President and CEO at American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Joined on March 31, 2007
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John Curran is the President and CEO of ARIN. His Internet industry experience includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications. Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network. Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.
John is a founding member of the ARIN Board and served form inception to 2008 as Chairman of ARIN Board of Trustees. Now, as President and CEO of ARIN, John is a non-elected full voting member of the Board.
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2022 - Mar 02 | on | ICANN, Ukraine and Leveraging Internet Identifiers |
2021 - Jan 27 | on | Why the Internet is Not Like a Railroad |
2021 - Jan 26 | on | Why the Internet is Not Like a Railroad |
2018 - Nov 13 | on | Has President Macron Thrown Multistakeholderism Under the Bus at UN IGF 2018 Paris? |
2016 - Jan 25 | on | IPv6 and DNSSEC Are Respectively 20 and 19 Years Old. Same Fight and Challenges? |
2016 - Jan 24 | on | Addressing 2015 - Last One Standing! |
2015 - Oct 15 | on | Don't Give up on Membership |
2015 - Sep 08 | on | Why is ICANN Tax Exempt? |
2015 - Sep 07 | on | Why is ICANN Tax Exempt? |
2015 - Jul 17 | on | Will 2016 Politics Trump Bipartisan Support for the MSM and DOTCOM Act? |
2013 - Apr 29 | on | Can't Sell Your IPv4 Numbers? Try Leasing Them |
2013 - Apr 22 | on | A Primer on IPv4, IPv6 and Transition |
2013 - Apr 21 | on | A Primer on IPv4, IPv6 and Transition |
2012 - Jul 22 | on | The RIRs in a Post-IPv4 world: Is the End of IP Address Policy Making Nigh? |
2012 - Apr 24 | on | Names of the Inaugural Internet Hall of Fame Inductees Announced |
2012 - Jan 26 | on | We Are All Internet Exceptionalists Now |
2011 - Dec 06 | on | Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address |
2011 - Dec 06 | on | Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address |
2011 - Dec 06 | on | Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address |
2011 - Apr 27 | on | Court Approves Nortel's Sale of IPv4 Addresses to Microsoft |
2011 - Mar 10 | on | Inquiring About the "Unthinkable" |
2011 - Mar 02 | on | A Politically Incorrect Guide to IPv6 |
2010 - Nov 28 | on | IPv6 and Transitional Myths |
2010 - Nov 25 | on | IPv6 and Transitional Myths |
2010 - Sep 27 | on | IP Address Exhaustion In 12 Easy Questions |
2010 - Sep 26 | on | Facebook Outage Possibly Global |
2010 - Aug 29 | on | House of Cards |
2010 - Jul 21 | on | The Geo-Politics of ICANN vs ITU |
2010 - Jul 20 | on | The Geo-Politics of ICANN vs ITU |
2010 - Jul 20 | on | The Geo-Politics of ICANN vs ITU |
2010 - Jul 20 | on | The Geo-Politics of ICANN vs ITU |
2010 - Apr 23 | on | At the ARIN Meeting |
2009 - Nov 18 | on | The ITU and IPv6 Transition: Controversy at the IGF |
2009 - Sep 30 | on | Is the Transition to IPv6 a "Market Failure?" |
2009 - Aug 05 | on | Private Cyber Investigators |
2009 - Aug 05 | on | Private Cyber Investigators |
2009 - May 27 | on | FUD for Thought: ARIN Releases Comic Books |
2008 - Jul 20 | on | Note to John McCain: Technology Matters |
2008 - Jul 19 | on | Note to John McCain: Technology Matters |
2008 - Jun 01 | on | European Commission Pushes IPv6 Forward |
2008 - May 30 | on | European Commission Pushes IPv6 Forward |
2008 - May 30 | on | European Commission Pushes IPv6 Forward |
2008 - Feb 17 | on | Comments on an IP Address Trading Market |
2008 - Feb 17 | on | Comments on an IP Address Trading Market |
2008 - Feb 16 | on | Comments on an IP Address Trading Market |
2008 - Feb 16 | on | Comments on an IP Address Trading Market |
2008 - Feb 16 | on | Comments on an IP Address Trading Market |
2007 - Dec 18 | on | The Internet Running Out of Everything? |
2007 - Aug 02 | on | Scarcity of IPv4 Addresses |
2007 - Jun 12 | on | ARIN Provides Latest Word on Need to Move to IPv6: Will Anyone Heed the Warning? (Does anyone care?) |