Biography | Göran Marby — The Glass Block on Waterfront Drive He Left on 21 December 2022

ICANN's Los Angeles hub is not a campus with a gate.

It is a blue glass office at 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300, in Playa Vista, a few streets inland from the marina.

Marby had been told, when the board named him on 8 February 2016, that he and his family would relocate to this hub.

His first official day was 23 May 2016, spent with the numbers community at RIPE 72 in Copenhagen.

The Los Angeles office came a few days later, after a stop in Stockholm.

The work that filled the next six and a half years sat in that building: the last phase of the IANA transition, the collision between European privacy law and the public WHOIS directory, the pandemic years when the meeting calendar went remote, and the security programmes the board later listed when it thanked him.

On 7 October 2020 the board extended his executive agreement to 24 May 2024.

He did not use the extra time.

On 21 December 2022 a special meeting of the ICANN Board accepted his resignation, effective that day.

Resolution 2022.12.21.01 also accepted his offer to consult through 23 May 2024.

Sally Costerton was appointed interim president and chief executive the same afternoon.

The glass façade photographed in 2024 is the same address printed on ICANN's own location page.

Suite 300 is not a public gallery.

The pin is the building a visitor can stand in front of, not an office to enter.

That is the last chapter of the ICANN job, not of the life.

Photo: Coolcaesar, 26 June 2024, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons