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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:30:34 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/cyber/articles/28icann.html October 28, 1999 One American Elected to Internet Board By JERI CLAUSING One of the Internet's founding fathers, Vinton G. Cerf, has been named to the board of the Internet's new oversight group, becoming the only American to win in the first round of elections for directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In the elections that ended Tuesday, the business and technical membership groups of ICANN elected four Europeans, two other North Americans, a Latin American and an Asian. Mike Roberts, the interim president of ICANN, said he was pleased with the caliber and international diversity of the nine new board members. But the fact that only one American won a seat was not well received on Capitol Hill, where some Republicans have questioned the Clinton Administration's decision last year to hand administration of the Internet's domain name system to ICANN.
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