Following up from Gerard. GO AND APPLY. It's going to be a great summit and if the only thing stopping you from going was money, then NZNOG is offering you a way around that. In order to give you even more reasons to apply, here's a small teaser of the sorts of material that the Programme Committee has accepted thus far. We've got lots more in the pipeline. ------------------- "Prefix hijacked!" Yoshinobu Matsuzaki (IIJ) In early 2015, IIJ noticed one of its prefixes was being announced by someone else. IIJ traced the cause of the BGP announcement, and now believes it was an intentional activity - BGP hijacking by a malicious folks. I will share how we reacted against it, and lesson learned from the incident. ------------------- "Making the best of satellite links to Pacific Islands" Ulrich Speidel (University of Auckland) For many Pacific Islands, satellite links are currently the only viable option for Internet connectivity. These links invariably represent bottlenecks with long latency - something that TCP's flow control algorithms are well known to struggle with. We look at TCP behaviour on such links and argue that they don't work as well as simple tests may indicate. We also discuss possible solutions to the problem, and demonstrate that one of them - network coding - is able to accelerate TCP connections significantly if deployed across the bottleneck. ------------------- Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) Greg Shepherd (Cisco) The benefits of multi-point services are well understood, but the challenges with the current solutions often result in a failed cost/benefit analysis. Today only those networks with an overwhelming business need have successful multicast deployments, and the rest of the community have come to think of multicast as a failed technology. BIER (Bit Index Explicit Replication) is an alternative method of multicast forwarding. It does not require any multicast-specific trees, and hence does not require any multicast-specific tree building protocols. BIER radically simplifies the requirements for deploying and maintaining network replication for multicast application, and improves network performance for both native and MVPN services. ------------------- BGP Techniques for Network Operators Philip Smith (APIA) The tutorial introduces network operators to some more advanced BGP features and techniques to aid with operating their networks within the Internet. After a recap of iBGP, eBGP and common attributes (including 32-bit ASNs), the tutorial will look at the various scaling techniques available, when to use BGP instead of an IGP, and examine policy options available through the use of local preference, MED and communities. The second half of the tutorial looks at deployment techniques, including BGP network design, the announcing and receiving prefixes, aggregation, routing table growth and stability, finishing off with some configuration advice. ------------------- NOG BoF Yoshinobu Matsuzaki (IIJ) We have many NOG style communities in AP region, and each NOGs has own challenges. This BoF is aimed at sharing experience among NOG organizers - mostly focused on how to start up/maintain/continue/expand a NOG activities. Startup Budget NOG Contents Committee Servers Meetings Venue Volunteers Working Group ------------------- IPv6 Performance Geoffrey Huston (APNIC) This presentation looks into the relative performance of IPv6 and IPv4, using active measurements to examine the relative RTT and connection success rates to gain some insights into the relative performance of IPv4 and IPv6. ------------------- BGP in 2015 Geoffrey Huston (APNIC) This presentation is a summary of the routing system for 2015. ------------------- New Zealand Broadband Map Jamie Horrell (NZRS) Creating a visual representation of New Zealand's broadband infrastructure.