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Board of Trustees1999 Board ElectionCandidatesBallot order of the candidates was determined by random drawing.
BIO: I received an A.B. degree in Mathematics from Harvard College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Yale University. My professional experience has concentrated on the application of computers to economic and social policy, leading academic and research computing and networking organizations, and making the Internet useful throughout the world. In 1966 I created the Computer Center at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and from 1970-73 worked at the Urban Institute building microanalytic simulation models of the U.S. household sector. During 1973-86 I worked at the United Nations, supporting the transfer of computing and information technology to developing countries. I've done field work in over 40 developing countries, and I continue to do so. I introduced the use of microcomputers for census data processing in Africa in 1979, and I worked in China for 5 months supporting 1982 Population Census activities. In 1985, I designed the Somalia National Computing Center. Since 1986 I directed academic computing activities first at Northwestern University and then at New York University. I'm a Board member of NYSERNet and AppliedTheory Communications, Inc. and have been a Trustee of CREN (Corporation for Research and Educational Networking). I'm on the Technical Advisory Panel for the World Bank's infoDev program. In 1994, Larry Landweber and I wrote the paper that became the basis for USAID's Leland Initiative, promoting it through the process of adoption by the U.S. Government, and resulting in the installation of Internet connectivity in 20 African countries. Statement: I have been one of your representatives on the Board of Trustees now for three years, and I hope that I've met your expectations. I ask for your continued support in this election so that I may continue my active involvement for another term. Although I'm a U.S. citizen and have diverse networking interests, I consider the most important to be assisting the developing world to become connected and, in doing so, improve all aspects of their civil society. I was the principal organizer of the Network Training Workshop for Developing Countries in 1993, and remain actively involved in workshops since then. Through these workshops, a dedicated group of volunteers have now trained about 1200 participants from nearly all developing countries of the world. These participants have returned to their home countries to connect them to the Internet, build initial viable national networks, and train people how to use the rich information content and communications possibilities now available to them. That's as important as anything else your Society has accomplished. As Vice President for Conferences during 1996-1998 I've worked with ISOC members, ISOC staff, national institutions, and foreign governments to make INET'96 (Montreal), INET'97 (Kuala Lumpur) and INET'98 (Geneva) successful. INET conferences are truly Internet summits, global in nature, yet human in character. They are an important activity for our society. If re-elected, I shall work actively to help developing countries make effective use of Internet resources and thereby assist substantially all sectors of their civil society. BIO: Currently, I am the director of the Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) and of the Virtual Private Network Consortium (VPNC). IMC, which I helped found almost three years ago, is the international trade association for the Internet mail industry. Our membership includes software companies and service providers of all sizes. As director of IMC, I regularly interact with the press, host interoperability events for Internet mail protocols, and write standards specifications. VPNC is a new organization whose goals are to help VPN manufacturers and service providers define what is a virtual private network and to increase interoperability among products. For both positions, I regularly attend IETF meetings, and am the author of a number of Internet standards and proposals. I have been active on the Internet since 1979, when I had an email account on the ARPANET as part of my job supporting a database management system used by many ARPA contractors. In the intervening years, I have been the author of approximately 20 books about computers, including many Internet titles. I wrote one of the first popular Internet titles ("Internet Instant Reference" in 1993), followed by others including "The Internet" (the companion to the popular US public television series), "Internet English" (a Japanese book-CDROM combination on which I was co-author), and the current best-selling "Netscape For Dummies". My educational background consists of two bachelor's degrees from MIT (chemistry and political science) in 1979. I live and work in Santa Cruz, California. Statement: My interest in being on the ISOC board comes from my desire to see both ISOC and the IETF gain more international prominence in the coming years. Now that various governments want to start regulating the Internet more heavily, it is important for ISOC to assist governments and international bodies in understanding the effects of such regulation and a provider of information about how governments and individuals can help the Internet continue to grow. ISOC should be focal point for the now-popular topic of "Internet governance", and ISOC's long history of fostering the growth of personal and corporate use of the international Internet gives it a great deal of credibility in this area. In some senses, ISOC is already somewhat of a governing body, but it's hands-off approach has made it less visible to people who expect all governments to be heavy-handed and obvious. It would be great for people around the world to see that ISOC's model of advising without forcing has been the main catalyst for the Internet's rapid growth. If elected, I would also like to see ISOC continue its support for the IETF as the primary body for the creation of Internet standards. As national and local governments squabble over making money from the Internet, they may also want to control how the Internet works. It is very important that ISOC continue to aid the IETF to make sure that the protocols used on the Internet benefit everyone. BIO: Steve Case is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America Online, Inc.[NYSE: AOL], based in Dulles, Virginia, the global leader in the Internet online services and content industry. Since co-founding America Online 12 years ago, Steve Case has focused on building the mass market for interactive services and content. His vision has been to create a new medium that will someday be as ubiquitous as telephone or TV - and eventually even more useful and indispensable to our everyday lives. From its beginning in 1985 as a dial-up service for Quantum computer owners, AOL has experienced remarkable growth. It reached one million members in 1994, five million in 1996, and ten million in the fall of 1997. Over the past five years, AOL has grown from 250 employees and $30 million in annual revenues to now nearly 10,000 employees and more than $2.2 billion in revenues. America Online also has been gaining increasing momentum in the global marketplace. In Europe, the America Online and Bertelsmann AG are partners in a joint venture that now operates both AOL and CompuServe there - forming the leading pan-European Internet online business in a rapidly growing market. Early in 1998, AOL surpassed the one-million-member mark in Europe. America Online also operates international services in Canada and Japan and will launch services in Australia and Hong Kong in 1998. With the acquisition of CompuServe's worldwide Internet online services early in 1998, America Online now operates AOL Interactive Services, with over 12 million members; CompuServe Interactive Services, with more than 2 million members; and AOL Studios, the world's leading creator of original interactive content. As growth of this new medium accelerates, Steve Case and America Online are leading the way in dealing directly with emerging issues such as child online safety. The Company's AOL Foundation is committed to supporting grassroots programs that use the interactive medium to help foster community, enhance teaching and learning, and improve people's lives across the economic spectrum. Born and raised in Hawaii, Steve Case graduated with a degree in Political Science from Williams College. Statement: As Chairman, CEO and co-founder of America Online, I have had a rare opportunity to take part in what can be accurately described as the Internet revolution. The Internet's growth in the past five years has been extraordinary -- the Internet is transforming the way people learn new things, buy products, get their news and communicate with friends. It is changing the way we live and work. My interest in running for election to the ISOC Board of Trustees is to help foster the continuing growth of the Internet and to preserve and strengthen the global community the Internet has helped to create. As ISOC begins to implement its ambitious goal of reaching 100,000 individual members by the year 2000, my experience building a service with millions of members worldwide could be quite valuable. It is important that a prestigious worldwide organization, such as ISOC, have a large membership, reflecting the widespread support for this new medium. It is clear to me that the larger Internet community needs such a body to represent the diversity of Internet users in the many policy forums that will continue to arise. ISOC is the natural inheritor of that obligation and is well positioned to lead the way into the next Century. Its leadership can help the Internet realize its full potential. If elected by the ISOC members, I will be pleased to serve as a Trustee and will work for its substantive strengthening through significantly increasing membership. BIO: Since two and a half years back, I work with product implementation at Tele2, the largest ISP/Telco in Scandinavia. At that position I am together with three other persons responsible for strategic decisions on what direction the company should go regarding Internet technology. In fact, it is the first time I really use the knowledge I got when working as system administrator (UNIX) at the Royal Swedish Navy (1985-1987), and the Royal Institute of Technology (1987-1994) -- while working on my MSc in Mathematics specialising in Computing Science (event driven simulation on multi-processor computers). In the Navy I also worked with development of software for specialized numerical methods, including evolving the methods due to the introduction of a computer in the work onboard the ships. Between 1994 and 1996, I worked at Bunyip Information Systems, the inventor of the Archie System, and developed the Whois++ protcol as well as implementing the first scaleable indexing server for directories. I.e. after all of that ground breaking work, and research, I found that working in a commercial company is kind of interesting (maybe I have found a new definition of the word interesting?). I was appointed by the Internet Architecture Board to the Policy Oversight Committee where I served during 1997, until I was nominated and appointed to become Area Director for Applications Area in the IETF, a seat which I still serve. I have also during my so far kind of short life (I am only 33) been working closely with publishers, and distribution of books. I live about 10 km south of Stockholm in Sweden, and have part from a significant other, two kids in the house. Statement: In the IETF, I have been working with email, DNS, URNs and directory services. I am especially interested in deployment of true internationalization, character set issues, and scaling/deployment of global directory services and security. I.e. scaling issues of applications, which of course include "finding stuff on the net". Expanding the Internet is not only a question of getting all people on earth connected, and reachable by email. It is also a problem of today to get the connected Internet working well. Internationalization is a big problem of today, and things that can be seen as basic, like character set issues and date formats, is not working very well. As a person living in Sweden which have our own three special characters part from what is used in English, I can probably not even guess how difficult it is for people which use a different script than us. We also see problems with date formats being discussed related to the Y2K problem currently swirling the earth over and over again. Protocols and applications must be better on handling internationalization and localization. People must be able to write in their native language (and because of that using their local script). This is not a problem for the developing countries, but for the whole Internet. 5. HANS PETER DITTLER BIO
Statement: Being involved with the Internet since more than 15 years, I see the beginning of several major changes during the last years. The tremendous increase in commercial usage makes it necessary to adopt the internal structures. There are more and more political and social influences which replace the pure technical rules of the earlier years. The ISOC has to play a central role in the new social and political environment of the Internet. I intend to help the ISOC grow and become a major focus point for all political questions regarding the Internet from forces like the US, the EC and all other governmental bodies. The ISOC must answer questions coming with the social and cultural influences to the society imposed by the Internet. At the same time we should continue the promotion of open and freely available standards from the IETF. The role of the ISOC as an educational body must be extended from the technical education of emerging countries to the social and political guidance of users of the Internet all over the world. To represent the users of the Internet the ISOC needs more members, individuals as well as companies and organizations. To achieve this, we need a strong local chapter structure. Being first an individual member representing my personal thoughts, ideas and efforts, I am a member of the German chapter and will continue to work for a stronger representation of the chapters in the BOT. The regional chapters are a possible link to the local government and these connections should be intensified. If elected, I will put my best efforts in making the ISOC stronger and the Internet better for private and commercial users. BIO 1978 BSc in Physics. 1979-1980 Research Fellow, University of Barcelona 1981-1982 Fulbright Fellow in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Charlottesville, VA) 1982 PhD in Astronomy (University of Barcelona) 1983-1985 Associate Professor in Applied Physics, Polytechnic University of Catalonia 1986-1989 Professor of Astronomy, University of Barcelona I have been Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Tarragona since 1990. I am currently Chairman of the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Tarragona. I am the founder of TINET, the first Spanish Freenet, and of the European Association for Community Networking, with civic networks from Italy, France, Finland, Great Britain and The Netherlands. I am a member of the Catalan Chapter of ISOC (ISOC-CAT) and promoter of the Spanish Chapter (ISOC-ES) I am involved in the creation and development of XANETA, a Catalan Academic Network devoted to research in and about the Net. I am currently acting as an advisor to the Catalan Government about the social and cultural aspects of the development of the Information Society. Statement: Being a Catalan (therefore a Spaniard, a Mediterranean, a European and a Latin) I believe that multiculturality is a keystone of the development of the Net. As I have two mother tongues, and understand and appreciate several others, I believe that languages are patrimony of Humankind and, therefore, also of the Net. I am active in the field of Community Networking so I believe that "real" communities have an important place in the Net, that information is important but that communication is, too, and that access to both information and communication is a new basic right of the citizens of the XXI century. As a member of an ISOC Chapter, I do believe that the *Local* activity of ISOC Chapters ought to have a role in the life and structure of the *Global* ISOC My activity will focus on the following topics:
I will open a permanent website for interaction with my fellow ISOC members. BIO Javier Sol presently serves as ISOC’s Vice President for Conferences. As such, he is in charge of organizing INET, ISOC’s yearly conference. He is also President of the European Internet Business Association, an organization aimed at concentrating the voice and efforts of the European business community that uses or deals with the Internet. In addition, he is also a member of the Policy Oversight Committee (POC), a body created by ISOC and IANA to work towards a functional and competitive domain name plan developed by the (IAHC). As a day job, Javier Sol runs (as Executive Director) the Spanish Internet Users' Association. As such, he has worked on the development of Internet in Spain for the last four years. He initiated and coordinated the creation of the Spanish Internet Exchange and serves on several governmental advisory groups, addressing issues related to the Internet in Spain. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Duke University (with distinction in Computer Science) and a Master’s degree on Computer and Information Sciences from Ohio State University. Prior to his current position, Javier spent several years working for BULL S.A. in Paris, conducting research on Artificial Intelligence. In 1990 he returned to Spain, where he was a consultant for a few years before joining the Spanish Internet Users Association. He has taught at universities in France, Spain and the U.S.A. His last subject was "Strategic Impact of Information Technology" for the European MBA program of Boston University. Javier plays Celtic music. Statement: More than anything else, what has kept Internet together for all these years is the sense of being a Community. The Internet Society and the IETF are the ones that have kept this Community together, both socially and technologically, and have provided those who build it the tools to maintain contact and the places to meet. As ISOC’s VP for Conferences, I face one of the most exciting and inspiring challenges in my life. The challenge is primarily to do everything possible to keep this sense of community alive at a time when the Net is perceived by many users to be 100% e-commerce and marketing. Only this community can continue its labor of bringing the Internet into those countries in which it still does not exist and in which there is still no economic basis for large companies to be interested in developing the Internet’s reach. I believe that ISOC has three major roles to play in the development of the Internet: 1) to assure, through its training programs, that the lack of trained technicians is not a barrier to developing the Internet’s reach in any country in the world and; 2) to keep the technical, educational and social Internet Communities united and in permanent communication, by supporting the IETF, the RFC editorial function, and by producing a conference in which everybody is kept informed about other activities (including the work of the IETF); 3) To assure that the user’s perspective is heard in all governance forums. 8. JOHN GAGE BIO John Gage is the Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, for Sun Microsystems, reporting to Bill Joy, the Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. As Sun's Chief Researcher, Gage is responsible for Sun's relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy, and for alliances with the world's leading research institutions and laboratories. Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and left Berkeley in 1982 to join Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems. Gage is a member of the American Mathematical Association, the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE, the Board of Regents of the US National Library of Medicine, the Board of Trustees of Fermi National Laboratory, and was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of ISOC to complete the term of the late Jon Postel. In 1995, Gage created NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources of world high-technology companies to all schools and libraries to connect them to the Internet. Since 1996 over 500,000 volunteers have wired over 50,000 schools and libraries in the United States. NetDays are planned in over forty countries for 1999. Gage is the host of a worldwide satellite television program, Sunergy, that explores the frontiers of computing, networking, science and mathematics. Over thirty broadcasts are available from www.sun.com/sunergy, both in video and in full-text transcript. Gage has been a member of scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Multimedia Super Corridor project of Malaysia. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and two children. Statement: I believe I can contribute to the Internet Society in three important ways. First, I will concentrate on expanding the membership of the Internet Society. As we focus our efforts on bringing open Internet access to every country, to every >school, and to every child, we must increase the participation of those committed to open standards. I believe we can expand our current membership of seven thousand to several hundred thousand in the next three years. Second, I will concentrate on strengthening the financial basis of ISOC and IETF. Those organizations both profit and non-profit--that benefit from the evolution of technical standards of the Internet can and should contribute to support our common efforts, and I will work to see that they do. Third, I will concentrate on helping those in every country who wish to organize themselves to create >Internet Societies. By bringing the message of the Internet Society to all countries and >regions, we can alter social and economic patterns of development. I have always supported the open dialogue of the IETF and ISOC as a model for the creation of emerging economies based on knowledge and communication. I will work in ISOC to maintain the core ethic of openness and technical excellence, and to convey these values to the hundreds of millions of new participants in what we have created over the last twenty-five years. BIO Administrator, Automation officer, Library, Court of Justice, European Communities. Member: Staff Committee - internal administrative committees - Management committee of the EU staff Common Sickness Insurance Scheme - Common Joint Committee, EU institutions - Staff Regulations Committee. Diploma in Law, Postgraduate diploma (International private Law), doctoral research (legal data processing), Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Two years vocational training, computer programming, Greek productivity Centre. LL.M. (by research and thesis) Advanced Information Technology and Law, Queen's University of Belfast, British Council scholar. One year foundation course in Mathematics. Open University, UK. Languages: Greek, English, French fluent. German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian varying working knowledge. Previous professional experience: Journalism - Researcher, Legal data processing, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki - Section of legal data processing, Centre for International and European Economic Law, Thessaloniki - Barrister, Thessaloniki Bar - Patent Lawyer, European Patent Office - Teaching, Computers and Law, Greek Productivity Centre - Working group: computerised justice systems: Greek Ministry of Justice - Legal Data Processing Committee, Thessaloniki Bar. - Administrator, Court of Justice of the EC. (Service of Legal Informatics - Staff Department: Automation officer. Head of Section "Statutory Entitlements" (90-91). Legal affairs officer (91-94). Member: Committee on Procurement and Contracts, New Technologies Consultative Committee, Joint Committee, Staff Regulations Committee). Member: - Society for Computers and Law Participation: congresses in Community law, Computer Technology and Computers and Law. Publications: Community law, Environmental law, Computers and Law, Legal Internet. Statement: ISOC, having successfully fostered Internet as an innovative technological social and economic model of integration, is expected to provide the leadership and guidance which will shift it into a universal infrastructure, an essential utility and service englobing all current informational media and tools, available to everybody independently of their technological advancement and economic capacities. Since the Internet does not operate in a vacuum, ISOC should propose universal standards for a novel self-regulation model, alternative to traditional legislative approaches, which, emancipated from any individual government will operate at an acclaimed international level; they must forge efficient decision making and problem resolution procedures for an autonomous and independent Internet governance recognised from states, organisations and economic entities; impose the convergence of national legal regulations towards these guidelines; maintain the capacity to constantly consistently and universally adapt the Internet infrastructure. My combined qualification, my long involvement with IT related legal issues and my experience with an international administration can usefully contribute new insights and approaches to the ISOC mission. BIO Tarek Kamel is the co-founder and Secretary of the Internet Society of Egypt (ISE), an ISOC chapter. Kamel founded the Communications Department at the Information and Decision Support Center IDSC/RITSEC. He is managing the main Egyptian Internet gateway, servicing over 40 commercial ISPs and hundreds of government organizations. Kamel's work extended into liberalization issues such as a tax reduction for ISPs as well as a government/private sector partnership to serve the Egyptian Internet community. He has actively participated in the establishment of community centers in remote areas to bring the Internet to the have-nots. Kamel co-founded the annual ISE event: CAINET conference and chaired its program committee for the last three years. He received the first award from the ISE in recognition of all his efforts. Kamel is currently a member of the program committee of INET'99 at San Jose. In INET'98 he was a member of the organizing group of the Developing Countries Symposium. Kamel has co-organized the African Symposiums at INET'97 and in Benin in December 98. In the latter event, he was elected in the interim board of trustees of AFRINIC. He also participated as one of the training staff members of the developing countries workshop of INET'94. Academically, Kamel is an Associate Professor at the ERI. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Networks from the Technical University of Munich. He has lectured in various graduate level joint-academic programs led by Cairo University, Maastricht School of Management and University of Louisville. Statement: The Internet is a revolution with societal impact not less than that of the industrial revolution, which rolled the world over from an agricultural society into an industrial one adding prosperity and wealth. Yet also, it widened the gap. This is my focus, and what I will ask myself every day, as I work for and within the growing community of our Internet. The gap's size is widening particularly in Africa and in some other parts of the world. The players for or against are collectively: the education, the telecos, the policy makers and the ISPs community. I charge against this gap. I work towards a global community, with prosperity on all sides and edges of the Net. This is my motto: Prosperity on all Edges of the Net. Within the Board of Trustees, I would work with its members to bring forth our region's needs and efforts to develop opportunities for growth. I would cooperate with each Board member to make sure that the BOT of ISOC, is the board of a truly Global ISOC. The Internet is a network about people, which requires more universal access and mass penetration. I will bring forward issues on the table that concern the other side of the gap as awareness, education, deregulation and infrastructure upgrade to narrow this gap and bring us close. I look forward towards having more community centers and more local content on the Net in the developing world. If I am elected to serve on the Board, I will exert my best efforts to expedite the achievements. BIO Also see: http://members.aol.com/MartinB535/MBWebPage.htm As ISOC's Executive Director since September 1996, Burack has been key in creating mechanisms that enable members to interact with ISOC and each other and participate in ISOC programs. Examples include ISOC's members-only discussion groups and member survey, and the members-only section of the web site. He also managed the enhancement of the look, ease of use, and standards of the ISOC web site. This has helped significantly increase traffic, resulting in attracting more members to ISOC. Burack assisted in the formation of the majority of the chapters formed in the last two years, and also supported many of the chapters currently in formation, as well as the formation of ISOC's SIG dealing with access to the Internet for the disabled. Prior to ISOC, Burack was with MCI for ten years in various marketing management positions where he developed strategies that re-positioned MCI as a significant data services provider. Before that, he spent nine years with Satellite Business Systems, where he was product manager for inbound and card services, and successfully negotiated changes to the breakup of the Bell system to allow customers to keep their 800 numbers when changing carriers. Burack previously worked for Southern Pacific Communications Company, now Sprint, from 1974 to 1977 and was responsible for the development, branding, and marketing of its initial services. Earlier he worked in marketing, sales and software development for Datasonics, National Broadcasting Company, Bunker Ramo, Inc., and Citicorp. He has a B.B.A. in Management from Bernard Baruch College. Statement: As Executive Director, I have been instrumental in creating financial and operational stability for ISOC. As Trustee, I'll focus more on policy issues as well as continuing fund raising efforts and obtaining other needed resources. To avoid any conflict of interest, I will resign my position at ISOC. Membership Growth and Benefits: ISOC must have a larger base of support. This requires benefits comparable to similar organizations, and I'll encourage additional programs that are meaningful to our membership and that will support growth. Education: ISOC's Network Training Workshop and K-12 Educators' Workshop are significant contributions to the Internet's growth. I will work to expand these programs to touch even more people. IETF: The Internet Engineering Task Force is ISOC's underlying reason for being. The IETF, IAB, IESG, and IRTF can count on my support to help secure funds and in any other way needed. Chapters: I've helped many chapters form, and will continue to do so. ISOC, though, must not "Balkanize" (as some would have us do) by becoming a federation of chapters with members owing allegiance only to chapters and not to ISOC. To protect the Internet, we must speak as an international organization with a single voice that reflects policies established by a Board elected by YOU, our worldwide members. Special Interest Groups: I will encourage the formation of additional SIGs so members can cooperate across local and national boundaries on issues of interest to them, regardless of whether or not a chapter is in their area. BIO Srisakdi Charmonman has extensive and well-rounded experience from both developed and developing countries suitable to contribute as an ISOC trustee. With Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1964, he was McMaster University Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Associate Professor, University of Missouri Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science, State University of New York Full Professor, Full Professor and Staff Association President at Thailand National Institute of Development Administration, and Distinguished Professor and President of the Faculty Council at KMIT. He has more than 350 publications and lectured in more than 18 countries. In government, Charmonman was Computer Working Group Chairman, and Chairman of the Internet Traffic Committee at the Office of the Prime Minister, Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Committee and Advisor to the Education Committee of the House of Representatives, member of the Senate Copyright Committee, Electronic Commerce Project Manager at the Commerce Ministry, and Chairman of the Internet Advisory Committee at the Ministry of University Affairs. In business, Charmonman co-founded and chair KSC--Thailand largest ISP, and was a full-time Advisor to the Bangkok Bank President. Charmonman has been member since 1961, Vice Chairman of the Rochester Chapter and Chairman of Thailand ACM Chapter; Chairman of Thailand Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society; ISOC Advisory Council Member and Chairman of Thailand Chapter; Thailand IFIPS representative; and member of APNIC Executive Council. Charmonman was voted Asian Computer Man of the Year 1981; Father of the Internet in Thailand; and GM Magazine Man of the Year 1996 and 1997. Statement: Prof. Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman will use his extensive and well-rounded experience from academic, governmental and business areas as well as from developed countries like USA and Canada and from developing country like Thailand in promoting the Internet Society in the way decided by the majority of ISOC members. Please let him contribute in:
All in all, Dr. Charmonman is ready and willing to serve you. In addition to your favorite candidate, please give Charmonman a chance by voting for him. Charmonman has been highly successful in academic, governmental and business areas. So, let him prove to you that he will be successful in serving you as your ISOC Trustee. BIO
Statement: Being involved in developing the Internet in Chile has given me the prospective of somebody trying to introduce a technology already developed in a different part of the world which many people think can understand but very few really do. In particular I consider very poor the role that the press has played in expanding the use of the Net in my country and I guess in many other countries like mine. They have in general over emphasized the 'game' part of it, or the extrange behaviours of some groups or, of course the use of the Net by people involved in selling pornography or in terrorism. The press has helped very little in promoting the use of the Net for business, health care or education. I feel that it is partially our fault since we haven't paid enough attention to talking to them, teaching them or including them in our meetings, not as reporters but as participants. I think that ISOC should emphasize this as part of its world activities. ISOC has had a lot of focus in technical issues with little regard to the content development, even though in the last years some efforts have been made, specially at INET conferences. Efforts should be made to include people from areas different from engineering in our meetings and may be develop meetings where the emphasis is put onto joint work between networkers and content developers. Meetings like Internet World have taken that role over ISOC meetings, this should be changed. Finally, I feel that telecom operators all over the world, except maybe with the exception of US operators, are not seeing ISOC as the right forum to attend. If we want to have influence in the development of the future Internet, a special effort should be made to include them. BIO After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1969, I joined KDD R&D Labs. I developed terminal equipments with microprocessors. I also worked for the standardization of ITU teletex services for several years. I organized Internet research project in 1983 in my labs, and developed the tools for the UUCP gateways to the first email network in Japan called JUNET. I operated and managed the international UUCP gateway "kddlab" from 1985 to 1994 in collaboration with UUnet, EUnet, UKnet, JUNET etc. as a voluntary basis. I developed and managed the international gateway as well as Exchange Points of Inter-Ministry Network(IMNet) of Japan from 1994 to 1997. I proposed to organize JPNIC as the current formation in 1995, and made efforts to establish the organization; I am now an auditor of JPNIC. I also worked for establishing the first 45Mbps TransPacific link via Internet World Exposition '96(IWE'96) with Carl Malamud, Jun Murai, Vinton Cerf, etc; IWE'96 promoted to expand the TransPacific Internet bandwidth 25 times in the year. I have been a supporter of the WIDE Project which leads protocol development and operation of the Japanese Internet. I joined to form Asia Pacific Advanced Network(APAN) under the leadership of Professor Kilnam Chon. I drafted the proposal for High Performance International Internet Service(HPIIS) of NSF, and Indiana University revised & submitted it to NSF. I am now working with NGI networks as well as Internet2 as APAN Director of Secretariat/NOC, and am a principal research engineer of KDD R&D Labs. Statement: When I am elected to be a Board of Trustee member, I will make efforts to improve the followings:
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