization (NARALO), a position he served for three years before being elected to the ALAC to a two‐year term ending fall of 2012.
Evan's background is in publishing and communications using Internet and print media. A professional journalist by training, he current worksYork University as Open Source Architect and has his own consulting company.
Chuck Gomes
Chuck is Vice President of Policy and Compliance for VeriSign, Inc. He is one of several Verisign representatives to the GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) and has served in that capacity since the start of the Registries Constituency in the late 1990’s. From 2007 to 2010 he represented the RySG on the GNSO Council including serving two years as Vice Chair and one year as Chair. He has been involved in many policy and policy implementation efforts including the New gTLD PDP that started at the end of 2005 and the subsequent implementation work that has been going on since 2007.
Avri Doria
Ms. Doria, is an independent researcher working on Internet Architectures and Governance. She has been active in Internet technology since the early 1990s and in Internet Governance since 2005, is a member of the ICANN ATRT2, is a member of the NCSG Policy Committee, and is a participant in the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation. She was chair of the ICANN GNSO council, was an active participant in WSIS, is a past chair of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus and was a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Ms. Doria spent 5 years as a member of the IGF Secretariat. She currently works part time advising dotgay LLC on policy and community issues and serves as a volunteer researcher for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
Steve DelBianco
As the executive director of NetChoice, Steve DelBianco is a well-known expert on Internet governance, online consumer protection, and Internet taxation. Steve has provided expert testimony in six Congressional hearings, and is a frequent witness in state legislatures. Moreover, Steve is an effective advocate for business interests at meetings of the Internet Governance Forum and ICANN. Steve is often quoted on technology issues in the media, including a segment on "60 Minutes" to expose barriers to e-commerce in residential real estate. Before joining NetChoice, Steve was founder and president of Financial Dynamics, an information technology consulting firm delivering on financial and marketing solutions. He guided the firm through the rapid evolution of industry trends and sold the business to a national firm in 1997. Steve holds degrees in Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Brian Winterfeldt
Brian J. Winterfeldt is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property group. Mr. Winterfeldt’s practice involves most aspects of intellectual property law, including domestic and international trademark counseling, clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and litigation, as well as trade dress, Internet governance and domain name issues.
James Bladel
James Bladel is the Senior Director of Policy Planning at GoDaddy, where he oversees the management of gTLD and ccTLD relations. He is a part of the GNSO.
Aparna Sridhar
Aparna Sridhar serves as Policy Counsel for Google Inc. in Washington, DC. At Google, she represents the company on telecommunications policy, media policy, and Internet governance matters in Congress, before the FCC and other administrative agencies, and in international fora. She previously served in a similar role at Free Press, a national nonprofit nonpartisan organization dedicated to media reform. Aparna received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her A.B. from Harvard University. She also clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
