SIRS
Experiment:
Volunteer Membership
| Informal, Experimental Service |
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SIRS
Experiment:
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This is a preliminary list of SIRS who have agreed to participate in this informal, experimental phase of operation.
Specified Features, Not Supplied in the ExperimentThe SIRS specification calls for some essential capabilities that are not provided in this experimental service. Specifically:
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The initial team is defined by objective criteria, to avoid any bias in their selection. It also is a convenient way to provide an initial population of SIRS. Anyone satisfying at least one of the following criteria is eligible to be a SIR.
IAB |
Current and former IAB member | MIB |
Current MIB Doctor |
IESG |
Former IESG member | Dir |
Member of an existing IETF Directorate |
WG |
Former working group chair | RFC |
Author of at least three RFCs |
| Name | IETF | Background |
Bernard Aboba |
IAB,
Chair |
Architect,
Windows Networking at Microsoft. Initial job at Microsoft was Authored 17 RFCs. Chaired a Nomcom. Chair of AAA and EAP WGs. Participated in IEEE 802.1X-2001. |
Mark Allman |
WG,
Dir |
Mark
Allman is a computer scientist working for BBN Technologies at NASA's Glenn
Research Center. His current research interests are in the areas of transport
protocols, congestion control and measuring network dynamics. Mark is involved
in the Internet Engineering Task Force, where he has chaired several working
groups and BoFs and is currently a member of the Transport Area Directorate.
Mark also chairs the Internet Measurement Research Group within the Internet
Research Task Force. Mark holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science
from Ohio University. |
Fred Baker |
IAB,
IESG, WG, RFC |
IETF Chair in from 1996 to 2001 and a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996 to 2003. Fred has contributed to Network Management, various MIBs, OSPF and Ad Hoc Routing, PPP and Frame Relay, the Integrated and Differentiated Services QoS architectures, and RSVP. Author or editor of over 30 RFCs on various subjects. |
Jim Bound |
RFC |
Network
Technical Director for HP-UX networking and security operating system
subsystem
lab, HP Fellow and report virtually into the HP CTO Office for various
technology efforts, and have multiple Non-HP industry technology roles
Chair IPv6 Forum
Technical Directorate, Chair North American IPv6 Task Force, and IETF Technical
Leader for HP. Have been engineer/architect for networking since 1978.
Have
engineered and delivered multiple IP stacks in the industry and specifically
engineered IPv6 into product IP stacks that are being used in the industry
today. Have hands-on technical and architecture expertise for implementation
around most any part of the IP stack, but will list here IP protocol
suite
IP, Transport, and API layers, Routing, Multimedia, IPv6 Transition Mechanisms.
Working in the IETF since 1993. Other expertise and knowledge base upon
request. |
Scott W Brim |
WG,
RFC |
I
spent 10 years on Routing (unicast and multicast), 5 years on QoS,
2 years
on Content Networking and Midcom, and spare time over the years on Internet
architecture and IETF policy & procedures. Currently I'm involved
in MPLS interworking and IPR. |
Ross Callon |
IESG, Chair, Dir, RFC |
Ross Callon is a distinguished engineer in the protocols
group at Juniper Networks. He has extensive experience in routing protocol
and high speed router design and in multi-protocol coexistence and interoperability.
He is co-chair of the IETF L3VPN working group, and of Network Reliability
and Interoperability Council 6, Focus Group 2 advising the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) on network reliability. He also was a participant in
recent efforts to advise the White House on security in communications
networks.Mr Callon is a long-standing participant in multiple IETF working groups,
and has previous experience in the ATM Forum, internet engineering steering
group, IEEE, ANSI, and ISO. He has authored or contributed toward VPN,
MPLS, PNNI, IPv6, IS-IS and CLNP networking standards. He is a former
co-chair of the IETF IP Next Generation (IPv6) and IS-IS working groups. |
Brian Carpenter |
IAB,
RFC |
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IESG,
WG, RFC |
Dave Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. He has led development efforts at a number of Silicon Valley companies, and elsewhere, producing TCP/IP, OSI, network management and product support capabilities Dave has authored or contributed to most Internet mail standards, as well as working on facsimile, security, ecommerce EDI, and even some transport. As an Area Director for the IETF, he variously managed efforts for network management, middleware and the IETF standards process and has authored more than 45 RFCs. He initiated Working Group Chair training, co-authored the original WG Guidelines document, and co-authored the current SIRS proposal. Details: brandenburg.com |
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Spencer Dawkins |
WG,
RFC |
Spencer
Dawkins is an Architect at Mobile Communications and Security Research Laboratories
(MCSR Labs). Previously, he served in several networking companies as a
software developer, systems engineer, and technical manager.
Spencer co-chaired the PILC working group, developing BCP specifications for protocol operation over problematic subnetwork technologies, including wireless networks, and co-authored RFC 3155 (BCP 50), RFC 3150 (BCP 48) RFC 2760, and RFC 2757. Special areas of interest: transport and application layer protocol interaction with wireless subnetworks and mobility, principles of protocol design, and IETF process improvement |
Alain Durand |
Chair,
Dir, RFC |
I'm currently working for Sun microsystems in the Solaris Networking Technology organization. I'm the architect in charge of IPv6. I'm now located in the Bay area. Until January 2000, I was working at IMAG in Grenoble university, France, where I started the G6 group of academic & Industrial researcher on IPv6 Prior to that, I was working at INRIA, near Paris, where my focus was Email. I served as a co-chair of the NGtrans wg from 1999 to 2002. I have participated in the IPv6 directorate and I'm the author/co-author/editor of seven RFCs in the domain of Mail, DNS & IPv6. Recently, I've been working mostly on operational issue deploying IPv6 networks. |
Joel M. Halpern |
IESG,
WG |
I
am currently working as the CTO of Megisto Systems, a company building
a
product in the Cellular Data Space. I have in the past built high performance
routers, and operational support software. I served for 4 (1994-1998)
years
as the Routing Area Director, and currently chair the Policy Framework
Working Group (which should close in the near future.) I have co-written
RFCs on
IP over ATM and Server Synchronization |
David Harrington |
WG,
MIB |
David
Harrington is the Director for Network Management Architecture for the Office
of the CTO of Enterasys Networks (previously Cabletron Systems). David helped
develop the Caballero SPECTRUM network management platform, with a focus
on the management communications and data modeling.
He is a co-chair of the SNMPv3 Working Group, a MIB Doctor, and an active member of the IRTF Network Management Research Group. He has been an editor for the SNMPv2, SNMPv3, SMING and AAA WGs; has participated in a number of design teams related to IETF network management, and has been a contributor to DISMAN, IPFIX, and MIDCOM working groups. He is also a member of the editorial board of the "Simple Times" newsletter for the SNMP industry. |
C. M. Heard |
MIB |
I am currently serving as a MIB Doctor, and I am the editor of the draft "Guidelines for MIB Authors and Reviewers" document <draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-01.txt>. I am also a member of the AToM MIB WG and of the Ethernet Interfaces and Hub MIB WG, and have edited or co-authored two of the current drafts in the latter working group. I have made my living as a contract programmer and (more recently) as a system engineer at a now-defunct optical networking startup company. |
Christian Huitema |
IAB,
RFC |
I
am currently working as "architect" at Microsoft, in the "Windows
Networking & Communications" group. We are in charge of all
the networking support for Windows, including the evolution of TCP/IP
support,
IPv6, Real-Time Communication using SIP, Peer-to-Peer and Universal Plug
and Play (UPnP.) Until January 2000, I was chief scientist, and Telcordia
Fellow, in the Internet Architecture Research laboratory of Telcordia,
working
on Internet Quality of Service and Internet Telephony. Prior to that,
I was a researcher at CNET and then at INRIA in France, where I worked
on
innovative communication protocols, software and compilers, including
an IP based H.261 videoconferencing system, IVS, doing video over the
Internet
in 1994.
I have written several books and publications. I was a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 1991 to 1996, its chair between April 1993 and July 1995. I was a trustee of the Internet Society from 1995 to 2001. I am a member of the board of the SIP Forum, since October 2001. Details: www.huitema.net/bio.asp |
Charlie Kaufman |
IAB,
WG, Dir |
Charlie Kaufman is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, where he is Chief Security Architect for Lotus Products. He has been involved in IETF security standards forever, most recently IPSEC, DNSSEC, SACRED, S/MIME, and PKIX. He is co-author of the book "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World" published by Prentice Hall. He is very interested in figuring out how to get the security right in non-security protocols and systems. |
James Kempf |
IAB,
WG |
WG
chair: Seamoby; SEND. Co-author of some SLP drafts, MIP handover Active in the computing industry since 1983. Experience in wireless networking, programming environments, and operating systems on a variety of platforms. Numerous papers, also two books, one on numerical programming (1986) and another on Service Discovery (1999). |
Graham Klyne |
Dir,
RFC |
Have
authored or co-authored over 10 RFCs, dealing with content negotiation,
internet fax, instant messaging. Currently involved in the W3C RDFcore working
group and URI coordination group. Current interests include metadata, information
modeling and semantic web applications. |
John Linn |
WG, RFC |
John
Linn is a Senior Consulting Architect at RSA Laboratories. He has worked
on security technologies for network and distributed systems since 1980,
including their specification and standardization within IETF and other
forums. His particular interest areas have included integration of security
into messaging and other application protocols, PKI and other infrastructure
elements, and privacy. |
Bill Manning |
WG,
RFC |
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Danny McPherson |
Chair, Dir, RFC |
Danny
McPherson is currently a member of the Architecture and Development
groups at Arbor Networks. Prior to
Arbor he was Director
of Emerging Technology at Amber Networks (acquired by Nokia). He has
held technical leadership positions with Qwest, Genuity & iMCI
and still maintains consultancy roles with several service providers. Danny currently chairs the IETF's PWE3 Working Group and is a member of several IETF directorates and IRTF research groups. He is a common contributor within the Routing, Operations and Internet Areas of the IETF, and is also active within PPVPN & MPLS related work. He has authored a number of RFCs related to IS-IS, BGP, OSPF, IP addressing and several other areas. He is an active contributor to NANOG and the operator community in general, serves on the MPLScon advisory board, and commonly contributes to several other standards organizations and activities. |
David Meyerdmm@1-4-5.net |
Chair, Dir, RFC |
David Meyer is currently Director of Business Development
for the ISP Market at Cisco Systems. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist
and Director of IP Technology Development at Sprint. He is also Director
of the Advanced Network Technology Center at the University of Oregon (which
has several research projects related to the global routing infrastructure,
including route-views; see www.routeviews.org). Prior to working at Sprint,
he worked at Cisco, where he was involved in software development, working
both on multicast and BGP.
He is active in the IETF (www.ietf.org), where he chairs (or is co-chair) the MBONED, GROW, MSDP, and DNSOP working groups, as well as being a member of several IETF directorates and IRTF research groups. He is also active in the operator community, and he is on the program committee for NANOG (www.nanog.org). He is also active in other standards organizations such as ANSI T1X1. He is the author of 14 RFC on various topics, from Multicast to Internet Architecture. He is the IANA technical advisor for various allocations, including IPv4 and IPv6 multicast, as well as port assignments. |
Keith Moore |
IESG,
WG, RFC |
Keith Moore is a Senior Research Associate at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, specializing in high-performance distributed computing. He has been involved in IETF since 1990, working mostly on electronic mail standards (MIME, SMTP extensions, Delivery Status Notifications), but also with Uniform Resource Names, and more recently, IPv6 transition mechanisms. From 1996-2000 he served on the IESG as co-director of the Applications Area. |
David R. Oran |
IESG |
Dave
Oran is a Fellow at Cisco System, responsible primarily for the architecture
and overall design of VoIP products. He also consults on a variety of other
areas at, including protocol security, routing protocols, and quality of
service methods. Dave was was editor for a number of routing standards,
including the ESIS Protocol, and the ISIS Protocol. He served a 2-year term
on the IESG as co-area director for routing, and is current co-chair of
the speechsc working group. He has contributed to as co-author to a number
of SIP related standards, and co-authored the Secure RTP proposal. |
Basavaraj Patil |
Chair, Dir |
My areas of interest include topics that deal with
Mobility and applications/services such as presence, messaging and location privacy. I am also interested in protocols that deal with authentication and authorization for network access and means for securing the last mile (hop). I
have co-authored a book titled "IP in Wireless Networks" published |
Pete Resnick |
WG,
RFC |
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Pekka Savola |
Dir |
Pekka
Savola works for a National Research Network (FUNET) as network specialist
and runs a small consulting business on the side. He has UNIX/network administrator
background with interests toward Linux and newer BSD's in particular. In
the IETF field, the main interests are in Internet and Operations areas
related to IPv6 (in all flavors), routing, multicast, and operational security
aspects (ie. no cryptography) in particular. |
Juergen Schoenwaelder |
MIB,
RFC |
Juergen
Schoenwaelder has authored/co-authored over 15 RFCs related to Details: www.faculty.iu-bremen.de/schoenw |
Alper Yegin |
Dir, Chair |
Alper Yegin is a senior researcher at NTT DoCoMo USA
Labs. He is currently serving as a chairman of IETF PANA Working Group,
member of IETF Wireless Directorate and IPv6 Forum Technical Directorate.
His current interests include IP-layer mobility management, secure network
access, and IPv6. Alper has network product development experience through
his involvement with the IPv6 and Mobile IP projects at his earlier company,
Sun Microsystems. He has also gained protocol interoperability experience
by helping organize and lead industry-wide Connectathon activities. |
Kurt D. Zeilenga |
Dir,
RFC |
Kurt is co-chair of the LDAPBIS and SASL WGs as well as a member of the LDAP Directorate. He has (co)authored numerous drafts in during his 5 year participation in the IETF, a handful are now RFCs. Kurt is chief architect of the OpenLDAP Project, a community-based effort to development directory software. Kurt has many years experience designing and developing distributed systems, in particular, data distribution systems. |