User:Shub

Hmm. Who am I? Good question....

I can tell you that my name is Brad Knowles, and I've got a vanity web site at http://www.shub-internet.org/, and you can find my official bio at http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/bio.html.

Résumé-wise, I think the best one I've got online at the moment is my LinkedIn profile.

With regards to my experience, I've been mucking about with DNS and Internet e-mail since the very early 90's, I was the comp.mail.sendmail FAQ maintainer from '95-'97, and as the first Internet Mail Operations person hired by America Online (later the Sr. Internet Mail Systems Administrator), I have had way more than my share of work in the anti-spam field. I've also been on the IRTF/IETF Anti-Spam Research Group, was technical reviewer of the O'Reilly books DNS and BIND (2nd ed.) and sendmail (2nd ed.), and I'm now working on a book of my own.

Project-wise, I am a contributor to the NTP Public Services project, Mailman project, and Python, among others.

I've also been monitoring NANOG for years, although I was one of the many who was muzzled by Dr. Susan Harris. I don't have a lot of direct experience in the field of Network Operations itself, but I do have experience with NTP, DNS, and Internet e-mail, and I believe that these are three key infrastructure areas that Network Operators need to pay very close attention to. I'm hoping to be able to fill in some bits in those areas, and maybe help polish some of the others -- or at least be able to provide constructive criticism from the perspective of a hopefully-not-totally-clueless outsider.