Morning all, If you're an APNIC member then it's time to exercise your voting powers. Online voting is now open for the upcoming Executive Council elections. There are four seats open, so you will get a number of votes. Here's a very cut down version of the biographies (wording taken from http://conference.apnic.net/35/elections#nominees) if you're still undecided. James Spenceley James founded Vocus, now one of the largest IP backbone providers in Australia and New Zealand. James has successfully managed Vocus into the awarded fastest growing technology company in Australia. Vocus now listed on the Australian Stock Market offers IP transit, fibre and data centre services in three markets (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore Hong Kong and USA) giving James a strong perspective on operating an Internationally diverse operation and valuable experience in technical and financial matters and corporate governance. James is also a founding director of AusNOG (Australian Network Operators Group), defining the company structure and not for profit nature of the AusNOG orgaisation. Since it's founding in 2007 AusNOG has held six annual conferences which regularly exceed 200 attendees. Guarab Raj Upadhaya Presently employed by Limelight Networks (LLNW) as Network Architect on their backbone engineering team, Gaurab supports Limelight's high speed backbone in Asia, Europe and North America. Gaurab previously worked for Packet Clearing House (PCH) as Senior Internet Analyst Gaurab is one of the 14 global Trusted Community Representatives who cryptographically sign the root of the domain name system in ICANN Root DNSSEC Key ceremonies. During his career, he has spoken and presented at INET, APRICOT, SANOG, APNIC, NZNOG, MENOG, AUSNOG, PHNOG, JANOG, AfNOG, NANOG, ICANN conferences as well as RIPE and LINX Meetings. Kenny Huang Dr. Huang's contributions have been acknowledged especially in the development of Internet technology. Dr. Kenny Huang is the co-author of RFC3743 of the IETF, the Co-Chair of JET (Joint Engineering Team, formed by JPNIC, KRNIC, CNNIC, TWNIC), Advisor of CDNC (Chinese Domain Name Consortium). Dr. Huang is working closely with government departments in developing technology policies. Wei Zhao Deputy Director of Operation Management Department,CNNIC, responsible for IP services, related external cooperation and innovation. At APNIC community, she has been involved in policy developing and other community events since she joined CNNIC. She was served as NIR SIG co-chair in 2009 to 2010, and elected as APNIC Executive Council in 2011. Lengchheang Hong Lengchheang Hong began his career at AsiaForm where he was a network administrator. He then moved on to become a Senior Customer Solutions Support Officer for ONLINE before moving up and becoming the Key Account Manager. He became the Technical Support Manager for SINET-MOOV in March 2010 and was responsible for NOC ISP and its branches' operations. ________________________________________________________________________ Proxy appointment/online voting for 2013 APNIC EC election open now ________________________________________________________________________ Online voting and proxy appointment for the APNIC Executive Council (EC) election opens today, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 for a two-week period until 09:00 (UTC +8), Wednesday, 27 February 2013. The EC members whose positions are up for re-election are: - Kenny Huang - James Spenceley - Guarab Raj Upadhaya - Wei Zhao The nominees are: - Lengchheang Hong - Kenny Huang - Guarab Raj Upadhaya - James Spenceley - Wei Zhao Online voting is available to APNIC Member Corporate Contacts and Member Contacts with voting rights via MyAPNIC. By default, all Corporate Contacts have voting rights, and they can assign voting rights to other contacts in MyAPNIC. https://myapnic.net Full details of the election and alternative voting methods are available at: http://conference.apnic.net/35/elections If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact: helpdesk(a)apnic.net ________________________________________________________________________ APNIC Secretariat secretariat(a)apnic.net Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net ________________________________________________________________________ * Sent by email to save paper. Print only if necessary.