Ray Bellis is the Director of DNS Operations at ISC, responsible for their network of Anycast DNS Root Servers (“F root”). Ray has served as co-chair of the Homenet and GeoPriv working groups at IETF, been on the Programme Committee of both UKNOF and DNS-OARC, and also been a Board Member of NICC Standards Ltd.

Athough much of his recent career (including his seven years at Nominet) has been focused on DNS research and standards with seven RFCs to his name, his links to the UK ISP community and network operations go back to 1996 through 2007 when he was head techie at Community Internet based in Oxfordshire.