New York, June 17th 2005

The Internet Names Authorization & Information Center (INAIC) Council Advisory Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Dawe to the INAIC Council. Mr. Dawe is the Country Representative for Canada, and General Counsel Americas and Caribbean for the Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques (SITA). SITA is the world's leading service provider of IT business solutions and communications services to the air transport industry.

Mr. Dawe is an Australian national, he is a lawyer by profession, having degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Queensland.

Following his admission to legal practice, Mr. Dawe worked in private practice before joining a major Australian mining and petroleum company as a corporate lawyer. After seven years in corporate law, he left Australia for a personal sabbatical year in Europe, in order primarily to realize his ambition to learn a language other than English. Mr. Dawe studied French in Paris and German in Cologne.

His legal career has included the development of corporate internal legal services and he has also provided country-level operational management to SITA. As a member of the INAIC Council Mr. Dawe will contribute to the development of inclusive policies that promote public participation in INAIC and the PublicRoot.

Mr. Dawes personal interests, apart from his family, include flying, skiing, swimming, home networking, and a general interest in the evolution of computer technology and the Internet.