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2009 NANOG Program Committee CandidatesAll Program Committee nominations should be sent to
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Terms Expiring :
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Terms Not Expiring:
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Joel Jaeggli, Nokia*
Rodney Joffe, NeuStar
Sylvie LaPerriére, VSNL International
Kevin Oberman, ESnet
Lane Patterson, Equinix
Ren Provo, Comcast*
Josh Snowhorn, Terremark*
Todd Underwood, Google*
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Nina Bargisen, TDC
Tom Daly, Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
Brian Deardorff, Level 3 Communications
Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!
Mike Hughes, London Internet Exchange
David Meyer, Cisco Systems
Tom Scholl, AT&T
Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications, Inc.
Larry Blunk - Merit appointee
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* Has served two consecutive terms so, as per the charter, person cannot be considered for re-election until October 2010.
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Nominations for the Open 2009 PC Positions are:
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Joe Abley, ICANN
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Biography: Joe Abley is the Director of DNS Operations at ICANN, where he is mainly tolerated by the small team of engineers responsible for the
operation of L-Root and various DNSSEC-related infrastructure. Before
ICANN, Joe worked variously within AS 9327, AS 5645, AS 12041, AS
3557, AS 6461, AS 4763 and AS 4768. Joe served as a director of the
Toronto Internet Exchange, is a trustee of NZNOG and participates
actively in the IETF.
Joe has been attending and occasionally presenting at NANOG meetings
since moving to Canada from New Zealand in 2000. He served on the
NANOG Programme Committee from 2005-2006, was on the Steering
Committee from 2005-2007, and was one of the people responsible for
hosting NANOG 39 in Toronto.
Statement of Interest:
I have been an enthusiastic consumer of NANOG meeting content for many
years, and have watched (and briefly contributed to) the changing
approaches to building the programme during that time.
I believe the NANOG programmes should reflect the community in tone
and content and provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, seeding
collaboration between operators as well as providing education. I am
grateful for the nomination and the chance to participate in NANOG's
ongoing success as a member of the Programme Committee.
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Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation
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Biography: Cathy began her networking career in 1988 at Merit, Inc where she worked on the NSFNet backbone and also CICNet, a network which interconnected the Big 10 universities. She engineered routing and addressing for BARRNet, the Energy Sciences Network, as well as @Home Network. Cathy was also a member of the technical staff at Packet Design, where she was responsible for operational aspects of their Internet scaling projects. Cathy has served on the ARIN Advisory Council continuously since 1997 and as well as one term on the ASO Address Council.
Statement of Interest: I am very interested in being on the PC again. I am currently employed at Cascadeo Corporation. We do outsourced network operations and engineering for organizations and we are also a partner in the Washington Rural Broadband Cooperative. (www.warbc.net). I think that it's very important to have a solid agenda for the NANOG meetings and I would like to foster more cross pollination between ARIN and NANOG. I think the panels this time were an excellent start at that.
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John Brzozowski, Comcast
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Biography: At Comcast, John leads the firms deployment of IPv6. He leverages his
expertise and experiences to drive the adoption and implementation of IPv6
ensuring that innovative solutions are in place to support traditional and
next generation services. John has contributed significantly to many
standards and technologies critical to the cable industry's adoption of
IPv6, specifically those pertaining to voice, video, and data. He works
closely with CableLabs on DOCSIS and PacketCable specifications and has
contributed to IETF standards efforts.
Prior to joining Comcast, while at Lucent Technologies, John served in a
variety of technical roles. His innovative thinking was essential to the
success of next generation product development efforts, which included IPv6,
for Lucent Technologies' OSS software product suite. Acting as an IPv6 SME
for the firm, John utilized his knowledge and industry contacts to fuel many
IPv6 initiatives. He often worked with large enterprise and service provider
customers developing comprehensive solutions and supporting large-scale
deployments.
John's work in the technical community currently includes acting as the
chair of the MidAtlantic IPv6 Task Force, North American IPv6 Task Force
Steering Committee member, and member of the IPv6 Forum. Through his work
with these organization he helps to drive and support critical IPv6
activities regionally and nationally including but not limited to promoting
IPv6 education, awareness, and of course adoption. John also serves as
co-chair of the IETF DHC Working Group and co-chair of the MAAWG IPv6
sub-committee.
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Jim Cowie, Renesys Corporation
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Biography: Jim Cowie is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Renesys Corporation. Although best known to the NANOG community for his work on BGP routing dynamics and analysis of Internet transit markets, Jim's research roots are actually in high performance computing, parallel language compilation, and network modeling and simulation. When the web was young, he authored one of the first web-based collaborative environments for large-integer factorization, and was part of the distributed research team that cracked RSA-130. His current interests include Internet stability metrics and the economics of the developing world's Internet markets. Jim received a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.
Statement of Interest:
I've been participating in and learning from the NANOG community since NANOG23, when I presented our first analysis of global routing instability during the spread of the 2001 Nimda worm. I've helped bring more than a dozen presentations to the stage over the years since then. Like me, the NANOG audience craves talks full of practical engineering experience, war stories, cautionary tales, and a touch of applied research (based on hard data rather than theory). I especially love presentations that deliver unpleasant truths and elicit fireworks from the audience. I appreciate being nominated, and would be honored to lend the PC a hand in searching for and nurturing great technical content.
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Greg Dendy, Equinix
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Biography: Greg Dendy manages networks and engineers for Equinix in North
America. He is the technical lead of the Internet Exchange platforms
and guided efforts to meet the rising peering demand of recent years.
Greg also manages an extensive internal enterprise LAN/WAN and
external MPLS and DWDM metro networks. In his spare time, he
evaluates current and future technologies (40Gb/100Gb, IPv6, etc),
represents Equinix at ARIN meetings, and coordinates peering for
AS14609.
Greg was forged in the fires of Pacific Bell/SBC Internet during the
rollout of residential broadband access in the mid/late 1990s,
tempered in the @Home implosion of 2001 and has been honed by Equinix
since 2004. He received a BA in Political Science from University of
California, Santa Barbara and a MA in Political Science from
California State University, Chico.
Statement of Interest:
I've been an active participant in the NANOG conferences over the last
5-6 years and served as host sponsor for NANOG35 in Los Angeles. I
want to step up my involvement to include shaping the conference
agenda. Some interesting tracks in IPv6 and datacenter technologies
have developed in the last few years that I'd like to see flourish,
and I see opportunities to bring in new types of content on metro
fiber networks and outage post-mortems. My interaction with leading
and up-and-coming hardware vendors, service/content providers and my
occasional participation in LINX and other European fora puts me in a
good position to find speakers and topics.
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Randy Epstein, WV Fiber
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Biography: Randy Epstein is a 22 year veteran of the industry. He is President of WV Fiber, a multi-national transit and transport provider as well as the Co-Founder and CIO of Host.net, an Inc.500 provider of enterprise/government Internet transit, transport, managed security, cloud computing and colocation services. Mr. Epstein serves on the Board of Directors of OCCAID, an IPv6 research and development network deployed globally to assist researchers and Internet service providers in their transition to next-generation IPv6 technology. Mr. Epstein has taken a keen interest in peering strategy and negotiation. Mr. Epstein currently serves on the NANOG MLC.
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Avi Freedman, ServerCentral
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Biography: Avi Freedman is CTO and VP of Cloud Services with ServerCentral, where he is rolling out a Private Cloud Platform for Enterprise and content
provider customers. Prior to joining ServerCentral, Avi was at
Akamai for
9.9 years where he founded the network group and played in the vast
Akamai geek sandbox, interfacing Akamai Technologies to the real
world.
Avi founded Philadelphia's original ISP, netaxs, and started teaching
Internet routing in the real world in the mid-90s. He was a founding
member of the ARIN advisory council and is actively involved in the
network community.
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| Barry Greene, Juniper
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Biography:
Mr. Barry Raveendran Greene is currently the Director of Juniper's Security
Incident Response Team (SIRT). With 30 years in the industry, Barry brings a
wide range of experiences and skills to the just of fulfilling Juniper's
mission to deliver products that are Fast, Reliable, and Secure. Before
Juniper, Barry's spent 12 years at Cisco Systems, spending the last 6 as
Cisco's Chief SP Security Architect and Instigator - driving programs,
products, innovation, and strategy to meet a SP's security business. Barry has
served on the NANOG Program Committee in the past as well was worked with
APRICOT, AFNOG, and other operational forums. (More on Barry's bio can be
found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/barryrgreene).
Statement of Interest:
There has been a lot of changes with SP Security since I was last on the PC.
I would like to take an active role to pull in talks and seminars which would
help the community understand today's risk, tomorrow's threats, and the new
approaches that are working with their peer's networks.
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Nicholas Harland, Constant Contact
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Biography:
Nicholas Harland is a Sr. Network Engineer at Constant Contact
(AS40444), where he is experiencing the Network Operations world as an end-user
for the first time. Prior to Constant Contact, Nicholas was Sr. Network
Engineer at Icelandic datacenter startup Verne Global, and in the past he has
held various Engineering and Operations roles at Level3 Communications (AS3356),
Computer Sciences Corporation, and BBN/GTEi/Genuity (AS1) dating back to 1998.
Before 1998 he lived in a world of Livingston PM2s and Cisco AGS+ at a small
dial-up ISP in New Hampshire.
Statement of Interest:
I have been attending meetings since NANOG17 and have
been very pleased with the way the forum has evolved in the last few years. My
goal on the PC would be to recruit content that is relevant to the community
while also being attractive to those who are new to NANOG and the operator
world in general.
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Anton Kapela |
Statement of Interest:
I'd like to be considered for the NANOG programme committee. My experiences in organizing and hosting the WI-NOG conferences, owning a datacenter, and my constant involvement in research, education, and operations fields have all colored my views on that which constitutes "topical" for the NANOG attendee.
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Mohit Lad, Nokia
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Biography: Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2007 and
is currently working at Nokia in the Services Business Unit. At Nokia,
he is responsible for architecting and implementing instrumentation
and tools to monitor Nokia's network. Mohit Lad has been actively
involved in NANOG since his graduate study at UCLA. His thesis was on
routing diagnosis and security with a focus on solving real
operational problems. His research was supplemented with tools like
the Link-Rank visualization for BGP routing diagnosis, and PHAS:
Prefix hijack alert system (in joint collaboration with Colorado State
University). He has presented these tools in the general session at
prior NANOG meetings and was also the organizer and moderator for the
Routing tools BOF.
Statement of Interest:
I have been involved in NANOG for the last 6-7 years, having attended
quite a few meetings, presented during the main session and moderated
the BGP/Routing tools BOF on a few occasions. My current industry job
has given me a strong sense of operational problems and requirements.
With my prior research background, I would bring in a unique blend of
academic and industry experience into the NANOG PC. I have benefited
immensely from being involved with NANOG during my Ph.D. and feel
strongly about contributing in day-to-day activities as well as bring
in fresh ideas.
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Bill Manning, USC's Information Sciences Institute
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Biography: Bill Manning serves on the research staff at USC's Information Sciences Institute. His
primary technical interests have been in network operations and naming systems.
His network design and operational experiences include global, private networks for industry,
regional networking for the National Science Foundation, working on the design teams that
built the first internet exchanges, the first IPv6 native networks and early all optical networks.
He currently is active in DNS operational activities, heading up the operations of one of
the Internets root nameservers.
Bill has previously served on the program committees for the North American Network
Operators Group (NANOG), and the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational
Technologies (APRICOT).
He was a Trustee of ARIN (American Registery for Internet Numbers) and
on the Board of Directors for OCHER networks, a submarine cable company based
in Australia. He is the managing partner in EP.NET, a private consultancy.
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Chris Morrow, Google, Inc.
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Biography: Chris Morrow started with UUNET/MCI in the Internet Customer Security Department assisting customers with mitigation of live security incidents and Denial of Service attacks. Over the five years he has been with UUNET/MCI he has remained in the Internet Customer Security Department while expanding his responsibilities to include development tasks and backbone security threat mitigation.
While in this position Chris has helped develop several techniques for Denial of Service Mitigation, including the method currently used by UUNET/MCI to track attack traffic across its backbone and the method which allows UUNET/MCI customers to blackhole their own IP space in the event that space is being attacked. Additionally, Chris has contributed to several features available now on Juniper and Cisco routers used to provide security services. His responsibilities now include resolving security engineering tasks for the UUNET/MCI IP Backbone as well as customer security issues.
Chris has presented to several industry conferences the current 'best practices' for backbone security and customer security on a large backbone network. This has enabled many other large network service providers to implement similar reaction methods used to mitigate customer security issues, allowing better cooperation between network providers during global security incidents.
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Kevin Oberman, ESnet
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Biography: Kevin Oberman is a Senior Network Engineer at ESnet, the backbone
research network for the US Department of Energy Office of Science where
he deals with routing, peering, configuration management, traffic
engineering, DNS, NTP, and other general network engineering issues. His
background in networking goes back over 30 years to the early
implementations of Ethernet.
Statement of Interest:
I have been involved with NANOG since NANOG4 and
having served for a year and a half on the Program Committee. I am
familiar with the process of developing NANOG programs. I have had
extensive experience as a public speaker at technical conferences as
well as a stint as an announcer at a commercial radio station and I
believe I have a good idea of the content that is effective in providing
a presentation which attendees will find of interest. My networking
background is broad, covering LAN design and deployment as well as the
engineering of national scale high capacity wide-area networks.
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Dani Roisman, Peak Web Consulting
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Biography: Dani Roisman provides Network Design and Engineering services at Peak Web Consulting. In addition to his role as a Senior Network Architect, he is also the Network Engineering Team Lead, providing technical guidance and oversight to other Network Engineers. He specializes in large content datacenters and networks, with a focus on peering and multi-homing to reduce costs, improve customer negotiating stance, as well as increased network capacity, performance, and fault-tolerance. His network design and implementation accomplishments include multiplayer game and social networking deployments hosting over 5,000 servers across 9 datacenters with Internet bandwidth capacities reaching 250Gbps.
Prior to his tenure at Peak, Dani was the Director of Network and Facilities Architecture at Sony Online Entertainment. Since starting at Sony in 1997 as a computer technology generalist, he was a key asset as the company grew from a 40-person team making a handful of free web-based games, to a leader in the massively-multiplayer market, boasting a profitable business providing subscription-based premium games including EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and PlanetSide. Responsibilities at Sony included design, implementation, and operations of a multinational content hosting network of over 4,500 servers.
Statement of Interest:
My early computer networking career benefited extensively from information learned at NANOG conferences,
while my operational success over the years can be partially attributed to the threads on the mailing list.
Recently I have begun to give back to the NANOG community with tutorials and other technical talks.
Through my varied experience as a network engineering contractor, I am exposed to a wide range of
current issues and shortcomings within computer networking, and believe that background will assist
with creating a diverse and interesting agenda.
I'm honored to have been nominated for the program committee, and would welcome the opportunity to
contribute to the effectiveness of the conference by assisting with topic solicitation and selection.
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Adam Rothschild |
Biography: Adam Rothschild serves as Vice President of Network Architecture at
Voxel, a hosting and Internet infrastructure provider with presences
in Europe, Asia, and throughout the United States. Adam manages the
design and upkeep of Voxel's production network, with a passion for
metro DWDM, peering, and high-bandwidth server aggregation.
He was previously involved as an advisor to several technology
startups, and helped to develop the New York City eXchange (NYCX), a
not-for-profit peering fabric.
Statement of Interest: I've been attending the NANOG conferences on a regular basis beginning
with NANOG 19 in Montreal. Over these ten years, I've discovered what
works, and what doesn't. As a PC member, I will do my share to keep
the conference agenda both engaging and operationally relevant.
I will work to seek out interesting content, looking away from the
"usual suspects" and towards vendors and colleagues developing
particularly novel products and technologies. Specific areas I've
found under-represented -- yet interesting to the NANOG community as a
whole -- include datacenter/infrastructure automation, "alternate"
last-mile access, and general problem-solving from the prospective of
a content hoster. I'd also like to showcase more "real world" v6
deployments, looking to the success of the Philadelphia conference for
examples.
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Joshua Shahala, IntelePeer
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Biography: Joshua is an IP Engineer at IntelePeer, a next-generation voice
carrier and application provider, where he is involved in network planning,
design, and operation. His current projects include backbone performance and
scaling, security, automation, and increasing peering.
Joshua has over a decade of experience working for various content,
network, and VoIP service providers, with past responsibilities in operations,
engineering and architecture, peering, and systems administration. He
has been involved to varying degrees with NANOG, NZNOG, various open-source
projects, and vendor users-groups where he brings a unique blend of
knowledge and a willingness to help to the community.
Statement of Interest: Having had mostly indirect invovlement when previous employers hosted
and/or
sponsored NANOG, I want to take a more active and direct role in
shaping the
future of the community and of the NANOG programme content.
Specifically, I would seek content aimed at education and
collaboration in order
to present innovative solutions to current problems, as well as ideas to
facilitate future growth and stability. I would also like to see
greater
involvement from small/mid-sized networks and VoIP providers in a
forum where
they can share their experiences with one-another.
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Sonia Sakovich, Sprint
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Biography:
I have been working at Sprint for 12 years where I started as a NOC Engineer. One
year later I moved to the Data Engineering Organization where I was responsible for
building Sprintlink sites in both the US and Asia. Various roles I performed
included:
- Site engineer performed both physical and logical router
installations from Cisco 2511 to GSR 12416 routers to CRS routers (logical only)
- Principal Program Manager for Sprintlink Asia Build involved in site
selection, vendor review and installation Management of budgets for capacity planning and new site builds ranging from 2M to 27M
- Present role as Peering Coordinator for Sprint Regulatory extern with the Sprint Regulatory Group/Legal group writing draft legal responses to the FCC and performing economic analysis related to impacts of legal decisions
Prior to Sprint:
- GTE - On site tech at DOJ for JCON Program, wrote RFP
responses for Sprint Nextel
- Lexis Nexis - Responsible for the sales and service of
private database services to the Legal community
Education:
- Master Degree in Law and Economics (JM), George Mason University
School of Law, 2006
- Master Degree in Information Systems from George Mason University
School of Information Technology and Engineering, 1995
- Master Certificate in Program Management form George Washington
University, 2000
- Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Northeastern
University
Statement of Interest:
I have been attending NANOG for one year. In that time I have been exposed to various
offerings that bring together the important topics facing Network Operators over the
coming years. I believe that my combined experience in Engineering, Law and
Economics, Program Management and Business makes me qualified to address many of the
upcoming issues facing our industry, and help select topics of interest to the members
of the industry.
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Dave Temkin, Netflix
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Biography: Dave Temkin is the Network Engineering Manager at Netflix. At Netflix, he uses his knowledge of both the operational and architectural aspects of network management to work with internal and external partners to provide a positive experience for Netflix's widely popular streaming product. Prior to joining Netflix, he was a Network Architect at Yahoo!, specializing in Layer 4-7 network technologies. He came to Yahoo! after the startup he was working for, Right Media, was acquired by them. As the Network Engineering Manager at Right Media, Dave and his team took their network footprint worldwide, starting with a tiny single homed switch in Metro NYC.
Prior to his involvement with these very internet-centric companies, Dave
spent 10 years working for financial ASP's and enterprises, including leading
the Network Architecture team at Lava Trading (a division of Citigroup) and
the technical lead at Susquehanna International Group. Before that he worked
with companies such as Gateway to bring their infrastructure to the
metropolitan New York area. He started his career as a Junior Engineer in the
Network Infrastructure Group at Bristol Myers Squibb, working his way up to
Principal Engineer.
Dave has always taken a keen interest in advancing networks. He took legacy
technologies in use for decades at trading companies such as X.25, SNA, and
dedicated ARDs and replaced them with IP, advanced MPLS services, and VoIP. He
has shown strong leadership in the IPv6 community, including launching the
first fully featured movie streaming service over IPv6 with Netflix. He has
done extensive work with Layer 4-7 network vendors to more finely hone their
products to be more functional in a modern world, including improving IPv6
support and designing a method for DSR to work across Layer 3 boundaries. He
is generally hated in the Foundry(Brocade) TAC.
Statement of Interest: I have been
interested in the NANOG group since 1998 and have been lurking on the mailing
list since 2000. Unfortunately due to a mix of unsympathetic employers and
being busy building networks I have only recently become able to give more
time to the NANOG community. I have taken the bull by the horns and am
contributing to NANOG in every way that I can: Presentations, lightning talks,
hosting/sponsorship, and hopefully the PC. I have seen the power that this
group harnesses and would love to help guide it in the best direction
possible.
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