Tony Lauck is the Technical Director for Networking at Digital
Equipment Corporation.   For the past sixteen years his group has
designed the network architecture and protocols behind Digital's DECnet
computer networking products.  His group has played a leading role in
local area network standardization, including Ethernet, FDDI, and
transparent bridged LANs.  His group has also played a leading role in
standardizing the OSI network and transport layers.   Recently,  his
group has developed high performance network adapters and very high
performance TCP/IP host networking software for the OSF operating
system running on Alpha processors.