Transcript for Vint Cerf: Do you care about the Internet?

Hi, I'm Vint Cerf. I'm currently the chairman of ICANN. I'm also the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google And I'm one of the founders of the Internet But I'm here today to tell you just a little bit about why you should be involved in ICANN and why ICANN is important to you Do you care about the Internet? Do you care that it works every day for you? Do you care that your domain names resolve? That the ISP has Internet address space for you to use on your servers? Do you care about the policies that are used to decide when new top-level domains are created? Do you care how we allocate IP address space? If you have an opinion about that, you need to be part of ICANN. We have many different opportunities for people to participate in policy making. You could be a member of the Board of Directors and make some pretty hard decisions. You could be helping ICANN operate as an organisation. You could be a member of one of the supporting organisations. The business community and the Generic Names Supporting Organisation You could be part of the Address Supporting Organisation because you're part of the ISP community that allocates and assigns address spaces Your opinions could count To help the Internet operate better, operate on a larger scale, ... and on a global scale But your opinions won't be heard if you don't participate. Join the people shaping the future of the Internet Join ICANN For leadership roles, apply before 18 May [2007] at http://nomcom.icann.org else... read, interact, or comment online