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         ELECTION OF ADVISORY COUNCIL OFFICERS

This is the ballot for the election of Internet Society
Advisory Council officers.

Please cut, vote, and send to [e-mail]
Be careful not to repost to everyone

Ballots will be accepted until 12.h-- EDT, 23 September 1994,
and tallied at that time.

Weighted voting is allowed.  That is, you have four votes as
representative of your organization, and you may give them to
any candidate in any quantity up to a grand total of four.

Only one representative per organization may vote.

This document is available at:
ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/bodies/council/elections/1994ballot.txt


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         BALLOT

/__/ Rick Adams* 25 july

/__/ Guy Almes

/__/ George Clapp

/__/ Michael Conn

/__/ Roger Gulbranson

/__/ Rafiq Khan

/__/ C. Joe Pasquariello

/__/ Janet Perry

/__/ Nick Trio

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           POSITION STATEMENTS RECEIVED

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RICK ADAMS
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Why don't we decide what exactly we are voting for.

As a nominee, I can say that I have no idea what I'm running for and
what it means.

On the other hand, I'd be happy to be elected to whatever it is as
there is no charter so the is nothing to do and we can then stop
wasting time debating minutiae of election procedures.

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GUY ALMES
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  The Internet Society is one of very few organizations in a position to
speak to and for the global Internet.  The Society is truly international,
and it combines the perspectives of individuals and organizations, and the
research, education, and commercial networking communities.
  The organization members can help ISoc achieve its potential.  We provide
funding support and have the ability to contribute time/effort to encourage
the ISoc BoT to move in progressive ways and to support them when/as they do.
  The Advisory Council needs to complete the work begun in Prague to organize
itself.
  The AC needs to follow through with the recommendations it made to the BoT
at Prague.
  The AC needs to find a variety of further ways to support ISoc in:
<> promoting the health of the IETF in support of viable technical standards,
<> promoting the INet conferences and other means to promote the Internet
   as a key information infrastructure for research, education, and commerce,
<> promoting efforts to maintain and enhance global interconnectivity when
   the Internet is faced with technical or structural transitions.

 -- Guy

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GEORGE CLAPP
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My name is George Clapp.  I initially participated in the internet
community at the IETF as chair of the IP over SMDS and IP over Large
Public Data Networks (IPLPDN) Working Groups.  These groups addressed
issues related to transporting IP over the switched data services
of the public networks.

My employer is Ameritech, one of the "baby bells," a Local Exchange Carrier
which serves the upper midwest in the States.  My position is General
Manager of Business Development for Ameritech Advanced Data Services,
and I manage a group which has product development and management
responsibility for Ameritech's data product lines.  These data products
include private lines (analog through SONET) and the switched data services
(ISDN, Frame Relay, SMDS, ATM, *and* IP).  We have an active effort
led by Mark Knopper to offer an internet access service.  Also,
Ameritech is negotiating with the National Science Foundation to
act as a Network Access Provider for Chicago.

The reach of the Internet will continue to expand as the voice-oriented
public carriers begin to offer an internet service, or enhance an
existing but "young" service.  I can represent the perspective of a
Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) to the Advisory Council in a
constructive and committed manner.

I share the goals of many of the people who have distributed their
position statements.  The goals foremost in my mind include active
participation by the Advisory Council within the ISOC and resolution of
commercialization issues such as security, open networking standards, and
operations.

Thanks,
George Clapp

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MICHAEL CONN
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My name is Michael Conn.  I am a Senior Manager at MCI in their Data
Services Engineering Organization.  I joined MCI about four years ago with
one objective in mind; to help MCI make a contribution to data networking.
I have had the good fortune to have been MCI's representive to the IETF
and their primary representive to the ISOC Advisory Council since its'
conception.  I have attended every ISOC/INET Conference since Kobe
in '92.  At the meeting in San Francisco in '93, it was obvious that
several ISOC AC members wanted the Council to become a more active and
involved organization.  Later that year, I was ask to take over the Chair
of the Advisory Council.  As the Acting Chair, I have tried to build
on the spark that was ignited in San Francisco.  With the results of
the meeting in Prague, I believe **WE** have turned that spark into a
potentially valuable energy source for ISOC.  Over the past several months
there has been some pent up concerns that have been expressed.  If the
Advisory Council is to make the valuable contribution it has the potential
of making for ISOC and the success of the Internet, I believe we must
make sure we continue to have a way for concerns to be expressed and
dealt with; but more importantly we must find ways to make strong positive
contributions.  We established several "Work Projects" at the Prague
meeting that have the potiential to be such positive contributions.

I believe that the ISOC Board of Trustees is a dedicated set of
professionals who have the same common goal we have; to continue to make
the Internet a "World Class" resource and infrastructure that supports
global collaboration and to make the IETF a recognized leader in data
communications standards.  The four officers we elect must build a good
working relationship with the BOT that expresses our concerns to the BOT
and expects results in dealing with those concerns; but in a way that
builds a health working relationship.  But, more importantly to me, these
four officers and the Advisory Council membership in general must focus
our energy into Work Projects that further our common cause.

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ROBER GULBRANSON
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My name is Roger Gulbranson.  I have been involved in the Internet in a
number of ways that include installing the first ARPAnet connection into
the University of Minnesota, serving as Technical Director for CICNet
during its turn-on period, and serving as a campus networking focal point
during both my tenure at the University of Minnesota and, now, at the
University of Notre Dame.  I currently serve as a member of the Technical
Board for CICNet and as chair for the Technical Board for INDnet (Indiana
Data network).

I represent one of the small number of Educational Institutions who are
Advisory Council members.

I would like to see the AC work with the BoT to promote:

  1) individual memberships
  2) international privacy standards
  3) positive ways of achieving ubiquitous connectivity
  4) open networking standards
  5) growing the Internet to those areas of the globe which are underserved
  6) growing the Internet without totally losing sight of our culture and
     how the open transfer of information permitted us to grow

I realize that these have a "me too" flavor to them.  I don't consider my
position to be terribly unique.  I simply want to see what many of us have
worked on for years to continue to thrive and grow.  I feel that I have
helped this issue by having my institution put its money behind the
Internet Society.  I am also willing to put my personal effort into it as
well.

Roger L. Gulbranson

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RAFIQ KHAN
----------
  The Internet Society is one of very few organizations in a position to
speak to and for the global Internet.  The Society is truly international,
and it combines the perspectives of individuals and organizations, and the
research, education, and commercial networking communities.
  The organization members can help ISoc achieve its potential.  We provide
funding support and have the ability to contribute time/effort to encourage
the ISoc BoT to move in progressive ways and to support them when/as they do.
  The Advisory Council needs to complete the work begun in Prague to organize
itself.
  The AC needs to follow through with the recommendations it made to the BoT
at Prague.
  The AC needs to find a variety of further ways to support ISoc in:
<> promoting the health of the IETF in support of viable technical standards,
<> promoting the INet conferences and other means to promote the Internet
   as a key information infrastructure for research, education, and commerce,
<> promoting efforts to maintain and enhance global interconnectivity when
   the Internet is faced with technical or structural transitions.
Hi:

My name is : Rafiq Khan.I am Director of Canarie- Canadian Network for the
Advancement of Research, Industry & Education. This is an industry/
government consortia established in 1992 to help push the ' frontier' of
Information Highway in Canada.An intial funding of $26millin was provided
by Government of Canada to get the organiztion going.Since then than
three times has been contributed by the Canadian industry-Carriers,equipment
manufacturers/suppliers and research organiztions. We are now in the process
of developing a business plan for next phase of this program.

With the above background in mind, I will be happy to serve on the Advisory
Council in any capacity deemed desirable. Incidently,I also attended the
Advisory Council meeting held in Prague last month.

Regards.

Rafiq Khan
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JOE PASQUARIELLO
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Greetings to the ISOC Advisory Council

Now that I'm through 'bugging' the other nominees for position
statements - here's mine.

I've had forty (40) years experience in communications and
information systems development and management - 10 years in
industry, and 30 years of government service at the Senior
Executive Service level.  Much of my government service has been
directly involved with international activities.

Currently, I'm the Associate Director of the US Dept of Defense
activity which is responsible for the establishment and
enforcement of standards for the acquisition of information
technology products and services.  My responsibilities include
representing the Department in various standards fora - at the
executive/policy level - with the view of utilizing private-
sector, voluntary, consensus based, open, standards to the extent
possible.  In addition to ISOC, I manage the representation of
the Department at formal standards bodies such as ITU, ISO/IEC
JTC1, ASC T1, ASC X3; and at the major standards-related
consortia such as OSF, NMF, X/Open, OMG, etc.

Having spent much of my professional life 'worrying' about
interoperability issues, I am excited by the extraordinary
potential of the Internet in effecting open, seamless, and global
interconnectivity of information systems, and the key
contribution that the Internet community can make to the
establishment of an effective global information infrastructure.

The particular policy issues I have been most interested and
involved in, in recent times, are:
     -Recognition and accreditation of Internet standards by US
government and other standards bodies.
     -Liaison and harmonization of the standards activities of
the Internet community with that of the other standards bodies
and consortia.
     -Appropriate awareness and advocacy of Internet technology,
and the Internet standards-setting process, within government and
the other standards bodies.
     -Increased use of electronic methods in the standards
management and development process - along the lines of the
Internet/IETF/IAB model.

I have regularly participated in the meetings of the Advisory
Council, and was designated as the Council's "point person" for
liaison matters at the June meetings of the Council in Prague.  I
have also served as the Chair of the Nominating 'Committee' (of
one) for the current election of officers of the Council.

I would be honored to serve as an officer of the Council [as well
as having a bit of fun in the process].


                                   Sincerely.
                                   C.Joe P-->

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JANET PERRY
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>I'm Janet Perry and I manage Higher Education Programs for Novell, where I have
>worked for almost seven years.  Because higher education is one of the major
>stakeholders in internetworking, I have been one of Novell's main contacts in
>this community.  I was instrumental in getting Novell involved in the early
>days of the Internet Society and I also manage and evangelize much of Novell's
>support for the Internet community.
>
>I have been an active member of the Internet Society since early 1993.  I
served
>on the Conference Committee for INET'93 and as part of the local arrangements
>committee for that event.  I am also heavily involved asa member of the
committeewhich handle the Workshop for Tecnologically Energing Countries
which has train-ed almost 300 people on Internet technology and services
over the past two
>years. I have also gotten Novell heavily involved in sponsoring this event.
>
>I believe the Advisory Council has a necessary and important role to play in
>the Society and would devote time and effort to further defining that role and
>in making to connections between the BOT and AC work more smoothly than they
>do now.  In addition I would continue to support and finds ways to use our
>resources effectively in promoting these important missions of ISOC:
>
> To encourgae more individual memberships
> To help promote internetworking as a solution for developing countries
> To act a a prime organization speaking for everyone in the Internet
>  community
>
>I believe that the proposals on the table from Prague are important issues for
>us as a group to resolve and that they can be resolved.  However, I also think
>it is critical for us as organizational members of ISOC to have our voice heard
>collectively to represent these stakeholders as well as to use our names and
>our clout to help advance to goals and programs of ISOC.
>
>Janet Perry

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NICK TRIO
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Hi all,

First, I'd like to thank Michael Conn for the nomination and Joe
Pasquariello for taking on this effort with the elections.

My background in brief:

I'm in charge of all Internet activities for the IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center, and chair IBM's Internet Coordination Council and
serve on IBM's CERT team.  Basically, I do a bit of everything including
handling policy issues, product development, user services, architecture,
administration and documentation, so I see the Internet from many
different perspectives.

My position statement:

The Internet Society Advisory Council brings some unique perspectives
to the Internet Society.  We have a lot of talents we can use to advise
and help the Internet Society and the BoT.  In addition, we also have
a responsibility to our member organizations to be able to explain why
it's such a good thing to support the Internet Society financially, and
to take back the Internet Society message.

I believe the ISOC AC can help serve the Society through:

(1) reviewing the budget of ISOC.  As the ones who provide the bulk
    of the funding, we need to know where that money is going so we can
    explain to our member organizations about the great service we're
    sponsoring
(2) work groups to handle issues like the Internet codes of conduct,
    privacy issues, commercialization issues, network standards,
    etc...these being carried out jointly perhaps with BoT members
    and other bodies
(3) *active* participation with the BoT.  For too long now, there hasn't
    been communication between the two bodies, and we need to break down
    the barriers between us.  We should be active at the BoT meetings and
    they at the AC meetings.
(4) helping get additional resources for ISOC, perhaps donations of
    equipment or services from our member organizations, and maybe
    going to other organizations to get them to join (sort of like
    customer references).
(5) promoting ISOC in other ways like speaking at various organizations on
    the work of ISOC (the "speakers' buereau" mentioned during the meeting
    in Prague)

To sum up, the my mail goal is to make the ISOC AC an *active* body
within ISOC, and a partner with the executives, the BoT and the
membership in helping promote the common vision of a healthy global
Internet.

Take care,
Nick Trio ([e-mail])
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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