Dear friends in the WSIS Asia list ...
(copied to the Asia CommRights list where some of you also know Gaurab)
Several of us have been wondering whatever happened to our friend Gaurab Raj
Upadhaya, who was a very strong Asian presence in the early WSIS Phase One
prepcoms, and was in fact one of the contact persons of our caucus... some
were wondering if he was not well or if something had happened to him, as he
suddenly became very quiet in the latter part of WSIS...
Well part of the mystery is solved...Gaurab appears to be alive and well,
but is now based in the US...(see below)
I came accross the info below when a primer he drafted for WSIS on Free /
Open Source Software: Network Infrastructure and Security was circulated on
the Bytes for All list for comments..
Gaurab...I am copying you on this note, just to say hi--you may want to give
us an update of your activities even as we continue to plod along in WSIS
Phase 2 (PrepCom2 ) coming up in Feb 2005...
Cheers
Al
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Gaurab Raj Upadhaya
gaurab@lahai.com
Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, is currently employed as Internet Economics Analyst /
Staff Engineer, at Packet Clearing House (www.pch.net), a research
non-profit based in Berkeley, California. He works mostly in Internet
backbone operations, analysing peering relationships between operators and
roles of Internet Exchange Points in different parts of Asia. Much of the
work involves training ISPs in developing countries about best practices on
network operations. He also runs the PCH INOC-DBA (www.pch.net/inoc-dba)
hotline phone system for service providers. He initiated the Nepal Internet
Exchange (npIX) and currently serves as its voluntary CEO.
In 2003, Gaurab started the South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG), a
non-profit educational event and forum for ISPs in the South Asian Region
(www.sanog.org). SANOG has a track dedicated to in-depth hands on workshops
on ISP operations using open source, along side other workshops on BIND/DNS
and Security. He currently chairs SANOG, and is the vice-chair of Asia
Pacific Internet Association (www.apia.org), and Management Committee member
for Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
(APRICOT). (www.apricot.net)