Interisle’s partners have extensive experience and expertise with telecommunications (both wireline and wireless) and Internet standards development, Internet governance, and patents.

We have represented clients at Standards Development Organization (SDO) meetings and worked with them through the standards process, aided clients through the patent process and acted as expert witnesses for patent lawsuit plaintiffs and defendants. We have also actively participated in Internet governance and security organizations. We interact regularly with governmental bodies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and international governmental telecommunications regulators and operators.

Our partners’ collective expertise includes the following areas:

Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the primary SDO for the Internet

  • Wide participation in the IETF’s management:

    • Multiple Area Directors in the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)

    • Chair and multiple members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

    • Multiple Working Group Chairs

    • Routing Directorate membership

  • IETF Liaison to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC)

  • Authored over 50 Requests for Comments (RFCs) (IETF technical specifications)

  • Extensive technical expertise in the areas of Internet security, the Domain Name System (DNS), routing protocols, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Software Defined Networking (SDN), and IP-based telephony

ITU-T (United Nations Telecommunications SDO)

  • Participation and authorship in multiple Study Groups, including SG 11 (Signaling), SG 13 (Future networks and emerging network technologies), SG 15 (Transport and Access Networks), and SG 20 (Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities and Communities (SC&C))

  • Wrote the "Policy, Business, Technical and Operational Considerations for the Operation of a ccTLD Registry" report for the ITU's Development Sector

  • USA and UK National Delegation membership

International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)

  • Head of USA Delegation to JTC 1/SC 6 (Telecommunications standards)

  • Editor for ISO/IEC 8348 (Network service definition), 8473 (CLNP), 9542 (ES-IS routing protocol), and related Network and Transport standards

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

  • Chair, Task Group X3S3.3 (Network and Transport Layer Standards)

  • Represented the Financial Services Technology Consortium for the development of ANSI X9.100-172

NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology)

  • OSI Implementer’s Workshop

  • Network Management Special Interest Group

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Europe’s primary regional telecommunications SDO

  • Network Functions Virtualization (NVF) Rapporteur

  • Editor of the NFV Architectural Specification

Broadband Forum (BBF)

  • Held positions on Board of Directors and Vice President

  • Recipients of Distinguished Fellow Award and Leadership Award

  • Authored multiple specifications

Open Networking Forum (ONF)

  • Served as Area Director and Technical Council member

  • Recipient of Outstanding Leadership Award

  • Authored multiple specifications regarding Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum)

  • SDO for spectrum sharing technology, developed the NTIA and FCC-approved specs for the Spectrum Access Systems (SASs)

  • Represented the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) and advise WISPA on their FCC positions

  • Co-developed with Wi-Fi Alliance the sharing specs for the 6 GHz unlicensed underlay

  • Chaired task group that worked with the FCC to create the standards for the CPE-CBSD, fixed (customer premise equipment) devices operating at higher power levels than mobile client devices

Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)

  • Serves on Board of Directors

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)

  • Serves on Board of Directors

Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG)

  • Recipient of the M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  • Life Fellow

  • Senior Members

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)

  • Served as Chairman

Internet Governance and Security

 Internet Society (ISOC)

  • Founding Trustee and pioneer members

  • Held several senior executive positions

  • Organization Members Advisory Council (OMAC)

  • Co-founder of the African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  • Member of Security Expert Group

Geneva Centre for Security Policy 

  • Member of GCSP Expert Community

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

  • Served on Board of Directors

  • Member of staff, Vice President for Security and ICT Coordination

  • Chair, Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) (responsible for assessing the impact of new DNS registry services on the security and stability of the Internet)  

  • Chair, DNS Stability Panel (evaluates proposals for new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs))

  • Members of Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)

RIPE (European Regional Internet Registry)

  • Executive Board

  • Multiple Working Group chairs

Patents

Over 20 patents awarded

Expert witness in a number of patent litigations, representing both plaintiffs and defendants

Governmental and Intergovernmental Interactions

Comprehensive Internet policy development expertise and policy position representation before national governments and regional bodies in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Islands, United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.

  • Advised the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on the formation and operation of the .so ccTLD registry

  • Audit of the governance structure, policies, and technical operations of the Irish ccTLD registry on behalf of the Irish regulator ComReg

  • Member of Executive Management Committee of Commonwealth Cybercrime Committee, a cybersecurity capacity building program for the Commonwealth of Nations

  • Multiple studies conducted for OFCOM (UK telecommunications regulator) and the UK Government's Cabinet Office

  • Advisor to UK Government's Department of Business, Industry and Skills on Internet Technologies and Telephony Convergence

  • Studies for the Omani regulator TRA-OM

US policy and regulatory

  • Staff members at Federal Communications Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

  • Expert witness for regulatory proceedings

  • Filings with governmental regulatory bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

  • Vice chair of the stakeholder advisory committee for the .us domain

Intergovernmental forums

  • Extensive issue advocacy and negotiation experience in a range of intergovernmental forums including the ITU, OECD, CITEL, UNECA, and ICANN-GAC, among others.

  • Served as expert advisors to international and regional development organizations including the World Bank, African Union