John Day Curriculum Vitae

Academic Experience

Adjunct Professor, Boston University, 2005  Teaching graduate level advanced and introductory networking and introductory Operating Systems courses.

Adjunct Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2005 - 06.  Teaching graduate Networking course.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1969 – 1978.  Research Staff developing operating systems for the first supercomputer, ILLIAC IV and early operating systems for use with the ARPANet. Developed fundamental algorithms for updating multiple copies of databases in the face of failures, which are still applied today.

Private Sector Experience

John Day has been involved in research and development of computer networks since 1970 when he was involved in the design of transport and upper layer protocols for the ARPANet as well as the Internet.  Mr. Day has developed and designed protocols for everything from the data link layer to the application layer. 

Mr. Day has made fundamental contributions to research on distributed databases developing one of two fundamental algorithms in the updating of multiple copies. He also did work on the early development of supercomputers and was a member of a team in writing 3 operating systems.  Mr. Day was in charge of the development of the OSI Reference Model, Naming and Addressing and upper layer architecture and is currently a member of the Internet Research Task Force’s Name Space Research Group.  He has been a major contributor to the development of Network Management Architecture, working in the area since 1984 defining the fundamental architecture currently prevalent and designing high performance implementations, and fielded a network management system in the mid-80’s that was 10 years ahead of comparable systems.  Mr. Day was also involved in the development of the Utilities Communication Architecture for electric, gas, and water utilities; and in the design and deployment of field trials for various utilities, which included wireless subsystems. Developed plans for building Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in various parts of Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East, including all from initial business case development and funding to backbone design, service definition, deployment of infrastructure, and ISP operations.  Recently Mr. Day has been turning his attention to radically new network architectures that scale indefinitely.

Professional Activities

• Member of the ARPANet Network Working Group (1973-76) responsible for upper layer protocols.
• Memberof the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Task Force (1976) that developed library protocols that are still in use today.
• Instrumental in the work on the Formal Description of Protocols:
• Chair of the IFIP WG6.1 subgroup (1977-80)
• Rapporteur for Formal Description Techniques in ISO TC97/SC21/WG1 (1978-82).
• Rapporteur and editor for OSI Reference Model and OSI Naming and Addressing working groups (1982-96).
• Editor, ISO 8650rev, Application Control Service Element, 1988 – 1996.
• Head of US Delegation, ISO JTC1/SC21/WG1, 1980 – 1992.
• Editor, Revision of ISO 13239-1999, HDLC, 1995-1999.
• Chaired US standards body responsible for national contributions to international OSI architecture, formal description, and conformance standards activities.
• Member of the Task Force on Research Networking of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology, recommending directions for research networking for the 1990+ timeframe.
• Member, Name Space Research Group of the IRTF charged with solving fundamental problems with the addressing structure of the Internet.
• Member, National Task Force on Libraries and Information Science, 1976-78, developing the pre-cursor to Z39.
• Advisory Curator, Jay A. Levenson, ed., Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Smithsonian Institution, 24 Jun – 16 Sep 2007.

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Patterns in Network Architecture:  A Return to Fundamentals,  Prentice-Hall, 2007.
• “Il Cartografi Manuscrpit di Matteo Ricci” (in Italian), in Matteo Ricci. Cartografia Matteo Ricci Institute, Macerata Italy, forthcoming 2007.
• “The (UN)Revised OSI Reference Model.” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, October 1995.
• “The Search for the Origins of the Chinese Manuscripts of Matteo Ricci’s Maps.” Imago Mundi, Vol. 47, 1995.
• “The Mappomundi of Matteo Ricci.” Miscellanea Bibliotecae Apostolica Vaticanae VI  Collectionea in Honorem Rev Mi Patris Leonardi E. Boyle, OP. Citta del Vaticano Aposolica Vaticana, 1998.
• “The Voretzsch/Howell Ricci Map: a peculiar puzzle” The Map Collector. No. 72, Autumn 1995.
• "A Neolithic Whaling Tradition in Korea",  Kendall Whaling Museum Symposium, short paper, 1990.
• “The Reference Model for Open Systems Interconnection.”  Computer Network Protocols and Architectures, edited by Carl Sunshine, Plenum 1990.
• “The OSI Reference Model.” Proceedings of the IEEE, December 1983.
• “Telematique et OSI aux L’Etats-Unis.” Enjeux, September 1982.
• “Terminal, File Transfer, and Remote Job Protocols for Heterogeneous Computer Networks.” Protocols and Techniques for Data Communication Networks, edited by F. F. Kuo, Prentice-Hall 1980.
• “Terminal Protocols.” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 28, No. 4, April 1980. Also in Computer Network Protocols and Architectures, edited by Paul Green, Plenum 1981.
• "A Principle for Resilient Sharing of Distributed Resources"  with P. A. Alsberg, 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Oct. 1976.
• “Control Structure Overhead in TCP.” Proceedings Trends and Applications IEEE, May 1980

Education

•       MSEE Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1976.
•       BSEE Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1970.