As per Relevance of the word networking, we have this rfc below:
Network Working Group G.
Request for Comments: 1251 FTP Software, Inc
FYI: 9 August 1991
Who's Who in the
Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG
Status of this
This FYI RFC contains biographical information about members of
Internet Activities Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering
Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and
the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG) of the Internet
Task Force (IRTF).
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It
not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo
unlimited
Table of
1. Introduction.................................................... 2
2. Acknowledgements................................................ 2
3. Request for Biographies......................................... 2
4.
4.1 Robert Braden.............................................. 3
4.2 Hans-Werner Braun.......................................... 5
4.3 Ross Callon................................................ 9
4.4 Vinton Cerf................................................ 9
4.5 Noel Chiappa...............................................12
4.6 Lyman Chapin...............................................12
4.7 David Clark................................................13
4.8 Stephen Crocker............................................14
4.9 James R. Davin.............................................16
4.10 Russell Hobby..............................................17
4.11 Christian Huitema..........................................18
4.12 Stephen Kent...............................................19
4.13 Anthony G. Lauck...........................................19
4.14 Barry Leiner...............................................21
4.15 Daniel C. Lynch............................................22
4.16 Jonathan B. Postel.........................................23
4.17 Joyce K. Reynolds..........................................24
4.18 Gregory Vaudreuil..........................................25
5. Security Considerations.........................................26
6. Author's Address................................................26
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1.
There are thousands of networks in the internet. There are tens
thousands of host machines. There are hundreds of thousands
users. It takes a great deal of effort to manage the resources
protocols which make the Internet possible. Sites may have
who get paid to manage their hardware and software. But
infrastructure of the Internet is managed by volunteers who
considerable portions of their valued time to keep the
connected
Hundreds of people attend the three IETF meetings each year.
represent the government, the military, research institutions
educational institutions, and vendors from all over the world.
of them are volunteers; people who attend the meetings to learn
to contribute what they know. There are a few very special
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,
they spend additional time to organize them. They are the IETF'
interface to other standards bodies and to the funding institutions
Without them, the IETF, indeed the whole Internet, would not
possible
2.
In addition to the people who took the time to write
biographies so that I could compile them into this FYI RFC, I
like to give special thanks to Joyce K. Reynolds (whose biography
in here) for her help in creating the biography request message
for being such a good sounding board for me
3. Request for
In mid-February, I sent the following message to the members of
IAB, IESG and IRSG. It is their responses to this message that
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
time to credit the people who help make the Internet possible.
am sending this request to the current members of the IAB,
IRSG, and the IESG. At some future time, I would like to
the number of people to be included. For now, however, I
limiting inclusion to members of the groups listed above
I would like to ask you to submit to me your biography. I
to compile the bios submitted into an FYI RFC to be
before the next IETF meeting. In order to maintain
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consistency, I would like to have the bios contain
paragraphs. The first paragraph should contain your bio,
should be your school affiliation & other interests, and the
should contain your opinion of how the Internet has grown.
course, if there is anything else you would like to say,
feel free. The object is to let the very large user
know about the people who give them what they have
4.
The biographies are in alphabetical order. The contents have
been edited; only the formating has been changed
4.1 Robert Braden, IAB Executive
Bob Braden joined the networking research group at ISI
1986. Since thenf, he has been supported by NSF for
concerning NSFnet, and by DARPA for protocol research.
have included designing the statspy program for
NSFnet statistics, editing the Host Requirements RFCs,
coordinating the DARPA Research Testbed network DARTnet.
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
preceding 18 years for the campus computing center. There
had technical responsibility for attaching the
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
installing the 360/91 as a "tool-bearing host" in
National Software Works. In 1978, he became a member of
TCP Internet Working Group and began developing a TCP/
implementation for the IBM system. As a result, UCLA'
360/91 was one of the ARPAnet host systems that replaced
by TCP/IP in the big changeover of January 1983. The
package of ARPAnet host software, including Braden's TCP/
code, was distributed to other OS/MVS sites and was
sold commercially
Braden spent 1981-1982 in the Computer Science Department
University College London. At that time, he wrote the
Telnet/XXX relay system connecting the Internet with the
academic X.25 network. In 1981, Braden was invited to
the ICCB, an organization that became the IAB, and has
an IAB member ever since. When IAB task forces were
in 1986, he created and still chairs the End-to-End
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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
Carnegie Tech, Stanford, and UCLA. He received a Bachelor
Engineering Physics from Cornell in 1957, and an MS
Physics from Stanford in 1962.
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Regardless of the ancient Chinese curse, living
interesting times is not always bad
For me, participation in the development of the ARPAnet
the Internet protocols has been very exciting. One
reason it worked, I believe, is that there were a lot of
bright people all working more or less in the same direction
led by some very wise people in the funding agency.
result was to create a community of network researchers
believed strongly that collaboration is more powerful
competition among researchers. I don't think any other
would have gotten us where we are today. This world
persists in the IAB, and is reflected in the
structure of the IAB, IETF, and IRTF
Nevertheless, with growth and success (plus subtle
shifts in Washington), the prevailing mode may be
towards competition, both commercial and academic.
develop protocols in a commercially competitive world,
need elaborate committee structures and rules. The
then shifts to the large companies, away from small
and universities. In an academically competitive world,
don't develop any (useful) protocols; you get 6
protocols for the same objective, each with its
paper (which is the "real" output). This results
efficient production of research papers, but it may
result in the kind of intellectual consensus necessary
create good and useful communication protocols
Being a member of the IAB is sometimes very frustrating.
some years now we have been painfully aware of the
problems of the Internet, and since 1982 have lived through
series of mini-disasters as various limits have
exceeded. We have been saying that "getting big" is
a more urgent (and perhaps more difficult) research
than "getting fast", but it seems difficult to
people of the importance of launching the kind of
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program we think is necessary to learn how to deal
Internet growth
It is very hard to figure out when the exponential growth
likely to stop, or when, if ever, the
architectural model of the Internet will be so out of
with reality that it will cease be useful. Ask me again
ten years
4.2 Hans-Werner Braun, IAB
Hans-Werner Braun joined the San Diego Supercomputer
as a Principal Scientist in January 1991. In his
major responsibility as Co-Principal Investigator of,
Executive Committee member on the CASA gigabit
research project he is working on networking efforts
the problems of todays computer networking infrastructure
Between April 1983 and January 1991 he worked at
University of Michigan and focused on
infrastructure for the Merit Computer Network and
University of Michigan's Information Technology Division
Starting out with the networking infrastructure within
State of Michigan he started to investigate into TCP/
protocols and became very involved in the early stages of
NSFNET networking efforts. He was Principal Investigator
the NSFNET backbone project since the NSFNET award went
Merit in November 1987 and managed Merit's
Engineering group. Between April 1978 and April 1983 Hans
Werner Braun worked at the Regional Computing Center of
University of Cologne in West Germany on network
responsibilities for the regional and local network
In March 1978 Hans-Werner Braun graduated in West Germany
holds a Diploma in Engineering with a major in
Processing. He is a member of the Association of
Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Group
Communications, the Institute of Electrical and
Engineers (IEEE) as well as the IEEE Computer Society and
IEEE Communications Society and the American Association
the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the
Science Foundation's Network Program Advisory Group (NPAG
and in particular its Technical Committee (NPAG-TC)
November 1986 and late 1987, at which time the NPAG
resolved. He also chaired the Technical Committee of
National Science Foundation's Network Program Advisory
(NPAG-TC) starting in February 1987. Prior to
organizational change of the JvNCnet he participated in
JvNCnet Network Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) of
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John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center. While
as Principal Investigator on the NSFNET project at Merit,
chaired the NSFNET Network Technical Committee, created
aid Merit with the NSFNET project. Hans-Werner Braun is
member of the Engineering Planning Group of the
Networking Council (FEPG) since its beginnings in early 1989,
a member of the Internet Activities Board (IAB), the
Engineering Task Force. He had participated in an earlier
informal, version of the Internet Engineering Steering
and the then existing Internet Architecture Task Force.
at Merit, Hans-Werner Braun was also Principal
on NSF projects for the "Implementation and Management
Improved Connectivity Between NSFNET and CA*net" and
"Coordinating Routing for the NSFNET," the latter at the
of the old 56kbps NSFNET backbone network that he was
intimately involved with
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The growth of the Internet can be measured in many ways and
can only try to find some examples
o Network number
There were days where being "connected to net 10" was
Greatest Thing Ever. A time where the Internet
consisted of a few networks centered around the ARPAnet
where growing above 100 network numbers seemed excessive
Todays number of networks in the global
exceeds 2000 connected networks, and many more if
network islands get included
o Traffic
The Internet has undergone a dramatic increase in
over the last few years. The NSFNET backbone can be used
an example here, where in August 1988 about 194
packets got injected into the network, which had increased
about 396 million packets per month by the end of the year
to reach about 4.8 billion packets in December 1990.
1991 yielded close to 5.9 billion packets as sent into
NSFNET backbone
o Internet Engineering Task Force
The early IETF, after it spun off the old GADS,
about 20 or so people. I remember a meeting a few people
with Mike Corrigan several years ago. Mike then chaired
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IETF before Phill Gross became chair and the discussion
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
members, including vendors and phone companies
o International
At some point of time the Internet was centric around the
with very little international connectivity.
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
be considered close to global in scope, in particular as
and more international connections to, as well as
infrastructure within, other countries are happening
o References in trade
Many trade journals just a year or two ago had close to
mention of the Internet. Today references to the
appear in many journals and press releases from a variety
places
o Articles in professional
Publications like ACM SIGCOMM show increased interest
Internet related professional papers, compared to a few
ago. Also the publication rate of the Request For
(RFC) series is quite impressive
o Congressional and Senatorial
A few years ago the Internet was "just a research project."
Today's dramatically increased visibility in result of
Internet success allows Congress as well as Senators to
lead roles in pushing the National Research and
Network (NREN) agenda forward, which is also fostered by
executive branch. In the context of the US federal
the real credit should go to DARPA, though, for starting
prototype advanced networking, leading to the Internet
twenty years ago and over time opening it up more and more
the science and research community until more
efforts were able to move the network to a
infrastructure in support of science, research and
at large. This really allowed NSF to make NSFNET happen
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o
The Internet funding initially consisted of DARPA efforts
Agencies like NSF, NASA, DOE and others started to make
contributions later. Industrial participation helped
the network forward as well. Very major investments have
made by campuses and research institutions to create
infrastructure. Operational infrastructure comes at a
cost, especially if ubiquity, robustness and high
are required
o Research and continued
The Internet has matured from a network research
environment to an operational infrastructure
research, science and education at large. However,
though for many people the Internet is an
supporting their day-to-day work, the Internet at its
level of technology is supported by a culture of people
cooperates in a largely non-competitive environment.
times already the size of the routing tables or the amount
traffic or the insufficiency of routing exchange protocols
just to name examples, have broken connectivity with
people being interrupted in their day-to-day work.
Internet management and problem resolution further
fast recovery from certain incidents. It is unproven that
current technology will survive in a competitive
unregulated environment, with uncoordinated routing
and global network management being just two of the
issues here. Furthermore, while frequently comments
being made where the publicly available monthly increases
traffic figures would not justify moving to T3 or
gigabit per second networks, it should be pointed out
monthly figures are very macroscopic views. Much of
Internet traffic is very bursty and we have frequently
an onslaught of traffic towards backbone nodes if one
at it over fairly short intervals of time. For example,
specific applications that, perhaps in real-time, require
occasional exchange of massive amounts of data. It
important that we are prepared for more widespread use
such applications, once people are able to use things
sophisticated than Telnet, FTP and SMTP. I am not
whether the amount of research and development efforts on
Internet has increased over time, less even kept pace
the general Internet growth (by whatever definition). I
not believe that the Internet is a finished product at
point of time and there is a lot of room for
evolution
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4.3 Ross Callon, IETF OSI Integration Area Co-
Ross Callon is a member of the Distributed
Architecture staff at Digital Equipment Corporation
Littleton Massachusetts. He is working on issues related
OSI -- TCP/IP interoperation and introduction of OSI in
Internet. He is the primary author of the Integrated IS-
protocol (RFC1195), and has also worked on guidelines
allocation of NSAP addresses in the Internet. Mr Callon
the co-area director for the OSI area of the IETF, chair
the IETF IS-IS working group, and co-chair of the IETF OSI
General working group
Previous to joining DEC, Mr Callon was with Bolt Beranek
Newman, where he worked on OSI Standards, Network Management
Routing Protocols and other router-related issues
Mr Callon received a Bachelor of Science degree
Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a Master of Science degree in Operations Research
Stanford University
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During eleven years of involvement with the
community it has been exciting to see the explosive growth
data communications from a relatively obscure technology to
technology in widespread everyday use. For the future, I
interested in transition to a world-wide multi-
Internet. This requires scaling to several orders
magnitude larger than the current Internet, and also
a greater emphasis on reliability and ease of use
4.4 Dr. Vinton Cerf, IAB
1960-1965, summer jobs with various divisions of
American Aviation (Now Rockwell International): Rocketdyne
Atomics International, Autonetics, Space and
Systems Division
1965-1967, systems engineer, IBM, Los Angeles Data Center
Ran and maintained the QUIKTRAN interactive, on-line
service
1967-1972, various programming positions at UCLA,
involved with ARPANET protocol development and
measurement center and computer performance measurements
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1972-1976, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Did research
networking, developed TCP/IP protocols for internetting
DARPA research grant
1976-1982, Program Manager and Principal Scientist
Information Processing Techniques Office, DARPA. Managed
Internetting, Packet Technology and Network
programs
1982-1986, Vice President of Engineering, MCI
Information Services Company. Developed MCI Mail system
1986-present, Vice President, Corporation for
Research Initiatives. Responsible for Internet,
Library and Electronic Mail system interconnection
programs
Stanford University, 1965 (math) B.S. UCLA, 1970, 1972
(computer science) M.S. and Ph.D
1972-1976, founding chairman of the International
Working Group (INWG) which became IFIP Working Group 6.1.
1979-1982, ex officio member of ICCB (predecessor to
Internet Activities Board), member of IAB from 1986-1989
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
1977-present, member of IEEE; Fellow, 1988.
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The Internet started as a focused DARPA research effort
develop a capability to link computers across multiple
internally diverse packet networks. The successful
of this technology through 4 versions, demonstration
ARPANET, mobile packet radio nets, the Atlantic SATNET
at-sea MATNET provided the basis for formal mandating of
TCP/IP protocols for use on ARPANET and other DoD systems
1983. By the mid-1980's, a market had been established
software and hardware supporting these protocols,
triggered by the Ethernet and other LAN phenomena,
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with the rapid proliferation of UNIX-based systems
incorporated the TCP/IP protocols as part of the
release package. Concurrent with the development of a
and rapid increase in vendor interest, government agencies
addition to DoD began applying the technology to their needs
culminating in the formation of the Federal Research
Coordinating Committee which has now evolved into the
Networking Council, in the U.S. At the same time,
rapid growth of TCP/IP technology application is
outside the US in Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim
Eurasia, Australia, South and Central America and, to
limited extent, Africa. The internationalization of
Internet has spawned new organizational foci such as
Coordinating Committee for International Research
(CCIRN) and heightened interest in commercial provision of
services (e.g. in Finland, the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere).
The Internet has also become the basis for a
National Research and Education Network (NREN) in the U.S
It's electronic messaging system has been linked to the
U.S. commercial email carriers and to other major
electronic mail services such as Bitnet (in the US, EARN
Europe) as well as UUNET (in the U.S.) and EUNET (in Europe).
The Bitnet and UUCP-based systems are international in
and complement the Internet system in terms of
connectivity
With the introduction of OSI capability (in the form of CLNP
into important parts of the Internet (such as the
backbone and selected intermediate level networks), a
has been opened to support the use of multiple
suites in the Internet. Many of the vendor routers/
support TCP/IP, OSI and a variety of vendor-
protocols in a common network environment
In the U.S., regional Bell Operating Company carriers
planning the introduction of Switched Multimegabit
Services and Frame Relay services which can support TCP/
and other Internet protocols. On the research side, DARPA
the NSF are supporting a major initiative in gigabit
networking, towards which the NREN is aimed
The Internet is a grand collaboration of over 5000
involving millions of users, hundreds of thousands of
and dozens of countries around the world. It may well do
computers what the telephone system has done for people
provided a means for international interchange of
which is blind to nationality, proprietary interests,
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hardware platform specifics
4.5 Noel Chiappa, IETF Internet Services Area
Noel Chiappa is currently an independent inventor working
the area of computer networks and system software.
principal occupation, however, is his service as the
Director for Internet Services of the Steering Group of
Internet Engineering Task Force
His primary current research interest is in the area
routing and addressing architectures for very large
(globally ubiquitous and larger) internetworks, but he
generally interested in the problems of the packet layer
internetworking; i.e. everything involved in getting
from one host to another anywhere in the internetwork. As
with many novel features intended for use in
programming projects with many source and header files
He has been a member of the TCP/IP Working Group and
successors (up to the IETF) since 1977. He was a member
the Research Staff at the Massachusetts Institute
Technology from 1977-1982 and 1984-1986. While at MIT
worked on packet switching and local area networks, and
responsible for the conception of the multi-protocol
and the multi-protocol router. After leaving MIT he
with a number of companies, including Proteon, to
networking products based on work done at MIT to the public
He attended Phillips Andover Academy and MIT. He was
and bred in Bermuda
His outside interests include study and collection of
racing cars (principally Lotuses), reading (
political and military history and biographies),
gardening (particularly Japanese), and study of Oriental
(particularly Turkoman tribal rugs) and Oriental
(particularly Japanese lacquerware and Chinese
jades).
4.6 Lyman Chapin, IAB
Lyman Chapin graduated from Cornell University in 1973 with
B.A. in Mathematics, and spent the next two years
COBOL applications for Systems & Programs (NZ) Ltd. in
Hutt, New Zealand. After a year travelling in Australia
Asia, he joined the newly-formed Networking group at
General Corporation in 1977. At DG, he was responsible
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the development of software for distributed
management (operating-system embedded RPC),
database management, X.25-based local and wide-
networks, and OSI-based transport, internetwork, and
functions for DG's open-system products. In 1987 he
the Distributed Systems Architecture group, and
responsible for the development of DG's
Application Architecture (DAA) and for the specification
the directory and management services of DAA. He moved
Bolt, Beranek & Newman in 1990 as the Chief Network
in BBN's Communications Division, where he serves as
consultant to the Systems Architecture group and
coordinator for BBN's open system standards activities.
is the chairman of ANSI-accredited task group X3S3.3,
responsible for Network and Transport layer standards,
1982; vice-chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group
Data Communications (SIGCOMM) since 1985; and a member
the Internet Activities Board (IAB) since 1989. He
with his wife and two young daughters in Hopkinton
Massachusetts
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I started out in 1977 working with X.25 networks, and
working on OSI in 1979 - first the architecture (the
Reference Model), and then the transport and
protocol specifications. It didn't take long to
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
files, we were using the TCP/IP-based Internet! I've
looking for ways to overcome this anomaly ever since;
inject as much of the proven TCP/IP technology into OSI
possible, and to introduce OSI into an ever more
and worldwide Internet. It is, to say the least,
challenge
4.7 Dr. David Clark, IAB Member, IRTF
David Clark works at the M.I.T. Laboratory for
Science, where he is a Senior Research Scientist. His
research involves protocols for high speed and very
networks, in particular the problems of routing and flow
congestion control. He is also working on integration
video into packet networks. Prior to this effort,
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
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operating system. He joined the TCP development effort
1975, and chaired the IAB from 1981 to 1990. He has
continuing interest in protocol performance. He is
active in the area of computer and communications security
David Clark received his BSEE from Swarthmore College
1966, and his MS and PhD from MIT, the latter in 1973. He
worked at MIT since then
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It is not proper to think of networks as
computers. Rather, they connect people using computers
mediate. The great success of the internet is not technical
but in human impact. Electronic mail may not be a
advance in Computer Science, but it is a whole new way
people to communicate. The continued growth of the
is a technical challenge to all of us, but we must
loose sight of where we came from, the great change we
worked on the larger computer community, and the
potential we have for future change
4.8 Dr. Stephen Crocker, IETF Security Area
Currently I'm vice president of Trusted Information Systems
Inc. which I joined in late 1986. I set up TIS' Los
office and ran it until summer 1989 when I moved to the
office in Maryland. At TIS my primary concerns are
verification research and application, integration
cryptography with trusted systems, network security, and
applications for networks and trusted systems
I was at the Aerospace Corporation from 1981-86 as
of the Information Sciences Research Office which
became the Computer Science Laboratory. The research
at Aerospace included networks, program verification
artificial intelligence, applications of expert systems,
parallel processing
From 1974-81 I was a researcher at USC's Information
Institute, where I focused primarily on program verification
From 1971-74 I was a program manager at DARPA/IPTO (
ISTO). I was responsible for the research programs
artificial intelligence, automatic programming,
understanding, and some parts of the network research.
also initiated an ambitious but somewhat ill-fated
called the National Software Works
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From 1968-71 I was a graduate student in the UCLA
Science Department. While there I initiated the
Working Group, arguably the forerunner of the IETF and
related groups around the world, and helped define
original suite of protocols for the Arpanet. I
initiated the Request for Comments (RFC) series. A
description of the events of that era are contained in
1000.
I was a graduate student in the MIT AI Lab for a year and
half in 1967-68, and I was an undergraduate at UCLA for
long time before that
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I've watched the Internet grow from its beginning. At
we had the privilege of being node 1 of the Arpanet.
those days, several of us dreamed of very high
intercomputer connections and very rich protocols to knit
computers together. Some of the those concepts are
discussed and anticipated today under the names
visualization, distributed file systems, etc. On the
hand, I would never have imagined that 20 years later we'
have such a plethora of different network technologies.
more astonishing is the enormous number of
managed but nonetheless interconnected networks that make
the current network. And somewhat beyond comprehension
that it seems to work
How will the Internet evolve? I expect to see
developments in the following dimensions
o Regularization, internationalization and
Standards will become even more important than they are now
Implementations of protocols and related mechanisms
become more standard and robust. The relationship
the TCP/IP stack and the OSI stack will be resolved,
either both co-existing, OSI winning out, or
intermediate convergence emerging
The Internet will become a less U.S.-centric and
international operation. Much of the Internet will
operated by commercial concerns on a a profit-making basis
thereby opening up the Internet to unrestricted use.
telephone companies, including both the local
carriers and the interexchange carriers, will start
some of the protocol stack other than the point-to-
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lines
o Higher and lower bandwidths; great
I expect to see T1 connections become the norm for the
of institutions that are now on the Internet. Higher speeds
including speeds up to a gigabit will become available.
the same time, I expect to see a vast expansion of
Internet, reaching into a significant fraction of the
and businesses in this country and elsewhere in the world
Many of these institutions will be connected at 9600 bits/
or slower
o More
E-mail dominates the Internet, and it's likely to remain
dominant use of the Internet in the future. Nonetheless,
expect to see an exciting array of other applications
become heavily used and cause a change in the perception
the Internet as primarily a "mail system."
databases will become available on the Internet,
applications dependent on those databases will flourish.
techniques and tools for collaboration over a network
emerge. These will include various forms of conferencing
cooperative multi-media document development
o
Security will tighten up on the Internet, but not
some (more) pain. Host operating systems will be built
configured, distributed and operated under much
constraints than they have been. Firewalls will abound
Encryption will be added to links, routers and
protocol layers. All of this will decrease the utility
the Internet in the short run, but lay the groundwork
broader use eventually. New protocols will emerge
incorporate sound protection but also provide efficient
flexible access control and resource sharing. These
provide the basis for the kind of close knit
that motivated the original thinking behind the Arpanet
4.9 James R. Davin, IETF Network Management Area
James R. Davin currently works in the Advanced
Architecture group at the M.I.T. Laboratory for
Science where his recent interests center on
architecture and congestion control. In the past, he
been engaged in router development at Proteon, Incorporated
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where much of his work focused on network management. He
also worked at Data General's Research Triangle Park
on a variety of communications protocols
He holds the B.A. from Haverford College and masters
in Computer Science and English from Duke University
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The growth of the internet over the years has taken it
lower speeds to higher speeds, from limited
extent to global presence, from research apparatus to
essential social and commercial infrastructure,
experimentation among a few networking sophisticates to
use by thousands in all walks of life. This latter sort
growth is almost certainly the most valuable
4.10 Russell Hobby, IETF Applications Area
Russ Hobby received B.S in Chemistry (1975) and M.S.
Computing Sciences (1981) from the University of California
Davis where he currently works as Data
Manager. He also represents UC Davis as a founding member
the Bay Area Regional Research Network (BARRNet). He
and now chairs the California Internet Federation, a
for coordinating educational and research networks
California. In addition he is Area Director for
in the Internet Engineering Task Force and a member of
Internet Engineering Steering Group
As Data Communications Manager at UC Davis, Russ
responsible for all aspects of campus networking
network design, implementation, and operation. UC Davis
also been instrumental in the development of new
protocols and their prototype implementations, in particular
the Point-to- Point Protocol (PPP). UC Davis has been
active in the use of networking for students
kindergarten through community colleges and has had the
High School on the Internet since 1989. In conjunction
the City of Davis, UC Davis is planning a community
using ISDN to bring networking into the residences in
for university network connection, high school and
resource access, telecommuting, and electronic democracy
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I have seen the rapid growth of the Internet into a
utility, but believe that it is lacking in the types
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applications that could make use of its full potential.
believes that it is time to look at the network from
users side and consider the functionality that they desire
New applications for information storage and retrieval
personal and group communications, and coordinated
resources are needed. I think, "Networks aren't just
computer nerds anymore!".
4.11 Dr. Christian Huitema, IAB
Christian HUITEMA has conducted for several years research
network protocols and network applications. He is now
INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, where he leads the
project "RODEO", whose objective is the definition and
experimentation of communication protocols for very
speed networks, at one Gbit/s or more. This includes
study of high speed transmission control protocols, of
parameterization and of their insertion in the
systems, and the study of the synchronization functions
of the management of data transparency between
systems. The work is conducted in cooperation with
partners and takes into account the evolution of
communication standards. Previously, he took part to
NADIR project, investigating computer usage
telecommunication satellites, and to OSI developments in
GIPSI project for the SM90 work station, including one of
earliest X.400 systems, and to the ESPRIT project THORN
which is provide one of the first X.500 conformant
system
Christian Huitema graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique
Paris in 1975, and passed his doctorate in the University
Paris VI in 1985.
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The various projects which followed the "Cyclades" network
France were following closely the developments of the
and then the Internet. However, the first linkage
established in the early 80's through mail connections. I
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
operational in 1988. This interconnection, together
parallel actions in the Nordic countries of Europe, at
and through the EUNET association, was certainly
in the development TCP/IP internetting in Europe. The
growth of the Internet here is indicative both of
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perceived needs and of the future. Researcher
universities, non profit and industrial organizations
eager to communicate; new applications are being
which will enable them to interact more and more closely..
and will pose the networking challenge of realizing a
large, very powerful Internet
4.12 Dr. Stephen Kent, IAB
Stephen Kent is the Chief Scientist of BBN Communications,
division of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., where he has
enganged in network security research and
activities for over a decade. His work has included
design and development of user authentication and
control systems, end-to-end encryption and access
systems for packet networks, performance analysis of
mechanisms, and the design of secure transport layer
electronic message protocols
Dr. Kent is the chair of the Internet Privacy and
Research Group and a member of the Internet Activities Board
He served on the Secure Systems Study Committee of
National Academy of Sciences and is a member of the
Research Council assessment panel for the NIST
Computer Systems Laboratory. He was a charter member of
board of directors of the International Association
Cryptologic Research. Dr. Kent is the author of a
chapter and numerous technical papers on packet
security and has served as a referee, panelist and
chair for a number of security related conferences. He
lectured on the topic of network security on behalf
government agencies, universities and private
throughout the United States, Western Europe and Australia
Dr. Kent received the B.S. degree in mathematics from
University of New Orleans, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D
degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts
of Technology. He is a member of the ACM and Sigma Xi
appears in Who's Who in the Northeast and Who's Who
Emerging Leaders
4.13 Anthony G. Lauck, IAB
Since 1976, Anthony G. Lauck has been responsible for
architecture and advanced development at Digital
Corporation, where he currently manages
Telecommunications and Networks Architecture and
Development group. For the past fifteen years his group
designed the network architecture and protocols
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Digital's DECnet computer networking products. His group
played a leading role in local area network standardization
including Ethernet, FDDI, and transparent bridged LANs.
group has also played a leading role in standardizing the
network and transport layers. Most recently, they
completed the architecture for the next phase of DECnet
is based on OSI while providing backward compatibility
DECnet Phase IV. Prior to his role in network
he was responsible for setting the direction of Digital'
PDP-11 communications products. In addition to working
Digital, he worked at Autex, Inc. where was a designer of
transaction processing system for securities trading and
the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory were he
an early remote batch system
Mr. Lauck received his BA degree from Harvard in 1965.
has worked in a number of areas related to
communication, ranging from design of physical links
local area networks to applications for
processing. His current interests include high speed
and wide area networks, multiprotocol networking,
security, and distributed processing. He was a member of
Committee on Computer-Computer Communications Protocols
the National Research Council which did a comparison of
TCP and TP4 transport protocols for DOD and NBS. He was
a member of the National Science Foundation Network
Advisory Board. In December of 1984, he was recognized
Science Digest magazine as one of America's 100
young scientists for his work on computer networking
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In 1978 Vint Cerf came to Digital to give a lecture on
and IP, just prior to the big blizzard. I was pleased to
that TCP/IP shared the same connectionless philosophy
networking as did DECnet. Some years later, Digital
that future phases of DECnet would be based on standards
Since Digital was a multinational company, the
would need to be international. Unfortunately, in 1980
rejected TCP and IP on national political grounds. When
looked like the emerging OSI standards were going to
limited to purely connection- oriented networking, I was
concerned and began efforts to standardize
networking in OSI. As it turned out, TCP/IP retained
initial lead over OSI, moving internationally as the
expanded, thereby becoming an international protocol
and meeting my original needs. I hope that the Internet
evolve into a multiprotocol structure that can
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changing networking technologies and can do so with a
of religious fervor. It will be exciting to solve
like network scale and security, especially in the context
a network which must serve users while it evolves
4.14 Dr. Barry Leiner, IAB
Dr. Leiner joined Advanced Decision Systems in
1990, where he is responsible for corporate
directions. Advanced Decision Systems is focussed on
creation of information processing technology, systems,
products that enhance decision making power. Prior
joining ADS, Dr. Leiner was Assistant Director of
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at NASA
Research Center. In that position, he formulated and
out research programs ranging from the development
advanced computer and communications technologies through
the application of such technologies to scientific research
Prior to coming to RIACS, he was Assistant Director for C
Technology in the Information Processing Techniques Office
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). In
position, he was responsible for a broad range of
programs aimed at developing the technology base for large
scale survivable distributed command, control
communication systems. Prior to that, he was
Engineering Specialist with Probe Systems,
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech,
Research Engineer with GTE Sylvania
Dr. Leiner received his BEEE from Rensselaer
Institute in 1967 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from
University in 1969 and 1973, respectively. He has
research in a variety of areas, including direction
systems, spread spectrum communications and detection,
compression theory, image compression, and most
computer networking and its applications. He has
in these areas in both journals and conferences, and
the best paper of the year award in the IEEE Aerospace
Electronic Systems Transactions in 1979 and in the
Communications Magazine in 1984. Dr. Leiner is a
Member of the IEEE and a member of ACM, Tau Beta Pi and
Kappa Nu
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My first exposure to the internet (actually Arpanet) was
1977 when, as a DARPA contractor, I was provided access.
that point, the Arpanet was primarily used to support
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and related activities, and was confined to a
small set of users and sites. The Internet technology
just in the process of being developed and demonstrated.
fact, my DARPA contract was in relation to the Packet
Network, and the primary motivation for the
technology was to connect the mobile Packet Radio Network
the long-haul Arpanet. Now, only 13 years later, things
changed radically. The Internet has grown by several
of magnitude in size and connects a much wider community
including academic, commercial, and government. It
spread well beyond the USA to include many
throughout the world. It has grown beyond the
network to provide operational service. Its influence
seen throughout the computer communications community
4.15 Daniel C. Lynch, IAB
Daniel C. Lynch, 49, is president and founder of Interop
Inc. (formerly named Advanced Computing Environments)
Mountain View, California since 1985. A member of ACM,
and the IAB, he is active in computer networking with
primary focus in promoting the understanding of
operational behavior. The annual INTEROP (conference
exhibition is the major vehicle for his efforts
As the director of Information Processing Division for
Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey (USC-ISI
Lynch led the Arpanet team that made the transition from
original NCP protocols to the current TCP/IP based protocols
Lynch directed this effort with 75 people from 1980
1983.
He was Director of Computing Facilities at SRI
in the late 70's serving the computing needs of over 3,000
employees. He formerly served as manager of the
laboratory for the Artificial Intelligence Center at
which conducts research in robotics, vision,
understanding, theorem proving and distributed databases
While at SRI he performed initial debugging of the TCP/
protocols in conjunction with BBN
Lynch has been active in computer networking since 1973.
Prior to that he developed realtime software for
decoy detection for the USAF. He received
training in mathematics and philosophy from Loyola
of Los Angeles and obtained a Master's Degree in
from UCLA in 1965.
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The Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in
simple a manner as possible. Putting together a
Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to
routing in a huge internet. When you add the
requirement of commercial security and the desire
"classes of service" we are faced with big challenges.
think this means that we have to get a lot more involved
operational provisioning considerations such as those
the phone companies and credit card firms have wrestled with
Hopefully we can do this and still maintain the
friendly attitude that Internetters have always had
4.16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel, IAB Member, RFC
Jon Postel joined ISI in March 1976 as a member of
technical staff, and is now Division Director of
Communications Division. His current activities include
continuing involvement with the evolution of the
through the work of the various ISI projects on
Networking, Multimedia Conferencing, Protocol Engineering
Los Nettos, Parallel Computing System Research, and the
Parts Automated Broker. Previous work at ISI included
creation of the "Los Nettos" regional network for the
Angeles area, creating prototype implementations of
of the protocols developed for the Internet community
including the Simple Mail Transport Protocol, the Domain
Service, and an experimental Multimedia Mail system.
Jon studied the possible approaches for converting
ARPANET from the NCP protocol to the TCP protocol
Participated in the design of many protocols for the
community
Before moving to ISI, Jon worked at SRI International in
Engelbart's group developing the NLS (later called Augment
system. While at SRI Jon led a special project to
protocol specifications for the Defense Communication
for AUTODIN-II. Most of the development effort during
period at ARC was focused on the National Software Works
Prior to working at SRI, Jon spent a few months with
redesigning and reimplementing the NCP in the DEC PDP-15
management system used by ARPA. Before Keydata, Jon
at the Mitre Corporation in Virginia where he conducted
study of ARPANET Network Control Protocol implementations
Jon received his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering in 1966
1968 (respectively) from UCLA, and the Ph.D. in
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Science in 1974 from UCLA. Jon is a member of the ACM.
continues to participate in the Internet Activities Board
serve as the editor of the "Request for Comments"
document series
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My first experience with the ARPANET was at UCLA when i
working in the group that became the Network
Center. When we were told that the first IMP would
installed at UCLA we had to get busy on a number of problems
We had to work with the other early sites to
protocols, and we had to get our own computing environment
order -- this included creating a time-sharing
system for the SDS Sigma-7 computer. Since then the
and then the Internet have continued to grow and
faster than expected. I think three factors contribute
the success of the Internet: 1) public documentation of
protocols, 2) free (or cheap) software for the
machines, and 3) vendor independence
4.17 Joyce K. Reynolds, IETF User Services Area
Joyce K. Reynolds has been affiliated with USC/
Sciences Institute since 1979. Ms. Reynolds has
to the development of the DARPA Experimental Multimedia
System, the Post Office Protocol, the Telnet Protocol,
the Telnet Option Specifications. She helped update the
Transfer Protocol. Her current technical interests include
internet protocols, internet management,
researching, writing, and editing, Internet
policies, and Telnet Options. She recently established a
informational series of notes for the Internet community:
(For Your Information) RFCs. FYI RFCs are documents
to network users. Their purpose is to make available
and useful information with broad applicability
Joyce K. Reynolds received Bachelor of Arts and Master
Arts degrees in the Social Sciences (History) from
University of Southern California (USC). Ms. Reynolds is
member of the American Society of Professional and
Women. She is affiliated with Phi Alpha Theta (
Society). She is currently listed in Who's Who in
American Society of Professional and Executive Women
USC's Who's Who in the College of Letters, Arts, and
Alumni Directory
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It has been an interesting twelve years in my
life to participate in the ARPANET/Internet world, from
transition of the TENEX to TOPs-20 machines in 1979
surviving the NCP to TCP transition in 1980. Celebrating
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
split of the ARPANET into the Milnet and Internet sides,
surviving the advent of Unix in 1985. All in all, my
memorable times are the people who have contributed to
research and development of the Internet. Lots of hard
intense work, coupled with creative, exciting fun. As
the future, there is much discussion and enthusiasm about
next step in the evolution of the Internet.
"international" Internet is on the very tip of the horizon
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