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Subject: 	[council] RE: Updated Statement of Interest for Mike Rodenbaugh
Date: 	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:58:43 -0700
From: 	Mike Rodenbaugh <[log in to unmask]>
To: 	GNSO Council <[log in to unmask]>



I need to clarify that my business name is Rodenbaugh Law (a sole 
proprietorship/DBA, not an LLC), and add the following sentence to my 
Statement of Interest: I currently am retained by Yahoo! Inc. to 
represent Yahoo!’s interests at ICANN, including but not limited to its 
interest in the continued accessibility of WHOIS information, 
development of stronger rights protection mechanisms to curb abusive 
registrations, development of IDN TLD domain space, and the release of 
single-letter, second-level domain names in existing gTLDs.

I have made these changes in below text, which should be considered my 
complete and updated SOI.

Kind regards,

Mike Rodenbaugh

GNSO Councilor, Business Constituency

*From:* Mike Rodenbaugh [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
*Sent:* Monday, September 24, 2007 5:40 PM
*To:* GNSO Council
*Subject:* Updated Statement of Interest for Mike Rodenbaugh

I am owner of Rodenbaugh Law, a member of the Business and Commercial 
Users Constituency. I am an attorney licensed in California. I advise 
and represent entities and individuals with various commercial interests 
in domain names and other forms of intellectual property, and with 
varying interests in internet commerce.

I am personally concerned about the security and stability of the 
Internet, as it is increasingly the backbone of our society, critical to 
global commerce, communications and safety. So I am interested in 
ICANN’s role in managing and coordinating the technical and policy 
aspects of the Internet. I am mindful of the many enormous benefits of 
the internet that are fostered by ICANN policy, and seek for ICANN 
policy to develop in ways that will enhance the growth of internet 
commerce and communications. I am also concerned about various, serious 
harms enabled by policies of ICANN and its contracting registries and 
accredited registrars, or by lack of effective policy.

Businesses and their customers are experiencing increasingly severe harm 
from phishing, malware distribution, hacking and other forms of online 
crime and intellectual property infringement. For many years I served as 
in-house counsel at Yahoo! Inc., working increasingly to protect Yahoo! 
users and their commercial and personal interests, as well as Yahoo!'s 
commercial interests, against these increasing worldwide threats. I 
believe that these harms will continue to rapidly grow, unless DNS 
policies are adapted to help fight them. So I strive for DNS policy that 
helps to mitigate those threats as much as reasonably possible.

On occasion, I may have clients with similar concerns, or who have other 
policy interests at ICANN. As a representative elected to the GNSO 
Council by the collective members of the Business Constituency, I am 
required by the Constituency's Charter to support and otherwise remain 
faithful to approved positions of the Constituency as applicable, rather 
than my own views or those of any client I may have at any given time. 
To the extent that any client seeks my representation or advocacy in any 
ICANN forum, I would further disclose the identity of such client and 
their interest in the matter at the time of that representation.

I currently am retained by Yahoo! Inc. to represent Yahoo!’s interests 
at ICANN, including but not limited to its interest in the continued 
accessibility of WHOIS information, development of stronger rights 
protection mechanisms to curb abusive registrations, development of IDN 
TLD domain space, and the release of single-letter, second-level domain 
names in existing gTLDs.