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One view of the IETF’s positioning is that as a technology standardisation venue then the immediate circle of engagement in IETF activities is the producers of equipment and applications, and the common objective is interoperability. What is the role of a technology standards body? Should it try and be all…
On February 26 of this year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States will vote on a proposed new ruling on the issue of “Network Neutrality” in the United States, bringing into force a new round of measures that are intended to prevent certain access providers from deliberately…
Time for another annual roundup from the world of IP addresses. What happened in 2014 and what is likely to happen in 2015? This is an update to the reports prepared at the same time in previous years, so lets see what has changed in the past 12 months in…
The WAND group from Computer Science Department Waikato University presented on developments in libtrace. Code is available from https://github.com/rsanger/libtrace and provides for parallel processing of network captures, which is aware of the 5-tuple and can keep this bound to one thread. This has possibilities for being useful in lots of…
Jon Brewer for NSRC presented at NZNOG on the pacific networking scene. He did a really good job of showing how the pacific floor is covered by a mesh of fibre connecting the developed economies, but they have bypassed many of the smaller island economies. There are sound economic reasons…
Tim Nagy from Juniper presented on the virtual router model. This is when you take commodity hardware (PCs) and run a virtualized router image on it, to provide you with the same kind of functionality a real dedicated hardware router would do, but hopefully in a more scaleable manner for…
Dean Pemberton gave an impassioned talk on behalf of Andy Linton, about mapping the participants in peering at exchange points (IXP). The fundamental problem is that in NZ, a lot of local peering participants have not bothered to participate in http://www.peeringdb.com listings for the location. It lists only 20 participants…
Jed Laundry gave a brief impassioned call-to-arms. We need to stop expecting vendors to encode different systems and sell us different CPE when the actual need is for commonality, not difference. The way out is to push OpenWRT as a common standard with add-ons, and give the community a chance…
The Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, has been holding the Internet together, for more than two decades and nothing seems to be falling off the edge so far. As far as we can tell everyone can still see everyone else, assuming that they want to be seen, and the distributed…
The theme of a workshop, held at the start of December 2014 in Hong Kong, was looking at means to enable further scaling of the root server system, and the 1½ day workshop was scoped in the form of consideration of alternative approaches to that of the default activity of…
