I have served in significant leadership roles:

• In more than a dozen years in legal practice in two states, I have advised a wide variety of clients, including federal, state and local governmental organizations and boards; the second largest utility in the U.S.; small and medium-sized businesses; and a large number of nonprofit organizations.
• As owner of a web design firm since 1996, I have continued to contribute a significant amount of time and resources to the public interest, building sites for a national civil rights group, as well as environmental and political organizations. I stand prepared to devote even more time to serving the public through ICANN.

My platform is set forth in detail at www.netgaincc.com/icann with four fundamental "planks"

Communication
If elected an at-large director of ICANN, my first priority will be to improve public communication of vital information on international domain issues. At the very minimum, I will ensure ICANN more effectively uses the very medium it seeks to regulate.
    With an extensive professional background in journalism, intellectual property law and web development, I pledge a major contribution of my time and skills to bring ICANN's outreach effort up to satisfactory standards.

Representation
Having followed ICANN closely since its formation, it appears clear to me that these relatively smaller portions of our economy and society could easily get "lost in the shuffle" in the coming years.
   As one example, on the now-pending top-level domain (TLD) additions, will the interests of nonprofit organizations, political and ethnic minorities, and small or medium-sized businesses be represented in ICANN deliberations?

Regulation
The current ad hoc approach to rulemaking cannot continue if ICANN is to fulfill its mission as a worldwide internet regulatory body.
    As a very visible example, in the current top-level domain (TLD) controversy, ICANN has done little to assist in a meaningful debate between competing positions. Rather than at least proposing a set of draft regulations, key issues such as intellectual property rights conflicts have been left "up for grabs" among those willing to put $10,000 up to sponsor at TLD.

Registration
Has there really been a meaningful effort to register members of the worldwide internet community in ICANN At Large? If this democratization of the process is to be anything except window dressing, an online voter drive must be conducted this fall, and adequate server resources must be readied for the task.
   There simply is no reasonable excuse for ICANN's technical failures in the last two weeks of the registration process. Its initial forecast of 10,000 registrants was incredibly myopic.