Leif Sawyer

Person

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Community	Technical Community
ICANN group	ARIN
Organization	GCI Communications Corp
Region	NA
Country	United States of America
Websites	akhepcat.com

Achievements

Name and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]

Name: Leif Sawyer

Pronunciation: I go by /ˈleɪf/, which is the dipthong "æ", thus rhyming with "safe."

Pronouns: I primarily use masculine (he/him) but accept neutral (they/them)

Biography[edit | edit source]

Leif has worked in the digital telecommunications industry since 1991, with experience spanning systems administration, IP resource management, network engineering and architecture, and IT/OT security architecture. An avid Linux user since 1992, Leif contributes to a variety of open-source projects, both personal and public. In the global space, he contributes to the Galmon project, in order to track GNSS satellite performance for both time and position accuracy, as well as various ADS-B aggregation sites for air-traffic monitoring.

Leif holds a general-class amateur radio operator license in the US, call-sign KL5BN.

ICANN and Internet Governance Participation[edit | edit source]

2007 - Began attending ARIN policy meetings
2014 - Elected to the ARIN Advisory Council^[1], also began attending other RIR meetings
2017 - Appointed to Vice Chair (through 2020)
2021 - Elected to Chair (through 2022)
2022 - Fellow for ICANN 75 (first meeting)
2023 - Re-elected as Chair of ARIN Advisory Council