Brian Smith asks: Who is Dean Anderson? (part 2)

Here is part of my Bio for the LPF:

Dean Anderson has been involved with the LPF since approximately 1988, 
serving first as an LPF member in the march on Lotus, then elected to 
office of Secretary, then elected President around 1993. He organized 
computer scientists to sign the briefs in Lotus v. Borland, leading to a 
rejection of User Interface Copyright by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. 
His experience includes over 23 years working on a wide variety of 
computer systems, programming languages, and operating systems for 
companies such as Draper Laboratory, Open Software Foundation/The Open 
Group, Kendall Square Research, Hitachi Computer Products, Open 
Environment Corp, GTE Internetworking/Genuity/Level 3, Netnumina/Keane 
Architecture Services and more. Dean has been a significant contributor 
to large software projects such as OSF/1, OSF DCE, and OSF Motif, as 
well as contributing to TLS, DNS and other internet protocols, and also 
small GPL projects like Nuspex grepcidr.

During the those 23 years, Dean founded and managed several 
corporations, including AV8 Internet, Inc and Nuspex, Inc, performing 
Internet, computer programming and IT consulting services for a range of 
other companies. His interests include internet governance, corporate 
ethics, business and trade law particularly patents, copyrights, 
trademarks, and trade secrets. Dean organized opposition to patented 
internet protocols, and exposed efforts to standardize covertly patented 
internet protocols. Using investigative techniques common to public 
policy activism, Dean exposed several scams by obtaining and analyzing 
public documents. Dean served as a campaign volunteer for several 
political campaigns. Dean is a member of the Boston Social Law Library, 
ARIN, Internet Society (ISOC/IETF), FSF, and BBLISA. His hobbies include 
flying, collecting ancient computer and operating systems, and 
collecting rare books. In sum, Dean has a long history of corporate 
leadership, political activism, as well as extensive systems experience.




So, now that you know some the facts and some of the players, I'll tell 
you more about my role in all this:

In the 1990s, some people associated with Vixie and NANOG made baseless
claims that open relays were entirely unnecessary and somehow assisted
spam. This was before SMTP AUTH, even. I should be credited for
inspiring SMTP AUTH, by debunking the POP-before-SMTP claims that were
being made back then. I exposed open relay blacklists as the abusers of
open relays. (see http://www.iadl.org/ page on Alan Brown)

About the same time, some people associated with Vixie and NANOG also
claimed that the Wiretap Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act didn't apply to ISPs. I debunked that.  It turned out that they knew
all along that the ECPA applied, but agreed (conspired) to violate the
law, but I didn't know that at the time. (See "some dodgy cartel"  
section in the IADL page on MAPS). They did this to execute the same
business plan as proposed by "spamford" Wallace: To send spam and sell
anti-spam services.  By getting Net Admins to disregard the ECPA, and
give confidential information on spam competitors, Vixie et al's spam
operations were able to compete more effectively, and they were able to
use MAPS to interfere with their spam competition, unfairly getting spam
customers to use their own spam delivery services.

Since then, I've exposed several scams at the IETF, NANOG, & ARIN:

DNS Root Anycast Scam
=====================
DNS Root and TLD Servers need to provide TCP services to TCP clients. 
Non-root and non-TLD servers can currently choose not to provide TCP 
service. Anycast is known both in theory and in practice to be unstable 
for TCP and stateful protocols. See 
http://www.av8.net/IETF-watch/DNSRootAnycast/History.html
for a somewhat outdated review of the controversy.

DNSSEC Scam
===========
A number of flaws have been exposed in DNSSEC in theory. One of these 
flaws was recently confirmed by an independent demonstration. This was 
just recently discussed, so I won't give the references again.

I've been involved in DNS since roughly 1990, and gave up on DNS
standards around 1993 because of rude and unprofessional conduct by
Vixie and his cabal.  I recognize that this was a mistake. I think Dr.  
Bernstein has made a similar mistake in abandoning a standards
organizations to such people.

NANOG/ARIN IP Assignment Scam
=============================
I uncovered that some of Vixie's NANOG cronies get ARIN IP resource 
allocations in 2 hours, while the rest wait months. Since IP numbers are 
running out, this is a grossly unfair and apparently illegal practice.

ICANN Code Point Scam 
===================== 
Russ Housley (IETF Chair) is getting a ICANN Code point for his
discredited and rejected TLS-AUTHORIZATION protocol. Code points can
only be issued for IETF Standards, and his protocol is not a standard.  
Vixie employee David Conrad doubles as VP at ICANN and is responsible
for tracking the changes to official ICANN documents.


		--Dean


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