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Subject: 2000-10-05: BayFF on ICANN
From: Dave Del Torto (meetingpunks-admincryptorights.org)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 17:39:06 CDT

Greetings Meetingpunks,

The next Cypherpunks SF Bay Area physical meeting is Saturday 14 October.
Details about that will be announced here soon, but meanwhile, mark
your calendars (and send us your agenda items!).
See <http://cryptorights.org/meetingpunks>.

If you need something interesting to do between now and then,
consider attending the EFF's "BayFF" meeting on ICANN, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is *tomorrow* at
Stanford (see announcement below for details).

    dave

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Media Advisory

BayFF Explores Internet Naming Body
Barbara Simons, Emerson Tiller and Karl Auerbach Gear Up for ICANN Board
Elections

WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation,
        Barbara Simons, Emerson Tiller and Karl Auerbach
        Intermission music provided by UKUSA of VirtualRecordings.com
WHAT: 'BayFF' Meeting on ICANN Elections
WHEN: Thursday October 5th, 2000 at 7:30PM
WHERE: Stanford Law School, room 290

In honor of its 10th Anniversary of defending civil liberties online,
EFF presents a series of monthly meetings to address important issues
where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled
"BayFF," kicked off on July 10th and will continue throughout the
year. The upcoming BayFF will explore the global election to select
five of the nineteen directors of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a U.S. corporation contracted to
manage the Internet's address assignment. Candidates Barbara Simons,
Emerson Tiller and Karl Auerbach will discuss the issues in the
election and the concerns raised by monitoring groups over the manner
in which it's been organized. The election, which closes on October
10th, is the first attempt to a hold a global election on the
Internet.

Barbara Simons was ACM President from July 1998 until June 2000. ACM
is the oldest and largest scientific and educational computer society
in the world, with about 80,000 members internationally. Prior to
becoming ACM President, Simons founded and chaired ACM's U.S.
Technology Policy Committee (USACM), and the ACM Committee for
Scientific Freedom and Human Rights. Simons was elected Secretary of
the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) in 1999, and she
has been on the CSSP Board since 1998. She has been a member of the
U.C. Berkeley Engineering Fund Board of Directors since 1998. Simons
is a Fellow of ACM and of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Simons earned her Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley; her
dissertation solved a major open problem in scheduling theory. She
became a Research Staff Member at IBM's San Jose Research Center (now
Almaden), where she did research on scheduling theory, compiler
optimization, and fault tolerant distributed computing. Simons
currently serves on the President's Export Council's Subcommittee on
Encryption, and she had been a member of the Information Technology
Working Group of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion.

Emerson Tiller is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin
where he co-directs the Center for Business, Technology and Law. Dr.
Tiller researches, writes, and teaches about Internet issues,
including those relating to the ICANN and the Internet domain name
system. He has received grants to study Internet issues from the
National Academy of Science and the Society for Information
Management. He has published in the most prestigious academic
journals in his field, including the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia
Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of
Strategic Information Systems.
As editor of the publication Internet Law and Business, Dr. Tiller
reviews, summarizes, and comments upon the major ICANN decisions
involving domain name disputes. He received his math and law degrees
from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Dr. Tiller is
also the founder of icannVote.com, a public information website
explaining ICANN issues and assisting in registration of ICANN
members.

Karl Auerbach is senior researcher in the Advanced Internet
Architecture group in the Office of the Chief Strategy Officer at
Cisco Systems. Mr. Auerbach is presently engaged in research projects
aimed at reducing the costs associated with installing, operating,
troubleshooting, and managing networks. His recent work has also
included real-time transport of high quality audio and video over the
net, content management, IP multicast, and quality of service. In
addition to his technical work,
Mr. Auerbach has been an attorney in California since 1978. He is
currently a member of the Intellectual Property Section of he
California State Bar. Mr. Auerbach's work on Internet technology
started in the early 1970's. He has been a long-time member of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has founded both Epilogue
Technology Corporation and Empirical Tools and Technologies, Inc. and
has been closely involved with several other startups. He is the
co-founder of the Boston Working Group and has been involved in the
issue of Internet governance for several years.

**** You can subscribe to EFF's mailing list to receive the regular
BayFF annoucements. To subscribe, email <majordomoeff.org> and put
this in the text (not the subject line): subscribe BayFF.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the
leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
challenges industry and government to support free expression,
privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a
member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to
Web sites in the world.

Contact:
John Marttila
Electronic Frontier Foundation
415-436-9333 ex 107

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