Marco Davids


Country:	Netherlands
LinkedIn:	Marco Davids
Twitter:	@marcodavids

Marco Davids is a Senior Technical Policy Advisor and Senior Research Engineer at SIDN, the ccTLD operator for the Netherlands (.nl). He joined SIDN in 2007 and is a member of the SIDN Labs R&D team^[1]. In this capacity he is involved in various projects, primarily with a focus on the DNS and other core protocols of the internet. Marco is also an active participant of the RIPE^[2] and IETF communities and has contributed to several RFCs.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] and draft-documents^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]. For ICANN he contributed to two studies ^[14]^[15]^[16].

Career History[edit | edit source]

Before joining SIDN in 2007, Marco worked as a Senior Network Specialist at SARA (nowadays known as SURFsara), where he was involved in the operational management of the 'Amsterdam Internet Exchange' (AMS-IX) and SURFnet, the Dutch National Research Network. Earlier, he worked for Casema Internet, at the time a large cable company and ISP in the Netherlands, currently known as Ziggo.

Current/past memberships[edit | edit source]

RIPE DNS Resolver BCP Taskforce
Punktum DK Security Advisory Board
Dutch Internet Standards Platform steering group member

References[edit | edit source]

[1] SIDN Labs site

[2] RIPE-823 Co-author

[3] RFC7129 Acknowledgments

[4] RFC7646 Acknowledgements

[5] RFC8063 Acknowledgements

[6] RFC8092 Acknowledgements

[7] RFC9199 Co-author

[8] Addition of Extended DNS Errors codes

[9] DNS Resolver Information Key for DNSSEC Validation

[10] Restful EPP draft

[11] IPv6 DOTS Signal Option draft

[12] DMARC fi-tag draft

[13] Registration of Underscored and Globally Scoped 'for sale' DNS Node Name

[14] DNSSEC Deployment Metrics Research

[15] RSSAC028 Implementation study report

[16] The reduced risk of redirected query traffic with signed root name server data in response to RZERC002 Recommendation 2

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