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The BGP 101 tutorial is a detailed introduction to BGP, focusing on the basics: What is BGP? BGP history Distance vector and link state routing Difference between EGP and IGP BGP / IGP interaction Good BGP / IGP design (why put which routes where) Internal and external BGP Difference between routing and forwarding, routes and paths, RIB and FIB BGP path selection.

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Jason Schiller, Google
Jason Schiller is a Network Engineer at Google, Inc. His responsibilities range from architecture, design, engineering, to operations for the Google production network. Prior to Google, Jason was a Senior Internet Network Engineer for UUNET / Verizon where he was responsible for architecting, designing, evaluating, and qualifying networks for deployment in the UUNET public IP network, maintaining global routing policy standards, completing field trials, and acting as an escalation point for operational issues.Jason continues to be active in the ARIN and NANOG, communities with particular interest in IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 adoption, routing table growth, and the lack of a scalable solution for multi-homing and inter-AS traffic engineering. He is serving on the ICANN Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC), and has served on the IETF Routing and Addressing Directorate.

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BGP 102: Builds on BGP 101 and focuses on scaling BGP, path implications of different BGP architectures, end-site traffic engineering case studies and transit AS traffic engineering case studies. Topics include: Policy to change BGP attributes, influence traffic, route aggregation Common customer, Peer, and transit provider policies Scaling BGP: Route reflection and confederation How routes and paths are advertised through the network Implications of iBGP architecture on route selection and number of paths.

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Jason Schiller, Google
Jason Schiller is a Network Engineer at Google, Inc. His responsibilities range from architecture, design, engineering, to operations for the Google production network. Prior to Google, Jason was a Senior Internet Network Engineer for UUNET / Verizon where he was responsible for architecting, designing, evaluating, and qualifying networks for deployment in the UUNET public IP network, maintaining global routing policy standards, completing field trials, and acting as an escalation point for operational issues.Jason continues to be active in the ARIN and NANOG, communities with particular interest in IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 adoption, routing table growth, and the lack of a scalable solution for multi-homing and inter-AS traffic engineering. He is serving on the ICANN Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC), and has served on the IETF Routing and Addressing Directorate.

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Being able to develop or customize simple tools using simple shell or Perl scripts is a skill all network operators should possess. This tutorial will examine a set of scripts, progressing from the simple to the more complex, which will be used to introduce newcomers to the fine art of tool hacking. While this tutorial is too short to comprehensively cover programming and the nuances of the tools available, newcomers can expect to come away with enough knowledge to start hacking their own useful tools, or to make use of the examples provided as a foundation towards something even more useful in their own real networks.

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John Kristoff, Team Cymru
John Kristoff is a researcher with Team Cymru, an Internet security research firm. John has worked at UltraDNS/Neustar as a network architect and held network engineering positions at both Northwestern University and DePaul University. John remains affiliated with Northwestern and DePaul as a collaborator, student and instructor. John has been an active participant in a number of related trusted security communities including nsp-security, YASML, ops-trust, FIRST, REN-ISAC and DNS-OARC.

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The Community Meeting is your opportunity to interact with the NANOG leadership, members, and community at large about the inner workings of NANOG as we navigate our way forwards as a fully independent organization. Board members and committee chairs will give short updates about topics such as: - Transition Status - Finances - Membership - Development - Future Meetings - 2011 Elections Questions and discussion are encouraged during the presentations, and there will be plenty of time for open discussion at the end.

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Steve Feldman, NANOG Board Chair.

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Troubleshooting DNS before DNSSEC was hard enough, and it was made more difficult when people tried to troubleshoot complex DNS problems using old tools like nslookup. With DNSSEC, the number and complexity of DNS issues makes it imperative that DNS admins understand how to use the tools available to them. This tutorial explains how to use (and interpret) tools like dig, dnscap, dnsviz, and others. It covers these specific topics (not necessarily in this order or structure): Basic DNS troubleshooting with dig, Visualizing DNSSEC with dnsviz, dnscap and nmsg: Specialized packet capture tools for DNS and what they can do for you, Understanding the troubleshooting process and troubleshooting hard issues.

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Michael Sinatra, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Sinatra is a network engineer with the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) in Berkeley, CA, where he specializes in DNS, DNSSEC, IPv6 adoption, and scientific and high-performance networking. Prior to ESnet, Michael worked for the central networking group at UC Berkeley for over a decade. He has been interested in DNS for a long time and attempts to make coherent contributions to various BIND and DNS mailing lists and forums.

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I propose to teach my approximately one-hour DNSSEC introductory class. This is the same tutorial I taught at NANOG51 in Miami. The class covers the motivation for DNSSEC and an overview of how it works, down to the level of individual DNS resource records. It's comprehensive but not overwhelming: I believe it's very understandable. Students need to know what public/private key cryptography and digital signatures are, or they'll be a bit lost, and a very high level understanding of DNS would be helpful, too (e.g., knowledge of what a zone is). There's probably a nicer-looking abstract than this one already on file from NANOG 51... The tutorial went well last time and I'd enjoy teaching it again.

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Matt Larson, Verisign
Matt Larson is Vice President of DNS Research in Verisign Labs, where he works as a specialist in DNS protocol and operational issues. He is an active participant in the wider DNS community and the co-author of three O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks ("DNS on Windows Server 2003", "DNS on Windows 2000" and "DNS on Windows NT"). He also co-authored the core DNSSEC standards documents: RFCs 4033, 4034 and 4035.

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Srikanth Sundaresan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Srikanth is a third year PhD student at the College of Computing, Georgia Tech, where he works with Professor Nick Feamster. He completed his MS in Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where his thesis was on energy aware sensor networks, and his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. His current research interests include routing and management for future networks, and understanding access network performance for broadband users.

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Steve Feldman, NANOG Board Chair.
Kevin McElearney, Comcast Corporation
Kevin McElearney serves as Senior Vice President of Network Engineering for Comcast Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for the core IP network which supports all lines of business for Comcast. McElearney first joined Comcast in 2004 to create Comcast's multi-terabit, converged backbone which became the first 40Gbps backbone and included several industry firsts related to 100Gbps technology. McElearney has worked in the Network industry for the past 25 years, with past roles in companies like RoadRunner, RouteScience, BBN Planet and MIT Lincoln Lab.

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Thanks to US government grants, a new statewide fiber network is under construction in Pennsylvania. This talk will introduce the new network and discuss it's unique features including plans to deploy GMPLS.

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Brandon Ross, TorreyPoint

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The introduction of IPv4/IPv6 interworking has disrupted the end-to-end lawful intercept model because it results in both IP versions in one communication session. This requires reporting headers of IPv4 and IPv6 in the same CACmII message, which is not allowed by the standards. For reporting CACmII, IASPs are faced with the technical challenge of how to best restore and report the original traffic characteristics of the target under surveillance which are altered and/or hidden by the transition mechanisms. This presentation provides an impact analysis of two transition mechanisms on the reporting of CACmII. It also identifies possible solutions and open questions for each solution. The goal of the presentation is to stimulate effective brainstorming on the topic.

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Yi Liu, AT&T
Yi Liu - A Senior Network Engineer with expertise in system engineering for current and next generation communications product lines and technologies, customer solution architecture and delivery based on these technologies and implementing methodologies to improve clarity of customer requirements and quality of product. Recognized for keen ability to improve network element designs, increase efficiency and resolve defects at early stage to avoid re-engineering time and cost. Currently the System Architect of Chief Security Office (CSO) of AT&T(2010+), specialized in CALEA/Lawful Intercept solutions for company offered Wireline Broadband Services. Yi Liu holds a Mater’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Bridgeport (2003), a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from University of Chongqing, China (2000).

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Recent developments in MPLS (notably MPLS-TP) have enabled operators to begin to look at architectures which (1) closely integrate IP service delivery with the underlying MPLS packet transport infrastructure and (2) enable this packet transport infrastructure to offer end-to-end connectivity This presentation will take a closer look at an important new initiative called Unified MPLS and how it helps to achieve these objectives. Key focus areas will be on applicability for LTE backhaul networks, redundancy considerations, interconnection of MPLS-TP with IP/MPLS, and example operator use cases.

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David Saccon, Ericsson

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Many network operators seem to have an opinion about the effectiveness of the CIDR Report -- typically that it was once effective, but has dropped off over time for various reasons. Beyond opinion, however, there has never been ananalysis of whether the CIDR Report actually induced behavior changes in the ASes featured on the "top 30" list that we receive each Friday. This work presents an analysis of the effectiveness of the CIDR Report as an effort by the Internet operations community to encourage route aggregation. It also contains a number of observations about the CIDR Report and how it could potentially be changed to focus on behavior that might yield improvement.

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Stephen Woodrow, Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Previously hosted a DNS Track at NANOG which was very much appreciated by the attendees who are DNS involved and I was recently asked by some people to repeat this. The idea is to bring ccTLD operators, large DNS providers ( google, dync inc. etc. pch , verisign etc.) DNS software developers, DNS monitoring tools developers in to a room for 90 min and have them quickly provide updates on what they are working on and what they've achieved so far.

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Chris Griffiths, Comcast
Matt Larson, Verisign
Neil Schelly, DYN
Duane Wessels, Verisign
Duane is an engineer at Verisign Labs where he enjoys spending time developing tools and analyzing DNS data.

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Walter Johnston, Chief, Electromagnetic Compatibility Division for the FCC, will brief the NANOG community on issues affecting the community.

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Walter Johnston, FCC
Walter Johnston is currently Chief, Electromagnetic Compatibility Division for the FCC where he is responsible for the evaluation of new technologies and services. Prior to the FCC, he served as CTO for several companies focused on data and VoIP services. He has held senior positions in Telcordia and was Vice President at BellAtlantic/NYNEX, now Verizon, where he was responsible for the development of new broadband data services including the company’s first Internet service offering. While at Verizon he also directed the trial of one of the nation’s first high speed regional Internet networks as part of the National Science Foundation’s Internet program and also established one of the nation’s largest experimental broadband networks, a statewide facility connecting research organizations throughout New York State. Mr. Johnston served as program manager for the introduction of optical technology to the Bell System while he was at AT&T. He began his career with Bell Laboratories where he was responsible for design and development of a number of computer systems automating processes within the telephone network. He has a B.S./EE and an M.S./CS both from Polytechnic Institute of New York.

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Betty Burke, NANOG.

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Economic concepts underpin many of our day-to-day relationships. This presentation looks at the some of the economic concepts underneath the IPv4 transition, IPv6 deployment, and specifically how the creation of an IPv4 transfer market will effect IPv6 deployment. The lack of easily available IPv4 numbering resources and the lack of IPv6 compatible networks could cause a number of changes to the Internet including limiting growth, changing overall architecture, and restricting free information access. Here we look at some of these concepts and propose some hypotheses of the transition based upon economic models.

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Andrew Dul, Cascadeo Corporation
Andrew Dul is currently a networking consultant at Cascadeo Corporation and has been working in various Internet networking positions since 1996. He moved to Seattle in 1998 to join the start-up network service provider, Internap. Following Internap, Andrew went to work on the Internet in the sky at Connexion by Boeing. During his time at The Boeing Company he helped develop the global network that supported the first commercial inflight Internet service. He also helped engineer the first IP based GSM & CDMA flying pico cell demonstration flights in 2005. After Boeing, Andrew served a Seattle based nationwide law firm as their Systems and Network Architect before joining Cascadeo in 2010. Andrew has been involved with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) for over 10 years helping to contribute to the development of global IP number resource policy. Andrew holds a bachelors of science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and is currently enrolled in the Masters in Business Administration program at Seattle University.

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The exhaustion of the remaining pool of IPv4 addresses was seen to be the motivation that would propel this industry into the universal deployment of IPv6. What other pressures are driving this industry and how reasonable is the expectation that the Internet will complete the transition to IPv6? This presentation will look at the current status of IPv4 address consumption and draw some inferences from this data about the state of the transition to IPv6.

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Geoff Huston, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
Geoff Huston is the Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), where he undertakes research on topics associated with Internet infrastructure, IP technologies, and address distribution policies.