Randy Bush (scientist)
{{Short description|Computer scientist}}
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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 in 2012, given by the Internet Society.{{cite web| url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/isoc-hall-of-fame/ | title=The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including Al Gore!) |author=Ryan Singel |date=April 23, 2012 | publisher=Wired.com |access-date=April 28, 2012 }}
Career
Bush has been working in the computer industry since 1966. He began with programming languages and specifically compilers. In 1977 he co-founded Northwest Microcomputer Systems with several other businessmen and computer engineers in Coos Bay, Oregon. The company released the 85/P, a Pascal development microcomputer, in 1978.{{cite journal | last=Barrett | first=Marge | date=December 1, 1977 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118239672/computer-firm-opens-in-coos-bay/ | title=Computer firm opens in Coos Bay | work=The World | page=14 | via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=May 22, 1978 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1978-05-22_12_21/page/71/ | title=Northwest Melds 8085A, Pascal | work=Computerworld | publisher=CW Communications | volume=12 | issue=21 | page=71 | via=the Internet Archive}}
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bush played a role in bringing the Internet to South Africa.{{Cite web |last=Toit |first=Julienne Du |date=2023-01-17 |title=MAKING WAVES: How a few tech mavericks started the Internet in South Africa |url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-17-how-some-maverick-tech-minds-started-email-in-south-africa/ |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=Daily Maverick |language=en}}
Bush was the senior engineer of the Verio founding team in the late 1990s, and worked there for five years as the Vice President of IP Networking.{{cite web |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-root-opreq-02 |title=Root Name Server Operational Requirements |publisher=IETF |author=Randy Bush |date=November 1999 |access-date=August 8, 2015}} 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 ARIN, 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'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 .bz ccTLD,{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910143106/http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/correspondence/bz-response-23oct00.htm |archive-date=September 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |url=http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/correspondence/bz-response-23oct00.htm |title=Letter to Anthony R. Kinney, Lawyer for Economic Solutions, Inc. (ESI) |publisher=ICANN |author=Louis Touton |date=October 23, 2000}} and has executed the technical operations for .ng.{{cite web|url=https://www.iana.org/reports/2009/ng-report-07apr2009.html |title=IANA — Report on the Redelegation of the .NG Top-Level Domain |publisher=Iana.org |access-date=2015-07-27}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/17/internet_fool_s_gold_sparks/ |title=Internet fool's gold sparks Nigerian fiasco |publisher=Theregister.co.uk |access-date=2015-07-27}}
Bush was a chair of the IETF Working Group on the DNS for a decade.{{cite web|url=http://www.apricot.net/apricot2010/program/speakers/ |title=Speakers - APRICOT 2010 |publisher=Apricot.net |access-date=2015-07-27}}{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502033949/http://www.caslon.com.au/icannprofile8.htm |archive-date=May 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |url=http://www.caslon.com.au/icannprofile8.htm |title=Caslon Analytics, ICANN and the UDRP: Money |website=caslon.com.au |access-date=August 8, 2015}} Randy has been influential in setting up Internet networks in parts of Latin America, Southern and Eastern Africa, etc.{{cite web|url=http://interred.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/icann-fellowship-at-san-juan-part-3/ |title=ICANN Fellowship at San Juan, Part 3 | Historia de Internet en América Latina y el Caribe |publisher=Interred.wordpress.com |date=2007-06-28 |access-date=2015-07-27}} He has also served as a Corporate researcher at AT&T for more than a year.{{cite web|author=Patrick Thibodeau |url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/65717/ICANN_warned_of_its_own_vulnerabilities_ |title=ICANN warned of its own vulnerabilities |publisher=Computerworld |date=2001-11-14 |access-date=2015-07-27}}
On November 27, 2023, at the 87th RIPE meeting in Rome, Bush was honored with the Rob Blokzijl Award.{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Randy Bush Receives Rob Blokzijl Award |work=RIPE |date=November 28, 2023 |access-date=2024-06-01 |url=https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/randy-bush-receives-rob-blokzijl-award/}}
Publications
- [http://archive.psg.com/051000.sigcomm-ivtf.pdf 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
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150411234848/http://www.nsrc.org/lowcost_tools/fidonet/standards/fts-0001.016 A Basic FidoNet(r) Technical Standard Revision 16]
- [https://archive.psg.com/ Home Page: PSG]
- [ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/rain-net/920328.connexions Profile: RAINet]
- A list of all of his [http://archive.psg.com/papers.html publications].
References
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- Article initially sourced from [http://icannwiki.com/Randy_Bush Randy Bush] at ICANN Wiki under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License].
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