[Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Internet Society Announces New Board of Trustees

[Greg Wood]

All,
For your reference, the announcement below will be publicly  
distributed on Monday 3 August.
Regards,
-Greg

INTERNET SOCIETY ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Leaders from Academia, Industry, and Internet Community Guide Global  
Effort

RESTON, VA, USA and GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - 3 August 2009 - The Internet  
Society today announced its new Board of Trustees, comprised of  
leaders from industry, academia, and the global Internet community.  
The diverse and distinguished board membership reflects the Internet  
Society's mission of providing global leadership in promoting the open  
development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all  
people throughout the world.

Members of the Board with terms beginning this year are:

*	Eric Burger, Chief Technology Officer at Neustar
*	Khaled Koubaa, Founder of the Arab World Internet Institute
*	Philip Smith of the Internet Architectures Group of Cisco Systems
*	Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he  
co-founded its Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Raúl Echeberría, the Executive Director of LACNIC (the Internet  
Address Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean), continued as a  
board member and was selected as the new chair of the Board.

"I look forward to working with the worldwide Internet Society  
community of members and chapters, and my colleagues on the board, to  
continue the important work of the Internet Society in promoting  
access to, and supporting the continued growth of, the Internet while  
preserving its core values," said Raúl Echeberría, Chair of the  
Internet Society's Board of Trustees.

During its first meeting, the Board formally thanked outgoing chair  
Daniel Karrenberg for his service over the past three years.

Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist at RIPE NCC, said, "It has been  
both an honour and a pleasure to chair the board. After three years it  
is time to take a step back. I look forward to serving another two  
years as a trustee and to supporting Raul in taking over as chair."

Continuing Members of the Board of Trustees are:

*	Hiroshi Esaki, Professor, The University of Tokyo

*	Ted Hardie, Director, Internet and Wireless, for Qualcomm's Research  
and Development group

*	Daniel Karrenberg, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of RIPE NCC

*	Désirée Miloshevic, International Affairs and Policy Development  
Advisor at Afilias Global Registry Services	

*	Alejandro Pisanty, Professor, the National University of Mexico

*	Patrick Vande Walle, Official of the European Commission

*	Bert Wijnen, Research Engineer at RIPE NCC

"The Internet Society Board of Trustees is truly international--a  
tremendous benefit as we work to fulfill our mission of an Internet  
that is accessible for everyone, everywhere," said Lynn St. Amour,  
President and CEO of the Internet Society.

The Board of Trustees reappointed Ted Hardie as Treasurer and Scott  
Bradner as Secretary.

Trustees serve in the interest of the Internet Society as a whole, and  
are appointed or elected by the following groups: Chapters,  
Organization members, and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). 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, D.C., 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. More  
information is available at: http://www.isoc.org

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