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
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
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
Joe currently lives in Ontario, Canada with two children and a long-suffering, incontinent cat named Lucy. He enjoys travel, ideally by motorcycle.
Presentations
- 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
Joe Abley on Google Plus.