John Day has been involved in research and developmentof computer networks since 1970 when he was involved in the design of transportand upper layer protocols for the ARPANet as well as the Internet. Mr. Day has developed and designed protocolsfor everything from the data link layer to the application layer.
Mr. Day has made fundamental contributions to researchon distributed databases developing one of two fundamental algorithms in theupdating of multiple copies. He also did work on the early development ofsupercomputers and was a member of a team in writing 3 operating systems. Mr. Day was in charge of the development ofthe OSI Reference Model, Naming and Addressing and upper layer architecture andis currently a member of the Internet Research Task Force’s Name SpaceResearch Group. He has been a majorcontributor to the development of Network Management Architecture, working inthe area since 1984 defining the fundamental architecture currently prevalentand designing high performance implementations, and fielded a networkmanagement system in the mid-80’s that was 10 years ahead of comparable systems. Mr. Day was also involved in the developmentof the Utilities Communication Architecture for electric, gas, and waterutilities; and in the design and deployment of field trials for variousutilities, which included wireless subsystems. Developed plans for buildingInternet Service Providers (ISPs) in various parts of Europe, the Americas, andthe Middle East, including all from initial business case development andfunding to backbone design, service definition, deployment of infrastructure,and ISP operations. Recently Mr. Day hasbeen turning his attention to radically new network architectures that scaleindefinitely.
Professional Activities
Member ofthe ARPANet Network Working Group (1973-76) responsible for upper layerprotocols.
Memberof theNational Commission on Libraries and Information Science Task Force (1976) thatdeveloped library protocols that are still in use today.
Instrumentalin the work on the Formal Description of Protocols:
Chair of theIFIP WG6.1 subgroup (1977-80)
Rapporteurfor Formal Description Techniques in ISO TC97/SC21/WG1 (1978-82).
Rapporteurand editor for OSI Reference Model and OSI Naming and Addressing working groups(1982-96).
Editor, ISO8650rev, Application Control Service Element, 1988 – 1996.
Head of USDelegation, ISO JTC1/SC21/WG1, 1980 – 1992.
Editor,Revision of ISO 13239-1999, HDLC, 1995-1999.
Chaired USstandards body responsible for national contributions to international OSIarchitecture, formal description, and conformance standards activities.
Member ofthe Task Force on Research Networking of the Federal Coordinating Council onScience, Engineering, and Technology, recommending directions for researchnetworking for the 1990+ timeframe.
Member, NameSpace Research Group of the IRTF charged with solving fundamental problems withthe addressing structure of the Internet.
Member,National Task Force on Libraries and Information Science, 1976-78, developingthe pre-cursor to Z39.
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