Career
Curran ran several early Internet companies including Bolt, Beranek and Newman Technologies Planet, XO Communications, and Servervault. Curran held positions as Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technical Officer of ServerVault (a federally-oriented secure hosting company acquired by Carpathia Hosting), Chief Technical Officer of XO Communications, and Chief Technical Officer of Bolt, Beranek and Newman Technologies. Curran also worked for Combustion Engineering/Asea Brown Boveri and Control Data Corporation. Curran provided technical leadership to Bolt, Beranek and Newman Technologies"s commercial Internet efforts, including working on the early Internet research networks (CSNET and NEARNET) and the NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC) coordination center for the pre-commercial Internet.
He has authored RFCs in early network joint operations (Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1355) and Internet Protocol version 6 area, as well as supporting work in network endpoint architecture.
Curran has experience with Federal Information Technology system security practices (including FISMA security standards) and cloud computing, and has advocated for improving of Federal Information Technology access to cloud computing services. Curran is author of Reconstruction Finance Corporation 5211, entitled "An Internet Transition Plan" which calls for moving the global Internet from its existing IPv4 protocol the newer Internet Protocol version 6 protocol, as well as Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1669 entitled "Market Viability as a IPng Criteria", which summarizes some of the challenges Internet Protocol version 6 will have competing against IPv4 and the inevitable arrival of network address translation devices.
Curran is notable among association leaders for being quite reachable publicly, including directly responding to queries on public email lists.
