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.