2009 NANOG Elections Summary + Results

Steering Committee Candidates

Proposed Charter Changes

Program Committee Candidates

Mailing List Committee Candidates

Key Dates

Election Results

Steering Committee + Charter Amendments

General Elections took place October 18-21, 2009.

2009 Steering Committee: Terms Expiring

Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive
Jared Mauch, NTT/VERIO
Chris Morrow, Google*

*-Term limited

The following individuals were the 2009 Steering Committee candidates:

  • Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive
  • Henry Kilmer, Terrapin Communications, Inc.
  • Dorian Kim, NTT America
  • Sylvie LaPerrière, Tata Communications
  • Michael Lucking, Telx
  • Christopher Quesada, Switch and Data
  • Tom Vest, Independent Consultant
  • Duane Wessels, Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center
  • Lixia Zhang, UCLA

Proposed Charter Changes

Proposal 2009-1: Concurrent Membership on Mailing List and Program Committees

Summary

Removes the restriction that prevents a person from serving concurrently on both the Program Committee and Mailing List Committee.

Proposal 2009-2: Change Name and Duties of Mailing List Committee

Summary

This amendment changes the name of the "Mailing List. Committee" to the "Communications Committee", and expands the committee's scope of duties to include other forms of electronic communication with and among the NANOG community.

It also includes some structural changes to bring it more in line with how the Program Committee is specified.

Proposal 2009-3: Clarification of Nomination Procedure

Summary

Allows any member of the NANOG community to nominate candidates for the Steering Committee.

Candidates: Program Committee


Terms Expiring:

Joel Jaeggli, Nokia*
Rodney Joffe, NeuStar
Sylvie LaPerriére, VSNL International
Kevin Oberman, ESnet
Lane Patterson, Equinix
Ren Provo, Comcast*
Josh Snowhorn, Terremark*
Todd Underwood, Google*

Terms Not Expiring:

Nina Bargisen, TDC
Tom Daly, Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
Brian Deardorff, Level 3 Communications
Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!
Mike Hughes, London Internet Exchange
David Meyer, Cisco Systems
Tom Scholl, AT&T
Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications, Inc.
Larry Blunk - Merit appointee

* Has served two consecutive terms so, as per the charter, person cannot be considered for re-election until October 2011.

The following individuals were the 2009 Program Committee candidates:

Joe Abley, ICANN

Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation

John Brzozowski, Comcast

Jim Cowie, Renesys Corporation

Greg Dendy, Equinix

Randy Epstein, WV Fiber

Avi Freedman, ServerCentral

Barry Greene, Juniper

Nicholas Harland, Constant Contact

Anton Kapela

Mohit Lad, Nokia

Bill Manning, USC's Information Sciences Institute

Chris Morrow, Google, Inc.

Kevin Oberman, ESnet

Dani Roisman, Peak Web Consulting

Adam Rothschild

Joshua Shahala, IntelePeer

Sonia Sakovich, Sprint

Dave Temkin, Netflix

Candidates: Mailing List Committee


Terms Expiring:

Kris Foster, BitGravity

Simon Lyall

Terms Not Expiring:

Randy Epstein, WV Fiber 

Tim Yocum, Server Central Network

Sue Joiner - Merit appointee


The following individuals were the 2009 Mailing List Committee candidates:

Mehmet Akcin, ICANN

Kris Foster, BitGravity

Simon Lyall

Michael K. Smith, Adhost

Key Dates

August 17, 2009 - Nominations for Steering Committee Candidates opened.

September 8, 2009 - Nominations for Program Committee Candidates opened.

September 14, 2009 - Steering Committee Nominations closed.

September 28, 2009 - Charter Amendments posted.

September 28, 2009 - Nominations for Mailing List Committee Candidates opened.

October 18-21, 2009 - Voting for Board of Director Candidates + Bylaw Amendments.

October 19, 2009 - Program Committee Candidates Nominations closed.

October 29, 2009 - Mailing List Committee Candidates Nominations closed.

Election Results

Over 1,784 people were eligible to vote, with eligibility based on having attended at least one NANOG meeting in the past two years, beginning with NANOG 41.

Steering Committee Elected October 2009

Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive

Sylvie LaPerriere, Tata Communications

Duane Wessels, Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center

Candidate Votes

Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive 103
Sylvie LaPerriere, Tata Communications 93
Duane Wessels, Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center 62
Dorian Kim, NTT America 56  
Lixia Zhang, UCLA 48   
Christopher Quesada, Switch and Data 47
Michael Lucking, Telx 44
Tom Vest, Independent Consultant 28
Henry Kilmer, Terrapin Communications, Inc. 18

Charter Amendments for 2009

APPROVED

Charter Votes

Concurrent Membership on Mailing List and Program Committees Yes - 150 No- 34

Change Name and Duties of Mailing List Committee Yes - 166 No - 13

Clarification of Nomination Procedure Yes - 172 No - 13