ICANN | Video from Vint Cerf Tribute Released

Video from Vint Cerf Tribute Released

1 November 2007

LOS ANGELES : The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers today posted the video tributes from Tuesday night's salute to retiring Board Chair Vint Cerf on its website.

Messages in the video include tributes from:

Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States, Nobel Laureate 2007, Peace
Dr Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Arab Republic of Egypt
Dr Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Google
Commissioner Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission (Information Society and Media).
Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The video can be found at: http://www.icann.org/ or http://dotsub.com/films/tributeto_1/

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