Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett is a policy analyst, network architect, and inventor of Internet-oriented local area network protocols. As vice-chair the IEEE 802.31BASE5 task group, he devised the first Ethernet hub standard. He's contributed to the Wi-Fi standard from the early 90s to the present, and designed the Distributed Reservation Protocol for WiMedia's Ultra-Wideband
system. He co-founded the Open Token Foundation and has testified before Congress and the FCC. He's a Research Fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, DC.