Donald Eastlake

Current

• Chief Technology Officer at Stellar Switches
• Co-Chair, TRILL Working Group at Internet Engineering Task Force

Past

• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Motorola
• Senior Software Engineer at IBM
• Principal Systems Engineer at CyberCash

• Princpal Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
• Chief Executive officer at Transfinite Systems Company, Inc.
• Project Manager at CCA

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Punahou School

Connections

193 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Donald Eastlake’s Summary

Strong background in networking / Internet protocols, Wi-Fi, security protocol standards, and systems programming. Co-Chair of the IETF TRILL working group and Editor of the TRILL base protocol document, Chair of the IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networking Task group (802.11s), and a member of the IETF Security Directorate. Author of 48 IETF RFCs, former chair of the IETF TRADE working group and the IETF nominations committee. Former co-chair of the joint IETF/W3C XML Digital Signature working group and an editor of the XML Encryption standard. Co-architect of the initial DNS Security standard.

Donald Eastlake’s Specialties:

mesh communications, secure network protocols

Donald Eastlake’s Experience

• Chief Technology Officer

  Stellar Switches

  (Computer Networking industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Founder and technical lead for this start-up which will build Ethernet Switches based on the new IETF TRILL Protocol.

• Co-Chair, TRILL Working Group

  Internet Engineering Task Force

  (Computer Networking industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  The TRILL working group is specifying a layer-2 Ethernet Switch protocol based on IS-IS link state routing. Devices implementing the TRILL protocol are called RBridges (Routing Bridges).

• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — June 2008 (8 years 6 months)

  Research and development at the Broadband Network Research Laboratory within Motorola Laboratories in support of Motorola's wireless ad hoc network products. Eight patent applications either granted or filed, published, and still being pursued. Standards support for Motorola at the IETF, in IEEE 802.11s, and previously in IEEE 802.11i.

• Senior Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 6 months)

  Member of the Emerging Payment Technology group. IBM representative to the Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) Alliance and author of the ECML RFCs. Assisted Raleigh IBM Payment Server group in developing a CyberCash cassette. IBM liaison to the OECD Technical Advisory Group on taxing Internet transactions. IBM representative to ANSI X9A10. Obtained IESG and W3C approval for the establishment of and Co-Chaired the joint IETF/W3C XML Digital Signature Working Group (WG), the first joint IETF/W3C WG ever. Chair of the IETF TRADE WG. Chair of the IETF Nominations Committee (1998/1999).

• Principal Systems Engineer

  CyberCash

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; CYCH; Internet industry)

  July 1995 — June 1998 (3 years)

  Designed, implemented, and maintained the cross-platform message composition and parsing library, including invocations to crypto library, for CyberCash's electronic payment protocols. Architected the CyberCash implementation of the SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) protocol and coded about half of it.

• Princpal Software Engineer

  Digital Equipment Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

  July 1990 — June 1995 (5 years)

  Technical Lead for all of Digital Equipment Corporation's PATHWORKS for UNIX server products.

• Chief Executive officer

  Transfinite Systems Company, Inc.

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1987 — 1988 (1 year)

  An Apple Certified Developer. Designed and implemented firmware and driver for "Gold Brick", a hardware and software product for the Macintosh that used Nintendo controllers (including exotica like the Mattel Power Glove) as input devices via the Apple Desktop Bus. Also designed and implemented "Ft. Knox", a sanitization program for the Macintosh which performed disk overwrite, cleared parameter RAM, etc.

• Project Manager

  CCA

  (Computer Software industry)

  1974 — 1988 (14 years)

Donald Eastlake’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1963 — 1966

• Punahou School

  1962 — 1963

Additional Information

Donald Eastlake’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Donald Eastlake’s Groups:

IETF, IEEE, ACM, WSFS, Arisia

•    MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
•    DEC Alumni
•    Boston Innovators
•    IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force
•    CyberCash Alumni
•    Punahou School Alumni
•    Arisia

Donald Eastlake’s Honors:

Book authored : "Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption", Donald E. Eastlake 3rd & Kitty Niles, Addison-Wesley Longman, ISBN 0-201-75605-6.

Book authored: "Internet Open Trading Protocol", David Burdett, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd, & Marcus Goncalves, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-135501-4.

Patents: Inventor on 5 US patents. Inventor on 7 published US patent applications still being pursued.

1984 Mentioned twice in Steven Levy’s book “Hackers: Heros of the Computer Revolution”.

1979 Received the Special Achievement Award for the national high score on the Certificate in Computer Programming (Systems Programming Specialization) test given by the Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals.

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