Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees has ultimate responsibility for the business affairs and financial health of ARIN, and manages ARIN's operations in a manner consistent with the guidance received from the Advisory Council and the goals set by the registry's members. The Board is responsible for determining the disposition of all revenues received to ensure that all services are provided in an equitable manner.

The Board votes on proposals generated from the membership and submitted through the Advisory Council. Executive decisions are carried out following approval by the Board.

The Board of Trustees consists of 7 members. Six members are elected by ARIN's membership and the President of ARIN serves as the seventh Trustee. The Board has standing committees, and from time to time may appoint special committees. Read the Election Guidelines for more information on how Board members are nominated and elected. (the Standing and Special Committees should link to the new Committees page)

Current Members of the Board

Scott Bradner sob at harvard dot eduhas been involved in the design, operation, and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the original Harvard data networks, the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet), and New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). He was founding chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARnet, and the Corporation for Research and Enterprise Network (CoREN).

Scott served in a number of roles in the IETF. He was the co-director of the Operational Requirements Area (1993-1997), IPng Area (1993-1996), Transport Area (1997-2003), and Sub-IP Area (2001-2003). He was a member of the IESG (1993-2003) and was an elected trustee of the Internet Society (1993-1999), where he currently serves as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees.

Scott is the University Technology Security Officer in the Harvard University Office of the Provost. He tries to help the University community deal with technology-related privacy and security issues. He also provides technical advice and guidance on issues relating to the Harvard data networks and new technologies to Harvard's CIO. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.

Scott is a founding member of the Board, having served since August 1997. He was reelected in 2000, 2003, and again in October 2006. His current term expires 31 December 2009.

John Curran jcurran at istaff dot org is the CTO and Chief Operating Officer for ServerVault, which is a highly secure, fully managed service provider for the mission-critical applications of government and leading commercial firms. As CTO, John oversees all technical aspects of ServerVault's strategy including its unique security and availability architecture. Prior to ServerVault, John served as Chief Technology Officer for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization's technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company's nationwide network. In that time, he developed and led the company's Internet strategy resulting in $500M in data revenue growth.

John also served as Chief Technical Officer at BBN / GTE Internetworking where he was responsible for the organizations strategic technology direction. He led BBN's technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he served as co-director of the Operations and Network Management area and member of IPng (IPv6) directorate.

John is a founding member of the Board, having served since August 1997. He was reelected in 2000, 2003, and again in October 2006. His current term expires 31 December 2009.

Lee Howard has worked in technical, managerial, consulting, and project management roles in networking since 1994. He is currently the director of network engineering for Stanley Associates, a public sector IT and logistics consulting company. Prior to joining Stanley Associates, Lee worked at UUNET from 1997 until 2003, where he managed installations of DSL and high-speed Internet access, VPN, and VoIP services in the U.S., Latin America, Asia Pacific, and U.K.

Lee served on the Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2004. The Board then appointed him to the ASO AC for a one-year term.

Lee was again elected to the Board of Trustees in October 2005. His current term expires 31 December 2008.

Bill Manning bmanning at karoshi dot comhas been involved in networking since 1979, when he joined Texas Instruments to build out its global IP network. He then joined Rice University and was part of the team that built and ran SESQUINET. He was instrumental in the migration of MIDNET and SESQUINET from NSFnet regional networks to commercial networks. He served on the COREN and CALREN-2 technical committees. He joined ISI in the Routing Arbiter project and currently he serves on the research staff at USC's Information Sciences Institute. His primary technical interests have been in network operations and naming systems.

Bill is active in the IETF and IEPG as an individual participant, working group chair, and code developer. He was responsible for specifying the method for adding NSAP support to the DNS, and then developed and implemented a plan to expand the Internet root server system to add four new nodes.

Bill has served on the Board since January 2002.  He was re-elected in October of 2004 and 2007.  His current term expires 31 December 2010.

Ray Plzak plzak at arin dot nethas been involved in Internet registry operations since 1991. Prior to assuming his duties with ARIN in 2000, he managed the DoD NIC. He has extensive experience in managing the allocation of Internet Number Resources; the administration of domain names (the .MIL domain); managing an Internet root server (g.rootserver.net); managing directory services such as WHOIS and IRR; and help desk operations. Ray is a past co-chair of the Domain Name System (DNS) Operation Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and is the co-author/contributor of several RFCs. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Internet Society and Root Server System Advisory (RSSAC) and Security and Stability Advisory (SSAC) Committees of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Paul Vixie paul at vix dot comhas been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980, and was a co-founder of ISC in 1994. Early in his career, he developed and introduced SENDS, proxynet, rtty, cron and other lesser-known tools. Paul is considered the primary modern author and technical architect of BIND8.

Paul is President of Internet Systems Consortium. He served as President/CEO of PAIX, MIBH and on the board of several for-profit and non-profit companies. He has authored or co-authored a dozen or so RFCs, mostly on DNS and related topics. He is a member of ICANN RSSAC and ICANN DNSSAC, and a frequent participant in IETF and NANOG.

Paul was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2005.  He was re-elected in October 2007, and his current term expires 31 December 2010.

Bill Woodcock woody at pch dot netis the president and research director of Packet Clearing House, an NGO and research institute which studies and supports inter-carrier Internet traffic exchange around the world. Bill has worked with PCH since 1993. Bill was also the founder of Zocalo, a small multinational ISP, which he ran from 1989 to 2002.

Bill has served on the Board since January 2003. His current term expires 31 December 2008.