Scott Bradner

Scott Bradner is a senior figure in the area of Internet governance.

He was on the board of ARIN, the North American IP address registry.

IANA managed the Internet's domain name system, but was essentially run by Jon Postel.

As one of a number of close advisers to Postel, Bradner sought to maintain "Internet self-governance"—the idea that the users of the network should decide the rules by which they would abide.

In 1996 at a conference of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Bradner described two conundrums of the Internet: "Who says who makes the rules?"