Leadership at ICANN changing

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will soon have new management.

Esther Dyson and four other directors will call it quits after the group's next meeting, which will be held Nov. 16 in Los Angeles. The five original ICANN directors will be replaced by five newly elected at-large directors.

Dyson has led ICANN's board since its founding two years ago, through contentious negotiations with Network Solutions to open the market for domain name registrations and through a much-criticized online election process.

Also leaving ICANN's board of directors are Akamai CEO George Conrades, Australian Internet executive Greg Crew, Spanish telecom official Eugenio Triana and BULL France executive Geraldine Capdeboscq.

Filling these spots will be Cisco scientist Karl Auerbach, German hacker Andy Mueller-Maguhn, Ghana Internet entrepreneur Nii Quaynor, Fujitsu engineer Masanobu Katoh and Brazilian Internet executive Ivan Moura Campos.