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- Scott O. Bradner
- sob@harvard.edu
- Nominated Candidate
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- Work Experience
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- 1990 to present: Director, Harvard Network Device Testing
- Laboratory
- 1989 to present: Consultant, Harvard University Office of
- Information Systems - Network Services
- Division, Cambridge MA 02138.
- 1989 to present: Instructor, Interop Inc., Mountain View CA
- 94040
- 1975 - 1990: Senior Technical Consultant, Harvard University
- Psychology Department, Cambridge MA
- 1975-1990: Senior Preceptor in Psychology, Harvard
- University Psychology Department, Cambridge MA
- 02138
- 1967-1975: System Programmer, Harvard University
- Psychology Department, Cambridge MA 02138
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- Organizations:
- Co-founder, New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet);
- Member, NEARnet Steering Committee; Chair, NEARnet Technical
- Committee; Designer, Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet); Chair,
- LMAnet Technical Committee; Chair, IETF Benchmarking Methodology
- Working Group (BMWG); ACM, IEEE, ISOC
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- Statement of Acceptance:
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- I've been involved in using and worrying about who can use the
- Internet ever since first getting an account on the ARPANET node
- HARV-10 in 1971 or 72. I fought many a battle trying to figure
- out how to expand the access to the network over the years.
- Starting from running various illicit uucp and BITNET gateways in
- the late 70s to finally being able to open up the access to all
- Harvard students, at least for email, in '85 with the CSNET/ARPANET
- agreement. This interest and work continued in the 2nd half of the
- 80s with the connection of the then embryonic NSFNET to Harvard and
- the extension of the access via a "real" campus net (a big step up
- from the serial IP lines that had been in use).
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- The most recent manifestation of this interest was the co-founding
- of the New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). A key
- desire of the founders has always been to do whatever can be done,
- consistent with good business management, to extend the
- availability of Internet connectivity to the most general audience.
- I see this as a key concern of the ISOC. How can we enfranchise
- the greater community? How can we extend the access to the
- resources to the less affluent schools and K12? To the small
- business & entrepreneurial individuals? How can we extend to the,
- as yet, largely unserved international arena?
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- Of the many other important issues on the various tables, I view
- the schism between those who would concentrate on fixing the IP
- addressing limits and those who would like to take the opportunity
- to address the additional areas of flow and congestion control and
- security (I count myself with the latter) as the most pressing.
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- The issues of the relationships between the IAB, IETF and the ISOC
- must be addressed keeping the goal of reliable, secure, and
- affordable interconnectivity in mind. If elected I will work to
- ensure that these priorities are kept.
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