...from Asia. Kilnam Chon is someone well known in Asia and should be considered for the technical slot. He received his Ph.D in computer science from University of California, Los Angeles in 1974, which makes him a contemporary of Vint Cerf. He joined Korea Institute of Electronics Technology in 1979 to work on computer system development, and moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1982 as a professor in Computer Science Department. He developed the first Internet in Asia, called SDN in 1982, and organized the first Internet conference called PCCS in 1985.He helped to form various regional organizations in the Internet such as APNG, APAN and APTLD, of which he is the founding chair. He also co-chaired one of the first attempts to achieve internationalization of the Internet, the Coordination Committee of Intercontinental Research Networking(CCIRN). Izumi Aizu is another person we should consider for the Asia policy position. He is from Japan, well-known in the At-Large mechanism of ICANN. One can read his bio here http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/bios/izumi-bio.html