David Sincoskie
sincos@bellcore.com
Nominated Candidate

Experience:

My name is Dave Sincoskie (sincos@bellcore.com), and I lead the
Computer Networking Research Department at Bellcore. Since
receiving my doctorate in EE from the University of Delaware in
1980, I have spent my entire career developing and propagating
computer networking technology. In 1982, I purchased the first
commercial 10 Mb/s Ethernet host interface (no kidding, 3Com's
serial #1) and installed it at Bell Labs. I built the first LAN
installation at Murray Hill, and also built the first telephone
that ran TCP/IP. I joined Bellcore when AT&T split up in 1984, and
designed Bellcore's corporate internet. My department still
operates Bellcore's connection to JvNCnet.

In 1985, I became concerned with building very large, very fast
computer networks, and invented a set of improvements to LAN bridge
technology that allow bridges to operate in complex networks like
routers do. In 1986-87, my group produced a multi-gigabit packet
switch fabric as a feasibility proof for ATM, which helped convince
the NSF and DARPA to form the gigabit testbed projects. I formed
with Dave Clark and Dave Farber the DAWN collaboration, a precursor
to the AURORA gigabit testbed, and with Bob Kahn of CNRI secured
the cooperation of the RBOCs in the gigabit testbed projects. I am
actively involved with these projects today.

My most recent adventure was forming the collaboration of Apple,
Bellcore, SUN, and Xerox that published in April, 1992, "Network
Compatible ATM for Local Network Applications," the first
specification for Local ATM. Currently, my group is working on PIP,
one of the contenders for a new protocol to replace IP, to deal
with the address exhaustion, policy routing, multicast, and
real-time traffic problems on the current Internet. We also work
closely with the SMDS project on SNMP-based network management for
SMDS.

Statement of Acceptance:

The Internet is growing up. Three years ago there were only 100,000
computers hooked up at speeds of 1.5 Mb/s, by 1997 there will be
ten million computers at speeds approaching a gigabit per second.
As many as 100 million users may be on-line before the end of the
decade. Or maybe not.

If the Internet is to continue to grow, a tough set of problems
must be faced and surmounted. The technical problems I have spent
my career solving are probably the easiest of the bunch. I have no
doubt that the members of the IETF and the networking research
community will be able to continue their outstanding pace of
innovation in internetworking.

The really tough problems, however, have to do with universal
access. How do we get the cost of a high speed Internet connection
down from thousands of dollars per year to a couple hundred? How
do we provide user interfaces and services that don't take a Ph.D.
in Computer Science to figure out? How do we protect individual
rights to free speech and privacy, but still allow children to use
the net? What are the future roles for government, academia, and
industry in the Internet?

I am excited by the potential of the Internet Society to address
these and other problems. I believe that I can serve the Internet
community well by bringing to the table my combination of long
Internet experience, long-range technical vision, and access to
decision makers in the telecommunications industry. I ask you to
allow me the privilege of serving on the Internet Society Board of
Trustees.