I would like to put some names forward for North America, and (more hesitantly) suggest names from some other regions. North America Tech: Karl Auerbach. http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/karl.html For the technical side, Karl Auerbach strikes me as a person who is good to recommend. Karl has deep experience in Internet governance and is known as an independent but constructive critic of ICANN who served responsibly on its Board as an elected member. Karl also has a deep understanding of the technical issues. One thing I appreciate a lot about him is his commitment to accountability, for example staying in constant communication with individuals and constituency groups while on the board and maintaining an open, running commentary on board activities on his web site. Policy: Pamela Samuelson, Susan Crawford I can't make up my mind here, here are two good suggestions. Samuelson is a professor at the Berkeley law school and has a long-term involvement in intellectual property issues. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/ She is an opponent of overly strong copyright, patent or trademark protection and a defender of a vibrant public domain. Pamela tracked the WIPO TRIPS treaty process from its inception and played a critical role in altering public interest groups to the rights that were being negotiated away. I personally believe that WIPO and IPR issues will be (or should be) as important in the WGIG as ICANN-related issues. Susan Crawford is another law professor/lawyer who is involved intellectually and as a participant in a range of comm-info policy issues She is associated with one of our member organizations, CDT, and writes about digital copyright issues and internet governance. http://scrawford.net/display/111903%20crawfordbio.htm She maintains a pretty good blog http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog Asia Pacific Tech: Paul Wilson Paul Wilson is director of APNIC, the Asian address registry. He is also, or was, affiliated with APC, a member organization. He has participated actively in the WSIS process and the Internet Governance Caucus in particular, holds good policy positions Policy: Eung Hwi Chun, Peacenet South Korea EH Chun has been an active member of NCUC, has served on the GNSO Council, is very well informed about Internet governance policy issues surrounding ccTLDs, and also has good technical knowledge. I nominate him without any idea whether he is willing, but he can speak for himself on this list. Africa Here I have a very tentative suggestion, a name that I have heard mentioned by others I respect. I have some very limited experience with this person, and hope that others from the region would follow up with other suggestions or comment on this one. Meryem Merzouki, a Tunisian human rights activist and scholar who currently lives in Paris. She was active in the WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus.