Geoff Huston

Geoff Huston

Chief Scientist & Author
Joined on September 6, 2003
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About

Geoff Huston holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the Australian National University. He has been closely involved with the development of the Internet for the past decade, particularly within Australia, where he was responsible for the initial build of the Internet within the Australian academic and research sector. Huston is currently the Chief Scientist in the Internet area for Telstra. He is also the Executive Director of the Internet Architecture Board, and is a member of the APNIC Executive Committee.

Geoff is also author of The ISP Survival Guide, ISBN 0-471-31499-4, Internet Performance Survival Guide: QoS Strategies for Multiservice Networks, ISBN 0471-378089, and coauthor of Quality of Service: Delivering QoS on the Internet and in Corporate Networks, ISBN 0-471- 24358-2, a collaboration with Paul Ferguson. All three books are published by John Wiley & Sons.

Topic Interests

IPv6Internet ProtocolIP AddressingSecurityMobileDNSDomain NamesInternet GovernancePolicy & RegulationRegional RegistriesEnumVoIPDNSSECSpamTop-Level DomainsMultilinguismWirelessP2PPrivacyCyberattack

Recent Blogs

The Future of the Internet: A Political View

The End of End-to-End?

IPv6 Deployment: Just Where Are We?

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!

On the Hunt for "Critical Internet Resources"

Popular Posts

IPv6: Extinction, Evolution or Revolution?

Internationalizing the Internet

How Did IPv6 Come About, Anyway?

Could IP Addressing Benefit from the Introduction of Competitive Suppliers?

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!