Dan Kohn Explained

Dan Kohn
Known For:First secure commercial transaction on the web
Birth Date:November 20, 1972
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma Mater:Swarthmore College (B.S.)
Education:Phillips Exeter Academy
Spouse:Julie Pullen
Children:2

Dan Kohn (November 20, 1972November 1, 2020) was an American serial entrepreneur and nonprofit executive who led the Linux Foundation's Public Health initiative.[1] He was the executive director at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source cloud software including Kubernetes and Fluentd, through 2020.[2] [3] The first company he founded, NetMarket, conducted the first secure commercial transaction on the web in 1994.[4]

Early life and education

Kohn was born in Philadelphia on November 20, 1972.[5] He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy,[6] and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1994.[7]

Career

NetMarket

Kohn co-founded and was CEO of NetMarket, an online marketplace. On August 11, 1994, NetMarket sold Ten Summoner's Tales, a CD by Sting, to Phil Brandenberger of Philadelphia using a credit card over the Internet. The New York Times described this as "...the first retail transaction on the Internet using a readily available version of powerful data encryption software designed to guarantee privacy." The encryption used in the transaction was provided by the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) program, incorporated into the X Mosaic browser.[8] [9]

Other work

Kohn worked as chief technology officer at Spreemo, a healthcare marketplace, and at Shopbeam, a shoppable ads startup. Earlier, he worked as vice president at Teledesic, the satellite-based Internet provider funded by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates[10] [11] and then became a general partner at Skymoon Ventures.

Kohn co-authored RFC 3023, XML Media Types, which defined how XML and MIME interoperate and is the origin of the widely used +suffix in MIME types.[12] He also contributed two chapters to The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning.[13] [14]

The Linux Foundation and CNCF

As executive director of CNCF, Kohn helped expand CNCF membership to include the largest public cloud and enterprise software companies.[15] He led the efforts to create a conformance standard for Kubernetes and a Kubernetes certified service provider program in 2017.[16] [17] During Kohn's tenure at CNCF, he oversaw the growth of KubeCon (the foundation's primary event) from 500 attendees in 2015 to over 12,000 at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 in San Diego, California.[18]

Kohn was chief operating officer of the Linux Foundation[19] and helped launch the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative, a project created after Heartbleed to fund and support free and open-source software projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet. More recently, he helped create their open source best practices badge.[20] [21]

As general manager of LF Public Health, Kohn helped "public health authorities use open source software to fight COVID-19 and other epidemics."[22]

Personal life

Kohn was married to climate scientist Julie Pullen. Pullen and Kohn had two sons.[23]

Death

Kohn died of complications from colon cancer in New York City on November 1, 2020, at age 47.[24]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Priyanka Sharma takes over the leadership of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. June 8, 2020. TechCrunch. June 2020. en-US. January 24, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124032016/https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/01/priyanka-sharma-takes-over-the-leadership-of-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/. live.
  2. Web site: CNCF Names Kohn as Executive Director. Light Reading. June 3, 2016. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20161110174214/http://www.lightreading.com/services/cloud-services/cncf-names-kohn-as-executive-director/d/d-id/723826. November 10, 2016.
  3. Web site: Amazon Joins Google, Goldman Sachs, and Twitter in This Cloud Foundation. Fortune. Darrow, Barb. August 9, 2017. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171023102148/http://fortune.com/2017/08/09/amazon-google-cloud-foundation/. October 23, 2017.
  4. Web site: Gilbert. Alorie. E-commerce turns 10. June 8, 2020. CNET. en.
  5. Web site: Daniel KOHN Obituary - New York, NY. November 3, 2020. Dignity Memorial. en.
  6. Web site: Dan Kohn. LinkedIn. December 16, 2017.
  7. Web site: Behrens. Eric. December 16, 2009. www.SWARTHMORE.edu. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022011420/https://www.swarthmore.edu/feature-stories-archive-2006-2007/wwwswarthmoreedu . October 22, 2017 . November 3, 2020. Swarthmore College. en.
  8. Web site: Lewis, Peter H.. August 12, 1994. Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170903095512/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/business/attention-shoppers-internet-is-open.html. September 3, 2017. December 16, 2017. New York Times.
  9. Web site: Grothaus, Michael. November 26, 2015. You'll Never Guess What the First Thing Ever Sold on the Internet Was. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170215171308/https://www.fastcompany.com/3054025/fast-feed/youll-never-guess-what-the-first-thing-ever-sold-on-the-internet-was. February 15, 2017. December 16, 2017. Fast Company.
  10. Web site: Brzezinski, Matthew. February 20, 1997. Teledesic's 'Internet in the Sky' May Use Soviet-Made Missiles. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171229145619/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB85638687871273000. December 29, 2017. December 30, 2015. Wall Street Journal.
  11. Kohn. Daniel M.. November 1997. Providing global broadband Internet access using low-earth-orbit satellites. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. 29. 15. 1763–1768. 10.1016/S0169-7552(97)00108-6. 0169-7552.
  12. January 2001. XML Media Types, RFC 3023. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171215024229/https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023. December 15, 2017. December 16, 2017. Internet Engineering Task Force. 10.17487/RFC3023 . Murata . M. . St . S. . Kohn . D. . free.
  13. Book: The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning. February 22, 2011. Wiley. 978-0470919019. Larimore. Taylor. Lindauer. Mel.
  14. Web site: Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170814192323/https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%27_Guide_to_Retirement_Planning. August 14, 2017. December 16, 2017. Bogleheads Wiki.
  15. Web site: Alibaba, Baidu step up support for cloud-native tech as CloudNativeCon kicks off. GeekWire. Krazit, Tom. December 6, 2017. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171207001259/https://www.geekwire.com/2017/alibaba-baidu-join-step-support-cloud-native-tech-cloudnativecon-kicks-off/. December 7, 2017.
  16. Web site: 36 companies agree to a Kubernetes certification standard. TechCrunch. Miller, Ron. November 13, 2017. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171223061227/https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/13/the-cncf-just-got-36-companies-to-agree-to-a-kubernetes-certification-standard/. December 23, 2017.
  17. Web site: CNCF Looks to Bridge Gap in Kubernetes Skills and Support. SDxCentral. Meyer, Dan. September 11, 2017. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171229145619/https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cncf-looks-to-bridge-gap-in-kubernetes-skills-and-support/2017/09/. December 29, 2017.
  18. Web site: Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020. December 24, 2019. DevOps.com. en-US. January 22, 2020.
  19. Web site: Microsoft Is Yielding in European Antitrust Fight. New York Times. Lohr, Steve. O'Brien, Kevin J.. October 23, 2007. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150605091802/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/technology/23soft.html. June 5, 2015.
  20. Web site: CII's Best Practices badge program is making open source projects more secure. CIO. Bhartiya, Swapnil. May 3, 2016. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160714150556/http://www.cio.com/article/3065228/linux/cii-s-best-practices-badge-program-is-making-open-source-projects-more-secure.html. July 14, 2016.
  21. Web site: Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge. Github. December 16, 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170409150604/https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge. April 9, 2017.
  22. Web site: Priyanka Sharma takes over the leadership of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. June 8, 2020. TechCrunch. June 2020. en-US. January 24, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124032016/https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/01/priyanka-sharma-takes-over-the-leadership-of-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/. live.
  23. Web site: Dr. Julie Pullen. November 3, 2020. Dr. Julie Pullen. en-US.
  24. Web site: November 2, 2020. An Open Source Leader Is Gone, a Remembrance of Dan Kohn. November 2, 2020. The New Stack. en-US.

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