[icann-nominations] Statement of acceptance: Naomasa MARUYAMA

[maruyama@nic.ad.jp]

1. Full name: Naomasa MARUYAMA

2. E-mail address: maruyama@nic.ad.jp

3. Organization you work for (if apply):

	The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

4. Snail-mail address (street, city, country):

	4-6-7 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8569, Japan

5. The region that includes the country of which you are a citizen:

	Asia/Australia/Pacific
	(I am a citizen of Japan.)

6. The region that includes the country in which you reside:

	Asia/Australia/Pacific
	(I reside in Japan.)

7. A clear statement of acceptance of the nomination:

	I am pleased to accept the nomination to a candidate for a Board
	position selected by DNSO NC.

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:

	I am not a member of the NC.

9. A Curriculum Vitae (no more than 500 words long):

   Naomasa MARUYAMA, who is currently serving as the vice President of
JPNIC, is an associate professor in the Institute of Statistical
Mathematics in Tokyo.  Before the current position, he was an
assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University
of Tokyo until March of 1989.

   While he was just using the Internet as a user from 1987 to 1991,
he was involved in the formation, took place in December of 1991, of
the voluntary group, JNIC, which managed .JP ccTLD registry and IP
address assignment undertakings.  At that time he mainly worked for
domain name issues of .JP.

   After 16 months' activity, JNIC was reformed into the membership
organization, JPNIC, in April of 1993, whose financial source was
based upon membership fees from ISPs.  MARUYAMA also worked for JPNIC
from the very beginning.  For the first two years, he mainly worked
for domain name issues and publicity.  Then in April of 1995, he was
appointed to be the secretary-general of JPNIC, and elected as a
Trustee in May of 1995.  As the secretary-general, he experienced lots
of things including the introduction of domain name and IP address
assignment fees in June of 1995, incorporating the organization as
a legally registered public entity under the Civil Code of Japan on
Mar. 31, 1997, and etc.  When the JPNIC became legally registered
organization, he was elected as a Vice President.

   Relating to the IAHC/IFWP/ICANN process, he worked for the 'Information
Session of the gTLD-MoU' in Tokyo hosted by JPNIC on Nov. 7 1997.  Now
he serves for ICANN Task Force on Funding.

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):

   As is shown above, my experiences in JNIC and JPNIC are not limited
to domain name issues but also include IP address assignment
undertaking to users in Japan, corporation management, and legal
issues.  I am not an internet technology engineer, while I have
enough knowledge about the technology, so that I am able to consider
these ICANN related issues from very broad point of view.  That is the
reason why I consider myself to be a suitable candidate for an ICANN
Director.

   Here are some of my views on the Internet and ICANN process:

1. Geographical Diversity

   The Internet is, by nature, a global and borderless network.  It is
particularly powerful when one uses it beyond boundaries of countries
and regions.  Given that, I understand "Geographical Diversity" to be
an idea which fosters close, effective, and strong relationship
throughout the globe.  It should not, in any sense, misunderstood to
be something which might cause frictions between regions/countries.

2. Bottom-up process and Openness

   For more than 20 years, bottom-up process and openness have been
basic ground for energetic progress of the Internet.  I don't like to
understand those as mere ideologies, but would like to understand
something very practical for the evolution of the Internet.  Based on
this understanding, I would like to keep those ideas as far as
possible.

3. Financial stability of ICANN

   Founded as a private sector, ICANN should maintain its rights of
freedom of speech forever.  However, I would like to remark that, in
this world of market economy, we would not be able to maintain it
without financial stability of the corporation.  It is also important
to have financial independence.  In that sense, it's my great pleasure
to serve as a member of the ICANN Task Force on Funding, and would
like to work for this issue, among others, as an ICANN director.