Dr. Craig Partridge
Chief Scientist
BBN Technologies
10 Moulton St
Cambridge MA 02138
It is my great pleasure to nominate my colleague, Mr. A. Lyman Chapin,
to serve on the FTC’s Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security.
Mr. Chapin is a Chief Scientist of BBN Technologies (a GTE company),
the company that helped develop many of the Internet’s protocols and built much of
the early Internet. Mr. Chapin has been with the company since 1990, most recently as the
Chief Technology Officer of BBN’s Professional Services organization. Previously he
was a senior software development engineer for the Data General Corporation for fourteen
years.
Mr. Chapin is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and past chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery’s
Special Interest Group on Data Communication (the two major professional societies in data
communications). He served as chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 1991
to 1993, and as a founding trustee of the Internet Society. Mr. Chapin has also been
extraordinarily active in data communications standards; from 1982 to 1993 he chaired the
ANSI task group X3S3.3 (Network and Transport Layer standards) and served as the head of
the U.S. delegation to the corresponding standards bodies of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the International Organisation for Standardisation
(ISO).
As a member of the Advisory Committee, Mr. Chapin would be cognizant of
the concerns of several communities. As an employee of BBN, Mr. Chapin can reflect the
collective technical expertise of a company still very involved in the evolution and
deployment of the Internet. As needed, he can call on the hundreds of man years of
expertise in Internet protocols and information security that BBN’s employees
represent.
As Chief Scientist, a Vice President position within GTE, and with
close ties to GTE Internetworking, Mr. Chapin can offer the perspectives of a company that
is both a major telephone carrier and the nation’s second largest Internet Service
Provider.
As a Director of the CommerceNet Consortium, Mr. Chapin is familiar
with current proposals (su ch as TRUSTe) for implementing fair information practices on
the web and with many of the relevant reports that have been made to the FTC (such as the
Georgetown Internet Privacy Policy Study and the web-site survey conducted in early 1999
by the Online Privacy Alliance).
While chairman of ACM SIGCOMM, Mr. Chapin arranged for SIGCOMM to
jointly sponsor a new ACM conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, which has become
an important forum for the discussion of privacy and security issues. More recently, he
has provided information and advice concerning compliance with the federal Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as a consultant GTE's customers and a
speaker at healthcare information privacy conferences.
As someone with long experience in technology standards, Mr. Chapin can
speak with authority about not only the technical content but also the processes and
procedures required to implement any protocols that may be required to protect the privacy
of on-line information.
Mr. Chapin can be contacted at:
Mr. Lyman Chapin
BBN Technologies
10 Moulton St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617 967 1693
FAX: 781 890 3955
Email: lyman@bbn.com
Mr. Chapin will be able to attend all the scheduled meetings of the
Advisory Committee.
Please do not hesitate to contact either Mr. Chapin or myself if you
have any questions about this nomination.
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