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- Subject: n-1-4-002.01
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- President's Message
-
- Dear Internauts:
-
- I hope that this issue of Internet Society News finds you
- enjoying a pleasant holiday season and looking forward to a
- challenging and prosperous 1993.
-
- There is much to report about the Internet Society this quarter.
- The Internet Society Board of Trustees met 10-11 December in
- Reston, Virginia, (in the first snowstorm of the season!). During
- the course of that meeting, we completed the actions required to
- incorporate the Internet Society as an independent, non-profit
- organization. Trustee Hideo Aiso regretfully reported that
- increased responsibilities at his home institution prevented him
- from continuing to serve. The Board acknowledged his
- extraordinary service to the Internet Society as general chairman
- of INET92 and wished him well with his new tasks. His seat on the
- Board will be filled through the upcoming elections in 1993.
-
- As should be apparent from the list on the back cover of this
- issue, organizational support for the Internet Society continues
- to grow. If your company or institution is not a member, please
- give consideration to recommending that it join. Details may be
- obtained from <isoc@isoc.org>. I am particularly interested in
- participation of organizations outside the US so as to have their
- views available on the Advisory Council.
-
- The Trustees also heard a report from the POISED working group of
- the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which had been formed
- to respond to my request for recommendations on the
- responsibilities and interactions between the Internet
- Architecture Board (IAB) and the IETF. The Trustees accepted an
- oral report by the chairman, Stephen Crocker, and endorsed in
- principle the general recommendations of the working group and
- looks forward to more specifics on procedures. In sum, the IAB
- has delegated to the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
- the responsibility for promoting Internet Standards along the
- standards track and new procedures are to be tested for filling
- positions on the IAB and IESG.
-
- A new ISOC committee interested in elementary and secondary
- education and the Internet is forming (send inquiries to
- <isoc-k12@isoc.org> for further information.)
- Liaison linkages with the International
- Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Organization for International
- Standardization (ISO) are in progress. INET93 plans for San
- Francisco in August are progressing well, according to general
- chairman, Eric Benhamou, program co-chairmen Barry Leiner and
- William Yundt, and ISOC Conferences VP, Larry Landweber.
-
- 1993 will be a critical year for the Internet. It is vital to
- develop, implement and test solutions to the "scaling" problem
- that the exponential success of the Internet poses. We will also
- see the effects of increasing packet audio and video multicasting
- on the capacity of various parts of the Internet, notably the
- international connections. As the global Internet expands, the
- real work of the Internet Society is just beginning: bringing
- knowledge of the Internet and its utility to all who can benefit
- from it.
-
- I look forward to seeing each of you at INET93!
-
- Vint Cerf
- President
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