======================================================================== Annex 1 to Doc. 94-219 (President's Report) Report of the ISOC Executive Director The First Ninety Days - Accomplishments --------------------------------------------- The past ninety days have witnessed almost non-stop major activity and dramatic change in the Internet Society. These are reviewed below, as well as covered in other documents. 1. Facilities and Staff Executive Director. On 1 March 1994, I began as Executive Director pursuant to contract executed with the President of the Society on behalf of the Society. This also involved writing the provisions and establishing temporary benefit arrangements for the Exec Dir. Headquarters. On 30 March 1994, the Society headquarters was established at 12020 Sunrise Valley Drive, suite 270. The preceding several weeks were spend in working with contractors to design and construct the facilities and networks, order hardware and software or find donors, and in dealing with all the administrative and logistical imperatives of moving everything out of CNRI facilities. This was accomplished with amazing good fortune (largely due to the incredible good support staff), and is cronicled in a short article in the upcoming issue of ISOC News. See attached. We made significant capital acquisitions through a combination of donations and purchases, as we necessarily had to construct the headquarters out of whole cloth. This included everything from telephone and computer systems to supplies and kitchen utensils and new letterhead and business cards. In all cases, we sought to be frugal - and in many cases took the extra steps to obtain competitive bids and shop for the best possible prices. The facility is a showcase of the Internet-empowered office. We believe that the Society has been provided a first rate facility at very low cost. The entire LAN, all the PCs, printers, servers, PBX, and Internet connectivity were up and running within 24 hours. The last major item - a 5kva UPS - was just installed. International Secretariat. A target date of 1 July was set for establishing a staffed ISOC International Secretariat comprised of the Executive Director and staff employed by CNRI. All the necessary forms have or will be filed with local authorities related to labour and tax laws. A good employee package was assembled - providing for health, disability, and life insurance, as well as a pension programme. 2. Organization Support One of the prime functions of the Secretariat is to provide support to existing bodies of the Internet Society. ISOC Generally. One of the first efforts undertaken with the new facilities was to provide an ISOC identity on the network. This was done by implementing WWW, Gopher, and ftp based materials - as well as an associated information structure and logo identity. The logo image has been carried through all ISOC materials. Some of these implementations involved the very latest WWW/Mosaic technology such as providing a network based Mosaic form for membership - as well as backward compatibility with Gopher and ftp based versions of the forms. Board. The Secretariat sought to implement the Board's directive to provide well organized materials and support as timely as possible. A server based structure for Council documents was created with access by gopher and ftp. The "Frode agenda" format was followed which places action items up front. A complete paper set of Board documents was assembled for eventual scanning to place on the server. INET. The Secretariat undertook the responsibility of assisting with INET94. This assumed the form accounting support, liaison, assisting with the program, promotion and public relations. The last was done through a combination of developing and distributing a comprehensive INET FAQ - on paper, by fax, ftp, gopher, and WWW. The WWW implementation was rather innovative - including an automatic forms capability - and was announced on the WWW What's New. A complete information kiosk for INET94 was also created and placed on a network server. The Secretariat has also been working with teams associated with INET95 and INET96. There has been an overature from ATI in Spain to host INET97. Workshop. The Secretariat undertood the financial management responsibility and is providing accounting, collection, and disbursement responsibilities. A server-based information kiosk has also been provided for the workshop. Insurance. Liability insurance for officers and directors and officials has been obtained in the amount of US$ 1 million. NDSS. The Secretariat provided accounting support for NDSS94 and entered into an agreement for NDSS95. General Services. The ISOC Secretariat has become the primary hub for inquiries about the Internet. At many periods during the day, we have been averaging one telephone call every two minutes. In order to deal with this influx, a number of single page FAQs were prepared and are provided by post fax and email. Email and fax is used as much as possible to speed delivery, and reduce costs - as we're able to fax directly from the PCs. The Internet presentation materials have become very popular and these have been kept up to date and expanded. These are widely referenced. The press inquiries are now averaging six per day, interspersed with email based interviews, NTT and other Japan television taping sessions, and French television. 3. Other International Organizations ISO. The ISO has granted ISOC class A (peer) international standards organization recognition and liaison is continuing both at the SC6 level and directly with the ISO secretariat in Geneva at the Director-General level. ITU. Continuing liaison with the ITU secretariat staff is maintained. The ITU is hosting and promoting two special ISOC seminars on 10 June for the entire Geneva area - especially the international organizations and foreign missions. Although the ISOC-ITU formal relationship remains in limbo over the dues question - cooperation is continuing and both secretariats are exploring the possibility of exchanging equal dues. The ITU Deputy Secretary General was the first official visitor to the ISOC's new headquarters. UNCTAD. Liaison is being maintained directly with the UNCTAD Secretary General's office. They just announced that their new trade programme will be Internet based and intend to demonstrate the effectivity of the Internet at their Sept 1994 World Trade Conference in Columbus Ohio. ECMA. There is now a formal liaison relationship between the European Computer Manufacturer's Association and ISOC - primarily for SNMP standards coordination. A visit with the ECMA Director General is planned on 9 June. Others. Continuing liaison is being maintained with a panapoly of other international organizations that includes: WHO, UNDP, FAO, UN Disaster Assistance, CICR, UNESCO, IDB, WIPO. 4. Other organizations IEEE. Maurizio Decina - Chair of the IEEE Comsoc - wants to pursue a variety of ISOC cooperative relationships from writing columns in their publications, to joint conferences. National Government Representatives. Through the facilities the French Embassy as well as USIA WorldNet television, the ISOC Executive Director has been able to meet on four different occasions with government officials of France, Israel, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Tunesia, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Venezuela. ATI, Spain. ATI is seeking a special arrangement with the Internet Society. It is unclear, however, what its relationship to a Spain ISOC chapter would be. 5. New developments and initiatives See Doc. 95-225 6. External conferences and meetings Participation occurred in the following conferences and meetings. With the exception of Interop, all meeting costs were either minimal local travel or borne by the sponsor. 1 Mar - Plenary presentation at the Conference of USA Nat'l Association of Regulatory Commissioners (DC) 9 Mar - Presentation to staff conference of USIA at invitation of Director (DC) 15 Mar - Presentation at meeting of VITA on assistance to developing countries (DC) 16 Mar - Evening presentation to the Washington Area Telecom Professionals (DC) 19 Mar - Interview with Wadiah Atiyah on bringing Internet to North Africa 22 Mar - Presentation to Telestrategies Conference (DC) 25 Mar - Interview with Chris Grisham on ISOC standards process 30 Mar - Presentation to Cavanaugh Associates EMail conference 1 Apr - Meeting organized at World Bank for ITU Deputy Secretary General 4 Apr - Presentation to EMedia Conference (DC) 5 Apr - Presentation to FNC Advisory Committee on ISOC and standards (DC) 6 Apr - Presentation to Information Industry Association (DC) 6 Apr - Presentation to Educom National Net (DC) 7 Apr - Presentation to Glocom meeting of Japan CEOs (DC) 14 Apr - Presentation to Sprint Federal Users Conference (Denver (pre-existing obligation, Sprint paid)) 21 Apr - Participation on Electronic Mail Ass'n Conference Closing Plenary 25 Apr - Meeting with VP France Telecom on internet developments 26 Apr - WorldNet television conference to Middle East government officials 27 Apr - Participation in Marconi award dinner for Bob Kahn 28 Apr - Presentation to Harvard Business School Alumni Assn dinner (DC) 4 May to 6 May - Interviewed by Japan television, interviewed on MBONE multicast, Chaired panel and made presentation at Interop'94, and made presentation to Executive Interop session 10 May - Presentation a Meckler Internet UK (London - costs by Meckler) 16 May - Fuji Sanki television interview 17 May - WorldNet teleconference with North African government officials 20 May - WorldNet teleconference with Argentina conference on informatics and the law 26 May - Luncheon presentation at French Embassy to informatics industry representative from France 27 May - WorldNet teleconference with Latin-American government officials ======================================================================== The Internet Society's New Headquarters A landmark of sorts was achieved in March with the Society moving into new headquarters at 12020 Sunrise Valley Drive in Reston, Virginia in the USA. This is right in the middle of what Fortune Magazine has termed the "netplex" - indeed whose center is marked by location of the Internet Society. Suite 270 is a modest group of 14 rooms on the second floor of the Reston Plaza building that were specially prepared to our specifications. It's a very "green" location with the windows overlooking a wooded area fronting the property of the U.S. Geological Survey across the street. Indeed, the clever use by architect Tom Kite of a hallway wrapping around the conference room and glass panels, has resulted in a very bright interior that makes maximum use of natural light. Prior to this point, the Society occupied a few extra offices of the Corporation for National Research initiatives. Physically it was a move of but two kilometers, but symbolically a giant step for the Society. The move of the headquarters and the Society's International Secretariat to the new location marked not only a major step in the evolution of the Society, but also a challenge to build its own internal internet in record time. Fortunately everything proceed with relatively few problems other than a constant uncertainty of when we could physically move caused by a number of inspections required by the County of Fairfax authorities. The Secretariat staff - Cynthia Matthews, Mary Burger, and Susan Vaillet are a remarkably well organized, "do it" group of people who immensely enjoyed creating a new organization headquarters out of whole cloth. Our accountant Bev Daines, counsel Andrea Ireland, former staff assistant Terry Weigler, and President Vint Cerf all provided continuing assistance to make it happen. The day of the move was highlighted by a knock on the door by a shipper who announced "we have your machines." Almost by chance, Kathy Webster at Sun Microsystems had arranged to have two beautiful Sun SPARCs arrive at the premises to provide the literal platform on which we would operate. It is a gift that we all appreciate every minute of the day. The heart of the new facility is the communications room and our enterprise internet. T1 rate Internet access services are provided by UUNet Technologies' Alternet - which won the low bid among local service providers. The service terminates on the latest generation Cisco Systems 2503 router provided by Cisco through the kind assistance of Ed Kozel, and the Ethernet LAN was made possible through 3COM President Eric Benhamou's generosity in providing their new LinkBuilder hubs and parallel tasking boards. The entire facility is wired using level 5 10baseT cable with a patch capability that allows up to four terminations per room and evolution to 100 Mbit/s rates. Bob Williams at Netmanage shipped over a box full of their new Chameleon NFS 4.0 software that allows all the machines to be peered, and FTP Software provided several copies of its PC/TCP for DOS/Windows. All the staff have Pentium 60 machines that speak native IP across the Ethernet LAN which is wired with Level 5 cable so we can upgrade to 100 MB/sec. The entire office computer platform is fed from a 5kva UPS. Every machine has a 14.4 faxmodem card that is configured to grab the lowest unused lines from the PBX - thus allowing any material to be faxed out directly - as easily as sending it to a printer. UUNet Technologies came in with the low bid for our Internet access service and facilitated the T1 service connection. Getting telephone service the first day of the move proved more of a problem, but there was something poetic about the Society routing IP packets to the Internet before it was able to get telephone connections. CNRI's network wizzards David Ely, John Stewart, and Charles Orth all pitched in to configure the routers and set up the two workstations. The conference room table is "wired for Internet" with a 3COM 10baseT hub sitting in the middle and their parallel tasking PCMCIA adapters available for inserting into any visiting laptop or notebook computers. Visitors are pre-assigned Internet host names, and there are electrical power strips under the table. The sizeable Sun SPARC Server 1000 is being configured to support a new programs such as the Internet Global NIS and the NII GlobalLink, as well as all the basic information about the Society on WWW, Gopher, and FTP platforms. The Sun SPARC station 10 supports email, dns, internal administrative needs, and MBONE access for multimedia multicasting and conferencing. A terminal room has been established for developmental and demonstration purposes. More workstations, Macs, and PCs are anticipated - which also demonstrates the power of Internet technologies and applications to interoperate among so many diverse platforms. All of this was designed, procurred, installed and made operational in four weeks. The platform supports ISOC's International Secretariat, it's new information services, and likely various continuing series of workshops. It also provides a solid base for the Society providing its global coordination and support functions as the Internet continues to scale as ever more universal Global Information Infrastructure. ==================================================================