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Congratulations to the 17 candidates below, who have been nominated to
serve on the first NANOG Steering Committee. Online voting begins July
12, 2005, and will be announced on the NANOG list and the NANOG web.
You are eligible to vote if you have attended one NANOG meeting in the
past two years (see the list of eligible
voters) and may vote for up to six candidates.
| (1) Joe Abley,
ISC
| Joe Abley has been a contributor to
the NANOG list for many years, and an attendee at face-to-face meetings
since he moved to North America from New Zealand in 2000. Joe has
presented at several NANOG meetings, both in the main session and in the
tutorial session. He has run the PGP key signing parties at NANOG
many times, and has a good working relationship with Merit staff.
Joe has been involved in the organisation of all NZNOG meetings to
date, with the particular responsibility of soliciting proposals
for presentations and workshops from international speakers. He
presented one of two keynote speeches at the first SANOG meeting in
Kathmandu, Nepal, and has been a member of the SANOG programme
committee since it was formed. Joe has presented at or otherwise
assisted with several AfNOG meetings, and is a volunteer instructor
for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC). He is chair of the
DNS-SIG at APNIC, and recently joined the APRICOT programme committee.
Joe has helped organise and teach in DNS workshops hosted by the
Internet Society and the NSRC for the benefit of ccTLD registries
in developing regions.
Through the global deployment of the F root server, Joe has come into
contact with many different operator communities in Africa, the middle
east, Europe, Australasia and South- and East-Asia. This wide
perspective would be helpful both in the solicitation of proposals for
NANOG meetings from outside the region, and in more general proposal
evaluation.
Joe is engaged in hands-on network operations in ISC's network in
California, a three-site, multi-gigabit, multi-vendor network with
high transit and peering path splay which has supported native IPv6
and IPv4/IPv6 multicast for many years. ISC also operates over twenty
additional nodes around the world (in North America and elsewhere).
ISC's networks support high-profile free software projects, root/TLD
nameservers and various (other) notable DDoS targets, as well as
providing transit for numerous worthy causes in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
In past roles, Joe was responsible for the design and implementation of
large carrier convergence networks in New Zealand, and was involved in
the operation of the backbone network at MFN/AboveNet. At MFN he also
worked in the Tools group, and worked with CAIDA and WAND on
instrumentation and measurement projects. CAIDA is also currently
engaged in traffic measurement projects with ISC.
Joe has close working and personal relationships with engineers at ISPs
and carriers in central Canada (in particular, those who exchange traffic
at the Toronto and Ottawa Internet Exchanges), and believes he is somewhat
well-known throughout the effective catchment of NANOG through his
participation in operator meetings and mailing lists. He works from
his home in London, Ontario, Canada. He now counts Canadian amongst his
various nationalities, and hence is formally a North American, even if he
don't sound like one :-)
Joe's participation in Internet community activities such as NANOG is
supported by ISC, who continue to fund his involvement in them both in
terms of time (and expenses, as necessary).
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(2) Randy Bush, IIJ
| Randy Bush is a Principal
Scientist at IIJ (an actual ISP). He was a Founding Engineer at Verio
(now retired) and has spent 40 years in computing: compiler geek,
real-time systems, actually configures routers, servers, architects
networks ... Randy also has 18 years of experience in internet tech
transfer to developing countries. He has served as Principal Investigator
at the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC, http://nsrc.org/) and was on the
NANOG Program Committee for many years. Randy was one of the members of
the Founding Board of ARIN, and has also served as the IVTF Ops Director
(retired).
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| (3) Christopher Chin,
UC Berkeley
| Christopher Chin is a senior member of the
Network Services Team at UC Berkeley, where he and his colleagues support
the data network and its associated services. With responsibilities
including troubleshooting, tracking, and mitigating the "weird" stuff
(traffic/routing anomalies, failing equipment, attacks/floods within UCB
as well as inbound and outbound), he is an active participant in the
networking community.
Christopher has extensive experience in both the private
and public sectors, and understands and appreciates the
driving factors in each environment.
In his role at UC Berkeley, Christopher is often involved
with pilot projects and other early beta testing opportunities
which help form the direction of product, protocol, and
best practice development. His work with wireless
networking and worm mitigation was the subject of a
recent NANOG presentation.
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| (4) Ron da Silva, Time
Warner Cable
| Ron da Silva is the Director of
Broadband Technology for Time Warner Cable, a Time Warner company. He is
responsible for technology strategy within Advanced Technology and
Engineering, where he is leading the development of the company's next
generation broadband architecture. Furthermore, he is driving major
network technology initiatives across the company and is the focal point
for related issues.
Ron was selected for his current position after six years as the Principal
Network Architect at America Online, Inc., also a Time Warner company.
There, he was responsible for designing and scaling the company's data
networks. During his first couple of years with AOL, Ron had the unique
experience of building an international backbone from concept, which has
since evolved to be a full scale, tier-one ISP. Additionally, Ron oversaw
the development of the datacenter hosting networks as the business
experienced some of its greatest growth.
Prior to joining AOL in 1998,
Ron served as a principal engineer for Sprint's internet backbone after
ranking first in the competitive Associate Engineering Program. Ron began
his career in 1992, when he started systems and LAN administration while
completing his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and English at
Old Dominion University (1994). Ron is well known in the service provider
community and is very active in various industry organizations. He serves
as Chairman of the Technical Advisory Council for ARIN.
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| (5) Vince Fuller,
Cisco
| Vince Fuller is presently employed at
Cisco as a senior
technical consultant for the new
service provider engineering, execution, and delivery group.
His previous
experience is extensive, and includes 13 years in network operations,
engineering,
architecture, and design for major Internet service providers and
seven
years of software engineering/programming of Internet protocols and
system operations dating back to the original deployment of TCP/IP on
the ARPANET in the early-to-mid 1980s. Vince has been involved with
the IETF, NANOG,
and its predecessor (the NSFNET Regional Techs) since 1988. He is a
1985 graduate
of Carngie-Mellon University.
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| (6) Steve Gibbard,
PCH
| I was the primary author of the original NANOG Reform proposal
which led eventually to these elections, and the last of many editors of
the NANOG reform draft bylaws, on which Merit's new NANOG bylaws were
based. I've also been serving as an interim member of the NANOG mailing
list administration group. I'm running for the Steering Committee because
I'd like to continue influencing NANOG's evolution.
I've been a regular attendee of NANOG meetings for the last five years,
and a reader of the mailing list for a few years before that. In that
time, NANOG has been a great source of information, contacts required to
get things done, my current job, and more. I'd like to see that continue.
But I've also spent a lot of time recently at other network operations
conferences around the world, sometimes as a speaker and sometimes as an
attendee, and seen a lot of other ways of doing things that seem to work
better than NANOG's current setup. Having speakers talk to darkened rooms
with 600 people burying their heads in their laptops seems to stifle
useful discussion. Having meetings scheduled from 9 am to 10:30 pm cuts
into time for less formal discussions, which are an important part of
these conferences.
I'm also concerned about NANOG's financial management, as meeting fees
have been rising considerably over the past few years while money has been
spent on things like "tool development," with no apparent benefit to the
NANOG community.
I've been doing Internet engineering and operations work for nine years.
I've worked for a local ISP in Detroit, small and large hosting companies
in San Francisco, and a big global telco. I've been a consultant to an
academic network in Singapore that got its transit in Seattle and a
county-run ISP in a very rural Montana county. I think I've got a pretty
wide variety of experience with different sorts of networks in North
America and elsewhere. Currently, I'm the Network Architect at Packet
Clearing House (www.pch.net), where I
spend most of my time running a DNS network hosting servers on six
continents serving eleven top level domains.
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| (7) Daniel Golding,
The Burton Group
| Daniel Golding is an industry analyst
with
The Burton Group, a major IT research and advisory firm. He primarily
covers internetworking, routing issues, wide area networking technologies,
network scalability, and the Domain Name System. He has recently written
reports on a variety of subjects ranging from proper IGP scaling for large
enterprises to Virtual Private LAN Services to techniques for
interconnecting multicarrier RFC2547 VPNs.
Previously, Daniel has held senior network architecture, peering and
technical management positions with several large Internet Service
Providers, including AOL, Earthlink, and NetRail. He is a frequent speaker
at industry events including NANOG, MPLSCon, the Terrabit Forum, and the
Switch and Data Peering forums. Daniel is an author of the draft NANOG
bylaws, as well as a strong voice for the evolution of Merit's ongoing
relationship with the operational community.
Daniel is a graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Engineering
degree, and George Mason University with a Masters of Science degree in
Telecommunications.
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| (8) Martin Hannigan, Verisign
| Martin Hannigan has been an
Internet innovator since 1987 when he co-founded the Internet Special
Interest Group at MIT, in Cambridge, MA. He has held a variety of
engineering, operations, and management roles at Microsoft, TIAC, Level(3)
Communications, InterNAP, Cignal Global, and the world's first ISP, The
World - Software Tool & Die. A recognized leader in collocation and
network management standards, Martin is currently employed on the Network
Engineering team at VeriSign, a provider of communications and electronic
commerce services. He also served as the first chair of the NANOG mailing
list administration team. Martin lives in Boston, MA and is an avid
fisherman, boater, and deep-sea jet skier.
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| (9) Dorian Kim,
Verio
| Dorian Kim currently serves as the
director of IP Development at Verio, an NTT Communications company. He is
responsible for the overall architecture and evolution of NTT
Communications' Global IP Network as well as the development of OSS
systems supporting it. Additionally, Mr. Kim serves on the technical
advisory board of Packet Clearing House (PCH), and serves on the
Programming Committee of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on
Operational Technologies (APRICOT). He is also a member of the
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), the body that
judges the Webby Awards.
Prior to joining Verio in 1998, Mr. Kim worked for Sprint providing
techincal oversight for the Data Engineering group. He has also served as
the lead engineer for an NSF regional network, CICNet, overseing the
academic network's commercial transition during the mid 1990s. At CICNet
he played a leading role in the Internet community-wide cooperative
deployment of new technologies, such as native IP multicast and
multiprotol BGP.
Mr. Kim has been an active participant during the last twelve years in
networking fora such as NANOG, IETF, IEPG, APRICOT and APOPS, and has been
a frequent speaker at technical conferences.
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| (10) Mark Kosters, VeriSign
| Mark Kosters has over eighteen years of experience as an
applications developer and technical manager. Over the last fourteen
years, he was a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief
engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC
(InterNIC), and currently Vice President of Research at VeriSign. He has
been involved in application design and implementation of client/server
tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database
administration, and network security. He has represented both network
information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE,
APNIC, and NANOG.
Additionally, Mark has been involved in Internet standards development,
having co-authored RFCs on RWhois (RFC 1714 and 2167), Internet Registry
IP Allocation Guidelines (RFC 2050), and Root Name Server Operational
Requirements (RFC 2870). Mark also is currently serving a member of
ICANN's Security and Stability Committee, ICANN's DNS Root Server System
Advisory Committee and ARIN's Advisory Council.
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| (11) Jared Mauch,
Verio
| Jared Mauch has been involved in the
NANOG community for more than eight years, hosting various resources for
network operators and attending the meetings as possible. He previously
served on the Board of Directors of a 501(c)3 corporation and has
extensive experience operating networks both large and small. Jared is
presently employed by NTT/VERIO (AS2914) and has enable access. His goal
for NANOG is for it to attain its true potential in whatever form that may
be and do his best to help it evolve over the coming months and years.
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| (12)
Chris Morrow, UUNET/MCI
| Chris Morrow started with UUNET/MCI in
the Internet Customer Security Department assisting customers with
mitigation of live security incidents and Denial of Service attacks. Over
the five years he has been with UUNET/MCI he has remained in the Internet
Customer Security Department while expanding his responsibilities to
include development tasks and backbone security threat mitigation.
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.
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| (13) William B.
Norton, Equinix
| William B. Norton is Co-Founder and
Chief
Technical Liaison at Equinix, a global carrier-neutral Internet Exchange
company. For the past six years in that role, he has worked tirelessly
with Internet service providers and content providers, building,
evangelizing, and facilitating peering.
Bill is also well-known for his series of white papers documenting
Internet operations practices for the community. He is a frequent speaker
at numerous Internet conferences throughout the world, including NANOGs,
RIPE meetings, APRICOTs, and various peering forums. For the three years
prior to Equinix, Bill served as chair of NANOG. In his more than 16
years of experience in the industry, he has developed a rich network of
professional relationships, as well as a keen insight into the nuances and
ever-changing currents of the Internet arena.
Bill currently serves as a member of the NANOG Program Committee and
has moderated numerous Peering BoF sessions at NANOG conferences. He is
also a frequent NANOG mailing list contributor.
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| (14) Philip Smith, Cisco
| Philip Smith has been with Cisco
Systems since 1998 and is based in Brisbane, Australia. He is a Consulting
Engineer, part of the Service Provider Architectures Group in Corporate
Development. His role includes working with many ISPs in the Asia Pacific
region, specifically in network strategies, technology, design and
operations, configuration and scaling.
As part of an ISP and Internet education initiative, Philip runs several
Routing and Internet Technology Workshops in the Asia Pacific region. He
also assists as co-instructor at similar events in many other parts of the
world. Philip also is closely involved in regional activities, being chair
of the APRICOT Management Committee, chair of APOPS, member of the
organising and programme committees for SANOG and PacNOG, as well as chair
of APNIC's Routing and Internet Exchange Point Special Interest Groups.
Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (now integrated
into MCI's global network business), the UK's first commercial Internet
Service Provider. He was one of the first engineers working in the
commercial Internet in the UK, and played a key role in building the
modern Internet in Europe.
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| (15) Josh
Snowhorn, Terremark
| With more than six years experience in the telecommunications
industry, Josh Snowhorn is currently a Director and the Peering
Coordinator at Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading operator of Internet
exchange points (IX) from which it provides colocation, interconnection
and managed services to the government and commercial sectors. Mr.
Snowhorn is responsible for all issues related to peering, including
facilitation of network interconnectivity between North and South
America.
Mr. Snowhorn has been involved with the NAP of the Americas from site
selection to design and construction of the category-5 hurricane-proof
structure that houses the NAP. He has been at the forefront of
infrastructure trends supporting the growth of the Internet.
Mr. Snowhorn is a devoted attendee of NANOG and a strong supporter of the
progressions towards change that have been made this year. NANOG is more
than a technical conference; it is the venue that binds our industry
socially.
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| (16) Dave Wodelet,
Shaw Communications
| Dave Wodelet is the Director of IP
Backbone Engineering for Shaw Communications. Shaw is a Canadian
Cable/Telecommunications company providing Internet services to
residential broadband cable customers and many other businesses and ISPs
throughout Canada, the US, and Europe. The company is big enough to
justify its own International fiber optic backbone but small enough, and
new enough to the industry, to still care. Shaw cares about improving the
Internet and still maintaining an OPEN peering policy. Shaw is happy to
peer with anyone who has the same desire to improve Internet connectivity
for their respective customers.
Dave has been an active NANOG participant since the mid 1990s. He has
hosted and presented a number of talks at NANOG, ARIN, ISPCON, and various
other public Peering Forums and Technology Summits. As a strong supporter
of open standards, Dave was responsible for leading the initiative to get
all network equipment vendors to support third-party SFP GBIC
interoperability in the industry.
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| (17) Lixia Zhang,
UCLA
| Lixia Zhang received her M.S.E.E.
degree from California State University, Los Angeles, in 1981, and her
Ph.D. Degree in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1989. From 1989 to 1996 she was a member of the research
staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; since 1996 she has been a
professor in the Computer Science Department at UCLA. Lixia is an active
participant in community service. She served as co-chair of the IEEE
COMSOC Internet Technical Committee 1995-1999, and Vice Chair of ACM
SIGCOMM 1999-2003. She is now a member of the SIGCOMM Technical Advisory
Committee and the ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop Steering Committee.
Lixia's involvement with the Internet started in 1981, when she joined Dr.
David Clark's research group at MIT. She has participated in IETF
activities since its beginning. Her areas of interest include routing
protocols, transport protocols, QOS support, and resilience in large scale
systems. Lixia has been a member of the IETF Transport Area directorate
since 1992, co-chair of RSVP Working Group during 1994-2000, and a member
of the Internet Architecture Board from 1994 to 1996. She was just
reappointed to serve on the IAB starting March 2005.
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