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Director of DNS Operations and Research Fellow at Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., the people behind the BIND 9 DNS server and also operators of F-Root.

Author of RFC 5625, RFC 5966 and RFC 6915, and co-author of RFCs 7216, 7766, 7828, 8490 and 8906.

At IETF, Co-chair of the HOMENET Working Group between 2011 and 2017 and briefly Chair of the GeoPriv Working Group.

In a past life I was Director of Network Operations at a successful B2B ISP in the UK.

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