About ISIPP

The Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (formerly known as The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy) is dedicated to providing analysis, information, and consulting on industry issues relating to public policies and processes regarding spam, email, email deliverability, and the Internet. ISIPP also provides a widely-used email senders accreditation service, SuretyMail, and organizes and sponsors industry forums such as email management roundtables, email deliverability summits, and Internet law conferences.

The ISIPP Team:

Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., CEO

Anne Mitchell is the CEO and President of the Institute. Mitchell brings with her nearly 10 years of experience in the Internet and email industries, both from the legal and technical side. Mitchell was the Director of Legal and Public Affairs for Mail Abuse Prevention Systems (MAPS), the original anti-spam blacklist. Following her time at MAPS, Mitchell was co-founder and CEO of Habeas, the first of the email reputation services.

In addition to her duties with ISIPP, Mitchell is on the advisory boards of several email and Internet security companies, is on faculty at Lincoln Law School of San Jose, and sits on the California State Bar Cyberspace Law Committee.

Qarin Van Brink, DNS Specialist

Qarin Van Brink is ISIPP's DNS Specialist.

Van Brink's experience previous to ISIPP includes working as a systems developer at Habeas, and as a Quality Engineer for Microsoft, working on their Macintosh platform software. She has also worked at Fractal as a Macintosh Software Engineer.

Van Brink has a unique insight into the needs of ISPs. She was a co-founder and CEO of Santa Cruz ISP Scruz.net, and a co-founder and VP of Technical Operations for Tycho Networks.

Sharon Calhoun, Customer Support and Accounting

Sharon Calhoun is our primary customer support specialist. Sharon first came to us as an accounting bookkeeper, and quickly worked her way into Customer Support, applying her keen organizational skills to helping to ensure that our customers get their email delivered.

With 30 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience, Sharon has served both in upper management positions, and as Controller, with several organizations prior to joining ISIPP. Sharon's natural organizational talents, along with her keen ability to understand both senders' needs, and receivers' requirements, allow her to fulfill both aspects of our mission of both getting wanted mail into the inbox, and keeping spam out of the inbox.

Mickey Chandler, Web and Database Developer

Mickey Chandler maintains the websites and databases for ISIPP.

Chandler comes to ISIPP with a vast amount of experience in the email receiver community. A former services specialist for Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS), Chandler has served as President of the Forum for Responsible & Ethical E-mail (FREE) where he authored anti-spam legislation introduced in Texas and Hawaii, and consulted to both U.S. and international legistlative bodies on anti-spam measures.

Chandler presently also serves as the manager of ISP relations for ISIPP SuretyMail customer Informz.

Luke Crawford, Cross-Platform DNS/Database Specialist

Luke Crawford helps to make sure that the ISPs and spam filters which rely on our SuretyMail accreditation data are able to make the most of the data they receive. Crawford ensures that ISPs are able to retrieve the data in the format most useful for them, and creates our custom ISP-specific zones.

Prior to working with ISIPP, Crawford worked as a staff technician for Sacramento ISP JPS.net. Crawford also worked as a Tool Developer for Mail Abuse Prevention Systems (MAPS).