[Random-bits] ICANN at large board members

[James Love]

The ICANN at large election is over, and there are five new ICANN board
members.
Both Karl Auerbach from North America and Andy Mueller-Maguhn from
Europe are strong critics of ICANN.  Karl's platform called for sacking
the ICANN President, General Counsel and Jones Day, the law firm that
represents ICANN.  Mueller-Maguhn is a member of the Chaos Computer
Club, which he reports "stands for free flow of information."  He was
quite critical of ICANN in pre-election interviews. 

Despite large voter registrations from China, it would seem as though
very few Chinese voters actually cast ballots.  The new Asia at large
board member is Masanobu Katoh, a Fujitsu official who lives in Potomac
Maryland. Katoh is the Chair of the Internet Law and Policy Forum
(ILPF), and active in a many other ecommerce business groups.  Plus,
while representing Asia on ICANN, he also serves on the US State
Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and
Information Policy, where he is co-chair of the US Department of State
Working Group on Intellectual Property, Standards and Interoperability.

Nii Quaynor, representing Africa, has long been active in ICANN,
including serving on the ICANN/DNSO names council, as a representative
of the Ghana country code registry.  Claudio Silva Menezes works for the
Banco do Brazil, and in interviews offered fairly cautious and
conserative views regarding ICANN.   




North America: Karl Auerbach
Asia:  Masanobu Katoh
Europe: Andy Mueller-Maguhn
Latin America: Ivan Moura Campos
Africa: Nii Quaynor


-- 
James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
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