Federal Internetworking Requirements Panel (FIRP)

Presented by Richard desJardins/NASA

Bio:  Richard desJardins is a senior systems engineer with NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, and is currently responsible for network management
within the Earth Observing System (EOS) Project.  He has served as
program manager of C3 systems with DARPA, senior systems engineer with
CTA Incorporated, and design engineer for advanced control center
systems within Goddard.  Active in the OSI standardization community for
many years, Richard was one of the authors of the Reference Model, has
chaired the OSI technical committees for both ANSI and ISO, and
currently teaches and writes about OSI/GOSIP/TCP/IP/Internet
convergence.

Richard holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from
University of Maryland, and degrees in physics and mathematics from The
Catholic University of America.  He received the NASA Goddard
Engineer-of-the-Year (Schneebaum) Award in 1977 for his pioneering
contributions to control center design.