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- David Sincoskie
- sincos@bellcore.com
- Nominated Candidate
-
- Experience:
-
- My name is Dave Sincoskie (sincos@bellcore.com), and I lead the
- Computer Networking Research Department at Bellcore. Since
- receiving my doctorate in EE from the University of Delaware in
- 1980, I have spent my entire career developing and propagating
- computer networking technology. In 1982, I purchased the first
- commercial 10 Mb/s Ethernet host interface (no kidding, 3Com's
- serial #1) and installed it at Bell Labs. I built the first LAN
- installation at Murray Hill, and also built the first telephone
- that ran TCP/IP. I joined Bellcore when AT&T split up in 1984, and
- designed Bellcore's corporate internet. My department still
- operates Bellcore's connection to JvNCnet.
-
- In 1985, I became concerned with building very large, very fast
- computer networks, and invented a set of improvements to LAN bridge
- technology that allow bridges to operate in complex networks like
- routers do. In 1986-87, my group produced a multi-gigabit packet
- switch fabric as a feasibility proof for ATM, which helped convince
- the NSF and DARPA to form the gigabit testbed projects. I formed
- with Dave Clark and Dave Farber the DAWN collaboration, a precursor
- to the AURORA gigabit testbed, and with Bob Kahn of CNRI secured
- the cooperation of the RBOCs in the gigabit testbed projects. I am
- actively involved with these projects today.
-
- My most recent adventure was forming the collaboration of Apple,
- Bellcore, SUN, and Xerox that published in April, 1992, "Network
- Compatible ATM for Local Network Applications," the first
- specification for Local ATM. Currently, my group is working on PIP,
- one of the contenders for a new protocol to replace IP, to deal
- with the address exhaustion, policy routing, multicast, and
- real-time traffic problems on the current Internet. We also work
- closely with the SMDS project on SNMP-based network management for
- SMDS.
-
- Statement of Acceptance:
-
- The Internet is growing up. Three years ago there were only 100,000
- computers hooked up at speeds of 1.5 Mb/s, by 1997 there will be
- ten million computers at speeds approaching a gigabit per second.
- As many as 100 million users may be on-line before the end of the
- decade. Or maybe not.
-
- If the Internet is to continue to grow, a tough set of problems
- must be faced and surmounted. The technical problems I have spent
- my career solving are probably the easiest of the bunch. I have no
- doubt that the members of the IETF and the networking research
- community will be able to continue their outstanding pace of
- innovation in internetworking.
-
- The really tough problems, however, have to do with universal
- access. How do we get the cost of a high speed Internet connection
- down from thousands of dollars per year to a couple hundred? How
- do we provide user interfaces and services that don't take a Ph.D.
- in Computer Science to figure out? How do we protect individual
- rights to free speech and privacy, but still allow children to use
- the net? What are the future roles for government, academia, and
- industry in the Internet?
-
- I am excited by the potential of the Internet Society to address
- these and other problems. I believe that I can serve the Internet
- community well by bringing to the table my combination of long
- Internet experience, long-range technical vision, and access to
- decision makers in the telecommunications industry. I ask you to
- allow me the privilege of serving on the Internet Society Board of
- Trustees.
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