SSAC Members

Tim April works for Google, LLC as a Staff Security Reliability Engineer. At Google, Tim on the team which defends Google and its customers from DoS attacks. 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 Reliability Engineer at Google, LLC
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Defend Google and its customers from DoS attacks
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, 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: Google is an ICANN Accredited registrar and a registry for multiple gTLDs.
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. 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)? No
7. If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s).

Jeffrey Bedser is a seasoned entrepreneur and leader in the fields of cybersecurity, cyber investigation, threat intelligence, and the mitigation of online harms. Currently, he is the CEO of CleanDNS, a company that is on a mission to clean up the internet for GOOD by detecting and stopping malicious online harm activities. He leverages his credentials as a private detective, his expertise in the DNS to protect the online safety and security of millions of users. He also serves on various boards and committees that aim to promote internet governance, stability, and jurisdiction. He is passionate about making the internet a better and safer place for everyone. With over 25 years of experience, he had founded and led iThreat through a successful exit. iThreat was a company that provided innovative solutions to combat online crime and harm. He served for 6.5 years as a director on the board of Public Interest Registry, the non-profit operator of the .ORG domain for the term 2017 - 2023. He finished his term as Board Chair.

Volunteer Activities

Jeff spent 13 years as a Scout Master, 15 years as a member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee for ICANN and has been a member of the Editorial Board for the Security Journal since 2001. He is currently serving as a member of the Lower Makefield Township Historical Commission in the town by that name.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s). CleanDNS Inc. CEO and Chair of the Board
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above. Online harms management and mitigation
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. I am on the board of directors for CleanDNS as Chair. I hold a leadership position in SSAC. 
4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de 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. CleanDNS provides services in online harms mitigation and management to contracted parties and ccTLD operators.
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. My previous employer and company, iThreat, held a contract with ICANN for the DAAR system. I no longer am associated with that company or contract as of 10.2021.
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)? No
7. If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s).

Nabil Benamar is a Professor of Computer Sciences. His main research topics include Future Generation Networks, Autonomous Driving, IoT, and TinyML. He is the author of several journal papers and IETF Standard documents. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the "IEEE Access" journal (IF 3.9) . He is a TPC member of highly ranked IEEE Flagship conferences (Globecom, ICC, PIMRC, WCNC, etc..) Nabil served as the chair of IEEE MenaComm'20 conference and as a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE WCNC'2019 and IWCMC’23.

Nabil is an expert in Internet Governance and he was an ISOC Ambassador to IGF(2012 and 2013), Google panelist in the first Arab-IGF, ISOC fellow to IETF'89&92&95&99&103 and ICANN'50&54 fellow.

Among his international commitments, he is currently serving as the chair of the Task Force for Arabic Script IDNs, a team of people working on the implementation of the Arabic script in the DNS Root Zone. He is also chairing the UASG measurement WG promoting the Universal Acceptance of all valid domain names and email addresses. He has been elected as the vice chair of the UASG.tech. He became a member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee in December 2024.

Disclosure of Interest

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco. Full Professor

2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Professor of computer sciences

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:  I'm currently the vice-chair of the UASG.tech

4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de 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: N/A

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: N/A

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)? No

7. If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s).

 

12/2024

Vasyl Bratchenko is a Head of Customer Support at Namecheap and Spaceship. He has more than 10 years of experience managing customer support teams. Currently, he is in charge of the Legal and Abuse, Risk Management, and Technical Support teams at Namecheap and Spaceship.

His primary focus is on strategies for abuse and fraud prevention and mitigation, setting standards for responsible teams, revising existing and establishing new processes for efficient abuse prevention and mitigation.

He wishes the Internet to be free and open but also responsible and safe. He and his teams have accumulated significant knowledge and experience in handling abuse from the perspectives of both a domain name registrar and a hosting provider.

His professional and networking interests include DNS abuse mitigation and prevention, threat intelligence, cyber security, and making the Internet a more understandable place for everyone.

Disclosure of Interest

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s).

         Namecheap Inc, Head of Customer Support

2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above.

         Namecheap is a domain registrar, also providing web hosting, SSL, email services, etc.

         I am responsible for Legal and Abuse, Risk Management and some other CS departments.

This includes strategies of prevention and mitigation of fraud and DNS abuse, setting standards for responsible teams,  revising existing and establishing new processes for efficient abuse prevention, internal security strategy, also,      operational management

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, 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.

          As an ICANN-accredited domain regisrar, Namecheap pays ICANN fee

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

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)?

          No

7. 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).

 

 

 

(07/2024)

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 Principal
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above. Communications technology and policy consulting.
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, 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. Interisle periodically performs consulting work for ICANN.
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. During the past 5 years Interisle has had (and continues to have) contracts with ICANN to provide the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel and the DNS Stability Panel for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track.
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)? No
7. If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s).

Kimberly C. Claffy ("kc claffy") leads the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) in its scientific research and infrastructure activities. CAIDA's research activities focus on independent (third-party) assessments of the security, stability, and resilience of the Internet's underlying infrastructure, including its addressing, routing, and naming systems.

As the Internet infrastructure has matured, these research areas require interdisciplinary effort, including expertise in economics and policy as well as legal and ethical use of data. kc leads CAIDA's infrastructure activities, including software development, and data collection, management, curation, and sharing to support Internet research around the world, with focus on the health and integrity of the global Internet ecosystem.

Recent empirical studies cover the following topics:

• Internet cartography and performance measurement
• Analyses of data supporting security of the Internet addressing, routing, and naming (DNS) systems
• Analyses of operator uptake of best practices supporting Internet routing security

Recent infrastructure projects include:

• New 100GB monitoring platform to support sharing of traffic data with academic researchers
• Collaboration with U. Oregon's RouteViews project to expand this platform to support a wider range of scientific research
• Global Measurement Infrastructure Design project, to support support our design and prototyping of a new highly distributed network measurement platform capable of capturing several types of data relevant to security research, as well as hosting new vetted experiments.

Annual reports of CAIDA's activities are at: https://www.caida.org/about/annualreports/.

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, COO, Revelare Networks, Inc.
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, 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. 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 an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years. None
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)? No
7. If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s).

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): Edgemoor Research Institute, President and CEO

     2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: Edgemoor Research Institute is 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.

       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 other than the work I am doing via Edgemoor Research Institute.

      4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de 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

      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 paid travel to ICANN meetings in conjunction with my SSAC membership

      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)? No

      7. If the answer is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or                        person(s).

Hadia Elminiawi is the Chief Expert on International Policies at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt from 2020 until present. She began her tenure at NTRA in 2016. She is an active member of group 5 (industry 4.0) of the Egypt IoT forum representing NTRA since January 2023 until present. Before she worked for .eg the Egyptian ccTLD for 14 years, where she held various positions including Operations Manager and Foreign Relations Manager. She is a member of the At-Large community and is currently the Chair of AFRALO. Her past roles include serving as an AFRALO ALAC member and as ALAC-AFRALO delegate to the NomCom. She also worked at the National Hungarian Trading House in Budapest as the Acting Director of the Arab and African department, during which she opened the offices of Egypt and Iraq. Hadia holds a Master of Science in leadership and Management from St. Istvan University in Hungary, a BSc. in Electronics and Communications from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo university, and post graduate studies in Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. She is vice president of the Egyptian At-large Structure Shaarawy Foundation for Development, member of ISOC Egypt, member of the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate and board member of the Egyptian Diplomatic Spouses Association.

Disclosure of Interest

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s):

National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA), Chief Expert on International Policies

2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above:

• Provide support to various NTRA sectors and divisions as required.
• Provide internal and external training sessions as required.
• Provide innovative ideas and research.

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:

No commitments that might influence my expressed point of view.

4. Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de 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

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

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):

None