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Clinton's Senior Internet Advisor, Ira Magaziner, to Speak at INET'98
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 1998
One of Many Highlights at Geneva Conference, July 21-24RESTON, Virginia – The Internet Society (ISOC) today announced that Ira Magaziner, senior advisor on U.S. Internet policy to President Bill Clinton, will be a featured speaker at INET’98 to be held July 21 to 24, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference provides an annual forum for world leaders of the Internet community to discuss the evolution of the Internet and its future impact on many key areas of society, including communications, health, law, education and electronic commerce.
In his role as the leading U.S. spokesman for Internet policy, Magaziner will speak at the conference’s governance panel. He will discuss the role of government in determining Internet policy and provide his perspective on the administration and regulation of the Internet. Other panelists include Jon Postel, director of the Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA); Jean-Noel Tronc, advisor to French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin for Information Technology and Information Society; and Paul Twomey, CEO, National Office of Information Economics, Australia. The panel moderator will be Mike Roberts, of Educause.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued the final White Paper on U.S. Government policy to transfer the Internet’s domain name system to the private sector, allowing for self-governance with coordinated functions provided by a new non-profit corporation. The policy statement left most details on the transition in the hands of the non-governmental Internet community and called for a broad-based consensus to be reached.
"The conference plays an important part in ISOC’s overall program to encourage global coordination and cooperation on the Internet, and Mr. Magaziner will provide the U.S. Government’s perspective on the new era of self-governance upon which the Internet community is now embarking," said Don Heath, president of ISOC.
Prior to his White House appointment, Magaziner earned respect as one of the U.S.’s most successful corporate strategists, building two successful consulting firms and directing policy analysis for major corporations. During the past two decades, he has conducted hundreds of corporate strategy studies for companies competing in the global economy.
Other leading Internet experts scheduled to speak at INET’98 include Vinton Cerf, co-inventor of the computer networking protocol, TCP/IP, which has become the language for Internet communications, and Robert Verrue, director general of DGXIII, which promotes the development of European information highways.
More than 150 peer-reviewed papers will be presented during INET’98. Attendees will include a who’s-who of the global Internet community. Major sponsors for the event include Geneva Financial Center Foundation, Compaq Computer Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, IBM, France Telecom, University of Geneva and MCI Communications.
INET’98 conference details and registration information are available at the Internet Society web site http://www.isoc.org. Since 1992, ISOC has served as the international organization for global coordination and cooperation on the Internet, promoting and maintaining a broad spectrum of activities focused on the Internet’s development, availability and associated technologies. ISOC is a non-governmental, international organization, and its members include private companies, government agencies, foundations, entrepreneurial organizations and more than 6,000 individual members.
Contacts:
Don Heath, heath@isoc.org
Martin Burack, burack@isoc.org
Internet Society, http://www.isoc.org/
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Alice Sachs, alice@gablegroup.com
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