The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has named the eight members of its independent review advisory committee – though as previously announced, two of the eight are ICANN board members. The job of the committee will be to lay the groundwork for a permanent review body to provide independent third party ombudsman-like facilities. Once ICANN has a membership structure in place, which should happen during the summer months, a committee will be elected by the membership, instead of chosen by the board.
Along with board members Linda Wilson and Hans Kraaijenbrink, the six are: Mads Bryde Andersen, professor of law at Copenhagen University; Ryozo Hayashi, policy director-general at the machinery and information industry of Japan’s ministry of international trade and industry; Ethan Katsh, director of the center for information technology and dispute resolution and a professor of legal studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Jorge Plano is adviser to the Camara Argentina de Bases de Datos y Servicios en Linea (Cabase) – an Argentinian ISP trade association – and a professor at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Buenos Aires; Peter Dengate Thrush is a New Zealand barrister specializing in intellectual property, IT and competition causes and counsel to the country’s NIC, called Domainz; and Jorge Vega, who is the general manager partner at the Estudio Osterling, Arias-Schreiber, Vega, Orbegoso & Asociados law firm in Lima, Peru.
