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Edward Lewis

Director and Member of the Technical Staff at Neustar
Joined on January 11, 2006
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Edward Lewis is a Director and Member of the Technical staff at Neustar. He joined the organization in 2004 and has since played an integral role in the development and implementation of security in the Neustar UltraDNS platform.

Edward's background consists of research into spacecraft activity planning systems, developing technical specifications for a major government RFP, and operating and managing government networks. In addition, he has conducted research under DARPA contracts, was an adjunct faculty member at UMBC for most of the 90's, chaired an IETF WG related to registry protocols, writer of IETF RFC documents on DNS and DNS Security Extensions, and has conducted training workshops at conferences on DNS, DNSSEC, and ENUM.

Edward specializes in computer network security and all things related to DNS including the technical aspects of operating domain name registration, Internet Protocol number registration activities, standards development (IETF), and computer network interaction documentation.

He obtained his Masters in Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park. 

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