Scott Bradner is a senior figure in the area of

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. He served as the secretary to the

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from 2003-2016 and was formerly a trustee. He was on the board of

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, the North American IP address registry. He has also held numerous senior leadership roles on the

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(IETF) which develops

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s. Until his retirement in July 2016, he was also University Technology Security Officer at

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. In the mid-1990s Bradner established himself an authority on developing an institution to succeed the

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(IANA). IANA managed the Internet's

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, but was essentially run by

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. As one of a number of close advisers to Postel, Bradner sought to maintain "Internet self-governance"—the idea that the users of the network should decide the rules by which they would abide. In 1996 at a conference of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Bradner described two conundrums of the Internet: "Who says who makes the rules?" and "Who says who pays for what?"

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