[icann-nominations] Acceptance of Nomination - Donald N. Telage

["Telage, Don" <dont@netsol.com>]

1. Full name: Donald N. Telage

2. E-mail address: dont@netsol.com


3. Organization you work for (if apply): I am currently Senior Vice
President of Network Solutions. My plans call for leaving this position
within a few months and working part time with the company through a
transition period.  

4. Snail-mail address (street, city, country): 505 Huntmar Park Drive,
Network Solutions, Inc.  Herndon, VA 20170, USA 


5. The region that includes the country of which you are a citizen: I am a
citizen of the United States in the North American region. 

6. The region that includes the country in which you reside: North America.
I reside in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America.

7. A clear statement of acceptance of the nomination: 

Should my nomination receive the support of 10 members of the DNSO General
Assembly, I graciously accept the nomination to the ICANN Board of Directors
submitted by Keith Teare, the CEO of Real Names.


8. If you are a Member of the Names Council, state your intention (*)
   to resign from the Names Council if you are elected to the ICANN Board: 

If elected to the ICANN Board of Directors, I will resign my position as
Names Council member representing the gTLD Constituency.


9. A Curriculum Vitae (no more than 500 words long):
Donald Telage, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Internet Affairs


Don Telage is currently the Senior Vice President of Internet Affairs at
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI).  Since February of 1997, he has been deeply
involved in the evolution of the administration and structure of the
Internet required for continued growth. He has been a long-term contributor
to ideas surrounding the privatization of the Internet and he has
contributed to a significant number of the concepts now embodied in ICANN.
He is a frequent speaker on the subject in a widely ranging venues. Don's
background includes experience as a business executive, a technical
contributor, an academic, a researcher and an Internet policy expert.   

>From January of 1995 until February, 1997, Don Telage was the President and
Chief Operating Officer of NSI.  Under his leadership, NSI helped create a
business-oriented viable global market for domain names.

Don  serves on the Board of Directors of the American Registry for Internet
Numbers (ARIN) which he helped form in 1997. 

He has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mathematics from Clark University, a Bachelor's
degree in Psychology from the University of Connecticut, and graduate
training in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island. Don has
taught both mathematics and computer science in several universities.




10. A statement indicating your ideas, intentions and/or the reason why
    you consider you should be elected to serve in the ICANN Board
    (no more than 500 words): 

Over the last three years, I have been an active constructive critic of the
privatization of the administration of the DNS and IP functions on the
Internet. I have written numerous papers this subject and given hundreds of
talks educating people and urging their involvement. I have urged process
over expedience, consensus over vote counting, bottom-up mechanisms over
board votes, and limits to the ICANN charter.  Many of these positions,
although widely supported today, were not popular in the past.  I believe in
them and in the continued development of the Internet for all users, and I
am interested in continuing my activities in shaping the ICANN structure
from within.

I have served on the Names Council representing the gTLD constituency.  When
a controversy arose as to the number of seats allocated to that
constituency, I publicly offered two of the seats to the Individual Domain
Name Holders and Non Commercial fledgling constituencies to give them a
voice in the critical phase of the Provisional Names Council.  

Although openly critical of the ICANN per-domain name tax, I serve on the
ICANN Task Force for Funding (TFF), and am attempting to help devise a plan
that will guarantee long-term funding for ICANN in a manner that is fair and
reasonable. 

I am balanced on the issue of protection of intellectual property rights on
the Internet.  I firmly believe that the Intellectual Property Community
needs the ability to protect their rights and investments through easy,
rapid and inexpensive access to WHOIS coupled with advanced search tools.
For the last six months I have convened two working groups with the
Trademark and Copyright communities to discover their needs and to work at
developing the tools and structure for access that will help them. This work
continues.  On the other hand, I don't blindly equate Trademarks with Domain
Names.  Privacy considerations and personal rights to names through prior
use must be respected in this complex new online issue.

IHMO, I am a broadly knowledgeable participant in this activity.  With my
five years at NSI and my two years on the ARIN board, I have a solid grasp
of both IP and DNS.  My business perspective will allow me to deal with the
realities of capitalization, and costs and budget management - skills that
will be valuable on the ICANN board.  I am a technical person, who
understands the details of IP and DNS at a significant depth for sound
judgment.  I have a policy view that is moderate and spans the issues of all
constituencies.  

I want to be on the ICANN board to be a voice of experience within ICANN -
up close and personal. I will to listen closely to all points of view,
review the record of consensus and work to evolve policy in a way that
improves the operation of the DNS and IP overall.