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- President's Message
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- Dear Internauts:
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- First, let me acknowledge that I first heard the term "Internaut" at the
- SecondConference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, March 18-20, 1992. This
- expression was offered in a talk by Jean Armour Polly who works at the
- Liverpool, New York public library. It is a story in itself that this library
- is on the Internet through PSI.
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- The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society held formal election of officers
- by email with the following results:
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- President, Vinton Cerf
- Vice President for Conferences, Lawrence Landweber
- Vice President for Publications, Anthony M. Rutkowski
- Treasurer, Frode Greisen
- Secretary, Juergen Harms
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- The Board also approved the appointment of Michael Roberts as Executive
- Director of the Society. He will continue to split his time between EDUCOM and
- the Internet Society.
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- Individual memberships are approximately at the 1,000 mark and organizational
- sponsors number an even dozen with another dozen committed and may more giving
- consideration to this distinction. If you think your organizations might want
- to provide this kind of support for the Society, please don't hesitate to get
- in touch with the Internet Society secretariat (isoc@nri.reston.va.us) or with
- me personally.
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- In addition to the INET92 Conference planned for June 16-19 this year in Kobe,
- Japan, planning has begun on the INET93 conference in San Francisco. Eric
- Benhamou, the CEO of 3COM Corporation, has accepted appointment as the general
- chairman. A conference planning committee consisting of Eric Benhamou, Michael
- Carter (Apple), David Brandin (Interop), Dan Lynch (Interop), Bob Shahan (IBM),
- Michael Majdalany (SUN) and Lee Caldwell (Novell) is working with Larry
- Landweber, Mike Roberts, Elizabeth Barnhart and me to organize the 1993
- conference. Organizations interested in sponsoring this activity are invited to
- contact Larry Landweber (lhl@cs.wisc.edu).
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