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'''Gavin Brown''' is the CTO for [[CentralNic]].<ref>[https://www.centralnic.com/company/wire?op=user&user=Gavin+Brown&from=30 CentralNic.com]</ref> He has held this position since 2005; he was been working with CentralNic since 2001.<ref>[http://www.dot-nxt.com/panelist/gavin-brown dot-nxt.com]</ref> He started at CentralNic as a webmaster, and was then promoted to Senior Developer prior to his current position.<ref>http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinbrownuk LinkedIn]</ref> He also is the CTO for one of CentralNic's joint ventures, [[Central Registry Solutions]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinbrownuk LinkedIn]</ref>
'''Gavin Brown''' is a Principal Engineer in the Technical Services team of the [[Global Domains Division|Global Domains & Strategy]] division of [[ICANN]], joining the organization in 2023. Prior to this, he spent 22 years at [[CentralNic]], where he served as CTO, Chief Innovation Officer and Head of Registry Services<ref>https://centralnicregistry.com/about/news/2020-04-01-gavin-brown</ref>.
==Industry Participation==
==Industry Participation==
Gavin was a member of ICANN's DNS Security Facilitation Initiative<ref>https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/hats-off-to-the-dns-security-facilitation-initiative-tsg-for-exceptional-report-15-10-2021-en</ref> and Access to Non-Public Registration Data<ref>https://www.icann.org/tsg</ref> [[Technical Study Group]]s.
Gavin is active in the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] and was a co-author on two [[RFC]]<nowiki/>s: RFC8334 (EPP Launch Extension)<ref>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8334/</ref> and RFC8748 (EPP Fee Extension)<ref>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8748/</ref>.
From May 2017 until he joined ICANN, Gavin was a member of the [[ECO|eco Association]] Names & Numbers Steering Committee.<ref>[https://international.eco.de/2017/news/eco-association-names-numbers-steering-committee-starts-its-work.html Press Release eco Association]</ref> In parallel he was a member of eco's topDNS Initiative Advisory Committee<ref name=":0">https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinbrowndotxyz/details/organizations/</ref>. He was also a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the [[Global Cyber Alliance]]<ref name=":0" />.
Mr. Brown was a panelist at the first [[.nxt|.nxt Conference]] for a session entitled, "Implementation: How to run a Registry".
Mr. Brown was a panelist at the first [[.nxt|.nxt Conference]] for a session entitled, "Implementation: How to run a Registry".
==Education==
==Education==
Gavin attended Canterbury Christ Church University and The University of Kent.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4980906&authType=name&authToken=zGU5&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore LinkedIn]</ref>
Gavin attended Canterbury Christ Church University and The University of Kent.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4980906&authType=name&authToken=zGU5&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore LinkedIn]</ref>
==Interviews==
Gavin was interviewed at [[ICANN 44]] in Prague.
==References==
==References==
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