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diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc1336.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc1336.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8aa22fe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc1336.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1851 @@ + + + + + + +Network Working Group G. Malkin +Request for Comments: 1336 Xylogics +FYI: 9 May 1992 +Obsoletes: RFC 1251 + + + Who's Who in the Internet + Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members + +Status of this Memo + + This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does + not specify any standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. + +Abstract + + This FYI RFC contains biographical information about members of the + Internet Activities Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering + Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the + the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG) of the Internet Research + Task Force (IRTF). + +Table of Contents + + 1. Introduction.................................................... 2 + 2. Acknowledgements................................................ 2 + 3. Request for Biographies......................................... 2 + 4. Biographies + 4.1 Philip Almquist............................................ 3 + 4.2 Robert Braden.............................................. 4 + 4.3 Hans-Werner Braun.......................................... 6 + 4.4 Ross Callon................................................10 + 4.5 Vinton Cerf................................................11 + 4.6 Noel Chiappa...............................................13 + 4.7 A. Lyman Chapin............................................14 + 4.8 David Clark................................................15 + 4.9 Stephen Crocker............................................15 + 4.10 James R. Davin.............................................18 + 4.11 Deborah Estrin.............................................18 + 4.12 Russell Hobby..............................................20 + 4.13 Christian Huitema..........................................20 + 4.14 Erik Huizer................................................21 + 4.15 Stephen Kent...............................................23 + 4.16 Anthony G. Lauck...........................................23 + 4.17 Barry Leiner...............................................25 + 4.18 Daniel C. Lynch............................................26 + 4.19 David M. Piscitello........................................27 + 4.20 Jonathan B. Postel.........................................29 + + + +Malkin [Page 1] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + 4.21 Joyce K. Reynolds..........................................30 + 4.22 Michael Schwartz...........................................31 + 4.23 Bernhard Stockman..........................................32 + 4.24 Gregory Vaudreuil..........................................32 + 5. Security Considerations.........................................33 + 6. Author's Address................................................33 + +1. Introduction + + There are thousands of networks in the internet. There are tens of + thousands of host machines. There are hundreds of thousands of + users. It takes a great deal of effort to manage the resources and + protocols which make the Internet possible. Sites may have people + who get paid to manage their hardware and software. But the + infrastructure of the Internet is managed by volunteers who spend + considerable portions of their valued time to keep the people + connected. + + Hundreds of people attend the three IETF meetings each year. They + represent the government, the military, research institutions, + educational institutions, and vendors from all over the world. Most + of them are volunteers; people who attend the meetings to learn and + to contribute what they know. There are a few very special people + who deserve special notice. These are the people who sit on the IAB, + IESG, and IRSG. Not only do they spend time at the meetings, but + they spend additional time to organize them. They are the IETF's + interface to other standards bodies and to the funding institutions. + Without them, the IETF, indeed the whole Internet, would not be + possible. + +2. Acknowledgements + + In addition to the people who took the time to write their + biographies so that I could compile them into this FYI RFC, I would + like to give special thanks to Joyce K. Reynolds (whose biography is + in here) for her help in creating the biography request message and + for being such a good sounding board for me. + +3. Request for Biographies + + In mid-February 1991, I sent the following message to the members of + the IAB, IESG and IRSG. It is their responses to this message that I + have compiled in this FYI RFC. + + The ARPANET is 20 years old. The next meeting of the IETF in St. + Louis this coming March will be the 20th plenary. It is a good + time to credit the people who help make the Internet possible. I + am sending this request to the current members of the IAB, the + + + +Malkin [Page 2] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + IRSG, and the IESG. At some future time, I would like to expand + the number of people to be included. For now, however, I am + limiting inclusion to members of the groups listed above. + + I would like to ask you to submit to me your biography. I intend + to compile the bios submitted into an FYI RFC to be published + before the next IETF meeting. In order to maintain some + consistency, I would like to have the bios contain three + paragraphs. The first paragraph should contain your bio, second + should be your school affiliation & other interests, and the third + should contain your opinion of how the Internet has grown. Of + course, if there is anything else you would like to say, please + feel free. The object is to let the very large user community + know about the people who give them what they have. + +4. Biographies + + The biographies are in alphabetical order. The contents have not + been edited; only the formating has been changed. + + 4.1 Philip Almquist, IETF Internet Area Co-director + + Philip Almquist is an independent consultant based in San + Francisco. He has worked on a variety of projects, but is + perhaps best known as the network designer for INTEROP '88 + and INTEROP '89. + + His career began at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980, where + he worked on compilers and operating systems. His initial + introduction to networking was analyzing crash dumps from + TOPS-20 systems running beta test versions of DECNET. He + later became involved in early planning for CMU's transition + from DECNet to TCP/IP and for network-based software support + for the hundreds of PC's that CMU was then planning to + acquire. + + Philip moved to Stanford University in 1983, where he played + a key role in the evolution of Stanford's network from a + small system built out of donated equipment by graduate + students to today's production quality network which extends + into virtually every corner of the University. As Stanford's + first "hostmaster", he invented Stanford's distributed host + registration system and led Stanford's deployment of the + Domain Name System. He also did substantial work on the + Stanford homebrew router software (now sold commercially by + cisco Systems) and oversaw some early experiments in network + management. + + + + +Malkin [Page 3] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + Also, while with Stanford, Philip was a primary contributor + to BARRNet and its short-lived predecessor, the BayBridge + Network. He brought up the first BARRNet link, and was + heavily involved in the day-to-day operation of BARRNet for + several years. + + In 1988, Philip gave up his responsibilities for the Stanford + network in order to start his consulting business. He + remained with BARRNet on a part-time basis until October + 1991, devoting himself to BARRNet planning and to chairing + its technical oversight committee. + + Philip has been an active participant in the IETF since about + 1987, when he became a charter member of the IETF's Network + Management Working Group. He is one of the authors of the + Host Requirements specification, and served a brief term as + chair of the Domain Name System Working Group. He is + currently chairs of the Router Requirements Working Group. + + 4.2 Robert Braden, IAB Executive Director, IRSG Member + + Bob Braden joined the networking research group at ISI in + 1986. Since then, he has been supported by NSF for research + concerning NSFnet, and by DARPA for protocol research. Tasks + have included designing the statspy program for collecting + NSFnet statistics, editing the Host Requirements RFCs, and + coordinating the DARPA Research Testbed network DARTnet. His + research interests generally include end-to-end protocols, + especially in the transport and network (Internet) layers. + + Braden came to ISI from UCLA, where he had worked 16 of the + preceding 18 years for the campus computing center. There he + had technical responsibility for attaching the first + supercomputer (IBM 360/91) to the ARPAnet, beginning in 1970. + Braden was active in the ARPAnet Network Working Group, + contributing to the design of the FTP protocol in particular. + In 1975, he began to receive direct DARPA funding for + installing the 360/91 as a "tool-bearing host" in the + National Software Works. In 1978, he became a member of the + TCP Internet Working Group and began developing a TCP/IP + implementation for the IBM system. As a result, UCLA's + 360/91 was one of the ARPAnet host systems that replaced NCP + by TCP/IP in the big changeover of January 1983. The UCLA + package of ARPAnet host software, including Braden's TCP/IP + code, was distributed to other OS/MVS sites and was later + sold commercially. + + Braden spent 1981-1982 in the Computer Science Department of + + + +Malkin [Page 4] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + University College London. At that time, he wrote the first + Telnet/XXX relay system connecting the Internet with the UK + academic X.25 network. In 1981, Braden was invited to join + the ICCB, an organization that became the IAB, and has been + an IAB member ever since. When IAB task forces were formed + in 1986, he created and still chairs the End-to-End Task + Force (now Research Group). + + Braden has been in the computer field for 40 years this year. + Prior to UCLA, he worked at Stanford and at Carnegie Tech. + He has taught programming and operating systems courses at + Carnegie Tech, Stanford, and UCLA. He received a Bachelor of + Engineering Physics from Cornell in 1957, and an MS in + Physics from Stanford in 1962. + + ------------ + + Regardless of the ancient Chinese curse, living through + interesting times is not always bad. + + For me, participation in the development of the ARPAnet and + the Internet protocols has been very exciting. One important + reason it worked, I believe, is that there were a lot of very + bright people all working more or less in the same direction, + led by some very wise people in the funding agency. The + result was to create a community of network researchers who + believed strongly that collaboration is more powerful than + competition among researchers. I don't think any other model + would have gotten us where we are today. This world view + persists in the IAB, and is reflected in the informal + structure of the IAB, IETF, and IRTF. + + Nevertheless, with growth and success (plus subtle policy + shifts in Washington), the prevailing mode may be shifting + towards competition, both commercial and academic. To + develop protocols in a commercially competitive world, you + need elaborate committee structures and rules. The action + then shifts to the large companies, away from small companies + and universities. In an academically competitive world, you + don't develop any (useful) protocols; you get 6 different + protocols for the same objective, each with its research + paper (which is the "real" output). This results in + efficient production of research papers, but it may not + result in the kind of intellectual consensus necessary to + create good and useful communication protocols. + + Being a member of the IAB is sometimes very frustrating. For + some years now we have been painfully aware of the scaling + + + +Malkin [Page 5] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + problems of the Internet, and since 1982 have lived through a + series of mini-disasters as various limits have been + exceeded. We have been saying that "getting big" is probably + a more urgent (and perhaps more difficult) research problem + than "getting fast", but it seems difficult to persuade + people of the importance of launching the kind of research + program we think is necessary to learn how to deal with + Internet growth. + + It is very hard to figure out when the exponential growth is + likely to stop, or when, if ever, the fundamental + architectural model of the Internet will be so out of kilter + with reality that it will cease be useful. Ask me again in + ten years. + + 4.3 Hans-Werner Braun, IAB Member + + Hans-Werner Braun joined the San Diego Supercomputer Center + as a Principal Scientist in January 1991. In his initial + major responsibility as Co-Principal Investigator of, and + Executive Committee member on the CASA gigabit network + research project he is working on networking efforts beyond + the problems of todays computer networking infrastructure. + Between April 1983 and January 1991 he worked at the + University of Michigan and focused on operational + infrastructure for the Merit Computer Network and the + University of Michigan's Information Technology Division. + Starting out with the networking infrastructure within the + State of Michigan he started to investigate into TCP/IP + protocols and became very involved in the early stages of the + NSFNET networking efforts. He was Principal Investigator on + the NSFNET backbone project since the NSFNET award went to + Merit in November 1987 and managed Merit's Internet + Engineering group. Between April 1978 and April 1983 Hans- + Werner Braun worked at the Regional Computing Center of the + University of Cologne in West Germany on network engineering + responsibilities for the regional and local network. + + In March 1978 Hans-Werner Braun graduated in West Germany and + holds a Diploma in Engineering with a major in Information + Processing. He is a member of the Association of Computing + Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Group on + Communications, the Institute of Electrical and Electronical + Engineers (IEEE) as well as the IEEE Computer Society and the + IEEE Communications Society and the American Association for + the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the National + Science Foundation's Network Program Advisory Group (NPAG) + and in particular its Technical Committee (NPAG-TC) between + + + +Malkin [Page 6] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + November 1986 and late 1987, at which time the NPAG got + resolved. He also chaired the Technical Committee of the + National Science Foundation's Network Program Advisory Group + (NPAG-TC) starting in February 1987. Prior to the + organizational change of the JvNCnet he participated in the + JvNCnet Network Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) of the + John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center. While working + as Principal Investigator on the NSFNET project at Merit, he + chaired the NSFNET Network Technical Committee, created to + aid Merit with the NSFNET project. Hans-Werner Braun is a + member of the Engineering Planning Group of the Federal + Networking Council (FEPG) since its beginnings in early 1989, + a member of the Internet Activities Board (IAB), the Internet + Engineering Task Force. He had participated in an earlier, + informal, version of the Internet Engineering Steering Group + and the then existing Internet Architecture Task Force. While + at Merit, Hans-Werner Braun was also Principal Investigator + on NSF projects for the "Implementation and Management of + Improved Connectivity Between NSFNET and CA*net" and for + "Coordinating Routing for the NSFNET," the latter at the time + of the old 56kbps NSFNET backbone network that he was quite + intimately involved with. + + ------------ + + The growth of the Internet can be measured in many ways and I + can only try to find some examples. + + o Network number counts + + There were days where being "connected to net 10" was the + Greatest Thing Ever. A time where the Internet just + consisted of a few networks centered around the ARPAnet and + where growing above 100 network numbers seemed excessive. + Todays number of networks in the global infrastructure + exceeds 2000 connected networks, and many more if isolated + network islands get included. + + o Traffic growth + + The Internet has undergone a dramatic increase in traffic + over the last few years. The NSFNET backbone can be used as + an example here, where in August 1988 about 194 million + packets got injected into the network, which had increased to + about 396 million packets per month by the end of the year, + to reach about 4.8 billion packets in December 1990. January + 1991 yielded close to 5.9 billion packets as sent into the + NSFNET backbone. + + + +Malkin [Page 7] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + o Internet Engineering Task Force participation + + The early IETF, after it spun off the old GADS, included + about 20 or so people. I remember a meeting a few people had + with Mike Corrigan several years ago. Mike then chaired the + IETF before Phill Gross became chair and the discussion was + had about permitting the "NSFNET crowd" to join the IETF. + Mike finally agreed and the IETF started to explode in size, + now including many working groups and several hundred + members, including vendors and phone companies. + + o International infrastructure + + At some point of time the Internet was centric around the US + with very little international connectivity. The + international connectivity was for network research purposes, + just like the US domestic component at that point of time. + Today's Internet stretches to so many countries that it can + be considered close to global in scope, in particular as more + and more international connections to, as well as Internet + infrastructure within, other countries are happening. + + o References in trade journals + + Many trade journals just a year or two ago had close to no + mention of the Internet. Today references to the Internet + appear in many journals and press releases from a variety of + places. + + o Articles in professional papers + + Publications like ACM SIGCOMM show increased interest for + Internet related professional papers, compared to a few years + ago. Also the publication rate of the Request For Comments + (RFC) series is quite impressive. + + o Congressional and Senatorial visibility + + A few years ago the Internet was "just a research project." + Today's dramatically increased visibility in result of the + Internet success allows Congress as well as Senators to play + lead roles in pushing the National Research and Education + Network (NREN) agenda forward, which is also fostered by the + executive branch. In the context of the US federal government + the real credit should go to DARPA, though, for starting to + prototype advanced networking, leading to the Internet about + twenty years ago and over time opening it up more and more to + the science and research community until more operational + + + +Malkin [Page 8] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + efforts were able to move the network to a real + infrastructure in support of science, research and education + at large. This really allowed NSF to make NSFNET happen. + + o Funding + + The Internet funding initially consisted of DARPA efforts. + Agencies like NSF, NASA, DOE and others started to make major + contributions later. Industrial participation helped moving + the network forward as well. Very major investments have been + made by campuses and research institutions to create local + infrastructure. Operational infrastructure comes at a high + cost, especially if ubiquity, robustness and high performance + are required. + + o Research and continued development + + The Internet has matured from a network research oriented + environment to an operational infrastructure supporting + research, science and education at large. However, even + though for many people the Internet is an environment + supporting their day-to-day work, the Internet at its current + level of technology is supported by a culture of people that + cooperates in a largely non-competitive environment. Many + times already the size of the routing tables or the amount of + traffic or the insufficiency of routing exchange protocols, + just to name examples, have broken connectivity with many + people being interrupted in their day-to-day work. Global + Internet management and problem resolution further hamper + fast recovery from certain incidents. It is unproven that the + current technology will survive in a competitive but + unregulated environment, with uncoordinated routing policies + and global network management being just two of the major + issues here. Furthermore, while frequently comments are + being made where the publicly available monthly increases in + traffic figures would not justify moving to T3 or even + gigabit per second networks, it should be pointed out that + monthly figures are very macroscopic views. Much of the + Internet traffic is very bursty and we have frequently seen + an onslaught of traffic towards backbone nodes if one looks + at it over fairly short intervals of time. For example, for + specific applications that, perhaps in real-time, require an + occasional exchange of massive amounts of data. It is + important that we are prepared for more widespread use of + such applications, once people are able to use things more + sophisticated than Telnet, FTP and SMTP. I am not sure + whether the amount of research and development efforts on the + Internet has increased over time, less even kept pace with + + + +Malkin [Page 9] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + the general Internet growth (by whatever definition). I do + not believe that the Internet is a finished product at this + point of time and there is a lot of room for further + evolution. + + 4.4 Ross Callon + + Ross Callon is a member of the Distributed Systems + Architecture staff at Digital Equipment Corporation in + Littleton Massachusetts. He is working on issues related to + OSI -- TCP/IP interoperation and introduction of OSI in the + Internet. He is the author of the Integrated IS-IS protocol + (RFC 1195). He has also worked on scaling of routing and + addressing to very large Internets, and is co-author of the + guidelines for allocation of NSAP addresses in the Internet + (RFC 1237). + + Previous to joining DEC, Mr. Callon was with Bolt Beranek and + Newman, where he worked on OSI Standards, Network Management, + Routing Protocols and other router-related issues. + + Mr. Callon received a Bachelor of Science degree in + Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, + and a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from + Stanford University. + + ------------ + + During eleven years of involvement with the Internet + community it has been exciting to see the explosive growth in + data communications from a relatively obscure technology to a + technology in widespread everyday use. For the future, I am + interested in transition to a world-wide multi-protocol + Internet. This requires scaling to several orders of + magnitude larger than the current Internet, and also requires + a greater emphasis on reliability and ease of use. Probably + our greatest challenge is to create a system which "ordinary + people" can use with the reliability and ease of the current + telephone system. + + + + + + + + + + + + +Malkin [Page 10] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + 4.5 Dr. Vinton Cerf, IAB Member + + 1960-1965, summer jobs with various divisions of North + American Aviation (Now Rockwell International): Rocketdyne, + Atomics International, Autonetics, Space and Information + Systems Division. + + 1965-1967, systems engineer, IBM, Los Angeles Data Center. + Ran and maintained the QUIKTRAN interactive, on-line Fortran + service. + + 1967-1972, various programming positions at UCLA, largely + involved with ARPANET protocol development and network + measurement center and computer performance measurements. + + 1972-1976, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and + Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Did research on + networking, developed TCP/IP protocols for internetting under + DARPA research grant. + + 1976-1982, Program Manager and Principal Scientist, + Information Processing Techniques Office, DARPA. Managed the + Internetting, Packet Technology and Network Security + programs. + + 1982-1986, Vice President of Engineering, MCI Digital + Information Services Company. Developed MCI Mail system. + + 1986-present, Vice President, Corporation for National + Research Initiatives. Responsible for Internet, Digital + Library and Electronic Mail system interconnection research + programs. + + Stanford University, 1965 (math) B.S. UCLA, 1970, 1972 + (computer science) M.S. and Ph.D. + + 1972-1976, founding chairman of the International Network + Working Group (INWG) which became IFIP Working Group 6.1. + + 1979-1982, ex officio member of ICCB (predecessor to the + Internet Activities Board), member of IAB from 1986-1989 and + chairman from 1989-1991. + + 1967-present, member of ACM; chairman of LA SIGART 1968-1969; + chairman ACM SIGCOMM 1987-1991; at-large member ACM Council, + 1991-1993. + + 1972-present, member of Sigma Xi. + + + +Malkin [Page 11] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + 1977-present, member of IEEE; Fellow, 1988. + + ------------ + + The Internet started as a focused DARPA research effort to + develop a capability to link computers across multiple, + internally diverse packet networks. The successful evolution + of this technology through 4 versions, demonstration on + ARPANET, mobile packet radio nets, the Atlantic SATNET and + at-sea MATNET provided the basis for formal mandating of the + TCP/IP protocols for use on ARPANET and other DoD systems in + 1983. By the mid-1980's, a market had been established for + software and hardware supporting these protocols, largely + triggered by the Ethernet and other LAN phenomena, coupled + with the rapid proliferation of UNIX-based systems which + incorporated the TCP/IP protocols as part of the standard + release package. Concurrent with the development of a market + and rapid increase in vendor interest, government agencies in + addition to DoD began applying the technology to their needs, + culminating in the formation of the Federal Research Internet + Coordinating Committee which has now evolved into the Federal + Networking Council, in the U.S. At the same time, similar + rapid growth of TCP/IP technology application is occurring + outside the US in Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, + Eurasia, Australia, South and Central America and, to a + limited extent, Africa. The internationalization of the + Internet has spawned new organizational foci such as the + Coordinating Committee for International Research Networking + (CCIRN) and heightened interest in commercial provision of IP + services (e.g., in Finland, the U.S., the U.K. and + elsewhere). + + The Internet has also become the basis for a proposed + National Research and Education Network (NREN) in the U.S. + It's electronic messaging system has been linked to the major + U.S. commercial email carriers and to other major private + electronic mail services such as Bitnet (in the US, EARN in + Europe) as well as UUNET (in the U.S.) and EUNET (in Europe). + The Bitnet and UUCP-based systems are international in scope + and complement the Internet system in terms of email + connectivity. + + With the introduction of OSI capability (in the form of CLNP) + into important parts of the Internet (such as the NSFNET + backbone and selected intermediate level networks), a path + has been opened to support the use of multiple protocol + suites in the Internet. Many of the vendor routers/gateways + support TCP/IP, OSI and a variety of vendor-specific + + + +Malkin [Page 12] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + protocols in a common network environment. + + In the U.S., regional Bell Operating Company carriers are + planning the introduction of Switched Multimegabit Data + Services and Frame Relay services which can support TCP/IP + and other Internet protocols. On the research side, DARPA and + the NSF are supporting a major initiative in gigabit speed + networking, towards which the NREN is aimed. + + The Internet is a grand collaboration of over 5000 networks + involving millions of users, hundreds of thousands of hosts + and dozens of countries around the world. It may well do for + computers what the telephone system has done for people: + provided a means for international interchange of information + which is blind to nationality, proprietary interests, and + hardware platform specifics. + + 4.6 Noel Chiappa, IETF Internet Area Co-director + + Noel Chiappa is currently an independent inventor working in + the area of computer networks and system software. His + principal occupation, however, is his service as the Internet + Area Co-director for the Internet Engineering Steering Group + of the Internet Engineering Task Force. + + His primary current research interest is in the area of + routing and addressing architectures for very large scale + (globally ubiquitous and larger) internetworks, but he is + generally interested in the problems of the packet layer of + internetworking; i.e., everything involved in getting traffic + from one host to another anywhere in the internetwork. As a + 'spare time amusement' project, he is also writing a C + compiler with many novel features intended for use in large + programming projects with many source and header files. + + He has been a member of the TCP/IP Working Group and its + successors (up to the IETF) since 1977. He was a member of + the Research Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of + Technology from 1977-1982 and 1984-1986. While at MIT he + worked on packet switching and local area networks, and was + responsible for the conception of the multi-protocol backbone + and the multi-protocol router. After leaving MIT he worked + with a number of companies, including Proteon, to bring + networking products based on work done at MIT to the public. + He attended Phillips Andover Academy and MIT. He was born + and bred in Bermuda. + + His outside interests include study and collection of antique + + + +Malkin [Page 13] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + racing cars (principally Lotuses), reading (particularly + political and military history and biographies), landscape + gardening (particularly Japanese), and study of Oriental rugs + (particularly Turkoman tribal rugs) and Oriental antiques + (particularly Japanese lacquerware and Chinese archaic + jades). + + 4.7 A. Lyman Chapin, IAB Chairman + + Lyman Chapin graduated from Cornell University in 1973 with a + B.A. in Mathematics, and spent the next two years writing + COBOL applications for Systems & Programs (NZ) Ltd. in Lower + Hutt, New Zealand. After a year travelling in Australia and + Asia, he joined the newly-formed Networking group at Data + General Corporation in 1977. At DG, he was responsible for + the development of software for distributed resource + management (operating-system embedded RPC), distributed + database management, X.25-based local and wide- area + networks, and OSI-based transport, internetwork, and routing + functions for DG's open-system products. In 1987 he formed + the Distributed Systems Architecture group, and was + responsible for the development of DG's Distributed + Application Architecture (DAA) and for the specification of + the directory and management services of DAA. He moved to + Bolt, Beranek & Newman in 1990 as the Chief Network Architect + in BBN's Communications Division, where he serves as a + consultant to the Systems Architecture group and the + coordinator for BBN's open system standards activities. He + is the chairman of ANSI-accredited task group X3S3.3, + responsible for Network and Transport layer standards, since + 1982; chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data + Communications (SIGCOMM) since July of 1991; and chairman of + the Internet Activities Board (IAB), of which he has been a + member since 1989. He lives with his wife and two young + daughters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. + + ------------ + + I started out in 1977 working with X.25 networks, and began + working on OSI in 1979 - first the architecture (the OSI + Reference Model), and then the transport, internetwork, and + routing protocol specifications. It didn't take long to + recognize the basic irony of OSI standards development: + there we were, solemnly anointing international standards for + networking, and every time we needed to send electronic mail + or exchange files, we were using the TCP/IP-based Internet! + I've been looking for ways to overcome this anomaly ever + since; to inject as much of the proven TCP/IP technology + + + +Malkin [Page 14] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + into OSI as possible, and to introduce OSI into an ever more + pervasive and worldwide Internet. It is, to say the least, a + challenge! + + 4.8 Dr. David Clark + + David Clark works at the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer + Science, where he is a Senior Research Scientist. His current + research involves protocols for high speed and very large + networks, in particular the problems of routing and flow and + congestion control. He is also working on integration of + video into packet networks. Prior to this effort, he + developed a new implementation approach for network software, + and an operating system (Swift) to demonstrate this concept. + Earlier projects include the token ring LAN and the Multics + operating system. He joined the TCP development effort in + 1975, and chaired the IAB from 1981 to 1990. He has a + continuing interest in protocol performance. He is also + active in the area of computer and communications security. + + David Clark received his BSEE from Swarthmore College in + 1966, and his MS and PhD from MIT, the latter in 1973. He has + worked at MIT since then. + + ------------ + + It is not proper to think of networks as connecting + computers. Rather, they connect people using computers to + mediate. The great success of the internet is not technical, + but in human impact. Electronic mail may not be a wonderful + advance in Computer Science, but it is a whole new way for + people to communicate. The continued growth of the Internet + is a technical challenge to all of us, but we must never + loose sight of where we came from, the great change we have + worked on the larger computer community, and the great + potential we have for future change. + + 4.9 Stephen Crocker, IETF Security Area Director + + Steve Crocker joined Trusted Information Systems, Inc. in + 1986 and is a vice president. He set up TIS' Los Angeles + office and ran it until summer 1989 when he moved to the home + office in Maryland. At TIS his primary concerns are program + verification research and application, integration of + cryptography with trusted systems, network security, and new + applications for networks and trusted systems. + + He was at the Aerospace Corporation from 1981-86 as Director + + + +Malkin [Page 15] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + of the Information Sciences Research Office which later + became the Computer Science Laboratory. The research program + at Aerospace included networks, program verification, + artificial intelligence, applications of expert systems, and + parallel processing. + + From 1974-81 he was a researcher at USC's Information + Sciences Institute, where he focused primarily on program + verification. From 1971-74 he was a program manager at + DARPA/IPTO, responsible for the research programs in + artificial intelligence, automatic programming, speech + understanding, and some parts of the network research. He + also initiated an ambitious but somewhat ill-fated venture + called the National Software Works. + + From 1968-71 he was a graduate student in the UCLA Computer + Science Department. While there he initiated the Network + Working Group, arguably the forerunner of the IETF and many + related groups around the world, and helped define the + original suite of protocols for the Arpanet. He also + initiated the Request for Comments (RFC) series. A short + description of the events of that era are contained in RFC + 1000. + + He was a graduate student in the MIT AI Lab for a year and a + half in 1967-68, and an undergraduate at UCLA for a long time + before that. + + ------------ + + I've watched the Internet grow from its beginning. At UCLA + we had the privilege of being the first of the Arpanet. In + those days, several of us dreamed of very high quality + intercomputer connections and very rich protocols to knit the + computers together. Some of the those concepts are still + discussed and anticipated today under the names remote + visualization, distributed file systems, etc. On the other + hand, I would never have imagined that 20 years later we'd + have such a plethora of different network technologies. Even + more astonishing is the enormous number of independently + managed but nonetheless interconnected networks that make up + the current network. And somewhat beyond comprehension is + that it seems to work. + + How will the Internet evolve? I expect to see substantial + developments in the following dimensions. + + o Regularization, internationalization and commercialization + + + +Malkin [Page 16] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + Standards will become even more important than they are now. + Implementations of protocols and related mechanisms will + become more standard and robust. The relationship between + the TCP/IP stack and the OSI stack will be resolved with + + The Internet will become a less U.S.-centric and more + international operation. Much of the Internet will be + operated by commercial concerns on a a profit-making basis, + thereby opening up the Internet to unrestricted use. The + telephone companies, including both the local exchange + carriers and the interexchange carriers, will start providing + some of the protocol stack other than the point-to-point + lines. + + o Higher and lower bandwidths; great proliferation + + I expect to see T1 connections become the norm for the types + of institutions that are now on the Internet. Higher speeds, + including speeds up to a gigabit will become available. At + the same time, I expect to see a vast expansion of the + Internet, reaching into a significant fraction of the schools + and businesses in this country and elsewhere in the world. + Many of these institutions will be connected at 9600 bits/sec + or slower. + + o More applications + + E-mail dominates the Internet, and it's likely to remain the + dominant use of the Internet in the future. Nonetheless, I + expect to see an exciting array of other applications which + become heavily used and cause a change in the perception of + the Internet as primarily a "mail system." Important + databases will become available on the Internet, and + applications dependent on those databases will flourish. New + techniques and tools for collaboration over a network will + emerge. These will include various forms of conferencing and + cooperative multi-media document development. + + o Security + + Security will tighten up on the Internet, but not without + some (more) pain. Host operating systems will be built, + configured, distributed and operated under much tighter + constraints than they have been. Firewalls will abound. + Encryption will be added to links, routers and various + protocol layers. All of this will decrease the utility of + the Internet in the short run, but lay the groundwork for + broader use eventually. New protocols will emerge which + + + +Malkin [Page 17] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + incorporate sound protection but also provide efficient and + flexible access control and resource sharing. These will + provide the basis for the kind of close knit applications + that motivated the original thinking behind the Arpanet. + + 4.10 James R. Davin, IETF Network Management Area Director + + James R. Davin currently works in the Advanced Network + Architecture group at the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer + Science where his recent interests center on protocol + architecture and congestion control. In the past, he has + been engaged in router development at Proteon, Incorporated, + where much of his work focused on network management. He has + also worked at Data General's Research Triangle Park facility + on a variety of communications protocols. + + He holds the B.A. from Haverford College and masters degrees + in Computer Science and English from Duke University. + + ------------ + + The growth of the internet over the years has taken it from + lower speeds to higher speeds, from limited geographical + extent to global presence, from research apparatus to an + essential social and commercial infrastructure, from + experimentation among a few networking sophisticates to daily + use by thousands in all walks of life. This latter sort of + growth is almost certainly the most valuable. + + 4.11 Dr. Deborah Estrin, IRSG Member + + Deborah Estrin is currently an Assistant Professor of + Computer Science at the University of Southern California in + Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. (1985) in Computer + Science and her M.S. (1982) in Technology Policy, both from + the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her + B.S. (1980) from U.C. Berkeley. In 1987 Estrin received the + National Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator + Award for her research in network interconnection and + security. Her research focuses on the design of network and + routing protocols for very large, global, networks. + + Deborah Estrin has been studying issues of internetwork + security and routing for almost 10 years. As chairperson of + the IAB's Autonomous Networks Research Group she coordinated + and authored some of the earliest discussions and evaluations + of mechanisms for policy-routing. She is also one of the + leading architects of thee Inter-Domain Policy Routing (IDPR) + + + +Malkin [Page 18] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + protocols, in collaboration with other members of the IETF + IDPR Working Group. As part of the IDPR effort, Estrin + directed the implementation of IDPR setup, packet forwarding, + and route synthesis implementations. She continues to + collaborate extensively with BBN and other IDPR developers. + + Previous to her work in policy routing, Dr. Estrin refuted + the sufficiency of host-security alone, and developed + mechanisms (i.e., the Visa Protocol) for border routers to + flexibly and securely protect intra-domain network resources + without modifying the IP protocol itself. Estrin's Current + research interests are in inter-domain routing for global + internets, and adaptive routing to support new high-speed, + delay-sensitive services. + + Estrin is a member of the National Science Foundation's + NSFNET technical advisory committee and of the OTA + Information Technology and Research Assessment Advisory + Panel. Dr. Estrin is co-Editor of the Journal of + Internetworking Research and Experience and has acted as a + reviewer and program committee member for several IEEE and + ACM journals and conferences (e.g., SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, + Security and Privacy). She is a member of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, + and CPSR. + + ------------ + + For the past several years I have had the opportunity to + collaborate in the design of network and routing protocols + designed to support global internetworks linking a very large + number of domains (e.g., tens of thousands of networks and + millions of hosts). Such scaling implies not only larger + numbers of routers and end-systems, but also increased + heterogeneity, both technical and administrative. This + raises the importance of security, resource control, and + usage feedback (incentives to encourage users to use the + network efficiently) in protocol design. Whereas much of the + focus of the technical community has been strictly on high + speed, it is in the area of large-scale systems that we are + most lacking in research results and design methods and + tools. + + + + + + + + + + +Malkin [Page 19] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + 4.12 Russell Hobby, IETF Applications Area Director + + Russ Hobby received B.S. in Chemistry (1975) and M.S. in + Computing Sciences (1981) from the University of California, + Davis where he currently works as Director of Advanced + Network Applications in Network Technology. He also + represents UC Davis as a founding member in the Bay Area + Regional Research Network (BARRNet). He formed and now + chairs the California Internet Federation, a forum for + coordinating educational and research networks in California. + In addition he is Area Director for Applications in the + Internet Engineering Task Force and a member of the Internet + Engineering Steering Group. + + Russ is responsible for all aspects of campus networking + including network design, implementation, and operation. UC + Davis has also been instrumental in the development of new + network protocols and their prototype implementations, in + particular, the Point-to- Point Protocol (PPP). UC Davis has + been very active in the use of networking for students from + kindergarten through community colleges and has had the Davis + High School on the Internet since 1989. In conjunction with + the City of Davis, UC Davis is planning a community network + using ISDN to bring networking into the residences in Davis + for university network connection, high school and library + resource access, telecommuting, and electronic democracy. + + ------------ + + I have seen the rapid growth of the Internet into a worldwide + utility, but believe that it is lacking in the types of + applications that could make use of its full potential. I + believes that it is time to look at the network from the + users side and consider the functionality that they desire. + New applications for information storage and retrieval, + personal and group communications, and coordinated computer + resources are needed. I think, "Networks aren't just for + computer nerds anymore!". + + 4.13 Dr. Christian Huitema, IAB Member + + Christian Huitema has conducted for several years research in + network protocols and network applications. He is now at + INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, where he leads the research + project "RODEO", whose objective is the definition and the + experimentation of communication protocols for very high + speed networks, at one Gbit/s or more. This includes the + study of high speed transmission control protocols, of their + + + +Malkin [Page 20] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + parameterization and of their insertion in the operating + systems, and the study of the synchronization functions and + of the management of data transparency between heterogeneous + systems. The work is conducted in cooperation with industrial + partners and takes into account the evolution of the + communication standards. Previously, he took part to the + NADIR project, investigating computer usage of + telecommunication satellites, and to OSI developments in the + GIPSI project for the SM90 work station, including one of the + earliest X.400 systems, and to the ESPRIT project THORN, + which is provide one of the first X.500 conformant directory + system. + + Christian Huitema graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in + Paris in 1975, and passed his doctorate in the University of + Paris VI in 1985. + + ------------ + + The various projects which followed the "Cyclades" network in + France were following closely the developments of the Arpanet + and then the Internet. However, the first linkage was + established in the early 80's through mail connections. I was + directly involved in the setting up of the first direct TCP- + IP connection between France and the Internet (actually, + NSFNET) which was first experimented in 1987, and became + operational in 1988. This interconnection, together with + parallel actions in the Nordic countries of Europe, at CERN + and through the EUNET association, was certainly influential + in the development TCP/IP internetting in Europe. The rapid + growth of the Internet here is indicative both of the + perceived needs and of the future. Researcher from + universities, non profit and industrial organizations are + eager to communicate; new applications are being developed + which will enable them to interact more and more closely.. + and will pose the networking challenge of realizing a very + large, very powerful Internet. + + 4.14 Erik Huizer, IETF OSI Area Co-director + + Erik Huizer graduated from Delft University of Technology + with a MSc. in Material Science in 1983. He spent the next + four years in the same university building a computerised + creep measurement system for metallic glasses, including a + small local network for datatransport to a dataprocessing + system. After getting his PhD, he refused military service + on grounds of consience (possible under Dutch law). He was + then charged with doing instead 18 months of civil service in + + + +Malkin [Page 21] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + the computing center of the Ministry of Transport, department + of Building and Roads. In these 18 months he became project + manager charged with implementing a Videotex system. He was + also charged with investigating TCP/IP as a possible LAN + protocol and X.400 as a possible E-mail protocol. In 1988, + he was discharged and started to work for SURFnet BV (the + not-for-profit company that runs SURFnet), the Dutch academic + and research network. At SURFnet he is the main person + responsible for development of the network. Among the things + he worked on are: introducing TCP/IP and associated protocols + into SURFnet, the connection of SURFnet to the Internet, + introduction of a X.400 MHS infrastructure and a X.500 + Directory Services pilot. He has been active in RARE WG1 on + Message Handling Services from 1988 to 1992. Also, in 1988 + he joined the RARE WG3 on Directory Services and User Support + and Information Services, which he chaired from 1990 to 1992. + He has been one of the initiators of the new RARE WG + structure that was installed in May 1992, and that is now + managed by the Rare Technical Committee, of which he is a + member. He joined the IESG in November 1991 as area co- + director of the OSI Integration area. He is married and + lives with his wife in Utrecht, The Netherlands. + + --------------------------- + + I ran into the Internet in 1988, and immediately it changed + my perspective on networking. Working for a European service + provider I became a playball tossing up and down between the + Funding Agencies (OSI) and the users (as long as it works), + trying to be soft enough not to hurt anyone, but hard enough + to change things in a manageable way. This has resulted in + my view of networking where I can see benifits in OSI as well + as in the Internet protocol suite, and where I want the users + to get the best of both worlds. After years of battle in the + European camp to make people see the benefits of TCP/IP + (being called an IP-freak), it was quite a refreshing change + to join the IETF where I have to battle for OSI (being called + an OSI-addict). Apart from the OSI integration into the + Internet, I have set myself a second, and possibly even + heavier task, and that is to help and move the Internet and + it's associated structures like IETF, IRTF, IESG, IAB, etc., + to a more global structure, reflecting the penetration of the + Internet in all its forms outside of North America. + + + + + + + + +Malkin [Page 22] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + 4.15 Dr. Stephen Kent, IAB Member, IRSG Member + + Stephen Kent is the Chief Scientist of BBN Communications, a + division of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., where he has been + enganged in network security research and development + activities for over a decade. His work has included the + design and development of user authentication and access + control systems, end-to-end encryption and access control + systems for packet networks, performance analysis of security + mechanisms, and the design of secure transport layer and + electronic message protocols. + + Dr. Kent is the chair of the Internet Privacy and Security + Research Group and a member of the Internet Activities Board. + He served on the Secure Systems Study Committee of the + National Academy of Sciences and is a member of the National + Research Council assessment panel for the NIST National + Computer Systems Laboratory. He was a charter member of the + board of directors of the International Association for + Cryptologic Research. Dr. Kent is the author of a book + chapter and numerous technical papers on packet network + security and has served as a referee, panelist and session + chair for a number of security related conferences. He has + lectured on the topic of network security on behalf of + government agencies, universities and private companies + throughout the United States, Western Europe and Australia. + Dr. Kent received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Loyola + University of New Orleans, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. + degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute + of Technology. He is a member of the ACM and Sigma Xi and + appears in Who's Who in the Northeast and Who's Who of + Emerging Leaders. + + 4.16 Anthony G. Lauck, IAB Member + + Since 1976, Anthony G. Lauck has been responsible for network + architecture and advanced development at Digital Equipment + Corporation, where he currently manages the + Telecommunications and Networks Architecture and Advanced + Development group. For the past fifteen years his group has + designed the network architecture and protocols behind + Digital's DECnet computer networking products. His group has + played a leading role in local area network standardization, + including Ethernet, FDDI, and transparent bridged LANs. His + group has also played a leading role in standardizing the OSI + network and transport layers. Most recently, they have + completed the architecture for the next phase of DECnet which + is based on OSI while providing backward compatibility with + + + +Malkin [Page 23] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + DECnet Phase IV. Prior to his role in network architecture + he was responsible for setting the direction of Digital's + PDP-11 communications products. In addition to working at + Digital, he worked at Autex, Inc. where was a designer of a + transaction processing system for securities trading and at + the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory were he developed + an early remote batch system. + + Mr. Lauck received his BA degree from Harvard in 1965. He + has worked in a number of areas related to data + communication, ranging from design of physical links for + local area networks to applications for distributed + processing. His current interests include high speed local + and wide area networks, multiprotocol networking, network + security, and distributed processing. He was a member of the + Committee on Computer-Computer Communications Protocols of + the National Research Council which did a comparison of the + TCP and TP4 transport protocols for DOD and NBS. He was also + a member of the National Science Foundation Network Technical + Advisory Board. In December of 1984, he was recognized by + Science Digest magazine as one of America's 100 brightest + young scientists for his work on computer networking. + + ------------ + + In 1978 Vint Cerf came to Digital to give a lecture on TCP + and IP, just prior to the big blizzard. I was pleased to see + that TCP/IP shared the same connectionless philosophy of + networking as did DECnet. Some years later, Digital decided + that future phases of DECnet would be based on standards. + Since Digital was a multinational company, the standards + would need to be international. Unfortunately, in 1980 ISO + rejected TCP and IP on national political grounds. When it + looked like the emerging OSI standards were going to be + limited to purely connection- oriented networking, I was very + concerned and began efforts to standardize connectionless + networking in OSI. As it turned out, TCP/IP retained its + initial lead over OSI, moving internationally as the Internet + expanded, thereby becoming an international protocol suite + and meeting my original needs. I hope that the Internet can + evolve into a multiprotocol structure that can accommodate + changing networking technologies and can do so with a minimum + of religious fervor. It will be exciting to solve problems + like network scale and security, especially in the context of + a network which must serve users while it evolves. + + + + + + +Malkin [Page 24] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + 4.17 Dr. Barry Leiner, IAB Member + + Dr. Leiner joined Advanced Decision Systems in September + 1990, where he is responsible for corporate research + directions. Advanced Decision Systems is focussed on the + creation of information processing technology, systems, and + products that enhance decision making power. Prior to + joining ADS, Dr. Leiner was Assistant Director of the + Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at NASA Ames + Research Center. In that position, he formulated and carried + out research programs ranging from the development of + advanced computer and communications technologies through to + the application of such technologies to scientific research. + Prior to coming to RIACS, he was Assistant Director for C3 + Technology in the Information Processing Techniques Office of + DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). In that + position, he was responsible for a broad range of research + programs aimed at developing the technology base for large- + scale survivable distributed command, control and + communication systems. Prior to that, he was Senior + Engineering Specialist with Probe Systems, Assistant + Professor of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and + Research Engineer with GTE Sylvania. + + Dr. Leiner received his BEEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic + Institute in 1967 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford + University in 1969 and 1973, respectively. He has done + research in a variety of areas, including direction finding + systems, spread spectrum communications and detection, data + compression theory, image compression, and most recently + computer networking and its applications. He has published + in these areas in both journals and conferences, and received + the best paper of the year award in the IEEE Aerospace and + Electronic Systems Transactions in 1979 and in the IEEE + Communications Magazine in 1984. Dr. Leiner is a Senior + Member of the IEEE and a member of ACM, Tau Beta Pi and Eta + Kappa Nu. + + ------------ + + My first exposure to the internet (actually Arpanet) was in + 1977 when, as a DARPA contractor, I was provided access. At + that point, the Arpanet was primarily used to support DARPA + and related activities, and was confined to a relatively + small set of users and sites. The Internet technology was + just in the process of being developed and demonstrated. In + fact, my DARPA contract was in relation to the Packet Radio + Network, and the primary motivation for the Internet + + + +Malkin [Page 25] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + technology was to connect the mobile Packet Radio Network to + the long-haul Arpanet. Now, only 13 years later, things have + changed radically. The Internet has grown by several orders + of magnitude in size and connects a much wider community, + including academic, commercial, and government. It has + spread well beyond the USA to include many organizations + throughout the world. It has grown beyond the experimental + network to provide operational service. Its influence is + seen throughout the computer communications community. + + 4.18 Daniel C. Lynch, IAB Member + + Daniel C. Lynch is president and founder of Interop, Inc. + (formerly named Advanced Computing Environments) in Mountain + View, California since 1985. A member of ACM, IEEE and the + IAB, he is active in computer networking with a primary focus + in promoting the understanding of network operational + behavior. The annual INTEROP (conference and exhibition is + the major vehicle for his efforts. + + As the director of Information Processing Division for the + Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey (USC-ISI) + Lynch led the Arpanet team that made the transition from the + original NCP protocols to the current TCP/IP based protocols. + Lynch directed this effort with 75 people from 1980 until + 1983. + + He was Director of Computing Facilities at SRI International + in the late 70's serving the computing needs of over 3,000 + employees. He formerly served as manager of the computing + laboratory for the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI + which conducts research in robotics, vision, speech + understanding, theorem proving and distributed databases. + While at SRI he performed initial debugging of the TCP/IP + protocols in conjunction with BBN. + + Lynch has been active in computer networking since 1973. + Prior to that he developed realtime software for missile + decoy detection for the USAF. He received undergraduate + training in mathematics and philosophy from Loyola University + of Los Angeles and obtained a Master's Degree in mathematics + from UCLA in 1965. + + ------------ + + The Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in a + simple a manner as possible. Putting together a huge + Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to do + + + +Malkin [Page 26] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + routing in a huge internet. When you add the real world + requirement of commercial security and the desire for + "classes of service" we are faced with big challenges. I + think this means that we have to get a lot more involved with + operational provisioning considerations such as those that + the phone companies and credit card firms have wrestled with. + Hopefully we can do this and still maintain the rather + friendly attitude that Internetters have always had. + + 4.19 David M. Piscitello, IETF OSI Area Co-director + + I received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from + Villanova University in 1974, with a strong minor in + Philosophy. Disenchanted with real analysis and metricspace, + I decided to pursue graduate work in Philosophy. Requiring + significant dollars to attend graduate school, I accepted a + programming position with Burroughs and assembly/micro-coded + my way through two semesters of graduate work at Villanova. + Eventually, I realized that teaching existentialism was not + the sort of vocation to pay significant mortgage (this was, + after all, the Carter era, and interest rates were then + nearly 15%). So I remained with Burroughs, and built + compilers. + + Fortunately, I discovered data communications, then of the + remote job entry/turnkey form--not quite existentialism, but + close. Somehow, as a result of agreeing to work on a + proprietary HDLC (well, IBM had SDLC, so, Burroughs felt it + had to have BDLC), I became involved with transport and + networking protocols for something called Open Systems + Interconnection. Boning up on available literature -- at the + time, I recall there was some relatively obscure protocol + suite called TCP/IP, and something from Xerox, and even + something from Burroughs that seemed to look a lot like that + TCP/IP thing -- I became pretty excited about helping to + develop something international and new. I eventually + transferred within Burroughs to an architecture group, and + became immersed in network layer protocols for OSI and + Burroughs Network Architecture. I began attending ANSI and + ISO meetings on OSI NL protocols; Dave Oran (DEC), Lyman + Chapin (then at Data General, and Ross Callon (then at BBN) + and I met one day in a conference room at a DEC location and + dreamed up ISO 8473 (ISO IP, ISO CLNP); somehow, it became my + problem, along with virtually everything in the OSI stack + that was datagram or "connectionless", so for several years, + I slugged it out with the X.25 community to see that + datagrams and internetworking would have international + acceptance. Of course, I was not alone, Dave O., Lyman, and + + + +Malkin [Page 27] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + first Ross, later Christine Hemrick (then at NTIA) became an + OSI version of the Gang of Four in this struggle. + + I received my first exposure to the IETF in Boston in the + mid-eighties, when both an IETF and an ANSI meeting was held + at BBN, and we shared some insights into routing. At the + time, I was a proponent of distance vector routing, in + particular a routing protocol called BIAS (Burroughs + Interactive Adaptive routing System, go figure how anyone can + leave the "R" out of an acronym for a routing protocol!); + later, along with Jeff Rosenberg and Steve Gruchevsky of + Burroughs (by this time, we were Unisys), I was to introduce + BIAS as a candidate for OSI IS-IS routing in what I've called + the "late, great, OSI Routing debate". Radia Perlman and Dave + Oran introduced what eventually became OSI IS-IS, a link- + state/SPF routing system. The routing debate was probably the + highlight of my standards participation, even being on the + losing side, since each meeting was filled with good + discussions and challenging technical issues. + + Eight years in OSI, nearly all in an uphill struggly, took + their toll. I began to resent wading through the obligatory + political purgatory associated with each incremental change + in OSI, and eventually left in frustration. I also left + Unisys at approximately the same time, also in frustration, + to take on what seemed to be yet another Quijotian task -- + help Christine Hemrick at Bellcore bring high speed datagram + services into public networks, in the form of SMDS. + + Since 1988, I've been associated with SMDS at Bellcore, and + have participated in several aspects of its design, the most + rewarding of which was the design of an SNMP agent for SMDS. + + I'd become sort of a chaotic neutral in the OSI vs. TCP/IP + debate, and remain so. I think both technologies have much to + offer. TCP/IP has a better standards development + infrastructure, and I accepted the position as OSI + integration area director along with Erik Huizer because I + believed I could do more for OSI deployment within the + Internet infrastructure than elswhere. This has been + rewarding and frustrating. The rewards have come from meeting + and working with some truly bright and energetic people who + actually care about the implementation and deployment of OSI + applications and transport stacks; the frustration comes from + having to deal with the IP-supremist and near racist attitude + that frequently arises against OSI in the Internet. + + Oh, well, yet another Quijotian task. I suspect you'll have + + + +Malkin [Page 28] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + gathered by now that I don't run from a good fight. + + 4.20 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel, IAB Member, RFC Editor, IRSG Chair + + Jon Postel joined ISI in March 1976 as a member of the + technical staff, and is now Division Director of the + Communications Division. His current activities include a + continuing involvement with the evolution of the Internet + through the work of the various ISI projects on Gigabit + Networking, Multimedia Conferencing, Protocol Engineering, + Los Nettos, Parallel Computing System Research, and the Fast + Parts Automated Broker. Previous work at ISI included the + creation of the "Los Nettos" regional network for the Los + Angeles area, creating prototype implementations of several + of the protocols developed for the Internet community, + including the Simple Mail Transport Protocol, the Domain Name + Service, and an experimental Multimedia Mail system. Earlier + Jon studied the possible approaches for converting the + ARPANET from the NCP protocol to the TCP protocol. + Participated in the design of many protocols for the Internet + community. + + Before moving to ISI, Jon worked at SRI International in Doug + Engelbart's group developing the NLS (later called Augment) + system. While at SRI Jon led a special project to develop + protocol specifications for the Defense Communication Agency + for AUTODIN-II. Most of the development effort during this + period at ARC was focused on the National Software Works. + Prior to working at SRI, Jon spent a few months with Keydata + redesigning and reimplementing the NCP in the DEC PDP-15 data + management system used by ARPA. Before Keydata, Jon worked + at the Mitre Corporation in Virginia where he conducted a + study of ARPANET Network Control Protocol implementations. + + Jon received his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering in 1966 and + 1968 (respectively) from UCLA, and the Ph.D. in Computer + Science in 1974 from UCLA. Jon is a member of the ACM. Jon + continues to participate in the Internet Activities Board and + serves as the editor of the "Request for Comments" Internet + document series. + + ------------ + + My first experience with the ARPANET was at UCLA when I was + working in the group that became the Network Measurement + Center. When we were told that the first IMP would be + installed at UCLA we had to get busy on a number of problems. + We had to work with the other early sites to develop + + + +Malkin [Page 29] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + protocols, and we had to get our own computing environment in + order -- this included creating a time-sharing operating + system for the SDS Sigma-7 computer. Since then the ARPANET + and then the Internet have continued to grow and always + faster than expected. I think three factors contribute to + the success of the Internet: 1) public documentation of the + protocols, 2) free (or cheap) software for the popular + machines, and 3) vendor independence. + + 4.21 Joyce K. Reynolds, IETF User Services Area Director + + Joyce K. Reynolds has been affiliated with USC/Information + Sciences Institute since 1979. Ms. Reynolds has contributed + to the development of the DARPA Experimental Multimedia Mail + System, the Post Office Protocol, the Telnet Protocol, and + the Telnet Option Specifications. She helped update the File + Transfer Protocol. Her current technical interests include: + internet protocols, internet management, technical + researching, writing, and editing, Internet security + policies, X.500 directory services and Telnet Options. She + established a new informational series of notes for the + Internet community: FYI (For Your Information) RFCs. FYI + RFCs are documents useful to network users. Their purpose is + to make available general and useful information with broad + applicability. + + Joyce K. Reynolds received Bachelor of Arts and Master of + Arts degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of + Southern California (USC). Ms. Reynolds is the Associate + Editor of the Internet Society News. She is a member of the + California Internet Federation and the American Society of + Professional and Executive Women. She is affiliated with Phi + Alpha Theta (Honors Society). She is currently listed in + Who's Who in the American Society of Professional and + Executive Women and USC's Who's Who in the College of + Letters, Arts, and Sciences Alumni Directory. + + ------------ + + It has been interesting thirteen years in my professional + life to participate in the Internet world, from the + transition from the TENEX to TOPs-20 machines in 1979 to + surviving the NCP to TCP transition in 1980. Celebrating the + achievement of the ISI 1000 Hour Club where one of our TOPs- + 20 machines set a record for staying up and running for 1000 + consecutive hours without crashing, to watching the cellular + split of the ARPANET into the Milnet and Internet sides, and + surviving the advent. All in all, my most memorable times + + + +Malkin [Page 30] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + are the people who have contributed to the research and + development of the Internet. Lots of hard, intense work, + coupled with creative, exciting fun. As for the future, + there is much discussion and enthusiasm about the next steps + in the evolution of the Internet. I'm looking forward. + + 4.22 Dr. Michael Schwartz, IRSG Member + + Michael Schwartz has been an Assistant Professor of Computer + Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1987. + His research concerns distributed systems and networks of + international scale, with particular focus on the problem of + allowing users to discover the existence of resources of + interest, such as documents, software, data, network + services, and people. He is also actively involved with + various network measurement studies concerning usage and + connectivity of the global Internet. + + Dr. Schwartz is the chair of the recently formed Internet + Research Task Force research group on Resource Discovery and + Directory Service, and is a member of ACM, CPSR, and IEEE. + He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer + Science from UCLA, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in + Computer Science from the University of Washington. While a + graduate student, he worked on locally distributed systems, + heterogeneous systems, and naming problems. Schwartz also + worked on radar systems at Hughes Aircraft Company, and on + multi-vendor telephone switching problems at Bell + Communications Research. + + ------------ + + The growth in connectivity and functionality of the Internet + over the past five years has been phenomenal. Yet, few would + argue that the Internet is in any sense mature. I believe + what is lacking most are ease of use by a non-expert + populace, and facilities that will allow the Internet to + continue to grow in usefulness as the network grows much + larger. When the Macintosh computer was first introduced, it + swept in an era where "ordinary users" could buy a computer, + turn it on, and begin working. We need analogous + advancements in the field of networking and distributed + systems, to allow people to make sophisticated use of the + capbilities of large networks without the large amount of + specialized knowledge that is currently required. I am + particularly interested in services and protocols that will + allow people to search for resources of interest in the + Internet; to collaborate with individuals who share their + + + +Malkin [Page 31] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + + interests and concerns, according to very flexible criteria + for shared interest relationships; and to move about the + global Internet, plugging their mobile computers in at any + point, seamlessly and effortlessly configuring their system + to allow them to work at each new site. + + 4.23 Bernhard Stockman, IETF Operations Area Co-director + + Bernhard Stockman graduated as Master of Science in Electric + Engineering and Computer Systems from the Royal Institute of + Technology in Stockholm Sweden 1986. After a couple of years + as a researcher in distributed computer systems he was 1989 + employed by the NORDUNET and SUNET Network Operation Centre + where he is responisble for network monitoring and traffic + measurement. + + Bernhard Stockman is mainly involved in international + cooperative efforts. He chairs the RIPE Task Force on Network + Monitoring and Statistics. He chairs the European European + Engineering and Planning Group (EEPG) and is by this also + co-chair in the Intercontinental Engineering and + PlanningGroup (IEPG). He chairs the IETF Operations Area and + is hence the first non-US member of the IESG. He is also co- + charing the Operations Requirements Area Directorate (ORAD). + + Bernhard Stockman is currently also involved in the + specification and implementation of a pan-European + multiprotocol backbone. He is charing the group responsibel + for the technical design of the European Backbone (EBONE) + infrastructure. + + 4.24 Gregory Vaudreuil, IESG Member + + Greg Vaudreuil currently serves as both the Internet + Engineering Steering Group Secretary, and the IETF Manager. + As IESG Secretary, he is responsible for shepherding Internet + standards track protocols through the standards process. As + IETF Manager, he shares with the IESG Area Directors the + responsibility for chartering and managing the progress of + all working groups in the IETF. He chairs the Internet Mail + Extensions working group of the IETF. + + He graduated from Duke University with a degree in Electrical + Engineering and a major in Public Policy Studies. He was + thrust into the heart of the IETF by accepting a position + with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives to + manage the explosive growth of the IETF. + + + + +Malkin [Page 32] + +RFC 1336 Who's Who May 1992 + + +5. Security Considerations + + Security issues are not discussed in this memo. + +6. Author's Address + + Gary Scott Malkin + Xylogics, Inc. + 53 Third Avenue + Burlington, MA 01803 + + Phone: (617) 272-8140 + EMail: gmalkin@Xylogics.COM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Malkin [Page 33] +
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