<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A pity to see Raimundo Beca go, he was a friendly and inter alia helpful to us with NCSG formation; a number of us wrote endorsements for his reelection. At the same time, Kuo-Wei Wu's a good guy with whom I'd expect we also will be able to work well. <div><br></div><div>I wonder how this will play in China...</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Bruce Tonkin" <<a href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au">Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">March 23, 2010 1:02:42 AM GMT-03:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"GNSO Council " <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu </b><br></span></div><br><div><br><br>Hello All,<br><br>The ASO has announced that that Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has been elected by the<br>Address Council to fill Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board.<br><br>(see<br><a href="http://aso.icann.org/news/kuo-wei-wu-elected-to-seat-10-on-the-icann-boa">http://aso.icann.org/news/kuo-wei-wu-elected-to-seat-10-on-the-icann-boa</a><br>rd/ ).<br><br><br>I see that Mr Kuo-Wei Wu - has experience across ccTLDs (board member of<br>.tw), gTLDs (Board member of .org), and IP addresses (member of<br>Executive Council of APNIC). He has the full set :-)<br><br>Below is a short biography.<br><br>Regards,<br>Bruce Tonkin<br><br><br>From:<br><br>http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/kuo-wei-<br>wu/<br><br><br>Short biography<br><br>Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has technical, management and policy experience in<br>Internet-related industry.<br><br>He is the co-founders of TWNIC (.tw operator), APTLD, CDNC (Chinese<br>Domain Name Consortium). He is currently board member of TWNIC (2000 ~<br>now), APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association, 2008~2010) and PIR (.org<br>operator, 2009~2011), and EC of APNIC (1999~now), TWIA (Taiwan Internet<br>Association, 2008~2010), and COSA (Chinese Open System Association,<br>1995~now). He has experience in supervision, financial, and governance.<br><br>In regard to Internet-related management, Mr. Wu was the deputy director<br>of NCHC (National Center for High-Performance Computing) from 1990~1998,<br>where he was responsible for TANET (Taiwan Academic Network) backbone<br>operation to serve all the universities, research institutions in Taiwan<br>and a staff of over 120 people. He is the co-founder of Asia Pacific<br>Supercomputer Center Consortium (HPC Asia) to lead the experience<br>sharing over ten Asia Pacific Supercomputer Centers.<br><br>He started Internet-related works since he worked for Cray Research,<br>Inc. (1984~1990), and a vice-president of Yam Digital, Inc. (One of the<br>leading Internet Portal in Taiwan). When he was a vice-president of<br>Acer, Inc.. he lead the Internet service business for Acer, Inc.<br>(2000~2004). He actively involved in ICANN activities (GAC, ALS, ccNSO,<br>ASO) since 1999 til now. He also actively participated UN/WSIS<br>(2004~2005), and UN/IGF (2006~2009).<br><br>He is the CEO of NIIEPA (2004~now) - a non-profit organization in<br>Taiwan. NIIEPA provide research and consultant services in Internet<br>policy and Information security for government, research institutions,<br>universities, and industry. <br><br>Mr. Wu holds a mathematics BSc degree from Tunghai University (Taiwan,<br>1975), a MSc degree in Mathematics from University of Cincinnati (Ohio,<br>USA, 1980), and MSc degree in Computer Science from Columbia University<br>(NYC, 1982).<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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