John Curran

Mr. Curran is Vice President of Internet Technology at NEXTLINK Communications.
Prior to NEXTLINK, he worked at GTE Internetworking where he served as Chief Technology Officer.
He began his career with BBN where he had technology responsibility for several of the early Internet networks (CSNET and NEARNET) and the NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC), the main coordination center for the Internet at the time.
He has been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he served as a Co-director of the Operations and Network Management area and worked on a wide range of topics including inter-provider coordination, IPv6, and Internet applications.