Three ways of looking at me.
I will become an honorary staff member from April 2012 and this web site will be maintained rarely if ever. I am no longer teaching and I cannot accept any new research students. Please see our postgraduate options.
For my University of Auckland profile including contact data and a short biography, look
here.
I am currently (from April 2012) an academic Visitor at the
Computer Laboratory
of Cambridge University, UK.
Three ways of looking at me.
I joined the Computer Science department in Auckland in September 2007 and I was appointed Professor in January 2009.
My research interests are focussed on Internet infrastructure issues including routing and addressing. In recent years I have been active in Internet protocol design, mainly in the IETF. I am particularly interested in scaling issues and the much-needed deployment of IPv6. I'm also interested in related measurement issues, and to some extent in quality of service issues.
IET New Zealand 2008 Prestige Lecture tour.
In 2011 I taught parts of CS314 (semester 2) and CS742 (semester 2).
IP version 4 is quickly running out of address space, which is why we need IPv6. In fact, as of February 2011 the world's central registry of IPv4 addresses is essentially empty, and all remaining spare addresses are in the hands of the various Regional Internet Registries. It is time for everyone providing network services of any kind to be actively planning the adoption of IPv6. This page is running a quick check on your access to dual-stack sites (that is, sites offering both IPv4 and IPv6 service) - watch for the alert box. (Script provided by Tore Anderson; needs Javascript.)
For a more detailed check click here.
Special note for IIT students: Every year, numerous IIT students send email asking about "summer internships". There is no budget to support such internships, and in any case during the summer in India, it's winter in New Zealand and we are busy with regular teaching. All such emails are deleted without being read.
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