Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry for more than 40 years. A principal scientist at Internet Initiative Japan, he has also served on the Steering Committee of NANOG and was one of the founding members of ARIN. Bush began with languages and compilers but for the past few decades has worked in the Internet industry.

The NSRC started as a volunteer effort to support networking in southern Africa in 1988, when he designed, taught about, and helped deploy a multi-country network using varying technologies. The NSRC worked with indigenous network engineers and operators who developed and maintained Internet infrastructure in their respective countries and regions by providing technical information, engineering assistance, training, donation of books, equipment, and other resources.

Bush was the founding engineer of Verio and worked there for five years as the Vice President of IP Networking. Prior to founding Verio, he served as the Principal Engineer at RAINet, which was later acquired by Verio. He also worked at the Network Startup Resource Center as a PI, and has served as a member of the IESG.

At APNIC, Bush has served as Routing SIG Co-Chair, Policy SIG Co-Chair, and Fees Working Group Chair. He has served as chair of the ACM Internet Governance Committee and co-founded the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders' Constituency within ICANN's DNSO. He has also served as the technical contact for the Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs), which are two-letter Internet top-level domains (TLDs) specifically designated for a particular country, sovereign state, or autonomous territory for use to service their community. ccTLDs are derived from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes.

He served as chair of the IETF Working Group on the DNS for a decade and as Co-Chair of the IETF. Bush was influential in setting up Internet networks in South Africa and has served as a corporate researcher at AT&T for more than a year. He led the US Modula-2 Language Standards efforts for more than 10 years, authored the basic FidoNet protocol standard, and was the Technical Program chair of INET'96.

Bush attended RIPE-37, where he gave a presentation about problems and possible approaches to the issues of identity; RIPE-40, where he presented News at Eleven; and RIPE-43, where he presented research showing that Route Flap Damping is harmful. In 2002, he gave a speech at Rhodes University about integration of appropriate networking technology and chaired a panel on the Hard Lessons of Internet eXchange Points at AfNOG 2002. He attended the DARPA PI meeting in 2006 and gave a presentation titled "A Curmudgeonly Operator's View of Resiliency and Research." He has also been a speaker at APNIC 26 and APRICOT 2010.

Bush has served on various research technical program committees, including ICNP and PAM, and has actively attended RIR meetings across all regions, as well as LACNIC and ICANN meetings. He was the co-developer, with Anne Lord, of APNIC's policy development process. Among the publications he authored or co-authored are: "Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force A Very Curmudgeonly View or Testing Spaghetti — A Wall's Point of View"; "A Basic FidoNet® Technical Standard Revision 16"; and "Profile: RAINet."