Dan is a passionate advocate for the open Internet focused on helping people understand the changes going on all around us within communication technology and practices. Dan serves the Internet Society as the Director of Web Strategy for the Strategic Communications Team, focusing on the Internet Society's editorial content strategy across all sites. Dan is also active within the DNS and real-time communications areas of the IETF.
Since the mid-1980's Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. An author of multiple books on networking, security, IPv6 and Linux, Dan is a dynamic and engaging speaker who frequently presents at industry conferences and events and has been blogging and writing online for over 11 years. His most recent books are "Migrating Applications to IPv6" and "The Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks". Previously Dan worked for Voxeo Corporation heading up the company's communication through both traditional and new/social media. Prior to that, Dan served in the Office of the CTO for both Voxeo and before that Mitel focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues.
A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Dan speaks English and German and when not in front of the keyboard can usually be found engaging in outdoor activities or participating in the sport of curling, an addiction he picked up during 5 years of living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. More information about Dan can be found at danyork.me.
Dan is based in Shelburne, Vermont, United States.
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Latest posts
IETF
15 November 2019
IETF 106 Begins Nov 16 in Singapore – Here is how you can participate remotely in building open Internet standards
Starting Saturday, November 16, 2019, the 106th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will begin in Singapore....
About Internet Society
25 June 2019
Announcing news.internetsociety.org – a way to follow what is published across all Internet Society sites
Today I’m pleased to announce a new site we have built that brings into one location links to all...
IPv6
6 June 2019
On the 7th World IPv6 Launchiversary, How About Listening to a Podcast About IPv6?
On this 7th “launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch, I thought I’d share a way I’ve enjoyed learning more about...
Technology
7 April 2019
Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs That Define How the Internet Works
50 years ago today, on 7 April 1969, the very first “Request for Comments” (RFC) document was published. Titled...
Technology
12 March 2019
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web
Back around 1991, I was traveling throughout the eastern USA teaching an “Introduction to the Internet” course I had...
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
29 January 2019
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN64 in Kobe, Japan
Will you be at the ICANN 64 meeting in March 2019 in Kobe, Japan? If so (or if you...