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Name: Stephanie Perrin<br>
Region of residence: Canada, North America<br>
Gender: female<br>
Employment: PhD candidate, retired federal public servant<br>
Conflicts of Interest: none that I am aware of<br>
Reasons for willingness to take on the position: I believe ICANN is
a wonderful experiment in multistakeholder management of a key
resource. I want it to work. I believe that my experience and
knowledge (listed below) could be useful as ICANN faces a number of
challenges. I am a hard worker and a passionate advocate, and I
would like to try to make a difference here. There is a great team
at NCSG, many different characters with all kinds of talents and
skills, and I would be proud to represent them and the
non-commercial users we all represent at the GNSO. I have a lot of
international experience, I understand key stakeholders like the
GAC, and I would love the challenge of trying to help find solutions
for some of the policy and procedural issues with which the GNSO
struggles.<br>
Qualifications for the position: I have spent 30 years in the
Canadian federal government, most of it in the Department of
Communications and the Department of Industry, in the areas of
telecom policy, and international trade in telecommunciations, media
and broadcasting, and intellectual property. I worked in
Canada-US trade and technology impact assessment, during the 90s
when the Internet was developed, and have broad experience working
with governments on e-commence. I represented Canada at the OECD
working group on security and privacy for ten years, and was a
vice-chair of the group which developed cryptography policy
guidelines. During the 90s, I also worked for ten years on Canada's
privacy standard (CAN/CSA-Q830-96) and was Director of Privacy
Policy responsible for turning that standard into Canada's private
sector privacy law. After the law passed, I took leave and went to
work as Canada's first Chief Privacy Officer, for Zero Knowledge
Systems, a privacy enhancing technology company that developed
anonymous browsing and email software. I have also worked, back in
government, for the past six years in risk management, integrity,
and values and ethics. I also was Director of Research and Policy
at the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and worked to
steer the office to examine Internet issues, including the ICANN
WHOIS issues of the day (2005-7). I have done a lot of public
speaking, and believe I can intervene effectively to represent you.
I am fluent in English and French. <br>
<br>
This experience is very relevant to the policy issues I see at
ICANN, for the following reasons: <br>
<ul>
<li>ICANN is at an inflection point in terms of its maturity. It
needs to mature and develop better risk management, better
accountability and values and ethics, and better compliance with
human rights law. I think my practical government experience in
these areas could be useful.</li>
<li>There are serious privacy issues at ICANN, and a lack of
expertise. This is my principal area of expertise, and I have a
keen desire to contribute and to make things better.</li>
<li>Over the past year and a half I worked on the Experts Working
Group on directory services for new gTLDs, (WHOIS replacement)
and I have learned quite a lot about the issues behind this key
debate. I would like to contribute that expertise as the GNSO
studies the EWG report. <br>
</li>
<li>I have also worked on the working group on accreditation of
Privacy Proxy Services, and on the working group on policy and
implementation. Again, my government policy work, and the many
years that I have volunteered on standards development groups
and shadow groups have, I think, given me insight into these
processes that could be useful. What I have learned from these
two groups, particularly the policy and implementation working
group, would be useful to a role on the GNSO.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Statement of availability for the time the position requires: I am
no longer working fulltime, and my studies are focused on issues
related to ICANN. I therefore have abundant time to devote to ICANN
work, particularly the GNSO. Over the past year and a half I have
devoted approximately half my work week to ICANN.<br>
Additional information: I am studying at the Information School of
the University of Toronto. After working about eight months on the
EWG, I realized that the reasons that ICANN had failed to implement
privacy were interesting. I decided to switch the topic of my
doctoral research, from why privacy enhancing technologies were
failing (particularly authentication and credential systems), to why
ICANN has refused to adopt privacy policy or law. I have spent my
career either applying law or developing solutions, including
technology and law, so my return to school is largely to satisfy
that hunger to understand things at a theoretical level. However,
when faced with a situation where not much is happening, the
practical side of me demands my focus there. Although I continue to
study why ICANN has not adopted privacy, I am determined (whether or
not you choose to honour me with your vote and put me in the GNSO)
to also fix that problem, and get some practical implementation of
commonly accepted privacy policies at ICANN.<br>
<br>
Thanks for your attention.<br>
Stephanie Perrin<br>
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