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Biography
Allison Mankin grew up in Pennsylvania and New York, entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while still completing high school. An interest in the liberal arts led to her completing her undergraduate degree at Princeton University and beginning a PhD program in Medieval Studies at University of Pennsylvania. But a summer job at Bell Labs working on a scholarly text editor for the then new UNIX operating system led Mankin back to Engineering. After completing an MS degree at Northeastern University she worked at a series of companies on internet communications and network protocols. She currently holds the position of Principal Architect, DNS (Domain Name Service) at Salesforce. Mankin's husband and children also work in STEM fields.

Contributions
Soon after joining the MITRE Corporation in 1987 Mankin was invited by Phill Gross, the first Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), to participate in the IETF, which had been founded the year before. Shifting to the USC/ISI she developed a DARPA project on the digital ampitheater while working for John Postel, developer of the TCP and IP protocols and the first Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, and Paul Mockapetris, author of the DNS architecture. In 1992 Mankin's suggestion to Stephen Casner and Stephen Deering led to the first IETF Internet audiocast. In 1993 Phill Gross asked Mankin and Scott Bradner to co-lead the IP next generation process  which led to the specification of the modern internet protocol IPV6. She has continued her involvement with the IETF, eventually to Chairing the Internet Research Task Force, along the way serving as IP Next Generation Area Director and (twice) as the Transport Area Director,  and Ombudsperson. In the mid-2000s, while working as a Program Director at the NSF she was a leader of the Future Internet Design (FIND ) Initiative which initiated the funding of info-centric networking and played an important role in software-defined networking. She has received one patent for classifying computer malware by order of network behavior artifacts.

Mankin has been the catalyst and a leader of recent work on DNS Privacy, including the IETF RFCs on Implementation of DNS over TCP, DNS over TLS (7858), and the Best Common Practice for DNS Privacy Operators (8923)

Honors

 * Salesforce Infrastructure Award, 2017
 * IEEE Communications Society N2Women Stars Top Ten, 2016
 * Verisign CEO Leadership Award, 2014
 * University of Pennsylvania Alice Paul Award, 1982