Mike O'Connor

Country:	USA
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Currently a member of ICANN's GNSO

Mike O'Connor has been involved with the Internet since he become the Controller and Administrative CIO for the University of Minnesota in the late '80's. He later went on to found a high-speed ISP in the mid-90's. He is interested in gTLDs.

Work in Broadcasting

He founded WORT-FM, a community radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He was also involved with KUSP in Santa Cruz, KDNA in St Louis, KFAI in Minneapolis, WEFT in Chambana and was a co-founder of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters in Washington, DC.

ICANN Involvement

He is a Member of the GNSO's ISPCP Constituency and represents them on the GNSO Council. Previously he was a member of the Commercial and Business Constituency, where he was a member of the Credentials Committee. His primary focus is on GNSO (and cross-constituency) Working Groups that deal with the security and stability of the DNS, including the following (in reverse chronological order, except for the IRTP series):

• GAC GNSO Early Engagement Consultative Group
• Data and Metrics for Policy Making (DMPM) (chair)
• Thick Whois (Thick Whois) (chair)
• Fake Renewal Notices (FRN) (chair)
• Policy and Implementation WG Charter Drafting Team
• Cross Community Working Group Drafting Team (CCWG)
• Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis (DSSA) (co-chair)
• Vertical Integration PDP (VI) (co-chair)
• Zone File Access Advisory Group
• High Security Zone TLD Advisory Group
• Post Expiration Domain Name Transfer (PEDNR)
• Registration Abuse Policies Implementation Drafting Team (chair)
• Registration Abuse Policies (RAP-WG)
• Fast Flux PDP (Fast Flux)
• Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part D (IRTP-D) (co-chair)
• Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part C (IRTP-C)
• Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B (IRTP-B)
• Inter Registrar Transfer Policy Part A (IRTP-A)

ICANN Meetings Attended

• Wellington
• Los Angeles
• Paris
• Cairo
• Nairobi (remote participation: Reston, VA)
• Brussels
• Cartagena
• San Francisco
• Singapore
• Dakar (remote participation: Praag, WI)
• San José
• Praag
• Toronto
• Beijing
• Durban
• Buenos Aires
• Singapore

Education

He received his MBA in Finance operations from S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management in Cornell University in 1979. He received his BA in Economics from Grinnell College in 1972.

Videos

Mike was interviewed at ICANN 44 in Prague.

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Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).