Council Nominee - David Zanetti
Nominee for Council 2007-2009
David Zanetti
David has been a computer geek for many years, ever since his father bought the computer the introduced a whole generation to computers, the Spectrum. Since then he has spent most of his spare time, and later work time, tinkering and building systems and networks.
He has spent the last twelve years in IT professionally, primarily as a Unix sysadmin, in organisations ranging from two or three people to large corporates. This diversity of environments helped build a strong sense of pragmatism, that systems and networks are not built in isolation of the real world and real users.
His involvement in InteretNZ has been as both a supporter and a critic. In the late 90s this was primarily being involved in the push to change the way InternetNZ operated .nz - from a single subsidary company to a split of responsibilities and opening up the registration of names to competition. This developed into being elected to the Council in 2000 on the platform of implementing the this split, as the Shared Registy System. In mid 2002 he was appointed as inaugural director of NZRS, the company formed by the Society to operate the registry under the new model, spending a year on the transition from the Domainz system to the new SRS going live. With the SRS live, David moved on to operational responsbilities for the actual SRS systems, as part of leading a team of sysadmins at Catalyst IT - developers and hosts for the SRS.
"InternetNZ has proven to be an effective voice for the Internet in lobbying on legislation, and in how the Internet is perceived and operated. To have got past the shackles of discontent over the DNS, it has become a much greater infuence in how policy and laws are formed.
"I am getting involved again on Council to return to one of the threads I most enjoyed in my past time on Council - lobbying for the good of the Internet and it's users. Ensuring that laws that affect the Internet make sense, recognise the uniqueness and possiblities of the Internet, and spread arguably the technology that has already changed the world more in such a short time than any previous kind of communications development.
"With a strong InternetNZ, and diversity of experience and views, InternetNZ can continue to achieve positive impacts on society as a whole through the Internet.
