Jaap Akkerhuis
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| Country: | Netherlands |
| Email: | jaap [at] sidn.nl |
| LinkedIn: |  [jaap-akkerhuis Jaap Akkerhuis]
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| Twitter: |  @agercasa
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Jaap Akkerhuis is a Research Engineer at NLnet Labs [1], a small research and development group that focuses on those developments in Internet technology where bridges between theory and practical deployment need to be built and areas where engineering and standardization takes place.
Jaap has been instrumental in the development of the Internet in the Netherlands and in Europe in the early 1980s. After a period of seven years in the US where he was active at the Information Technology Center from CMU (Pittsburgh PA), mt Xinu (Berkeley, CA) and AT&T Bell Labs (Nurray Hill, NJ), he returned to the Netherlands where he joined the first independent ISP. Later he worked as a Technical Advisor for SIDN, the registry of the .NL TLD.
He has served in the Security and Stability Advisory Committee(SSAC) of ICANN
since its inception and is co-chair of the RIPE DNS working group and served as a co-chair for the IETF ProvReg WG [2]. He is also a regular consultant to ICANN and their member of the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
Jaap Akkerhuis is also a member of the team of Stanford Solar Center and also SuperSID Software Committee [3]
Career History[edit | edit source]
- System Developer at SurfNet
- Systems engineer at NLnet
- Senior Product Engineer at mt Xinu
- Senior Programmer at CMU ITC
- System Engineer at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)