ICANN Welcomes New Directors

[RIPE NCC Staff <]

[ Apologies for any duplicates]

Dear Colleagues, 

FYI, in the message attached below please find the ICANN announcement 
containing the list of new Directors appointed to the ICANN Board by the 
three Supporting Organisations. For biographies of each Director and other
relevant URLs please consult the list of links provided in the ICANN 
announcement.

The RIPE NCC would also like to announce the formal Website for the 
Address Supporting Organisation. APNIC has kindly volunteered to host 
the ASO Website that can be reached at:

http://www.aso.icann.org


Regards, 

Paul Rendek

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From: "Andrew McLaughlin" mclaughlin@localhost
To: "Icann-Announce" icann-announce@localhost
Subject: [AC-COORD] ICANN Welcomes New Directors
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:38:11 -0700

ICANN is pleased to announce that nine new Directors have been named to the
Board by its three supporting organizations.

DIRECTORS SELECTED BY THE ADDRESS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION (ASO):
     - Robert Blokzijl
     - Ken Fockler
     - Pindar Wong

DIRECTORS SELECTED BY THE DOMAIN NAME SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION (DNSO):
     - Amadeu Abril I Abril
     - Jonathan Cohen
     - Alejandro Pisanty

DIRECTORS SELECTED BY THE PROTOCOL SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION (PSO):
     - Jean-Francois Abramatic
     - Vinton G. Cerf
     - Philip Davidson

The members of the Initial Board congratulate and welcome these new
Directors, and thank the numerous participants in the supporting
organizations who worked hard to complete the nomination and voting
processes prior to ICANN's upcoming round of meetings in Los Angeles,
November 1-4.


Andrew McLaughlin
ICANN

LINKS
- ICANN:  <http://www.icann.org>
- Biographical information on the new directors:
<http://www.icann.org/general/new-director-bios-28oct99.htm>
- Address Supporting Organization:  <http://www.aso.icann.org/>
- Domain Name Supporting Organization:  <http://www.dnso.org/>
- Protocol Supporting Organization:  <http://www.icann.org/pso/psonew.htm>
- ICANN Los Angeles meetings:
<http://www.icann.org/losangeles99/losangeles-details.htm>