NANOG26 Agenda

Tutorial: BGP Troubleshooting Techniques

Philip Smith, Cisco Systems

Philip Smith has been with Cisco Systems for four years. He is part of the Internet Architectures Group, which is led by the CTO for Consulting Engineering. His role includes working with many ISPs in the Asia Pacific region, specifically in network design, configuration, and scaling, as well as providing training through an extensive ISP Workshop program. Prior to joining Cisco, Philip spent five years in several key network engineering and operations roles at PIPEX (now part of UUNET\'s global ISP business), the UK\'s first commercial Internet Service Provider. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.

Tutorial: ISP Security - Real World Techniques II

• Barry Raveendran Greene, Cisco Systems.
• Kevin Houle, CERT.

Tutorial: IPv6 Basics

Tony Hain, Cisco Systems

Tony Hain is currently a Technical Leader with Cisco Systems, focusing on IPv6. In addition to providing guidance to the various internal product teams, he is also co-chair of the IETF working group on the IPv6 transition (ngtrans). His 13 years of IETF participation include a term on the Internet Architecture Board from 1997 - 2001. Prior to joining Cisco in 2001, Tony spent five years at Microsoft, where his roles included Program Manager for IPv6 and Network Analyst for the CIO\'s office. Prior to Microsoft, he was the Associate Network Manager for the Department of Energy\'s Internet effort, ESnet.

John Curran, ARIN Board Chair

John Curran is the Chairman of Board of ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers. John helped found ARIN five years ago and has served as Chair since its inception. ARIN has over 1800 members and is the Regional Internet Registry managing IP address resources for the North America, South America and the Caribbean region. When not managing ARIN, John is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at XO Communications, a facilities-based communications provider in Reston, Virginia.
• Susan Harris, Merit Network.

Lucy L. Lynch, University of Oregon

Lucy Lynch is a member of the Univesity of Oregon Computing Center staff. She is part of the Academic User Services team, along with Hans Kuhn and Joel Jaeggli. Her duties sometimes include the management of special projects like hosting a NANOG meeting!

Dave Meyer, Sprint/University of Oregon

David Meyer is currently Chief Technologist and Senior Scientist 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. He is active in the IETF, where he chairs the MBONED and MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol) working groups. He is also active in ANSI T1X1, among other industry organizations.

• Vijay Gill, AOL Time Warner.

Carrier Class Availability for IP Networks

Sanjay Kalra, Juniper

Sanjay Kalra is responsible for jigh availability and security at Juniper. Prior to Juniper he was a product manager at Cisco, managing QoS in IOS. Sanjay holds a Master\'s degree in Computer Networking from USC and an MBA in Finance from Santa Clara University.

Fast Reroute - A High Availability Addition to MPLS

• Sohel Ahmed, Qwest.

Shankar Rao, Qwest

Shankar Rao is Manager of the Network Architecture and Technology Management group at Qwest, responsible for design and technology deployments that support Qwest\'s IP network infrastructure, including new data services and products. Prior to joining Qwest in 1998, Shankar served in an operational capacity at Sprint for three years.
• Richard Southern, Juniper.

Panel: Services, Complexity, and the Internet: What Direction?

Dave Meyer, Sprint and the University of Oregon

David Meyer is currently Chief Technologist and Senior Scientist 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. He is active in the IETF, where he chairs the MBONED and MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol) working groups. He is also active in ANSI T1X1, among other industry organizations.

Randy Bush, IIJ

Randy Bush works as Principal Scientist at Internet Initiative Japan. Previously he spent a bit over a year at AT&T doing research and working on network architecture. He got some operational experience from being on the founding team at Verio, a backbone provider, from which he graduated as VP of Networking after five years. Before that, he was the principal engineer of RAINet, an ISP in Oregon and Washington, which was Verio\'s first acquisition. <BR><BR> Randy is co-chair of IETF WG on the DNS, and is currently a member of the IESG, serving as co-chair of the IETF Operations and Management Area, mainly covering the operations area. <BR><BR> As PI for the Network Startup Resource Center, an NSF-supported pro bono effort, he has been involved for some years with the deployment and integration of appropriate networking technology in the developing world. <BR><BR> For references cited in Dave Meyer\'s talk, see: <BR><BR> <A HREF=\"http://www.maoz.com/~dmm/complexity_and_the_internet/\" TARGET=\"_BLANK\">http://www.maoz.com/~dmm/complexity_and_the_internet/</A> <BR><BR> For Dave Meyer\'s slides, please see: <BR><BR> <A HREF=\"http://www.maoz.com/~dmm/NANOG26/complexity_panel/\" TARGET=\"_BLANK\">http://www.maoz.com/~dmm/NANOG26/complexity_panel/</A>
• Vijay Gill, AOL Time Warner.

Thomas Telkamp, Global Crossing

Thomas Telkamp is Director of Network Architecture at Global Crossing, responsible for the planning and architecture of Global Crossing\'s MPLS backbone, Internet services, and VPNs. Before joining Global Crossing in January 1999, he was at AT&T-Unisource Communications Services (now Infonet Europe) and SURFnet. He has also worked as a consultant for several companies, including DANTE and Wunderman Cato Johnson.
• Dave Ward, Cisco Systems.

Lixia Zhang, UCLA

Lixia Zhang is a Professor in the UCLA Computer Science Department. She received her Ph.D. degree from MIT in 1989. Lixia was a research staff member at Xerox PARC from 1989 to 1995, when she joined UCLA. Her recent research projects have focused on fault tolerance in large-scale systems and network routing protocols.

Toolmaker BOF

• Stephen Stuart, ISC.

IPv6 Impressions: ARIN Update and Routing Table Overview

Cathy Wittbrodt, Packet Design

Cathy Wittbrodt is a member of the technical staff of Packet Design. Before joining Packet Design she was with [email protected], where she was responsible for network routing and IP addressing. Cathy is a member of the ARIN advisory council as well as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) address council. She has been active in the Internet for 12 years. She began at Merit Network, Inc. where she worked on the NSFNET Backbone. Also while at Merit Cathy built CICNet, a network that connected the Big 10 universities. Following Merit, Cathy designed and implemented OSI/CLNP for the Energy Sciences Network. Although OSI/CLNP was never widely deployed, the experience has given greater insight into addressing and scaling issues. Cathy also spent three years in the engineering group of the Bay Area Regional Research Network, BARRNet, which was bought by BBN Planet. Cathy is on the Board of Directors of Panzer Motorcycle Works, USA, Inc. She has a B.S. in mathematics from Northern Arizona University.

Toward Lowering the Load on DNS Root Nameservers

Duane Wessels, The Measurement Factory/CAIDA

Duane Wessels discovered Unix and the Internet as an undergraduate student studying physics at Washington State University. After playing System Administrator for a few years, he moved to Boulder, Colorado to attend graduate school. In late 1994, he joined the Harvest project, where he worked on searching, indexing and caching. From 1996 until 2000, he was co-principle investigator of the NLANR Information Resource Caching project (IRCache). During this time he and others developed and supported the Squid caching proxy. He has written a book, titled Web Caching, published by O\'Reilly and Associates. Currently, he is co-owner and president of The Measurement Factory, Inc., a company that specializes in evaluating the performance and compliance of HTTP-aware devices.

Scriptroute: A Public Internet Measurement Facility

• Tom Anderson, Department of CSE, University of Washington.

Neil Spring, Department of CSE, University of Washing

Neil Spring is a graduate student at the University of Washington, focusing on techniques for measuring network link and path properties. The latest project for Neil and his colleagues is Rocketfuel, an ISP toplogy mapping engine.
• David Wetherall, Department of CSE, University of Washington.