INET 2002 Conference Opens Today in Arlington, VA.Business Editors/High Tech Writers ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2002 The Internet Society's 12th Annual INET Conference Kicks-Off Week of Provocative Plenary Sessions, Exciting News Announcements, Award Presentations, Internet-Related Side Meetings, and more! The Internet Society (ISOC) of Reston, VA, has announced that INET 2002, the Internet Society's 12th annual conference, will open today in Arlington, Virginia, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott. In addition to the 40+ conference sessions, this week INET 2002 will feature a number of provocative plenary sessions, exciting news announcements, award presentations, Internet-related side meetings, and the IPv6 Forum's IPv6 Technology Deployment Summit. From June 18-21, the most innovative and influential leaders from the global Internet community will gather to debate and discuss the technologies and policies that are shaping our collective future. It's not too late to join in the discussion - INET 2002 welcomes walk-in registrations. Please visit: http://www.inet2002.org for complete program information. INET 2002 is kicking-off the week with a full day of in-depth tutorials on topics ranging from Internet security and privacy, to e-readiness among developing countries. The following three days will consist of more than 40 conference sessions, punctuated with a number of plenary panel discussions that feature some of the Internet industry's key influencers, including: Google CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Eric Schmidt, Stanford professor and author Larry Lessig, Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, "Internet Fathers" Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, and AOL Time Warner CTO Bill Raduchel. Members of the press attending INET 2002 will be the first to hear exciting news scheduled for announcement at the INET press conferences. On Wednesday, June 19 at 10:30 a.m., in the hotel's Madison room, the Internet Society is planning to make a major announcement about their bid for .Org. Later that day, at 3:00 p.m., press will receive a special welcome from the INET 2002 conference co-chairs, and have a chance to explore this year's theme, "Internet Crossroads: Where Technology and Policy Intersect," in a Q & A with INET 2002 plenary speakers (and topic experts!) Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn, and Larry Lessig. In addition, several prestigious awards will be presented at the INET 2002 Welcome Reception on June 19. Attendees will toast their friends and colleagues during the presentation of the Internet Society's Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, the 2002 IEEE Internet Award IEEE Internet Award [1] was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in June of 1999. It may be presented annually for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. , and the INET 2002 Best Poster Award. Several Internet-related organizations have chosen to co-locate their meetings with INET 2002, giving INET attendees the opportunity to see what associated groups are actively doing in the Internet community. The Global Internet Project will hold a special workshop on June 18 called, "Spam: Can it be Stopped?" Also, the Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Privacy Information Center or EPIC is a public interest research group in Washington D.C.. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values in the will host a one-day public symposium on the Public Voice in Internet Policy, June 22. For more information, please visit: http://www.inet2002.org/inet-other.html. INET 2002 is honored to have the support of the following organizations: Principal sponsors: IBM, Hewlett-Packard and the Markle Foundation. Sustaining sponsors: America Online, Sun Microsystems and the State of Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. Switzerland. Contributing sponsors: AMS AMS - Andrew Message System , Cisco Systems, Compaq, DISA, Ericsson, Hitachi, Intel, Intelsat, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, and The Washington Post. Media sponsors: O'Reilly Open Source Convention The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States. and O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, WAMU 88.5 FM and InfoWorld. NGO and Non-Profit Sponsors: Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Development Gateway, The Academy for Educational Development, FAO FAO, n See Food and Agriculture Organization. , Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant among its facilities and programs are the Frank H. , infoDev, Mitretek Systems and the University of Tartu At different times during its history the University of Tartu was known as Academia Gustaviana, University of Dorpat, '' Universität (zu) Dorpat, University of Yuryev, and Tartu State University (Tartu Riiklik Ülikool)''. . Donor: Verisign. Endorsers: EU IST, ETSI and WCA International. For more information about INET 2002, please visit http://www.inet2002.org. About ISOC The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org/) is a non-profit, non-governmental, open membership organization whose worldwide individual and organization members make up a veritable "who's who" of the Internet industry. It provides leadership in technical and operational standards, policy issues, and education. ISOC hosts two annual Internet conferences (http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/), trains people from all over the world in networking technologies, conducts workshops for educators, and electronically publishes an award-winning magazine, "E-On The Internet." ISOC is the organizational home of the International Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board (www.iab.org) Founded in 1983 as the Internet Activities Board, it is a volunteer organization that provides architectural guidance to and adjudicates conflicts for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). , the Internet Engineering Steering Group See Internet Engineering Task Force. Internet Engineering Steering Group - (IESG) A body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force Area Directors and the IETF Chair. , and the Internet Research Task Force (www.irtf.org) An organization of working groups involved in researching future Internet technologies. The IRTF is managed by the IRTF Chair in conjunction with the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG). The IRTF Chair is appointed by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). - the standards setting and research arms of the Internet community. These organizations operate in an environment of bottom-up consensus building made possible through the participation of thousands of people from throughout the world. About Foretec Seminars Foretec Seminars, formed in 1997 as a subsidiary of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (body) Corporation for National Research Initiatives - (CNRI) A US research and development organisation that leads and funds research and development of network-based information technology including the National Information Infrastructure. Address: Reston, VA, USA. CNRI Home. (CNRI), manages and provides meeting planning and technical support for technology-related conferences. Foretec Seminars most recently managed the Internet Society's 12th annual INET conference, INET 2002. Foretec is also responsible for various functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF) Secretariat, including arranging IETF meetings. Other recent events include the Tenth International Python Conference (2002), the Global IPv6 Summit in Canada (2001), and the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference in Amsterdam (2000). http://www.foretec.com. |
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