ICANN At Large Nomination Application

At Large Candidate Page

Koos van den Hout

Email	koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl
Region	Europe

PROFESSIONAL
Employer(s)
Nieuw Amsterdam IT groep, Herenmarkt 93c, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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.
I am Koos van den Hout, 30 years old, I work at the New Amsterdam IT groep developing web site management software. My previous job was at the Hogeschool van Utrecht where I worked with Internet since 1994 and I got interested in the technicalities and policies behind DNS as part of setting up DNS. I got involved in The Internet Namespace Cooperative (http://www.tinc-org.com/) which offers an alternative root name service with extra generic top level domains. Complete information at http://idefix.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/
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
I have no commercial interests that relate to ICANN. I am a volunteer for The Internet Namespace Cooperative which offers the technical facilities for an alternative root with all the Internic domains and a set of added generic top level domains.
BACKGROUND
Background information, personal statement, URL, or other information you would like posted in connection with your name on the ICANN website.
My ideas of where Icann should go and how Icann should operate which I will pursue when I am elected: * Icann should pursue the continuing (technical) availability of the Internet and its domain names. This should be more important to Icann then commercial interests. * Icann should fully separate the technical and administrative management of the DNS root from the management of generic top level domains. * Icann should operate datached from the US government. The Internet and Icann should be fully international and not depending on any government. * Icann should define clear procedures for expired domains. While a domain is in use and payed for, it should be completely controlled by the registrant. After it has expired it should become available for registration again. This availability should be equal for any possible user of that domain. Reasonable periods should be set for expiry and enforced for all registrars. * Icann should deploy new generic top-level domains that offer a differentiation from the current generic top-level domains (gtlds), so duplicating .com, .net and .org to the new gtlds is avoided and new gtlds can really lighten the load on those generic top level domains. Complete information at http://idefix.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/icann.php
OFFICIAL STATUS
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.
No