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IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Members

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The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) is comprised of 30 individuals representing 13 communities, and includes direct and indirect stakeholders. These representatives have been selected by their respective communities.

COMMUNITY   NAME OF REPRESENTATIVE
 
ALAC   Mohamed El Bashir
ALAC   Jean-Jacques Subrenat
 
ASO   Hartmut Glaser
 
ccNSO   Xiaodong Lee
ccNSO   Mary Uduma
ccNSO   Keith Davidson
ccNSO   Martin Boyle
 
GAC*   Manal Ismail
GAC*   Thomas Schneider1
GAC*   Kavouss Arasteh
GAC*   Michael Niebel
GAC*   Jandyr Ferreira dos Santos
 
GNSO   Wolf-Ulrich Knoben
GNSO   Milton Mueller
GNSO   James Bladel
 
gTLD Registries   Keith Drazek
gTLD Registries   Jon Nevett
 
ICC/BASIS   Joseph Alhadeff
 
IAB   Russ Housley
IAB   Lynn St Amour
 
IETF   Jari Arkko
IETF   Alissa Cooper
 
ISOC   Narelle Clark
ISOC   Demi Getschko
 
NRO   Alan Barrett
NRO   Paul Wilson
 
RSSAC   Daniel Karrenberg
RSSAC   Lars-Johan Liman
 
SSAC   Patrik Fältström
SSAC   Russ Mundy
 
ICANN Board Liaison   Kuo-Wei Wu
IANA Staff Liaison Expert   Elise Gerich

*17 July 2014 – The ICG accepted the GAC's request to increase the number of GAC representatives in the ICG from two to five.

ICANN called to the respective community members represented in the ICG to launch their internal processes to select their representatives. Below are the community announcements of the various processes:

Community Process Announcements:

Other Relevant Articles:

For access to photos, bios and video interviews with the ICG members, please visit the Meet the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group page.

1 17 October 2014 – Following the GAC elections, Thomas Schneider, replaces Heather Dryden as a GAC nominee to the ICG.

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