IP: Next Generation

Presented by Scott Bradner/Harvard and Allison Mankin/NRL


Biography:  Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and
use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the
ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the Harvard High-Speed Data
Network (HSDN), the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and the New
England Academic and Research network (NEARnet).  He is currently chair
of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARnet and CoREN.

Mr.  Bradner is the Operational Requirements Area Director and IPng Area
co-Director in the IESG and is a Trustee of the Internet Society.

Mr.  Bradner is a consultant at the Harvard Office of Information
Technology, Network Service Division where he works on the design and
development of network-based applications and manages the Network Device
Test Lab.


Biography:  Allison Mankin is part of a group at Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC that is developing all the pieces
needed for ATM network service in the ATDnet, a Federal interagency
network coming on-line this spring.  She has worked on Blanca as well.
She has persistent interests in congestion control and measurement.  In
addition to being co-Director for the IPng Area, she is the Transport
Services Area Director.  She earned her Computer Science master's at
Northeastern.  At various times, she has pursued other topics, including
mandarin Chinese and medieval Latin.  She is on the Editorial Board of
IEEE Network.