NANOG 86 Agenda

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