ICANN SOI
ICANN Recognizes Community Leaders
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-10-25-en
Theo Geurts Nominating Committee
2022-2023 ICANN GNSO councillor 18 Months for the RrSG
2018
RrSG Nomcom Representative
2017
RrSG Secretary
2010 and present
Transfer PDP
Alternate RrSG member for EPDP phase 1 and 2 and 2F
Chair RrSG Charter/bylaw team
Next-Gen RDS PDP WG
Gnso-newgtld-wg
Thick WhoIs IRT
Gnso-ppsai-IRT
Spec11-sec-frmwk Co-chair / spec11-sec-frmwk for RrSG
AFAV rr-whois-wg
IRTP-D IRT
[gnso-rpm-wg] GNSO RPM Working GroupNewgTLD-pg
DMPM Charter member
DMPM WG
IRTP C IRT
IAG-WHOIS conflicts (observer)
PPSAI PDP WGI have been active and instrumental within ICANN for many years.
My participation is not limited to ICANN; I actively engage(d) in the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network.
Also, I participate in several working groups from CENTR (CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain name registries). I am currently engaged in the following project; https://rrdg.centr.org/projects/standards/
Within ICANN, the working groups discuss new policy and make recommendations. At a final stage, an inter review team (IRT) creates policy language based on the working group recommendations. The IRT is usually the place where policy language gets created so it can be coded into systems or used by parties for their procedures and operations.
I will shortly describe a few projects in which I was involved.
-Next-Generation Registration Directory Services (RDS) to Replace WHOIS.
Create a new system for domain name registration lookups and ensure it was compliant with data protection law.
-Policy Development Process New gTLD Subsequent Procedures
The New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group (WG) is tasked with calling upon the community’s collective experiences from the 2012 New gTLD Program round to determine what, if any changes may need to be made to the existing Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains policy recommendations from 8 August 2007.
-Thick WHOIS Policy Development IRT.
This group was tasked to create technical solutions to transition thin registries to thick registries. This migration would have entailed a database migration of half a billion records located at 2000 registrars to be centralized at one registry.
-PDP Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group/IRT
The PPSIA Working Group (WG) is tasked to provide the GNSO Council with policy recommendations regarding the issues identified during the 2013 RAA negotiations.
Including recommendations made by law enforcement and GNSO working groups, that were not addressed during the 2013 RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) negotiations and otherwise suited for a PDP; precisely, issues relating to the accreditation of Privacy & Proxy Services.
-Registrar WHOIS Validation Group | Across Field Address Validation (AFAV).
The Registrar Group is charged with identifying, specifying and approving an appropriate set of tools to enable registrars to complete the across field address validation specified in Section 1(e) of the WHOIS Accuracy Program Specification of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement.
-Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
Review of the domain transfer policy concerning the issues of domain hijacking, the urgent return of inappropriately transferred names.
-Data & Metrics for Policy Making (DMPM)
The Data & Metrics for Policy-Making Working Group (DMPM) explored opportunities to review standard methodologies of reporting and metrics that could better inform fact-based policy development and decision making; including how the community can collaborate with Contracted Parties and other service providers in the sharing of metrics and data.
Revised ICANN Procedure For Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law.
The WHOIS Procedure has been revised to incorporate an alternative trigger to invoke the WHOIS Procedure. The current trigger in the WHOIS Procedure allows a registry operator or ICANN-accredited registrar to invoke the procedure if the contracted party receives a notification of an action that local laws prevent its compliance with WHOIS obligations.
Link to the ICANN SOI https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Theo+Geurts+SOI#