August 31st, 2010
My work as part of the ARIN NomCom this year has concluded, and I’m happy to see that the final slate of candidates was announced today:
Elections for two (2) seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees and five (5)
seats on the ARIN Advisory Council will be held online 6-16 October.
The following candidates have agreed to run for office:
Board of Trustees:
* Vinton Cerf, Google, Inc.
* Lee Howard, Time Warner Cable
* Aaron Hughes, 6connect, Inc
* Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium
Advisory Council:
* Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation
* Jim Deleskie, Tata
* Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric
* David Divins, Carpathia Hosting
* Wes George, Sprint
* Gary Giesen, Advanced Knowledge Networks
* Chris Grundemann, TW Telecom
* Martin Hannigan, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
* William Herrin, ITT
* Scott Leibrand, Internap
* Andrew Mentges, Jumpline Inc
* John Springer, Inland Telephone
* Tom Zeller, Indiana University
Many of the candidates will address the membership on 6 October at
ARIN’s Public Policy and Members Meeting in Atlanta. These speeches,
brief biographies and a form to voice support for candidates can be
found online at ARIN Election Headquarters:
https://www.arin.net/app/election/
Good luck to all of the candidates, and thank you for your offer of service to the ARIN community.
Posted in Internet, Politics
August 31st, 2010
I don’t normally post directly work-related stuff here. As my personal blog, the content here reflects only my individual views and/or thoughts; I am not a spokesperson and nothing posted here represents Savvis. However…
I’m hiring two IP Address Engineers and need to fill the positions quickly.
The IP Address Engineer is accountable for the assignment, recovery, and ongoing management of IP Addresses at Savvis. Responsibilities include updating internal systems to reflect assigned IPs, updating relevant external Regional Internet Registry (RIR) and/or Internet Routing Registry (IRR) databases, and ensuring a timely response to any outstanding tickets and/or email requests.
Please see http://tinyurl.com/svvsIPadmin for the complete job description and application link.
If you’re an IPAM expert with years of service provider experience working with RIRs and customers, you’d be perfect. If you only know the fundamentals of IP addressing, subnet masks / CIDR notation, etc, then you’re still probably a good fit for the job. We can teach you everything else you’ll need to know. Alternatively if you know a little about databases, data modeling and analysis, Perl or Java or any other programming language, then I’ll happily teach you about IP addressing.
Entry-level candidates are fine. I’d prefer people in St. Louis, MO, but would consider any other locations where Savvis has an office (such as Cary, NC, Reston, VA, and Santa Clara, CA).
Feel free to contact me with questions and/or recommendations.
Posted in Work
August 26th, 2010
Posted in Muse, POTD, Photos
August 20th, 2010
There’s a new IETF document published today, RFC 5952 “A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation”. It does us the favor of standardizing the text representation of IPv6 addresses, which is otherwise subject to various syntactically-correct yet inconsistent shorthands. To summarize the recommendation:
- Handling Leading Zeros in a 16-Bit Field – Leading zeros MUST be suppressed.
- Shorten as Much as Possible – The use of the symbol “::” MUST be used to its maximum capability.
- Handling One 16-Bit 0 Field – The symbol “::” MUST NOT be used to shorten just one 16-bit 0 field.
- Choice in Placement of “::”
- When there is an alternative choice in the placement of a “::”, the longest run of consecutive 16-bit 0 fields MUST be shortened.
- When the length of the consecutive 16-bit 0 fields are equal, the first sequence of zero bits MUST be shortened.
- Lowercase – The characters “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, and “f” in an IPv6 address MUST be represented in lowercase.
Posted in IETF, Internet
August 20th, 2010
There’s a great post today on a statistics blog I read, entitled Some things are just really hard to believe: more on choosing your facts. You should read this for yourself, but from my preconceived anti-ideological worldview the truth of it is almost self-evident. Here’s an excerpt:
Of course, it makes sense that people with different judgment of the facts would have different views on policies: if you think carbon dioxide doesn’t cause substantial global warming, you’ll be on the opposite side of the global warming debate from someone who thinks it does. But often the causality runs the other way: instead of choosing a policy that matches the facts, people choose to believe the facts that back up their values-driven policies. The issue about Obama’s birth country is an extreme example: it’s clear that people did not first decide whether Obama was born in the U.S., and then decide whether to vote Republican or Democratic. They are choosing their fact based on their values, not the other way around. Perhaps it is helpful to think of people as having an inappropriate prior distribution that makes them more likely to believe things that are aligned with their desires.
Posted in Culture, Ecology, Finance, Funny, Politics
