Sander Steffann

Sander has been involved in the Internet since 1995, when he helped a friend start a small ISP. He was a founding board member of the Netherlands IPv6 Foundation, NLNOG and the Global NOG Alliance.

Sander has been an involved member of the RIPE community since RIPE 49 in Manchester (2004). Sander was one of the RIPE Address Policy Working Group Co-chairs from RIPE 54 in Tallinn (2007) to RIPE 76 in Marseille (2018). He was also part of the RIPE NCC Arbiters Panel.

Sander's background is in Computer Science with a Master’s Degree from the University of Twente. He focussed on communication related topics such as Protocol Design, Implementation and Validation, as well as some Graph Theory.

Since 2010, Sander has been an independent consultant with a focus on advising enterprises and service providers on network architecture and the deployment of IPv6. He has done everything from short training sessions to management training on the importance of IPv6, to designing and implementing a network automation workflow for an ISP.