Name:  Stephanie Perrin
Region of residence:  Canada, North America
Gender:  female
Employment:  PhD candidate, retired federal public servant
Conflicts of Interest:  none that I am aware of
Reasons for willingness to take on the position:  I believe ICANN is a wonderful experiment in multistakeholder management of a key resource.  I want it to work.  I believe that my experience and knowledge (listed below) could be useful as ICANN faces a number of challenges. I am a hard worker and a passionate advocate, and I would like to try to make a difference here.  There is a great team at NCSG, many different characters with all kinds of talents and skills, and I would be proud to represent them and the non-commercial users we all represent at the GNSO.  I have a lot of international experience, I understand key stakeholders like the GAC, and I would love the challenge of trying to help find solutions for some of the policy and procedural issues with which the GNSO struggles.
Qualifications for the position:  I have spent 30 years in the Canadian federal government, most of it in the Department of Communications and the Department of Industry, in the areas of telecom policy, and international trade in telecommunciations, media and broadcasting, and intellectual property.   I worked in Canada-US  trade and technology impact assessment, during the 90s when the Internet was developed, and have broad experience working with governments on e-commence.  I represented Canada at the OECD working group on security and privacy for ten years, and was a vice-chair of the group which developed cryptography policy guidelines.  During the 90s, I also worked for ten years on Canada's privacy standard (CAN/CSA-Q830-96) and was Director of Privacy Policy responsible for turning that standard into Canada's private sector privacy law.  After the law passed, I took leave and went to work as Canada's first Chief Privacy Officer, for Zero Knowledge Systems, a privacy enhancing technology company that developed anonymous browsing and email software. I have also worked, back in government,  for the past six years in risk management, integrity, and values and ethics.  I also was Director of Research and Policy at the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and worked to steer the office to examine Internet issues, including the ICANN WHOIS issues of the day (2005-7).  I have done a lot of public speaking, and believe I can intervene effectively to represent you.  I am fluent in English and French.

This experience is very relevant to the policy issues I see at ICANN, for the following reasons:

• ICANN is at an inflection point in terms of its maturity.  It needs to mature and develop better risk management, better accountability and values and ethics, and better compliance with human rights law.  I think my practical government experience in these areas could be useful.
• There are serious privacy issues at ICANN, and a lack of expertise.  This is my principal area of expertise, and I have a keen desire to contribute and to make things better.
• Over the past year and a half I worked on the Experts Working Group on directory services for new gTLDs, (WHOIS replacement) and I have learned quite a lot about the issues behind this key debate.  I would like to contribute that expertise as the GNSO studies the EWG report.
  
• I have also worked on the working group on accreditation of Privacy Proxy Services, and on the working group on policy and implementation. Again, my government policy work, and the many years that I have volunteered on standards development groups and shadow groups have, I think, given me insight into these processes that could be useful.  What I have learned from these two groups, particularly the policy and implementation working group, would be useful to a role on the GNSO.
  

Statement of availability for the time the position requires:  I am no longer working fulltime, and my studies are focused on issues related to ICANN.  I therefore have abundant time to devote to ICANN work, particularly the GNSO.  Over the past year and a half I have devoted approximately half my work week to ICANN.
Additional information:  I am studying at the Information School of the University of Toronto.  After working about eight months on the EWG, I realized that the reasons that ICANN had failed to implement privacy were interesting.  I decided to switch the topic of my doctoral research, from why privacy enhancing technologies were failing (particularly authentication and credential systems), to why ICANN has refused to adopt privacy policy or law.  I have spent my career either applying law or developing solutions, including technology and law, so my return to school is largely to satisfy that hunger to understand things at a theoretical level.  However, when faced with a situation where not much is happening, the practical side of me demands my focus there.  Although I continue to study why ICANN has not adopted privacy, I am determined (whether or not you choose to honour me with your vote and put me in the GNSO) to also fix that problem, and get some practical implementation of commonly accepted privacy policies at ICANN.

Thanks for your attention.
Stephanie Perrin