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color:#1F497D'>Kuo-wei is very accessible and a reasonable guy. He is a Board
member of PIR, too. I think this is an improvement, overall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>--MM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Non-Commercial User
Constituency [mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William
Drake<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: [council] New ICANN Board member - starting
30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I wonder how this will play in China...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From:
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"Bruce
Tonkin" <<a href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au">Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date:
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>March
23, 2010 1:02:42 AM GMT-03:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"GNSO
Council " <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject:
[council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Hello All,<br>
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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>
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(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>
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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>
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Regards,<br>
Bruce Tonkin<br>
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From:<br>
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http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/kuo-wei-<br>
wu/<br>
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Short biography<br>
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Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has technical, management and policy experience in<br>
Internet-related industry.<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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).<o:p></o:p></p>
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