'''Owen DeLong''' is currently a Senior Network Architect at [[Akamai]]. He also occasionally provides [[IP]]-related consulting and training services to other organizations. DeLong has been an [[IPv6]] Evangelist and Director of Professional Services at Hurricane Electric, a Senior Backbone Engineer at Exodus Communication before working at Tellme Networks and Netli in both Network Engineering and Operations. A consultant (C2 Company), and Senior Operations Architect at Vusion, Inc. DeLong has been an active participant in the [[ARIN]] public policy process for more than 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 and subsequently /24, special resource policies to assist in the [[AfriNIC|AFRINIC]] startup, etc. Owen has always believed that ARIN's 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. | '''Owen DeLong''' is currently a Senior Network Architect at [[Akamai]]. He also occasionally provides [[IP]]-related consulting and training services to other organizations. DeLong has been an [[IPv6]] Evangelist and Director of Professional Services at Hurricane Electric, a Senior Backbone Engineer at Exodus Communication before working at Tellme Networks and Netli in both Network Engineering and Operations. A consultant (C2 Company), and Senior Operations Architect at Vusion, Inc. DeLong has been an active participant in the [[ARIN]] public policy process for more than 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 and subsequently /24, special resource policies to assist in the [[AfriNIC|AFRINIC]] startup, etc. Owen has always believed that ARIN's 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. |