Gordon S. Good

Timothy A. Howes, Ph.D., coinventor of the LDAP protocol, is the cofounder and chief technology officer of Opsware Inc., the leading provider of data center automation software. Previously, Dr. Howes served as vice president of technology for America Online, as chief technology officer of Netscape’s Server Products division, and as chief architect of several Netscape server products.

Mark C. Smith is the chief architect for directory products at Netscape Communications Corporation, an AOL Time Warner company, where he is responsible for the technical evolution of Netscape Directory Server and several other products and services. Mr. Smith is coauthor of LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Macmillan, 1997) and has written many RFCs and Internet Drafts.

Gordon S. Good is a senior software engineer at Opsware, Inc. Before joining Opsware, he worked at Netscape Communications Corporation, where he led the directory-server-replication development team. Gordon has written several RFCs and Internet Drafts.

Timothy A. Howes

Timothy A. Howes, Ph.D., coinventor of the LDAP protocol, is the cofounder and chief technology officer of Opsware Inc., the leading provider of data center automation software. Previously, Dr. Howes served as vice president of technology for America Online, as chief technology officer of Netscapes Server Products division, and as chief architect of several Netscape server products.

Mark C. Smith is the chief architect for directory products at Netscape Communications Corporation, an AOL Time Warner company, where he is responsible for the technical evolution of Netscape Directory Server and several other products and services. Mr. Smith is coauthor of LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Macmillan, 1997) and has written many RFCs and Internet Drafts.

Gordon S. Good is a senior software engineer at Opsware, Inc. Before joining Opsware, he worked at Netscape Communications Corporation, where he led the directory-server-replication development team. Gordon has written several RFCs and Internet Drafts.

Mark C. Smith

Mark C. Smith is the software architect at Pearl Crescent, LLC where he is creating next generation Internet software. Previously, Mark was the chief architect for directory products at Netscape Communications Corporation, an America Online company, where he was responsible for the technical evolution of Netscape Directory Server and several other AOL products and services. Mark was previously a driving force behind the University of Michigan’s LDAP implementation and a key designer of the university’s directory service. He is a co-author of the books "LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol" and "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services" and has written many RFCs and Internet Drafts. Mark has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he participates in the continuing evolution of LDAP.