Nominees

Motivation for nomination
I’ve been part of this community for over 24 years and very actively participating in the PDP (with over 120 policy proposals among all the 5 RIRs). I’ve the required knowledge, experience and will be very glad to further contribute to the community from the NRO NC.

Biography

Jordi Palet Martínez has been working in computers, networking, and telecommunications business over the past 40 years. His experience includes programming in several languages, OS porting, electronic and microcomputer circuit design, consultancy and network design and implementation, among others. He has been involved with technical, marketing and product management in several companies, and is currently working as the CEO/CTO at “The IPv6 Company”, Madrid.

He frequently authors  articles, white papers, and presentations about high-end technologies, and has published eight free books on IPv6. He is involved in many forums such as: ISOC, IETF, ICANN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC, ARIN, the European Commission IPv6 Task Force and many other regional and national IPv6 Task Forces and related initiatives.

Since 2001, he has attended all the IETF meetings and contributed to the standardisation process (co-)authoring and contributing to numerous documents, mainly related to IPv6. He has also been an IETF Sergeant-at-arms for over 12 years. Over the past 20 years, he has been involved in the policy making process and meetings of all five RIRs, and has (co-) authored over 100 proposals, with the majority having reached consensus.

Jordi has volunteered his time to assist all the RIRs in training activities, mainly related to IPv6, which started in Africa and continued in the rest of the regions. He was the driving force behind the creation of the IPv6 Task Forces in many countries in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and other regions, helping increase the IPv6 knowledge and impacting deployment. Some of his work includes:

• Maintaining “The IPv6 Portal”, a website for IPv6 news and information. Some of its relevant work on this field is IPv6day (for the 6bone phaseout, which he chaired at IETF), and in Spanish 6SOS.
• Working in the development, promotion and deployment of IPv6, including the IPv6 Forum, the IPv6 Logo Committee, European IPv6 Task Force, Spanish IPv6 Task Force (among others in many countries), IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee, 6POWER, 6QM, Eurov6, IPv6 Cluster, ENABLE, RiNG, 6DEPLOY, GEN6 and the Eureka project PlaNetS. He was the designer of Euro6IX and its Scientific Project Coordinator.
• Participation in the OCCAID project to provide free (time-limited) IPv6 transit to ISPs when their existing upstream providers don't support IPv6 transit yet (mainly in Africa, LAC and AP).
• Developing customer tailored applications and devices in IoT and energy solutions as a result of his IPv6 work.
• Providing IPv6 professional training and consultancy services, to all those kinds of customers, including the LACNIC IPv6 Tour, which was carried out in all the Latino American and several Caribbean countries and trainings for AfriNIC. In total he has already trained over 85,000 engineers across more than 140 countries.
• Responsible for the strategic plans for the deployment of IPv6 in governments of several countries such as Spain, Ecuador, and Colombia among others.
• Engagement with IPv6 commercial customers/projects for the last 20 years, including ISPs, government networks, universities, corporate networks, data center, SMEs networks and regulators.

He is also working in other areas, including new security architecture for Internet (Distributed Security), Mobility beyond MIPv6, Routing in Next Generation, and Power Line Communications (PLC/BPL/PLT).  

Motivation for nomination
I have been part of the RIPE and the broader Internet technical community for 25 years, both as a participant, contributor and supporter (as part of my role at the RIPE NCC). My knowledge and experience with the RIR system, both from inside an RIR and from the community perspective could be a useful asset for the NRO NC. Over past three decades the RIR system has significantly evolved, effectively dealing with the challenges on this way - the explosive growth of the Internet, the depletion of IPv4 address space, Internet governance and regulatory issues. But the governance model of the system itself and the community have been and remain at the core of its strength.

Today, we need a strong RIR system more than ever before. The system is mature, but some elements need to be reviewed and updated. A review of the ICP-2 policy is one such thing. I was actively involved in another project similar to this - the “IANA transition”. Being part of the CRISP team from the RIPE region was a rewarding experience, both regarding the results we achieved and the engagement with the community. I would like to shoulder such effort again.

Biography

As Technical Director, Internet Integrity Program at Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), Andrei works on developing collaborative approaches to solving key cybersecurity shortcomings in the Internet infrastructure. This work is based on active engagement and collaboration with the operator, research, and policy stakeholder groups. 

His experience in this area comes from over a decade of work at the Internet Society on improving security and resilience of the Internet infrastructure, bridging technology and policy. As part of this effort, together with a group of leading network operators, a collaborative effort was developed and launched that became an industry-led initiative called Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS). Andrei was also responsible for the development of its programs.  

For more than two decades, Andrei has been participating in various fora, including the RIR communities, NOGs and the IETF. In 2014, he was a member of the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) team from the RIPE community. Andrei was a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 2010-2012. Before working at the Internet Society, he was Chief Technical Officer of the RIPE NCC, responsible for the company's IT strategy, including the management of one of the DNS root servers, K-root.