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President, Anvil Walrus Den Holdings Inc
Joined on March 27, 2012
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Andrew Sullivan has worked on Internet policy, protocols, and infrastructure for most of his career.
Andrew was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Society and the Internet Society Foundation from September 2018 through August of 2024. This period saw a number of challenges both to the Internet and to the Internet Society. He is proud to have improved, re-balanced, and re-focused the Internet Society and Foundation over that period, despite the challenges of a global pandemic as well as needs of the Internet that always outmatched the resources of the organization.
In 2012 he joined Dyn (later, Oracle Dyn) to establish Dyn Labs and then to manage the DNS development and architecture departments. His activities in this area led to him being appointed to the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) in 2013. His IAB colleagues elected him Chair in 2015 and 2016.
Andrew’s IAB tenure coincided with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) stewardship transition. Andrew was deeply involved in the community’s efforts around the transition and played a central role in its eventual success. His expertise in the area was acknowledged when he was invited to testify about the transition to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Before joining Dyn, Andrew was a principal contributor to the Variant Issues Project (VIP) undertaken by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The VIP was an effort to bring together several different, previous efforts in support of internationalized domain names. The VIP was made of teams from all over the world, working on five major writing systems. Andrew worked with all of them to try to gather together the needs of the many different linguistic communities of the world, and the Internet’s critical value as an interoperable, neutral platform. The positive results of the VIP are being expressed every day through Internet-scale internationalized domain names.
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