IP: One American Elected to Internet Board

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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.