Marshall T. Rose is Chief
of Protocol at Invisible Worlds, Inc. where
he is responsible both for the Blocks architecture and the server-side implementation.
Rose lives with internetworking technologies,
as a theorist,
implementor,
and agent provocateur.
He formerly held the position of IETF
Area Director for Network Management,
one of a dozen individuals who oversee the Internet's standardization process.
Rose is held accountable for the design, specification, and implementation
of several Internet-standard technologies, and as an author of over 60 of the
Internet's RFCs. He is the author
of several professional texts (on Internet Management, Electronic Mail, and
Directory Services) published in four languages. His latest book,
Internet Messaging: From the Enterprise to the Desktop, was written with
David Strom and features an amusing foreword
by Penn Jillette of
Penn & Teller.
Rose received the Ph.D. degree in
Information and Computer Science
from the University of California, Irvine,
in 1984.
His subscriptions to
The Atlantic Monthly,
Rolling Stone Magazine,
and Cigar Aficionado
are in good standing.
