Matt Larson
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, and Bachelor of Music, Church Music/Organ Performance, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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Vice President, DNS Research
Biography
Matt Larson, Vice President of DNS Research at Verisign, is a specialist in DNS protocol and operational issues. He is an active participant in the wider DNS community as a contributor to the DNS engineering and operations working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); as chairman of the board of the DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Center; as vice-chair of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC); and as a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).
He co-authored DNS on Windows Server 2003, DNS on Windows 2000 and DNS on Windows NT for the O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks series with Cricket Liu.
Prior to joining Verisign in June 2000, Matt founded Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company with customers in more than 10% of the Fortune 100. Matt also ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and later worked in HP's professional services organization.
Research
“Authority server selection in DNS caching resolvers”, ACM Sigcomm CCR, April, 2012.
"Reducing the X.509 Attack Surface with DNSSEC’s DANE" presented at SATIN 2012, London, UK.
"Name Server Selection of DNS Caching Resolvers", DNS-OARC London workshop, March, 2012.
"Changes to .com/.net/.edu name servers in preparation for DNSSEC", DNS-OARC Prague workshop, May, 2010.
"Port and message ID analysis of resolvers querying .com/.net name servers", DNS-OARC Ottawa, September, 2008.
"Analysis of J Root Anycast", DNS-OARC Redmond, Washington workshop, November, 2006.
"Life and Times of J Root", NANOG 32, October, 2004.