[Chapter-delegates] press release to issue shortly

[Gerard Ross]

Hello

For your information, here is the press release we shall soon send out  
announcing the sitting of the new Board.

Best
- Gerard

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Gerard Ross
Senior Communications Manager
Internet Society
Email: ross at isoc.org


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Press release
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INTERNET SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES

RESTON, VA, USA and GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - 30 June 2008 - The Internet  
Society (ISOC) has announced the composition of its new Board of  
Trustees. The new Board was seated during ISOC's Board meeting held in  
Paris, France on 28-29 June 2008.

The new Board members are:
- Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director of LACNIC (the Internet Address  
Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean), elected by ISOC's  
Organisation members

- Bert Wijnen, a consultant and programmer, Chair of the Network  
Configuration (netconf) Working Group in the IETF, selected by the IAB  
as the IETF appointee to the ISOC board

Retuning members are Daniel Karrenberg (elected by ISOC's Organisation  
members) and Alejandro Pisanty (elected by ISOC's Chapter members).

The new and returning Board members have now commenced three-year  
terms, joining continuing Board members: Hiroshi Esaki, Patrik  
Fälström, Ted Hardie, Franck Martin, Desirée Miloshevic, Bill St.  
Arnaud, Patrick Vande Walle, and Baoping Yan. Lynn St. Amour (ISOC  
President and CEO) also sits on the ISOC Board.

Daniel Karrenberg was re-elected as Chair of the new Board.

"As a board we have made very good progress in recent years," said  
Karrenberg. "We have consolidated the revenue, made great strides in  
organisational renewal, attracted great new talent, and launched major  
initiatives."

He also led the Board in thanking the outgoing Trustees, Glenn Ricart  
and Fred Baker, who were very active and made valuable contributions,  
as Treasurer and former Chair respectively.

"I very much look forward to working with this new Board," said Lynn  
St. Amour, ISOC President and CEO. "I congratulate and welcome the new  
members, and at the same time, I wish good luck to Fred Baker and  
Glenn Ricart, who have served ISOC so well."

The Board of Trustees also made the following appointments of office  
holders:
-   Scott Bradner, Secretary
-   Ted Hardie, Treasurer

More information, including biographical details of all Board members  
and details of the Board selection process are available at:

  http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/



About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 to  
provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and  
policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is  
dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the  
Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.


For further details
Gerard Ross
Senior Communications Manager, Internet Society
E-mail: ross at isoc.org
Telephone: +41-228-071-444 x2261
4, rue des Falaises
CH-1205-Geneva
Switzerland