Eleanor trained as a physicist but for the last twelve years has specialised in developing real-time software systems for the aviation and broadcast transmission industries. Romek Szczesniak is a cryptographer with a background in mobile communications, internet service provision, public key infrastructures and UK ENUM. Romek and Eleanor met at Telnic Limited where they worked together on the .TEL top-level domain. Their main interest is next-generation DNS provisioning for the semantic internet. They both champion the Ruby Way.