After eight meetings as Program Committee chair, it's time to move on and bring new faces and ideas into the PC.

I would like to continue working for the NANOG community, and I believe that I can be most useful by serving on the Steering Committee.

If elected, my priorities would include:
 - Work towards the stability and long-term sustainability of NANOG as a conference and as a community.

 - Enhance relationships with the Program Committee, Merit, and other internal and external groups.

 - Develop and enhance processes and procedures, and ensure that the charter and reality agree.

Steve Feldman has been involved in computer networking since 1978. He has worked in software development and network engineering for Tymnet and MFS/Worldcom, where he was the principal architect for the MAE Internet exchanges. Since then, he has gone on to work for several startups and acted as an independent consultant, and is now a network engineer for CNET Networks. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

While in this position Chris has helped develop several techniques for Denial of Service Mitigation, including the method currently used by UUNET/MCI to track attack traffic across its backbone and the method which allows UUNET/MCI customers to blackhole their own IP space in the event that space is being attacked. Additionally, Chris has contributed to several features available now on Juniper and Cisco routers used to provide security services. His responsibilities now include resolving security engineering tasks for the UUNET/MCI IP Backbone as well as customer security issues.

Chris has presented to several industry conferences the current 'best practices' for backbone security and customer security on a large backbone network. This has enabled many other large network service providers to implement similar reaction methods used to mitigate customer security issues, allowing better cooperation between network providers during global security incidents.

Most NANOGers know me best for running the last 16 popular and well attended NANOG Peering BOFs, and chairing a wide variety of peering forums here and abroad, but I have been involved with NANOG for over 13 years. I was the chair of NANOG for many years, beginning in 1995. During that time I also developed the first NANOG business model as we migrated from the Regional Techs Meetings. When I left Merit in 1998 to help start Equinix, I continued in a guidance role as a member of the NANOG Program Advisory Group.

With the new NANOG charter in 2004, I was elected by the community to serve as a member of the first NANOG Steering Committee. During this delicate transition I helped maintain balance between NANOG Operations Community interests and Merit interests.

Along with this NANOG experience I am fortunate to have a day job that allows me to spend 90% of my time working with the operations community of carriers, ISPs, and content providers. This position provides me with insight about (and contact with) those implementing changes across the commercial Internet. I am dedicated to the Internet Operations community and, with this background, I feel I am well positioned to continue to serve the community on the NANOG Steering Committee.

Biography
Norton holds a MBA from the Michigan Business School and a BA in Computer Science from Potsdam College. His title is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix, Inc., a leading provider of Internet Exchange and collocation services. He has authored a dozen Internet Operations industry white papers, spoken at over 150 forums, and helps with Internet Operations forums around the world.

I would like to humbly serve on the NANOG Steering Committee to help bring balance to the process of creating the best meetings for the community. I have been attending NANOG since 2000 and have been an avid participant in the Peering Community associated with NANOG. In all of the years I have been going to NANOG I have seen the dynamic of what makes NANOG change and feel I can facilitate this even further.

Josh Snowhorn is a Vice President at Terremark Worldwide responsible for all Peering related services for the company. He has been with Terremark since the inception of the NAP of the Americas (NOTA), the largest carrier neutral Data Center in the Western hemisphere, including being involved with the site selection, design and construction of the facility. He has been a member of the global Peering community for many years including being the founder of the Global Peering Forum events (www.peeringforum.com). He is a member of the NANOG Program Committee and an avid participant on all issues related to the global networking community. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters.

My nomination to serve on the NANOG steering committe is a welcome surprise.  I think that NANOG is an invaluable forum and I always look forward to attending the meetings.  Over the years I have been lucky to work closely with the Merit staff by helping to operate the DNS/DHCP/caching servers during the meetings (I'm also handy with RJ45 crimpers and gaffer tape).

Whereas most most NANOG members are, in fact, network operators, my perspective is more as a researcher and software developer. Through my company I do a lot of research on DNS and IP traffic in cooperation with CAIDA.  I am co-owner of The Measurement Factory, creator of the Squid caching proxy, and author of three O'Reilly books.  My educational background is in Physics and Telecommunications.