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Steering Committee Candidates
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The 2nd Term SC Members are:
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The Term Expired SC Members
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Chris Morrow, UUNET/MCI
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Randy Bush, IIJ
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William B. Norton, Equinix
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Philip Smith, Cisco
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Joe Abley, Afilias
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Jared Mauch, Verio
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Nominations for the 3 Open 2006 SC Positions are:
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Randy Bush, IIJ
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Randy Bush is a Principal Scientist at IIJ, an
actual ISP, and also consults to various internet companies. He was the
founding engineer of Verio, now NTT/Verio, and has spent 40 years in
computing as a compiler geek, designing and programming real-time systems,
actually configuring routers & servers, architecting networks, etc. He
has 18 years of experience in internet tech transfer to developing
countries. He served as principal investigator at the Network Startup Resource Center, and was on
the NANOG Program Committee for many years. He was a member of the
founding boards of ARIN and AfNOG, and also served as an IVTF Ops
Director.
I have served on the initial NANOG SC, and served as Chair during that term. While agreeing to re-up may call into question my sanity, it has really been an excellent year, essentially due to the constructive cooperation of the other SC members, and of the community as a whole. The SC has taken a relatively minimalist and cooperative path, and this seems to have been quite successful. I suggest that the SC should continue this approach.
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Vince Fuller, Cisco
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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 Carnegie-Mellon University.
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Steve Gibbard, Packet Clearing House
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Steve Gibbard is the Network Architect at Packet Clearing House, where his main focus is on running a 30 location anycast DNS network hosting the country code top level domains for 16 countries. He also does consulting work for several other network operators, and has previously held network engineering positions at Cable & Wireless, Digital Island, and World Wide Net. He is a frequent speaker at network operations conferences, including NANOG.
Steve was a member of the NANOG mailing list administration committee from February through November, 2005. He was one of the editors of the document that became the NANOG charter, and of the "NANOG Reform" proposal that suggested the creation of the Steering Committee. He has attended NANOG meetings regularly since 2000, and has been a subscriber to the NANOG mailing list since 1997.
Steve is quite happy with the job that the current Steering Committee has been doing, and would happily vote to reelect them if they were all running again. He does, however, think the NANOG e-mail list has gotten overly noisy and difficult to manage, and would like to explore options to better serve the different constituencies with different ideas of what the mailing list should be used for.
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Hank Kilmer, Terrapin Communications, Inc.
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Henry Kilmer founded Terrapin Communications, Inc., in November of 1999 with the goal of providing Internet Engineering and Operations talent to the marketplace. Hank has worked in the Internet industry for over 15 years. He has served as the Senior Vice President of Network Engineering for Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (MFN). During his tenure with MFN, Hank was responsible for the architecture, engineering and operations aspects of MFN's optical and Internet networks, as well as all of its data centers. Hank has also held the role of Senior Director of Data Engineering at Intermedia Communications Inc. (formerly known as DIGEX). Prior to working for ICI, he worked at Sprint serving as its IP visionary. In addition, Hank worked for UUNET, where he was one of eight original engineers.
Hank held a seat on the first Advisory Council of ARIN. He has been a featured speaker at NANOG, currently serves on the NANOG PC, and is active in the IETF. Hank graduated from Rutgers University in January, 1991, with a B.A. in Computer Science.
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Joe Provo, RCN
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Joe Provo is the Senior Manager for Internet Engineering at
RCN, a national facilities-based ISP. He has been a systems
and IP network consultant for over 15 years. He was the founding
engineer at a New England ISP in the early wave of 1994 leading
all aspects: building and managing servers, networks from the
access to the border, NOC and support infrastructure, developing
products and the platforms to support them. Since then he has
been on both sides of M&A table, integrated and divested networks,
designed and managed national infrastructure, and handled network
policies including peering. He has managed portions of the MA.US
tree since 1994.
In addition to regular meeting attendance dating back to 1997,
Joe has closely monitored discussions on the mailing list since
its formation. As an infrastructure specialist, assisting NANOG's
organizational growth is of special interest to him.
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Philip Smith, Cisco
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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.
Philip has served on the NANOG Steering Committee for the first year of
its existence, and is keen to serve another term to continue
participating in the work so far carried out by the SC and the
community. He brings to the NANOG SC extensive experience from leading
APRICOT as well as playing pivotal roles in the organisation and
operation of SANOG and PacNOG.
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