Antonio-Blasco Bonito is an employee of CNR, the italian National Research Council, till 1972.1972-1978: IAC-CNR Roma. System Programmer on remote computingprocedures between Rome (IBM 1130 and DEC PDP11/40) and Pisa (IBM VM370) CNUCE Institute.1979-1983: Team member of the international project STELLA (SatelliteTransmission Experiment Linking Laboratories) at CNUCE Pisa, IASI Roma e IASFrascati - Design and implementation of a common channel access method calledFODA-TDMA.1984-1988. CNUCE-CNR Pisa. Joint project among CNR, Italcable and Telespazio -Set up of the first italian connection to the Internet (actually ARPANET),trough the Atlantic satellite network SATNET1989-1991: Member of the team of designers of GARR, the italian academicnetwork.1992-1997: In charge of the GARR-NIS (Network Information Service), running the.it ccTLD and the GARR LIR. The GARR-NIS then became IT-NIC, the italianRegistration Authority.1993: Leader of the italian team in the IP Pilot Project for the europeanbackbone EuropaNET.1994-1995: Access Port Manager of the GARR connection to EuropaNET.1993-1996: Head of the italian pilot project DIR-ITA (part of the europeanproject VALUE/PARADISE) for the deployment of directory services based on theX.500 standard.1992-1998: Vice-chairman of RIPE, the european Internet community.1997-1998: Works with the Pisa University to define the architecture of itsmetropolitan network and multimedia network applications.1999-2001: On leave from CNR to a small enterprise, Rodinet S.a.s. Carrara, topromote network technology. Implementing solutions for data and voice overwireless networks.2002: On leave from CNR to a small ISP, Alet.Net spa Pisa, to promote networktechnology and the proper planning and deployment of a wide area wirelessbackbone.2002: Member of the Technical Commitee of MIX, the Milan Internet eXchange,the major italian point of interconnection among ISPs.Specialties: Computer networks architecture design