MAAWG Senior Technical Advisors are highly respected experts chosen for their skills and industry proficiency who assist the committees in their work and often provide new ideas and perspectives at MAAWG meetings.

Dave Crocker, Brandenburg InternetWorking, Principal
bbiw.net

David H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. He develops network-based applications businesses and designs system architectures for them. He worked in the ARPANet community during the 1970s, and led product development efforts during the 1980s. During the Internet bubble he founded several startup companies, serving as CEO for one.

Over the years, Dave has developed and operated two national email services, designed two others, and was CEO of a community non-profit ISP. His senior management product efforts cover email clients and servers, core protocol stacks for TCP/IP and OSI, network management control stations, and knowledge management tools for product support.

He is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet award for his work on email. Dave has been leading and authoring Internet standards for thirty years, covering Internet mail, instant messaging, facsimile and EDI. He has also contributed to work on Internet security, ecommerce, domain name service, emergency services, and even some TCP and IP enhancements. He has authored more than 45 IETF Requests For Comments. Dave served as an Area Director for the Internet Engineering Task Force, variously overseeing network management, middleware and the IETF standards process. Dave's recent efforts include work on the multiple email anti-abuse techniques of DKIM, CSV and BATV. He served on the CEAS 2006 executive committee and on the iTrust 2006 program committee. Dave has a B.A. in psychology from UCLA, M.A. from the Annenberg School of Communications at USC, and he studied computer science at the University of Delaware.

David Dagon

David received a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law, and is completing his Ph.D in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He has authored numerous papers in premier academic conferences and has studied botnets as part of his Ph.D. research.  He was involved with the development of a successful startup (ClickFox, LLP), and is the inventor of their patented technology.

John R. Levine, Taughannock Networks, Founder
www.johnlevine.com

John R. Levine is a long-term participant in mail standards and mail anti-abuse efforts. He chairs the IRTF Anti-Spam Research Group and sits on the board of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (CAUCE North America). He has written many books including the popular Internet for Dummies, Fighting Spam for Dummies, Windows Vista: the Complete Reference, and qmail.

John has been in the program committee of each of the CEAS conferences, and is active in the design and testing of emerging anti-spam and authentication technologies including: DKIM, BATV, CSV, and ARF. He is a co-founder and director of the Domain Assurance Council, an industry consortium creating open standards for domain certification. John has a B.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University. His other computing interests include compilers; he co-authored the classic lex & yacc and has moderated comp.compilers, the usenet group which is the world's most popular forum on the topic, since 1986.

Joe St Sauver

Joe St Sauver serves as manager for Internet2's Security Programs under contract through the University of Oregon and is also a senior technical advisor to MAAWG. He routinely presents on cyber security and abuse-related issues at national and international events, with recent topics IPv6 and security; securing DNS and DNSSEC; fastflux web hosting; cyber war, cyber terrorism and cyber espionage; the insider threat; pychological decision making heuristics and their impact on anti-spam activities; the compatibility of security and privacy; cyberinfrastructure architectures, security and advanced applications; and spam, domain names and registrars. Some of St Sauver's publicly available talks are linked from www.uoregon.edu/~joe/

Senior Public Policy Advisors