We are pleased to announce our Netdev 0x12 keynote speaker: Van Jacobson

For most people involved in the networking world, Van will need very little introduction for his work, amongst many, in TCP/IP network performance and scaling of the internet. For the young lads amongst us who may be oblivious of his accomplishments, Van is what you folks typically refer to as a G.O.A.T(Greatest Of All Time) and some of us would refer as a living legend[1]. A few of his accomplishments are listed on his Internet Hall of Fame Induction bio: https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/van-jacobson

This announcement space is too small for us to enumerate his many accomplishments and current passions - but we wanted to highlight one buzzword in particular: You would not have EBPF today if Van was not there[2].

At the moment Van is involved, at Google, in a passion of his - Network Performance Scaling.

Having Van at this conference is both a privilege and an honor as he has seen a lot of ideas take wing from the early days of the internet to the specialized roles around Data Center, Web, IOT and more that we see today. We wish to learn from this sage.

To paraphrase European Communication Magazine[3]: "When Van Jacobson has something to say, people listen."

And Van has something he wants to say to us at Netdev conf 0x12: We need to teach Network Interface Cards about time. What kind of surgery do we need on the kernel NIC interfaces? What kind of features do NIC vendors need to provide? Come and listen to Van.

cheers, jamal

[1]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20legend [2]http://www.tcpdump.org/papers/bpf-usenix93.pdf [3]https://www.eurocomms.com/features/analysis/8238-could-content-centric-netwo...