Career
Curran held positions as Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technical Officer of ServerVault (a federally-oriented secure hosting company acquired by Carpathia Hosting), Chief Technical Officer of XO Communications, and Chief Technical Officer of BBN. Curran also worked for Combustion Engineering/Asea Brown Boveri and Control Data Corporation. 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.
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 early network joint operations (RFC 1355) and IPv6 area, as well as supporting work in network endpoint architecture. Curran has experience with Federal IT system security practices (including FISMA security standards) and cloud computing, and has advocated for improving of Federal IT access to cloud computing services.
Curran is author of RFC 5211, entitled "An Internet Transition Plan" which calls for moving the global Internet from its existing IPv4 protocol the newer IPv6 protocol, 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.
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