NANOG Program Committee Candidates

Program Committee Candidates

Terms Expiring:	Terms Not Expiring :
Nick Feamster	Steve Feldman
Dan Golding	Igor Gashinsky
Joel Jaeggli	Kobi Hsu
Ren Provo	Mike Hughes
Josh Snowhorn	Keith Mitchell
Pete Templin	Ted Seely
Todd Underwood	Richard Steenbergen
Vish Yelsangikar	Bill Woodcock

Nominations for the Open 2007 PC Positions are:
Rob Cambra	I would like to nominate myself for the PC (I was told I could self-nominate, 'volunteer'?). I have been attending NANOG irregularly for about 9 years now, and have been watching presentations and benefiting from the mailing list since nearly the beginning of the formation of the group. Being that I have not held a position at a service provider in almost 10 years, contribution of useful information through presenting at meetings is not something I have been able to accomplish. I have been "involved" in the community for long enough that I believe not only could I be a fair and effective reviewer of content and agenda, but would like to contribute something other than the $400 attendance fee. Work experience, chronological: web hosting provider (founder/network manager), global enterprise infrastructure manager, various content network buildouts (startups), operations manager for advertising network. Yes, I still have enable.
Randy Epstein	Randy Epstein is a 20 year veteran of the industry. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Integration Officer of Host.net, a national Internet service and colocation provider. 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 and additionally has taken a keen interest in peering strategy and negotiation. Mr. Epstein splits his time between his home in Palm Beach, Florida and Vienna, Austria.
Nick Feamster	Nick Feamster, an assistant professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2005. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, including the design, measurement, and analysis of network routing protocols, network security, anonymous communication systems, and adaptive streaming media protocols. His honors include award papers at the NSDI 2005 conference (fault detection in router configuration), Usenix Security 2002 (circumventing web censorship using Infranet), and Usenix Security 2001 (web cookie analysis).
Peter Harrison	The Internet has become an essential column in the foundation supporting the world economy. The management of the data that flows over it has become the field in which I work and I have a genuine interest in the Web's development. This is an opportunity to both observe and shape the future of the industry by facilitating discussion and learning within the community. I have personal experience in technical education having written the book "Linux Quick Fix Notebook". As part of this effort I had to interact with both technical experts and the publisher's editing staff to get it produced. I feel this knowledge would be valuable to the program committee's collaborative efforts in presentation reviews and member feedback. I have over 20 years experience in the technology field. My most recent experiences have been in high capacity content delivery networks and multi-location large scale data center deployments. I currently work as the Network Manager for Netflix.
Joel Jaeggli	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	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 GovernmentÕs 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).
Mark Kosters	Mark Kosters has over twenty one years of experience as an applications developer, networking engineer, technical manager and executive. Over the last sixteen years, he was a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC (InterNIC), and Vice President of Research at VeriSign. Recently, Mark has taken a job as the CTO of ARIN. Over his career, he has been involved in application design and implementation of client/server tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database administration, and network security. He has represented both network information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE, APNIC, and NANOG. Additionally, Mark has been involved in Internet standards development, having co-authored RFCs on RWhois (RFC 1714 and 2167), Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines (RFC 2050), Root Name Server Operational Requirements (RFC 2870) and DNS Security (DNSSEC) Opt-In (RFC 4956). Mark also is currently serving a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Committee and ICANN's Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel. Over the past, Mark has participated in ICANN's Root Server System Security Committee and ARIN's Advisory Council. I'm interested in serving on the NANOG Program Committee. I've had a lot of experience in operational issues that concern the committee - especially in DNS, routing, address allocation issues. I've been a frequent speaker at NANOG conferences, I've had a lot of interaction with the committee members and know a bit about their work (at least from the outside looking in). Consequently, I'd like to volunteer my time to make the NANOG speaker slate interesting and pertinent to the operational community.
Sylvie LaPerrière	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. I would contribute my global perspective of the Internet and bring to the forefront the 'O' in nanog meetings.
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 recently been a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org), where he also co-chairs the SPEERMINT working group. Until recently, he was also chair of the 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 (www.nanog.org) 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. See http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/vita.html for additional detail/information.
R. Kevin Oberman	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	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.
Matt Peterson	Matt Peterson is the Site-Ops Manager for Meta Interfaces, where he is responsible for all network & systems infrastructure. He has been with with Meta for 2 years and has crafted a high availability video streaming service that continues to win high praise. Matt has held career advancing roles from NOC specialist, systems administrator to systems architect. The first non-profit Internet Exchange within San Francisco was co-founded by Matt in mid 2006. Mr. Peterson's work has been presented at numerous industry conferences, such as APRICOT, SANOG, BSDCon, Defcon, CCC Camp, and 802 Planet. While he may be one of the youngest PC candidates, he too remembers when the web was a grey background and how leet flat-rate Centrex ISDN was. He lives and works within the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm interested in serving on the NANOG Program Committee for a number of reasons. First off, I'd like to see more "content provider" participation from the community. We have a number of active video, social network and other content focused attendees who should be strongly encouraged to present topics. I plan to prod both these members and bring others in from outside of the normal attendee realm, ie: load balancer manufacturers, colo facility manager, etc. Additionally, we have a growing membership of young late "twentysomethings" that are doing unique networking solutions; these too need encouragement to participate outside of IRC. Finally, as someone who works within the online video streaming space, I've been helping guide Merit into modernizing the web stream. I'd like to continue this partnership to yield even better video quality and selection of codecs.
Ren Provo	Ren Provo is the Peering Relations lead at AT&T, 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.
Josh Snowhorn	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.
Pete Templin	Pete is the Manager of Packet Networks at Texlink Communications, a wholesale provider of voice and data services in Texas. He manages the IP/MPLS network and associated products, and slings cards on a regular basis. I hope to represent the smaller ISPs within the PC, campaigning for subject material that will help these businesses get their start and keep their foothold. I was quite new to NANOG before my selection in 2005, and come from a smaller network (in the grand scheme of things).
Todd Underwood	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.