NANOG 47 Agenda

Tutorial: Introduction to BGP

Avi Freedman, ServerCentral

Avi Freedman is CTO and VP of Cloud Services with ServerCentral, where he is rolling out a Private Cloud Platform for Enterprise and content provider customers. Prior to joining ServerCentral, Avi was at Akamai for 9.9 years where he founded the network group and played in the vast Akamai geek sandbox, interfacing Akamai Technologies to the real world. Avi founded Philadelphia's original ISP, netaxs, and started teaching Internet routing in the real world in the mid-90s. He was a founding member of the ARIN advisory council and is actively involved in the network community.

Tutorial: How to Accurately Interpret Traceroute Results

Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications

Richard Steenbergen is the co-founder of nLayer Communications, a respectably sized and profitable North American based IP backbone, where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Richard brings years of experience in practical techniques for network operators, and is a frequent contributor in many community forums. Previously, Richard served as a Senior Network Engineer at several large NSPs, and was the Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.<BR> <BR> Richard is also an active developer for tools and software used by the network operator community. Some notable projects include PeeringDB, a portal used by many networks to help coordinate their peering activities, and IRRPT, a software package used by ISPs to maintain IRR-based prefix filters.

NANOG Community Meeting

• Betty Burke, Merit Network.

Todd Braning, BandCon

Todd Braning is BandCon's VP of Network Services, where he is responsible for the planning, engineering and optimization of BandCon's national IP network in addition to developing and deploying the company's interconnection strategies. Prior to joining BandCon, Todd held several positions at Level 3 Communications related to network peering, planning and development. Todd is a graduate of N.C. State University.

2009 Internet Observatory Report

Scott Iekel-Johnson, Arbor Networks

Scott Iekel-Johnson has been with Arbor Networks since 2001, where he helped design and implement the Peakflow SP system. He received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Michigan where he conducted research into building highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. He also participated in the IPMA project at Merit Network.

Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks

Craig Labovitz is Chief Architect of Arbor Networks' service provider security and backbone engineering solutions. Before joining Arbor, Craig served as a research scientist at Microsoft Research and Merit Network, Inc. His research interests include the security and fault-tolerance of large-scale distributed systems. He is well-known for several important early papers on Internet routing dynamics and reliability. Craig received his PhD. and MSE from the University of Michigan.

Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks

Danny McPherson is Chief Research Officer at Arbor Networks. He has over 14 years in the Internet network operations, security and telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Arbor, Danny was Director of Emerging Technology at Amber Networks. He has served as network architect for global Internet Service Providers such as Qwest, MCI and Genuity. Danny currently chairs the IETF PWE3 Working Group and is a member of several IETF Area directorates and Internet research groups.

Internet Operations and ARIN Policy - Is There Convergence? Part 2

Mark Kosters, ARIN

Mark Kosters has over twenty one years of experience as an applications developer, networking engineer, technical manager and executive. Over the last sixteen years, he was a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC (InterNIC), and Vice President of Research at VeriSign. Recently, Mark has taken a job as the CTO of ARIN. Over his career, he has been involved in application design and implementation of client/server tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database administration, and network security. He has represented both network information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE, APNIC, and NANOG.

• Daniel Alexander, Comcast Cable.

Tom Daly, Dynamic Network Services

Tom Daly is the President of Dynamic Network Services, Inc. (DNS Inc.), a Manchester NH-based Internet Services company, best known for the dyndns.org dynamic network service. The company provides domain name, e-mail, monitoring, and disaster recovery solutions to clients utilizing the Company's worldwide network. Tom joined the company in 2001 when DNS Inc. and works on developing new products and services, expanding the company's geographic footprint in the US, Europe and Asia. He has been CIO, and is now President and Chief Technology Officer.<BR> <BR> Prior to working at DNS, Inc., Tom worked for G4 Communications, Inc., one of NH's largest Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC). Tom graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He currently serves on the board of the New Hampshire High Tech Council and WPI's ECE Advisory Board.

Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo

Igor Gashinsky is a principal architect at Yahoo!, a global content provider, where he is involved in projects ranging from overall network design (including highly resilient switching and routing architecture, peering, MPLS, L4-7 loadbalancing), as well as scalable content delivery methodologies and DNS architecture.

Aaron Hughes, 6connect

Aaron brings more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry <BR> <BR> Aaron Hughes is President and CTO at 6connect, Inc specializing in Internet Engineering automation solutions, cooling technologies and distributed managed services with a focus on IPv6. He is also the Chief Network Architect at UnitedLayer bringing more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and is responsible for network topology planning, design and operations. <BR> <BR> Aaron has also held network and system architecture and Sr. level management roles at Lockheed Martin, Cariden Technologies, Terremark, Certainty Solutions, Quest Technologies, RCN, UltraNet and Channel(1) Communications.

Kevin Oberman, ESnet

Kevin Oberman is a Senior Network Engineer at ESnet, the backbone research network for the US Department of Energy Office of Science where<BR> he deals with routing, peering, configuration management, traffic engineering, DNS, NTP, and other general network engineering issues. His background in networking goes back over 20 years to the early implementations of Ethernet.

Virtual Aggregation

Paul Francis, MPI-SWS

Paul Francis is a tenured faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. Paul has held research positions at Cornell University, ACIRI, NTT Software Labs, Bellcore,and MITRE, and was Chief Scientist at two Silicon Valley startups. Paul's research centers around routing and addressing problems in the Internet and P2P networks. Paul's innovations include NAT, shared-tree multicast, the first P2P multicast system, the first DHT (as part of landmark routing), and Virtual <BR> Aggregation.

ISP Security Track

Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks

Roland Dobbins has more than two decades of operational experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, securing, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting large-scale networks. His focus is on the availability, scalability, and security of network infrastructure and the applications/ services it enables.

Warren Kumari, Google

Warren Kumari is currently a Senior Network Security Engineer at Google, where he has been for the past 4 1/2 years. He has over 15 years experience in the Internet industry. During that time, Warren has worked for a wide range of companies, ranging from tiny start-up ISPs to large enterprises. Prior to Google, he was at AOL and before that at Register.com, back when competitive registrars were first introduced.<BR> <BR> He is active in the IETF and serves on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee.

• Joe Abley, ICANN.
• Ian Fette, Google.

Barry Raveendran Greene, Juniper

Mr. Barry Raveendran Greene is currently the Director of Juniper's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). With 30 years in the industry,<BR> Barry brings a wide range of experiences and skills to the just of fulfilling Juniper's mission to deliver products that are Fast, Reliable, and Secure.<BR> <BR> More details about Barry's work history can be found here:<BR> http://www.linkedin.com/in/barryrgreene

• Sponsors Alcatel-Lucent, Arbor Networks, Brocade, Cariden Technologies, Cisco Systems, Hibernia Atlantic, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), Juniper Networks, and XKL.

• David Meyer, Program Committee Chair.

• John Curran, ARIN.

Data Center Challenges: Building Networks for Agility

David A. Maltz, Microsoft Research

David A. Maltz is in the Networking Research Group of Microsoft Research where he designs new architectures for data center and enterprise networks and investigates techniques for managing IT infrastructure. He was a founder of startup companies in network traffic management and wireless networking, leading engineering efforts at each.

• Mirjam Kuhne, RIPE NCC.
• Kevin Oberman, ESnet.

The Future of Internet Exchange Points

Avi Freedman, Server Central

Avi Freedman is Chief Network Scientist with Akamai, where he works on architecture, research, product development, Internet visualization, and vulnerability analysis. Prior to joining Akamai, Avi founded Philadelphia's original ISP, netaxs (4969), and then was VP of Engineering at AboveNet. He was a founding member of the ARIN advisory council and is actively involved in the network community.

Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications

Richard Steenbergen is the co-founder of nLayer Communications, a respectably sized and profitable North American based IP backbone, where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Richard brings years of experience in practical techniques for network operators, and is a frequent contributor in many community forums. Previously, Richard served as a Senior Network Engineer at several large NSPs, and was the Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.<BR> <BR> Richard is also an active developer for tools and software used by the network operator community. Some notable projects include PeeringDB, a portal used by many networks to help coordinate their peering activities, and IRRPT, a software package used by ISPs to maintain IRR-based prefix filters.

• BJ Neal, Federal Communications Commission.
• Matthew Petach, Yahoo.
• Eric Wustrow, Merit Network.

PE-ARP - Port Enhanced ARP for IPv4 Address Sharing

Manish Karir, Merit Network

Manish Karir as the Research Program Manager leads the Networking Research and Development group at Merit Network Inc. He is responsible for setting the overall research agenda for the group as well as program management for various projects. At Merit he has led the research activities of Merit in the direction of Internet data analysis and tool development. Some of the successful projects have included the development of BGP-Inspect as a joint project with the University of Maryland which provides a custom backend database that enables fast web based queries in order to extract relevant BGP routing information from vast quantities of raw data; as well the development of a unique software tool called Flamingo that enables Internet traffic data exploration in real-time. Flamingo provides an intuitive 3-dimensional network traffic data representations, as well as the necessary navigation and filtering controls to allow users to manipulate the visual displays. Manish has also been involved with the University if Michigan on the Department of Homeland Security funded PREDICT project, as well as an effort to study, detect, and mitigate the threat posed by Botnets. Based on his research activities, Manish has published technical papers in various refereed conferences or as Merit technical reports, and has often presented his work at these venues. Most recently Manish has overseen the DARPA funded Control Plane program at Merit as well as a project to develop a novel technique for sharing IPv4 addresses.

Tutorial: Effective BGP Load Balancing Using "The Metric System"

Dani Roisman, Peak Web Consulting

Dani Roisman provides Network Design and Engineering services at Peak Web Consulting. In addition to his role as a Senior Network Architect, he is also the Network Engineering Team Lead. He specializes in large content datacenters and networks, with a focus on peering and multi-homing to reduce costs, improve customer negotiating stance, as well as increased network capacity, performance, and fault-tolerance. His network design and implementation accomplishments include multiplayer game and social networking deployments hosting over 5,000 servers across 9 datacenters with Internet bandwidth capacities reaching 250Gbps.

Introduction to the Policy Development Process

• Einar Bohlin, ARIN.

Beer and Pizza Happy Hour

• Betty Burke, Merit Network.