RIPE NCC General Meeting 2003

Executive Board Candidates Confirmed

Biography:

Graduated in physics from the University of Milan in 1984, he is currently responsible for the quality of service of the AOL access networks in Europe as manager of the European 3rd level support team for America Online, Inc., which he joined in 1995.

During his career, he worked for the Computer Center of the Institute of Cosmic Physics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) between 1985 and 1990, initially responsible for the Network Department and then as Technical Manager of the Computer Center.

He subsequently joined the European Academic Research Network (EARN) Association office in Paris, between 1990 and 1995, where he later became Technical Manager. In that capacity he chaired the EARN Network Operations Group and the EARN Network Performance Evaluation Group, represented the EARN Association in RIPE Meetings since 1990, chaired a RIPE WG, and was member of the In ternet Society Technical Advisory Committee. He was also member of the EBONE Action Team, the group which designed and implemented the first pan-European internet backbone in 1992.

More recently, at AOL, he covered a number of tasks, including the set up and launch of the European AOL networks, and the provisioning and installation of transatlantic and pan-European WAN circuits. During this time he continued his participation and contribution to RIPE meetings, also through a number of presentations at the EOF and at the plenary meetings (e.g. see http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-36/presentations/cables2k/index.html) . He was elected to the RIPE-NCC Board for the first time in 2001.

Motivation

I was elected to the Executive Board of the RIPE-NCC association for the first time in November 2001. The reason I accepted to run in 2001, when asked, was that I believed I had the right mixture of experience and know-how that could be useful for the RIPE-NCC, having contributed to RIPE for over a decade, and having been working both in the academic community, first as a scientist, and later as manager of a non-profit organization similar to the RIPE- NCC, and for the last 8 years in the corporate ISP world, which by now represent the vast majority of the RIPE-NCC membership.

The same reasoning stands today, and I am therefore willing to run again. I believe my contribution to the board in these past 22 months was effective, in the last year in particular. Acting as secretary empowered me to better streamline and organize the working process of the board, introducing standards for the preparation of documents and board meetings, which ultimately all owed the board to work more effectively. I am fully aware of the fact that the Internet boom has caused, in the last few years, a gap between RIPE/the RIPE-NCC and its membership, and it took quite sometime to wake up and get the ball rolling to fix the situation. I contributed to a number of steps that have been taken in the last 12 months to close the gap but I believe more will need to be taken, following member's input, and I am prepared to devote the time and energies needed to reach a satisfactory status for the RIPE-NCC members, which at the same time guarantee the continuity and stability of the association.

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