SSAC Members

(05/2023)

Patrik Fältström is Technical Director and Head of Security at Netnod.

Fältström have been working at a number of companies in Sweden, USA and Canada, is one of the editors of the standards of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and E.164 number mapping in DNS (ENUM) created in the IETF. He has been in the leadership of IETF, IAB and ISOC as well as Internet Governance Forum of United Nations. He has been a member of SSAC since 2005 and was its chair 2011-2017.

Part from working for Netnod he is working part time for the CIO of the Swedish Armed Forces. He is also an advisor to the Swedish Government and the Swedish regulator PTS on issues related to internet and is chair of the organization Swedish Network Users Society.

Fältström holds an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stockholm. He was inducted to The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in October 2013. In January 2011, Fältström received The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana from the President of Estonia.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s):
   Employer: Netnod AB. Position: Technical Director and Head of Security. For more information about Netnod see http://www.netnod.se/
   Employer: Swedish Armed Forces. Position: Analyst at the Chief Information Officer at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters.
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above:
   I am responsible for the technical evolution of the and longer-term development of products and services at Netnod as well as security related issues at Netnod and cyber security and internet related issues the Swedish Armed Forces.
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.
   • Member of the board of the Swedish Internet Foundation, registry for .SE and .NU.
   • Member of the board and chair of the Swedish Network Users Society
   • Member of the board of the TU Foundation, owning Netnod
   • Member of RSSAC and SSAC of ICANN
   • Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)
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:
   Netnod do have customers that also where applicants in the new gTLD process and have interests in new rounds of new 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 have been reimbursed for travel to SSAC meetings according to the SSAC and ICANN ruled for reimbursement.
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)

Robert Guerra is a civil society expert specializing in issues of internet governance, cyber security, social networking, multi-stakeholder participation, internet freedom and human rights. Robert is a co-founder of Privaterra, a Canadian based initiative that works with private industry and nongovernmental organizations to assist them with issues of data privacy, secure communications, information security, internet governance and internet freedom. Robert also is the chief technology officer at Collier Collective LLC.

Robert has given numerous media interviews and often is invited to share his views on the challenges being faced by social justice organizations in regard to surveillance, censorship and privacy. He advises numerous non-profits, foundations, governments, and international organizations.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): I am the Chief Technology Officer at the Collier Collective. The Collier Collective is a strategy, advocacy, and coalition building consulting firm serving public interest clients. I am also the owner of Privaterra, a consulting firm that provides Internet Governance, Privacy and Digital Security consulting services.
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above:
   • Collier Collective: Fulfill a variety of roles and functions. They are as follows:
     • Chief Technologist / researcher / consultant
     • Advocacy: Engage key stakeholders in the US related to issues of health care and drug policy, criminal justice reform, privacy, and government relations.
   • Privaterra: Fulfill a variety of roles and functions. They are as follows:
     • CEO / researcher / Consultant
     • Outreach: Speak at International conferences, events as well as engage key stakeholders on Cyber, and digital security issues.
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: Neither the Collier Collective nor Privaterra currently has any financial or material relationship with ICANN.
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)

Julie Hammer was an independent director on the Board of auDA, the Australian ccTLD, for 9 years until 2016. She was appointed to the Board in 2007 after retiring from the Royal Australian Air Force in 2005 with the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. She was the first woman to achieve one star and two-star rank in the history of the Australian DefenceForce. Throughout her 28-year Air Force career, Julie worked in the fields of aircraft maintenance, technical intelligence, electronic warfare, and information and communications technology systems. Her roles included Commanding Officer of the Electronic Warfare Squadron, delivering operational support to all Air Force aircraft; Director General Information Services, responsible for the day-to-day operations of Defence's strategic communications and Restricted and Secret computer networks; and Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia's tri-service military university. For the year prior to her retirement, she acted as the Chief Information Officer for Defence. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics, a Master's degree in Aerosystems Engineering, a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies and a Doctor of Engineering Honoris Causa. In 2008, she was National President of Engineers Australia, the professional association for over 90,000 engineers in Australia.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Retired
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: N/A
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. NIL
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: Nil
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. NIL
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

Russ Housley is a founder and owner of Vigil Security, LLC, where he provides computer and networking security consulting to industry and government. He has served in many different Internet-related leadership roles, including chair of the Internet Activities Board (IAB), chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IETF Security Area Director, chair of the IEEE 802.10 working group. He has served as working group chair for several IETF working groups and is continuing to do so today. He is serving as the Lead IETF Representative to the Community Coordination Group (CCG), which provides advice to the IETF Trust regarding matters related to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and he is co-leader of the IAB-sponsored IETF-IANA Group. He is the designated expert for several IANA protocol parameter registries. He is the liaison manager for the IETF to the IEEE Standards Association, and he serves on several IETF document review teams. He is serving as a member of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC). Mr. Housley is the co-author of two books: Planning for PKI – Best Practices Guide for Deploying Public Key Infrastructure, and Implementing Email and Security Tokens: Current Standards, Tools, and Practices. He is the author of many RFCs and contributed to many more.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Vigil Security, LLC Founder and owner AKAYLA, Inc. President
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: I consult on Internet Security and Internet Standards. My customers come from industry and government. Verisign is one of my customers. For the most part, commercial customers are handled through Vigil Security, LLC, and government customers are handled through AKAYLA, Inc.
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 hold many leadership positions in the IETF; see href="https:/datatracker.ietf.org/person/housley@vigilsec.com. However, I do not think this is the kind of "voluntary" positions you are talking about here.
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: 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. 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
6. Is your participation as a 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

Matthias M. Hudobnik’s professional experience ranges from Kazakhstan to Poland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, and the Netherlands in the fields of law and technology (e.g., Europol, cyber security consultancy, international law firms, universities, judiciary, Austrian Cyber Security Center, Austrian Embassy - Commercial Section - Office Almaty, automotive industry, and the Office of the Provincial Government).

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s). Europol, Legal Engineer
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above. AI and data protection, privacy, and cyber security in law enforcement.
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. N/A
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)? 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)

GEOFF HUSTON AM has been closely involved with the development of the Internet for the past 25 years. In the late 1980's he was the Technical Manager at the Australian Academic and Research Network and was responsible for the pioneering work in introducing the Internet to Australia. In the mid 1990's he joined Telstra, Australia's major communications enterprise, and led their Internet Engineering group. He was Telstra's Internet Architect in the 2000's, leading the overall design effort in what was then a global IPcarrier network operated by Telstra. He joined APNIC (the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Registry) in the mid 2000's as the Chief Scientist and leads APNIC's research endeavours. Geoff has been a Trustee of the Internet Society form 1992 until 2000 and served as Chair of the Board for a term and as Secretary to the Board for much of the remainder of that time. He has been an active member of the IETF for many years and has served on the Internet Architecture Board from 1999 until 2005 and has also chaired a number of Working Groups and authored a number of RFCs. He has written three books on the Internet and is a regular column writer on various aspects of the technology, business, politics, and economics of the Internet. His current research interests include inter-domain routing, the domain name protocol, and their related security issues and the IPv6 transition.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Chief Scientist, APNIC Pty Ltd
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: I lead APNIC's research program that examines topics related to IP addresses and their use. This includes issues of inter-domain routing, the domain name system, the state of the transition to IPv6 and related areas. My recent work has focused on large scale measurement exercises, looking at the network from the perspective of the end user.
3. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years: 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: APNIC Pty LTD has a number of active collaborative research agreements with ICANN relating to joint research in topics associated with characterizing the state of Internet infrastructure.
5. 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:
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): As my employer APNIC supports my participation in this activity, and APNIC is aware of the various commitments on my time and travel to support my participation in SSAC activities as a part of this support. I have made no other arrangements or agreements.

(05/2023)

Presently: Internet of things Association (Russia), director. ALAC liaison to SSAC Past: engineer RIPN.RU, director of ccTLD .RU registry Work in the past with ICANN SO/ACs: ccNSO, gNSO, Atlarge

30 years of experience on the domestic and international telecommunications markets. Professional interest and specialization: IDN marketing, registry operations, IoT & security, digital objects / digital twins' identification, industrial platforms, and data models

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): Director, Internet of things Association.
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: business, regulatory and technology expertise for IoT professional community
3. Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years: No, I'm completely out of any domain name business related entities
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 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, my transactions, employer or family members with ICANN within the last 5 years except per diem from ICANN for me to travel.
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): Yes, I serve as the ALAC liaison to the SSAC.

(05/2023)

Warren Kumari is Director of Internet Standards with Google and has been with the company since 2005. Warren represents Google in various industry standards groups and is responsible for all aspects of keeping the Google production network both secure and operational.

Warren has over 24 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 various network operator groups, including NANOG and RIPE. These groups afford him the opportunity to contribute to the community in a vital way by supporting and advancing Internet standards and protocols.

Disclosure of Interest:

1. Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s). I am employed by Google LLC as Director of Internet Standards, in the Internet Evangelism / Global Networking group. I am also a (no-fee) consultant to the University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI), assisting with the operations of B-root.
2. Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above. The Internet Evangelism Group's mission is to promote the spread of Internet, including through standards efforts. As such, I participate in multiple bodies, including the IETF (where I serve on the IESG, as Operations Area Director), various network operators' groups and ICANN SSAC, ICANN NCAP, representing the interests of the Internet.
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.
   IETF/ IESG – Operations Area Director
   Chair – Internet Engineering Planning Group (IEPG)
   Chair – Technology Deep Dives Program (TDD)
   Liaison – IETF Liaison to the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
   IETF NOC (building and running the IETF meeting network)
   ICANN SSAC
   ICANN RSSAC Caucus
   ICANN NCAP Discussion Group member.
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, via its wholly owned subsidiary Charleston Road Registry, an applicant for and operator of a number of top-level domain names. I have no immediate family members / significant others with relations to ICANN or ICANN activities.
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 above, Google is an ICANN-accredited registrar and, via its wholly owned subsidiary Charleston Road Registry, an applicant for and operator of a number of top-level domain names. I'm not part of either of these divisions, nor do I have any sort of visibility into Google's financials related to 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. Google allows me to participate in ICANN SSAC as it falls within my groups mission to promote the spread of Internet.