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Call for papers - NZNOG 2015
by Richard Nelson 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Doing something interesting in the Internetworking space? Submit an NZNOG conference paper and you could win a trip to the next APRICOT meeting in Bangkok Thailand! -------- The NZNOG organising committee invites papers for its 13th annual conference, to be hosted at the Distinction Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand from 26 - 30th January 2015. There will the three day Workshops 26 – 28 January, a day of tutorials on 28 January with the main conference on 29 – 30 January. The best local conference paper as judged by the trustees in association with the programme committee will win a trip to APRICOT 2015, to be held jointly with APAN 39 in Fukuoka, Japan, from February 24th to March 6th 2015. Umm that’s right, an all[1] expenses paid trip to JAPAN!!!! It's a real thing. Two people have won this in previous years and to be honest they seemed pretty happy with the prize. Conference objective: The NZNOG conference, workshops and tutorials are a once-a-year opportunity for individuals and organisations involved in Internet operations to meet and share the latest in Internet operations, technologies practices and receive high quality training. The event is unique in New Zealand and attracts technical, skilled individuals with a genuine interest in Internet operations and Internetworking technologies. Submit a paper: Presenters are invited to submit abstracts of their paper for consideration by Monday 20th October. Abstracts should be no more than one page long and provide a summary of your networking-related subject matter. Please note that full slide decks will be required by 17th November. To submit your paper please e-mail: talks(a)nznog.org When considering a presentation, remember that the NZNOG audience is mainly comprised of technical network operators and engineers with a wide range of experience levels from beginners to multi-year experience. There is a strong orientation to offer core skills and basic knowledge in SIGs and to address issues relevant to the day-to-day operations of ISPs and network operators in the conference sessions. Note: The inclusion of a title, bio, topic, abstract, and slides with proposals is not compulsory but will help us determine the quality of your proposal and increase the likelihood it will be accepted. The organising committee will evaluate proposals based on fit with the conference’s objective and its ability to stimulate lively discussions around the current state of New Zealand networking. The best local paper will be judged by a selection of the trustees and the programme committee. It will be expected the best paper is submitted by the winner for presentation at APRICOT. More details on paper submission can be found at http://www.nznog.org/call-for-papers For more information about the conference visit www.nznog.org or contact: talks(a)nznog.org [1] where 'all' means Return Flights, Accommodation and Conference Fees. You still need to pay for things like food and entertainment. Most of what you need to eat/drink is covered in the conference though. We're also open to cases of special needs should you win. --------

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ALL GOLD SPONSOR SLOTS FILLED: Re: NZNOG2015 Sponsorship update: Platinum sponsor announcement and opportunity to be the last GOLD sponsor
by Dean Pemberton 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Well that was quick... And the last GOLD sponsor for the 2015 conference is: "AS45177 - Vibe Communications" Thanks guys! Silver and Community spots are still available at the 2014 price. I've also had some queries about the Bandwidth Sponsor. We'll be doing that as part of a separate process which I'll announce soon. It's just too important to leave up to a first come first served thing. You would all kill me if we got the network wrong. Regards, Dean On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Dean Pemberton <nznog(a)deanpemberton.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've got some more information regarding the conference. This one > concerns sponsorship, so if you're a company who generally sponsors > NZNOG tune in. If I interrupted you from BGP config, then as you > were. > > As part of feedback from sponsors in previous years, we've made some > changes to the way that the NZNOG conference sponsorship packages are > structured. > > 1) We've limited the numbers at the top end. Sponsors were concerned > that they were only 'one of many'. We've limited the number of slots > to: > > Platinum: 1 slot > Gold: 3 slots > Silver: 5 slots > Community: 6 shots > > We've also kept slots for things like "Networking Drinks" "Conference > Dinner" and "Bandwidth Sponsor" so people can tailor what they want > to support. > > Once the slots are filled however, thats it until the following year. > We will be running tier wait-lists on a first come, first served > basis. Which brings us to.... > > > 2) In the following year. Existing sponsors will be given first > right of refusal for their sponsorship spots. AusNOG works this way > and the feedback from sponsors was that it allowed them a greater > ability to plan ahead. There will be a cut off date within which the > existing sponsor can re-confirm. If they don't then the spot will be > offered to the next company on the wait-list for that tier. > > 3) We're also lifting the dollar amount for each of the sponsor tiers. > > Phew, Thats out the way. > > So under those new guidelines, the trustees approached the 2014 > conference sponsors and offered them first preference at the slots. > > I'm happy to say that we've filled our PLATINUM sponsor slot this year > with a long time supporter... > > ******* Go Wireless NZ Ltd. ******* > > Thanks to Dale and his team for continuing to be a great supporter of NZNOG. > > We've also filled all but one of our allocated GOLD sponsor slots with > > Vocus > Citylink. > > So there's only one more Gold slot left. We're also running an early > bird special. If you confirm NZNOG2015 sponsorship slots before the > 31st of July, we'll invoice you at the 2014 rate rather than the new > 2015 rate. For GOLD this is a 50% saving! > > So if you're an organisation who would like that GOLD spot, now is the > time to make that commitment. > > > You can download the sponsor document here (http://goo.gl/mdhu6p) and > email sponsorship(a)nznog.org to register your interest. > > See you all at the conference! > > Regards, > Dean

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NZNOG2015 Sponsorship update: Platinum sponsor announcement and opportunity to be the last GOLD sponsor
by Dean Pemberton 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Hi Everyone, I've got some more information regarding the conference. This one concerns sponsorship, so if you're a company who generally sponsors NZNOG tune in. If I interrupted you from BGP config, then as you were. As part of feedback from sponsors in previous years, we've made some changes to the way that the NZNOG conference sponsorship packages are structured. 1) We've limited the numbers at the top end. Sponsors were concerned that they were only 'one of many'. We've limited the number of slots to: Platinum: 1 slot Gold: 3 slots Silver: 5 slots Community: 6 shots We've also kept slots for things like "Networking Drinks" "Conference Dinner" and "Bandwidth Sponsor" so people can tailor what they want to support. Once the slots are filled however, thats it until the following year. We will be running tier wait-lists on a first come, first served basis. Which brings us to.... 2) In the following year. Existing sponsors will be given first right of refusal for their sponsorship spots. AusNOG works this way and the feedback from sponsors was that it allowed them a greater ability to plan ahead. There will be a cut off date within which the existing sponsor can re-confirm. If they don't then the spot will be offered to the next company on the wait-list for that tier. 3) We're also lifting the dollar amount for each of the sponsor tiers. Phew, Thats out the way. So under those new guidelines, the trustees approached the 2014 conference sponsors and offered them first preference at the slots. I'm happy to say that we've filled our PLATINUM sponsor slot this year with a long time supporter... ******* Go Wireless NZ Ltd. ******* Thanks to Dale and his team for continuing to be a great supporter of NZNOG. We've also filled all but one of our allocated GOLD sponsor slots with Vocus Citylink. So there's only one more Gold slot left. We're also running an early bird special. If you confirm NZNOG2015 sponsorship slots before the 31st of July, we'll invoice you at the 2014 rate rather than the new 2015 rate. For GOLD this is a 50% saving! So if you're an organisation who would like that GOLD spot, now is the time to make that commitment. You can download the sponsor document here (http://goo.gl/mdhu6p) and email sponsorship(a)nznog.org to register your interest. See you all at the conference! Regards, Dean

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Alcatel-Lucent/Nuage 7850 - Nethui Opportunity to Play
by Joel Wirāmu Pauling 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Hi all, I will be up at NetHui and have my hands on a somewhat desirable piece of SDN kit. Namely the ALU 7850. In a nutshell it's an SDN targeted switch 96Ports of 10G+/40G QSFP in a 1U rack, talks openflow, and also has a bunch of Controller stuff courtesy of Nuage.It is designed to act as the Datacentre to Carrier gateway, but it's just a fairly neat piece of hardware. I've had it on my desk for a while and would quite like some SDN boffins who have some use cases to have a poke around with it. Would be very interested in seeing some inter-op with some existing OpenFlow kit. Anyone interested in having a play at Nethui/Intac please let me know in advance. If I get no takers then I probably will avoid lugging it up to Auckland. Kind regards -Joel

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Netflix/Verizon battle heats up
by Tony Wicks 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/netflix-refuses-to-comply-with-ve rizons-cease-and-desist-demands/ This is really interesting in how it relates to the active de-peering of New Zealand's two largest ISP's 10+ years ago. We still have the situation where the gang of two demand paid peering and everyone just has to accept it as a fact. I am guessing that just as the gang of two have installed Akamai and Google caches they will install Netflix (and Hulu?) caches once these guys pry some content rights off Sky, but it is still quite incredible that the existing streaming providers (I assume) need to pay to deliver this content only to these two providers as they are big enough to strong arm them.

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Tools for automatically summarising CIDR notation list?
by Neil Gardner 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

My Google-fu has failed me. It defies logic that there aren’t tools (application, Excel based or online) which will take a list of CIDR formatted prefixes and spit out an optimally summarised list also in CIDR notation. I however, can’t find them. Neither can my friends. I have seen an excel sheet which almost does it, but it requires significant manual interaction and I think it relies on zero point energy and/or wizards magic to work… and I don’t understand it well. Any pointers? And no, doing it in my head isn’t feasible J Cheers – Neil G

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Exciting program confirmed for the 2014 InTAC Conference
by Dean Pemberton 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi Everyone. This is a plug for the 2014 Internet Technical Architecture Conference. The program has just been finalised and we've got some exciting speakers. InTAC is on the first day of the NetHui conference on the 9th of July at SkyCity in Auckland. It is pitched at people in a technical architecture role and has a theme of looking at emerging technologies and how these can help shape the architecture of the New Zealand Internet. Registration for the event is free and can be done via the NetHui registration system (http://nethui.org.nz/) This year the conference has three themes with the following speakers: ***Future-Proof Networking*** "Software Defined Networking at RMIT" Paul Zanna - Senior Manager, Infrastructure Innovation and Design Information Technology Services (ITS) RMIT University, Melbourne Australia RMIT has recently developed and deployed a proof of concept network using SDN and OpenFlow technologies. Paul will present the high level details of this real-world pilot along with some of the business drivers which helped RMIT make such a decision. "Panel - Our Future Plans for making use of UFB" Some of the largest users of the UFB network give us an insight into the sorts of ways they are using it. The panel will then discuss how they would like to see the UFB network develop to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of New Zealanders into the next decade. Panelists: Dave Mill - Network Specialist - Inspire Net Simon Allard - Senior Network Architect - Orcon David Redmore - Head of Broadband and Internet - Telecom New Zealand Geoff D’Audney - Technology Leadership Team - Vodafone New Zealand Others TBC ***Security*** "Future Uses of DNSSEC" Geoff Huston - Chief Scientist - APNIC Geoff will take a look at both DNSSEC deployment as well as the benefits which the technology will enable. Technologies like DANE which would allow organisations to take control of generating their own SSL certificates and publishing them in DNS, without the need for Certification Authority" "RPKI - How to stop your network being hijacked" New Zealand Registry Services (NZRS) will present an overview of this emerging technology as well as some of the work they will be doing to promote its deployment locally "TICSA - What it means for network architects" With the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013 now a reality it is critically important that network architects are aware of their legislative obligations. Representatives from the National Cyber Security Centre will present their view of how the reporting requirements of the act effect network architecture decisions. ***Authentication*** "Architecting an Authenticated/Trusted Internet" Richard Foy - General Manager, Digital Transformation, Department of Internal Affairs Richard is responsible for leading the push for New Zealanders to be able to complete their transactions with government easily in a digital environment. His goal is to open the way to an average of 70 per cent of New Zealanders' most common transactions with government being completed in a digital environment by 2017. He will present his vision of an Authenticated, Trusted Internet "2FA, been there done that" Adam Fier - Architecture and Security Manager - Victoria University of Wellington Adam has worked for a number of organisations who have implemented 2 Factor Authentication both internally and externally. He will present some of his experiences with deploying 2FA systems along with his view on the importance of 2FA in today's network connected organisations" -- Dean Pemberton Technical Policy Advisor InternetNZ +64 21 920 363 (mob) dean(a)internetnz.net.nz To promote the Internet's benefits and uses, and protect its potential.

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Wireless link suggestions for audio and remote control (IP)
by Darren Moss 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hi All, We have been looking at the Ubiquiti 5.8GHz outdoor wireless solutions for moving data between locations, of which we have 2. The first location is in Auckland CBD, on top of two buildings about 8klms apart, where both locations can see each other. The second location is in Tauranga, two building approx 15klms apart, again both locations can see each other (probably better than Auckland). Our goal is to move HD audio and remote control (TeamViewer/VNC type PC and server access) between the locations. The audio is moved via appliances which run over IP - nothing tricky, just needs about 2MBps bandwidth with low latency (we can buffer). Does anybody here have any recommendations on wireless kit / vendors, preferrably a solution that you have either used or seen in use. Many thanks Darren.

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Mikrotik+certs+1970
by Sam Russell 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi all, I'm playing with mikrotiks for VPNs, and one of the "features" is that the RB750's we have don't hold time when they reboot. I'm planning to build them with NTP access (so if they can get internet then they can get time), but I'm also tempted to generate certs backdated to 1970 instead. Is anyone else doing this? How do you get mikrotiks to validate certs if the clock keeps resetting on power off - is relying on NTP the answer? Cheers Sam

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TICSA - Public Service Announcement
by Dean Pemberton 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hey all, So the TICSA came into effect today. Things to remember: The Act requires that network operators register their information with the Police Registrar. Details here: http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/programmes-and-initiatives/telecommunica… The NCSC has also produced some guidance for Network Operators which is worth a read. http://ncsc.govt.nz/assets/TICSA/NCSC-Guidance-for-Network-Operators.pdf The GCSB have also published a list of exceptions for Operators with regard to what you're required to notify them of. http://ncsc.govt.nz/assets/TICSA/Notice-of-Exemptions.pdf As you were =)

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