About the Internet Society 

Board of Trustees

2002 Board Election

Organization Member Candidates

Glenn Ricart

<glenn_ricart@centerbeam.com>

Glenn Ricart is founder and CTO of CenterBeam, a 150-person company delivering next generation directory-driven desktop and laptop management services via a private internet. Previously, Dr. Ricart was Senior Vice President and CTO of Novell, at the time Novell was the dominant PC networking platform worldwide. He was responsible for steering all of Novell's products into the IP world and building its Advanced Development group.

Glenn Ricart was an early pioneer of the Internet and began using original node number 11 in 1969 (in the era of one octet addressing). He is credited with several Internet firsts in the early 1980s: first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, first Internet exchange point (FIX East which later morphed into MAE East), and implementation and operation of the original NSFnet backbone. In 1984, he started the first Internet service provider (ISP) to accept commercial customers, SURAnet. SURAnet became part of Genuity a decade later. Ricart's team at the University of Maryland also produced the reference implementation of the OSPF protocol. He was a pioneer in educational networking, equipping 27,000 teachers in the State of Maryland with Internet access and email and training all of the trainers himself on Saturdays. In the late 1980s, Ricart traveled frequently to South America and arranged all of the original Internet connections to Brasil, Argentina, and Chile, as well as teaching the original Latin American Networking Workshops.

Dr. Ricart was a pioneer member of the Internet Society, a director of BITNET, first President of the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET), a founder of the Common Solutions Group, U.S. representative to the CCIRN (Consultative Committee on International Research Networking), and a director of other non-profits. He has been a Vice Chair of the ISOC Advisory Council for several years. For the last two years, Ricart has donated his time to instruct the Developing Countries Workshops sponsored by ISOC. He delivered the closing keynote address at INET '97 in Kuala Lumpur. Ricart's dissertation is in synchronization in distributed computer networks. He currently serves on the boards of two public companies. Presently, Dr. Ricart is constructing and managing what is likely to be the second largest set of wireless (WiFi) private Internet networks in the world.