About the Presenters
Cathy Wittbrodt is VP for Architecture at iVMG.
Prior to joining iVMG she was with Excite@Home, where
she was responsible for network routing and IP addressing. Cathy is a
member of the ARIN advisory
council as well as the Address Supporting
Organization (ASO) address
council. She has been active in the Internet for
12 years. She began at
Merit Network, Inc. where she worked on the NSFNET
Backbone. Also while at
Merit Cathy built CICNet, a network that
connected the Big 10 universities. Following Merit, Cathy
designed and implemented
OSI/CLNP for the Energy Sciences Network.
Although OSI/CLNP was
never widely deployed, the experience has
given greater insight into
addressing and scaling issues. Cathy also
spent three years in the
engineering group of the Bay Area Regional
Research Network,
BARRNet, which was bought by BBN Planet.
Cathy is on the Board of Directors of
Panzer Motorcycle Works, USA,
Inc. She has a B.S. in mathematics from
Northern Arizona University.
Positions held by Vijay Gill include systems development and analysis at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Senior Network Architect/Senior Member of the Technical Staff at UUNET. He is currently Senior Architect at Metromedia Fiber Networks.
Bill Woodcock is the Director of Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute providing research and operational support in the area of Internet peering and global IP routing economics. This morning, Bill will be channeling Geoff Huston, who is the Chief Scientist of Telstra, the Australian national phone company, participates in the governance of the Internet Society, the APNIC, and the IEPG, and is the author of the paper to be presented.
Enke Chen is currently a principal engineer and technical leader in IP routing software development at Redback Networks. Previously he was a senior software engineer working on BGP at Cisco. He also worked on the design and engineering of the InternetMCI backbone network at MCI, and the NSFNET backbone at Merit. Enke holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.