Advisory Council

The Advisory Council serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees on IP allocation policy and related matters. Adhering to the procedures in the Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process, the Advisory Council forwards consensus-based policy proposals to the Board for ratification.

The Advisory Council consists of 15 elected members. The President of ARIN is an ex-officio member and acts as the liaison between the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Council. Read the Election Guidelines for more information on how Council members are nominated and elected.

Members of the Advisory Council

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Dan Alexanderdaniel underscore alexander at cable dot comcast dot comis currently a Principal Engineer for Comcast Cable. He is responsible for the planning and management of Internet number resources on the cable network. Prior to joining Comcast, he served a similar role with Excite@Home after obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University. Dan's term expires 31 December 2008.

Paul Andersen arin-ac at paul dot cahas been with egateNETWORKS Inc., an ISP based in Toronto, since he founded the company in 1996. He is responsible for the design and implementation of the organization's IP network. He has served as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Paul holds a B.A. Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. His term expires 31 December 2010.

Cathy Aronson cja at daydream dot net was recently a member of the technical staff at Packet Design, where she was responsible for operational aspects of their Internet scaling projects. Cathy was previously at the @Home Network where she was responsible for routing and IP addressing.

Cathy began her career at Merit, Inc. where she worked on the NSFNET Backbone. While at Merit, she also built CICNet, a network that connected the Big 10 Universities. Following Merit, Cathy designed and implemented the OSI/CLNP for the Energy Sciences Network. Although OSI/CLNP was never widely deployed, the experience has given greater insight into addressing and scaling issues. Cathy also spent three years in the engineering group of the Bay Area Regional Research Network, BARRNet. Her term expires 31 December 2010.

Marla Azinger marla dot azinger at frontier corp dot comgraduated from the University of Washington and began her technical career in the US Army as a Signal Intelligence Officer in 1995.  After leaving the Army in 2001, Marla joined Electric Lightwave, supervising transport circuit design.  In 2002, she became their dedicated IP Address Engineer.  In addition to fully managing ELI's IP addressing, Marla took on the added responsibility for all of Frontier Communications and Citizens IP Addressing needs in 2003.  Marla initiated and guided Frontier and Citizens through a large IP Addressing audit and renumbering project that resulted in a large reduction in waste and the reallocation of IPv4 assets.  In 2006 Citizens sold ELI and Marla lead Frontier and Citizens through a renumbering and transferring of IPv4 assets project in order to facilitate the sale of ELI.  Now in 2007 Marla is helping Frontier Communications with additional audits and renumbering projects due to acquisitions.  Marla's responsibilities encompass management of both IPv4 and IPv6 IP addressing needs and Peering Coordination needs for Frontier Communications AS5650.  In addition to ARIN AC Marla is on the Routing and Addressing Directorate of IETF. Her current term expires 31 December 2010.

Leo Bicknell bicknell at ufp dot orgis a Network Architect for Internet Systems Consortium, a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet.  His responsibilities include 40+ sites worldwide hosting F Root Nameserver instances and a growing US based network supporting various non-profit projects.

Prior to ISC Leo worked at Harrah's Entertainment as a Network Architect designing networks to support hotel and casino operations at Harrah's 45+ properties worldwide.  He also assisted with numerous development projects providing networking expertise to application developers.

In previous jobs Leo served as Director of Backbone Engineering for AboveNet, Peering Coordinator for AboveNet, and as a Consultant for Dimension Enterprises.  He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and has worked on projects in systems and network programming.  Leo is a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) #3440.  His current term expires 31 December 2009.

Bill Darte billd at cait dot wustl dot edu is a Senior Technical Programs Specialist with the not-for-profit Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) at Washington University in St. Louis. CAIT has been supporting the IT training and IT executive forum requirements of very large companies within the region since 1976. Bill teaches topics related to Internet communications, security, and technology standards while also organizing a variety of other member programs and training events.

In addition, Bill is an Affiliate Professor teaching telecommunications and security subjects in the Master of Information Management degree program. Bill's has served on the Advisory Council since 1998. His current term expires 31 December 2008.

Owen DeLong owen at delong dot com is currently a Senior Operations Architect with JITTR Networks. Owen was a Senior Backbone Engineer at Exodus Communication before working at Tellme Networks and Netli in both Network Engineering and Operations. Prior to his current position at JITTR, Owen spent time consulting for C2 Company.

Owen has been an active participant in the ARIN public policy process for nearly a decade and has been involved in such landmark efforts as the creation of Provider Independent IPv6, moving the IPv4 PI boundary down to /22, special resource policies to assist in the Afrinic startup, etc. Owen has always believed that ARINs role is the equitable distribution of IP resources and continues to work toward that end.

Owen has a special interest in policy as it relates to IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 deployment. His current term expires 31 December 2010.

Stacy Hughes ipgoddess at gmail dot com is a member of the Engineering and Data Network Architecture Team at tw telecom.

Before joining tw telecom, she was Senior Technical Writer for Operations Systems Support, and later controlled all aspects of IP addressing for the network at ICG Communications. She also was Chief Copy Editor and Proofreader for Archer Books and Cadmus Editions publishing houses. She achieved a B.A. in Spanish Literature with a minor in Latin American Political Systems from Lehigh University. Stacy's current term expires 31 December 2009.

Scott Leibrand sleibrand at internap dot com has been with Internap since he began as a NOC Network Support Engineer in 2001. He is currently managing the network architecture team there, and has been an active participant in the ARIN Public Policy process. His focus is on helping the ARIN community create policies to continue responsible stewardship of all IP address resources through depletion and exhaustion of the IPv4 free pool. His current term expires 31 December 2010.

Alec Peterson ahp at hilander dot comhas been involved with Internet infrastructure since 1991. He has worked at several ISPs, and is a cofounder of UltraDNS and Catbird Networks. Alec is currently Director of Technical Services at Message Systems, Inc. Alec has been on the Advisory Council since ARIN was formed. His current term expires 31 December 2008.

Matt Pounsettmatt dot pounsett at cira dot cahandles development and operations for the DNS infrastructure for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). He is responsible for the architecture and management of all networks and systems related to answering DNS queries for the dot-ca TLD. Matt has been managing Internet applications, systems and networks at national and local ISPs since 1997. His current term expires 31 December 2008.

Lea Roberts lea dot roberts at stanford dot edu has been employed by Stanford University for the past 40 years. She has been part of the Networking Systems group for more than 20 years, where she is the network architect for the campus IPv4 backbone network as well as in charge of assigning IP address blocks for use by campus organizations. She also had some ISP experience with BARRNet, one of the NSFNET regional networks which was centered at Stanford.

Lea is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Council for CENIC, supporting CalREN2, which provides Internet2 connectivity in California. She attends Internet2 technical meetings as well. She has been attending IETF meetings since 1990, with a focus in the routing and operations areas. Her particular interests include IPv6 and multicast. Lea's current term expires 31 December 2009.

Robert Seastrom rs at seastrom dot com is a freelance consultant specializing in supporting production and testbed IP networks. He was a cofounder and former president of the Cambridge Bandwidth Consortium, a cooperative ISP in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously, Robert was the Director of Network Architecture at Inter.Net Global Ltd. Robert has also held positions at Akamai Technologies, AboveNet Communications, and Digex, and built pioneering ISPs in Japan and the Republic of Georgia. Robert's term expires 31 December 2009.

Heather Schiller heather dot schiller at verizonbusiness dot comis the IP Manager and Senior Network Security Engineer at Verizon Business (formerly UUnet). She is responsible for customer and backbone address assignments, overall management of the address space, and tracking and mitigating denial of services attacks, bot nets, and other security incidents. Heather’s term expires 31 December 2009.

Suzanne Woolf Suzanne_Woolf at isc dot org is a program manager for the Internet Software Consortium, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reference implementations of critical network standards and other projects in the public interest of the global Internet.

Suzanne has experience with both the technical and policy aspects of the evolution of the Internet. Her current networking interests center on large scale infrastructure, DNSSEC deployment, promoting the operational use of IPv6, and IETF participation in related working groups such as DNSEXT and V6OPS. She is especially interested in securing the DNS and the global routing system, implications of the growing adoption of IPv6 in areas such as multi-homing, and global policy issues for the IP address registries to consider together. Suzanne's term expires 31 December 2008.