| Larry Blunk , Merit | Larry Blunk is a Senior Network Engineer at Merit Network. He also has roles in the Research and Systems Administration groups at Merit. Larry initially joined Merit in 1985 and has been an active participant in the IETF since 1991 and in RIPE since 2001. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. |
| Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech | Nick Feamster, an assistant
professor in the
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| Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo! | Igor Gashinsky is a senior network 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. |
| Kobi Hsu | Kobi has 13 years of wide-ranging Internet experience: as a network engineer, as a vendor representative, as a peering manager, and as a systems security engineer. She is presently studying at the University of Maryland and works for the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). |
| Mike Hughes, London Internet Exchange | 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. |
| Joel Jaeggli, Nokia |
Joel Jaeggli works in the Security and Mobile connectivity group within Nokia. His time is divided between the operation of the nokia.net (AS 14277) research network and supporting the strategic planning needed of Nokia's security business. Projects with former employer the University of Oregon included the Network Startup Resource Center, Oregon Routeviews project (still an active participant), the Beyond BGP Project, and the Oregon Videolab. He an active participant in several industry-related groups Including the IETF and NANOG. Joel frequently participates as an instructor or presenter and at regional and international network meetings, on services and security related topics. |
| Rodney Joffe, NeuStar |
Rodney Joffe is Senior Vice President, and Senior Technologist at NeuStar. His responsibilities include defining and guiding the technical direction of the company's IP Services division, and leadership with Internet and telecommunications standards bodies and organizations along with the Federal Government's Cyberterrorism and cybercrime task forces.
Mr. Joffe is an acknowledged and successful serial entrepreneur, having founded a number of companies including many involved in core networking and Internet technology. Amongst the more visible, he was the founder of Genuity in the early 1990's, which was the largest Internet hosting company in the world at the time it was acquired by GTE (now Verizon NYSE:VZ) in 1997, and was also the founder of UltraDNS Corporation in 1998, acquired in 2006 by NeuStar (NYSE: NSR). His latest venture is Packet Forensics, a specialized network security company. He also serves as an outside director on the boards of a number of other technology companies, including Scientific Monitoring, an aerospace software company, and Plasmanet, one of the largest Internet database marketing networks. In addition to his corporate roles as computer scientist with a number of patents to his name, Mr. Joffe is active in Internet governance bodies, serving currently on both the ICANN SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) and the ICANN RSTEP (Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel). He served two terms on the ICANN Nominating Committee, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Postel Center at USC/ISI. Mr. Joffe is also engaged in a number of Internet working groups and committees, including OARC (Operations, Analysis, and Research Center), NANOG (North American Network Operators' Group), ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). |
| Sylvie LaPerriere, VSNL International | Sylvie LaPerrière, Director of Peering and Commercial Operations at VSNL International, leads the expansion of its Internet backbone network into new markets. Sylvie has 15 years of product management experience for data and mobile telecommunications services. She joined the company in 1993 and launched Teleglobe’s first Internet service in 1995. |
| Keith Mitchell, Internet Systems Consortium | Keith Mitchell was first involved with what is now known as the Internet 20 years ago, as a postgraduate at University College London. Between 1986 and 1991, while working for Edinburgh-based Spider Systems, Keith was a representative on the board of the UK Internet Consortium. In early 1992, he became one of the founders of the UK's first commercial Internet provider, PIPEX. From May 1996 until September 2000, Keith served in the full-time role of Executive Chairman of (LINX), the London Internet Exchange. He has served as a non-executive Director of Nominet UK, and as Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board (1997-99). In September 2000, Keith became a founder investor and served until 2004 as Chief Technical Officer of XchangePoint, a pan-European commercial provider of Internet interconnect and peering services. Between 2004 and 2006 Keith was Technical Director of the UK Internet Forum, where he setup the UK Network Operators' Forum of which he is now chair. In 2006 Keith moved to the USA, and has recently become Programme Manager of the Operations, Analysis and Research Center (OARC) at the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).
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| Kevin Oberman, ESnet |
R. Kevin Oberman is a Senior Engineer for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) at Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
1995 to present: Senior Engineer, ESnet 1985 to 1995: Network Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Engineering Department 1980 to 1985: System Analyst, Engineering Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1977 to 1980: Systems Programmer, Engineering Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2004 to present: Member of the Program Committee for Joint Techs, ESnet/Internet2 |
| Lane Patterson, Equinix | Lane Patterson is Chief Technologist for Equinix, Inc, involved in scaling 10GbE switch fabrics, DWDM rings, and R&D topics such as 100GigE, IPv6 and Multicast peering and BGP scalability. He is a regular at Nanog, IETF, Euro-IX, IEEE-HSSG and other global Internet forums. Prior to Equinix, Mr. Patterson was Director of IP Network Management Systems (IP-NMS) for GlobalCrossing Inc, where he contributed to rapidly scaling a global IP network and a large-scale MPLS deployment. During 1995-1996, Mr. Patterson managed operations at MAE-East, during a time when connected ISPs grew from less than 20 to over 130, where he learned to hate the term head-of-line blocking and love new switch fabric architectures. Prior to getting his hands on real networks, he was relegated at Booz-Allen to developing network congestion modeling code subjecting the PSTN to imaginary impacts for government clients. He graduated with a BA in Physics from Cornell University, and MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. |
| Ren Provo, ATT | Ren Provo is the Interconnect Relations lead at Comcast, where she is a contributor to a variety of IP network infrastructure related activities. These include peering negotiation, capacity planning, NOC quality control and general network policy interests. Ren also strives to interconnect the people behind the networks via http://nanog.multiply.com. While pursuit of a degree in Electrical Engineering sounded interesting at the start, she received a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. |
| Ted Seely, Sprint | |
| Josh Snowhorn, Terremark | Josh Snowhorn is a Vice President at Terremark Worldwide responsible for all Peering related services for the company. He has been with Terremark since the inception of the NAP of the Americas (NOTA), the largest carrier neutral Data Center in the Western hemisphere, including being involved with the site selection, design and construction of the facility. He has been a member of the global Peering community for many years including being the founder of the Global Peering Forum events (www.peeringforum.com). He is a member of the NANOG Program Committee and an avid participant on all issues related to the global networking community. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters. |
| Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications | 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. |
| Todd Underwood, Renesys | Todd Underwood is in charge of operations, security,
and peering for Renesys, a provider of Internet Intelligence services.
Before that he was CTO of Oso Grande, a small New Mexico ISP. He has a
background in systems engineering and security and networking for
clustered supercomputers. Todd has presented work related to Internet
routing dynamics and relationships at NANOG and various peering forums
(LINX, Switch and Data, NAP of the Americas).
Todd received a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia College, Columbia University, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. |
| Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House | Bill Woodcock is research director of Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute dedicated to understanding and supporting Internet traffic exchange technology, policy, and economics. Bill has operated national and international Internet service provision and content delivery networks since 1989, and currently spends most of his time building Internet exchanges in developing countries. |