My leadership and policy-level roles include active participation in the American Bar Association, including giving lectures through the ABA concerning Internet issues (trademarks, privacy, electronic payments, encryption), my prior work for the United States Department of Justice, my prior testimony to legislative committees on Internet issues when I was an Associate attorney at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, and contributions to other organizations interested in emerging Internet issues (American Trial Lawyers' Association, for example).

I represent and advise clients in the US and elsewhere about many different Interent issues, including domain name issues. These clients include a broad cross-section of Internet stakeholders, including both trademark owners and domain name registrants.

(2) Ownership or investment interests

None that I know of.

(3) Official positions in ICANN-related businesses or organizations

None.

As an attorney, for several years I have developed a specialty in Internet- related legal issues (including privacy, intellectual property, encryption, electronic commerce, First Amendment and other key issues) and have written and spoken on all of these subjects.

My clents represent a broad cross-section of Internet stakeholders, from domain name registrants falsely accused of "cybersquatting," to trademark owners who have the right to shut down clearly inappropriate use of their trademarks (for example, I was even ahead of Compuserve and America Online in beating Internet "Spam King" Sanford Wallace in litigation on behalf of a trademark client), to local communities who are fighting against the imposition of censorship in their schools and libraries. I represent both big and small companies, as well as many individuals.

At present, large and powerful commercial interests are heavily over-represented within ICANN's governing bodies. This over-representation has been the direct and proximate cause of misguided policies that promote the perceived interests of a chosen few, at the expense of the legitimate interests of the broader Internet community as a whole. My goal as an at-large member of the ICANN board will be to prompte and preserve democratic ideals, and to ensure that the interests of all Internet stakeholders are properly reflected in the ultimate policies developed by ICANN. Let me reiterate -- it is not enough for ICANN to say "we listened to the little person," but then to ignore his or her interests in the formulation of policy. The ultimate policies themselves MUST be formulated through an open and transparent process, and MUST in their final form appropriately protect and promote the democratic ideals of the broader Interent community.