Robert G. Moskowitz
The Early
Days
Robert is an old-time computer person, going back to Teletypes (55
baud)
and timeshare (GE 235) in High School
in 1967. Euclid High School started their computer math classes
that
year with 13 seniors and 1 junior, Robert.
BASIC was in its second year.
College
Robert attended Michigan State University
from
1968 through 1973.
In 1972 he received two Bachleor of Science, Computer Science and
Botany (Successional Ecology).
Past Work
Experience
1974 - 1978 State Of Michigan, Department of Commerce
System Analyst
Significant accomplishments there included developing the Energy
Distribution model
in LP during the Oil Embargo, and a number of economic models exposing
unfair trade practices in Michigan.
1978 - 1987 American Motors Corporation
Data base supervisor from 1980 through 1983 doing
CODASYL database development and online transaction processing.
In
1985, oversaw the installation of DB2, AMC being a gamma site.
Was involved in Engineering support from FEA for the first Jeep
Wrangler,
selection of CATIA for CAD, cracking of GDDM graphics to allow
inexpensive
3rd party devices to display IBM Mainframe graphics. Was also
instrumental in bringing WANG word processing into AMC in 1983 and its
later replacement by secretarial PCs in 1986.
1987 - 1998 Chrysler Motors Corporation
In IT technical support at Chrysler from 1987 though 1997
for a total of 19 years in Automotive. Was one of the primary
movers in the expansion of LANs at Chrysler and the key corporate
person
in the move to TCP/IP in 1992. Orchestrated the first real
performance
test of MVS/TCP in the fall of 1993.
Chrysler representative to the ANX team at the AIAG
where he was one of the two principle designers of the ANX.
Current Work
ICSA Labs, A Division of TruSecure
Corporation
Senior Technical Director
The IETF
Began my involvement in the IETF in
the spring of 1993, chairing the then new TN3270 Enhancements
workgroup (RFCs 1576
, 1646, and 1647). Was the
originator of the
private address scheme and co-author of RFC 1918. In 1995
was appointed to the IAB where I
served two 2 year terms. Also co-chaired the Calendaring and
Scheduling and the IPsec workgroups in
the IETF.
Currently, on the Namespace Research Group in the IRTF.
The AIAG
In 1993, joined the AIAG (Automotive
Industry Action Group) telecommunication
team, representing Chrysler's interests. The team developed a
TCP/IP
white paper in 1994, and the ANX model in 1995. was one of
the principle architects of the ANX and the architect of its IPsec and
PKI based security model. Shepherded the development of IPsec
products by organizing and running a series of 6 workshops for IPsec
vendors
and technologists. Since then, the vendors are self-maintaining
the
workshops for testing new features.
The IEEE
In 2001, joined the IEEE
802.11 Task Group
(Wireless Local Area Networking) to participate in the design of good
security for WLANs. This task group meets every other month, with
alternating meetings part of the IEEE 802 plenary meeting. During
these meeting has been active in the debates in the 802.11i group that
is
addressing wireless station security. Has also contributed the security
design for the Inter Access Point Protocol for the 802.11f group which
is not in sponsor ballot.
You can EMail Robert at his desk 
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© Robert G. Moskowitz -- 2002