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Internet Society executive director appointed: tony rutkowski
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinton G. Cerf)
Sun Feb 27 06:24:53 1994
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 13:18:18 -0500
From: "Vinton G. Cerf" <vcerf@cnri.reston.va.us>
Folks - I thought this would interest you.
Vint Cerf
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9 Feb 1994
PRESS RELEASE
Reston VA, USA. The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society,
assembled from around the globe named Anthony M. Rutkowski as
the Executive Director of the Society.
Tony Rutkowski is an internationally known figure in both the
telecommunication and internetworking worlds - with three decades
of diverse experience in commercial, regulatory, and academic
environments. In accepting the position, Rutkowski thanked
the Board for the honour and their confidence in serving the
organization through what are certain to be extraordinary times.
The Internet Society is the global international organization
which fosters the development of and education about Internet
technologies, networks, applications and use. The Board consists
of 18 eminent individuals drawn from every region of the world -
most of whom were instrumental in creating and evolving different
components of the Internet and the technology. The Society's
membership - mirroring the Internet - consists of thousands of
individuals and scores of companies, non-profit organizations,
and government agencies worldwide. It supports administrative
and coordination activities necessary for the standardization,
implementation, application, and evolution of the global Internet
and its technologies.
The Board at this important meeting is also reviewing the state
of the Internet and recent developments, and preparing a strategic
plan for evolving the Society to fulfill the responsibilities
it holds in meeting the demands of an explosively growing Internet.
For example, in one of the Next Generation Internet Protocol
proceedings, the power generation utility industry submitted
comments indicating that it would like IP addresses for every
controllable electrical device in the world.
For further information, contact Mary Burger of the Internet
Society Secretariat at +1 703 648 9888 or <mburger@isoc.org>
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Feb 1994
Anthony Michael Rutkowski
Short Resume'
Tony Rutkowski has been Director of Technology
Assessment in the Strategic Planning Group of Sprint
International - a position held since February 1992. His
principal responsibility was driving the company in new and
innovative directions through business planning, development
and incorporation of advanced technologies and applications
generally, and internetworking technologies specifically.
He followed and coordinated a very broad array of
technological, economic, business, trade, and institutional
activities in the information-telecommunication field,
internal and external to Sprint.
He was one of the founding Board of Trustees of the
Internet Society and was the Vice-President. He is
Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Society News magazine -
coordinating more than a hundred correspondents around the
world through the Internet. The Society is the world's
professional organization for advancing and standardizing
internet technologies and applications. He also remains a
Research Associate with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
From 1987 to 1992, he was the Counsellor to two different
Secretary-Generals of the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) in Geneva - the world's intergovernmental
organization for telecommunications. He was responsible for
analysis of major developments in the field and formulation
of policies and international provisions, including the many
technical, legal, regulatory, organization management and
GATT trade issues that arose at the highest international
business and governmental levels. He came to the ITU in
1987 as head of its Telecommunication Regulations and
Relations Between Members Division - which supports the
coordination of laws, regulations, and operational
information among national administrations and public
telecom service providers.
An electrical engineer (B.S.E.E.) - lawyer (J.D.),
Rutkowski has for the past 30 years enjoyed a wide variety
of positions in private and public sectors in the
telecommunication and information industry - domestic and
international; in business, government, and education.
Previous significant positions include:
publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the industry's leading
trade magazine, Telecommunications (1986-87)
serving as staff advisor to the two Chief Scientists of
the FCC, analyzing and shaping a wide variety of key
domestic and international science and technology
policies and strategies in the telecommunications field
within the FCC and among other government agencies
(1979-1986)
teaching in New York Law School's graduate program in
telecommunications law (1980-83)
serving as staff technical advisor to the FCC Cable
Television Bureau and special international advisor in
the Office of Plans and Policy (1974-1980)
direct responsibility for design engineering and
management support of the Apollo project communication
systems and Shuttle control systems at the Kennedy
Space Center (1967-74)
election to local public office in Florida as a leading
community legislative reformer (1972-74)
In previous incarnations, he was a research microbiologist
and broadcast engineer.
He has been active in the IEEE, ABA, and numerous other
forums - including in several instances, their creation. He
has authored or contributed to several books, and written
more than 100 published articles and reports over the past
decade. He has testified as a Congressional expert witness,
and remains a visible and prolific analyst-writer -
appearing at many industry forums.
He is 50 years old, enjoys biking and mountaineering, is
married to sinologist-economist-analyst-writer Kathleen
McGlynn Rutkowski, and with two little computer-weenies,
operates a home Internet and help reshape the world through
these technologies
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