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Biography

Scott Hollenbeck is a fellow of industry standards and technology in the chief technology officer organization, where he manages a team of engineers and researchers who focus on exploring innovation opportunities and emerging technologies. Scott has more than 30 years of expertise in the Domain Name System space, applications programming, systems architecture, network engineering, information security, financial analysis, and personnel management.

Prior to joining Verisign in 1998, Scott held management and engineering positions with Xerox Corporation. There, he chaired a cross-corporate group responsible for interoperability testing of all Xerox network and desktop software products. Before Xerox, Scott served as a first lieutenant officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Scott has authored many internet protocol standards, including: the Extensible Provisioning Protocol, a standard protocol for the registration and management of internet infrastructure data, including domain names; and the Verisign Registry-Registrar Protocol, a pre-cursor of EPP developed for use in the Verisign Shared Registration System; and most recently, he has co-authored the Registration Data Access Protocol, a standard protocol that was designed to replace the WHOIS protocol. He has been a contributor to several industry efforts related to domain names and internet security, such as internationalized domain names, public key cryptography, Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, the Extensible Markup Language, the Transport Layer Security protocol, and the ENUM protocol.

He has also served in various capacities on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ Expert Working Group on generic top-level domain directory services; the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Internet Engineering Steering Group; and the Web Extensible Internet Registration Data Service, Registration Protocols Extension, Extensible Provisioning Protocol Extensions, and Transport Layer Security working groups.

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

Publications

Gautam Akiwate, William Carroll, Scott Hollenbeck
Best Practices for Deletion of Domain and Host Objects in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP). IETF-118
2023
Presentations / Panels
William Carroll, Scott Hollenbeck
Best Practices for Deletion of Domain and Host Objects in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
2023
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
A Balanced DNS Information Protection Strategy: Minimize at Root and TLD, Encrypt When Needed Elsewhere. ICANN DNSSEC-70 Workshop
2021
Presentations / Panels
Scott Hollenbeck
A Balanced DNS Information Protection Strategy: Minimize at Root and TLD, Encrypt When Needed Elsewhere. RIPE DNS Working Group
2021
Presentations / Panels
Scott Hollenbeck
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Object Tagging
2019
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck, R. Carney
vCard Format Extensions: ICANN Extensions for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)
2019
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck, Andrew Kaizer, Swapneel Sheth
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Implementation Experiments at Verisign
2017
Publications / Papers
Andrew Fregly, Swapneel Sheth, Scott Hollenbeck
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Search Using POSIX Regular Expressions, Internet-draft
2016
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
WHOIS No More: The Future of Registration Metadata
2016
Presentations / Panels
Scott Hollenbeck
Verisign Labs Experiment with Federated Authentication for RDAP
2016
Presentations / Panels
Scott Hollenbeck
RDAP Authentication. ICANN 54 Tech Day
2015
Presentations / Panels
Scott Hollenbeck
Federated Authentication for the Registration Data Access Protocol Using OpenID Connect. Internet-draft, WIP
2015
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
A. Newton, Scott Hollenbeck
JSON Responses for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). RFC 7483 (Standards Track)
2015
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
A. Newton, Scott Hollenbeck
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Query Format. RFC 7482 (Standards Track)
2015
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck, N. Kong
Security Services for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). RFC 7481 (Standards Track)
2015
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Aziz Mohaisen, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Scott Hollenbeck
Improving Social Network-based Sybil Defenses by Augmenting Social Graphs. IEEE TVT
2013
Publications / Papers
Matt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Nick Feamster, Christian Kreibich, Chris Grier, Scott Hollenbeck
Understanding the Domain Registration Behavior of Spammers. Internet Measurement Conference 2013
2013
Publications / Papers
Scott Hollenbeck
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (RFC 3730, RFC 4930, STD 69, RFC 5730)
2009
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Contact Mapping (RFC 3733, RFC 4933, STD 69, RFC 5733)
2009
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping (RFC 3731, RFC 4931, STD 69, RFC 5731)
2009
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Host Mapping (RFC 3732, RFC 4932, STD 69, RFC 5732)
2009
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport over TCP (RFC 3734, RFC 4934, STD 69, RFC 5734)
2009
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
E.164 Number Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (RFC 4114)
2005
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
IAB and IESG Recommendation for IETF Administrative Restructuring (RFC 4089)
2005
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Domain Registry Grace Period Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (RFC 3915)
2004
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Guidelines for Extending the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (RFC 3735)
2004
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods (RFC 3749)
2004
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols (BCP 70, RFC 3470)
2003
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
VeriSign Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 2.0.0 (RFC 3632)
2003
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
EtherIP: Tunneling Ethernet Frames in IP Datagrams (RFC 3378)
2002
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
Generic Registry-Registrar Protocol Requirements (RFC 3375)
2002
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Scott Hollenbeck
NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 (RFC 2832)
2000
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts