Technical Experts Group (TEG) Member Biographies
Avri Doria (Board Member)
Avri Doria is a contractual researcher, and is the current Principal Researcher with Technicalities, a research group supporting human rights and public interest concerns. Since June 2012 she has been a Policy & Governance Advisor with dotgay LLC.[1] On September 1, 2017 ICANN's NomCom announced that Doria was selected for the ICANN Board of Directors.[2]
She has been involved with ICANN and GNSO since 2005. In 2005 she was elected to the GNSO council to represent the NCSG. In 2013 she served as a member of the ATRT. She has previously served as the chair of the GNSO Council as a Nomcom appointee to the Council and the NCSG Executive Committee.[3]
Howard Benn
Samsung Electronics R&D Institute, United Kingdom
Howard started his career in the fixed telecommunication sector (Plessey) back in 1982, did his degree and PhD at Bradford University, moving into radio based communications in 1989. He started working in ETSI GSM standards committees in 1993, helping create 3GPP and chairing 3GPP RAN 4 from 1998 to 2007.
He has been a board member of ETSI since 2008, a member of the ICANN Nomcom in 2013 currently advising the ICANN board on mobile technology, and a member of the Strategy Advisory Board for the UK 5G innovation centre at Surrey University. His current role is 'Head of Standards and Industrial Affairs' for Samsung Electronics R&D Institute in the UK, managing a team of engineers covering ETSI, 3GPP, ATSC, GSMA. His team is also very active in the EU Horizon 2020 program with a focus on the 5G PPP activities. He also sits on the UK government advisory committee looking at the future of communications technology in the UK.
Lars-Johan Liman
Lars-Johan Liman, M.Sc., Senior Systems Specialist at Netnod Internet Exchange in Stockholm, Sweden, is responsible for Netnod's DNS root service. He is currently Netnod's representative on RSSAC, which he also co-chaired 2013-2015. He is RSSAC's representative on the PTI Customer Standing Committee (CSC).
Lars-Johan's DNS journey started around 1990 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. After graduation, he worked at KTH's Network Operations Centre, where he became responsible for the servers for the Swedish ccTLD and the root service. He got involved in the ICANN "ideas" at a very early stage, and as a member of the gTLD-MoU Policy
Oversight Committee he was part of the process that created ICANN, On a parallel track, Lars-Johan's involvement in the IETF, including having chaired its DNS Operations Working Group, adds to his experience with the DNS protocol. He remains deeply involved with the DNS community through the IETF, RIPE, DNS-OARC, CENTR, and other organisations.
Lars-Johan holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the KTH. In addition to his employment at Netnod, he operates a hibernating side business as DNS consultant and trainer.
Linjian (Davey) Song
Linjian (Davey) Song now works for Alibaba Cloud as the Senior DNS Architect. He received his Ph.D. of Internet Architecture from Tsinghua University after struggling many years on IPv6 transition technologies and engineering. Besides his daily job, Davey serve roles for public interests as well: CTO of IPv6 Forum office in China, member of ICANN RSSAC Caucus, coordinator of Yeti DNS project, guest writer for APNIC. He is also a bad-idea draft writer and problem maker in IETF. In past 15 years, Davey engaged in many projects in the field of next generation of Internet architecture, including IPv6, DNS, SDN, Internet of things, and recently Blockchain. He is enthusiastic on new technology and always open to try new stuff.
He is also an active Internet technology speaker and IPv6 Evangelist in China in past years. He always believes besides the Internet technology, more communication and connection with people will make the world a better place. Now he is living in Beijing with a happy family. He has a beautiful 5-year-old girl with large eyes.
Marc Blanchet
Marc is a network engineer who has been active in standards development since 1990's. He held various roles in IETF, such as wg co-chair starting with the idn working group in early 2000's and IAB member. He co-authored 17 RFCs on subjects such as internationalized domain names, IPv6 and RDAP. Within ICANN, he has been involved in idn work as member of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules Integration Panel and on various RDAP groups and initiatives. He was co-chair of IETF ianaplan working group and as such was involved in the IANA transition work. For this humble contribution, he receives the ICANN Leadership Award in 2016. In other fields, he has been involved in space communications standards at CCSDS and he is a member of the GS1 Data Excellence board. At Viagenie, he has been managing a team of SME and developers since 1996.
Patrik Fältström
Patrik Fältström is Technical Director and Head of Security at Netnod. Previously, Fältström was a distinguished engineer at Cisco, technical specialist at Tele2, systems manager at the Royal Institute of Technology, researcher at Bunyip Information Systems in Montreal and a programmer in the Royal Swedish Navy. He has been working with UNIX since 1985, DNS since 1987, and been involved in Internet-related standardization since 1989, both in Sweden and worldwide. Fältström is one of the editors of the standards of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and E.164 number mapping in DNS (ENUM) created in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and was one of two area directors of the applications area for five years, followed by being a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) for three years and member of ISOC Board of Trustees 2006-2009. He has been an appointed advisor to the Swedish IT Minister 2003-2014, member of ICANN Security and Stability Committee since 2005 and its chair 2011-2017. He is or has been a member of numerous other advisory groups and investigations related to Internet during the years, both public and private sector including ICANN, Packet Clearing House, Telio, HotSIP, Yubico, Swedish Regulator PTS, Telia-Sonera International Carrier, Tele2, .SE, Swedish Government and the European Commission. Fältström holds an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stockholm and is chairman of the board of Frobbit! that he is partly owner of. He was inducted to The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, in October 2013 and holds the title LIVA. In January 2011, Fältström received The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, V class, from the President of Estonia.
Reinhard Scholl
Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (also known as the ITU-T Secretariat). Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).He also served on the ICANN Board. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA.
Ron Da Silva (Board Member)
Ron da Silva is an executive leader, international board member and internet technology expert. He brings extensive experience leading network architecture & engineering, internet backbones, broadband networks, cloud infrastructure, and corporate and internet governance. Over twenty (20+) years of proven business experience, culminating in senior executive leadership. NACD certified Board Governance Fellow.
Ron is CEO and Founder of Network Technologies Global LLC, providing Internet, broadband and telecommunications advice and expertise. He currently serves on the Board of the Internet Association for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Ron brings to the Board extensive experience in Internet governance and policy development, financial discipline, broad business acumen and an understanding of cyber-security risk.
Ron was previously the Group Vice President of Network Engineering, Architecture & Technology for Time Warner Cable (acquired by Charter Communications). At TWC he drove major technology initiatives and was responsible for all networking from customer premise to internet peering, access networks, routing, switching, optical and could infrastructures. During his tenure with the company, Ron led network convergence, constructed a national backbone, oversaw the implementation of IPv6, helped define and implement DOCSIS 3.0/3.1 and many other major network programs.
Ron held prior architecture, engineering and operations roles with America Online and Sprint. He additionally served in technical and planning roles for Bauer Compressors in Norfolk, Va. while completing his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and English at Old Dominion University.
Ron is well known in the service provider and cable industries and is very active in various industry organizations. He previously served as Chairman of the Advisory Council for American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), co-chair of the L2TPEXT working group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), member of the Number Resource Organization's Number Council (aka Address Serving Organization Address Council), is a member of the SCTE, IETF, ISOC, past speaker and participant at NANOG, Cable Labs, NCTA. Ron has experience volunteering on the Board of Directors of various organizations.
Shadi Abou-Zahra
Shadi Abou-Zahra works with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) as the Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist. He coordinates accessibility priorities in the W3C Strategy team, as well as international promotion, coordination, and harmonization of web accessibility standards. Shadi also maintains WAI liaisons with key stakeholders including disability, research, and standards organizations, as well as coordinates WAI outreach in Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and European-funded projects on accessibility.
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Steve Crocker
Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and the deployment of improved security protocols.
Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET and laid the foundation for today's Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award.
Starting in 2002, Dr. Crocker served as founding chair of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He subsequently joined the ICANN board of directors, including serving as chair from 2011 to 2017.
Tim Wicinski
Tim Wicinski is currently employed at Salesforce.com as a DNS and Infrastructure Architect, and has been with the company since 2014. Salesforce is a cloud based software company based in San Francisco, California. Tim is involved in all aspects of DNS deployments, as well as the domain name strategy. He has been involved in all aspects of networked computers for over 30 years, from operations to stands. Tim has also worked at AOL, Netscape, 3DO, and Silicon Graphics.
Tim has been involved with the Domain Name System (DNS) and the standards processes for many years. Since 2013. he has been co-chair of the DNS Operations (DNSOP) Working Group within the IETF; and more recently the co-chair of the DNS Privacy Exchange (DPRIVE) Working Group. As a acknowledge subject matter expert in the DNS, he also has been serving on the ICANN Technical Liaison Group advising on the technical matters around DNS and domain names.
Tomohiro Fujisaki
Dr. Tomohiro Fujisaki has been working for NTT Communications since July 2018, as a leader of IT governance team. He had been conducting research on IPv6 from 1997 to June 2018 at NTT Laboratories and his current research subject is next generation Internet architecture. He has also been involved in promotion and deployment of IPv6 in Japan as acting chair of the IPv6 deployment committee in the Internet Association Japan, a co-chair of IPv4/IPv6 co-existence working group in the IPv6 promotion council in Japan, as well as supporting implementation of IPv6 services in his company.
In addition to those IPv6 related activities, he has also been involved in policy development and coordination activities and have served for the Internet community. He has been leading policy discussions in Japan as a chair of the Japan Open Policy Forum from
2005 until 2012. From 2013, he has served as a JPNIC board member in charge of IP policies. He has proposed several address policies in the APNIC Conferences, some of which has been adopted in the APNIC region.
Past activities:
APNIC conference program committee member until 2010 Co-chair of APNIC IPv6 technical SIG until 2011 APNIC appointed member of NRO/NC until 2009 Chair of the Japan Open Policy Forum from 2005 to 2012 APNIC elected NRO/NC member until 2016
Current activities:
Board member of ISOC Japan Chapter since 2012 Board member of Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) since 2012 Acting chair of the IPv6 deployment committee of the Internet Association Japan (IAJapan) In the IPv6 promotion council Japan Vice chair of security working group Vice chair of IPv4/IPv6 co-existence WG Co-chair of the home router sub-working group in the IPv4/IPv6 co-existence WG Co-chair of the IPv6 fix sub-working group in the IPv4/IPv6 co-existence WG Co-chair of the IPv6 application development sub-working group in the IPv4/IPv6 co-existence WG.
Warren Kumari
Warren Kumari is a Senior Network Engineer/Senior Network Security Engineer with Google, and has been with the company since 2005. As a senior engineer, Warren is responsible for all aspects of keeping the Google production network both secure and operational as well as mentoring other members of his team. He also participates in Google's industry standards groups.
Warren has over 20 years of experience in the Internet industry, ranging from tiny start-up ISPs to large enterprises. Prior to Google, he was a Senior Network Engineer at AOL and before that he was Lead Network Engineer at Register.com (when the Shared Registry System first started).
With security concerns becoming more and more prevalent, Warren has chosen to be an active participant of the IETF, the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, and NANOG. Warren is currently serving as an Operations and Management Area Director in the IETF.
Wendy Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer is Strategy Lead and Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT, improving the Web's security, availability, and interoperability through standards. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded the Lumen Project (formerly Chilling Effects Clearinghouse), helping to measure the impact of legal takedown demands on the Internet. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and secure communication