NZNOG09 Speakers

NZNOG09 promises to be another year of quality speakers, with a mix of international and local topics that will be of benefit to everyone in the NOG community.

James Spenceley - Vocus: A perspective on 4-byte AS Numbers

James Spenceley has been part of the Australian Internet Industry for over 10 years now. Originally founding the other iNet (the less successful one) he has held Network Management and Technical roles with Dot Communications and Mailtv before leaving to be the founding geek for IPTel (later COMindico, SPTel, Soul and now Soul TPG). There James worked on the initial business model and funding, managed the design and negotiations for the deploying of the $400million COMindico national voice and data network. During this time James connected and built the International network (on SouthernCross) dropping the price of transit over 90% in a matter of months. All this was done while having lots of fun dealing with the Local and US peering politics of the late 90's and early 2000's. After a brief stint catching up on his VoIP skills at VoIP provider, James is now running the wholesale Voice and Internet company Vocus, which again involves lots of undersea cable, voice and US POPs but this time more IPv6 and 4 Byte AS Numbers.

Bill Manning - EP.net: v4/v6 translation methods

DNS developer, implementor, and operator. ARIN Trustee. seeker of good things.

Gordon Paynter - National Library of New Zealand: The National Library Harvest

Dr. Gordon W. Paynter is a Technical Analyst for the Innovation Centre at the National Library of New Zealand. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, then worked for the New Zealand Digital Library Project and the University of California. His current projects centre on web archiving, institutional repositories, and newspaper digitization.

Richard Lamb - IANA: DNSSEC and other IANA work

Rick is DNSSEC Program Manager at IANA/ICANN. In this position he has been responsible for engineering technical and policy elements to deploy DNSSEC at the root (and other domains IANA is responsible for) in an effort to respond to requests from the Internet community. Prior to joining IANA Rick did a short stint as Director Global IT Policy at the US State Department to help policy makers at various agencies understand the technology and philosophy behind the Internet’s success. For the majority of his prior 20+ year career he designed, built, and wrote networking systems and software and founded a couple startups selling the last one back in 1999 to Microsoft. Before that he extracted a PhD from MIT in electrical engineering.

Jason Sinclair - PIPE Networks: TBC

Brian Carpenter - University of Auckland: Renumbering still needs work.

Before that, he spent ten years with IBM at various locations, working on Internet standards and technology. From 1997 he was at IBM's Hursley Laboratory in England. From 1999 to 2001 he was at iCAIR, the international Center for Advanced Internet Research, sponsored by IBM at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was most recently based in Switzerland as a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Before joining IBM, he led the networking group at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1985 to 1996. This followed ten years' experience in software for process control systems at CERN, which was interrupted by three years teaching undergraduate computer science at Massey University in New Zealand.

He holds a first degree in physics and a Ph.D. in computer science, and is a Chartered Engineer (UK). He has been an active participant in the Global Grid Forum, and in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he has worked on IPv6 and on Differentiated Services. He has also worked with the CERN Openlab for Datagrid Applications. He served from March 1994 to March 2002 on the Internet Architecture Board, which he chaired for five years. He also served as a Trustee of the Internet Society, and was Chairman of its Board of Trustees for two years until June 2002. He was Chair of the IETF from March 2005 to March 2007.

Donald Neal - WAND: What Lightwire tells us about the Bit Torrent that ate the interweb. Or not.

Research Officer with Wide Area Network Dynamics research group at The University of Waikato. Teaches network-related topics for the Computer Science department and tries to fit in some research into peer-to-peer application use. Before that network support engineer working with Telecom New Zealand's network. Before that systems administrator and programmer working with IP-related things since 1993. Something to do with NZNOG for a while now.

Robert Loomans - APNIC: Applications of Resource Certification

Currently Senior Software Engineer at APNIC, primarily working on web applications, Resource Certification and recently dabbling with the IETF. Previously worked in the capacity of sysadmin, network admin, developer and trainer for small companies through to large, such as Singtel Optus.

Gerard Creamer - Netspace: BGP for internal transit resilience

Gerard has been doing web things since 1996, initially on the pretty pictures side of things.  Since 1999 he has been working in hosting and networking, primarily for the finance sector.  Using open source solutions in a sector that is very jumpy about security has given Gerard a unique insight in network security.  Gerard has been using snort for IDS since around 2001/2002.  Gerard has been running linux / BSD on pretty much everything (routers / firewalls / servers), generating netflow records, and using nfsen with a custom module for accounting since 2004/2005. 

Nathan Ward - Braintrust: IPv6 in New Zealand.

Nathan Ward has worked in the NZ Internet and IT industry for a number of years. He was worked for several NZ ISPs, one NZ telco by proxy, and one NZ network security box vendor. He has also done some time with a couple of small ISPs and VoIP providers in Africa.  He is active in the IPv6 community, and has been using IPv6 in anger for 5 or so years. 

Pat Jordan-Smith - Disruptive Technologies: QoS...

Patrick has been working in the ICT industry for eleven years. Starting at the Allied Telesis R&D group after 4 years he left and started a web development/contract programming firm. He spent 3 years traveling through Asia and then worked at Quicksilver Internet until the company was bought in late 2006 by Woosh. He moved to Kordia and left 8 months later to form his own consultancy firm doing work for ISPs and telcos.

Sam Sargeant: DNS Security

Mark Foster - NZDF: Multinational networking in the New Zealand Defence Force

Mark has held a variety of roles within the IT Industry, starting as a Computer Tech and Helpdesk Pleb and working his way up to his current role as a Senior Network Design Engineer with the NZDF. Now adjusted to living in Wellington having relocated from Auckland some 3 years ago, he's also involved in the Linux/Open Source community and tinkers with radio equipment in his (precious little) spare time.

WAND; WAND research activities over the past year

Keith Davidson - INZ; Topical happenings in the NZ Telco/ISP space

Keith Davidson is former President and current Executive Director of InternetNZ. 

Elly Tawhai - APNIC; Regional Update

Beatty Lane-Davis - Juniper; Practicalities of the v6 transition era

Beatty Lane-Davis is a systems engineer for Juniper Networks, based in Auckland. This talk is 100% guaranteed to not include ANY slides of the v4 exhaustion rate or v6 packet header format diagrams.

Paresh Khatri - Alcatel Lucent; Designing Networks for High Availability

Marcel van den Berg - Team Cymru;

Jamie Horrell - SSC; National broadband map

Truman D. Boyes; Juniper Networks

Truman D. Boyes has designed and implemented large-scale carrier and financial networks for the past 10 years. He is the co-author of Broadband Network Architectures (Prentice-Hall 2007). Truman is a network architectural consultant with Juniper Networks in the Asia-Pacific region where he is implementing next-generation networks that cater to larger subscriber growth and resiliency. Truman is a regular speaker at APRICOT and other networking industry forums. He is currently active in IPv6 working groups. 

Richard Naylor

Sysadmin Miniconf. Simon Lyall, Ewen McNeill

Network Security. APNIC/Team Cymru

IPv6. Philip Smith (Cisco), Nathan Ward

DNSSEC/DNS Operations. Bill Manning, Sam Sargeant, Jonny Martin.