This session deals with the redefinition of the functionality of the PBX into components such as events, presence, IM, voice, video, unified messaging, conferencing, calendar integration, internal directory and external ENUM based rendezvous service with global reach.

Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board at Nominum, Inc.

Paul created DNS in the 1980s at USC’s Information Sciences Institute where he was later the Director of ISI's High Performance Computing and Communications Division. Paul has been associated with the IETF since its creation, and was Chair of the IETF from 1994 to 1996.

In the early 1990s Paul was program manager for networking at ARPA. From 1995 on, Paul held leadership roles at several Silicon Valley networking startups, including @Home, Software.com (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), and Siara (now Redback Networks).

Dr. Henry Sinnreich is Distinguished Member of Engineering at MCI. Operating in more than 65 countries, the company is a premier provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance, international and Internet services. Dr. Sinnreich has been at MCI Communications since 1981 where he has held various engineering and executive positions working on lightwave systems, digital crossconnects, lab testing and vendor product evaluation/integration and in telephony switch systems engineering. Dr. Sinnreich has worked on Internet and web services since 1993 and has initiated multimedia and voice projects based on standards developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he is an active contributor, having authored several IETF drafts.

Richard Shockey is Senior Manager -Strategic Technology Initiatives for NeuStar, Inc. based in Washington DC.

Mr. Shockey is an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force and a founder and Co Chair of its ENUM Work Group as well as actively participating in a variety of other IETF Working groups. Mr. Shockey has been invited by the Dutch, Italian, British and Japanese governments to lecture on ENUM technology and its implications for consumers and carriers alike.

Mr. Shockey is also the author of numerous articles on Internet Telephony Technologies related to ENUM, SIP, Voice over IP and Internet Fax.

With more than 20 years of software development and management experience Mr. Weald is responsible for software architecture and design for Sylantro. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering at Worldtalk, a supplier of Internet security and e-mail connectivity products. Prior to Worldtalk, he was Software Development Manager at Touch Communications, a leading provider of networking software. Mr. Weald's experience also includes engineering and management roles at Austec, AGS Computers, ITT, and Bell Labs. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Data Processing from Loughborough University, England.

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