Joe Abley
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| Country: | Canada |
| Email: | joe.abley [at] icann.org |
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Joe Abley is the Director of DNS Operations at ICANN. He is also Network Architect at TekSavvy Solutions, Inc, a large, independent Canadian ISP, a member of the LonIX Advisory Council and a Director at Hopcount Limited.[1] Joe provides direction for the operation of ICANN's production DNS services, including the L Root Server and the systems and processes used to manage DNSSEC in the root zone of the DNS. Joe is an active contributor to the IETF, a volunteer instructor for the Network Startup Resource Center and a trustee of the New Zealand Network Operators Group.
Joe has written several RFCs. He attends operator meetings including NANOG, RIPE, the Canadian ISP Summit, AfNOG, SANOG and NZNOG.
Career History[edit | edit source]
He was the director of Toronto Internet Exchange from 2007-2009. At Afilias, he was the Director of Operations, Content Propagation and Resolution Services, where he was responsible for and part of the team which managed Afilias' distributed authority server platform for various Afilias-operated top-level domains. He was also an Executive director at IAB, chair of the NANOG Steering Committee, a member of the Programme Committee at NANOG and SANOG.
From 2004-2006, Joe worked at ISC, where he had the responsibility of the architecture and operation of ISC's networks in California and in the twenty F root nameserver nodes distributed around the world, many of which he helped install. While he was at ISC, he taught at workshops and tutorial in many parts of the world.[2] He has also worked at Metromedia Fiber Network (now, again, AboveNet) and Clear Communications Limited (now TelstraClear). Joe was a founder of the Auckland Peering Exchange (APE).
Education[edit | edit source]
Joe narrowly escaped with a BA in Physical and Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, who also awarded him an MA for reasons unrelated to study.
Personal Life[edit | edit source]
Joe currently lives in Ontario, Canada with two children and a long-suffering, incontinent cat named Lucy. He enjoys travel, ideally by motorcycle.
Presentations[edit | edit source]
- Trust Reflection
- draft-liman-tld-names
- Incremental Deployment of a Signed Root
- DNSSEC for the Root Zone
- ICANN DNSSEC Operations Update
- Building Nameserver Clusters with Free Software
- No Dynamic Updates for Static Zones
External Links[edit | edit source]
Joe Abley on Google Plus.