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The Speakers

Peter Koch studied computer sciences and worked as research assistant before he joined DENIC in 2005. As the Senior Researcher of DENIC the focus of his work lies on protocol development, in particular DNS, ENUM and IPv6, as well as on data analysis and security of the Internet infrastructure. Since many years he has been involved in international bodies – e.g. with regard to the standardization of DNSSEC – is co-chair of the DNS Working Group of RIPE, co-chair of the DNS Operations Working Group of IETF and member of the board of OARC and the Internet Society, German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE).

Marcos Sanz Grossón is head of DENIC's Software Engineering Department and has been working at DENIC for more than ten years. As early as 2001, he accompanied a study about the feasibility of introducing DNSSEC in Germany and was involved in the subsequent revision of the DNSSEC standards in the IETF. Marcos Sanz Grossón chairs the CENTR Technical Working Group and is a member of the Unicode Technical Committee.

Hans Peter Dittler, managing director and owner of BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting GmbH since 1997, is an expert for vendor-independent consulting in the fields of networking and communication. Being a member of numerous bodies (advisory council of .berlin and of the PIR./ORG registry, member of the board of the Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC)) and being involved for years in the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Standardization Committee and the IETF Internet Standardization (IPv6 and DNS), he rendered decisive contributions to the development of current IT standards.

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder is Quality & Security Manager at .SE, the registry for ccTLD domains in Sweden. The computer scientist with a doctoral degree, who was awarded the title of one of the leading IT experts of her country two years in succession, is in charge of all projects aiming at improving the security of the Swedish Internet infrastructure. Since 2005, the holder of the Kjell Hultqvist scholarship 2009 is responsible for the productive operation of DNSSEC under .se.

 

Samuel Benz studied electrical engineering at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Since 2000, he has been employed as software engineer by the Swiss domain registry SWITCH in the Internet domains division. At present, he is responsible for coordinating the introduction of DNSSEC under .ch.

 

Following his graduation as computer scientist, Thorsten Dietrich worked several years with Triaton GmbH as project manager in the field of IT security.
Since July 2005, he has been employed by the Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) as head of the Internet security division, his main responsibility being the security of Internet protocols and of providers.

Wolfgang Nagele has been service manager at RIPE NCC since 2008. RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry responsible for assigning IP addresses in Europe. In his function, Wolfgang Nagele is responsible for the stable operation and the further development of k.root-servers.net, one of 13 Internet root name server services of RIPE scattered around the world. Besides dealing with root servers, DNS, DNSSEC, ENUM and IPv6, he is also involved in international working groups of IETF and OARC that deal with the DNS topic.

Holger Zuleger has dealt with the DNS protocol already since 14 years. Since 2003 he also works with the secure DNSSEC version. Holger Zuleger has applied Unix systems for many years and is absolutely familiar with the world of Internet protocols. He wants secure Internet protocols to be spread and widely used. After many years in the training section and as network administrator he has worked in the data network development department of an Internet service provider and as a freelance network and security expert for ten years now.