Wes Hardaker

Affiliation:	RSSAC
Country:	USA
Email:	hardaker@isi.edu
Website:	https://www.isi.edu/~hardaker
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Currently a member of the ICANN Board

ICANN Involvement

Wes Hardaker is the RSSAC representative to the ICANN Board starting in October, 2022. He conducts DNS-related research, authors IETF DNS and other standards documents, and is an active advocate for deploying DNSSEC and DANE (frequently running the "DNSSEC For Beginners" session). He and Viktor Dukhovni together give presentations on the current state of DNSSEC during the DNSSEC Workshop and maintain an active set of statistics on the DNSSEC-Tools Deployment Statistics website.

Committees

• Risk Committee of the Board (BRC) Non-Voting | Member
• Strategic Planning Committee of the Board (SPC) | Non-Voting Member
• Technical Committee of the Board (BTC) | Non-Voting Member

Career

Wes is a senior computer scientist at the University of Southern California – Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI), is a member of RSSAC as the USC/ISI root server representative, and is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

Root Server System Advisory Committee. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet's Root Server System (ICANN Bylaws).

Internet Architecture Board