Buckridge to replace Shears on ICANN board
Chris Buckridge will replace Matthew Shears on ICANN’s board of directors next month.
The Non-Contracted Parties House of ICANN, their arses burned by an August 18 finger-wagging from ICANN chair Tripti Sinha, somehow managed to narrow down a slate of four candidates to just one by Sinha’s end-of-month deadline, despite seeming to be at a very early stage of the election process just last week.
Buckridge will fill seat 14, reserved for a member of the NCPH and one of two GNSO-picked seats.
He was one of the preferred candidates of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, which along with the Commercial Stakeholders Group makes up the NCPH.
The CSG had rejected the NCSG’s original preference to reappoint Shears, who joined the board in 2017, for a third and final term.
Buckridge comes from the Regional Internet Registry world. He was with RIPE NCC from 2006 until this June in a variety of external relations roles, dealing with European governments and regulators, which seems like a pretty good qualification for an ICANN directorship.
Sinha had written to the NCPH leaders last month to complain that they had failed to pick a director, missing an April deadline, and demanded they name a name before the end of August.
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