Routing SIG chairs
The Routing SIG Chair and Co-chairs can be contacted at sig-routing-chair@apnic.net.
Chair
- Name:
- Philip Smith
- Tenure:
- March 2008 - February 2010
- Biography:
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Philip Smith has been with Cisco Systems since 1998. He is part of the Internet Infrastructure Group in Corporate Consulting Engineering. His role includes working with the ISPs and Service Provider operations groups around the world, specifically in network design, configuration, scaling and training.
Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (which became part of UUNET's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial Internet Service Provider. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.
Co-chairs
- Name:
- Randy Bush
- Tenure:
- March 2007 - February 2009
- Biography:
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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:
- Tomoya Yoshida
- Tenure:
- March 2007 - February 2009
- Biography:
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As a position of leading a routing community of Japan, I have developed activities positively and have also carried out some proposals and presentations in the past APNIC meetings.
From now on, I would like to extend the activities described above to the further development of the routing community of the entire Asia Pacific region by taking the position of the co-chair of the Routing SIG.
Tomoya Yoshida is a ISP backbone design engineer of OCN at NTT Communications, the biggest ISP in Japan.
After graduating from the department of information engineering of a university, he started his career of Internet routing with NTT Corporation, currently NTT Communications Corporation. He was in charge of Internet backbone operation and peering coordination at OCN, then one year later he launched the IRR (Internet Routing Registry) service at NTT in 1999 (currently merged to the Verio Routing Registry). Since year 2000, he added new focus, development of the whole Internet, especially routing area and IP address management, in addition to various other operational activities.
He is one of the start-up members of the JPNIC IRR Planning Team in 2001. Also he contributed launch of the APNIC IRR as well as launch of production service of the JPNIC IRR. Currently he is the chair of the team. Also, he is the chair of JPNIC IP Address Committee since last year, so he contributes both routing community and address community.
He also has been the core member of the NOC team of the Interop Tokyo since year 2000.
In addition to contribution to the routing and the internet resource management areas, he has been contributing to the routing security area by serving as the nsp-security-jp moderator in Japan since 2004. He is also the founder of IRS (Inter-domain Routing Security) Workshop, that was created for sharing inter-domain security-related information between ISPs.
In conclusion, he is actively engaged in routing area such as routing itself including designing the present Internet backbone, Internet resource management, and routing security.
