Randy Bush is a fellow at Arrcus and a research fellow at
Internet Initiative Japan. He was among the inaugural inductees into the
Internet Hall of Fame
The Internet Hall of Fame is an honorary lifetime achievement award administered by the Internet Society (ISOC) in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the Internet.
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in 2012, given by the
Internet Society
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Organization
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Career
Bush has been working in the computer industry since 1966. He began with
programming language
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s and specifically
compiler
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s. In 1977 he co-founded
Northwest Microcomputer Systems with several other businessmen and computer engineers in
Coos Bay, Oregon
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. The company released the 85/P, a
Pascal development microcomputer, in 1978.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bush played a role in bringing the
Internet to South Africa.
Bush was the senior engineer of the
Verio
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founding team in the late 1990s, and worked there for five years as the Vice President of IP Networking. He was the Principal Engineer at
RAINet in the early 90s, which was later acquired by Verio at which time he joined Verio. He was the founder of the
Network Startup Resource Center and worked there as a PI.
Bush has served as a member of the
IESG. At
APNIC, he has been the Routing SIG Co-Chair, Policy SIG Co-Chair, and the Fees Working Group Chair. He was on the founding board of
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, helped start
AFRINIC,
NANOG, etc. He was the chair of the ACM
Internet Governance Committee. Bush also co-founded the
Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders' Constituency within
ICANN
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's
DNSO.
Bush was one of the core architects and designers of the
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), Route Origin Validation,
BGPsec, and a number of other associated technologies.
He has also been the technical contact for the
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, and has executed the technical operations for
.ng.
Bush was a chair of the
IETF
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Working Group on the DNS for a decade. Randy has been influential in setting up Internet networks in parts of Latin America, Southern and Eastern Africa, etc. He has also served as a Corporate researcher at AT&T for more than a year.
On November 27, 2023, at the 87th
RIPE
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meeting in Rome, Bush was honored with the Rob Blokzijl Award.
Publications
Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force A Very Curmudgeonly View or Testing Spaghetti — A Wall’s Point of Viewat Archive.psg.com
A Basic FidoNet(r) Technical Standard Revision 16Home Page: PSG
* tp://ftp.psg.com/pub/rain-net/920328.connexions Profile: RAINet*A list of all of hi
publications
References
* Article initially sourced fro
Randy Bush
at ICANN Wiki under
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Network scientists