Randy Bush is a fellow at Arrcus and a research fellow at

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. He was among the inaugural inductees into the

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in 2012, given by the

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Career

Bush has been working in the computer industry since 1966. He began with

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s and specifically

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s. In 1977 he co-founded

Northwest Microcomputer Systems Northwest Microcomputer Systems, Inc. (NMS), was a short-lived, privately owned American computer company active from 1977 to the early 1980s and based out of Oregon. The company was co-founded by several computer engineers and investors, includin ...

with several other businessmen and computer engineers in

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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 Verio is a global web hosting provider headquartered in the United States. Incorporated in 1996 in Denver, Colorado, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Communications, which acquired the company in 2000. Ve ...

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 The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) is a nonprofit organization, formed in 1992 and based at the University of Oregon. The organization supports deployment of Internet research and education networks in academic institutions and non-gover ...

and worked there as a PI. Bush has served as a member of the IESG. At

APNIC APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry ( RIR) for the Asia–Pacific region. It is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization ( NRO). APNIC provides nu ...

, 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 __TOC__ AFRINIC (African Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa. Its headquarters are in Ebene, Mauritius. Before AFRINIC was formed, IP addresses (IPv6 and IPv4) for Africa were distributed by the Asia ...

, 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 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several dat ...

DNSO Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport or Sultan Saddik Abubakar Airport is an airport serving Sokoto, the capital of the Sokoto State in Nigeria. It is named after Siddiq Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto from 1938 to 1988. Airlines and d ...

. Bush was one of the core architects and designers of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), Route Origin Validation,

BGPsec Border Gateway Protocol Security (BGPsec) is a security extension of the Border Gateway Protocol defined in RFC 8205, published in September 2017. BGPsec provides to receivers of valid BGPsec UPDATE messages cryptographic verification of the routes ...

, and a number of other associated technologies. He has also been the technical contact for the .bz

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, and has executed the technical operations for .ng. Bush was a chair of the

IETF The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet standard, Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster ...

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 Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE, French for "European IP Networks") is a forum open to all parties with an interest in the technical development of the Internet. The RIPE community's objective is to ensure that the administrative and technical co ...

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 View
at 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

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