Internet Society Fellows Announced
2003
Nevil Brownlee
Nevil Brownlee is well known in New Zealand having guided Auckland University's networking endeavours for nearly twenty years. Nevil was an key contributor to Kawaihiko, the early university network, and Tuia, the consortium that brought together the interests of both the university sector and the CRIs. Nevil and his staff at the University of Auckland provided the majority of management support for Kawaihiko, minuting meetings, managing its funds and producing periodic reports on traffic.
Nevil made his international reputation in the area of network measurement. Nevil developed NeTraMet, a real-time traffic flow measurement architecuture, for Auckland University in the early 1990s. The current version of NeTraMet is used by 200 organisations around the world. Nevil currently spends half his time at Auckland University and the other half with CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) where he leads their Metrics Working Group. Nevil is also co-chair of the IETF's Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement Working Group and is author or co-author of twelve RFCs.
John Vorstermans
John Vorstermans is widely known throughout the New Zealand Internet community. He has combined technical competence as demonstrated through participation in the NOG with a social conscience and deep belief in the ability of the Internet to improve lives.
John was a co-founder of Actrix, New Zealand's first commercial ISP, originally operating out of a spare room in the John's house. John has been a consistent and ardent supporter of the concept of the Internet as an open network for the entire community. Under John's guidance Actrix has provided a high level of support to Wellington community groups. John was also instrumental in the formation of The Internet Society of New Zealand (Now InternetNZ) serving on Council from its inception through 2000. He participated in writing the ISP Code of Practice and served as an inaugural member of the board of NZIRL.
For those of us that nominated John, it was his constant presence and the quality of his contribution over a broad range of issues and over many years that identified him as a Fellow.
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Last updated 23 June 2003
