Christian HUITEMA has conducted for several years research in network
protocols and network applications. He is now at INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis,
where he leads the research project ``RODEO'', whose objective is the
definition and the experimentation of communication protocols for very high
speed  networks, at one Gbit/s or more. This includes the study of high speed
transmission control protocols, of their parametrisation and of their
insertion in the operating systems, and the study of the synchronisation
functions and of the management of data transparency between heterogeneous
systems. Amongst the output of the RODEO project, one can count one of the
most performant ASN.1 compiler, MAVROS, and the IP based H.261
videoconferencing system, IVS.

Previously, he took part to the NADIR project, investigating computer usage
of telecommunication satellites, where he took part to the definition and
development of specialized ``transport'' protocol for the high
throughput, long delays and possibly multipoint links provided by the
satellites -- this was the subject of his doctorate thesis. He then joined the
GIPSI project, where he was in charge of developments of transmission
protocols for the SM90 workstation, including  a local network version of the
X.25 protocol, a pre-NFS ``network disk'' protocol, an implementation of IP
over X.25, OSI transport and session layer software and one of the earliest
X.400 systems. After joining INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, he took part to the
ESPRIT project THORN, which has provided one of the first X.500 conformant
directory system; the initial developments of the ASN.1 compiler MAVROS was
done within this project.

Christian Huitema graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris in 1975,
and received is "Doctorat es Sciences" from the University of Paris-VI in
1985. He is since May 1993 the chair of the Internet Architecture
Board (IAB).