Rich Salz
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Rich Salz

I first got involved with the IETF back when I worked at BBN, reading the Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) internet-drafts; my first acknowledgement was in RFC 2616. Over time, I become more involved in the definition of standards, along with their development and deployment. I wrote INN, the major Usenet/NNTP implementation. For a number of years, I was a member of the OpenSSL project. It was the dominant SSL/TLS implementation (it probably still is, even today).

Most of my career has been on one side of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Alewife) or the other (Kendall Square). I joined Akamai toward the end of 2012. I focus on making things more secure and easier, and helping Akamai implement IETF standards more quickly.

I firmly believe diversity and representation is important.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair Building Blocks for HTTP APIs (httpapi) rsalz@akamai.com
Delegate Education and Outreach Directorate (eodir) rsalz@akamai.com
Member The Tools Team (tools) rsalz@akamai.com
Reviewer (See reviews) Security Area Directorate (secdir) rsalz@akamai.com
Reviewer (See reviews) ART Area Review Team (artart) rsalz@akamai.com

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Organization https://github.com/richsalz
GitHub Username richsalz
Additional Web Page http://richsalz.com

RFCs (5)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 4122 Jul 2005 A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace 63 RFCs
RFC 9281 Jun 2022 Entities Involved in the IETF Standards Process
RFC 9501 Dec 2023 Open Participation Principle regarding Remote Registration Fee
RFC 9525 Nov 2023 Service Identity in TLS 9 RFCs
RFC 9748 Feb 2025 Updating the NTP Registries

Active Internet-Drafts (7)

Expired Internet-Drafts (29)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity