Srikanth Narra

On my nomination :

- I am a bit scared as to what and how much I can contribute.

If you insist would be glad to submit myself for the nomination but would be more happy to defer myself for a more well versed individual. Ideally I would be glad to see anyone from Joop's nominations in other categories and/ or - Foomklin, Ellen Rony and Ralph Nader instead of me.

I have my value as an idealist activist (stretching it quite a bit !) - aiding esteemed individuals like you ladies and gentlemen - from a common man perspective and participation. I am literally on naive side when it comes to dealing with ICANN or NSI or governance.

Background :

- A small time domain name owner. Work full time as a Datawarehouse Designer and Adminstrator (glorified Oracle Casetool/DBA). Live and work in Atlanta for a revenue management software firm.

'Dream' of getting my web company up on its feet in parttime. Came close to have NSI dispute policy hit on my face and a law suit - with WIPO RFC3 as prime proof. After I had an attorney file reply to them. Did not hear from them so far. (Hope not to anymore). That experience (and trama) had fueled my involvement in DN matters.

My only (productive ?) contributions to date are some posting in other groups, writting to newspapers, etc.(before finding IDNO), posting comments on WIPO (http://wipo2.wipo.int/dns_comments/rfc3/0190.html) and participating in IDNO and a little bit (online) at the Berlin meet.

Born in India, worked in couple of Middle Eastern countries before ending up in US.

Sri