Rob Austein Some folks say a program's the sum of its parts But that ain't so, and debugging's an art Debugging's an art to drive you crazy for good 'Cause your patch never does what you thought it would You write 16K and what do you find? You're another day older and further behind Don't y'call me, Saint Peter, 'cause I can't go My code don't run and my compiler's too slow...

It doesn't look like I'll ever have time to write a gee-whiz neato keen home page, so you'll just have to make do with this one.

1. My PGP key
2. Places I've worked
   • These days I'm a member of the technical staff at Arrcus.
   • I also still do some work at Dragon Research Labs, focusing on RPKI and the Cryptech Project. This was my full-time job for a long time.
   • Before that, I spent a long time as an engineering manager at the Internet Systems Consortium.
   • Before that, I spent a few years as an independent consultant.
   • Before that, I spent a few years as VP of Engineering at Internetshare, Incorporated, working on IPv6 transition tools.
   • Before that, I spent a long time as VP of Engineering at Epilogue Technology Corporation, doing networking code for the deeply embedded market (if your toaster has an IP stack, there's a good chance it's the one we wrote). Epilogue eventually got bought by Integrated Systems, Inc., and I stuck around for a few years to help with the merger. Integrated Systems itself was later bought by Wind River Systems, which was eventually bought by Intel.
   • Before any of that, I spent a long time on the staff at the MIT Lab for Computer Science (now part of MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab).
3. Volunteer stuff
   • I spent six years on the Internet Architecture Board, during which time I read an awful lot of email related to the Internet Engineering Task Force.
   • I also spent four years on a study committee for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council (which is related to but not the same thing as the National Academy of Sciences). We wrote a book, which is available from the National Academy Press.
   • I'm also involved with The Alpha Delta Phi Society, a co-educational college literary society. I served on my chapter's Board of Trustees for 22 years, and served a ten year hitch on the national Board of Governors as well.
4. Blog
   I finally broke down and started a blog. Updated sporadically, content usually just weird techy stuff.
5. Photos
   • I've started building a gallery. Some of this is scanned old stuff, but a lot of it is new. Digital cameras sure do make this easier.
6. Publications
   • RFC 1611, RFC 1612, RFC 3197, RFC 3364, RFC 3724, RFC 3750, RFC 3833, RFC 3904, RFC 4033, RFC 4034, RFC 4035, RFC 5001, RFC 6486, RFC 6492, RFC 6810, RFC 6811, RFC 7128, RFC 8181, RFC 8182, RFC 8183, RFC 8205, RFC 8210.
7. Ancient history and other jokes
   • Alice's PDP-10
   • Tablespoons
   • Gateway to Net Ten
   • GUI In The Face
   • VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong In Some Places
   • How many Quakers does it take to change a lightbulb?
   • The Day the Routers Died
   • The Toaster and The Plan
   • A Day in the Life of the Image Activator
8. Other writings
   • IPv6, Nimrod, NATs, Evolution, Environmentalism, Politics, Vorlons, a little Zen, and the Art of Internet Maintenance
   • Faith and Practice of the IETF
9. Almae Matres
   • Wesleyan University
   • George School
   • Tanager Lodge
10. Murphy had it backwards!
    • "What can go wrong usually goes right—and then people draw the wrong conclusions."
      —William Langewiesche
11. Wear it as long as thou canst
12. Beekeeping
13. Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
14. Restaurants and pubs worth visiting if you happen to be in town; given the nature of the restaurant business, links in this list tend to go stale quite quickly, so if the link itself doesn't work, try searching for the name and location of the restaurant.
    • It's Only Natural , Middletown, CT.
    • Hell's Kitchen , Minneapolis, MN.
    • Napi's Resturant , Provincetown, MA.
    • Paul and Elizabeth's , Northampton, MA.
    • Berta's Latin American Restaurant , San Diego, CA.
    • Bizen Sushi , Great Barrington, MA.
    • Cafe Gollem , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • White Dog Cafe , Philadelphia, PA.
    • Samâdhi , Berlin, Germany.
    • Millennium , San Francisco, CA.
    • Meskerem , Washington, DC.
    • Hermans , Stockholm, Sweden.
    • Lanna Thai , Woburn, MA.
    • King Join , Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Monk's Cafe , Philadelphia, PA.
    • Vegetarian Haven , Toronto, ON.
    • Lao Wai , Stockholm, Sweden.
    • Tianfuzius , Berlin, Germany.
    • Maitrea , Prague, Czech Republic.