Marshall T. Rose is a network protocol and software engineer

Software engineer

A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work.- Overview :...

, author and speaker who has contributed to the Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...

 (IETF), the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

, and Internet and network applications. More specifically, he has specialized in:

• network management
  Network management
  Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems....
  
  
• distributed systems management
• applications management
• email
  Email
  Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
  
  
• service-oriented architecture
  Service-oriented architecture
  In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
  
   (SOA).

Rose holds a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

 and is former area director for network management of the IETF.

Rose maintains his own business, Dover Beach Consulting in Sacramento

Sacramento

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, California

California

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.

IETF

Rose's work on behalf of the Internet Engineering Task Force has included:

• Area Director for network management, 1993-1995
• Chair, MARID, MTA
  Mail transfer agent
  Within Internet message handling services , a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture...
  
   Authorization Records in DNS
  Domain name system
  The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities...
  
  . IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded September 2004.
• Chair, OPES, Open Pluggable Edge Services. IETF working group, Applications area.
• Chair, POP, Post Office Protocol
  Post Office Protocol
  In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern...
  
  . IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded April 1993.
• Chair, SNMP, Simple Network Management Protocol
  Simple Network Management Protocol
  Simple Network Management Protocol is an "Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, and more." It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor...
  
  . IETF working group, Network Management area. Concluded November 1991.

External links and references

• http://lwn.net/2002/0425/pr/pr6162.php3
• http://www.opengroup.org/comm/the_message/magazine/mmv4n5/authors.htm
• http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/03mar/212.htm
• http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/666801/0
• http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Internet_Messaging-ISBN_0139786104.html?isrc=b-search
• http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/sun-info/sunergy/broadcast_docs/jan_95/rose_bio
• http://victoria.tc.ca/int-grps/books/techrev/review.htm
• http://www.mundi.net/map/search/people/marshallmap.html