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Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel

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Under Section 1.4 of the Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP), "the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel" shall consist of a total of 20 persons expert in the design, management and implementation of the complex systems and standards-protocols utilized in the Internet infrastructure and DNS (the "Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel"). The members of the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel will be selected by its Chair. The Chair of the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel will be a person who is agreeable to both ICANN and the registry constituency of the supporting organizations then responsible for generic top level domain registry policies. All members of the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel and the Chair shall execute an agreement requiring that they shall consider the issues before the panel neutrally and according to the definitions of Security and Stability. For each matter referred to the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel, the Chair shall select no more than five members from the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel to evaluate the referred matter, none of which shall have an existing competitive, financial, or legal conflict of interest, and with due regard to the particular technical issues raised by the referral.

All members of the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel serve on the Panel and, if and when selected to do so, on any Review Team as individual experts. Panel members' organizational affiliation and country of residence are included in the membership list (below) in the interest of transparency and disclosure only. In their actions and statements as Panel and Review Team members, these individuals do not represent either their affiliated organizations or the country in which they reside in any way.

The current members of the Panel are:

Panelist Company ICANN Region Start Date
Lyman Chapin (Chair) Interisle Consulting Group, LLC NA 01 Mar 2006
Alejandro Pisanty UNAM LAC 05 Jan 2015
Ann-Mari Eklund Löwinder Amelsec AB EUR 01 Aug 2014
Barbara Roseman Torque Systems NA 01 Jul 2019
Fredrik Ljunggren Kirei AB EUR 04 Jun 2014
Greg Aaron Illumintel, Inc. NA 01 Oct 2014
Hirofumi Hotta Japan Registry Services Company AP 12 May 2014
Jaap Akkerhuis NLnet Labs EUR 01 Jul 2015
Jakob Schlyter Kirei AB EUR 04 Jun 2014
Jim Reid RTFM LLP EUR 12 May 2014
João Luis Silva Damas Bond Internet Systems EUR 04 Jun 2014
John Dickinson Sinodun Internet Technologies EUR 01 Jun 2015
Mark Kosters Kosters Enterprises, LLC NA 04 Jun 2014
Mark McFadden Internet Policy Advisors, LLC NA 01 Oct 2014
Ólafur Guðmundsson OGUD Consulting NA 01 Oct 2014
Ondřej Surý DNS Rocks LLC EUR 12 May 2014
Paul Wouters No Hats Corporation NA 01 Apr 2015
Susan Estrada Self NA 04 Jun 2014
Tina Dam Self EUR 01 Jul 2022
Wil Tan Cloud Registry Pty. Ltd AP 12 May 2014