User:MarkWD/Interviews

Amr Elsadr

In this interview, Amr Elsadr outlines the roles he has undertaken during his ICANN journey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McuNTPTasj4

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,000 I was a member of the non-commercial stakeholder group in the GNSO, and you know, that's supposed to be the home of civil society, academics, you know, not-for-profit organizations, that kind of thing.

2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:21,000 I got involved in several policy issues over the years.

3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,000 My main focus was on GTLD registration data and privacy and GTLD registration data.

4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:36,000 So most recently, I was a member of the EPDP team that was supposed to bring who is policy into compliance with GDPR.

5 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:50,000 I was a member of the GNSO Council for a while, and I helped author, I think, a lot of the GNSO's operating procedures and working group guidelines that are still in use today.

6 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:59,000 They ended over the years, but a lot of what we did, what I contributed to still exists.

7 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:08,000 I was also on staff for a short period. I was on the policy team working for Marika Konings, if you know her.

8 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:16,000 So yeah, that was about a year, but it didn't work out as great as I would have hoped it would.

9 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And since then, I've been doing consulting work for contracted parties. I also got a job with a back-end registry operator for a while, but I'm doing independent consulting again now.

Danko Jevtovic

In this interview, Danko Jevtovic shares some of the history of the domain names industry in Serbia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGlJ85_T5PM

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 It was a longer way than actually I was at the first I can meeting because I used to be a techie and an entrepreneur and a partner in Internet Service Provider firm in Serbia.

2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:26,000 And we had a problem of domain names, because it was that you use domain names, but there was no organization behind that kind of; it was very difficult to register a domain name.

3 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:37,000 You have one domain name for a legal entity zone. And in a way we saw in our business that if you want to grow, we need the more local content to bring people to do it to Serbian content.

4 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 And domain names are enablers to do for people to get to the content.

5 00:00:42,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And that's how I got you into this story. And it was, we started the 90s, 96, even beginning of year 2000, end of 2000, in these years, a lot of things happened in Serbia, political changes, and we saw that probably Yugoslavia will fully dissolved

6 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:24,000 But domain names are still very interesting thing. So I got involved, and I wrote something that I named "Danko's Paper" about how domain names in the new Yugoslavia, now Serbia, should be you know regulated by having a government-independent NGO that will run that for the benefit of the

7 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Unitarian users in Serbia. And I, I was one of the people who actually, you know, delivered on that and we created this organization.

8 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:47,000 And so that got me hooked. And at that time I can approve the tariffs for Serbia but there was mostly related, connected to the local environment here was on the Board.

Heidi Revels

In this interview, Heidi Revels explains the differences between the Contracted Party Summit and a regular ICANN meeting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHlTzJUp1E

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,580 Yeah, so I know, and I was going to say, yeah,

2 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:04,700 the Contracted Party Summit,

3 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:07,420 contracted party house summit was probably my favorite.

5 00:00:07,740 --> 00:00:15,620 For the simple fact that it's more about processes and how

6 00:00:15,620 --> 00:00:23,100 registries and registrars can actually work together to simplify mechanisms and just,

7 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:27,140 okay, so we have this abuse report and you suspended this domain,

8 00:00:27,140 --> 00:00:28,940 but you didn't tell us,

9 00:00:28,940 --> 00:00:30,320 when you're going to suspend the domain,

10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:31,300 you get this notification.

11 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:36,940 So how can we better improve this ecosystem from our perspectives?

12 00:00:36,940 --> 00:00:39,060 How can we share these responsibilities?

13 00:00:39,060 --> 00:00:44,020 It just felt much more productive than the ICANN meeting,

14 00:00:44,020 --> 00:00:46,140 the ICANN 75 meeting.

15 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:49,500 That just felt very "meeting".

16 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:52,220 ICANN-organized meeting heavy.

17 00:00:52,220 --> 00:00:56,700 We didn't get an opportunity to actually dissect these policies and talk about how they

18 00:00:56,780 --> 00:00:59,380 apply to the registries and registrars.

19 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:01,460 It was more just people giving updates.

Kenny Huang

In this interview, Kenny Huang describes the roles he assumes in the ICANN community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXDhp1HwCs

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 Do I have a different kind of role in ICANN?

2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,200 Talking about recent roles,

3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,240 yeah, I'm the chair of CCPDP4 of ccNSO,

4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,640 and ccPDP4, that's responsible for modeling

5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,720 IDN and ccTLD policy,

6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,520 and we try to develop IDN and ccTLD policy,

7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,480 especially to the variant management,

8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,880 and talking about string similarity,

9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,120 talking about retirement policy

10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,360 that's going to happen in the ccTLD regime.

11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,240 And also, I'm the co-Chair of

12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,640 Label Generation Panel, Chinese label generation panel,

13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,880 let's develop the label generation rule for ICANN.

15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,560 And I also, in terms of the other constituency,

16 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,760 I work in for the numbers of community,

17 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,080 and I'm the secretary council of APNIC,

18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,840 and also I was the Address Council for ASO,

19 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,720 (Address Support Organization),

20 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,880 that's part of ICANN constituencies.

Mason Cole

In this interview, Mason Cole narrates his journey within the ICANN community while highlighting historical aspects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKlbvltek68

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,660 Oh, well, I've been involved in ICANN since the year 2000, that was my first ICANN meeting

2 00:00:05,660 --> 00:00:13,800 was ICANN number eight in Marina Del Rey {e.n.: it was actually ICANN 7}, where I recall that we could fit everybody

3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,120 in the ICANN meeting into one hotel meeting room.

4 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:27,120 And now, of course, you know, we've got convention centers and multiple hotels and, you know,

5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:28,760 the thousands of people involved.

6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:36,280 So it was a different animal when I got involved back in the year 2000, but I first got involved

7 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:45,280 because I was helping a company launch itself, a company called Snap Names, and there was

8 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:50,960 no service at the time that would backorder domain names or otherwise make them available

9 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,560 when they became, you know, when they deleted back into availability.

10 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,160 And so I got involved with that company.

11 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:04,480 And then it's funny because I was not impressed with ICANN as an organization at first, because

12 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:09,840 I thought they were really wound up in policy and procedures and everything else.

13 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,600 They really didn't care about outcomes that much.

14 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:20,880 But the longer I got involved in the ICANN sphere, the more I understood why the ICANN

15 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,560 model was valuable.

16 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:28,680 And the next thing you know, I'm involved with a Registrar Stakeholder Group.

17 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,440 And I was Chair of the registrar stakeholder group for a while.

18 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,640 And then I was a GNSO Counsilor for a while.

19 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,880 And then I was the first GNSO liaison to the GAC.

20 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,360 And now I'm Chair of the Business Constituency.

21 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:49,160 So, you know, my active involvement in ICANN has gone back for, you know, well more than

22 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,480 a decade now, you know, pushing two decades.

Prudence Malinki

In this interview, Prudence Malinki discusses the importance of the social aspect of the ICANN community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lud7415gA

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,880 The domain sector is such a vibrant, sociable sector.

2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Everyone, even people who are competing,

3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,200 they also will sit down and talk and catch up.

4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,480 And there's always gossip, there's always like jokes.

5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,520 There's always something happening and it's vibrant

6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,400 and it's almost alive.

7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,560 It's not just about sessions and sitting in sessions

8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,480 and watching people deliver information.

9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,360 A lot of it is what happens outside of the sessions.

10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,720 It's the socials, it's the networking,

11 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,080 it's for getting together, coming up with new business ideas,

12 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,040 meeting new people, the next generation coming up

13 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,160 and learning and the older generation

14 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:37,360 and sharing information.

15 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,640 There's like a whole bunch of stuff that happens

16 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,920 outside of the traditional stuff.

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