Marshall T. Rose is the prime mover of the BEEP Protocol. In his former position as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)area director for network management, he was one of a dozen individuals who oversaw the Internet's standardization process. Rose was responsible for the design, specification, and implementation of several Internet-standard technologies, and wrote more than 60 of the Internet's requests for comment (RFCs). With a Ph.D.in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine, Rose is the author of several professional texts.
