Mr. Eliot Lear serves as Principal Engineer in Cisco Systems Chief Technology Office. A senior member of Cisco’s engineering community since 1998, he is a Cisco lead in the areas of Internet governance and cybersecurity policy, standards strategy and identity management. He serves as senior advisor to Cisco’s cybersecurity policy engagement. Mr. Lear is a senior member of the IETF community, having authored various Requests for Comments (RFCs), including several standards and best current practices on topics ranging from Internet routing to network management protocols to security and identity services. He holds several patents in these areas. He has also chaired a research group in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). Since March of 2013, Mr. Lear has sat as a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), an oversight committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and an advisory function to the Internet Society. He is the program lead for liaison oversight, and is a member-at-large of the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG). From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Lear served as Internet Engineering Task Force Liaison Manager to the ITU-T, leading the IAB’s program and seeing to the successful update of the relationship document between the two organizations. At the ITU, Mr. Lear has participated in all three sectors, contributing to TSAG, TDAG, ITU-T study groups, ITU-R JRGs, serving on the U.S. delegation to two successive World Telecommunications Development Conferences as a technical advisor to the United States on cybersecurity and Internet governance matters, and as both a vice-rapporteur and co-rapporteur for ITU-D Q22-1/1 “Securing information and communication networks: best practices for developing a culture of cybersecurity,” which is the predecessor to Q3/2.
