| Email |
beberg@mithral.com |
| Region |
North America |
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| PROFESSIONAL |
| Employer(s) |
| Mithral Communications & Design, Inc.
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| QUALIFICATIONS |
Statement addressing the candidates qualifications
and experience specifically relevant to
(a) ICANN's technical and
administrative responsibilities, and
(b) your leadership and policy-level
roles.
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| I have headed numerous academic, nonprofit,
and commercial organizations and so am
familiar with the processes and roles that
will be involved. My expectations for the amount
of change that can be made and the rate it can
be done are therefore reasonable.
I have repeatedly done battle on both sides
of domain dispute issues (and with
registrars), and while the
current process has improved, it still
favors the larger party. I am a firm believer in
trademark laws, but variations in laws
make this difficult.
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| ICANN RELATED INTERESTS |
ICANN-related interests, including:
(a) Employment and consulting relationships
(b) Ownership or investment interests in any ICANN-related businesses
(c) Official positions in any ICANN-related businesses or organizations
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No conflicting interests. |
| BACKGROUND |
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Background information, personal statement, URL, or other information
you would like posted in connection with your name on the ICANN
website.
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| My homepage - http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/
and resume
http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/Resume.html
The short version: Computer engineering
degree from IIT.edu, where I was involved
in many student organizations. Started a web
design and consulting company in 1995.
distributed.net in 1997 - which later
became DCTI. Several day jobs including embedded
systems and storage area networks. Currently
working on the Cosm project - a
architecture for distributed
computing and omniplatform software development.
The TLD mess is artificial, since DNS can
handle any number of "top" level
domains. People should be allowed to register
any ASCII domain name they think people can
remember. The registrars should be allowed
to do registration for any such string in
a coordinated manner. Due to the vast amounts
of money involved, this is unlikely to
become policy soon.
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| OFFICIAL STATUS |
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Status as an official of a national government or a multinational entity
established by treaty or other agreement between national governments, such
as an elected official or employee of a government or multinational entity.
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| No. |
