SSAC Members

(05/2023)

Jaap Akkerhuis has served in the SSAC since its inception. He is a research engineer at NLnet Labs, a small research and development group that focuses on those developments in Internet technology where bridges between theory and practical deployment need to be built and areas where engineering and standardization takes place with a focus on security and resilience.

He is former co-chair of the RIPE DNS working group, the IETF ProvReg WG and has been member of an IETF nominating committee (nomcom 2014).

Jaap has been instrumental in the development of the Internet in the Netherlands and in Europe in the early 1980s. After a period of seven years in the US where he was active at the Information Technology Center from CMU (Pittsburgh PA), mt Xinu (Berkeley, CA) and AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ), he returned to the Netherlands where he joined the first independent Dutch ISP. Later he worked as a Technical Advisor for SIDN, the registry of the .NL TLD.

He has been a trainer at technical workshops for country code top level domain (ccTLD) organized by ISOC. He served in the first Permanent Stakeholder Group (PSG) of ENISA from 2004 until 2007.

He is ICANN's member of the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency and is the liaison to ISO Technical Committee 46/WG 2 "Coding of country names and related entities".

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Research Engineer, NLnet Labs, a not-for-profit Foundation
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Open standards and open software development. We regularly are consulted by a range of companies and organizations, including ICANN.
3. Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary. People might perceive my role as subject matter expert on ISO country codes in some (lately mainly ccNSO group(s) as influencing the discussions taking place in these groups(s);
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: NLnet Labs does the occasional consultant job for ICANN and its stakeholders. I personally am involved in representing ICANN at the ISO 3166 Maintenance agency. We collaborate with and are sponsored by various parties in the industry; see our annual reports for details [1].
5. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years. As far as I know, employer has contracts with ICANN in the last 5 years on the following subjects:
   As far as I know, employer has contracts with ICANN in the last 5 years on the following subjects:
   • ITHI tools review (end 2017/begin 2018, tools used by https://ithi.research.icann.org/
   • DNSSEC metrics study, with SIDN (See https://www.sidnlabs.nl/en/news-and-blogs/dnssec-metrics-the-state-of-the-art-and-recommendations-for-the-future)
   • RSSAC028 measurements with SIDN https://features.icann.org/rssac028-technical-analysis-naming-scheme-used-individual-root-servers https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/46/contributions/1003/attachments/951/1768/RSSAC028
     
     I'm not involved in these studies. Another project I am involved is that employer has a contract with ICANN to be represented on the ISO 3166 MA and be a liaison to ISO Technical Committee 46 Workgroup 2, but that is already mention in the Bio provided.
6. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): No.

(05/2023)

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Gabriel Andrews received his bachelor's degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.B.A. from San Diego State University. He entered the FBI as a Special Agent in 2010, whereupon he was assigned to work criminal computer investigations in the Los Angeles Field Office. Since that first assignment, SSA Andrews has served as the FBI's Cyber representative to the Government of Canada out of the US embassy in Ottawa, as an SSA in FBI's Cyber division facilitating operational engagement with cybersecurity practitioners in the private sector, and most recently as an SSA in the FBI's Science & Technology Branch focusing on matters of Internet Governance and Standards Development.

Disclosure of Interest Statement

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s). Employer: United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Position: Supervisory Special Agent, Science & Technology Branch
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above. SSA Andrews has worked primarily as an investigator on Criminal Computer Intrusion matters (Title 18, U.S.C. ss 1030) and in FBI Headquarters roles supporting such investigations. His most recent position, effective 2022, is to lead FBI engagement within ICANN (and other multistakeholder Internet policy/standards bodies) where the work of such bodies is likely to impact law enforcement and/or public safety equities.
3. Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary. As previously disclosed, I participate in a working group (Public Safety Working Group) overseen by ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee.
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond minimus stock ownership that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has with ICANN or with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a current or planned financial or other material relationship with ICANN. None, beyond ICANN's presence as a nonprofit entity operating within the United States.
5. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years. None known
   Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)
6. Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s). Yes: there are two such arrangements/agreements: My participation as an SSAC member would be conducted professionally, serving the public safety interests of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. My participation as an SSAC member would also be conducted with the awareness and support of the GAC's Public Safety Working Group, which I have preexisting membership and obligations.

(05/2023)

Tim April works for Google, LLC as a Staff Security Engineer. At Google Tim works with product teams to design, build, operate and maintain systems in a safer way. Prior to Google, Tim was the Chief Security Architect for Akamai Technologies where he focused on Network and DNS security while also engaging in other areas across the company as needed. Tim designed, built and operated Akamai's ICANN Accredited Domain Name registrar. He holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Staff Security Engineer at Google, LLC
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to build and operate safer systems.
3. Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary. Board Member of the Internet Fire Brigade Society (A US 501(c)(3))
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: Google is an ICANN Accredited registrar and a registry for multiple gTLDs.
5. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years. I am not aware of any business transactions between my employer and ICANN. My employer is a contracted party so interacts with ICANN, but I am not directly aware of those transactions.
6. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): No.

(05/2023)

Jeffrey R. Bedser is the founder and CEO of iThreat Cyber Group, Inc. (2000-2022) and CleanDNS Inc. (2021-Present).

Mr. Bedser has served on the Board of the Public Internet Registry (PIR) since 2017 and was appointed Chair in 2022. Mr. Bedser serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Security Journal (Palgrave McMillian LTD) since 2001.

Past Volunteer Activities

• US Chamber of Commerce – National Security Task Force/Cybersecurity Working Group
• Cyber Threats Taskforce (ASIS International) Chairman 2000-2002
• Joint Council for Information Age Crime (JCIAC), Member, BoD 2002-2007
• IACP – Ad hoc Committee on Computer Crime and Digital Evidence 2006 – 2020

Publications

• The Impact of the Internet on Security, Security Journal, 2007, 20, (55-56) Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 0955-1622/07
• Law and Order in a Networked World, Security Counsel, CSO Magazine, March 2003, CXO Media Inc.

Statement of Interest: iThreat (previously role) is the creator and contracted entity that runs the Domain Abuse Activity Report (DAAR) system for ICANN. CleanDNS runs the DNS Abuse Management platform utilized widely for Abuse Management and mitigation for contracted parties, law enforcement agencies and others.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s)and position(s): Employer:
   Clean DNS Inc. CEO & Chair
2. Please identify the type(s)of work performed at #1 above:
   I am the executive responsible for the overall performance and operations of the company. It is privately held. Services involve online harms detection, evidencing and mitigation via large scale data collection and automation and enrichment. We perform functions for many market sectors including government.
3. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN:
   I am chair of Public Interest Registry board of directors, a contracted party. I have contractual relationships for DNS Abuse Management with multiple contracted parties.
4. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s):
   No.

(05/2023)

Lyman Chapin is a co-founder of Interisle Consulting Group, LLC, where he advises companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies on Internet technology, policy, and governance; telecommunications network security and resilience; and critical infrastructure protection. Before starting Interisle in 2002 he was Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies. Mr. Chapin is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and was a founding trustee of the Internet Society. He has served as a Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where he currently chairs the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel and the DNS Stability Panel and serves as a member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), and as chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). Mr. Chapin was a principal architect of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and protocols and is the co-author of Open Systems Networking—TCP/IP and OSI. His professional interests include Internet technology, particularly routing, traffic engineering, and the Domain Name System (DNS); Internet governance; and information security and personal privacy.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Interisle Consulting Group, LLC – Owner.
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Consulting to companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies on Internet technology, policy, and governance; telecommunications network security and resilience; and critical infrastructure protection.
3. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: I do not current hold any board committee position (other than SSAC)
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: Interisle currently provides the following consulting services to ICANN:
   
   DNS Stability Panel for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track.
   Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP).
   
   Interisle also provides consulting services from time to time to ICANN contracted parties, including Public Interest Registry, Verisign, and Afilias.
   
   
5. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years: I have an ongoing business relationship with ICANN to manage the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) and the IDN ccTLD Fast Track DNS Stability Panel. Both of these are contracted engagements for which I (through my consulting company, Interisle Consulting Group LLC) receive an annual payment.
6. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? please answer "yes" or "no." if the answer is yes, please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): No.

(05/2023)

KC Claffy is founder and director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UCSD. KC's research interests include measurement, analysis, and visualization of Internet workload, routing, topology, and performance data. KC leads CAIDA's collection and curation of strategic Internet data sets and freely available tools and analysis methodologies to improve the scientific integrity of network research and to promote more informed engineering, business, and policy decisions regarding the Internet infrastructure.

Statement of Interest: CAIDA receives support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, the U.S. National Science Foundation. Industry contributions constitute approximately 10% of our annual budget.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): UCSD/SDSC, Research Scientist. ucsd/sdsc; UCSD, Adjunct Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dept.; CAIDA, Founder and Director
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: strategy, leadership, upper management, external outreach, fundraising, and internet research. more info at https://www.caida.org/home/about/annualreports/.
3. Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary. None
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: Verisign donated a 50,000 gift to CAIDA @ UCSD in January 2021 to support a graduate student working on security-related DNS research. Funding sources for CAIDA at the end of each annual report: https://www.caida.org/home/about/annualreports/.
5. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years:
6. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? please answer "yes" or "no." if the answer is yes, please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): No.

(05/2023)

Steve Crocker is president and CEO of Edgemoor Research Institute, a non-profit whose purpose is to bring together non-profit, for-profit, governments, end-users, and other stakeholders to work together to share knowledge and establish voluntary technical solutions to complex data-related public policy challenges. He is currently focused on developing concepts and tools for expression and analysis of policies related to domain name registration data directory services.

Steve was the founding chair of SSAC, serving as chair, liaison to the ICANN board, and member from 2002 to 2017. Dr. Crocker was also a regular member of the ICANN board from 2008 to 2017, including chair from 2011 to 2017.

Steve began work as a programmer in 1961 and has been involved in networking since 1965. As part of the team at UCLA that connected the first host on the Arpanet, Steve chaired the Network Working Group that developed the first set of network protocols, and he initiated the Request for Comments series for documenting protocols.

Steve has been a research and development program manager at DARPA, a senior researcher at USC-ISI, founding director of the Computer Science Laboratory at Aerospace Corp, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, Inc., co-founder, and CTO of CyberCash, Inc., co-founder and CEO of Longitude Systems, Inc., co-founder and CEO of Shinkuro, Inc., and founder, president and CEO of Edgemoor Research Institute.

Steve has a B.A. in mathematics and a PhD in computer science from UCLA. His PhD thesis and research for several years thereafter was on the development and use of program verification tools.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s):
   President and CEO, Edgemoor Research Institute, https://edgemoorresearch.org
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above:
   Development of concepts, tools and policy alternatives related to collection and disclosure of registration data.
3. Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary:
   None
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimis stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN:
   None
5. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years.
   ICANN has paid for my travel to ICANN meetings in connection with my service on SSAC. No other financial transactions with ICANN.
6. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s):
   No.

(03/2021)

Ondřej studied Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University and University of Pittsburgh – Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business (MBA). During his studies at Charles University, he started to work in company IPEX. Later he became technical director and member of board there. Ondřej has been CEO of the CZ.NIC association since December 2004. Herewith his duties in CZ.NIC. Ondřej is a chairman of NIX.CZ (Neutral Internet Exchange), and a chairman of Euro-IX (European Internet Exchange Association). He was also elected to the RIPE NCC board in 2019. In the past he served as a member of ccNSO council and as a chairman of DNS-OARC. In his free time Ondřej likes playing basketball, travelling, or programming of open-source software. He speaks English fluently and German.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): CZ.NIC – CEO; NIX.CZ – chairman of the member.
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above:
   • CZ.NIC – as CEO responsible for all aspect of the Czech domain name registry (.cz).
   • NIX.CZ – Internet Exchange Point in Prague – association of ISP, responsible for company strategy, budget etc.
3. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: CZ.NIC has a contract with ICANN related to support of open-source daemons Knot DNS and BIRD; and DNS hosting. RIPE NCC is as a RIR is a member of ASO.
4. Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): No.