Scott Hollenbeck

Fellow

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Biography

Scott Hollenbeck is a fellow in the chief technology officer (CTO) organization, where he manages a team of engineers and researchers focused on exploring innovation opportunities.

Scott has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, and prior to Verisign, he held management and engineering positions with Xerox Corporation.

He is the author of the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), a standard protocol for the registration and management of internet infrastructure data including domain names. Also, he is a co-author of the Verisign Registry-Registrar Protocol (RRP), a pre-cursor of EPP developed for use in the Verisign Shared Registration System. More recently, he was a co-author of the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), a standard protocol that was designed to replace the aged WHOIS protocol. He has been a contributor to several industry efforts related to domain names and internet security, including internationalized domain names, ENUM, public key cryptography, S/MIME, the Extensible Markup Language (XML), and the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. He has served as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he was the responsible area director for several working groups developing application protocol standards.

Scott earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Science in computer science complemented by a graduate certificate in software engineering from George Mason University.