Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel
The Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) is composed of 20 individuals who are expert in the design, implementation and management of the multiple systems and the different standard-protocols used in the Domain Name System (DNS) and the entire Internet infrastructure.The RSTEP chairman select the membership of the panel. RSTEP was created based on Section 1.4 of the Registry Services Evaluation Policy that was developed by the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) in lieu of the requests by gTLD registry operators for the review and approval of new registry services. The policy was adopted on July 25, 2006 by the ICANN Board and became effective August 15, 2006. [1]
Current Members of RSTEP
- Rob Blokzijl (RIPE; Netherlands)
- Jordyn Buchanan (Google; USA)
- Lyman Chapin (Chair; Interisle Consulting Group; USA)
- Mouhamet Diop (NEXT SA; Senegal)
- Patrik Fältström (Cisco; Sweden)
- Jayantha Fernando (LK Domain Name Registry; Sri Lanka)
- Tony Harris (CABASE; Argentina)
- Paul Hoffman (VPN Consortium; USA)
- Hiro Hotta (JPRS; Japan)
- Johan Ihrén (Autonomica; Sweden)
- Mark Kosters (ARIN; USA)
- Glenn Kowack (Consultant; USA)
- Xiaodong Lee (CNNIC, China)
- Lars-Johan Liman (Autonomica; Sweden)
- Kurtis Lindqvist (Internet Technology Advisors; Sweden)
- Cricket Liu (Infoblox; USA)
- Allison Mankin (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Mark McFadden (British Telecom; USA)
- Paul Mockapetris (Nominum; USA)
- Russ Mundy (SPARTA; USA)
- Frederico Neves (NIC.br; Brazil)
- Mike St. Johns (USA)
- Andrew Sullivan (Shinkuro; Canada)
- Wil Tan (Cloud Registry, Australia)