Ashley Cross

Country:	Australia
Email:	ashley.cross [at] dcita.gov.au

Ashley Cross is the General Manager of GM, E-commerce Diffusion in The Australian Government Information Management Office ( former Australian National Office for the Information Economy). He is also the Australian Representative to the GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee ) for ICANN

Ashley Cross has published several articles and research papers on the Internet and Domain industry of Australia. He acts as the Australian representative for different meetings and events held by national and international Internet Industry related organizations.

In April 2006, Ashley Cross wrote a letter to ICANN's domain name policy making organization , GNSO Council, about the new policy on the purpose of WHOIS. . This letter caused considerable amount of specualtions among the Internet and Domain specialists as some of them critisized his stand as a GAC representative and his role in the Australian Government for the new privacy issue.

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).

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).