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InternetNZ recently held council elections with Peter Macaulay elected InternetNZ’s new President for a two-year term. Peter is a former InternetNZ Councillor and has served in the past as Executive Director. There is also an IPv6 technical workshop from 6-10 August.
Long-standing InternetNZ Councillor and Fellow of the Society Frank March has been elected Vice President and will hold this position for a two-year term. Judy Speight has been re-elected to the Councillor position she has held since December 2006. There are five new faces with Liz Butterfield, Hamish McEwen, Stewart Fleming, Michael Foley and Scott Bartlett elected to serve as InternetNZ Councillors.
InternetNZ will host a technical workshop from 6-10 August on IPv6. The technical workshop is being delivered by two offshore experts on IPv6 – Faraz Shamim from Cisco Systems and Gaurab Upadaya from Packet Clearing House.
A range of technical issues will be covered including IPv6 design and addressing, IPv6 neighbour discovery, IPv6 stateless auto-configuration and mobile IPv6. Much of the workshop will involve hands-on work with network equipment from Cisco Systems.
For more information on the council elections see http://internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/electionresults and for more information on the IPv6 workshop see http://internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/media-ipv6workshop
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