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== Career ==
== Career ==
Curran held positions as [[Chief Operating Officer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20041209005053/en/ServerVault-Secures-Internet-Network-Veteran-John-Curran|title=ServerVault Secures Internet Network Veteran John Curran as CTO}}</ref> & [[Chief Technical Officer]] of [[ServerVault]] (a federally-oriented secure hosting company acquired by [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=9205775 Carpathia Hosting]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/09/02/carpathia-hosting-acquires-servervault/|title=Carpathia Hosting acquires Servervault}}</ref> Chief Technical Officer of [[XO Communications]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xo.com/about/news/Pages/162.aspx|title=XO Communications Expands Its Network Presence}}</ref> and Chief Technical Officer of [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman|BBN]]. Curran also worked for Combustion Engineering/Asea Brown Boveri and [[Control Data Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/773112511.html?FMT=ABS|title=John Curran, Washington Post, Jan 3, 2005 | date=January 3, 2005}}</ref> Curran provided technical leadership to [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman|BBN]]'s commercial Internet efforts, including working on the early Internet research networks ([[CSNET]] and NEARNET) and the NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC) coordination center for the pre-commercial Internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=8008919&privcapId=37982991&previousCapId=37982991&previousTitle=American%20Registry%20for%20Internet%20Numbers%20Ltd.|title=John Curran, executive profile, Business Week.}}</ref>
Curran held positions as [[Chief Operating Officer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20041209005053/en/ServerVault-Secures-Internet-Network-Veteran-John-Curran|title=ServerVault Secures Internet Network Veteran John Curran as CTO}}</ref> & [[Chief Technical Officer]] of [[ServerVault]] (a federally-oriented secure hosting company acquired by [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=9205775 Carpathia Hosting]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/09/02/carpathia-hosting-acquires-servervault/|title=Carpathia Hosting acquires Servervault}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.informationweek.com/blog/229207040|title=Uncle Sam's Cloud Computing Dilemma}}</ref> Chief Technical Officer of [[XO Communications]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xo.com/about/news/Pages/162.aspx|title=XO Communications Expands Its Network Presence}}</ref> and Chief Technical Officer of [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman|BBN]]. Curran also worked for Combustion Engineering/Asea Brown Boveri and [[Control Data Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/773112511.html?FMT=ABS|title=John Curran, Washington Post, Jan 3, 2005 | date=January 3, 2005}}</ref> Curran provided technical leadership to [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman|BBN]]'s commercial Internet efforts, including working on the early Internet research networks ([[CSNET]] and NEARNET) and the NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC) coordination center for the pre-commercial Internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=8008919&privcapId=37982991&previousCapId=37982991&previousTitle=American%20Registry%20for%20Internet%20Numbers%20Ltd.|title=John Curran, executive profile, Business Week.}}</ref>


John Curran has served as Area Director for Operations and Network Management Area of the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF), as member of the IP Next Generation (IPng) area which led [[IPv6]] development, and co-chaired the [[IETF]] Uniform Resource Name working group. He has authored [[Request_for_Comments|RFC]]s in the network joint operations ([http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1355 RFC 1355]) and IPv6 area, as well as supporting work in network endpoint architecture.
John Curran has served as Area Director for Operations and Network Management Area of the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF), as member of the IP Next Generation (IPng) area which led [[IPv6]] development, and co-chaired the [[IETF]] Uniform Resource Name working group. He has authored [[Request_for_Comments|RFC]]s in the network joint operations ([http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1355 RFC 1355]) and IPv6 area, as well as supporting work in network endpoint architecture.

Revision as of 01:18, 2 October 2011

For other people named John Curran, see John Curran (disambiguation).
John Curran
BornMay 1964
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
OccupationChief Executive Officer

John Curran (born May 7, 1964) is an early Internet executive, and the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).[1][2] He was a founder of ARIN and served as the Chairman from inception through 2009. Curran ran several early Internet companies including BBN Planet, XO Communications, and Servervault.

Career

Curran held positions as Chief Operating Officer[3] & Chief Technical Officer of ServerVault (a federally-oriented secure hosting company acquired by Carpathia Hosting),[4][5] Chief Technical Officer of XO Communications,[6] and Chief Technical Officer of BBN. Curran also worked for Combustion Engineering/Asea Brown Boveri and Control Data Corporation.[7] Curran provided technical leadership to BBN's commercial Internet efforts, including working on the early Internet research networks (CSNET and NEARNET) and the NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC) coordination center for the pre-commercial Internet.[8]

John Curran has served as Area Director for Operations and Network Management Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as member of the IP Next Generation (IPng) area which led IPv6 development, and co-chaired the IETF Uniform Resource Name working group. He has authored RFCs in the network joint operations (RFC 1355) and IPv6 area, as well as supporting work in network endpoint architecture.

Curran is author of RFC 5211, entitled "An Internet Transition Plan" which calls for moving the global Internet from its existing IPv4 protocol to a new protocol called IPv6, as well as RFC 1669 entitled "Market Viability as a IPng Criteria", which summarizes some of the challenges IPv6 will have competing against IPv4 and the inevitable arrival of network address translation devices. Curran is notable among association leaders for being quite reachable publicly, including directly responding to queries on public email lists.[9]

References

  1. ^ "ARIN Names new President and CEO".
  2. ^ "John Curran, ARIN".
  3. ^ "ServerVault Secures Internet Network Veteran John Curran as CTO".
  4. ^ "Carpathia Hosting acquires Servervault".
  5. ^ "Uncle Sam's Cloud Computing Dilemma".
  6. ^ "XO Communications Expands Its Network Presence".
  7. ^ "John Curran, Washington Post, Jan 3, 2005". January 3, 2005.
  8. ^ "John Curran, executive profile, Business Week".
  9. ^ "ARIN and Ops Fora".

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