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- n-1-3-002.01
- PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
-
- Dear Internauts:
-
- As the summer draws to a close, we can look back on an extremely successful
- INET92 Conference in Kobe, Japan. The general chairman, Prof. Hideo Aiso, the
- program chairman, Prof. Haruhisa Ishida and the local arrangements chair,
- Prof. Jun Marai, together with what appeared to be a hundred volunteers,
- deserve great credit and the gratitude of the Internet Society for a very
- effective meeting. The Board of Trustees met during this conference and took
- a number of important actions:
-
- (1) Creation of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and incorporation
- of IETF and IRTF operations under the auspices of the Internet
- Society.
-
- (2) Appointment of Mr. Kees Neggers to the Board of Trustees. Mr.
- Neggers is president of Surfnet in the Netherlands.
-
- (3) Adoption of a 1992 budget.
-
- (4) Appointment of Mr. Mike Roberts to serve as Executive Director.
-
- (5) Approval of executive, developing countries, disaster relief
- coordination, elections, and nominations committees.
-
- (6) Approval of motions to establish formal relations with the
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its International
- Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT)
-
- (7) Formal adoption and signing of the Charter and By-Laws of the
- Internet Society.
-
- INET93 planning is in progress under the able direction of Mr. Eric Benhamou,
- president of 3COM. The program committee co-chairs, Dr. Barry Leiner and
- Mr. William Yundt are well along in their work. Internauts interested in
- working on any aspect of INET93 should contact Eric at
- eric_benhamou@3Mail.3Com.com. INET93 will be held in San Francisco, 17-20 August
- 1993. The Internet Society Advisory Council also met in Kobe under the
- interim chairmanship of Mr. Lee Caldwell of Novell. A list of the
- organizational sponsors of the Internet Society appears on the back cover of
- this issue and on behalf of the Trustees and membership, I want to thank these
- organizations for their generous support and energetic interest in the work of
- the Society.
-
- Warmest regards,
-
- Vinton G. Cerf
- President
-