About the Presenters
Ray Plzak is currently the President and CEO of ARIN. Prior to assuming his current position, Ray, as an Assistant Vice President with SAIC, managed the DoD NIC under a contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency. He is a co-chair of the IETF DNS Operation Working Group and co-author/contributor of several IETF technical papers pertaining to the operation of the Internet. Ray is also a member of the ISOC Advisory Committee and ICANN's Root Server System Advisory and DNS Security Advisory Committees.

Richard Colella began his professional career in networking over 25 years ago in the "ARPANET Era". He's been involved in a variety of endeavors, including seismic data collection and analysis; applied research in protocol testing and development; and building very large data center and wide area networks. Currently Rich is the Director of Architecture and Backbone Networking at AOL. In this role, he oversees the network architecture supporting all AOL products, such as the AOL and Compuserve services, MapQuest, AIM, and ICQ. He also has responsibility for ATDN, a Tier1 ISP that provides service to all AOL products, as well as many other TimeWarner properties, such as TimeWarner Cable, CNN, Time, NewLine Cinema, and Warner Brothers.

Ron da Silva is the Director of Broadband Network Technology for Time Warner Cable. He is responsible for network strategy at the Broadband Division, where he is leading the development of its next generation broadband IP network. Prior to joining Time Warner Cable, Ron spent six years as the Principal Network Architect at America Online, Inc. At AOL, he was responsible for designing and scaling the company's data networks. Before AOL, Ron served as a principal engineer for Sprint's internet backbone. 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 also serves on the Technical Advisory Council for ARIN.

Susan Harris coordinates NANOG meetings and is Senior Science Writer at Merit Network at the University of Michigan. She is also Merit's Webinator. Susan has been working in IT for 20 years, mostly in telecommunications and network engineering. Before discovering computers she spent her time reading Babylonian contracts and earning a Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Michigan.

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