[ICANN-EU] Re: Welcome to icann-europe

[Stefano Trumpy <Stefano.Trumpy@iat.cnr.it>]

Hi friends candidates, I entered yesterday in the list; let me 
provide a short introduction of myself and reasons why I submitted my 
self nomination.

I am a researcher of the National Research Council of Italy, based in 
the Institute for Telematic Applications in Pisa. As officer of the 
Advisory Council of ISOC, I followed the ICANN life since the 
beginning. I have been in charge of running the ccTLD ".it" since the 
beginning; at present I act as the responsible of the international 
relations of the registry; for this, I am the Italian representative 
in CENTR. I act as advisor of the Italian government representative 
in the GAC.

I see the present status of ICANN critical for the following reasons:
	- the tie with the Department of Commerce of US  is not yet 
released and will not in the near future; this implies a continuing 
political attention on ICANN by the governments and UE in particular; 
remember that the final goal when the idea of ICANN was conceived was 
to give the Internet governance to an independent company 
representing the Internet stakeholders;
	- the decision making process of ICANN is not speed enough 
(see the time needed for starting the new TLDs) and ICANN is accused 
not to be adequate to assure the necessary evolution of the Internet 
governance; ICANN staff is in the middle of delaying decisions to 
prevent political criticisms and speeding up them in order to meet 
schedules;
	- consensus building is an exteremely important exercize but 
the presence of radically different interested parties make this 
process low and in some cases uncertain; ICANN is accused to use the 
bottom up approach as a shield while adopting a real top down 
approach guided by US government + big companies.

If elected in the ICANN BoD, I will try to contribute to the 
following objectives:
	- promote a sensitization campaign towards the government 
representatives aiming at convincing them of the technical nature of 
ICANN tasks; bring the more political and strategic issues to other 
international fora;
	- through the intervention of super partes committeees of 
experts, study solutions for the evolution of the Internet governance 
aspects in such a way to accomodate the commercial needs with the non 
commercial ones, social, etc.

	- assure a reliable and sound set of services to the community;

	- improve functional relations with the international 
organizations which are doing relevant work in the Internet 
governance (ISOC, IETF, W3C, ITU, etc.)

Stefano Trumpy
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  Stefano Trumpy
  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
  Istituto per le Applicazioni Telematiche (IAT)
  Via V.Alfieri, 1
  56010 Ghezzano (Pisa) Italy

phone: +39 050 3152 112 (or 634)  mobile: +39 335 373423 fax: +39 050 3152113
e-mail: Stefano.Trumpy@iat.cnr.it          http://www.iat.cnr.it
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