Policy SIG Co-chair nominee: Andy Linton

Nominee Statement

I have been involved in networking for over 25 years. I've worked at universities in New Zealand, Australia and England and ISPs such as AARNet, connect.com.au, Telstra, Telecom NZ and CityLink. I now work for Victoria University of Wellington teaching Network Engineering.

I have a strong understanding of the issues facing the Internet in the name and number space over the next few years. I have extensive experience in Internet policy setting and believe I can help to facilitate good discussion and decision making in the Policy SIG.

I have been involved with APNIC since its formation when I was one of the original policy discussion group that worked with David Conrad during the startup period and I have done contract work for APNIC on RPSL database deployment and presented tutorials on RPSL and other topics at APNIC meetings. As well as presenting tutorials on RPSL I've used it extensively in the implementation of software used to manage the New Zealand Internet Exchanges.

In the past I've served on the board of Public Interest Registry which manages the .org domain and on the council of InternetNZ. I am currently a Director of the .nz Domain Name Commission that manages and sets the policies for the .nz namespace and a trustee of the NZNOG Trust that oversees the NZ Network Operators' Group annual meeting.

For over ten years I've worked with various groups in the Pacific nations to help them with technical issues - most recently I attended PacNOG in Tahiti as an instructor. Over the years I have worked with people from many different cultural backgrounds from the Pacific and Asian communities. I believe I have gained some understanding of our different ways of approaching problems and I hope I can approach issues with an open mind and a desire to reach decisions that work for us all.

I'd appreciate your support.