Responsibilities

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Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is tasked with fulfilling the Constituency mission via administrative supervision and co-ordination.

Chair: Claudia Selli
Vice Chair Policy Coordination: Steve Del Bianco
Vice Chair Finance & Operations: Jimson Olufuye
CSG Representative: Barbara Wanner
GNSO Councilor: Marie Pattullo
GNSO Councilor: Scott McCormick

Representatives to the GNSO Council

The GNSO Council is the forum where all six of the GNSO constituencies meet together with certain nominated delegates to discuss domain name policy issues. The BC elects two representatives from different geographical regions to the Council. Both representatives are members of the BC executive committee (see above). GNSO Council Representatives are Marie Pattullo and Scott McCormick.

Credentials Committee

The Credentials Committee checks that applicant members meet the criteria for membership as laid out in the BC Charter. Based on this information, it then recommends membership or whether the applicant would be better served by a more appropriate constituency.

Andrew Mack (chair), Adetola Sogbesan, Arinola Akinyemi, John Berard, and Lawrence Olawale-Roberts

Nominating Committee (NomCom)

The BC appoints two members to ICANN’s nominating committee representing small and large business.

Representatives:

Lawrence Olawale-Roberts and Paul Mitchell

Two BC Members currently serve on NomCom's leadership:

Zahid Jamil (NomCom Associate Chair)

Cheryl Miller (NomCom 2019 Chair Elect)

Finance Sub Committee

Arinola Akinyemi, Chris Chaplow, and Marilyn Cade

Outreach Committee

Marilyn Cade (chair), Andrew Mack, Adetola Sogbesan, Arinola Akinyemi, Gabriela Szlak, Lawrence Olawale-Roberts, and Omar Mansoor Ansari

Issue and representation

One rapporteur (R) is appointed to lead on each major policy issue, to draft position papers when required and act as a spokesperson on the issue. For most active policy groups there is also one support (S) who may deputise for the rapporteur, and one or more observers (O). Council has a variety of voting rules for its different groups. PDP after the issue name means there is an active policy development process.

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Remarks from the BC Chair

On behalf of the ICANN Business Constituency (BC), dedicated to the interests of business users of the Internet and the future of business growth on the Internet, welcome to Barcelona and ICANN63!

As 2018 closes, our work has continued to focus on the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its impact on WHOIS. The BC continues to work tirelessly around a possible “accreditation model” for interested third parties, security researchers, and companies to access to the WHOIS register. To this end, the BC holds internal, weekly discussion calls on the EPDP, a community effort to develop a long-term solution. Of course, this is not the only topic to be discussed in Barcelona. Other critical issues and priorities include: New “GTLD Subsequent Procedures”; “curative rights”; and the FY20 ICANN Operating Plan and Budget.

ICANN63 is the Annual General Meeting (AGM), where the community will come together to celebrate ICANN’s 20^th Anniversary. Thus, in addition to our policy work, we will use this opportunity to focus on outreach and engagement to the local and regional business community. To this end, the BC will be hosting a networking event on Monday night for local businesses and invited guests to attend and learn more about our Constituency and our work.

The BC welcomes all business and commercial users to join us in Barcelona to learn more about what the BC does, how business can benefit from the BC representation, and how members in the BC positively engage in the community. Further, the BC is committed to geographical diversity and involvement of women in the community!

The BC continues to play its part to make sure the ICANN Organization and Community are more transparent and accountable every day. The BC remains committed to helping strengthen the multi-stakeholder model that has helped build the successful, global, and business-friendly Internet community we have today. And we look forward to more and deeper engagement of new potential members in different regions of the world: from Barcelona to Kobe, where the next ICANN meetings will be held.

Sincerely,
Claudia Selli, BC Chair

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