May 2008 - NANOG-announce - lists.nanog.org

Please welcome Brian Deardorff to the PC
by Philip Smith 30 May '08

30 May '08

Hi everyone, In its recent meeting, the SC selected Brian Deardorff to fill the PC position vacated by Ted Seely last month. Brian joins the current PC (http://www.nanog.org/pc.current.html) and serves until the term is up for renewal in October this year. The SC would like to thank David Conrad, Randy Epstein, Michael K. Smith, Mike Long, Ron Bonica, Tom Scholl and Celeste Anderson for volunteering. We hope they will all consider volunteering again when positions on the PC become available again in October. Kind regards, Philip Smith SC Chair

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New NANOG Mail List Committee
by Philip Smith 30 May '08

30 May '08

Hi everyone, In its recent meeting, the SC selected four volunteers from the community to join Sue Joiner of Merit on the Mail List Committee. The new team is as follows: Sue Joiner (appointed by Merit) Simon Lyall (term finishes in October 2009) Kris Foster (term finishes in October 2009) David Barak (term finishes in October 2008) Tim Yocum (term finishes in October 2008) The SC would like to thank the four successful volunteers for their willingness to contribute their time and energy to assist with supporting the NANOG mail list. The SC also would like to thank Michael K Smith, John Osman and Alex Pilosov for also stepping forward and offering to help. We hope you will be willing to volunteer again when two positions on the MLC become available in October. Kind regards, Philip Smith SC Chair --

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NANOG43 Reminder
by Betty J. Burke 29 May '08

29 May '08

Dear NANOG Community-- We are looking forward to seeing those who plan to attend NANOG43 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn on Sunday. We expect excellent attendance, with almost 400 registered attendees to date. Some important highlights for those still considering attending and a reminder that registration is required to attend any of the NANOG events. Registration Fees ----------------- Through 5-30-08 Registration Fee is @$525 Late and On-Site Registration Fee is @$600 Agenda ------ The agenda is complete and available at: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0806/agenda.html Community meeting ----------------- An important part of every NANOG meeting!! NANOG43 Community Meeting is scheduled for 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Social gatherings ----------------- Monday, June 2, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Tuesday, June 3, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. As always, feel free to email NANOG-Support(a)nanog.org with any questions. --Merit Network - NANOG Registration & Support

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Program Committee Nominations
by Todd Underwood 28 May '08

28 May '08

Attached are all of the the current nominations to the nanog program committee. comments in support (or opposition) to any candidate can be made to the nanog steering committee steering(a)nanog.org. (if you submitted a nomination and you do not see it here, please notify me immediately, resend it and we'll get it added). thanks, todd underwood chair, nanog program committee Nominated by David Conrad - Nominee's name (if not you) - Nominee's email address: drc(a)virtualized.org - Reason why: I was the co-founder and original program chair committee for APRICOT for 3 years, been loosely involved with APRICOT since then. Been doing various jobs in network infrastructure since around 1983. I'm fairly well versed in network operations, at least from a non-router jockey point of view. Due to a change in my job responsibilities, I have a bit of time that could be supported by my company (ICANN) to do this sort of thing. Nominated by Aaron Hughes - Nominees name: Randy Epstein - Nominees email: repstein(a)chello.at - Reason why: For starters, take a look at his linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=11803139 He has a hell of a lot of industry experience, a great personality, is well known in the community and respected for his decisions. I believe Randy would make a fantastic addition to the PC. Nominated by Michael K. Smith - Nominee's name (if not you) - Nominee's email address: mksmith(a)adhost.com - Reason why: Strong desire to see NANOG continue to be relevant to the largest group of people possible through a diverse and dynamic program offering. - I have a keen sense of irony - I have a thick skin - I've been attending NANOG since 1998 - I have a diverse networking background that includes at least one thing at each of the OSI Extended Layers through 12. - I would really enjoy giving back to a community that has given me a lot over the years (seriously). Nominated by jared mauch - Nominees name: Mike Long - Nominees email: Moong(a)us.ntt.net - Reason why: Mike is our top operations guy for our backbone and would be an asset in providing critical reviews of presentations. I hope he accepts this nomination! Nominated by John G. Scudder - Nominee's name: Ron Bonica - Nominee's email: rbonica(a)juniper.net - Reasons why: Ron has a long history with Internet operations, first as an operator (Internet MCI, VBNS) and now as IETF Operations Area co-director. I think this would be a good opportunity to improve communications between the operations community and the IETF. Also, Ron is very easy to get along with! - Nominater Kevin Epperson - Nominate Brian Deardorff - Brian.Deardorff(a)Level3.com - 720-888-1227 - Brian has extensive experience working for ISPs going back to 1995 racking and stacking Portmasters. He is currently a senior engineer at Level 3 working on multiple products and technologies in the layer 2/3/4 space. He would be a great addition to the program committee bringing both techinical expertise and outstanding industry knowledge from an ISP point of view. Please consider this nomination for Brian to the NANOG PC. Please contact me if you have any questions. - Your name: Richard Steenbergen - Nominee's name (if not you): Tom Scholl - Nominee's email address: tscholl(a)gmail.com - Reasons why you believe the nominee is qualified to serve on the Program Committee. Tom is very experienced in the operation of large scale networks, and a frequent contributor to the NANOG program. His many years of experience at SBC/AT&T would be an excellent replacement to the value Ted Seely brought to the Program Committee with his experience from Sprint. - Nominee's name (if not you) - Celeste Anderson - Nominee's email address - celestea(a)usc.edu - Reasons why you believe the nominee is qualified to serve on the Program Committee quoting bill woodcock: "Celeste has been at the center of the Southern-California academic networking scene for, I believe, twenty years. Which is about as long as there's been an Internet that counts. She ran the Los Angeles IXP since it was established in 1994/1995, and grew it very well, way beyond how it could have grown if it had been done solely as an academic project. She included all kinds of commercial and governmental folks, roped in One Wilshire, etc. Very active in getting everybody there to peer, regardless of many of them not having much of any language in common, since LA is such a big hub for Asian traffic. At the same time that she was doing all the outward-facing IXP stuff, she was also equally active in Los Nettos, the SoCal R&E network. Lots of contacts within the research community, the peering community, the network ops community, and the R&E-specific-networking community." -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood +1 603 643 9300 x101 renesys corporation general manager babbledog todd(a)renesys.com http://www.renesys.com/blog

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Program Committee Vacancy Call for Volunteers Extension
by Todd Underwood 21 May '08

21 May '08

. o O ( i'm thinking about just leaving this program committee chair hat on) the call for volunteers to the nanog program committee (originally sent: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2008-April/000153.html ) has been extended through the end of the weekend (to sunday, 25 may 2008). there were some miscommunications among nominators and the program committee that means that a number of nominations and solicitations did not take place in a timely fashion. i believe the fair thing to do is to extend the time frame for several days to make it possible for everyone who is interested in this seat to offer their name. so if you're interested, review the call for volunteers and submit your name promptly, please. thanks, todd -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood +1 603 643 9300 x101 renesys corporation general manager babbledog todd(a)renesys.com http://www.renesys.com/blog

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Lightning Talk submissions open for NANOG42
by Todd Underwood 21 May '08

21 May '08

/me dons the NANOG PC Chair hat again Lightning talk submissions for NANOG42 are now open: http://nanogpc.org/lightning/ Lightning talks are short talks of interest to the audience in line with the rest of the program. They are strictly limited to 10 minutes (including questions). Lightning talks are selected by the program committee during the conference but we will probably select the first round of lightning talks just prior to the start of the conference. Get your submissions in. /me takes off the hat and wipes his brow -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood +1 603 643 9300 x101 renesys corporation general manager babbledog todd(a)renesys.com http://www.renesys.com/blog

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New socials for NANOG 42 Brooklyn -- Register
by Todd Underwood 21 May '08

21 May '08

<hat org="NANOG" group="program committee" role="chair"> howdy, NANOG42 will take place in brooklyn, NY in about a week and a half. there are two new socials (you can read "socials" as "free drinks and snacks") that have been added to the agenda at http://nanog.org/mtg-0806/agenda.html * equinix is sponsoring a social on tuesday evening: http://nanog.org/mtg-0806/invitation.html * and our host, Telx is sponsoring an event on wednesday evening: http://nanog.org/mtg-0806/invitation2.html both events are open to all nanog attendees. if you have not yet registered for NANOG42, please do so now. the hotel rooms at good rates are all gone, but the registration numbers indicate that many of you are waiting until the last minute to register. please take a minute to do so now so that we can have a more accurate count of the number of expected attendees: https://nanog.merit.edu/registration/ thanks, todd </hat> -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood +1 603 643 9300 x101 renesys corporation general manager babbledog todd(a)renesys.com http://www.renesys.com/blog

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email subject tags and footers
by Philip Smith 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi everyone, Following the discussion on nanog-futures, we'd like to let you all know that the [NANOG] in the subject line and the three extra info lines mailman appends will be dropped from all future messages going to the NANOG list, starting in around 24 hours from now. If any of you have you changed your <nanog(a)nanog.org> e-mail filtering to depend on the [NANOG] subject tag, please consider this 24 hours notice to move to another message filtering technique. Best wishes, philip (for the SC) --

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Re: [NANOG-announce] NANOG Room Block @ Marriott Brooklyn Bridge
by Carol Wadsworth 15 May '08

15 May '08

NANOG 43 Meeting Attendees, Re: NANOG Room Block @ Marriott Brooklyn Bridge If you are holding a reservation at the group rate and need to cancel, please let me know. I would like to take over any cancelled reservation so the room can be reassigned to another meeting attendee, and not go back into the hotel's general inventory for resale at the prevailing rate. If you need a room, please send me your check in/check out dates and phone number. I will let you know if a cancelled room becomes available. Carol Wadsworth NANOG/Merit Network

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Call for Volunteers for the NANOG Mailing List Committee
by Philip Smith 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hello everyone, The NANOG Mailing List Committee is a group of individuals from the NANOG community who collectively are responsible for ensuring the functioning of the NANOG mailing list as an effective resource for the operations community. The Steering Committee would like to hear from people who are interested in joining the team, volunteering their time and energy to help make the NANOG mailing list better. We are looking for people who care about the NANOG mailing list, who are keen readers of the list, and who have a thorough understanding of NANOG culture. If this sounds like you, we would like to encourage you to volunteer to serve on the committee. As per 7.1.2 of the Charter, the Mailing List Committee must have a minimum of four members. Therefore four positions are available, two positions with terms up for renewal at the end of NANOG 44 in October 2008, and two positions with terms up for renewal at the end of NANOG 47 in October 2009. To volunteer, please send your expression of interest to <steering(a)nanog.org> containing a brief summary of how you think the NANOG list could be better, how you think you could help make a difference, and which term length you'd like to serve. The deadline for responses is by the end of 23rd May 2008, and we plan to select the new Mailing List Committee by the end of the following week. Many thanks! philip (for the SC)

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