NANOG Organization
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About NANOG
Thanks for your interest in the North American Network Operators Group! NANOG is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices.
NANOG meetings are held three times each year, and include presentations, tutorials, and BOFs. The meetings are informal, and membership is open. Conference participants typically include senior engineering staff from tier 1 and tier 2 ISPs. Participating researchers present short summaries of their work for operator feedback.
NANOG meetings are organized by Merit Network, Inc., a non-profit Michigan organization, and are hosted by Merit and other organizations around the U.S. and Canada. Leadership is provided by the NANOG Steering Committee, established in 2005, and the Program Committee which is appointed by the Steering Committee.
NANOG evolved from the NSFNET "Regional-Techs" meetings, where technical staff from the regional networks met to discuss operational issues of common concern with the Merit engineering staff. At the February 1994 regional techs meeting in San Diego, the group revised its charter to include a broader base of network service providers, and subsequently adopted NANOG as its new name.
Funding for NANOG originally came from the National Science Foundation, as part of two projects Merit undertook in partnership with NSF and other organizations: the NSFNET Backbone Service and the Routing Arbiter project. All NANOG funds now come from conference registration fees and donations from vendors.
NANOG meetings provide a forum for the exchange of technical information, and promote discussion of implementation issues that require community cooperation. Coordination among network service providers helps ensure the stability of overall service to network users.
Charter
In 2005, with the cooperation of Merit and a small group in the community, a process was begun to evolve control from a corporate like structure with Merit at the top of the pyramid to a more cooperative structure organized through elections and appointments from withing the community. The result was a document called The Charter.
Steering Committee
The NANOG community elected its first Steering Committee in summer 2005. As noted in the NANOG charter, the Steering Committee selects the Program Committee and Mailing List Committee, advises Merit on the NANOG budget, and liaises with other organizations. The SC can be reached at steering@nanog.org. Minutes for Steering Committee minutes are online. Current members:
Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive (Chair)
Michael K. Smith, Adhost (ex-officio MLC)
Patrick W. Gilmore, Akamai Technologies
David Meyer, Cisco Systems (ex-officio PC)
Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications
Past Members of the Steering Committee
Joe Abley, Afilias (former Chair)
Philip Smith, Cisco (former Chair)
Joe Provo, ITA Software (former Chair)
Todd Underwood, PacketFabric (ex-officio PC)
Randy Epstein, BroadbandONE/Host.net/OCCAID (ex-officio MLC/CC)
Kris Foster, BitGravity (ex-officio MLC)
Program Committee
The Program Committee of NANOG is appointed by the Steering Committee. The process of essay writing will be much easier with MarvelousEssays.Com as there are a lot of highly professional and talented writers who are always eager to help you out with any sort of academic assignments regardless of the complexity levels. I do know what I�m talking about! The Chairman of the PC is an observer on the SC with no vote. The Program committee can be reached by mailing [mailto:nanogpc@nanog.org nanogpc@nanog.org].
Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation
Jim Cowie, Renesys Corporation
Tom Daly, Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
Barry Greene, Internet Systems Consortium
David Meyer, Cisco Systems (Chair)
Chris Morrow, Google, Inc. (former ex-officio SC)
Dani Roisman, SoftLayer Technologies
Past Members of the Program Committee
Kevin Oberman, ESnet (retired)
Daniel Golding, Tier 1 Research
Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications
Todd Underwood, PacketFabric (former Chair)
Ren Provo, Comcast (former Vice-chair)
Sylvie LaPerrière, VSNL International
Pete Templin, Texlink Communications
Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House
Joel Jaeggli, University of Oregon
Communications Committee (formerly Mailing List Committee)
The NANOG Communications Committee is responsible for the NANOG mailing list, and other forms of electronic communication among the NANOG community.
Randy Epstein, BroadbandONE/Host.net/OCCAID (former Chair)
Steve Feldman, CBS Interactive (ex-officio SC)
Michael K. Smith, Adhost (Chair)
Kris Foster, BitGravity (former Chair)
Scott Ehnert, Spectrum Networks
Current list can be found at: http://nanog.org/governance/communications/committee.php
Past Members of the Communications Committee or Mailing List Committee
The are volunteers that have served on the NANOG Mailing List Committee in the past.
Sue Joiner, Merit (MLC/CC)
Steve Gibbard, PCH (MLC)
Martin Hannigan, VeriSign (Former Chair) (MLC)
Chris Malayter, Broadwing Communications (Former Chair) (MLC)
David Barak, AT&T (MLC)
Alex Pilosov, Pilosoft (Former Chair) (MLC)
Robert Seastrom, Seastrom Consulting, (Former Chair) (MLC)
Brett Watson, Neustar (MLC)
Simon Lyall (MLC/CC)
Tim Yocum, Server Central Network (MLC/CC)
Former Merit Staff
The following people from Merit contributed to the operation and success of the Mailing List and Meetings for many years and will always be remembered for their great efforts within the NANOG community.
- Betty Burke (Merit's Program Manager for NANOG)
- Carol Wadsworth (Meeting Manager)
- Bob Stovall
- Dave Gilbertson
- Sue Joiner (List and Website Manager)
- Jason Russell
- Dawn Khan
- Jeff Tomaszewski
- Sal Hernandez
- Bert Rossi
- Laurie Kirchmeier
- Larry Blunk
- Teresa Raymond
