Lyman Chapin

Mr. Chapin is a co-founder of Interisle Consulting Group, where he advises companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies on telecommunications network resilience and critical infrastructure protection, and serves as an expert advisor on matters of Internet technology and governance. He was most recently Chief Scientist at NextHop Technologies; before joining NextHop in 2001, he was Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies. Mr. Chapin is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was a founding trustee of the Internet Society. He has served as a Director of ICANN, where he currently chairs the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel, and as chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), and the ANSI and ISO standards groups responsible for Network and Transport layer networking standards. Mr. Chapin was a principal architect of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and protocols, and is the co-author of Open Systems Networking—TCP/IP and OSI. His professional interests include Internet technology, particularly internetwork routing, traffic engineering, and the Domain Name System (DNS); Internet governance; and information security and personal privacy.

[edit] Contact

• Phone: +1 617 686 2527
• lyman [at] interisle.net