Hello NZNOG,
With respect to the soliciting PhD Candidate below, thought Id seek a confirmation of my understanding there is a long-held resistance to formalising peering relationships in legal terms? Its a phenomenon I have am open mind to understanding, particularly with recent forms of not so desirable regulation...
As an aside, I am emigrating from NZ in December which has been very distracting but I am putting work on a very late submission to Kiwicon for some kind of workshop or talk. For now I have labelled it ���State of TICSA: no country for NetOps���. Thought I am not a NetOp but have been researching and talking too people about this issue at a sustained if uneven pace since the Bill was introduced.
I feel I have had some success in broadening out TICSA for a wider audience understanding about various points. For example, I spoke at a Dunedin Free University event about information provided to me by a network operator about how the TICSA notification scheme was sometimes the cause of outages in consumer internet use, as it hindered the ability of NetOps to make quick decisions for basic things such as replacing larger routers that would serve a city like Dunedin. Whereas just one outage may have been necessary, two outages could occur as interim measures had to be taken while aspects of TICSA approval took place for such an example. Ultimately, disruptions to netflix streaming need to become understood as synonymous with TICSA kinds of intrusiveness by regular subscribers.
For my possibly final solicitation to this group:
2. I solicit you to communicate to me any lawfully shareable information, hypothetical future concerns with TICSA or critical thoughts to me as soon as practicable for the opportunity to have them incorporate them in whatever I potentially present at Kiwicon under whatever conditions you specify.
3. New Zealand is small place and professionalism would pressure against netops from publicly voicing these concerns themselves. This has been evident from my communications with a few NetOps I have talked to and under TICSA this could be considered evidence bad faith under the legislation and invite extra scrutiny from the NCSC. Keeping the mouth shut would likely be my advice to any NetOp if I was currently practicing and able to give legal advice and likewise I might also have these professional concerns. This is regrettable but the reality.
4. However, I am an American New Zealander who is hard case about this topic and New Zealands independent foreign policy including networking with few or no qualms as I am not currently practicing and soon emigrating. I am confident in my ability to present things appropriately and engage with an audience from previous public speaking experiences.
With that I hope you give it some thought. If everything works out Ill be presenting something at Kiwicon and possibly voicing concerns on your behalf that deserve to be pooled togethor for full force.
Kind Regards,
Enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (
NB: not a lawyer)
Dear networkers from around the world,
Internet interconnection is largely unregulated. However, in some countries, public regulation has emerged ��� be it through transparency rules, mandatory peering or licensing terms.
Currently, we lack an overview about where regulation exists and we know little about how it affects internet connectivity on a global scale.
To start filling this information gap, I have set up a short survey for network engineers, peering coordinators and network-savvy legal staffers. The goal is to crowdsource an initial overview about formal regulation of internet interconnection around the world.
I will publish the results under a Creative Commons license.
Also, please consider helping by forwarding the link to fellow interconnection professionals - think of your Facebook, VKontakte or LinkedIn groups, of chat channels and mailing lists. The more regional diversity, the better. Thank you!
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Uta Meier-Hahn
PhD Candidate
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Oberwallstr. 9 | 10117 Berlin
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