Subject: New Sponsorship Coordinator: Joe Abley

From: Kathy Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:08:17 +0000

Each year, the IETF is supported in part by over $2 million USD in sponsorship contributions from a variety of organizations. BCP 101 tasks the Internet Society with creating and maintaining appropriate structures and programs to coordinate donations intended to support the work of the IETF.

ISOC has recently secured the services of Joe Abley to work on raising sponsorship funding for the IETF. Many of you know Joe as a long-time participant in the IETF and broader internet community. For those who do not, his bio is below. Please join us in welcoming Joe in this new role!

Howie Baggott has been working closely with Joe to transition the IETF sponsorship portfolio to him before shifting to other non-IETF-related responsibilities within ISOC. Many thanks to Howie for his work on sponsorship fundraising over the last year.

If you are interested in discussing IETF sponsorship opportunities with Joe, feel free to contact him at [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>.

Kathy Brown
ISOC CEO

Alissa Cooper
IETF Chair

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Joe's bio:

Joe Abley has been working in some form or other in the general area of Internet architecture and operations since graduating from the University of Cambridge in the UK in the early 90s. Originally from New Zealand, he now lives in Canada where he helps run Snake Hill Labs, a small consulting company that helps clients solve Internet infrastructure problems with particular reference to the DNS. Joe has held engineering and technical management roles at companies such as AboveNet, ISC, Afilias, TekSavvy, ICANN and Dyn.

Joe has served on various committees with regional Network Operator Groups over the years, was one of the original enthusiasts behind the Auckland Peering Exchange and has worked for many years with the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) on technical capacity building in developing economies. At the IETF, Joe has volunteered as Executive Director for the IAB, co-authored fifteen RFCs and was one-time co-chair of the OpSec working group.