Election of new Trustees

[ISOC Secretariat <isoc () isoc org>]

                        INTERNET SOCIETY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Internet Society
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Reston, VA 22091
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June 7, 1993

The Internet Society (ISOC) completed its first election of new
trustees on June 1, 1993 adding six trustees to the existing
thirteen. Newly-elected to the ISOC Board of Trustees are:

Scott Bradner
     Consultant, Harvard University Office for Information Systems

Susan Estrada
     Consultant, President of the Commercial Internet Exchange
     (CIX) and a founder of the California Education and Research
     Federation Network (CERFnet)

David Farber
     Professor of Computer and Information Science and Director,
     Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

Haruhisa Ishida
     Professor, University of Tokyo and Head of Research and
     Development, Computer Center

Jean Armour Polly
     Manager of Network Development and User Training, NYSERNet.

Jonathan Postel
     Associate Director for Networking of the High Performance
     Computing and Communication Division of the Information
     Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California.

They join the current trustees in guiding the Internet Society's
growth and direction.

The Internet Society is a scientific and educational professional
membership organization devoted to promoting the evolution and use
of the Internet and its technology on a world-wide basis. Founded
in 1992, ISOC provides the organizational framework for the
development of Internet Standards through the Internet Architecture
Board and the Internet Engineering Task Force. The Internet is a
system of nearly 12,000 interlinked computer networks containing
over 1.7 million host computers in all sectors of the economy
(government, academia, education and industry) in over 100
countries. The system has been doubling in size annually for the
last several years.

"The new trustees are representative of the vigorous, creative and
rapidly growing Internet community. Their involvement in the ISOC
Board of Trustees will enhance its perspectives and increase its
already considerable energy levels," said Vinton Cerf, President of
the Internet Society.

The new trustees will meet face to face with their colleagues on
the Board at the 1993 annual conference of the Internet Society,
INET93, August 17-20, in San Francisco.


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[Note: background material about the Internet Society, including a
list of current trustees can be obtained from the secretariat:

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

+1.703.648.9888
+1.703.620.0913 fax
Internet: isoc () isoc org]