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The tutorial introduces service providers to some more advanced BGP features and techniques to aid with operating their networks within the Internet. After a recap of iBGP, eBGP and common attributes, the tutorial will look at the various scaling techniques available, when to use BGP instead of an IGP, and examine policy options available through the use of local preference, MED and communities. The tutorial then looks at deployment techniques, including aggregation, announcing and receiving prefixes, pressure points on the routing system, AS-origin validation, and some of the newer features available. This is an updated version of the tutorial under the same title presented by Philips Smith in previous NANOG sessions.

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Dawit Birhanu, Cisco Systems
Dawit Birhanu is a Technical Marketing Engineer in Service Provider Networking Group at Cisco Systems, where he has worked for over 12 years on Service Provider products and services in multiple roles such as Deployment Engineer, Network Consulting Engineer, Technical Leader and Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on service provider high-end routing platforms. Additional focus areas include MPLS, BGP, QoS and IOS XR. He is a co-author of the Cisco Press book "Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals".

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Disco is dead and IPv4 is getting there! Don't use last century assumptions and limitations when designing your IPv6 implementation. Learn what's no longer useful, what's completely new and what's still valid. We'll also cover how to really take advantage of the new features and expanded address space in IPv6.

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Paul Ebersman, Infoblox
Paul Ebersman works in the Infoblox IPv6 Center of Excellence as a technical resource, both internally and to the internet community. He first worked on the internet for the Air Force in 1984. He was employee number 10 at UUNET and helped build AlterNET and the modem network used by MSN, AOL and Earthlink. He has maintained his roots in the internet and the open source community, working for various internet infrastructure companies including ISC and Nominum before coming to Infoblox.

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The tutorial introduces service providers to some more advanced BGP features and techniques to aid with operating their networks within the Internet. After a recap of iBGP, eBGP and common attributes, the tutorial will look at the various scaling techniques available, when to use BGP instead of an IGP, and examine policy options available through the use of local preference, MED and communities. The tutorial then looks at deployment techniques, including aggregation, announcing and receiving prefixes, pressure points on the routing system, AS-origin validation, and some of the newer features available. This is an updated version of the tutorial under the same title presented by Philips Smith in previous NANOG sessions.

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Dawit Birhanu, Cisco Systems
Dawit Birhanu is a Technical Marketing Engineer in Service Provider Networking Group at Cisco Systems, where he has worked for over 12 years on Service Provider products and services in multiple roles such as Deployment Engineer, Network Consulting Engineer, Technical Leader and Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on service provider high-end routing platforms. Additional focus areas include MPLS, BGP, QoS and IOS XR. He is a co-author of the Cisco Press book "Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals".

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Many backbone links of AMS-IX are too long for current 100Gbit/s transceivers. AMS-IX extended the range of currently available short range transceivers with custom made optical amplifiers. This presentation addresses the issues, the design and the implementation of this relatively cheap solution.

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Arien Vijn, AMS-IX
Ariën is one of the Principal Design Engineers of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX). He joined when AMS-IX traffic peaked at 5Gb/s in 2001, and helped it grow to handling over 1900Gb/s in 2012. Lately he is busy with extending the distance ranges of 100Gbit/s links, automated testing and RFC5549. Before joining AMS-IX he worked for AT&T Labs and AT&T Solutions in Europe.

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Sylvie LaPerriere, NANOG Board Chair
Sylvie LaPerrière has been an active builder of the global Internet Infrastructure, developing peering relationships with Internet players around the world and expanding the network in underserved markets via new undersea cables or satellite connectivity. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG). At Google Inc., Sylvie is on the program management team building out the Internet connectivity and content distribution reach required to deliver Google services worldwide. She is also the Canadian Chapter Co-Lead of Women@Google whose mission is to empower women at Google and in our communities to develop into leaders and impact the world. While at Tata Communications Ltd, she pushed the expansion of its Internet backbone network into more than 25 new markets, had it circle the globe and achieved Tier1 status. Sylvie has 19 years of international business development experience for Internet, data and mobile telecommunications services. A frequent speaker on international panels, she received her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.

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Online service providers continually aim to provide good performance for an increasingly diverse set of applications and services. Network routing attempts to improve performance by selecting a good route between a customer and provider. Content routing attempts to move content closer to customers by replicating content and redirecting traffic to closer replicas. These two methods are largely agnostic of each other today. In this talk, we consider the benefits of extending Content routing using network routing. We emulate a system that controls both replica selection ("content routing") and the routes between the clients and their associated replicas ("network routing"). We find that joint routing yields an additional 4% reduction in latency as compared to content routing, and that the majority of these gains can be realized with no more than five alternate routes at each replica. This work is authored by: V. Valancius, B. Ravi, N. Feamster (Georgia Institiue of Technolgy), A. Snoeren (University of California - San Diego)

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B. Ravi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bharath Ravi received his B.Tech degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India in 2009. He worked at Google India as a Software Engineer in Test from 2009-11, developing productivity tools for software engineers. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in Systems and Networking. He works with Professor Nick Feamster in the Network Operations and Internet Security Lab, focusing on CDN performance.

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The RPKI is the infrastructure under BGP origin validation, and therefore its propagation characteristics and reliability are of concern. Two studies are presented, one assessing the performance and reliability of the early deployments of RPKI publication and the other a medium-scale emulation of large scale deployment of the RPKI. Together, they tell an interesting story of what we have today and what we can expect in the future.

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Randy Bush, llJ
Randy Bush is a Research Fellow and Network Operator at Internet Initiative Japan, Japan's first commercial ISP. He specializes in network measurement especially routing, network security, routing protocols, and IPv6 deployment. He is also a lead designer of the BGP security effort. Randy has been in computing for over 45 years, and has a few decades of Internet operations experience. He was the engineering founder of Verio, which is now NTT/Verio. He has been heavily involved in transferring Internet technologies to developing economies for almost 25 years. He was a chair of the IETF WG on the DNS for a decade and served as a member of the IESG, as co-chair of the IETF Operations and Management Area for six years. Randy was the first Chair of the NANOG Steering Committee, a co-founder of AfNOG, on the founding Board of Directors of ARIN, helped start AfriNIC, and has participated in APNIC, RIPE, et alia since each was founded. see http://archive.psg.com/papers.html

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As IPv6 and the Internet of Things finally become operational reality, home and SOHO networks are beginning to see additional pressures to become more complex. The need for separation of visiting guest users from home users, community Wi-Fi services, smart grid, home automation & security, and an ever increasing number and type of IP enabled devices in the subscriber home are all strong motivations for additional routers and multiple LANs. The removal of NAT and the emergence of heterogeneous link layer technologies, machine to machine communication, IP & multicast video streaming, video content sharing inside the home, telecommuting and corporate IT requirements, and the possibility of home network multi-homing are all also driving additional complexity and new requirements into home networks. Unfortunately, service providers and corporate IT departments can not count on end users becoming any more network savvy than they are today. This presents a unique problem space for the future development of home network technologies and architectures. This talk will explore several of the key challenges, assumptions and use-cases for the home network of tomorrow, setting the stage for future development and innovation.

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Chris Grundemann, CableLabs
Chris Grundemann (JNCIE #449) is the author of Day One: Exploring IPv6 and Day One: Advanced IPv6 Configuration, as well as several IETF Internet Drafts and various industry papers. He is the founding Chair of CO ISOC, the Colorado chapter of the Internet Society, a member of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF) Board, an elected member of the ARIN Advisory Council (AC), Co-Chair of the UPnP IPv6 Task Force, and a member of the CEA Pv6 Transition Working Group. Chris also maintains a personal weblog aimed primarily towards Internet related posts typically focusing on network operation and design, tech-policy and the future of the Internet. Chris is currently engaged with CableLabs as a Network Architect, focusing on technical leadership and innovation within IP Networking and beyond.

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The NLNOG RING is a collaboration of a growing number of organisations (110+ organisations in 26 countries as of August 2012) to troubleshoot and debug networks in a more efficient and flexible way than previously possible. The RING provides operators with a view from the outside and powerful tools to accomplish in mere seconds what would otherwise take days. The RING is entirely built by a thriving community of volunteers, organisations can join free of charge, as such the RING is unique and the world's first of this kind. The audience will learn what the RING is and demonstrations will be given how common troubleshoot scenarios can be tackled with the RING. A word of caution: the RING is an immensly versatile tool and its ease of use might be shocking.

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Job Snijders, Atrato IP Networks
Job Snijders is a Senior Network guru at Atrato IP Networks (AS 5580), one of the largest backbones in Europe. Job develops high-end networks and provides advise on everything for which the network is an integral part. Job regularly teaches about IPv6 at MENOG workshops in the Middle East. He is actively involved in the the global operator community through the NLNOG RING, the RIPE Program Committee and has helped develop the LISP protocol within the IETF.

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Chris Grundemann, CableLabs.
Manish Karir, Merit Network, Inc..
Les Peters, Neustar.

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The track is targeted towards understanding the economics of interconnection, COGS of the business, and cost modeling.

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Vijay Gill, Microsoft
Vijay Gill leads the Internet engineering group in the Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS) team that supports the foundation infrastructure for Microsoft online services for consumers and businesses worldwide. He owns the P&L, and is accountable for engineering, design, planning and commercials for the Microsoft bandwidth product.

Martin Levy, Hurricane Electric.
Bill Woodcock, ARIN.

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Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director
Sylvie LaPerriere, NANOG Board Chair
Sylvie LaPerrière has been an active builder of the global Internet Infrastructure, developing peering relationships with Internet players around the world and expanding the network in underserved markets via new undersea cables or satellite connectivity. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG). At Google Inc., Sylvie is on the program management team building out the Internet connectivity and content distribution reach required to deliver Google services worldwide. She is also the Canadian Chapter Co-Lead of Women@Google whose mission is to empower women at Google and in our communities to develop into leaders and impact the world. While at Tata Communications Ltd, she pushed the expansion of its Internet backbone network into more than 25 new markets, had it circle the globe and achieved Tier1 status. Sylvie has 19 years of international business development experience for Internet, data and mobile telecommunications services. A frequent speaker on international panels, she received her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.

Dave Temkin, NANOG Program Committee Chair.

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For any operator today, it is not enough to be able to manage just their segment of the network (access, middle-mile or last-mile). Rather, with the diversity of applications and services, and the growth in mobile broadband in the first mile and data centers in the last mile, it is imperative for an operator to have cross-domain insights. Thus, an operator must not only know the performance of the network (latency, jitter, delay, loss, throughput/bandwidth, and availability) locally, but also how these parameters are affected by adjacent network segments, and how the network behavior, as a whole, affects application performance. While much has been discussed in various forums about application performance, there can be no application performance without sound network performance! Thus, network performance or activities that are needed to keep the network up and running, reliably and efficiently, are critical, especially in today’s dynamic networks. E.g. sync. distribution in 3G and 4G/LTE mobile backhaul networks, impairment detection, and fault isolation & notification to name a few. In this panel, we will, therefore, discuss end-to-end performance management & monitoring with a focus on network-level problems and measurements. That is, we will consider the (horizontal) interactions between providers in different segments – access, middle-mile and last mile, and issues of sharing metrics across operator boundaries, which metrics are critical for network performance and why, and at how performance problems can be fixed efficiently and speedily. It turns out that while there are many tools and techniques for performance management (advanced OAM, better sampling & aggregation methods, synthetic transactions, support in vendor systems, and sophisticated software), it is still very tricky to answer fundamental questions such as: where did a performance problem originate? who is responsible for it? how do we go about fixing it? The current panel will bring together key players from the carrier eco-system to discuss, debate, and answer important questions on network-centric performance management, such as: i) What are key advances in performance monitoring of fundamental network-level activities that enable the proper & efficient running of a network? ii) Which advances are designed to enable proactive performance management, as opposed to reactive performance management? iii) Where are we on the ownership and sharing of performance data – how could operators in different segments share this data (without revealing internal details)? What is making this a necessity in today’s environment? What changes are occurring (in operator practices, vendor offerings, and software solutions) to facilitate that? iv) What is the role of standardization in enabling the industry to converge on performance management capabilities? v) What are the advances in real-time collection and processing of data, and how do they aid performance management in today’s complex IP/Ethernet networks? vi) With network complexity and scale, automated network enforcement actions could be valuable. However, they are perceived as complicated and risky. What is the eco-system doing to facilitate these? Why or why not? vii) How does fault isolation across boundaries work? How is fault notification done? How does one determine and assign “responsibility” to the liable network segment/operator? viii) Are some of the ensuing difficulties merely organizational? Or, are there limits from software and systems? If the latter, what is the eco-system doing to remove those? ix) What is the contribution of the network (or a network segment) to application performance? How does advanced system design enable an operator to better determine/track that?

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Moderator - Vishal Sharma, Metanoia, Inc.
Vishal Sharma (SM IEEE, Fellow IETE) is a seasoned international technologist, telecom industry expert, & entrepreneur with global exposure, and 20-years of experience spanning consulting, industry, academia, labs. & research. At Metanoia, Inc., he has provided deep-dive expertise in strategy and telecom network- and systems-design to clients on 4 continents – N. America, Europe, Asia, Australia. He and his team have helped players across the full telecom ecosystem (spanning chip/semi-conductor companies, system vendors, operators/carriers, technology houses, and telecom software and tool companies) solve complex problems, by providing services in technology strategy, architecture & design trade-offs, product development, hardware/software architecture, & competence building. Presently, he is leading an industry-wide initiative on how to lower carriers' total cost of ownership (TCO) through better assessment and optimization of a carrier's business models, operations, networks, and technology. He and his team have also recently launched a Service Management Hub ™, to further the understanding of service delivery and performance management solutions, http://bit.ly/Q5LU9Y. More details about him are at http://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsharma.

Panelist - Aamer Akhter, Cisco Systems
Aamer Akhter, CCIE # 4543 (R&S, C&S), has over 14 years of experience in the networking industry and is responsible for the deployment and technical marketing of enterprise medianet systems and is the architect for the medianet video monitoring solution. Previously, he had been responsible for deployment of Performance Routing, Wan-Optimization systems, Video systems, Routing Protocols, NBAR and NetFlow. He joined cisco in the Technical Assistance Center (TAC), and has worked in various capacities for cisco, supporting large service provider and enterprise customers by testing, designing and deploying Layer 2 and MPLS/VPN networks.

Panelist - Zaid Ali, LinkedIn
Zaid Ali is currently Sr Manager of Global Network Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn. Prior, Ali was Director of Technical Operations at Genius.com where he was responsible for managing all aspects of data center operations, network engineering/operations & email services. Prior, he managed an engineering team at Procera Networks working on incorporating security software onto Intel IXP network processors. Prior, Ali was senior network architect at WebEx where he was responsible for building its Media Toneâ„¢ network across the US, Europe and Asia. Before moving to Silicon Valley in 1998, Ali spent much of his earlier career in Internet Development in Fiji where he built the first telemedicine network for a medical university and was instrumental in building the first non-profit ISP in the South Pacific. Ali is currently chairman of San Francisco chapter of the Internet Society and holds a BSc in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.

Gordon Bolt, OPNET
Gordon Bolt is Vice-President of Engineering at OPNET Technologies, Inc. where he is the product manager for OPNET’s network engineering, operations, and planning products for the service provider market. Previously, he led the development of network design and optimization features for the SP Guru® Network Planner product. Gordon’s specific interest areas include: design algorithms and workflows for MPLS traffic engineering, MPLS fast-reroute planning, IGP metric optimization, traffic matrix estimation, multi-layer optimization, and topology design. He is the author of several patents in these areas. Gordon has been focused on developing commercial systems for network design and analysis since joining Make Systems, Inc. in 1995. He continued with OPNET following their 2001 acquisition of the NetMaker® division of Make Systems. Gordon works with service provider clients throughout the world to support their use of OPNET products in their engineering projects. He received his B.S and M.S in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia while working in the Wide Area Network research group.

Benoit Claise, Cisco Systems
Benoit Claise is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, working as an architect for embedded management and device instrumentation. Area of passion & expertise includes Internet traffic monitoring, accounting, performance, fault management and energy management. Long contributor to the IETF (22 RFCs in the domain of IP Flow Information eXport - IPFIX, Packet SAMPling - PSAMP, IP Performance Metrics - IPPM, Performance Metrics at Other Layer - PMOL, etc...), Benoit is the IETF Area Director for Operations and Management. Benoit is the author of the ciscopress book "Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies".

Panelist - Seth Higgins, ADVA
As Senior Director of Global Ethernet Solutions, Seth Higgins is responsible for strategic application of ADVA Optical Networking’s Carrier Ethernet offering for opportunities around the world. His team works directly with all major customers and manages ADVA’s Ethernet feature request process. Seth has over 17 years of telecom industry experience. Prior to ADVA Optical Networking, Seth was a service provider solutions engineer at Cisco Systems in global technical operations, fostering communication between customers and product development related to metro Ethernet, IP+Optical and IPTV quad-play applications. Previously, Seth was a network sales engineer at Sprint, designing and troubleshooting X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, Internet and IP-VPN services for nationwide business customers. Seth holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia, is a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE #5762) in Routing and Switching, and a MEF Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional.

Panelist - Ning So, Tata Communications
Ning So is the Head of Network Architecture at Tata Communications (TCL). His primary function is to design the end-to-end network architecture to enable next generation mobile media services across TCL's global network infrastructure. Ning has worked in MCI/Verizon for 16 years prior to joining TCL. He held various senior engineering/planning positions in the company's global network architecture design, traffic engineering management, network modeling and simulation, and planning/forcasting organizations.

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Tracking the use of DNSSEC by the TLD registries (root zone plus the immediate delegations) to detect how DNSSEC has been implemented (or not) has led to the "usual" survey of a new technology and insight into the rate of deployment. More interestingly, what has come to light is the divide between what protocol engineers (via the IETF documents) expected to happen and what the operators have come to develop. In some cases there is close coupling with RFC recommendations, in others there is a diversion.

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Edward Lewis, Neustar

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The fast growth of global routing table size has been causing concerns that the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) will not be able to fit in existing routers’ expensive line-card memory, and upgrades will lead to higher cost for network operators and customers. FIB Aggregation, a technique that merges multiple FIB entries into one, is probably the most practical solution since it is a software solution local to a router, and does not require any changes to routing protocols or network operations. While previous work on FIB aggregation mostly focuses on reducing table size, this work focuses on algorithms that can update compressed FIBs quickly and incrementally. Quick update is critical to routers because they have very limited time to process routing updates without impacting packet delivery performance. We have designed three algorithms: FIFA- S for smallest table size, FIFA-T for shortest running time, and FIFA-H for both small tables and short running time, and operators can use the one best suited to their needs. These algorithms significantly improve over existing work in terms of reducing routers’ computation overhead and limiting impact on the forwarding plane while maintaining good compression ratio.

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Yaoqing Liu, The University of Memphis
Yaoqing Liu is a fifth-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at The University of Memphis. He is expected to graduate in May of 2013. His research interests include Routing Scalability Problems, Network Measurement Techniques, Routing Protocol Design and Next Generation Networks. He has three years' software engineering working experience before joining the PhD program. He has published a few peer reviewed conference and journal papers such as in INFOCOM, JSAC and GlobeCom during his graduate studies (https://umdrive.memphis.edu/yliu6/web/YaoqingLiu.html).

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Dave Temkin, NANOG Program Committee Chair.

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John Curran, President and CEO of ARIN, will give an update on the latest news about IPv4 Address Transfers in the ARIN region and discuss the recently implemented Inter-RIR IPv4 Transfer Policy.

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John Curran, ARIN
John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications. Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network. Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.

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Carrier-Grade NAT has been shown to have some problems for operators. This talk will show a way to quantify the cost of CGN problems to find the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This TCO can then be compared to the cost of buying IPv4 addresses or deploying IPv6.

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Lee Howard, Time Warner Cable
Lee Howard is the Director of Network Technology for Time Warner Cable, where he is responsible for the company’s IPv6 deployment, and representation at several standards bodies. From 2004 to 2008, he was the Director of IT Engineering for a U.S. government contractor. Before that, Lee worked at UUNET from 1997 until 2003, where he managed service delivery of Internet access, including VPN and VoIP services around the world. He currently serves as Working Group Chair for the IETF 6renum working group. He served for seven years on the Board of Trustees of ARIN, as Vice Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. He also spent a year on ICANN’s Address Supporting Organization Address Council.

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The regional community has displayed an increasing interest in Internet governance and the potential implications of treaty-level decisions on the future of the Internet. This panel will focus on the recent ITU/WCIT reports/issues and provide Internet governance updates, including perspectives from a range of involved organizations and the impact that may result.

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Moderator - Cathy Handley, ARIN
Cathy Handley is the Executive Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). She is responsible for relationships with the governments in the ARIN service region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic Islands and the United States. In addition, she is also responsible for ARIN’s relationships with various International Government Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations worldwide and was a member of the Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group. Cathy has an extensive background in both the private and public sector.

Panelist - Dan Alexander, Comcast
Dan Alexander is currently a Network Engineer for Comcast Cable. He is responsible for the planning and management of Internet number resources on the cable network. Prior to joining Comcast, he served a similar role with Excite@Home after obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University. Dan was elected to the ARIN Advisory Council in October of 2005 and re-elected in 2008 and 2011.

Panelist - Vint Cerf, ARIN
Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist who is recognized as one of the fathers of TCP/IP and the architecture of the Internet. He was an IAB member and chair in the 1980s and the founding president of the Internet Society. He was also a Board member in 1999 and chairman of ICANN from 2000 to 2007. As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982–1986, Cerf led the engineering of MCI Mail: the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. While serving as Senior VP at MCI, Cerf oversaw the MCI Internet service from 1994-1998 (sold to Cable and Wireless) and the vBNS service. Cerf currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.

Panelist - Bill Graham, ISOC
Bill Graham is an independent consultant based in Ottawa, Canada. Mr. Graham worked with the Internet Society from 2007-2011, responsible for expanding the Internet Society's engagement in a wide range of international organizations and continues to serve as Senior Policy Advisor. Mr. Graham has been a member of the Internet Governance Forum's Multistakeholder Advisory Group since its formation in 2006. Previously, Mr. Graham was Director of International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination in the Canadian government and in that role was responsible for Canada's participation in the ITU. He has also worked in the private sector as Director of Government Relations for Teleglobe, Inc., a major international telecommunications carrier. Bill was appointed to the ICANN Board in June 2011.

Panelist - Chip Sharp, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Chip Sharp has 30 years in the communications industry and currently is a Director in the Research and Advanced Development Department at Cisco Systems, Inc. His current focus is Technology Policy and Internet Governance, specifically preparing for the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT). Chip has participated in the State Department’s International Telecommunication Advisory Committee and has served on the US delegation for several preparatory meetings for the WCIT over the last 2 years. Chip has also led a multinational, multidisciplinary team at Cisco helping driving various technologies such as LISP, DNSSEC, BGPSEC, ENUM, Lawful Intercept etc. He has also sponsored and managed programs for deployment of Internet Exchange Points in partnership with PCH, ISOC, NSRC (e.g., Beirut-IX, Haiti-IX, Kosovo-IX). Chip started at Cisco in 1996 helping design dialup Internet access products to interface with legacy telco signaling systems. Prior to Cisco, Chip worked at Teleos Communications, AT&T Consumer Product Labs and NASA’s Communications Division.

Panelist - Sally Shipman Wentworth, ISOC
Sally Shipman Wentworth is the Senior Manager of Public Policy at the Internet Society. She is responsible for liaising with governments and decision makers on critical policy issues regarding online access. Previously Sally Shipman Wentworth was the Assistant Director for Telecommunications and Information Policy in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. From 1999 – 2007, Sally was the principal policy advisor on Internet policy issues at the U.S. Department of State. Sally joined the State Department in 1999 as a Presidential Management Fellow.

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Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director.