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David Conrad is the co-founder of Layer 9 Technologies, an Internet technologies, governance, and policy consultancy, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, US. David has been involved in many aspects of the Internet since beginning his career in 1983 including protocol development and implementation, network operations, and the administration and governance of the Internet system of unique identifiers. David helped in the establishment of the Internet in the Asia Pacific region, first as a researcher with US NASA and NSF-funded Asia/Pacific regional research networks, then, after being invited to Japan, being an early employee of one of the first Japanese commercial ISPs, co-establishing and becoming the first Director General of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), and co-founding the Asia Pacific Rim Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT). Returning to the US from Japan in 1998, David’s roles included being the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), co-founding and becoming the CTO and co-Vice President of Engineering for ISC’s commercial spinoff, Nominum, Inc., becoming the General Manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), acting as senior advisor at Cloudflare, Inc., and consulting to the Internet Society and the US FBI. In 2014, David returned to ICANN as CTO where he established ICANN’s Office of the CTO and became a Board member of Public Technical Identifiers, which now operates the IANA. Since leaving ICANN ins 2021, David has co-founded Layer 9 Technologies, an Internet technology and policy consultancy. David has participated in the IETF since 1992 and is co-author of five RFCs, is currently a member of ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee Public Safety Working Group and has been a past member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory and Root Server System Advisory Committees and ARIN’s Board of Trustees. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with minors in Sociology and Astronomy from the University of Maryland.
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David Conrad is the co-founder of Layer 9 Technologies, an Internet technologies, governance, and policy consultancy, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, US. David has been involved in many aspects of the Internet since beginning his career in 1983 including protocol development and implementation, network operations, and the administration and governance of the Internet system of unique identifiers. David helped in the establishment of the Internet in the Asia Pacific region, first as a researcher with US NASA and NSF-funded Asia/Pacific regional research networks, then, after being invited to Japan, being an early employee of one of the first Japanese commercial ISPs, co-establishing and becoming the first Director General of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), and co-founding the Asia Pacific Rim Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT). Returning to the US from Japan in 1998, David’s roles included being the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), co-founding and becoming the CTO and co-Vice President of Engineering for ISC’s commercial spinoff, Nominum, Inc., becoming the General Manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), acting as senior advisor at Cloudflare, Inc., and consulting to the Internet Society and the US FBI. In 2014, David returned to ICANN as CTO where he established ICANN’s Office of the CTO and became a Board member of Public Technical Identifiers, which now operates the IANA. Since leaving ICANN ins 2021, David has co-founded Layer 9 Technologies, an Internet technology and policy consultancy. David has participated in the IETF since 1992 and is co-author of five RFCs, is currently a member of ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee Public Safety Working Group and has been a past member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory and Root Server System Advisory Committees and ARIN’s Board of Trustees. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with minors in Sociology and Astronomy from the University of Maryland.
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David Conrad is the co-founder of Layer 9 Technologies, an Internet technologies, governance, and policy consultancy, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, US. David has been involved in many aspects of the Internet since beginning his career in 1983 including protocol development and implementation, network operations, and the administration and governance of the Internet system of unique identifiers. David helped in the establishment of the Internet in the Asia Pacific region, first as a researcher with US NASA and NSF-funded Asia/Pacific regional research networks, then, after being invited to Japan, being an early employee of one of the first Japanese commercial ISPs, co-establishing and becoming the first Director General of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), and co-founding the Asia Pacific Rim Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT). Returning to the US from Japan in 1998, David’s roles included being the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), co-founding and becoming the CTO and co-Vice President of Engineering for ISC’s commercial spinoff, Nominum, Inc., becoming the General Manager of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), acting as senior advisor at Cloudflare, Inc., and consulting to the Internet Society and the US FBI. In 2014, David returned to ICANN as CTO where he established ICANN’s Office of the CTO and became a Board member of Public Technical Identifiers, which now operates the IANA. Since leaving ICANN ins 2021, David has co-founded Layer 9 Technologies, an Internet technology and policy consultancy. David has participated in the IETF since 1992 and is co-author of five RFCs, is currently a member of ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee Public Safety Working Group and has been a past member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory and Root Server System Advisory Committees and ARIN’s Board of Trustees. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with minors in Sociology and Astronomy from the University of Maryland.
