About the Presenters
Bill Manning has been involved in networking since 1979, when he joined Texas Instruments to build out its global IP network. He then joined Rice University and was part of the team that built and ran SESQUINET. Bill was instrumental in the migration of MIDNET and SESQUINET from NSFNET regional networks to commercial networks. Currently a member of the research staff at USC's Information Sciences Institute, his primary technical interests have been in network operations and naming systems. Bill is active in the IETF and IEPG as an individual participant, working group chair, and code developer.

Rob Rockell works in the IP Design organization at Sprint. He's been there since a T1 was considered a fat pipe.

Brent Sweeny has been working with networked computers at Indiana University since the 1970s, starting with PLATO, then DECnet, then ARPAnet, NSFnet, the NSF regionals (CICnet), since its inception in 1998 the Internet2 Abilene network, and now the National LambdaRail. Indiana University houses the Abilene NOC and its operational network engineering group, where Brent is a network engineer.

Edward Lewis is the Research Engineer for ARIN. He has been involved in DNS and DNSSEC Working Groups in the IETF since 1996 and was a co-chair of the recently concluded Provisioning Registry Protocol Working Group. He dropped his first IPv6 packets "on the floor" as a 6bone participant a few years ago for a previous employer.