| Country: | Netherlands |
| Email: | M.A.G.J.Leenaars[at]nlnet.nl |
Michiel Leenaars is the Direcot of Strategy for the NLnet Foundation, which is a charitable organization that provides mico-grants to independent people and organizations that propose projects to improve the overal experience of the Internet. His responsibilities include talking to the wider community, identifying strategic partnerships, and determining what projects represent beneficial and innovative efforts and how NLnet Foundation is best able to contribute. This often includes working with major stakeholders, such as Verisign, Neustar, and others; one such current project seeks to address the monopoly of broken hosting policies that are reinforcing the technical status quo through standard offerings that are not utilizing innovative technologies and deploying such necessities such as IPv6. The approach to this issue is to bring together stakeholders and raise the bar for hosting companies by working with software providers to make more innovative hosting options readily available.
Mr. Leenaars has been involved with ISOC Netherlands since 2000, and has been its Director since 2002.[1]