Peter Gietz, CEO of DAASI International, has an MA in humanities and is active in the field of IT since 1985. He is internationally recognized as an directory expert, with core expertise in X.500, LDAP, PKI, Metadata and eHumanities. Since 1994 he worked for DFN Directory projects, which he lead in the last phases. From 1998 to 1999 he worked for DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology for Europe), Cambridge, where he was responsible for the NameFLOW project and maintained the root of the international X.500 Directory. Further activities: * Member of the D-Grid Projects TextGrid, IVOM and Gap-SLC * Member of the BMBF Project DARIAH-DE * Team member of the EU funded project DESIRE II * Member of a governmental working group convoked by the "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" for defining a catalogue of measures for the German Digital Signature legislation: "Maßnahmenkataloge für die digitale Signatur" * Member of the Teletrust WG 7 on PKI * Chairman of the international TERENA Task Force LDAP Service Deployment * Member of the Technical Advisory Boards for the directory activities of Internet2 * Member of the Editorial Board for a directory concept of the german governmental PKI (PKI-1 der Verwaltung) * Chairman of the GGF Working Group CIM based Grid Schema Since January 2001 he is CEO of DAASI International Ltd.