Arbitration Process
As a result of the publication of the RIPE NCC Conflict Arbitration
Procedure, a pool of arbiters has been appointed by the RIPE NCC
Executive Committee.
To start the formal arbitration process, the party initiating the procedure
should select an arbiter from the list below. To receive the contact
details for an arbiter, please click the name of the relevant arbiter from
the list below. The party initiating the procedure can then contact the
arbiter directly to begin the arbitration process.
Arbiter list:
Jaap Akkerhuis, DNS Co-chair, NLnet Labs
Kurt Kayser, Self employed
David Kessens, IPv6 WG Chair, Nokia
Olaf Kolkman, NLnet Labs
Keith Mitchell , former NCC Chair, UK Internet Forum
Remco van Mook, NDIX
Wilfried Woeber, Database WG Chair, Vienna University
The nominees for the arbitration committee were approved by the Annual
General Meeting participants in 2001 and 2008.
Please consult the RIPE NCC Conflict
Arbitration Procedure for more details about the procedures.
Biographies of arbiters
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Jaap Akkerhuis
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Jaap Akkerhuis (1951, Amsterdam) was instrumental in the development of what is now known as
the Internet in the early eighties (last century) at the Mathematical Centre (current name: Centrum
Wiskunde & Informatica). In 1987 he moved to the US to join the Information Technology Centre at the
CMU (Pittsburgh, PA), followed by another two years at Mt. Xinu (Berkeley, CA.) and three years at Bell
Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ). In 1995 he returned to the Netherlands to join NLnet, the first Dutch ISP.
In 1999 he joined the Dutch registry (SIDN). In 2004 he left this for his current job at NLnet Labs.
He is a long-time participant in RIPE meetings and functions as a co-chair of the DNS working group.
As a participant in IETF meetings he was co-chair of the PROVREG Working Group. In some of his other
functions he has been part of ICANN and CENTR committees and is currently a member of the ICANN
Security and Scalability Advisory Committee. He was also member of the Permanent Stakeholders
Group of ENISA and act as an occasional instructor for ISOC courses for TLD registries.
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Olaf Kolkman
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Olaf Kolkman was born (1966) and raised in the Netherlands. He was trained as an astronomer but his
interest in Internet technology took hold of his career path around 1996. In that year he moved to a
commercial company and implemented a mail-to-web gateway and built a customised firewall.
In 1997 he joined the RIPE NCC where he got involved in the test-traffic project and got exposed to
Internet standard and policy development. After acting as Operations Manager for a while he became
systems architect in 2000, responsible for DNSSEC deployment at the RIPE NCC. During that project he
got more involved in the DNS community and more active in the IETF, for instance as Chair of the DNS
Extensions Working Group.
In 2005 he joined NLnet Labs, a foundation chartered to develop open source software and open
standards for the Internet, as Chief Executive.
Olaf Kolkman is an IAB member since March 2006 and acts as the IAB Chair since March 2007.
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Keith Mitchell
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Keith Mitchell was first involved with what is now known as the
Internet nearly 15 years ago, as a postgraduate at University College
London. Between 1986 and 1991, while working for Edinburgh-based
Spider Systems, Keith was a representative on the board of the UK
Internet Consortium.
In early 1992, he joined Unipalm to become one of the founders of the
UK's first commercial Internet provider, PIPEX.
From May 1996 until September 2000, Keith served in the full-time role
of Executive Chairman of (LINX), the UK national Internet Exchange point.
He is also a non-executive Director of NOMINET UK, and has served as Chairman
of the RIPE NCC Executive Board (1997-99).
From September 200 until December 2004 Keith founded and was Chief
Technical Officer of XchangePoint, a pan-European operator of
commercially-based Internet Exchange Points.
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Kurt Kayser |
Kurt Kayser
(1968) studied Communications Engineering and Computer Science at the Georg-Simon-Ohm College in Nuremberg. His first encounter with IP was in 1986.
In 1991 he went to Siemens Corporate Network (scn.de) International, located in Fuerth, Germany and helped to build up the first worldwide Siemens-internal IP-based backbone. After 2 years in the USA he moved to a Siemens-affiliate Computer research Centre - called ECRC in Munich, Germany. In 1997 he became a backbone planning engineer with VIAG-Interkom, Munich.
In 1999 he founded a regional ISP in Nürnberg and joined the executive board for the area of new technologies and strategic alliances. One year later he acted as a founding member of the local Internet Exchange (N-IX - www.n-ix.de) and later he started his own business in May 2001.
He joined numerous RIPE-meetings after 1995 (RIPE-22) on a regular basis, took over the role of chairman for the RIPE Mbone/Multicast-working group in 1997 (this working group is no longer operational). Contributed for DNS-related documents and Routing-stability tests, Multicast experience, applications testing, helped RIPE-NCC for RFC-contribution work as well as TERENA Multicast application (eVoting) project ideas.
After many years of designing backbone networks and datacenters, he currently works in a global business development position within a telecom supply industry. |
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Remco van Mook
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Remco van Mook (1974) studied Business Information Technology at the University of Twente and
started work for its University Computing Center as a networks and systems developer in the late
1990s. During that period, he was also a member of the University Council, chairman of the university
ISP and architect for the then fastest consumer Internet access network in the world, CampusNET 2.
Remco is founder of NDIX, the Dutch German Internet Exchange, where he currently still holds the
CTO position.
In 2000 he also founded Virtu, a carrier neutral datacenter company in the east of the Netherlands.
After acquisition of that company by Equinix in February 2008, he became General Manager for
Equinix Netherlands. Remco is involved in not only running the company but also in designing
networks and solutions for very demanding customers.
Remco is also an active contributor to Euro-IX and RIPE and advisor to various government
organisations on Internet-related affairs.
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This page has been updated:
2 October 2009
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