Matt Larson

 

Matt Larson is Vice President of DNS Research in VeriSign's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, where he works as a specialist in DNS protocol and operational issues. He is an active participant in the wider DNS community as a contributor to the DNS engineering and operations working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); as a board member of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (DNS-OARC); as vice-chair of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC); and as a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

He is the co-author of the O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks DNS on Windows Server 2003, DNS on Windows 2000 and DNS on Windows NT.

Matt joined VeriSign in June, 2000, from Acme Byte & Wire, a company he started in 1997 with co-author Cricket Liu. Acme Byte & Wire specialized in DNS consulting and training and its customers included more than 10% of the Fortune 100.

Prior to Acme Byte & Wire, Matt worked for five years at Hewlett-Packard, first in the Corporate Network Services group, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world. He later joined HP's professional services organization.

Matt has degrees in computer science and church music/organ performance from Northwestern University.