Dave Oran, Computer Communication Review Editor

Technical Director, Emerging Network Technologies

Digital Equipment Corporation

Here is a short Biography:

Mr Oran's main interests lie in the area of the design and implementation of distributed algorithms for computer networks. He was the architect responsible for the Session Control Layer of the Digital Network Architecture (DECnet) and contributed to the design of key elements of DECnet through 3 iterations of its evolution. He was the designer of the DNA Nming Service, a highly advanced distributed directory system which has been adopted by the Open Software Foundation as the local directory component of its comprehensive Distributed Computing Environment product set. Mr. Oran holds a number of patents and patents pending for his work on distributed algorithms.

In the area of networking standards, Mr. Oran was the head of the routing standard group in ISO and was editor for a number of important packet-switching and routing standards, incuding the OSI Routeing Framework, the ESIS Protocol, and the Intradomain ISIS Protocol. He also participates in Internet standards as a charter member of the Internet Society, and served on the routing and addressing group of the Internet Activities Board, which developed technical alternatives for enhancing the Internet protocol suite to deal with the explosive growth of the system

Mr. Oran serves on the Executive Committe of the ACM Special Interest Group on Communications, and is the editor of its journal Computer Communication Review. He is the author a a number of technical articles and papers in the areas of protocol design and distributed systems architecture. He also serves on peer review panels for the USA National Science Foundation program in computer networking, and on the program committees of a number of technical conferences, including the SIGCOMM conference, and the Data Communication symposia.

Mr. Oran hold a B.A. in Physics and English from Haverford College, and has graduate level training in Magnetospheric Geophysics.

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