Dave Farber

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David J. Farber is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, holding appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He recently served as the Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission.

Partner with Rodney Joffe in over 25 TLDs

Dave Farber was Jon Postel’s dissertation supervisor. Farber has spent several years as an ISOC trustee and, as we have pointed out earlier, he was intimately involved with NSF and Merit in the creation of the NSFnet. As a board member of EFF, he endorsed Shari Steele’s vitriolic roasting of NSI in EFF’s green paper response. Although, he has expressed some misgivings about ICANN, he was closely involved in its formation. On its behalf in crucial moments he published Mike Roberts condemnation of the IFWP process.