1) Your Name: | Chuck Gomes |
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2) Stakeholder Group: | Registries |
3) Constituency: | Not Applicable |
4) ICANN Affiliation (if not covered by item 2 or 3): | |
5) Please identify your current employer(s): | VeriSign, Inc. |
6) Please identify your current position(s): | VP, Policy |
7) Please identify the type(s) of work performed: | Represent Verisign in policy development activities |
8) Please identify your declared country of primary residence (e.g., country to which you pay taxes): | USA |
9) Please list any financial relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership you may have with any company that to your knowledge has a financial relationship or contract with ICANN: | I own a de minimus amount of Verisign stock |
10) Do you believe you are participating in the GNSO policy process as a representative of any individual or entity, whether paid or unpaid? | Yes |
If the answer is “Yes,” please provide the name of the represented individual or entity. (If professional ethical obligations prevent you from disclosing this information, please enter "Private"): | Verisign I also represent the RySG when so authorized by the RySG and will make it clear when that is the case. |
11) Please identify any other relevant arrangements, interests, or benefits as requested in the following two questions: | |
a) Do you have any type of material interest in ICANN GNSO policy development processes and outcomes? | Yes |
If the answer is “yes,” please describe the material interest in ICANN GNSO policy development processes and outcomes: | Policies that relate to gTLD registries may have material impacts on Verisign as a registry operator for .com, .net, .name and VeriSign sponsored new gTLDs. |
b) Are there any arrangements/agreements between you and any other group, constituency or person(s) regarding your participation as a work team member? | Yes |
If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements/agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): | I am an employee of Verisign. Verisign is a member of the RySG. |
12) Please identify any Working Groups or other chartered teams in which you are participating (include acronyms, if applicable): | |
13) Additional Information (optional): | As an employee who supports Verisign’s naming services business, I sometimes 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, stakeholder groups and/or supporting organizations. In addition to registry agreements with ICANN for .com, .net, .name and various new gTLDs, 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 for the .com gTLD. 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. |
14) Page last revised: | 07-Jan-2016 |
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