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2008 NANOG Program Committee Candidates
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Terms Expiring :
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Terms Not Expiring:
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Nick Feamster - finishing Steve Feldman's term
Igor Gashinsky
Kobi Hsu
Mike Hughes
Keith Mitchell
Brian Deardorff - finishing Ted Seely's term
Richard Steenbergen
Bill Woodcock
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Joel Jaeggli
Rodney Joffe
Sylvie LaPerriére
Kevin Oberman
Lane Patterson
Ren Provo
Josh Snowhorn
Todd Underwood
Larry Blunk - Merit appointee
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Nominations for the Open 2008 PC Positions are:
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Mehmet Akcin |
Mehmet Akcin has been appointed to Chief Engineer of IT Operations for ICANN
in 2007. He was hired by ICANN as Network Engineer in early June, 2006.
Mehmet has attended and presented at different meetings such as NANOG, ,
Peering Forum, RIPE, ICANN and CIF. He tries to travel NANOG and Peering
Forums on regular basis.
Prior to that, Mehmet worked for the Network Information Center of Puerto
Rico, Gauss Research Laboratory (NIC.PR), helping the technical improvement
of the ccTLD .PR. Mehmet was also involved with the foundation of the first
Internet Exchange Point (IX.PR) in the Caribbean coordinated by NIC.PR. He
was part of the team which hosted the meetings of ARIN and ICANN in San
Juan, PR.
Upon moving to Puerto Rico, Mehmet volunteered to teach the basics of home
networking and computer security for high school students while working as
the Director of IT Operations at CIQA Inc., a Pharmaceutical Validation
Engineering Company, in charge of 75+ employees and their needs for IT. In
2004, Mehmet worked at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, as
the IT Advisor to the Dean of College of Natural Sciences and IT Advisor to
the Executive Director of Academic and Administrative Technology.
Mehmet was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been involved with Internet and
computers since the early 1990s. In 1999, he was the host of the first
Turkish radio show dedicated to the Internet and Technology. He has
participated in the setup and administration of linux servers at the
Istanbul Technical University and Marmara University in Turkey.
Mehmet currently holds a BS in Computer Sciences and currently pursing a
degree towards MBA at Chapman University in Orange, CA. He is fluent in
Turkish, English and Spanish.
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Nina Bargisen |
Nina has worked at TDC, AS3292, the incumbent in Denmark and one of
the leading ISPs in Scandinavia, since 1999, and currently works in
the capacity planning group. She is responsible for all for all
international interconnects for TDC and runs the IP registry and is
part of the technical peering team at TDC. Other responsibilities
include network planning, Traffic Engineering, budgeting, network
modeling and network design.
Nina has an M.Sc in Mathematics with minor in Computer Science from
Århus University Denmark.
Nina is a longtime, active member of the international network
engineering community. She has attended NANOG once or twice per year
since NANOG32 in October 2005. She has attended RIPE meetings
regularly since 2004, and Co-Chaired the RIPE anti-spoofing task force
in 2006. She has presented regularly, including panels at peering
forums and a plenary presentation at NANOG41.
Nina's primary interest in the Program Committee is to focus on the
operational content of the Agenda since she believes that network
operations is and must continue to be at the core of the conference.
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Maureen Carroll |
In my current position as Director, IP Transit and Peering for Deutsche Telekom, I.ve had the good fortune to attend several NANOG and RIPE meetings. These meetings have been a valuable forum for me and I would like the opportunity to become more involved in the community by serving on the NANOG Program Committee. Since October 2001, I have been responsible for coordinating and managing Deutsche Telekom.s peering relationships worldwide. Prior to this time, I worked in various Product Management and Systems Engineering positions in Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Laboratories.
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Tom Daly |
Tom Daly is the President of Dynamic Network Services, Inc. (DNS
Inc.), a Manchester NH-based Internet Services company, best known for
the dyndns.org dynamic network service. The company provides domain
name, e-mail, monitoring, and disaster recovery solutions to clients
utilizing the Company's worldwide network. Tom joined the company in
2001 when DNS Inc. and works on developing new products and services,
expanding the company's geographic footprint in the US, Europe and
Asia. He has been CIO, and is now President and Chief Technology
Officer.
Prior to working at DNS, Inc., Tom worked for G4 Communications, Inc.,
one of NH's largest Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC). Tom
graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2004 with a
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He
currently serves on the board of the New Hampshire High Tech Council
and WPI's ECE Advisory Board.
Tom has been attending NANOG since NANOG38. He hopes to bring to the
Program a focus on smaller networks. NANOG needs some more content
about smaller-scale implementations and techniques that address the
needs of many attendees who do not run enormous, global networks. He
hopes to spend time recruiting and mentoring content for relevant
tutorials to make them more accessible and directly relevant.
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Brian Deardorff |
Brian has extensive experience working for ISPs going back to 1995
racking and stacking Portmasters. He is currently a senior engineer
at Level 3 working on multiple products and technologies in the layer
2/3/4 space. He would be a great addition to the program committee
bringing both techinical expertise and outstanding industry knowledge
from an ISP point of view.
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Randy Epstein |
Randy Epstein is a 21 year veteran of the industry. He is President of WV
Fiber, multi-national transit and transport provider as well as the
Co-Founder and CIO of Host.net, an Inc.500 provider of enterprise/government
Internet transit, transport, transport, security and colocation services.
Mr. Epstein serves on the Board of Directors of OCCAID, an IPv6 research and
development network deployed globally to assist researchers and Internet
service providers in their transition to next-generation IPv6 technology.
Mr. Epstein has taken a keen interest in peering strategy and negotiation.
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Igor Gashinsky |
Igor Gashinsky is a principal architect at Yahoo!, a global content
provider, where he is involved in projects ranging from overall network
design (including highly resilient switching and routing architecture,
peering, MPLS, L4-7 loadbalancing), as well as scalable content delivery
methodologies and DNS architecture.
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Greg Hankins |
I'd like to serve on the NANOG PC to help continue bringing high quality
operational and educational presentations, panels, tutorials and BOFs to
NANOG conferences.
I've been attending NANOG since 1998, first as a network operator and
now as a hardware vendor. I also attend every APRICOT, Euro-IX, Peering
Forum and RIPE conference where I frequently speak on higher speed Ethernet
developments and various operational topics.
I'm currently Director, Technical Marketing for Force10 Networks. In this
role I am responsible for working with ISPs and IXs as a consulting engineer
and product evangelist, which gives me a very unique view on current issues
and topics in the ISP operator community around the world.
In years past I organized four Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) conferences,
hosted NANOG21, served on the 1998 FREENIX and 1999 O'Reilly Open Source
conference program committees, and served on the Linux Journal magazine
advisory board.
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Mike Hughes |
Mike Hughes is Chief Technical Officer for London Internet Exchange (LINX), where he is responsible for the organisation's overall technical strategy, core peering infrastructure, and operational performance, specialising in high-speed metro ethernet platforms. With over 10 years of industry experience, Mike has become involved in activities within the community as a regular participant at industry for a (such as NANOG and RIPE meetings), and is a co-chair of the RIPE European Internet Exchange Working Group, as well as being a member of the UKNOF programme committee. He also sits on the Customer Technical Advisory Council of Extreme Networks.
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David Meyer |
David Meyer is currently a Director in the Advanced
Research and Technologies Group at Cisco Systems, where
he works on future directions for Internet
technologies. He has been a member of the Internet
Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org),
and has chaired (or co-chaired) the SPEERMINT, MBONED,
MSDP, and DNSOP working groups. He is also a member of
several IETF directorates and IRTF research groups. He is
also active in the operator community, and was a long
standing member of the NANOG program
committee. He is also active in other standards
organizations such as ANSI T1X1.
Prior to joining Cisco, he served as Senior Scientist,
Chief Technologist and Director of IP Technology
Development at Sprint. He is also Director of the
Advanced Network Technology Center at the University of
Oregon. Prior to working at Sprint, he worked at Cisco,
where he was involved in software development, working
both on multicast and BGP.
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Keith Mitchell |
Keith Mitchell has recently been appointed Director of Engineering at
the Internet Systems Consortium, where he has responsibility for ISC's
open-source software and network development. This includes operation
of ISC's F-root, DNS and public benefit hosting network
infrastructure. Prior to this at ISC he managed the OARC program for
DNS operators, and remains a board member of the newly autonomous
nonprofit OARC Inc.
Before moving to the US, Keith conceived NANOG's British sister
organisation, UKNOF, in 2005, and has been chairing this for its past
dozen successful meetings. He has previously been involved in Internet
engineering and governance for some 20 years, founding the London
Internet Exchange (LINX) in 1994 where he was Executive Chairman until
2000. He has served as a board member of Nominet UK and the RIPE NCC,
and founded the UK's first commercial Internet provider, PIPEX.
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Tim Pozar |
In 1986 I was a co-author of a gateway package that linked FidoNet and
USENET/UUCP network together (Among other things, I had to reverse
engineer UUCICO protocol G for this suite). I worked with SRI and
existing RFCs to establish the fidonet domain and protocols and
standards to gateway the two networks.
From 1989 to 1996 I was co-founder of the first ISP in San Francisco
(The Little Garden/TLGNet) that was also the first first ISP that
allowed resell. This provided the start up and growth of the early
Internet in the San Francisco Bay Area. We were also proudly kicked off
of our connection to UUNet for allowing resell. :-)
In 1996 I was Director of Operations, Network Architect at Internet
Archive / Alexa where I established the original network and operation
infrastructure of one of the first web crawling and archiving systems.
In 1998 I was Co-Founder and Director of Operations at Brightmail where
we established the first commercial anti-spam company. I designed and
built out the network and back end systems for Brightmail.
In 2004 I invested and was COO and then VP of Engineering for
UnitedLayer LLC, a nation-wide ISP and colo.
During this time, I have established a wireless network (BARWN) and
built out wireless network for the City of San Francisco to support
broadband to various housing developments.
I have lectured on wireless network deployments (including at NANOG,
USENIX, NTEN, GLOCOMM, etc.)
I have attended NANOG meetings since NANOG7 and seen the critical value
of NANOG to the industry in proving a forum for innovated ideas and
solutions. As such, I would like to contribute in bringing quality
programs to NANOG by being on the program committee.
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Tom Scholl |
Within the Global IP/MPLS backbone design & development team, his role
is to design routing architectures for the core network and work on
network integration of the legacy SBC Internet Services network to the
AT&T common backbone. Tom has spent his last several years at SBC and
Ameritech working in both operations and network engineering roles. He
has presented several times at NANOG and always makes time available to
help peers and distribute clue where needed.
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Nirmala Shenoy |
Professor, Networking, Security and Systems Administration Department,
Director, Lab for Wireless Networking and Security
B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences,
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Richard Steenbergen |
Richard Steenbergen is the co-founder of nLayer Communications, a
respectably sized and profitable North American based IP backbone,
where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Richard
brings years of experience in practical techniques for network
operators, and is a frequent contributor in many community
forums. Previously, Richard served as a Senior Network Engineer at
several large NSPs, and was the Senior Software Engineer responsible
for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.
Richard is also an active developer for tools and software used by the
network operator community. Some notable projects include PeeringDB, a
portal used by many networks to help coordinate their peering
activities, and IRRPT, a software package used by ISPs to maintain
IRR-based prefix filters.
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