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Announcing ....
                                    10/29/92

                          THE INTERNET SOCIETY


A new international membership organization to promote the use
of the Internet for research and scholarly communication and
collaboration.

A forum for government, industry, and individuals to debate and
formulate network policies and procedures.

A focus for development and evolution on Internet technology.

A means to advance the sharing of open scholarship in all
countries.

THE INTERNET SOCIETY ....
   -       began operations in January 1992
   -       is governed by an elected Board of Trustees
   -       seeks to encourage international scientific collaboration
           through networking

Joining now will ....
   -       entitle you to a member newsletter and a semi-annual
           journal recording important developments in the technical
           and operational evolution of the Internet
   -       help shape the international agenda for the Society
   -       support Internet Society objectives


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

______     Please enroll me as a regular member of the Internet
Society and bill me for $70 in annual dues.

______     Please enroll me as a student member of the Internet
Society and bill me for $25 in annual dues. I am enclosing proof of
student enrollment (copy of valid identification card or copy of
current tuition bill) which shows my eligibility for student
membership. I understand that student membership is only
available to fulltime students in a degree granting program.

Name: ______________________________________________________________

Postal Address: ____________________________________________________

                ____________________________________________________

        ____________________________________________________

Phone Number: ______________________________________________________

Fax Number: ________________________________________________________

Internet Address: __________________________________________________


Mail, fax, or e-mail this form to:
Individual Membership Registration
Internet Society                 Phone:          [phone]
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100     Fax:            [phone]
Reston, VA  22091                        E-mail:         [e-mail]
USA
                                                              10/29/92



                   MEMBERSHIP IN THE INTERNET SOCIETY

                                   for

            Corporations, Educational Institutions, Libraries

                   and Other Interested Organizations




The Internet Society is a new, individual, international, professional
membership organization, which provides a focus for evolution of
the Internet technology, and promotes the use of the Internet for
research, scholarly communication and collaboration.
The Internet Society has been organized under the auspices of the
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), EDUCOM and
RARE.  CNRI is a non-profit organization, incorporated in the
District of Columbia, U.S.A., to conduct scientific and educational
research (known under the U.S.  Internal Revenue Code as a
501(c)(3) organization).  The main offices of CNRI are located at
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100, Reston, Virginia, 22091,
U.S.A.  The Internet Society is, at present, being administered by
CNRI, and CNRI's Federal Identification Number is 52-1447747.

Organizations may also join the Internet Society and contribute to
its operation and evolution.  By joining before 1993, organizations
have an opportunity to become Founding Members, receiving special
recognition in Society publications and functions.  All organizational
members receive discounts for selected Society functions and
services, complimentary copies of Society publications and an
opportunity to designate a representative to the Internet Society
Advisory Council.


Provisions of Corporate and Institutional Membership

Founding Members
A Founding Member is any corporation or other organization which
provides a specified level of financial support for the Society during
1992 and 1993 and maintains a continuing membership thereafter.
Founding memberships may be obtained by for-profit corporation
upon payment of $10,000 per year for 1992 and 1993, or payment
of $20,000 in 1993. Non-profit research and educational
organizations or government agencies may become Founding
Members upon payment of $5,000 per year for 1992 and 1993 or
payment of $10,000 in 1993. Founding Memberships will not be
available after 1993.

Regular Members
Regular Membership in the Internet Society will be available to
for-profit organizations starting in 1993 upon payment of $10,000
annually.  Non-profit research and educational organizations and
government agencies are eligible for regular membership on
payment of $5,000 per year, beginning in 1993.

Other Provisions
Corporate and institutional members may designate a
representative to the Advisory Council of the Internet Society,
which will meet at least once a year, and which will be charged
with advising the Board of Trustees on matters of special concern
to corporate and institutional members, as well as on other issues
of interest or concern to the Society.

Corporate and institutional members of the Society are not eligible
to vote for the election of Trustees or on other matters of Society
governance.

Special provisions are available for new, start-up organizations.


TO APPLY FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP PLEASE
CONTACT:

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf            Tel:    [phone]
Internet Society            Fax:    [phone]
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100    Email:  [e-mail]
Reston, VA 22091
USA
                                                               2/20/92

                          THE INTERNET SOCIETY



                                Abstract


The purpose of this document is to provide a brief description of
the Internet Society and its goals and objectives.  It functions as
a professional society to facilitate, support and promote the
evolution and growth of the Internet as a global research
communications infrastructure.  The suggestions and
recommendations of all parties interested in the Internet are
solicited to assist in making the Internet Society robust, productive
and structured to meet the needs of its members.


The Internet Society
The Internet is a collection of cooperating, interconnected,
multiprotocol networks which supports international collaboration
among thousands of organizations.  Because of its current scope
and rapid rate of growth, the Internet will benefit from a more
organized framework to support its objectives. To this end, an
Internet Society is being formed to foster the voluntary
interconnection of computer networks into a global research and
development communications and information infrastructure. The
Internet Society will not operate the Internet.  Internet operation
will continue to be a collaborative activity which the Society will
seek to facilitate.  The Society will provide assistance and support
to groups and organizations involved in the use, operation and
evolution of the Internet.  It will provide support for forums in
which technical and operational questions can be discussed and
provide mechanisms through which interested parties can be
informed and educated about the Internet, its function, use,
operation and the interests of its constituents.

Membership
The Internet Society is a membership organization with voting
individual members and non-voting institutional members. There
are several classes of institutional members.  The society publishes
a newsletter on a regular basis and holds an annual meeting to
which all members and other interested parties are invited.  The
topics of the annual meeting will vary, but are expected to focus on
current research in networking, Internet functionality and growth,
and other interests of the Society constituency.

Membership dues vary according to class of membership.  The
amounts of these dues and the basis on which they are set are
determined by the Board of Trustees of the Society and may be
revised from time to time as provided in the By-Laws.


Charter
The Society is a non-profit organization and will be operated for
academic, educational, charitable and scientific purposes among
which are:

     A.    To facilitate and support the technical evolution of the
           Internet as a research and education infrastructure and
           to stimulate involvement of the academic, scientific and
           engineering communities, among others in the evolution
           of the Internet.

     B.    To educate the academic and scientific communities and
           the public concerning the technology, use and application
           of the Internet.

     C.    To promote scientific and educational applications of
           Internet technology for the benefit of educational
           institutions at all grade levels, industry and the public at
           large.

     D.    To provide a forum for exploration of new Internet
           applications and to foster collaboration among
           organizations in their operation and use of the Internet.


Activities of the Society
1. Support for Internet Technical Evolution

The Internet Activities Board (IAB) has been concerned with the
development and evolution of architectures supporting the use of
multiple protocols in a networked environment.  The Internet
Society expects to incorporate the IAB and its functions into the
operation of the Internet Society.  The Internet Society will work
with other interested organizations to support and assist efforts to
evolve the multiprotocol Internet.  The Internet Society looks to the
Internet Engineering and Research Task Forces to stimulate
networking research and facilitate the evolution of the TCP/IP
protocol suite and the integration of new protocol suites (e.g. OSI)
into the Internet architecture.  The Internet Society will work
actively with parties and organizations interested in fostering
improvement in the utility of the Internet for its constituent users.

2. Meetings and Conferences

Internet Society will convene an annual meeting and will organize
and facilitate workshops and symposia, jointly with other
organizations where appropriate, on specific topics of interest to the
Society membership.  The annual meeting will address issues of
global and regional importance to the evolution and growth of the
Internet.  In particular, future INET conferences will be
incorporated into the Society's annual meetings.


3. Information and Infrastructure Services

The Internet Society publishes the quarterly Internet News
providing members with information about the international
activities of Internet constituents. In addition, the Society will also
provide assistance to and support for organizations responsible for
maintaining the databases crucial to Internet function (e.g. the
Domain Name System, X.500 Directory Services, etc.) and
organizations concerned with the security of the Internet (e.g. the
Software Engineering Institute Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT)).  The Society will assist in the development of
educational, advisory and informative materials of use to Society
members.  Where appropriate, the Society will organize or support
activities which aid in the coordination among the organizations
operating components of the Internet.

The Society will refer members to appropriate parties involved in
operating the various parts of the Internet where they may be
helpful with specific questions. Where possible, the Society seeks to
provide access to its information on-line, but will also offer hard
copy and, perhaps eventually, CD-ROM-based information resources.



Plans
The initial organizers of the Internet Society include the
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), EDUCOM and
the Internet Activities Board.  Computer networking has become a
critical infrastructure for the research and development community
and has the potential to become the basis for world-wide
collaboration and cooperation in every field of human endeavor. The
Internet Society seeks to solidify, enhance and encourage further
international collaborative networking.  Individuals joining the
Society during its formation have received special recognition as
Society pioneers and have been instrumental in shaping the early
agenda of Society activities. Institutional members are represented
in the Advisory Council of the Internet Society where their advice
and counsel is sought to refine Internet Society objectives and
activities.

                            APPENDIX


          A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks

Introduction
In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and
technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds.  The
objective was to develop communication protocols which would allow
networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple,
linked packet networks.  This was called the Internetting project
and the system of networks which emerged from the research was
known as the "Internet."  The system of protocols which was
developed over the course of this research effort became known as
the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, after the two initial protocols developed:
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP).

In 1986, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated the
development of the NSFNET which, today, provides a major
backbone communication service for the Internet. With its 45
megabit per second facilities, the NSFNET carries on the order of
12 billion packets per month between the networks it links. The
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the
U.S. Department of Energy contributed additional backbone
facilities in the form of the NSINET and ESNET respectively.  In
Europe, major international backbones such as NORDUNET and
others provide connectivity to over one hundred thousand computers
on a large number of networks.  Commercial network providers in
the U.S. and Europe are beginning to offer Internet backbone and
access support on a competitive basis to any interested parties.

"Regional" support for the Internet is provided by various
consortium networks and "local" support is provided through each
of the research and educational institutions.  Within the United
States, much of this support has come from the federal and state
governments, but a considerable contribution has been made by
industry.  In Europe and elsewhere, support arises from cooperative
international efforts and through national research organizations.
During the course of its evolution, particularly after 1989, the
Internet system began to integrate support for other protocol suites
into its basic networking fabric.  The present emphasis in the
system is on multiprotocol interworking, and in particular, with the
integration of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocols into
the architecture.

Both public domain and commercial implementations of the roughly
100 protocols of TCP/IP protocol suite became available in the
1980's.  During the early 1990's, OSI protocol implementations also
became available and, by the end of 1991, the Internet has grown
to include some 5,000 networks in over three dozen countries,
serving over 700,000 host computers used by over 4,000,000 people.


A great deal of support for the Internet community has come from
the U.S. Federal Government, since the Internet was originally part
of a federally-funded research program and, subsequently, has
become a major part of the U.S. research infrastructure.  During
the late 1980s, however, the population of Internet users and
network constituents expanded internationally and began to include
commercial facilities.  Indeed, the bulk of the system today is made
up of private networking facilities in educational and research
institutions, businesses and in government organizations across the
globe.

The Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Networks
(CCIRN), which was organized by the U.S. Federal Networking
Council (FNC) and the European Reseaux Associees pour la
Recherche Europeenne (RARE), plays an important role in the
coordination of plans for government- sponsored research
networking.  CCIRN efforts have been a stimulus for the support
of international cooperation in the Internet environment.


Internet Technical Evolution
Over its fifteen year history, the Internet has functioned as a
collaboration among cooperating parties.  Certain key functions
have been critical for its operation, not the least of which is the
specification of the protocols by which the components of the system
operate.  These were originally developed in the DARPA research
program mentioned above, but in the last five or six years, this
work has been undertaken on a wider basis with support from
Government agencies in many countries, industry and the academic
community. The Internet Activities Board (IAB) was created in 1983
to guide the evolution of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite and to provide
research advice to the Internet community.

During the course of its existence, the IAB has reorganized several
times.  It now has two primary components: the Internet
Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force.
The former has primary responsibility for further evolution of the
TCP/IP protocol suite, its standardization with the concurrence of
the IAB, and the integration of other protocols into Internet
operation (e.g. the Open Systems Interconnection protocols).  The
Internet Research Task Force continues to organize and explore
advanced concepts in networking under the guidance of the Internet
Activities Board and with support from various government
agencies.

A secretariat has been created to manage the day-to-day function
of the Internet Activities Board and Internet Engineering Task
Force.  IETF meets three times a year in plenary and its
approximately 50 working groups convene at intermediate times by
electronic mail, teleconferencing and at face-to-face meetings.  The
IAB meets quarterly face- to-face or by videoconference and at
intervening times by telephone, electronic mail and
computer-mediated conferences.

Two other functions are critical to IAB operation: publication of
documents describing the Internet and the assignment and
recording of various identifiers needed for protocol operation.
Throughout the development of the Internet, its protocols and other
aspects of its operation have been documented first in a series of
documents called Internet Experiment Notes and, later, in a series
of documents called Requests for Comment (RFCs).  The latter were
used initially to document the protocols of the first packet switching
network developed by DARPA, the ARPANET, beginning in 1969,
and have become the principal archive of information about the
Internet.  At present, the publication function is provided by an
RFC editor.

The recording of identifiers is provided by the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA) who has delegated one part of this
responsibility to an Internet Registry which acts as a central
repository for Internet information and which provides central
allocation of network and autonomous system identifiers, in some
cases to subsidiary registries located in various countries. The
Internet Registry (IR) also provides central maintenance of the
Domain Name System (DNS) root database which points to
subsidiary distributed DNS servers replicated throughout the
Internet. The DNS distributed database is used, inter alia, to
associate host and network names with their Internet addresses
and is critical to the operation of the higher level TCP/IP protocols
including electronic mail.

There are a number of Network Information Centers (NICs) located
throughout the Internet to serve its users with documentation,
guidance, advice and assistance.  As the Internet continues to grow
internationally, the need for high quality NIC functions increases.
Although the initial community of users of the Internet were drawn
from the ranks of computer science and engineering, its users now
comprise a wide range of disciplines in the sciences, arts, letters,
business, military and government administration.

Related Networks
In 1980-81, two other networking projects, BITNET and CSNET,
were initiated. BITNET adopted the IBM RSCS protocol suite and
featured direct leased line connections between participating sites.
Most of the original BITNET connections linked IBM mainframes
in university data centers.  This rapidly changed as protocol
implementations became available for other machines. From the
beginning, BITNET has been multi-disciplinary in nature with
users in all academic areas.  It has also provided a number of
unique services to its users (e.g., LISTSERV).  Today, BITNET and
its parallel networks in other parts of the world (e.g., EARN in
Europe) have several thousand participating sites.  In recent years,
BITNET has established a backbone which uses the TCP/IP
protocols with RSCS-based applications running above TCP.

CSNET was initially funded by the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to provide networking for university, industry and
government computer science research groups.  CSNET used the
Phonenet MMDF protocol for telephone-based electronic mail
relaying and, in addition, pioneered the first use of TCP/IP over
X.25 using commercial public data networks.  The CSNET name
server provided an early example of a white pages directory service
and this software is still in use at numerous sites.  At its peak,
CSNET had approximately 200 participating sites  and
international connections to approximately fifteen countries.

In 1987, BITNET and CSNET merged to form the Corporation for
Research and Educational Networking (CREN).  In the  Fall of
1991, CSNET service was discontinued having  fulfilled its
important early role in the provision of academic networking
service.  A key feature of CREN is that its operational costs are
fully met through dues paid by its member organizations.


                                          12/16/91

                       CHARTER OF INTERNET SOCIETY


1. Name

   The name of the Society is Internet Society ("the Society").

2. Purposes

   The Society has been organized to be a nonprofit organization
which shall be operated exclusively for the following educational,
charitable and scientific purposes:

   A.  To facilitate and support the technical evolution of the
       Internet as a research and education infrastructure, and to
       stimulate the involvement of the scientific community,
       industry, government and others in the evolution of the
       Internet;

   B.  To educate the scientific community, industry and the public
       at large concerning the technology, use and application of the
       Internet;

   C.  To promote educational applications of Internet technology for
       the benefit of government, colleges and universities, industry,
       and the public at large;

   D.  To provide a forum for exploration of new Internet
       applications, and to stimulate collaboration among
       organizations in their operational use of the global Internet.


The Society shall take such actions as may be necessary or
convenient to effect any or all of the purposes for which the Society
is organized.
3. Board of Trustees

   The initial Board of Trustees of the Society are the following
individuals, namely, Juergen Harms, Robert E. Kahn and Kenneth
M. King.

4. Restrictions

   No part of the net earnings of the Society, if any, shall inure to
the benefit of, or be distributable to, any of the Trustees or officers
of the Society, or any other person, except that the Society shall be
authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for
services rendered.  No substantial part of the activities of the
Society shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise
attempting, to influence legislation.  The Society shall not
participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or
distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any
candidate for public office.
5. Dissolution

   Upon any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Society,
after all of its liabilities and obligations have been paid, satisfied
and discharged, or adequate provision has been made therefor, all
of the assets of the Society (if any) shall be distributed exclusively
for such educational, charitable and scientific purposes as the Board
of Trustees (or such other persons as may be in charge of
liquidation) shall determine.

6. Amendment

   The Charter may be amended by the affirmative vote of at least
four-fifths of the members of the Board of Trustees then in office,
except that unanimous consent of the members of the Board of
Trustees then in office shall be required for any amendment of
Article 4 or of Article 5 above or of this Article 6.

This Charter has been adopted by the initial Board of Trustees of
the Society.



                                   Juergen Harms
                                        December 24, 1991


                                   Robert E. Kahn
                                        December 16, 1991


                                   Kenneth M. King
                                        December 16, 1991



                                          10/5/92

        Introducing the Current Trustees of the Internet Society


After the chartering of the Internet Society late in December 1991,
the three initial trustees, Kenneth King, Juergen Harms and Robert
Kahn unanimously elected an interim Board of Trustees, shown
below. The interim board will be responsible for initial operation of
the Internet Society including approval of an interim budget,
appointment of officers and election of an expanded interim Board
whose members will serve for periods ranging from one to three
years. At annual intervals, nominations for Board positions will be
opened and elections held to refresh approximately one-third of the
Board of Trustees each year. The first such election by the
individual Internet Society members is anticipated early in 1993,
with the elected officials taking office in July 1993.

Internet Society Board of Trustees

Hideo Aiso                             Juergen Harms
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Charles Brownstein                       Robert Kahn
<[e-mail]>                <[e-mail]>

Vint Cerf                              Tomaz Kalin
<[e-mail]>               <[e-mail]>


Lyman Chapin                           Kenneth King
<[e-mail]>                        <[e-mail]>

Ira Fuchs                              Lawrence Landweber
<[e-mail]>             <[e-mail]>


Frode Greisen                          Kees Neggers
<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Geoff Huston                            Anthony Rutkowski
<[e-mail]>                <[e-mail]>


                                                               10/1/92

      Introducing the Charter and Founding Organizational Members



                             CHARTER MEMBERS
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES
(CHARTER)
EDUCOM (CHARTER)
RESEAU ASSOCIEES POUR LA RECHERCHE EUROPEENNE
(CHARTER)

                            FOUNDING MEMBERS
ADVANCED NETWORK & SERVICES
APPLE COMPUTER CORPORATION
AT&T
ARL/CAUSE EDUCOM COALITION FOR NETWORKED
INFORMATION
AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK
BELL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH
BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN
CISCO SYSTEMS
CORPORATION FOR OPEN SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL
NETWORKING
DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH NETWORK
EUROPEAN LABORATORY FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS
FREEPORT-MCMORAN
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
INTEROP, COMPANY
ISRAELI INTER-UNIVERSITY COMPUTATION CENTER
MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
NORDUNET
NOVELL, INC.
NYSERNET, INC.
PROTEON, INC.
SIEMENS AG
SOFT-SWITCH, INC.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTITUTE
SPRINT
3COM CORPORATION
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
U S WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
UUNET TECHNOLOGIES
WELLFLEET COMMUNICATIONS INC.
                         ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
TENON INTERSYSTEMS

                          Terms of Membership

Charter and Founding Organizations provide the Internet Society
with vital financial support.  This substantial and early support has
made the founding of the Internet Society possible.  The list (see
reverse) represents those organizations whose 1992 membership
dues have been received as of the date shown above.  A number of
additional organizations have expressed their intent to become
members and their names will be listed when their dues have been
received.  For-profit Founding members commit to $20,000 during
the 1992 and 1993 period. Non-profit, government and educational
institutions commit to half that amount.  There is also provision for
start-ups to become regular members during their first three years
at a cost of $1,000 per year.  Organizations interested in
participating in this program should contact Vinton Cerf at the
Internet Society secretariat.
                                                               10/16/92

                    Internet Society Advisory Council


The Organizational Members of the Internet Society provide a
representative and an alternate to an Advisory Council.  The
Society is grateful to these individuals and their organizations for
the commitments they have made to its success.  The names of the
Advisory Council members are listed below:

   Rick Adams                      UUNET
   Ed Albrigo (alt.)               COS
   Guy Almes                       ANS
   Stephen An                      WELLFLEET COMMUNICATIONS
                                   INC.
   Michael Arnold                  FREEPORT-MCMORAN
   Cliff Bamford                   MICROSOFT
   William Biagi                   CORPORATION FOR OPEN
                    SYSTEMS INT'L.
   Daniele Bovio (alt.)            EARN
   David Brandin                   INTEROP
   Lee Caldwell                    NOVELL
   Michael Carter                  APPLE
   Steve Cisler (alt.)             APPLE
   Michael Conn                    MCI COMMUNICATIONS
   Hans Deckers                    EARN
   Mathew Dovens (alt.)            MCI COMMUNICATIONS
   Robin Erskine                   AARNET
   David Farber                    ELECTRONIC FRONTIER
                    FOUNDATION
   Francois Fluckiger              CERN
   Howard Funk                     IBM
   Dain Gary (alt)                 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
                    INSTITUTE
   Cary Giese (alt.)               U S WEST
   William Grant                   U S WEST
   Terence Gray                    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
   Erik Grimmelmann                AT&T
   Phil Gross                      ANS
   Anita Holmgren                  TENON INTERSYSTEMS
   Steve Holmgren                  TENON INTERSYSTEMS
   Ole Jacobsen (alt.)             INTEROP
   Ron Johnson (alt.)              UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
   Mitch Kapor (alt.)              ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
   Anthony Lauck                   DIGITAL
   James Luckett (alt.)            NYSERNet
   Richard Mandelbaum              NYSERNet
   Bruce Martin (alt.)             IBM
   Olivier Martin (alt.)           CERN
   Jeff Mayerson                   BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN
   David McDonald (alt.)           FREEPORT-MCMORAN
   John Mullarvey (alt.)           AARNET
   Catherine Muther                CISCO SYSTEMS
   Camillo J. Pasquariello         DEFENSE INFORM. SYSTEMS
                    AGENCY
   Andrew Partan (alt.)            UUNET
   Janet Perry (alt.)              NOVELL
   Paul Evan Peters                CNI
   Rich Pethia                     SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
                    INSTITUTE
   John Pickens                    3COM
   Werner Sammer                   SIEMENS AG
   Thomas Schwarcz (alt.)          SIEMENS AG
   Paul Severino (alt.)            WELLFLEET COMMUNICATIONS
                    INC.
   David Sincoskie                 BELLCORE
   Leonard Swatski (alt.)          DEFENSE INFORM. SYSTEMS
                    AGENCY
   Dave Thompson (alt.)            MICROSOFT
   Michael Thurk (alt.)            DIGITAL
   Paul Tsuchiya (alt.)            BELLCORE
   Peter Villemoes                 NORDUNET
   Richard West (alt.)             CNI

                                                               10/29/92

              Introducing the Internet Society Secretariat


During its initial period of operation, the Internet Society
secretariat occupies space provided by the Corporation for National
Research Initiatives and by EDUCOM:

Internet Society
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA 22091 USA
[phone]
[phone] FAX
[e-mail]


Elizabeth Hays             - Fiscal Planning
                           [e-mail]

Gregory Vaudreuil          - Technical Support
                           [e-mail]

Cynthia Matthews           - Membership Services
                           [e-mail]

Theresa Weigler            - Secretarial Staff
                           [e-mail]

In addition to these, two EDUCOM staff members are also assisting
in the organization and operation of the Society:

EDUCOM
1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
[phone]
[phone] FAX

Michael Roberts            - General planning and operation
                           [e-mail]
Elizabeth Barnhart         - Conference/Publication Support
                           [e-mail]
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INET'93
International Networking Conference
Internet Society
San Francisco, CA  17-20 August 1993


Following the very successful INET'92, INET'93 will be held on
17-20 August 1993 in San Francisco. Focusing on worldwide issues
of research and academic networking, the goal of INET'93 is to
bring together individuals from university, industry and government
who are involved with planning, developing, implementing,
managing and funding national, regional and international research,
academic, and commercial networks.

The official language of the conference is English.  The conference
agenda will include plans and status reports on research and
academic networks throughout the world. In addition, possible
topics for conference sessions include but are not limited to the
following:

Network Technology: Advances in the Network Technology Base
-- Progress toward international open network protocols
-- Security, management and authentication in managing networks
-- Transmission, routing, and transport technologies
-- Technologies of the '90s and 21st century
-- Very high speed networks

Network Engineering: Building the Global Infrastructure
-- Application of network technology to provide networking services
-- Interoperability among existing national and international
networks
-- Network management systems and methods
-- Reliability and performance engineering
-- Issues related to scaling
Application Technology: Enabling Technologies for Distributed
Applications
-- Collaboration technologies
-- Multimedia issues
-- Networked information retrieval
-- Mail and directory services
-- Workstation teleconferencing
-- Computer supported collaborated work
-- Interoperability of application services

User Applications: Support for International Communities of
Interest
-- Support of international collaboration
-- Access to scientific papers and data across national boundaries
-- Supercomputing
-- High energy physics, atmospheric modeling, and other scientific
applications
-- Education/distance learning
-- Medical research and clinical applications
-- Libraries
-- Work and play in Cyberspace: How networks are changing the
   social nature of work and play
-- Networking and the arts
-- High payoff application areas to support national and
   international development
Regional Issues: Networking Around the Globe
-- Unique regional issues and approaches such as multilingual and
   national character set accommodation
-- Asia-Pacific Rim                        -- Latin America
-- Eastern Europe                          -- North America
-- Europe                                  -- Africa
-- Former Soviet Republics                 -- Special Issues for the
Third World

Policy Issues: Governance, Management, and Financing of
International Networks
-- Globalization of services
-- Commercialization, privatization and public access
-- Coordination of international resources
-- Copyright and intellectual property rights
-- Appropriate use and speech restrictions
-- International security policy
-- Privacy and data protection
-- Telecommunications policy
The conference will be held immediately preceding Fall Interop '93,
the leading trade show for Internet technologies. This will make
possible attending both events as well as tutorials given as part of
Interop '93.

The conference will be held in one of the most beautiful cities in
the world.  Social events will be arranged during the conference to
take advantage of the unique environment San Francisco provides.
In addition, assistance will be provided to attendees wishing to see
more of this unique area.


Information for Paper Submission

Please submit 6 copies (in English) of double-spaced typed
manuscript (maximum of 20 pages) with an abstract to:

USRA
ATTN: INET'93
625 Ellis Street, Suite 205
Mountain View, CA  94043
USA

You may also submit an electronic (ASCII, please) version of your
paper by e-mail to:

[e-mail]

Important dates
-- March 1, 1993           Manuscript due
-- May 1, 1993             Notification of acceptance to authors
-- June 10, 1993           Camera-ready papers due

Workshop for Developing Countries

A workshop designed to assist developing countries in their
installation and use of networking technology is being organized
and will take place during the week before the conference in the
San Francisco Bay Area.

Points of Contact
Conference Chair:                          Eric Benhamou
Program Co-Chairs:                         Barry Leiner
                                           William Yundt
Internet Society Liaison:                  Larry Landweber


General Inquiries
To be added to the conference mailing list or for other requests,
send mail, fax or E-mail to:

USRA
ATTN: INET'93
625 Ellis Street, Suite 205
Mountain View, CA  94043
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
                                                               7/24/92
                     INTERNET SOCIETY DUES PAYMENTS
                         (Individual Members)


Payment of Internet Society annual dues may be made via check,
money order, credit card or wire transfer.  Annual dues for
individual membership are $70 per year for individual members,
and $25 per year for student members.


Instructions for Payments by Check or Money Order
Please make all checks and money orders payable in US Dollars to
Internet Society and mail to the following address:

     Internet Society
     1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
     Reston, VA 22091 USA

Please note on the check or money order the member's name,
membership number and invoice number.  Checks and money
orders included with an application form must have the prospective
member's name noted on it.


Instructions for Payments by Credit Card
The Internet Society currently accepts the following credit cards:
American Express, Carte Blanche, Diner's, Mastercard, and VISA.
Credit card payments will be accepted via postal mail, electronic
mail, telephone or fax.  In order to process credit card payments,
please include the credit card type, the credit card number, the
name of the individual on the credit card, the signature of the
individual on the credit card and the expiration date.    Please also
include the member's name (if different than the individual's name
on the credit card), membership number and invoice number with
the payment.  For those credit card payments sent via electronic
mail, the Header of the message will be used in lieu of a signature.
Please send credit card payments to one of the following:
     Email:        [e-mail]
     Telephone:    [phone]
     Fax:          [phone]


Instructions for Payments by Wire Transfer
Wire transfer instructions are as follows:

     Bank:         Riggs Bank of Virginia
                   9651 Lee Highway
                   Fairfax, VA  22030, USA

     Bank Number/Routing Number:           056001260

     Account Number:                       Internet Society
                                           14771020

Please instruct the bank to include the member's name, their
membership number and their invoice number with the wire
transfer, as it is difficult for us to process the wire transfer without
this information.

Questions Concerning Payment Methods
If you have any questions concerning payment methods please
contact Cynthia Matthews at the Internet Society.  Cynthia may be
reached at one of the following:

     Email:        [e-mail]

     Address:      Internet Society
                   1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
                   Reston, VA  22091  USA

     Telephone:    [phone]
     Fax:          [phone]




                    INTERNET SOCIETY DUES PAYMENTS
                        (Organizational Members)



Payment of Internet Society annual dues may be made via check
or wire transfer.


Instructions for Payments by Check or Money Order
Please make all checks and money orders payable in US Dollars to
Internet Society and mail to the following address:

     Internet Society
     1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
     Reston, VA 22091 USA

Please note on the check or money order the organization's name
and invoice number.

Instructions for Payments by Wire Transfer
Wire transfer instructions are as follows:

     Bank:                                 Riggs Bank of Virginia
                                           9651 Lee Highway
                                           Fairfax, VA  22030, USA

     Bank Number/Routing Number:           056001260

     Account Number:                       Internet Society
                                           14771020

Please instruct the bank to include the organization's name and the
invoice number with the wire transfer as it is difficult for us to
process the wire transfer without this information.

Questions Concerning Payment Methods
If you have any questions concerning payment methods please
contact Terry Weigler at the Internet Society.  Terry may be
reached at one of the following:

     Email:        [e-mail]

     Address:      Internet Society
                   1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
                   Reston, VA  22091  USA

     Telephone:    [phone]
     Fax:          [phone]