[ipv6-wg] Call for nominations for co-chair position ipv6 working group 20100202

On 23 jan 2010, at 01:04, S.P.Zeidler wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thus wrote David Kessens (david.kessens at nsn.com):
> 
>> I already received two nominations for Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org>
>> and Marco Hogewoning <marcoh at marcoh.net>. 
> 
> Could the nominees (current and future) please write a few words about
> themselves and what they expect they will be doing as WG co-chairs?


Sure,

I've been involved in the RIR/ISP community since 1999, working as a network engineer for several Dutch service providers, since of all them can be considered smaller companies, most of these jobs have been a mix between hands-on operational work as well as more theoretical tasks such as capacity management, network design and introducing new technologies (such as ADSL and VOIP) in the market.

As far as RIR work goes, I've been running registries since 1999 including various audits and mergers. Earlier RIPE community work includes taking part in the introduction of the abuse-mailbox attribute to the ripe database.

I've been testing, experimenting and working with IPv6 for a very long time, starting of with a couple of 6Bone connections, later followed by provider TLA and connections at AMS-IX with mostly tunnels towards the end sites, with an occasional native connection where possible. For about 2 years I've been spending quite some time on introducing IPv6 in our access network, which consist of approx 300.000 DSL lines, where especially the search for an affordable consumer grade CPE took and still is taking a lot of time and effort.

During this work I found technology is not the biggest hurdle, everything or at least 99% of the protocols and technology you need to deploy IPv6 towards a large residential install base is there, it's more about convincing management, suppliers and customers they have to take action and the problem of the IPv4 run out is closer and bigger as it might seem at first glance. I also found that coorperation and openess is a large part of the solution, especially towards hard- and software vendors you can gain a lot by working together instead of trying to reinvent the wheel on your own. The IPv4 runout has been a theoretical problem for years, for which IPv6 was the theoretical solution, now that we finally are moving it from our labs in to the real world we will find numerous problems, those can range from easy to solve bugs to more complex issues or even design flaws, we have yet to find out how a large virus outbreak using IPv6 as a transport will look like.

What I would like to do as a WG co-chair is to create a platform for people to share those experiences, being able to learn from eachother and work together in finding solutions for the problems we encounter, not only amongst the people taking part in the IPv6 working group but also using experience and knowlegde in other WG's or industry bodies, for example the anti-abuse WG.

MarcoH