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Submitted: November 5, 2007 - 11:17am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 10:24am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 10:24am
INTERNET BOARD PICKS NEW ZEALANDER CHAIR
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: Anick Jesdanun]
A New Zealand lawyer long active on Internet addressing policies was elected Friday as the first non-American chairman of a key oversight agency, replacing Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers selected Peter Dengate Thrush, 52, over telecommunications expert Roberto Gaetano, of Italy, to head the nine-year-old agency tasked with handling domain names and issues related to allowing Internet computers to find Web sites and route e-mail. Gaetano, 57, remains ICANN's vice chairman.
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