IETF Update
Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 3:45pm - 5:00pm

The Internet Engineering Task Force is the home of the SIP standard and many other standards that make up the VoIP industries architecture. When the IETF tackles issues their goal is to make standards that can be broadly applied by a number of companies. This panel tells what issues are being addressed in the IETF and how they will impact network implementations.

Eric Burger is vice president, chief technology officer for Next-Gen Communications for Brooktrout Technology where he is responsible for setting the technology direction for Brooktrout's current and future next generation products. Mr. Burger represents Brooktrout by participating on several industry standards forums including the IETF, IEEE and SIP Forum. Prior to joining Brooktrout, Mr. Burger co-founded SnowShore Networks where he served as Chief Technology Officer responsible for building real-time, Internet-centric, large scale, packet media processing servers. Mr. Burger has held several strategic positions in the communications industry, including chief scientist at ADC/Centigram Communications Corporation, where he led the development of Centigram's IP-centric architecture; and vice president of engineering for The Telephone Connection, Inc. (TTCI).

Dr. Cullen Jennings is a Distinguished Engineer in the Voice Technology Group at Cisco. Cullen came to Cisco from Vovida Networks which developed an open-source toolkit for Voice-over-IP. He is also an author of O'Reilly's title "Practical VoIP" and the co-chair of the IETF IPTEL Working Group. Currently Cullen is focusing on conferencing, security, and firewall and NAT traversal. Still active in the SIP and open source communities,
Cullen recently contributed a prototype Instant Messaging and Presence client which integrates strong end-to-end security.

Jonathan Rosenberg is co-author of the original SIP specification, the call control standard for 3G networks. A leader within the IETF, Jonathan currently chairs the IP Telephony working group and is former co-chair of the SIP working group. Jonathan is the inventor of SIP for presence (SIMPLE) and is co-creator of SigComp, a key SIP compression enhancement that will speed deployment of SIP in mobile networks. He has authored more than 20 patents and publications ranging from SIP to multimedia conferencing and IM. In June 2002, Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, recognized Jonathan as one of the world's 100 top young innovators whose work in technology has had a profound impact on today's world.

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