Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson is an open source and open standards consultant.

An autodidact, he wrote mail transfer agents as a teenager, and in the
1990s, after failing at high energy physics, found his calling designing and
building embedded networking products, in the security sector. Michael has
built multiple IPsec systems, joining the FreeS/WAN team in 2001, and
founding Xelerance.com in 2003. He has operated many networks, worked on
DNSSEC and root name servers, and built several boutique ISPs a