Dan York

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About Dan York

Dan York, CISSP, is an advocate for the open Internet focused on helping people understand the changes going on all around us within communication technology and practices. Dan currently serves the Internet Society as the Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO, serving as the strategic advisor to the President and CEO, ensuring efficient execution and communication of organizational priorities while managing critical relationships across the organizations. Previously, Dan's focus has been on documenting Internet shutdowns, assisting with amicus briefs, and exploring how we make the Internet more resilient. Dan has led projects around low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, promoting the use of open standards (ex IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS), routing security, and creating local technical communities. He continues to look at "what's next" for the Internet and is always exploring emerging technologies including AI, spatial computing / metaverse, quantum computing, and technologies for mitigating and adapting to climate change. Since the mid-1980's Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. An author of multiple books on networking, security, IPv6 and Linux, Dan is a dynamic and engaging speaker who frequently presents at industry conferences and events and has been blogging and writing online for since His most recent books are "Migrating Applications to IPv6" and "The Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks". Previously Dan worked for Voxeo Corporation heading up the company's communication through both traditional and new/social media. Prior to that, Dan served in the Office of the CTO for both Voxeo and before that Mitel focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Dan speaks English, German, and a bit of French, and when not in front of the keyboard can usually be found engaging in outdoor activities or participating in the sport of curling, an addiction he picked up during 5 years of living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. More information about Dan can be found at and his latest writing can be found at Specialties: Internet technology, DNS, IPv6, VoIP, Internet/network security, online communication / evangelism, public relations / PR, blogs, WordPress, podcasting, product management, training, certification, Linux, python, XML, marketing, Wikipedia