IAB MEMBERS

Bernard Aboba is a Principal Architect within the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft. Within the IETF he co-chairs the RADEXT and MARTINI WGs and is a member of the Operations and Management and Transport Directorates. His current areas of interest include operations and management of unified communications services, emergency services security and energy efficient networking. He is the author of more than 45 RFCs within the IETF; within IEEE 802, he has been recognized for his contributions to the IEEE 802.1X, IEEE 802.11F, IEEE 802.11i and IEEE 802.11k standards. Bernard received his B.A. in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard University, an M.S. in Thermosciences and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1994, Bernard spent a decade working in the energy industry, including stints as a forensic engineer for Failure Analysis Associates in Menlo Park, and an engineering consultant within the Energy Policy group of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica.

Marcelo Bagnulo is an Associate Professor of the Telematics Department of the University Carlos III of Madrid. He is currently co-chairing the MEXT and the CSI working groups. His interests include new network architectures, routing, and mobility. He is the author of several papers and RFCs in these areas. He has coursed undergraduate studies on Electrical Engineering in the University of Uruguay and he obtained his Ph.D. degree on Telecomunications from the University Carlos III de Madrid. Marcelo is originally from Uruguay, and moved to Spain in 2000.

Ross Callon is a distinguished engineer in the routing software group at Juniper Networks. He is a former routing area director of the IETF. He is also former co-chair of the Operational Security Capabilities (OPSEC) and Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (L3VPN) working groups. He is co-author of the L3VPN Framework document (RFC4110), and contributor to the PPVPN Security Framework (RFC4111).

Ross has been participating in IETF meetings since the first IETF, and has worked on a variety of routing and standards issues over that timeframe. In the past he was co-chair of the IS-IS working group and also was area director for the OSI area of the IETF. He is co-author of RFCs 3212, 3031, 2185, 1925, 1629, 1347, and 1195. He also has been co-chair of Network Reliability and Interoperability Council 6, Focus Group 2, advising the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on reliability issues in Data networks. He was editor for FCC/NRIC document on outage reporting. He was also chair of NRIC5 FG2 advising the FCC on interoperability issues. He has worked on high speed router and routing protocol design. He has an M.Sc. in Operations Research from Stanford University and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Spencer Dawkins is Standards Manager at Huawei Technologies (USA) in Plano, Texas by day, and hand-drummer at IETF plenaries by night. Spencer began participating in the Internet Engineering Task Force in 1996, has served as co-chair for the MARTINI, MEDIACTRL, and SIPCLF working groups in the Realtime Applications and Infrastructure Area, and as co-chair for the PILC working group in the Transport Area, and has served on the General Area Review Team since it was formed in 2004. Spencer has also served as SIPconnect 1.1 editor for the SIP Forum. Spencer is a recovering IETF process wonk, having served on the General Area Directorate and on the author team for RFC 3774, and as editor for several revisions to the NomCom process specification. Prior to joining Huawei, he engineered GPRS and VoIP network monitor products for Inet Technologies/Tektronix, did product architecture for protocol accelerators at a start-up and for next-generation SONET switches at Fujitsu Network Communications, and served in a variety of roles at Nortel Networks, where he started out as a business systems computer programmer, but fast-talked his way into networking product development after reading Andrew Tanenbaum's "Computer Networks", which changed Spencer's life. Spencer holds BBA and MS degrees from the University of North Texas, has a lovely wife named Shirley, and volunteers with early-teenaged kids, where the weirdness keeps him young.

Vijay Gill is Senior Manager, Engineering and Architecture, at Google. He is responsible for all network design, expansion and datacenter infrastructure for Google's production network, as well as participating in various industry organizations and advancing the company's efforts in the standards arena. Vijay has co-authored a variety of RFCs on traffic engineering, multihoming, and routing. He has also given talks and presentations on network design, BGP scaling issues, and traffic engineering in forums such as NANOG and IETF.

Prior to joining Google, Vijay worked as Sr. Technical Manager for AOL Global Network Operations and was responsible for setting the technical direction and strategy for AOL production. Before AOL, Vijay worked as Manager of Architecture at MFN/Abovenet where he participated in revamping the global backbone, standardization of routing policy and product development. Earlier in his career, Vijay worked as a senior engineer at UUNET, participating in the MPLS and multicast engineering projects.

Russ Housley has worked in the computer and network security field since 1982, and he founded Vigil Security, LLC in September 2002. Russ began serving as the IETF Chair in March 2007. His security research and standards interests include security protocols, certificate management, cryptographic key distribution, and high assurance design and development practices. Prior to accepting the IETF Chair position, Russ served as the Security Area Director, and prior to that he chaired the Secure MIME (S/MIME) Working Group. Russ was editor for several cornerstone Internet PKI standards (including RFC 3280). In November 2004, Russ was recognized by the IEEE 802.11 working group for his contributions to IEEE 802.11i-2004, which fixes the severe security shortcoming of the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Russ received his B.S. in computer science from Virginia Tech in 1982, and he received his M.S. in computer science from George Mason University in 1992.

Dr. John C. Klensin is now an independent consultant following a distinguished career as Internet Architecture Vice President at AT&T, Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI WorldCom, and Principal Research Scientist at MIT.

He previously served on the IAB from 1996-2002, and was its Chair from 2000 until 2002. Before that he served as the Area Director for Applications and was Chair, Co-chair, and/or Editor for IETF Working Groups focused on messaging and IETF process issues. He was involved in the early procedural and definitional work for DNS administration and top-level domain definitions. He has taken an active role in the design and mechanisms for internationalization of the DNS and email addressing. He also served the IETF as Liaison to the ICANN Board from 2003-2005.

John was a member of the Advisory Council and of the first ad hoc committees on procedures of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Chair of the ACM Standards Committee, and a member and then Vice-Chair of the Information Systems Standards Board of the American National Standards Institute. Despite this background in standards development and procedures, his primary work has focused on technical and design efforts, both as research and in product development and support. Dr. Klensin is a Fellow of the ACM, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the American Statistical Association and the International Association for Statistical Computing.

Olaf Kolkman was born and raised in the Netherlands. He was trained as an astronomer but his interest in Internet technology took hold of his career path around 1996. He joined the RIPE NCC around 1997 where he got involved in the test-traffic project. That project brought him in contact with the IETF and he attended his first meeting in Munich.

After acting as operations manager for a while he became systems architect, responsible for DNSSEC deployment at the NCC, in 2000.

From that time on he has been active in the DNS community for instance as co-chair of the DNSEXT working group. In 2005 he joined NLnet Labs, a R&D foundation, as chief executive. He is an IAB member since March 2006.

Danny McPherson is currently Vice President of R&D at Verisign, and before that held a research and architecture position with Arbor Networks. Prior to joining Arbor he was with Amber Networks, and prior to that worked in network operation and architecture positions for nearly a decade; at internetMCI, Genuity (acquired by GTE Internetworking), Qwest Communications and the US Army. He has been an active participant in Internet Standardization since 1996, served on three NomComs (one of which he chaired), and currently co-chairs the PWE3 WG. His primary areas of interest are routing, operations, addressing, security, and of course, pseudowires. Danny is quite active in the network and security operations and research communities.

Jon Peterson is a Fellow at NeuStar, Inc. He served on the Steering Group of the IETF as co-Area Director of the Transport Area from 2003 to 2006, and subsequently the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI) area, from 2006 to 2009. Previously, he founded the SIMPLE WG of the IETF and served as chair of the SIP WG. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty RFCs, including RFC3261, the core Session Initiation Protocol specification. His work has also extended to numerous other standards and technical coordination organizations, including the ITU-T, the Liberty Alliance and ICANN, where he served on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee. His primary interests are immediate personal communications, geolocation, security and privacy.

Andrei Robachevsky is Chief Technical Officer of the RIPE NCC since 2002 and is responsible for the development of company's IT strategy, external and internal IT services and management of the company engineering activities. Andrei was responsible for the deployment of DNSSEC for the reverse DNS tree and deployment of anycast instances of K-root DNS server.

Andrei is also involved in various external activities. He is a member of the NRO Engineering Coordination Group (ECG) responsible for various technical inter-RIR activities and projects. He is an active member of the root server operators group and RSSAC. He is also actively following RIPE and IETF activities.

Prior to joining the RIPE NCC in 1999 Andrei was involved in building university networks in Russia.

Dave Thaler is a Software Architect in the Windows Networking and Devices division at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, he was a routing developer at Merit Network. Since then, he has been responsible for multicast, IPv6, network diagnostics, and peer-to-peer efforts within Windows Networking, and also led the TCP/IP team during the design of the new TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista. Dave has been active in the IETF since 1995 and has authored over 20 RFCs, covering IPv6, multicast, MIBs, etc.

He is also a member of the MIB Doctors group, and previously served as co-chair of the MALLOC WG. Dave holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Hannes works for Nokia Siemans Networks.

EX-OFFICIO

Dow Street is a senior systems engineer at LinQuest, where he works on problems in routing and network architecture. For the past few years his focus has been satellite-based IP networks, and networks with large-scale, macro-mobility. More recently he has become interested in the impact of ubiquitous mobility on Internet routing. He has a BS in CS from Carnegie Mellon University, and graduate coursework from UC San Diego and Berkeley. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he now lives in San Francisco, CA.

Aaron Falk works at BBN Technologies. His interests include network architecture, congestion control, and satellite networking. Aaron has been involved in the IETF since 1996, chairing the TCPSAT, PILC, and DCCP working groups and the RFC Editor. Currently, he is the Engineering Architect (interim) and Lead System Engineer on the GENI project, a national-scale experimental facility for development of new network architectures. Prior to his work at BBN, Aaron worked at USC Information Sciences Institute where he led development of a key subsystem of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) MREFC project, Embedded Cyberinfrastructure (ECI), involving software development for real-time system, system integration, and field testing. He also lead the implementation of XCP, a new congestion control protocol, and analyzed performance and functional issues when Internet protocols traverse packet-switching satellites. Aaron's background is in satellite system design and he developed satellite network architectures at TRW, Hughes, and PanAmSat. While a graduate student at the University of Maryland, Aaron designed and implemented a system to provide broadband Internet access with a receive-only satellite dish. He currently serves as a chair of the Internet Research Task Force.

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