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@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@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@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@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@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@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@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@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@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@renesys.com http://www.renesys.com/blog _______________________________________________ NANOG-announce mailing list NANOG-announce@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-announce