Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan is a computer science professional who was the chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from March 2015 - March 2017.
Career[edit]
Sullivan was born in Buffalo, New York, but has spent most of his life in Canada[2]. He received a Baccalaureate of Arts in philosophy from the University of Ottawa in 1995, graduating Magna cum Laude[1]. He later earned a Master of Arts in philosophy from McMaster University in 1999[1]. While working towards his Master's degree, he developed an interest in open source software and open Internet standards[2].
After obtaining his Master's degree, he worked in the tech sphere at a series of jobs ranging from database administrator, an IT worker for his alma mater McMaster University, and a director of computer services for a local library. He began working with In 2008 he began the start of a six year period working with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Shortly after he worked with The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as an independent internet technologies consultant[1].
In September 2013 he began working with Dyn, a cloud infrastructure company later bought by Oracle, eventually working his way up to becoming the Director of Architecture for the company. Earlier that year he began working with the IAB, and in March of 2015 he left Dyn to serve as the chair of the AIB altogether, a position he held for two years. In March of 2018 he went back to working with the IETF, and in September of that year he was named President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Internet Society, a position he has held since[1].
IETF[edit]
Sullivan worked as the DNS Extensions Working Group Co-chair from May 2008 to July 2013.
From February 2012 to April 2014 he served as the SPFBIS co-chair.
Between March and July of 2018 he was the chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee, which carries out the administrative duties of the IETF. He resigned as chair in July 2018 due to working at Internet Society but has remained a member ex-officio[1].
Sullivan has coauthored six RFCs[4].
IAB[edit]
The IAB is an activity within the IETF. Sullivan became a member of the IAB in March 2013 and served as chair from March 2015 to March 2017 after being elected by IAB members. While chair he testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to remove the US government's involvement in the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). He focused on decentralizing the IAB to prevent the chair did not have too much power and thus become a significant point of failure[1].
Internet Society[edit]
Internet Society, based in Reston, Virginia in the United States, is a "global nonprofit organization empowering people to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy"[5]. It is also the organizational home of the IETF. While President and CEO, Sullivan seeks to address "the growing opportunities gap that is opening up between those who have access and those who don’t"[3].
Publications[4][edit]
2011 - RFC 6147: DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
2013 - RFC 6885: Stringprep Revision and Problem Statement for the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings (PRECIS)
2013 - RFC 6912: Principles for Unicode Code Point Inclusion in Labels in the DNS
2015 - RFC 7719: DNS Terminology
2017 - RFC 8222: Selecting Labels for Use with Conventional DNS and Other Resolution Systems in DNS-Based Service Discovery
2019 - RFC 8499: DNS Terminology
References[edit]
1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjsullivan/
2. https://www.internetsociety.org/author/sullivan/
4. https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Andrew%20Sullivan
5. https://www.internetsociety.org/
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