Invisible Worlds cofounder, CTO, and General Manager Marshall T. Rose is the prime mover of the BEEP Protocol and the former Chief Technical Officer of MessageMedia, the leading source of e-messaging services. Marshall formerly held the position of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Area Director for Network Management, one of a dozen individuals who oversaw the Internet's standardization process.
Marshall has been responsible for the design, specification, and implementation of several Internet-standard technologies and is the author of over 60 of the Internet's requests for comment (RFCs). He is the author of several professional texts on subjects such as Internet Management, Electronic Mail, and Directory Services, which have been published in four languages. Rose is well known for his implementations of core Internet technologies (such as POP, SMTP, and SNMP) and OSI technologies (such as X.500 and FTAM). In 1981, long before open source became the trendy industry darling it is today, Rose worked on his first openly available large-scale project, the MH mail system. Rose received a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1984.
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