Infos about Peter Gietz:
home page: www.daasi.de
Peter Gietz, CEO of DAASI International GmbH, has an MA in social sciences and was active in the field of IT since 1985. He is internationally recognized as an directory expert, with core expertise in X.500, LDAP, PKI, Metadata and ontologies. Since 1994 he worked for DFN research projects on Directory technology, which he lead in the last phases. From 1998 to 1999 he worked for DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology for Europe), Cambridge, where he was responsible for the NameFLOW project and maintained the root of the international X.500 Directory. He keeps being an evangelist for Open Source Software and the usefullnes of LDAP technology.
Further activities:
* Team member of the EU funded project DESIRE II
* Member of a governmental working group convoked by the "Bundesamt für
Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" for defining a catalogue of
measures for the German Digital Signature legislation:
"Maßnahmenkataloge für die digitale Signatur"
* Active member of the Teletrust WG 7 on PKI
* Chairman of the international TERENA Task Force LDAP Service
Deployment
* Member of the Technical Advisory Boards for the directory activities
of Internet2
* Member of the Editorial Board for a directory concept of the german
governmental PKI (PKI-1 der Verwaltung)
* Co-Chair of the GGF Working Group CIM based Grid Schema
* Active in several IETF Working Groups (pkix, crisp, ldapbis)