Scott O. Bradner 
sob@harvard.edu
Nominated Candidate

Work Experience 
 
1990 to present:    Director, Harvard Network Device Testing
                    Laboratory 
1989 to present:    Consultant, Harvard University Office of
                    Information Systems - Network Services
                    Division, Cambridge MA 02138. 
1989 to present:    Instructor, Interop Inc., Mountain View CA
                    94040 
1975 - 1990:        Senior Technical Consultant, Harvard University
                    Psychology Department, Cambridge MA 
1975-1990:          Senior Preceptor in Psychology, Harvard
                    University Psychology Department, Cambridge MA
                    02138 
1967-1975:          System Programmer, Harvard University
                    Psychology Department, Cambridge MA 02138 
  
Organizations: 
Co-founder, New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet);
Member, NEARnet Steering Committee; Chair, NEARnet Technical
Committee; Designer, Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet); Chair,
LMAnet Technical Committee; Chair, IETF Benchmarking Methodology
Working Group (BMWG); ACM, IEEE, ISOC 
 
Statement of Acceptance:
 
I've been involved in using and worrying about who can use the
Internet ever since first getting an account on the ARPANET node
HARV-10 in 1971 or 72.  I fought many a battle trying to figure
out how to expand the access to the network over the years. 
Starting from running various illicit uucp and BITNET gateways in
the late 70s to finally being able to open up the access to all
Harvard students, at least for email, in '85 with the CSNET/ARPANET
agreement.  This interest and work continued in the 2nd half of the
80s with the connection of the then embryonic NSFNET to Harvard and
the extension of the access via a "real" campus net (a big step up
from the serial IP lines that had been in use).  
 
The most recent manifestation of this interest was the co-founding
of the New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet).  A key
desire of the founders has always been to do whatever can be done,
consistent with good business management, to extend the
availability of Internet connectivity to the most general audience.
I see this as a key concern of the ISOC.  How can we enfranchise
the greater community?  How can we extend the access to the
resources to the less affluent schools and K12?  To the small
business & entrepreneurial individuals? How can we extend to the,
as yet, largely unserved international arena?   
 
Of the many other important issues on the various tables, I view
the schism between those who would concentrate on fixing the IP
addressing limits and those who would like to take the opportunity
to address the additional areas of flow and congestion control and
security (I count myself with the latter) as the most pressing. 
 
The issues of the relationships between the IAB, IETF and the ISOC
must be addressed keeping the goal of reliable, secure, and
affordable interconnectivity in mind. If elected I will work to
ensure that these priorities are kept.