NANOG 86 Agenda

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The NANOG 86 Hackathon will focus on Packing up your Tool Kit.
Learn more at https://www.nanog.org/events/nanog-86-hackathon/

On Friday, 7-Oct, we will hold the Hackathon welcome, introduction, infrastructure tutorial, idea-pitching, and team-forming session over Zoom; this session will be recorded. Saturday, 15-Oct, will be the start of the hackathon; this day will be all virtual regardless whether or not you are at the conference venue. Sunday, 16-Oct, will be a true hybrid day with people continuing to work virtually as well as dedicated facilities (workspace, wifi, etc) for those at the conference venue.

The Hackathon starts with a brief welcome and introduction, tutorial, and team formation on Friday, 7-Oct, at 11:00am Pacific. Hacking begins virtually at 1:00pm Pacific, Saturday, 15-Oct. The hacking ends at 5:00pm Pacific, Sunday, 16-Oct, when the team presentations will begin.The Hackathon will conclude around 6:00pm Pacific Sunday, 16-Oct. We have dedicated Support/Help Hours on Saturday from 1:00pm - 4:00pm Pacific virtually via Zoom and again on Sunday from 12:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific in a hybrid format. Those attending in person on Sunday will have lunch provided at noon, an afternoon break at 3:30pm, and a light reception at 5:45pm.

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REGISTER HERE: https://go.edgeconnex.com/bwp_hollywood_2022

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Location:
Loews Hotel Pool Terrace
1755 N Highland Ave.
Hollywood, California, 90028

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The Members Meeting agenda and link to the webinar details are available for Members only. You MUST be signed in with your NANOG Profile account to view the Members Meeting Agenda page. Please bring (or share via email) any questions you would like to discuss at the meeting.

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine occurred just after NANOG 84. In addition to the tragic loss of life and destruction the subsequent fighting has wrought, the conflict has had measurable impacts on the Internet.

DDoS attacks targeting Ukraine were followed by retaliatory attacks against Russian networks. Outages in Ukraine have resulted from the fighting as well as from "cyberattacks". Ukraine asked ICANN and RIPE to disconnect Russia while Russia moved to block Internet access to independent media which led to a BGP hijack of Twitter.

Despite all of this, the Ukrainian Internet has proved to be resilient due in large part to the courageous efforts of the country's telecom technicians. This talk summarizes the Internet impacts from the recent war in Ukraine.

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Native American Nations: The pandemic was a catalyst for the need for connectivity, but are we connected yet?

As we all know, the pandemic was the biggest marketing campaign for getting connected to broadband. Trapped in your home with quarantine restrictions and the need to communicate and participate in jobs, education, and life in general.
Now think about being sent home from your job to "telecommute" and there is no broadband, you don't even have a provider to call to get connected. You have now been furloughed, due to the lack of Internet. Your children have been sent home from school with a laptop computer and told to participate in their schooling online and attend classes with video conferencing. Effectively, your kids have just missed a year+ of school...
The Federal Government made some steps to actively address these issues with funding... Has it helped?
Some States have made significant efforts to build new infrastructure, and some have included their Tribes as a priority.
California has focused nearly $4Billion on advancing the middle-mile Infrastructure of the State (GoldenStateNet.org), the Tribes are, for the most part, included.
Many other efforts have taken place to address the lack of connectivity in Indian Country, many of them are driven from within the Tribes.
The Tribal Broadband Bootcamps (tribalbroadbandbootcamp.com) were spawned, due to the demand for training during the pandemic, addressing specific network building training needs and sponsoring participants to attend.
The Tribal Resource Center (tribalresourcecenter.net) was conceived and is growing into a resource aggregator for developing Tribal Broadband.
Arcadian Infracom is funded with a partnership with TIAA, and is moving towards completing solutions that will support many Tribes with the routes in development.

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The NOG landscape in the RIPE community is varied, some are highly active communities which meet regularly, some are simply telegram groups. What is important to some, may not be to others. This means trying to understand each NOG can be a difficult task.Working in collaboration with NOG organisers throughout the RIPE NCC service region and beyond, the RIPE NCC created a survey which has been sent to all NOG participants.
The purpose of this survey is to get a better understanding of what NOG participants want, what prevents them from participating (both at events and on communication channels), what content they would like to see, what NOGs can do to continue to attract new people and more.

This information is important to RIPE NCC as the NOG communities often comprise of the core people involved in maintaining an open, inclusive, collaborative Internet model in each country or region. If we have a better understanding of these NOGs on a more granular level, we can better tailor our services, training, and outreach in these regions.My presentation will highlight the results of this survey. I will be able to give not just an overview of the NOGs in our region, but also highlight interesting points with regards to specific regions and countries. This presentation will also allow me to give a clear update on what is currently the most important topics throughout our service region.

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In this session, ARIN CEO John Curran will provide a summary for network operators of ongoing global developments in the Internet Number Registry System with potential for operational effects, and the steps ARIN has taken to help promote ongoing stability of the overall system.

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There's a lot of momentum about diversity and inclusion, but the conversation is incomplete without a discussion about access. Especially in the high tech B2B, inclusion does not ensure equality. As leaders, we need to recruit, retain, and nurture a talent pool that offers the cognitive diversity required for innovation in an increasingly digital business world.

For those who did not inherit access, you can curate your own network to shape your destiny as you navigate the career lattice. For those in power, attract the tenacity of a talent pool that possesses an innate entrepreneurial spirit.

After a career of navigating in the dark, Sales Executive of a Fortune 500 company and Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Hang Black, is passionate about empowering women who have been unseen, and minorities who have been unheard to reach their potential. This program will invite attendees to embark on a journey of discovery and transformation with a framework called the 3 R's.

* Reflect. Get oriented. How do you measure success? What are you proud of and where are you stuck?
* Recalibrate. How is your direction aligned to your current reality versus outdated expectations?
* Reset. It is uncomfortable. This is the difference between talking or acting, between dreaming or doing.

Be clear on whether an invitation to the room is to serve, to sit, or to speak. Now is the time to stand for each other.

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The data center interconnect became even more important for fast and secure data replication during the global pandemic era. With seamless DCI using various tunnel stitching options we can simplify and fully control where the data gets replicated between the data centers' geographically dispersed locations. The session will be focused on the rfc9014 interconnect design and implementation using the BGP EVPN control plane and various encapsulation stitching options.

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With so much content available via IPv6, why isn't more traffic using it?
We'll talk about why this is and what we can do about it.

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Since the early days of the Internet, capacity has been the prime metric to quantify the quality of the Internet access. While capacity was the primary challenge back in those days, we have successfully reached a point where the vast majority of users can easily access sufficient capacity for the majority of the use-cases. But still, Internet experience is often lacking the smoothness that we would expect. Video-conferencing still has frequent issues, video gaming is rarely a smooth experience and web-browsing still suffers from bad page-load times.

We present a new metric, called "Responsiveness under working conditions", which significantly broadens the scope far beyond traditional capacity and latency measurements. This metric aims at quantifying the network's ability to provide low latency while at the same time providing high capacity. The measurement methodology not only measures the network, but also the end-host networking stack. We will describe how measuring responsiveness will allow to detect deep buffers in the server's networking stack and how it affects the end-user experience. Further, we describe steps that can be taken to reduce those buffers. We will conclude this talk by providing resources and open-source tools to allow everyone to reproduce the same measurement on their infrastructure and tune their networking stack for the benefit of their end-users.

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Hear from candidates John Jason Brzozowski, Michael Costello, Leslie Daigle, Lee Howard, Alex Latzko, and Ernest Muhire as they answer questions asked by Dan Chioreanu from the NANOG Election Committee.

NANOG Members are invited to leave Statements of Support for the candidates. You may complete a form here: https://www.nanog.org/members/elections/2022-candidate-statement-of-support-form/

Voting will open after the conclusion of this Candidate Forum.

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One of the core values at DigitalOcean is "Our community is bigger than us" - because we're a member of the Internet community, we felt it was necessary to do better and improve our routing security posture. So during 2020, we set out to become compliant with the MANRS Cloud and CDN program. This presentation will guide you through how we interpreted the MANRS guidelines and some of the tooling we used to implement better routing security in our global network.

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Unlike commercial operating systems, free Linux distributions don't have a Content Distribution Network budget to serve updates to all their users, so they rely on volunteer run mirrors hosted by the community to make their operating systems and updates available online. Unfortunately, the traditional hosts of these sites are on the decline, so a new generation of Linux mirror hosts need to step up and continue to ensure that updates are available when needed.

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The Spare Room: http://www.spareroomhollywood.com/
(Game Room and Cocktail Lounge)
The Roosevelt Hollywood Hotel
7000 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028

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Don’t miss our Community Meeting for an opportunity to hear about what is happening with NANOG and the Program Committee.

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Nornir is a vendor-neutral, open-source project. It is a multi-threaded network automation framework that abstracts inventory and task execution like configuring the devices, validating the operational data, and enabling the services on the provided hosts which are part of the inventory. As it is multithreaded, it allows managing the configuration of multiple network devices concurrently. NAPALM is a vendor-neutral, cross-platform open source project. It is a python library that provides a set of methodologies for configuration management and operational data retrieval. It supports Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS, Juniper JunOS, and Arista EOS network operating systems. This session gives an overview of Nornir, Napalm, and the process of concurrently executing tasks to manage network configuration and operational data.

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In 1970 two technology pathways finally came together. The semiconductor laser and low attenuation optical fiber; technologies based on very different materials and unrelated branches of physics. Over 70 years of historical innovation in each of these areas finally converged at a point where the commercial application for high speed communications over long distances was now possible for emerging computer platforms.
In this tutorial, Geoff Bennett will explain the timeline of innovation for optical fiber - the quest to create a communication pathway that is thinner than a human hair, yet has a potential capacity that a 1970s engineer would often summarize as "practically infinite".
He will then turn his attention to the development of a totally new light source to fill the new medium - the semiconductor laser.
The story is littered with a Who's Who of science and technology, not to mention an armful of Nobel Prizes.
But the real story begins when these two technologies come together, and are joined by amplification breakthroughs like the EDFA, and the revolution of coherent transmission and processing.

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Circuit maintenance notifications are the lifeline to know when there is expected maintenance to a circuit. These notifications are meant to be communication of planned impact for a circuit. Too often these are missed, especially in larger environments with many circuits. There is a better way to manage these, with the help of the Nautobot Circuit Maintenance Plugin.

Talk Agenda:
1. Overview of the problem
2. Solution Overview
3. Demo
4. Python library review
5. Call to action -> How we as a community can improve with automation in mind

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Learn about how Meta processes vendor scheduled maintenances in their Backbone networks. The talk will describe the various automation systems involved, reliability of operations and some improvements made for the issues observed. The talk concludes with a call for action to the entire networking industry to collaborate in standardising how vendor network maintenances are communicated.

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Network engineering teams across multiple industries are embracing Continuous Integration (CI) to deliver network projects with quality, keep service availability high and maintain confidence while rolling out changes to network infrastructure. Open Traffic Generator API defines a standard, model-driven and vendor-neutral interface for emulating layer 2-7 network devices and generating test traffic. It is gaining traction as part of a CI toolkit among open-source as well as commercial projects:
- OpenConfig Feature Profiles
- SONiC and SAI
- SONiC-DASH – Disaggregated API for SONiC Hosts

In this presentation, we would like to introduce the Open Traffic Generator API (https://github.com/open-traffic-generator) to the network operator community and demonstrate how it can be used in combination with popular network CI and emulation frameworks: GitHub Actions, Containerlab, KNE.

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Join us for a 15 minute recap of the hackathon - where the theme was Packing up your Tool Kit, sponsored by FLEXOPTIX.
You'll hear from hackathon coordinators, open source maintainers, and participants.

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The International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) received a proposal two years ago to begin work on designing a “new information and communications network with new protocol system” to meet the needs of a future network – the “New IP, Shaping Future Network” proposal. The proposal’s proponents made various claims about the issues that the current network faces as a basis for developing a new design. Many of the raised points have been widely researched in the technical and standards communities for decades and for which solutions already exist. Others deal with areas that are already the subject of current standardization or study. In addition, some of these ideas were reflected in earlier work of the ITU-T Study Group (SG13) Focus Group on Future Networks 2030.

In December 2020, New IP was not approved as new work items for the next study period of ITU-T. Since December, however, elements of the New IP proposal were presented at the March and September 2021 meetings of ITU-T SG13 which is why it is relevant to continue to discuss the proposal. Also, some proposals for resolutions submitted to the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly which took place in March 1-9, 2022, included elements of the NewIP proposal.

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As containerised versions of network devices become more available, it becomes easier to use these implementations for development purposes. Particularly, for network testing, validation and feature prototyping. KNE (Kubernetes Network Emulation) defines and standard interface to provision topologies of these containers, and provide data-plane connectivity between them, and control-plane connectivity to them through standard Kubernetes tooling. KNE is a collaboration between network operators, device vendors, and test equipment manufacturers to build a common ecosystem to allow multi-vendor emulation through a common framework.

This talk introduces KNE, provides insight into the motivation behind the project, how it works, and the ecosystem and use cases that are building with it.

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The PeeringDB is community run, and we need more community support. I would like to ask the community for help.