RIPE Programme Committee

Previously, Osama worked at Cisco Systems for eight years with various roles including as a consultant in Cisco’s Emerging Technology Group. He has actively volunteered in various educational initiatives and industry associations.

Osama holds a Masters of Science in Computer Networks from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from King Saudi University.
He enjoys reading, presenting and cycling.

On the world of research and education, she has participated as an organizer, speaker or program committee member in several Géant and RedIRIS task forces and working groups like SIG-NOC (Special Interest Group for Network Operation Centers). Regarding the internet exchange, she collaborates as part of the Benchmarking Club for the Euro-IX association. She is also an active member and an organizer of the ESNOG (Spanish Network Operators Group) meetings.

Her main topics of interest are network monitoring, BGP routing, DNS, IPv6, multicast and network operations improvement.

One of her hobbies is to help artists to work with the network. She has helped organizing multisite performances and master classes from Barcelona, and she has also participated in several editions of the Network and Performing Arts Production Workshop with collaborators from Internet2 and Géant, among other amazing people.

Peter’s interests include BSD-licensed open source, urban exploring,
and combining protocols in unexpected ways.

Dmitry speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and English (with a small set of Dutch words if needed.)

Dmitry has direct operational experience with networked Unix systems and router equipment, co-founding and running one of first Ukrainian ISPs back in 1991 (Communication Systems). His work included several technology start-up companies in the United States in the role of systems administrator, developer support and operations. He can write code and shell scripts, was a co-author of RFC 2319 and participated in the Ukrainian Unix Users Group.

He has been directly involved with Ukrainian ccTLD registration and operation since 1996, in both non-commerical and commerical forms, and continuously represented ccTLD with IANA. He sits on the board of Hostmaster. In the last two years, the local policy development process has restarted, community service has improved, IDNs have launched and operational migration to IPv6 was completed, as well as DNSSEC launch in March 2012.

Non-profit work includes IPv6 as well as DNSSEC promotion in the region, participating in UA-IX as a member of the technical committee and speaking with press to communicate about Internet technology, security and privacy issues. Two IGF-UA forums in Ukraine in 2010 and 2011 were organised with support from Dmitry and Hostmaster.

Pavel’s professional interest is everything around SP and DC networking, mainly focused on routing, BGP, MPLS, the SDN and automation buzz, as well as the management aspects of computer networking business.

He is also a member of the ENOG Programme Committee and serves as its representative on the RIPE PC.

Before joining NLnet Labs in 2007, Benno obtained his MSc. and PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Until 2001, he was a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and from 2001 to 2007, he worked as an assistant professor at the VU University Amsterdam. His topics of interest were parallel and distributed computing, run-time support and middleware systems, grid computing and resource management, intelligent autonomous systems and autonomic computing and networking.

At NLnet Labs, Benno’s topics of interest are Internet infrastructure stability and security, and the interplay between (open) standards, software development, operational practices, and policies and governance. The main focus is on two key components that turn a network of networks into an open Internet for all, namely DNS and BGP.

Khalid currently serves as PC Chair of the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG), an international forum dedicated to elevating communication and awareness about Internet best practices. Having been actively involved in providing consultation and advice to ISPs in the Middle East and Arab region, Khalid concentrates specifically on network strategies, design, Internet technology, and operations, as well as configuration and training. He has played a major role in training Middle East ISP and network engineers through MENOG roadshows and conferences.

Khalid is based in Jordan. Prior to his current role with ORANGE Telecom in the field of information security, he worked extensively with several regional and international telecom/ISP operators and has come to be considered a well-known face in the Internet industry in the Middle East.

Ondřej is one of the RIPE NCC Arbiters and a member of ICANN’s RSSAC Caucus and Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel. He also participated in the first ICANN KSK Ceremony as one of the seven Recovery Key Share Holders for DNSSEC Root Zone Key. Ondřej is a free-software enthusiast promoting use of free software, contributing to many free-software and open-source projects himself.

Ondřej holds a BA degree in psychology/sociology.

Alireza has spoken at several conferences, including RIPE and MENOG Meetings, on the reduction of abuse in networks. He is currently helping Local Internet Registries reduce their network attack surface and protect themselves from modern attacks. Alireza also serves as Co-Chair for the Anti-Abuse Working Group and he deeply believes that most of the security-related issues could be addressed during RIPE Meetings with the help of people from different regions.

Jan is one of the pioneers of SiOL, the Slovenian national ISP, and has been involved in the organisation from the beginning. Among other activities, he began experimenting in 1997 with Internet streaming multimedia content. Based on these experiments, he successfully accomplished projects such as “Dhaulagiri ’99 Live” (an Internet multimedia transmission of Tomaz Humar’s solo climb of the south wall of Dhaulagiri (called Death Zone) in the Himalayas), “Ski Everest Live 2000” (an Internet live-video transmission and monitoring of extreme skiing from the summit of Mt. Everest by Davo Karnicar) and other similar projects. Together with two other members of team “Dhaulagiri ’99 Live”, Jan received a media award/statue “Victor” for special achievement.

For the last seven years, Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specialising in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 Institute (not-for-profit), a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.

Due to the Go6 Institute, Slovenia is currently leading the EU as the country most prepared for IPv6 (according to the RIPE NCC’s IPv6 RIPEness study). Jan has been invited to present around the world on his work, the model of the Go6 platform, and IPv6 awareness raising and deployment at the national level. These speaking engagements have included conferences such as many RIPE Meetings and the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference 2010, Internet Governance Forum meetings, World IPv6 Congresses in Paris and London as well as national forums in Germany, Greece, Norway, Macedonia and many others.

Jan is also primary co-author of very successful procurement (specification) paper, published as an official RIPE Best Current Practice document RIPE-501, entitled “Requirements For IPv6 in ICT Equipment”. This document is translated into more than 10 languages and is used around the world by enterprises and governments when requesting IPv6 in ICT equipment purchases. RIPE-501 was recently replaced by RIPE-554, also co-authored by Merike Kaeo and Sander Steffann.

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