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This panel will provide an update on the IANA transition. Our panelists will focus on how ICANN’s accountability can be enhanced. In addition, the panelists will share their perspectives regarding whether the IANA Stewardship Transition can be completed in 2016
Organizer and Moderator
Steve DelBianco (@stevedelbiano) is Executive Director of NetChoice, where he works with members to set and execute the NetChoice agenda. Steve has become a well-known expert on Internet governance, online consumer protection, and Internet taxation. He’s provided expert testimony in 20 Congressional hearings and in dozens of state legislative hearings. Steve protects NetChoice member interests at ICANN, where he’s the elected as policy chair for the Business Constituency. Steve advocates for NetChoice positions at the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Moreover, Steve regularly enters the lion’s den at the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, where he’s the lone opponent of discriminatory new tax burdens on Internet commerce. Before his work at NetChoice, Steve was founder and president of Financial Dynamics, an IT consulting firm that he led through the evolution of industry trends. Today, Steve continues to advise and invest in early stage companies as a partner in venture capital funds. Steve holds degrees in Engineering and in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Panelists
Ms. Fiona M. Alexander is the Associate Administrator for the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Office of International Affairs (OIA). NTIA serves as the principal policy advisor to the President on communications and information policy matters. OIA advocates U.S. policy perspectives in a variety of international fora including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Telecommunications Working Group (APEC TEL) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Ms. Alexander was NTIA’s lead negotiator for issues related to Internet Governance in the context of the UN World Summit on the Information Society, ITU Plenipotentiary Plenipotentiary, Development and Standardization conferences from 2000–2008 and in preparations for the OECD Ministerial on the Future of the Internet Economy. She oversees and manages NTIA’s activities related to the continued transition of the technical coordination of the Internet’s domain name and addressing system (DNS) to the private sector as well as NTIA’s involvement in international ICT bilateral and multilateral discussions. Prior joining NTIA, Ms. Alexander was a Senior Consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. She has a Masters Degree in International Relations from American University, Washington, D.C.
Beckwith (“Becky”) Burr (@beckyburr) is Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy General Counsel at Neustar. Ms. Burr was formerly a partner at Wilmer Hale, practicing in the Communications, Privacy and Internet Law Practice Group. She is a veteran of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where she handled ICANN issues. At the FTC, Ms. Burr was responsible for competition and consumer protection policy in connection with information industry/electronic information infrastructure. Ms. Burr is an internationally recognized expert on Internet governance issues. Becky has served as a member of ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee, country-code Names Supporting Organization Council, and legal counsel to domain name registries, registrars, and business stakeholders. Ms. Burr also will play an important role for Neustar on Internet governance, ICANN and domain name registry issues.
Dr. Steve Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and on the deployment of improved security protocols on the Internet. Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today’s Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. In 2012, Dr. Crocker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame – Pioneer Circle, recognizing him as an individual who was instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet.) series of notes through which protocol designs are documDARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. His prior public service includes serving as the first area director for security in the the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Administrative Support Activity Oversight Committee (IAOC), service on the Board of the Internet Society and the Board of The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. Dr. Crocker earned his B.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT. He was Chair of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) from its inception in 2002 until December 2010, and he served as SSAC’s non-voting Liaison to the ICANN Board until being selected by the Nominating Committee.
David Redl (@david_redl) is Counsel on the majority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. In his role with the Committee, Mr. Redl works with the communications and technology subcommittee with a specific focus on spectrum issues. Prior to joining the Energy and Commerce Committee staff, Mr. Redl served as Director of Regulatory Affairs at CTIA– The Wireless Association®, an international trade association of the wireless communications industry where his work focused on policy issues involving wireless technology, spectrum, broadband, and regulatory mandates. Mr. Redl received his B.A. in Journalism and his B.A. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. from the Catholic University of America with a certificate from the Institute for Communications Law Studies. He is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars.
Matthew Shears leads the Global Internet Policy and Human Rights Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). Matthew has represented CDT at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), the World Telecommunications Policy Forum (WTPF) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) +10 review. He has also participated in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Freedom Online Coalition and, most recently, the Brazil NETmundial meeting. Prior to CDT, Matthew was the Internet Society’s first Public Policy Director, a member of the UN Secretary General’s Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group on Internet Governance and has worked for AT&T, Seattle-based broadband satellite start-up Teledesic and Cisco Systems. A UK national, he received his MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and his BA in International Affairs from George Washington University.