I was persuaded to join ISOC back in 1995, by the then head of IBM 's Internet Strategy to use Internet Protocols to run the systems for the Atlanta Olympics: to such an extent sooner or later the Internet Society will have to develop into the governance structure that will be needed as Internet has been flowing – because Governments can not trust, even if they can agree.
I was persuaded to join ISOC back in 1995, by the then head of IBM’s Internet Strategy. IBM was about to use the Internet Protocols to run the systems for the Atlanta Olympics. He told me that sooner or later the Internet Society would have to develop into the governance structure that would be needed as the Internet matured – because Governments could not trusted, even if they could agree.