A little background on Greg’s topic: In describing the dangers posed by the ‘second system’ effect, Fred Brooks wrote: ‘Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.’ The ‘next generation’ IP protocol, IPv6, exhibits all of the classic deficiencies associated with second systems. Over engineered, over specified, and overly complicated its deployment is, and will continue to be, problematic for network and security professionals as flaws in design and implementation present new opportunities for unintentional and intentional service disruptions and cyberattacks on both end systems and core network infrastructure.

Gregory Travis has been involved in the information technology fi eld for approximately thirty-fi ve years, having written his fi rst FORTRAN program for the CDC 6600 in the mid 1970s. In the 1980s he was the primary author of the “ISRNIX” UNIX distribution for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 series of computers. This distribution added, among other advanced features, TCP/IP networking and an advanced scheduler allowing approximately 20-30 simultaneous online users for a mid-level PDP-11 system.

Travis later joined Data Parallel Systems, Inc. as its director of technology where he was responsible for the system integration architecture of that fi rm’s database software, SQLmpp, a relational database implementation for the MasPar series of massively parallel SIMD computers. Travis was also Vice President for Software Development at Cornerstone Systems, Inc. where he held direct development and management responsibility for the fi rm’s software team and its line of business travel automation software.

At the Advanced Network Management Laboratory, Travis’ duties include day-to-day operations as well as research in the areas of cybersecurity and high-capacity network management.

The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research thanks Pervasive Technology Institute for their support of the Center and this seminar series.

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