Maurizio Martinelli is a senior Technologist of Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National Research Council (IIT-CNR). He is head of the “Internet Services and Technological Development” group of IIT-CNR, formed by several laboratories and about 15 people, whose main task is the planning, designing and developing of innovative telematics applications for the IIT and, more in general, for the CNR, the Italian Public Administration and the private sector. He is also the Chief Technical Officer of the .it Registry and head of the “Systems, Development and R&D” Unit of the .it Registry, formed by about 16 people, and whose main task is the design and the implementation of advanced technologies for the management of new generation domain names Registries, and the development and management of the technical infrastructure of the .it Registry. His main technical competences are in the field of DNS and DNSSEC, CMS and Web technologies, data flow management and electronic filing systems, network and services monitoring applications and databases. He is co-author of about 150 publications.