Michael Mealling

I am currently the Managing Partner of the Data Services practice for Convergence Acceleration Solutions Group (http://casgropu.biz) and the VP for Business Development for Masten Space Systems (http://masten-space.com/).

CASgroup is a telecom consulting company focused on helping cable specific MSOs develop converged applications and backend systems. I specialize in Identity and Access Management, IP and Application Layer Internet protocols and services, and new market business strategy.

Masten Space Systems is a VTVL suborbital rocket company in Santa Clara, California. We are working to provide access to space for a price that even the K-12 educational community can afford.

Over the past 14 years I have written numerous RFCs, co-authored the ENUM standard for telephone number to URL translation, and been a significant participant with the AutoID/EPCGlobal RFID standardization effort. I have (co)authored the following RFCs:
RFC3761 - The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)
RFC3688 - The IETF XML Registry
RFC3622 - A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Liberty Alliance Project
RFC 3401 - 3405 - The Dynamic Delegation Discovery Systems
RFC3367 - Common Name Resolution Protocol (CNRP)
RFC3305 - Report from the Joint W3C/IETF URI Planning Interest Group: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), URLs, and Uniform Resource Names (URNs): Clarifications and Recommendations
RFC2651 - The Architecture of the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP)

Also authored the EPCglobal "Object Naming Service (ONS) 1.0" specification in October, 2005. ONS is a system for using DNS to resolve electronic product codes into network accessible detailed product data services.

Michael Mealling’s Specialties:

Standards development (IETF, W3C, EPC Global), large scale naming/addressing architectures, Identity and Access Management (IAM/IDM), entrepreneurship, space policy, RFID supply chain management, space business development

Michael Mealling’s Experience

Partner

CASgroup, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Project management/Business analysis for the cable industry
Board Member

Space Frontier Foundation

(Non-Profit; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)
VP of Business Development

Masten Space Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)

April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

Developing relationships with customers and partners, evaluating new market and product opportunities, general business and marketing strategy.
Editor

Rocketforge.org

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Defense & Space industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

Editor of http://rocketforge.org
VP Supply Chain Solutions

N4 Systems

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Developing and applying dynamic and ad-hoc supply chain solutions to business problems using RFID and EPCglobal communications standards. These include ONS based product data publication, Discovery Services for track and trace applications, and emerging publish/subscribe based product catalog syndication.
CEO

Refactored Networks, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

November 2004 — August 2005 (10 months)

Refactored Networks helps companies understand the developing EPC Network standards and how they can be used to radically change the way a company does business. By allowing for frictionless supply chains that can easily extend forward to include the customer and backward to include all suppliers, the EPC Network enables a degree of disintermediation that can be used to significantly disrupt a given market or industry.

Refactored Networks also provides Open Source software tools and proprietary platforms that specifically target the SOHO and micro-enterprise market that have typically been unable to participate in the larger supply chain management universe.
Advanced Naming R&D Manager

VeriSign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Internet industry)

September 1996 — December 2004 (8 years 4 months)

Responsible for all R&D dealing with advanced, Internet-scale naming architctures such as ENUM, AutoID, global keyword systems, etc.
Sys Support Tech II

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1996 (5 years)