[1434] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Kapor Joins CIX Board
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan Estrada)
Fri Oct 4 13:00:47 1991
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 16:56:02 GMT
From: estradas@cix.org (Susan Estrada)
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Press Release
For further information, contact:
The CIX Assocation
3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 590
Falls Church, VA 22042
Tel: 1 703 876 5050
Fax: 1 703 876 5059
Mitchell Kapor Joins Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) Board
of Directors
Falls Church, Virginia, October 4, 1991 -- The Commercial Internet
Exchange Association (CIX) today announced that Mr. Mitchell Kapor
has joined its Board of Directors.
Susan Estrada, President of CIX Assocation and also Executive
Director of CERFnet, said "it is a pleasure to have Mitch
join us in helping to encourage the growth of the Commercial
Internet and establish a non-restrictive, open and and competitive
public data internetworking marketplace internationally".
Kapor said "I am very excited about the prospect of joining the
CIX Board. The CIX is a voluntary, cooperative association
which embodies the best approach to providing an open platform for
commercial internetworking."
Kapor has been active in public-interest work involving the social
impact of computer and communications technologies.
The other members of the CIX Board include Estrada, Martin L.
Schoffstall, Chief Technology Officer for Performance Systems
International, Inc. and Rick Adams, President & CEO of UUNET
Technologies, Inc.
The CIX Association is actively working to broaden the base of
national and international cooperation and coordination among
existing and emerging networking service providers. The organization
provides a neutral forum for decision making as the global Internet
migrates toward commercialization.
Kapor is also President and Co-Founder of Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), is a Board member of On Technologies, Inc. and is
the Founder of Lotus, Inc.
