Policy SIG Chairs

About the Chair

Name	Randy Bush
Tenure	September 2008 - August 2010
Biography	Randy has spent literally 42 years in computing. Though he started out in languages and compilers, he has spent the last few decades in Internet operations, architecture, and research. He is currently a principal scientist at Internet Initiative Japan, and also consults to various network players. He has been involved in technology transfer to the developing economies for twenty years, was on the founding Board of ARIN, is on the Steering Committee of NANOG, spent six years as the Operations Director of the IETF, and has served on various ACM, IEEE, and ISO committees. He is currently Chair of the APNIC Fees WG and Co-chair of the Routing SIG. He has been a long term attendee of the RIR meetings of all of the other regions, and is familiar with their processes and policies. He was the co-developer, with Anne Lord, of APNIC's policy development process.

Name

Randy Bush

Tenure

September 2008 - August 2010

Biography

Randy has spent literally 42 years in computing. Though he started out in languages and compilers, he has spent the last few decades in Internet operations, architecture, and research. He is currently a principal scientist at Internet Initiative Japan, and also consults to various network players.

He has been involved in technology transfer to the developing economies for twenty years, was on the founding Board of ARIN, is on the Steering Committee of NANOG, spent six years as the Operations Director of the IETF, and has served on various ACM, IEEE, and ISO committees.

He is currently Chair of the APNIC Fees WG and Co-chair of the Routing SIG. He has been a long term attendee of the RIR meetings of all of the other regions, and is familiar with their processes and policies. He was the co-developer, with Anne Lord, of APNIC's policy development process.

About the Co-Chair

Name	Terence Zhang, CNNIC
Tenure	September 2009 - August 2011
Biography	Terence Zhang has 10+ years experience in service provider networking solution design and technical support, he started his career in IBM networking department, he worked in RCN telecomunication corporation as a network engineer and worked at Grandcycle Technology as a network consultant. He has participated in the network architecture design and operations of several service providers in both China and the United States. He has solid understanding of business models and computer applications for various kinds of customers, especially in IDC, ISP and telecom industry. He has detailed knowledge of IP Address Planning, Internet routing architeture, Service Provider network design and operations. After joining CNNIC, Terence Zhang has been working in IP resources allocation and policy research areas.

Name

Terence Zhang, CNNIC

Tenure

September 2009 - August 2011

Biography

Terence Zhang has 10+ years experience in service provider networking solution design and technical support, he started his career in IBM networking department, he worked in RCN telecomunication corporation as a network engineer and worked at Grandcycle Technology as a network consultant. He has participated in the network architecture design and operations of several service providers in both China and the United States.

He has solid understanding of business models and computer applications for various kinds of customers, especially in IDC, ISP and telecom industry. He has detailed knowledge of IP Address Planning, Internet routing architeture, Service Provider network design and operations. After joining CNNIC, Terence Zhang has been working in IP resources allocation and policy research areas.

About the Co-Chair

Name	Ching-Heng Ku, TWNIC
Tenure	March 2009 - February 2011
Biography	Dr. Ching-Heng Ku is the Director of the IP Department of the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC). He has worked in the area of computer networking for many years. He has actively participated in the APNIC meetings since APNIC 18 and has been the chair of the NIR Hostmaster workshop, the co-chair of the Database SIG, and the co-chair of the NIR SIG at the APNIC OPM. He has taken charge of the IP Policy research at TWNIC.