In a posting on the ICANN Blog, ICANNâs Chief Operating Officer Doug Brent has announced he will be leaving the organisation as of the end of July.
Brent announced in his posting that he is leaving for family reasons including that his family has determined that Los Angeles, where ICANN IS headquartered, is not for them.
In his posting Brent praises ICANN and gives a number of examples of how ICANN has changed and what was accomplished in the 3.5 years while he was there.
These included:
- technology resources and activities have been completely overhauled
- ICANNâs accountability through public reporting has changed just as much
- dramatically enhanced remote meeting participation, staff support for policy development, thorough and timely analysis of public comment processes
- improvements in internal management processes
- ICANNâs financial security.
To read Brentâs posting on the ICANN Blog in full and comments from the ICANN community on his leaving, see:
blog.icann.org/2010/04/a-change-and-some-reflections/