NANOG 66 Agenda

• Resolve Systems

• Kentik, Radware, ViaSat

Conference Opening

Al Burgio, IIX

Al is the Founder & CEO of IIX. He has lead IIX’s global expansion since founding the company in 2011. In 2013, Al moved from Ontario, Canada to establish the company’s new headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. IIX now has over 100 employees across 5 offices in 4 countries and over 150 global points of presence across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Greg Dendy, Equinix

Greg Dendy manages networks and engineers for Equinix in North America. He and his team of tireless engineers operate the Equinix Internet Exchange platforms and other networks including carrier ethernet, Metro DWDM and TDM/SONET platforms to a five nines uptime standard. Greg began his career with Pacific Bell/SBC Internet during the rollout of broadband in the mid/late 1990s, did time with @Home during the implosion of 2001 and has been working for Equinix since 2004. He received a BA from UC Santa Barbara and a MA from CSU Chico.
• Raj Khurana.

Tony Tauber, Comcast

In his role as Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, Tony focuses on Backbone and Core network architecture and engineering with particular attention to measurement, manageability, and automation. He also partners with the research and education communities on projects and currently chairs the NANOG Program Committee. In the past Tony held senior network engineering positions at BBN, GTE Internetworking, Genuity, Level3, and MIT Lincoln Lab as well as served as co-chair of the Routing Protocol Security working group in the IETF.

Lost Stars - Why Operators Switch off IPv6

Emile Aben, RIPE NCC

Emile Aben is a System Architect for the Research and Development department. Prior to that role, he worked in the RIPE NCC Science Group as a research engineer since 2009. In the 10 years before that he worked as a web developer, sysadmin, security consultant and researcher. He is interested in Internet measurement and technology changes like the transition to IPv6. He frequently posts on RIPE Labs.

• Verisign

What's NetDevOps? Why?

Leslie Carr, SFMIX

Leslie Carr is currently on the board of directors at SFMIX and happily running away from the responsibilities of day jobs. Before becoming a funemployed bum, Leslie was a devops engineer at Cumulus Networks. Previous to that, she was on the production side of the world at many large websites, such as Google, Craigslist, and Wikimedia. She is a lover and user of open source and automation, and she dreams of robots taking over all of our jobs one day.

• Approved Optics, Myriad, Precision Optical Transceivers

Hands-on DNSSEC with DNSViz

Casey Deccio, Verisign Labs

Casey Deccio is a Senior Research Scientist at Verisign Labs. Among his research and development interests and goals are DNSSEC deployment enhancements, DNS ecosystem tools/monitoring, and the measurement, modeling, and analysis of deployed Internet protocols, including DNS/DNSSEC and IPv6. While a Principal Research and Development Cyber Security Staff member at Sandia National Laboratories, where he had been employed since 2004, and where he was responsible for network-related research and development, including DNSSEC and IPv6 deployment efforts. At Sandia he developed DNSViz, the widely used Web-based tool for DNS analysis and visualization. Casey earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, and received a Ph.D. from UC Davis, in Computer Science. His dissertation was a study of dependencies in the DNS, which form a model for quantifying and improving DNS availability through careful deployment practices.

• Equinix, Netflix

Data Center Track - How Good is Your Data Center?

Gabe Cole, RTE Group, Inc.

Gabe Cole Chair, Data Center Standards Open-IX Gabe Cole, founder of RTE Group, is an accomplished technology executive with over 20 years’ experience across data center, network, and cloud. Gabe assists service providers and enterprises with converged network and data center design, procurement, and migration including colocation and the XaaS stack of services. He has personally worked on over 150 engagements in North America and EMEA. He is an expert at balancing reliability and performance requirements against technology and business limitations to consistently increase performance at progressively lower price points. In addition, he is frequently called on by investors for assistance with data centers, telco hotels, data center technologies, and services companies.

John Hawkins, vXchnge

John Hawkins is an author, speaker, writer, strategist and technologist, with over 20 years in business as a consultant to fortune 25-500+ companies. He is currently VP of Marketing at vXchnge, an operator of next-generation, software-defined, intelligent data centers. Prior to joining vXchnge, John was a Senior Director at RiverMeadow Software where he was responsible for enablement and training. Prior to RiverMeadow, John served as the Chief Services Architect and Trusted Adviser for Cloud Computing at BMC Software. In this role, John had global responsibility for managing 2 of the 3 Global BMC Centers-of-Excellence, Data Center COE and Performance & Availability COE. John has also worked for other leading edge companies, such as VMware, Oracle, BEA System, and Webtrends (NetIQ).

Phill Lawson-Shanks, EdgeConnex

Chief Architect & VP of Innovation Phill Lawson-Shanks has been at the forefront of designing and deploying industry leading solutions in both the UK and the US for over 25 years. Prior to EdgeConneX, Lawson-Shanks was CTO of Virtacore responsible for datacenter build-out, network core architecture & systems to accommodate the migration and consolidation of thousands of clients and infrastructure. Lawson-Shanks team also designed and deployed the world’s largest VMware based Public Cloud. At Alcatel-Lucent he served as Chief Strategy Officer for the Strategic Solutions Division where he introduced and led their transition to the cloud, virtualizing their services & creating meaningful time and cost savings. As VP and GM of Hosting at SAVVIS, Lawson-Shanks re-establish the Managed Hosting business as well as introduce the first ‘virtual server’ product. As VP and GM of Digital Media at MCI, Lawson-Shanks founded the division and received several related patents in the process.

Craig Weick, CME Group

Executive Director Co-Location Product Management

• IPv4 Market Group, SolidOptics, Unite Private Networks

Security Track: At the Intersection of Anti-Abuse and Infrastructure

Dave Crocker, Brandenburg InternetWorking

David H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking, developing network-based applications businesses and designing system architectures for them. Over the past 45 years he contributed to early Internet research, led product development efforts and founded several startups, serving as CEO for one. Dave created and operated two national email services, designed two others, and was CEO of a community non-profit ISP. He has authored more 50 IETF Requests For Comments (RFCs). Dave served as an Area Director for the Internet Engineering Task Force, variously overseeing network management, middleware and the IETF standards processes well as doing a stint on the IETF's administrative committee and chairing a working group on reputation. He is a senior technical adviser for the industry trade association, Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, and is on the board of the non-profit Trusted Domain Project. Dave is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet award for his work on email.

Dennis Dayman, Return Path

Dennis Dayman has more than 20 years of experience combating spam, security/privacy issues, data governance issues, and improving email delivery through industry policy, ISP relations and technical solutions. As Return Path’s chief privacy and security officer, he is responsible for coordinating and managing Return Path’s international electronic commerce, privacy and Internet related policy issues. Before Return Path, he was Eloqua’s chief privacy and security officer. Eloqua was acquired by Oracle for $871 Million dollars in 2012. Prior to Eloqua, Dayman worked at StrongMail Systems as the director of deliverability, privacy, and standards.

Tobias Knecht, Abusix

Tobias began his career as a contracting project and process manager for IBM. In 2003 he joined Schlund+Partner and established the worldwide Abuse Department for the merged brands of United Internet(1&1, GMX and web.de). Tobias joined Habeas as European Manager for E-Mail Policy and Abuse Handling in 2007. After the acquisition of Habeas by Return Path he was a consultant for Return Path and many other companies in the field of Internet security. End of 2008 he co-started the Global Reporting Project which led into the incorporation of abusix. Tobias is also Co-Chair of the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group.

Jared Mauch, NTT America

Jared Mauch works for NTT Communications Global IP Network in the Network Architecture and Development team. He has been active in network abuse and mitigation and won the J.D. Falk award for his work on the OpenResolverProject and other related works. He continues to work on routing and infrastructure security with an interest in the social and business reasons behind malicious actors.

Tom Shaw, SUBRL

For the first 20 years of his career, Mr. Shaw (Florida Institute of Technology, Computer Science, 1972) worked for a defense contractor creating INTEL systems for the DOD . He left in the ‘90s to start his own consulting company where he architected for Raytheon a large fusion system using disparate data sources and created the first certified TSABI Controlled Interface. His firm continues to provide services to the defense and civil communities as well as generating threat indicators for internal and external use. He is a co-owner of the risk scoring company, e-hawk.net and is a partner in SURBL, a domain/host based DNSbl reputation and threat indicator provider.

foy shiver, APWG

Foy Shiver is President and CEO of Woodstock Clinical Data Systems, Deputy Secretary-General of the APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) and one of the founding directors of APWG.EU, a European foundation headquartered in Barcelona. In 2004 Mr. Shiver assumed management of operations of the nascent non-profit Anti-Phishing Working Group. In 2005, Mr. Shiver accepted the appointment as Deputy Secretary-General of APWG for which he is charged with cultivating the membership base around research, education and policy issues to fight cybercrime and electronically mediated fraud In 2013 Mr. Shiver worked with APWG and CaixaBank in Spain to found the new European Foundation APWG.EU. This foundation is harnessing resources focused on cybercrime research and education within the European Union and plays a leadership role in inspiring cybercrime research across the globe.

Jesse Sowell, Stanford

Jesse Sowell is a Research Affiliate at MIT and runs DevOps and Measurement Visualization at the Markley Group. Jesse's PhD research was a study of institutional mechanisms and attendant forms of authority that support Internet infrastructure operations. In other words, what are the characteristics of the social glue that ensures interconnection among a private network of networks continues to cohere into the modern Internet? Jesse's current research interests comprise cost and risk models of Internet infrastructure, incentives in malware value networks, and the political challenges of developing joint capabilities between operational communities and conventional governance actors.

Keynote: Internet Measurement

k claffy, CAIDA

Kimberly Claffy ("kc claffy") is founder and director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), a resident research scientist of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC, San Diego, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC, San Diego. Her research interests span Internet topology, routing, security, economics, future Internet architectures, and policy. She leads CAIDA research and infrastructure efforts in Internet cartography, aimed at characterizing the changing nature of the Internet's topology, routing and traffic dynamics, and investigating the implications of these changes on network science, architecture, infrastructure security and stability, and public policy. She has been at SDSC since 1991 and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego.

David Clark, MIT

David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked since receiving his Ph.D. there in 1973. Since the mid 70s, Dr. Clark has been leading the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet Activities Board. His current research looks at re-definition of the architectural underpinnings of the Internet, and the relation of technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy considerations. He is helping the U.S. National Science foundation organize their Future Internet Design program. He is past chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies, and has contributed to a number of studies on the societal and policy impact of computer communications. He is co-director of the MIT Communications Futures Program, a project for industry collaboration and coordination along the communications value chain.

Geoff Huston, APNIC

Geoff Huston works as the Chief Scientist at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region. His research interests include addressing, routing, the domain name system, security and measurement.

• A10 Networks, Digital Realty | Telx, LightRiver

• Facebook

• 910 Telecom, Telstra

Addressing Challenges in an Anycast CDN

• Nick Holt, Microsoft.

Segment Routing in Datacenter

Soumik Bhattacharya, Cisco

Networking since 1999 - Started with development work for Optical Networking ( SONET/SDH ) in Nortel Networks then moved to GMPLS & Network Monitoring/EMS/NMS finally entered the world of Ethernet & TCP/IP - worked at Ixia, Riverstone Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper Networks, Brocade and now in Cisco. Mostly in development - either as a programmer or as a tester, sometimes both - and had a stint with management for about 3 years. Currently busy in Segment Routing, Ethernet VPN and Automation using Python.

Update on the IANA Stewardship Transition

Alissa Cooper, Cisco

Dr. Alissa Cooper is a Distinguished Engineer in the Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco Systems, where she is responsible for driving privacy and policy strategy within the company's portfolio of real-time collaboration products. Alissa focuses on ensuring that Cisco's collaboration products meet high standards for privacy, data protection, and data sovereignty and accommodate regulatory and compliance requirements across a variety of industry verticals and geographies. Alissa currently serves as Applications and Real-Time Area Director within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as chair of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG). She holds a PhD from the Oxford Internet Institute and MS and BS degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

Peering Track

• Aaron Hughes, 6connect.
• Daniel Kopp, DE-CIX.

Ciprian Marginean, AMS-IX

I'm a network engineer and have been involved in the industry for more than ten years now. I've started by building a small ISP company in my hometown and moved on to working for increasingly larger ones. I joined AMS-IX in the Netherlands six moths ago and I've been part of the network operations team ever since. My main career focus and personal interests revolve around the Information Technology area with emphasis on the networking side of things.

Brad Raymo, Microsoft

I have been in the industry for over 9 years now. I started in the NOC as a level 1 technician and have worked my way up from there. My main focus over the past 5 years has been on interconnection. Prior to joining the Program Committee I served on the Communications Committee where I was responsible for social media outreach. I am excited to see where the industry goes and how I can impact it.

Latest Trends in Optical Interconnects

Christian Urricariet, Finisar Corporation

Christian Urricariet is Senior Director of Marketing at Finisar and is responsible for managing the high-speed 200G/400G transceiver product line for data center and service provider applications. Since joining the company in 1999, he has held a variety of product management roles encompassing 100G, 40G, 10G, 2G and 1G optical product lines. Prior to joining Finisar, he held several telecom product marketing positions at Raychem Corporation. He holds an Electronics Engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA).

Conference Closing

Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director

Currently serving as the NANOG Executive Director, responsible for all aspects of NANOG, reporting to the Board of Directors. Previous 37 years of experience serving in technology, business, and management within the Michigan Information Technology Services, University of Michigan, and Merit Network. Proven leadership and experience in development of strategic and operational plans, creation and implementation of marketing campaign for conference center and high tech facilities including a data center, conference and office building, library and campus fiber assets. Proven operational success through project management, along with leadership through community and team building.