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Companies, Online Services, and Websites
Public Interest, Nonprofits, Advocacy, and Think Tanks
Cybersecurity, Internet Inventors, and Engineers
- Sandia National Laboratories
- John Adams, operations engineer at Twitter, signing as
a private citizen - Ramaswamy Aditya, built various networks and web/mail
content and application hosting providers - Mike Alexander, helped implement one of the first
EMail systems to be connected to the Internet - Guy Almes, led the connection of universities in Texas
to the NSFnet - Alia Atlas, designed software in a core router (Avici)
- Fred Baker, former IETF chair
- Mikki Barry, VP Engineering of InterCon Systems Corp
- John Bartas, was technical lead on first commercial
IP/TCP software for IBM PCs - Steven Bellovin, invented DNS cache contamination
attack - Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) - John Bond, Systems Engineer at RIPE NCC
- Robert Bonomi, designed, built, and implemented, the
Internet presence for a number of large corporations - Nathaniel Borenstein, Chief Scientist, Mimecast
- Seth Breidbart, helped build the Pluribus IMP/TIP for
the ARPANET - Jon Callas, worked on Internet security standards
including OpenPGP, ZRTP, DKIM, Signed Syslog, SPKI - L. Jean Camp, former Senior Member of the Technical
Staff at Sandia National Laboratories - Stephen L. Casner, led the working group that designed
Real-time Transport Protocol - Bradford Chatterjee, Network Engineer, helped design
backbone network for a nationwide ISP - Noel Chiappa, has been working on the lowest level
stuff (the IP protocol level) since 1977 - Dr. Richard Clayton, designer of Turnpike; Computer
Security researcher at Cambridge University - Steve Crocker, Shinkuro, Inc.
- David Dagon, Georgia Tech
- Walt Daniels, IBM’s contributor to MIME
- Steve Deering, Ph.D., invented the IP multicast
feature of the Internet - Jim Deleskie, internetMCI Sr. Network Engineer,
Teleglobe Principal Network Architect - Owen DeLong, has spent more than a decade developing
better IP addressing policies - Esther Dyson, founding chairman, ICANN
- Nathan Eisenberg, Atlas Networks Senior System
Administrator - David Farber, Principal in development of CSNET,
NSFNET, NREN, GIGABIT TESTBED - Stephen Farrell, co-author on about 15 RFCs
- Elizabeth Feinler, developed naming conventions for
Internet top level domains - Jim Gettys, editor of the HTTP/1.1 protocol standards
- John Gilmore, co-designed BOOTP (RFC 951), which
became DHCP - Steve Goldstein, Program Officer for International
Networking Coordination at NSF 1989-2003 - Brian Haberman, has been involved in design of IPv6,
IGMP/MLD, and NTP within IETF for nearly 15 years - Joe Hamelin, co-founder of Seattle Internet Exchange
and former peering engineer for Amazon - Jack Haverty, Principal Investigator for DARPA
projects including first Internet development and operation - Simon Higgs, designed the role of the stealth DNS
server that protects a.root-servers.net - Robert M. Hinden, worked on the gateways in the early
Internet - Christian Huitema, worked on building the Internet in
France and Europe in the 80’s - Dan Kaminsky, DKH
- Kelly Kane, shared web hosting network operator
- John Kemp, Principal Software Architect, Nokia
- John Klensin, Ph.D., early role in design of Internet
applications and coordination and administrative policies - Justin Krejci, helped build and run the two biggest
and most successful municipal wifi networks - Dave Kristol, co-author, RFCs 2109, 2965 (Web cookies)
- Richard Kulawiec, 30 years designing/operating
academic/commercial/ISP systems and networks - Phil Lapsley, co-author of the Internet Network News
Transfer Protocol (NNTP) - Anthony Lauck, helped design and standardize routing
protocols and local area network protocols - Tony Li, co-author of BGP (the protocol used to
arrange Internet routing) - Christopher Liljenstolpe, was the chief architect for
AS3561 and AS1221 - Jon Loeliger, has implemented OSPF, one of the main
routing protocols used to determine IP packet delivery - Timothy McGinnis, co-chair of African Network
Information Center Policy Development Working Group - Alexander McKenzie, participated in design of first
ARPAnet Host protocols - Danny McPherson, Verisign, Inc.
- David Mercer, formerly of The River Internet, provided
service to more of Arizona than any local, national ISP - David M. Miller, CTO / Exec VP for DNS Made Easy
- Gary E. Miller Network Engineer specializing in
eCommerce - Samuel Moats, senior systems engineer for the
Department of Defense - Doug Moeller, Chief Technology Officer at Autonet
Mobile - Keith Moore, was on the Internet Engineering Steering
Group from 1996-2000 - Lyndon Nerenberg, Creator of IMAP Binary extension
(RFC 3516) - David Newman, 20 years’ experience in performance
testing of Internet infrastructure - Carl Page, helped found eGroups
- Craig Partridge, architect of how email is routed
through the Internet - John Pettitt, Internet commerce pioneer
- Blake Pfankuch, Connecting Point of Greeley, Network
Engineer - Louis Pouzin, designed and implemented first computer
network using datagrams - Ryan Rawdon, was on the technical operations team for
one of our country’s largest residential ISPs - Glenn Ricart, Managed the original (FIX) Internet
interconnection point - Robert Rodgers, distinguished engineer, Juniper
Networks - Brandon Ross, Chief Network Architect and CEO of
Network Utility Force LLC - Peter Rubenstein, helped to design and build the AOL
backbone network, ATDN - Tim Rutherford, DNS and network administrator at C4
- Baudouin Schombe, blog design and content trainer
- Akshay Srivastava, One Best Hosting
- Larry Stewart, built the Etherphone at Xerox
- Robert W. Taylor, founded Xerox PARC Computer Science
Lab which designed first Internet protocol - Paul Timmins, designed and runs the multi-state
network of a medium sized telephone and internet company - John Todd, Lead Designer/Maintainer – Freenum Project
- Eric Tykwinski, Network Engineer working for ISP based
in the Philadelphia region - David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS
- John Vittal, created the first full email client and
the email standards still in use today - Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium
Editorial Boards, Op-Eds, and Bloggers
- James Allworth, Harvard Business Review
- Glenn Beck
- Jerry Brito, TIME
- Chris Bronk, Houston Chronicle
- David Carr, The New York Times
- L. Gordon Crovitz, former publisher, The Wall Street
Journal - Larry Downes, CNET
- Erick Erickson, RedState
- Michael Geist, Toronto Star
- Daniel Halper, The Weekly Standard
- Instapundit
- Los Angeles Times Editorial
- National Review Editorial
- John Naughton, The Observer
- Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
- Julian Sanchez, New York Post
- San Jose Mercury News Editorial
- Neil Stevens, The Daily Caller
- Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine
- James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle
- The Buffalo News Editorial
- The
Economist - The New York Times Editorial
- The Orange County Register Editorial
- Jonathan Zittrain, Al Jazeera English
Student Newspaper Op-Eds and Posts
- Central Michigan University, Central Michagan Life
- Iowa State University, Iowa State Daily
- University at Buffalo, The Spectrum
- University of California Berkeley, The Daily
Californian - University of Maryland, The Diamondback
- University of Massachusetts, The Massachusetts Daily
Collegian - University of Minnesota, Minnesota Daily
- University of Oklahoma, The Oklahoma Daily
International Human Rights Advocates
Artists and Creators
Industry Groups and Unions
- Anti-Phishing
Working Group (APWG.org) Members include McAfee,
Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft, RSA, Afilias, Websense, Telefonica,
SAIC, Zynga, Google, “la Caixa,” Yahoo!, eBay, Verisign, MarkMonitor,
PhishLabs, avast!, Bkav, ING, Kindsight, GlobalSign, PhishMe, IID,
Nominum, M86, MicroWorld, AT&T, SurfControl, ReturnPath, Lenos,
AhnLab, Tagged, DomainTools, Melbourn IT DBS, Netcraft, Mailshell,
VASCO, F-Secure, Phorm, BrandProtect, Go Daddy, Salesforce.com, Hitachi
Systems, Facebook, Mirapoint, SOFTFORUM, Bsecure Technologies,
Cyveillance, Iconix, MessageLevel, Symantec, AVC, Silver Tail Systems,
BBN Technologies, SecureBrain, Nominet, Panda Security, ESTsoft,
FraudWatch International, RuleSpace, Easy Solutions, ESET, Trend Micro,
Wombat Security, IT Matrix, HAURI, Proofpoint, aXsGUARD, Prevx, Intuit,
Blue Coat, Huawei Symantec, Planty Net, Soft Security, zvelo, Sophos,
Group IB, MyPW, TDS Telecom, Brand Mail Solutions, S21sec, Network
Solutions, Neustar, Bill Me Later, Check Point, TransCreditBank,
SunTrust, IronPort, SoftLayer, SIDN, Comcast, PIR, Fortinet,
CSIRTBANELCO, EC Cert - Business Software Alliance (BSA) Members include Adobe,
Autodesk, AVEVA, AVG, Bentley, CA, CNC Software – Mastercam, Compuware,
Corel, Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corporation, Intel, Intuit, McAfee,
Microsoft, Minitab, Progress Software, PTC, Quark, Quest, Rosetta
Stone, Siemens PLM Software, Sybase, Symantec, TechSmith, The MathWorks - Computer & Communications Industry Association
Members include
AMC, Aventure Communications, Cascode Technologies, Data Foundry, DISH
Network, eBay, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Intuit, Integra Telecom,
LightSquared, Microsoft, NetAcess Systems Technologies, NVIDIA,
OpenConnect, Red Hat, Sprint, T3 Technologies, Turbo Hercules, XO
Communications, Yahoo! - Consumer Electronics Association Membership of 2,200+ companies
- Distributed
Computing Industry Association Members include 33rd
Street, Records, 37Signals, 9×9 Network, A Matter of Substance,
Abacast, Advanced Home Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Alcone Ventures,
Aleric, Alston & Bird, Amazon Web Services, Appistry, AppZero,
arvato mobile, AT&T, Babel Networks, Bennett Lincoff, BitTorrent,
Blitzfile, Bluewolf, BlueMaze Entertainment, Brand Asset Digital,
Brilliant Technologies, BUYDRM, Centale, Cisco Systems, Citrix, City
Canyons Records, Claria Corporation, Clickshare Service, Cloud.com,
Cloudant, Cloudera, CloudShare, Cloudshield, CloudSwitch, Clustercorp,
Comcast, Cybersky-TV, DeviantART, Digital Containers, Digital River,
Digital Static, Dow Lohnes, Egnyte, Enomaly, enStratus, Equinix,
Eucalyptus, EZTV, Flexiant, Friend Media Technology Systems, FTI
Consulting, Fun Little Movies, GigaSpaces, GoGrid, Go-Kart Records,
Good Witch Records, GreenQloud, GridNetworks, HackBack Media,
Hosting.com, Hughes Hubbard, icloud, Ignite Technologies, Indie911,
Intacct, Isle of Man, Javien, Jeftel, Jillian Ann, Joost, Joyent, Jun
Group, Kaavo, KlikVU, Kontiki, KPMG, Kufala Recordings, Manatt,
MasurLaw, Media Global Intertainment, MediaPass Network, MediaSentry,
MusicDish Network, MusicIP, NaviSite, NetSuite, Nettwerk Music Group,
Nimbula, Nimbus, Nirvanix, Nubifer, NuCore Vision, Octoshape, OkCupid,
Okta, One Love Channel, Orbis Messaging, Oversi, P2P.com, P2P Cash,
Pando Networks, PanTerra Networks, PeerApp, PlayFirst, Rackspace, Rap
Station, RawFlow, RazorPop, Red Hat, Relatable, ReliaCloud, RightsFlow,
RightsLine, RightScale, ROK Entertainment, rPath, SafeNet,
Salesforce.com, Savvis, Scooter Scudieri, Seamless P2P, Shared Media
Licensing, Silverton Consulting, Skype, SMARTguard Software, Softwrap,
Solid State Networks, Sovereign Artists, Spotify, Sungard, SVC
Financial, Symplified, Telcordia, Telefonica Group, Terremark
Worldwide, Trymedia Systems, TVU Networks, Ultramercial, Unity Tunes,
Unlimited Media, V2 Records, Velocix, VeriSign, Verizon Communications,
Vertica, Virtual Ark, Visionary Strategies, Vmedia Research, VMware,
Voxeo, Vuze, Wambo, Whamcloud, ZOHO, Zuora - Graphic Artists Guild
- Engine Advocacy
- European Digital Media Association (EDiMA) Members include
Amazon.eu, Apple, Microsoft, eBay, orange.com, Google, Nokia, MIH,
Napster, Yahoo! Europe, Expedia, Baker & McKenzie - Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)
- NetCoalition Members include Google,
Amazon, eBay, IAC, PayPal, Bloomberg, Yahoo! - NY Tech Meetup Membership of 20,000+
individuals - Save
Hosting Coalition - TechNet
Members include CEOs and Senior Executives of Accel
Partners, Akamai, Alticor, Amgen, Amyris, Apple, Applied Materials,
Arch Venture, AT&T, Bloom Energy, Broadcom, Cisco, CMEA Capital,
Craigslist, ConnectEDU, Covington & Burling, Dell, Dewey Square
Group, Digital Village Associates, eBay, Edgewood Ventures, eHealth,
Elance, EMC, eMeter, EnerNOC, F5 Networks, Facebook, Flo Design,
Genentech, Gilead Sciences, Goodwin Procter, Google, HP, Infinera,
Intel, Intuit, Intellectual Ventures, Juniper, Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers, Lee and Hayes, LiveOps, Madrona Venture Group, Match2Blue,
MHR International, Microsoft, MIND Research, NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext,
Oracle, Palantir, Pfizer, PM Greene Engineers, PointB, Rackspace, Rasky
Baerlein, Reboot Partners, RSA Security, Salesforce, shopkick, Sikich,
Silver Spring Networks, SimpleTuition, SkillSoft, Solazyme, Sybase, SVB
Financial Group, Symantec, Synopsys, T-Mobile, Tendril, Tessera, Texas
Instruments, VeriFone, Verisign, VISA, VMware, WGBH, Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati, Yahoo!, Yelp - Writers Guild of America West