President's Message - ------------------- Dear Internauts: First, let me acknowledge that I first heard the term "Internaut" at the SecondConference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, March 18-20, 1992. This expression was offered in a talk by Jean Armour Polly who works at the Liverpool, New York public library. It is a story in itself that this library is on the Internet through PSI. The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society held formal election of officers by email with the following results: President, Vinton Cerf Vice President for Conferences, Lawrence Landweber Vice President for Publications, Anthony M. Rutkowski Treasurer, Frode Greisen Secretary, Juergen Harms The Board also approved the appointment of Michael Roberts as Executive Director of the Society. He will continue to split his time between EDUCOM and the Internet Society. Individual memberships are approximately at the 1,000 mark and organizational sponsors number an even dozen with another dozen committed and may more giving consideration to this distinction. If you think your organizations might want to provide this kind of support for the Society, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the Internet Society secretariat (isoc@nri.reston.va.us) or with me personally. In addition to the INET92 Conference planned for June 16-19 this year in Kobe, Japan, planning has begun on the INET93 conference in San Francisco. Eric Benhamou, the CEO of 3COM Corporation, has accepted appointment as the general chairman. A conference planning committee consisting of Eric Benhamou, Michael Carter (Apple), David Brandin (Interop), Dan Lynch (Interop), Bob Shahan (IBM), Michael Majdalany (SUN) and Lee Caldwell (Novell) is working with Larry Landweber, Mike Roberts, Elizabeth Barnhart and me to organize the 1993 conference. Organizations interested in sponsoring this activity are invited to contact Larry Landweber (lhl@cs.wisc.edu).