NANOG 87 Agenda


NANOG 87 Agenda

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Sunday, February 12, 2023
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Theme: Interacting With Sources of Truth

The NANOG 87 Hackathon will focus on Interacting With Sources of Truth, whether a single database or a collection of correlated data from multiple sources. Such examples could be an IPAM, Configuration Databases, Datacenter Infrastructure Management Databases, Configuration Templates/Models, RPKI Validators, etc. You could develop a feature, fix a bug for an existing open-source solution, or roll your own!

During this Hackathon, team leaders will work with teams collaboratively to understand the respective code bases and help troubleshoot issues.

Utilizing collaboration services from Zoom and Slack and lab infrastructure consisting of virtualized devices from several vendors, Hackathon participants can work individually or self-organize into teams to work on software passion projects.

Learn more + register: https://www.nanog.org/events/nanog-87-hackathon/

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Description: Exploration of the history of the Domain Number System (DNS), the original design, how it works, and its evolution. 

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database that maps domain names to IP addresses and is a core piece of Internet functionality. This 1-day seminar will kick off our 87th community-wide conference in Atlanta, GA. 

Learn about the DNS via discussion and real-world, real-time, hands-on investigation. The DNS is a critical part of Internet functionality. It is quite an old protocol, with many, many modifications made over the years. We'll talk about the original designs and current implementations while seeing all this in action using freely available tools, mostly Dig.

This class is free. Registration is required to attend.

https://www.nanog.org/events/nanog-87-dns-fundamentals/registration/registrant

Monday, February 13, 2023
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Edward McNair - NANOG
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New to NANOG ? Don’t miss our Newcomers Breakfast for an opportunity to network with fellow newcomers and learn more about NANOG - both the community and the organization.

Topics to be covered include:
What is NANOG
What is a NOG
NANOG Governance
NANOG Resources
NANOG 87 Program Information

Edward McNair: Edward McNair is the Executive Director of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). He is also the co-founder of Kaskadian, an agency that provides branding, marketing and sales support for startups and new businesses. Prior to Kaskadian, Edward served as Chief Executive Officer for Verilan, an IT company that delivered just-in-time, enterprise-quality networks. Previously, he was Vice President of Internet Marketing for R2C, a leading direct marketing agency, and was Creative Director for the WiMAX Forum, a global Internet and telecom consortium. In the computer industry, Edward has developed corporate training solutions for Nike, Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Kaiser Permanente, and FEI, among others. In addition, he has delivered professional services to NANOG, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Facebook, Intel® and Mentor Graphics. Edward also developed the first web design program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art where he taught web and graphic design and interactive media courses for more than a dozen years. In his free time, Edward is involved in community theatre aimed at supporting local charities. His most recent production was playing the lead in the musical "Oklahoma!”
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  • Speaker Edward McNair - NANOG
Edward McNair - NANOG
Konrad Zemek - Path Network
Future Cain - CEO, Future of SEL
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Brilliant networks delivering next-generation connected experiences are here. Comcast Chief Network Officer Elad Nafshi will share how 10G network technologies are evolving connected experiences in real time, even as they continue to get smarter, faster, more reliable, and secure for future generations.

Speakers
  • Speaker Elad Nafshi
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Managing and maintaining highly scalable networks has historically been a challenging task. A plethora of ISPs/CSPs have been trying to simplify processes and procedures; yet this task gets more complicated as they are faced with the growing cost pressure of supporting today’s IP network traffic demands (driven by video, gaming, and remote working) and future 5G traffic volumes. All these trends and market forces are forcing cable operators to rethink and rearchitect their legacy IP networks and operations in ways that can give them a competitive edge.

The intent of this presentation is first to describe why distributed disaggregated services such as a Disaggregated Distributed Chassis (DDC) will be paramount for the success of ISPs/CSPs. It will examine how these services differ from traditional architectures, and which operational processes, engineering skills and supporting tools are needed. It will showcase an example of the DDC model deployed in the production environment of one of the largest cable operators in the world. It also will provide insights on how to improve network availability and reliability thanks to a smaller “blast radius” for outages.

In summation, ISPs/CSPs’ interest in network disaggregation has been growing, driven by a variety of motives such as cost reduction, the removal of vendor lock-in and service innovation. Readers will have a granular understanding of the operational impacts of the DDC approach, and how networks can be managed in a more cloud-like and orchestrated manner. They will also achieve a clear vision for solving operational and business challenges before embarking on a disaggregation project.

Aliraza Bhimani: With an Operations and Engineering background and a love of mentoring and teaching, Ali has been with Comcast Cable for over 19 years and has over 24 years experience in the Technology, ISP, and Financial industries. Currently Team Lead for a group that specializes in improving Operational and Engineering configuration templates and procedures while being a liaison with Architecture and different organizations within Comcast. Responsible for field trialing new technology to ensure no customer impact. He was the Lead Implementation Engineer for a disaggregated router virtual chassis deployment at Comcast. Ali is also part of a team that is an escalation point for all Operations, Engineering and Architecture issues and outages, and loves working with and interacting with different people and teams. He is married to his wonderful wife for over 21 years, with two amazing daughters ages 17 and 15 who keep him enjoyably busy! Ali loves to travel to different countries (26 and counting) and to try different experiences such as snorkeling, scuba, car, boat, and motorcycle adventures.
Speakers
  • Speaker Aliraza Bhimani - Comcast Cable
Sponsors:
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"Internet Innovators" explores the icon behind the technology. Internet Hall of Fame + recent recipient of the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, George Sadowsky talks to NANOG producer Elizabeth Drolet about his life and legacy. Sadowsky has helped develop and deploy Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to over 50 developing countries.

To view this talk or any of the other Internet Innovator talks on our website, visit https://www.nanog.org/news-stories/nanog-tv/internet-innovators/

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As network engineers begin adopting automation in their organizations, they inevitably encounter a range of challenges. These are typically accepted as necessary engineering hurdles that need to be overcome in order to bring automation into production, and are subsequently addressed with a mix of de facto standard tooling and traditional training. Unfortunately, this logical but simplistic strategy overlooks some powerful alternatives by which automation can be introduced and even adopted. Chances are, opportunities for accelerating network automation already exist in your organization.

In this practical talk we will discuss several alternative strategies to begin automating networks. Engineers who are struggling with the basics will learn new perspectives for addressing automation challenges. We will also introduce a flexible maturity model and a proposed framework for full-cycle automation deployment to aid in examining these uncommon paths to beginning network automation.

Speakers
  • Speaker Jordan Villarreal
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Cloud Network Engineering: A closer look at a new career path

What will be presented
Cloud Network Engineering as a career path; Soup to Nuts. This is a 60 minutes presentation to introduce the emerging career of a CNE or Cloud Network Engineer.

We believe this career has roots deep in a few different engineering fields such as network, systems and security engineering. This will be covered as part of the “intro” (part 1).

In the second part the presenter will move on to the responsibilities and required skillsets (Part 2).

Why do we need this session?
The most recent NANOG surveys have showed us that many participants are interested in learning about career development. Furthermore, a brief field study reveals that very little research has been conducted in this field although today there are over 19,700 postings for this type of candidates exist on LinkedIn. Finally, I believe this session has other potentials including attracting sponsors and its recoding for years to come will be used as a reference by thousands of people.

Who is our target audience?
Network engineers and operators almost in any part of their career.
Hiring managers in the field of network and cloud engineering.
Talent advisors.
Technical content developers and vendors.

Kam Agahian: Kam is the director of cloud engineering with Oracle in Southern California with over 24 years of experience in designing and implementing complex network architectures. Over the years Kam has interviewed over 1000 candidates in North America, APAC and EMEA for various network engineering and leadership positions. Kam has previously presented at NANOG77 in Austin, TX and NANOG75 in Washington DC on IPv6 over MPLS and network engineering job interview processes. You can follow his random thoughts on Twitter.
Speakers
  • Speaker Kam Agahian
Len Bosack - XKL, LLC
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Our current networks depend on fiber technology. This talk describes what it took to develop compact 400 Gigabit technology during the global pandemic. The current realities of compact 400g are discussed.
Presenter Len Bosack, founder of Cisco systems, oversaw the development of 400G products during lockdown and recovery. It was a bumpy ride. As the pandemic progressed, most of the back-room vendors had significant problems -- being crowned by the famous supply-chain collapse. At times, only one person was allowed in the building. Notwithstanding these, product development still happened. The XKL compact 400G products are the result.

Len Bosack: As CEO of XKL, LLC, a leading optical networking equipment provider, Leonard Bosack continues to drive technology innovation in his quest to bring fundamental change to worldwide telecommunications. Bosack co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984 and is mainly responsible for pioneering the widespread commercialization of local area network (LAN) technology and the interconnections which form the internet.
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  • Speaker Len Bosack - XKL, LLC
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400ZR and its variations have been the most successful development in optical networking in decades, with over 200k modules shipped in 2022, just two years after introduction. 400ZR has changed the way datacenters are interconnected and changed the way datacenters are designed. In this presentation, the speaker will show the current status of 400ZR development and deployment, how it is changing network designs, and explain what is coming next.

Scott Wilkinson: Scott Wilkinson has worked directly in the telecommunications industry for over 25 years, during which he accumulated extensive experience in optical networking, fiber to the home, long haul optical technology, carrier ethernet, MPLS, and SDN/NFV-enabled networks. As Lead Analyst at Cignal AI, he conducts quantitative and qualitative research on the optical components market. Dr. Wilkinson held senior positions in product management, technical marketing, and systems engineering for Hitachi, ECI Telecom, MRV, Fujitsu, and startup companies Kestrel Solutions, and Parama Networks. A noted speaker at telecom conferences and events such as NGON, OFC, and FTTH, Wilkinson is also a frequent contributor to trade publications and is the author of the book “Telecommedy”. Wilkinson has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Speakers
  • Speaker Scott Wilkinson
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How often do you find yourself doing the same set of commands when troubleshooting issues in your network? I am willing to bet the answer to this is quite often! Usually we have a list of our favorite commands that we will always use to quickly narrow down a specific problem type.

Switch reloaded unexpectedly? "show reload cause"
Fan failure? "show environment power"
Fiber link reporting high errors or down on your monitoring system? "show interface counters errors", "show interface transceiver", "show interface mac detail"

Outputs like the above examples help you quickly pinpoint the source of your failures for remediation. SSH'ing into the boxes and running these commands by hand is time consuming, especially if you are for example a NOC dealing with numerous failures throughout the day. Most switch platforms have API's now and you can instead program against them to get these outputs in seconds. I will go over a variety of examples and creative ways to use these scripts for optimal use of your troubleshooting time and to get you away from continually doing these repetitive tasks by hand.

NOTE: My tutorial examples will be using python and the Arista pyeapi module with Arista examples, but the concepts can easily be transferred to other platforms and languages.

Cat Gurinsky: Cat Gurinsky is a senior network engineer working on global large scale datacenter networks. Her primary focus is on the automation of the network specifically as it pertains to deployments, troubleshooting and life cycle management. In previous network engineering roles at Valparaiso University, Switch & Data, and Equinix she has worked on everything from enterprise and wireless deployments to internet exchanges and data centers. She first started working in network engineering in 2007 and began attending NANOG in 2009 at NANOG 46. Cat has a passion for BGP, Python, network tools, monitoring, automation and anything that can help make life easier in large scale networks. Cat also serves on the Advisory Board for the Network Automation Forum. She was elected to the NANOG Board of Directors in the 2023 elections and is currently serving on the board with a 3 year term from 2024-2026. Cat has previously served NANOG as part of the Development Committee from 2011-2012 and on the Program Committee from 2019-2023. During her 5 years on the program committee she was the chair of the Program Committee for almost 3 years, during which time she sat on the NANOG Board of Directors as an ex-officio member / PC liaison and Board Secretary. Before that she also served as Vice Chair, Secretary and Inclusion & Diversity Sub-Committee Chair for the Program Committee. During her time on the Development Committee she served as Membership Chair.
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This presentation discusses Imposter Syndrome, the silent myth that so many of us in Networking face. I dissect this myth with the audience, and provide real world examples of how they can overcome it. My examples focus on the Network Automation field, and how this feeling is even more prevalent as a Network Automation Engineer compared to other, more traditional IT roles.

Matt Vitale: I started as a network engineer in retail back in 2007, and have worked on various networking projects across a few different companies and industries over the next decade. Around 2016, I started focusing on scripting and network automation, eventually moving into a full-time network automation role in 2018, and have been doing that ever since. In my spare time, I enjoy anything outdoors (hiking, camping, etc), reading, and working on my car.
Speakers
  • Speaker Matt Vitale
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When an IP network is congested, operators could take advantage of the channel margins in the underlying optical network and increase capacity of the IP links. Although channel margins are required for the long-term health of the optical service, it might be possible to tap into the margin while the IP network is being repaired. We present a new converged Traffic Engineering SDN approach that looks at the IP and optical layers of the network holistically to help operators alleviate IP congestion.

Cengiz Alaettinoglu: Cengiz Alaettinoglu is a Ciena Fellow and is responsible for the technical direction and architecture of Ciena’s MCP Applications portfolio. He is currently focused on multi-layer network automation. Before joining Ciena through the Packet Design acquisition in 2018, Cengiz lead development of real-time SDN analytics and orchestration applications which intelligently adapt paths based on changing network conditions, using intent-based policies and real-time analytics. His early experimental work, correlating network performance issues to routing protocol incidents, pioneered the use of analytics in IP network routing. Prior to Packet Design, Cengiz was with USC's Information Sciences Institute where he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He was co-chair of the IETF's Routing Policy System Working Group, has been published widely, and is a popular presenter at industry events worldwide. Cengiz holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and a MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
Speakers
  • Speaker Cengiz Alaettinoglu
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gRIBI is a control plane gRPC service that enables an external entity (say a controller) to inject and query entries into a network device’s RIB. The data model to represent the entries reuses the OpenConfig Abstract Forwarding Table (AFT). Since the entries are injected into the RIB, there’s no need for the external entity to assume full ownership of the forwarding table nor be aware of all the forwarding entries. Programming operations are transactional with support for acknowledgements (per operation) of installed state in the device’s RIB and (hardware) FIB. Use of gRPC and AFT data model allows for vendor neutral support on the external entity.

Nandan Saha: Nandan is a software engineer at Arista Networks where over the last 11 years he's helped build various unicast routing features in Arista's EOS network operating system. Prior to Arista, Nandan has had shorter stints at Cisco systems working on the ASR1k platform and Wipro Technologies writing microcode for a networking SoC. Outside work, Nandan enjoys eating dark chocolate, watching food/travel youtube, reading history books and subjecting people to poor jokes.
steve ulrich: Steve Ulrich is a senior networking dork in the cloud group at Arista Networks, where, for the past few years, he has toiled in the mines, working with Arista's cloud customers to deploy new (and sometimes not so new) networking technologies and platforms. prior to Arista, he spent 4 years at Juniper Networks in a similar capacity within the web services group, and prior to that, cisco - again working in the cloud and service provider groups.
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Advances in routing silicon and pluggable optics are enabling a new network architecture to converge traditional private line services onto a packet transport infrastructure. Private line emulation is cost-efficient for the delivery of high bandwidth, bit transparent and dedicated network connectivity services. In this session private line service attributes will be discussed and the key technology building blocks to deliver mission critical services in a fundamental new and beneficial way for both the end-customer and the provider

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  • Speaker Errol Roberts
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The forum provides time for attendees to meet and network with others in the peering community present at NANOG.

Peering Representatives, who completed and submitted the form will have a dedicated highboy table for up to 2 representatives. They will be able to distribute business cards, and provide a white paper or 1 sheet marketing page. Please note: any other type of giveaway is not allowed.

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Address:
976 Brady Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30318
Transportation: will be provided starting at 6:45 PM

*NANOG Badge required for entry

Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Topic/Presenter
Sponsors:
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The Members Meeting agenda and link to the webinar details are available for Members only. You MUST be signed in with your NANOG Profile account to view the Members Meeting Agenda page. Please bring (or share via email) any questions you would like to discuss at the meeting.

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Mary Walton, in her book “The Deming Management Method”, says “In God we trust. All others must use data.” Over the last 20 years, my colleagues and I have been engaged in understanding and improving the Internet through large-scale measurement, and of course, data. Using a variety of measurement tools, ranging from Internet telescopes to active scanning to Netflow, we set about the task of collecting measurements about Internet protocols, such as IPv4 and IPv6, services, such as BGP and DNS, and applications, including email and the web. Our work has focused primarily on improving the security and availability properties of these components and we have studied everything from man-in-the-middle attacks to spam, worms, botnets, and DDoS. Over time, what questions we ask and how we seek to answer them have co-evolved and, somewhat surprisingly, our approach today can best be understood not through traditional network measurement, but through the lens of security principles. I’ll argue that this philosophy is something worthy of emulation, not only in its ability to understand and improve the quality of our networks and services today, but also as a way of thinking about the design, adoption, and operation of tomorrow’s networks.

MICHAEL BAILEY: Michael Bailey is currently a Professor and School Chair in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With more than 20 faculty, the new, multidisciplinary, independent academic unit represents a revolutionary new approach to cyber-security by drawing from diverse disciplines including computing, engineering, public policy, international affairs, business, and law. Prior to his role as school chair, he was a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Research Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. His industry experience includes employment at Amoco Corporation, Andersen Consulting, and three startup companies, including a role as the Director of Engineering at Arbor Networks. Since his first in person attendance at NANOG 26 in Eugene, OR, Bailey has contributed to several talks at NANOG on security and networking, most recently at NANOG 57 on IPv6 Adoption.
Speakers
  • Speaker MICHAEL BAILEY
Richard Clayton - University of Cambridge
John Kristoff - NETSCOUT / Dataplane.org
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In this presentation, we will provide a synopsis of the criminal DDoS-for-hire ecosystem; examine details of a simultaneous, internationally-orchestrated takedown of multiple DDoS-for-hire services in December of 2022; and assess the real-world impact of this action via statistical analysis of global DDoS attack activity.

Richard Clayton: Richard is a software developer by trade and his software company wrote one of the first Internet access programs for Windows. In the mid-90s the company was sold to Demon Internet (AS2529), then the UK's largest ISP. At the turn of the century he went back to Cambridge to do a PhD and has stayed on as an academic "because it's much more fun than working". He was the founding director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, making many and varied datasets related to cybercrime available to academics so they can concentrate on their research rather than learning the tedium of data collection at scale. Recently he has been advising law enforcement on ways to disrupt "booter" activity and to measure the impact of their actions.
John Kristoff: John is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago studying under the tutelage of Chris Kanich. He is a principal analyst at NETSCOUT on the ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT). He currently serves as a research fellow at ICANN, sits on the NANOG program committee, and operates Dataplane.org. John’s primary career interests, experience, and expertise are in Internet infrastructure. He is particularly focused on better understanding and improving the routing system (BGP), the naming system (DNS), and internetwork security. John is or has been associated with a number of other organizations and projects involving Internet operations and research, some of which include: DNS-OARC, DePaul University, Dragon Research Group (DRG), IETF, FIRST, Internet2, Neustar - formerly UltraDNS, Northwestern University, nsp-security, ops-trust, REN-ISAC, and Team Cymru.
Speakers
  • Speaker Richard Clayton - University of Cambridge
  • John Kristoff - NETSCOUT / Dataplane.org
Gautam Akiwate - Stanford University
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Sophisticated attackers, typically nation-state actors, have begun to leverage access to key DNS infrastructure to then hijack target organization domains. Target organizations now not only
include government domains, but also large network operators. Most concerningly, these domain hijacks bypass traditional DNS protections, and are imperceptible to the users. In this talk, we describe our methodology for identifying domain hijacks in the wild, and our results from using this methodology to identify a range of victims demonstrating that domain hijacks have evolved into a favored intrusion tactic. Finally, we also discuss what these findings mean for organizations looking to secure their infrastructure.

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  • Speaker Gautam Akiwate - Stanford University
Christopher Yoo - University of Pennsylvania
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The December 2018 release of our NSF-funded study analyzing legal barriers to RPKI adoption revitalized interest in reforms to lower these barriers. In the fall of 2022, ARIN made important changes to its Relying Party Agreement and Registration Services Agreement designed to address the concerns raised by our report. This proposed session would offer a legal assessment of these recent developments.

Christopher Yoo: Christopher is one of the nation’s leading authorities on law and technology. Recognized as one of the most cited scholars in administrative and regulatory law as well as intellectual property, he is the coauthor of a major NSF-supported report on legal barriers to RPKI adoption. His other major research interests include studying innovative ways to connect more people to the Internet, assessing the impact of Internet connectivity on individual wellbeing, using technological principles to inform how the law can promote optimal interoperability, and network neutrality. He is also building innovative integrated interdisciplinary joint degree programs designed to produce a new generation of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering. The author of more than 100 scholarly works, he testifies frequently before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and international organizations. Before entering the academy, he clerked for the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the U.S. and worked under the supervision of now-Chief Justice of the U.S. John G. Roberts, Jr., at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells).
Speakers
  • Speaker Christopher Yoo - University of Pennsylvania
Sponsors:
Peter Thimmesch - Internet Tool & Die Company
Caron Hummer
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1) Presentation: Prof. Mark Granovetter, Stanford University, about Interpersonal ties and the
Search for New Employment. (Remote)

2) General Session Talk: What to do now that you've been laid off! by Caron Hummer, Chief
People Person about getting yourself prepared for possible changes in your employment. In
person

3) General Session Panel: The Candidate Journey.
Using the structure of customer journey mapping, the panel will provide expectations and
insights to what one should expects from the day one is laid off from one company until they
start employment with a new employer.

Speakers
  • Speaker Peter Thimmesch - Internet Tool & Die Company
  • Caron Hummer
Nick Bogle - Ziply Fiber
Thomas Donnelly - Stripe
Matt Griswold - 20C, FullCtl
Mauricio Rojas - Nokia
Rick Sherman - Datadog
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There are many platforms out there to help you automate your deployments and configurations of your network devices out there. This panel will cover some of the major ones such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Kubernetes, Nornir, Netmiko, Netpalm

We shall focus on:
1) When to start automating
2) Compare and contrast
— Matt Griswold – Ansible
— Mau Rojas – Kubernetes
— Rick – Puppet & Salt
— Thomas Donnelly – Nornir/Netmiko
— Nick Bogle - Netpalm / Rest Abstraction Layer
3) Also discuss languages:
— Kubernetes = Go
— Helm = go template
— Ansible = python
— The decisions you make now will gate evolution later
4) Source of Truth / Getting Started -> WHAT are you automating, touch on everyone's use cases

Cat Gurinsky: Cat Gurinsky is a senior network engineer working on global large scale datacenter networks. Her primary focus is on the automation of the network specifically as it pertains to deployments, troubleshooting and life cycle management. In previous network engineering roles at Valparaiso University, Switch & Data, and Equinix she has worked on everything from enterprise and wireless deployments to internet exchanges and data centers. She first started working in network engineering in 2007 and began attending NANOG in 2009 at NANOG 46. Cat has a passion for BGP, Python, network tools, monitoring, automation and anything that can help make life easier in large scale networks. Cat also serves on the Advisory Board for the Network Automation Forum. She was elected to the NANOG Board of Directors in the 2023 elections and is currently serving on the board with a 3 year term from 2024-2026. Cat has previously served NANOG as part of the Development Committee from 2011-2012 and on the Program Committee from 2019-2023. During her 5 years on the program committee she was the chair of the Program Committee for almost 3 years, during which time she sat on the NANOG Board of Directors as an ex-officio member / PC liaison and Board Secretary. Before that she also served as Vice Chair, Secretary and Inclusion & Diversity Sub-Committee Chair for the Program Committee. During her time on the Development Committee she served as Membership Chair.
Mauricio Rojas: Mau has been working in the IT Industry for more than two decades, most of this time, leading the introduction of new technologies for Data Centers and Cloud in new markets. Originally from Santiago of Chile, he's currently working as Network Automation rPLM in Nokia, supporting US and Canada. Continuously testing the limits of use cases that involves techs like Kubernetes, YANG or Automation Frameworks in General. Mau's also passionate with art (Instagram: p1nrojas), using what is left of his creativity at work into the canvas or digital illustrations.
Speakers
John Sweeting - ARIN
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ARIN is a nonprofit, member-based organization that administers IP addresses & ASNs in support of the operation and growth of the Internet. Hear from ARIN’s Chief Customer Officer on where the organization sits with IPv6 growth, IPv4 Waitlist and Transfer stats, along with other notable updates across our programs and services.

John Sweeting: John Sweeting is the Chief Customer Officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for the overall development, direction and operation of the department. Prior to joining ARIN staff, he served 12 years on the ARIN Advisory Council, 6 of which he was the Chair, and 1 year on the Address Supporting Organization’s Address Council (ASO AC). John served on the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) team which was convened in December 2014 to guide development of the Number Community response to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group’s RFP.
Speakers
  • Speaker John Sweeting - ARIN
Charles Rumford - Deft and TallWireless
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Network Engineering Jeopardy will consist of three teams competing for all the glory!

Charles Rumford: Charles currently works for Deft as a lead network and automation engineer on the operations team. His main responsibilities include routing, network design, systems administration, network design, and automation. "Making events non-events" and "no one should know we've done anything" are his primary guiding principles for designs and work. Usability and security are of great interest to Charles as well. Outside of the work space, Charles doesn't stray to far from the technology path. He serves on the planning committees for The WOPR Summit and the Blue Team Village @ DEFCON. His primary roles are to support conference IT infrastructure, speaker operations, and community development. Outside of the technology space, Charles is very active in the Philadelphia Guild of Change Ringers serving as treasurer, steeple keeper, and educator. He also finds enjoyment in the orchestra, knitting, musical theater, and cycling.
Speakers
  • Moderator Charles Rumford - Deft and TallWireless
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We analyze the properties of 712 prefixes that appeared in Spamhaus’
Don’t Route Or Peer (DROP) list over a nearly three-year period
from June 2019 to March 2022. We show that attackers are subverting multiple defenses against malicious use of address space,
including creating fraudulent Internet Routing Registry records for
prefixes shortly before using them. Other attackers disguised their
activities by announcing routes with spoofed origin ASes consistent
with historic route announcements, and in one case, with the ASN
in a Route Origin Authorization. We quantify the substantial and
actively-exploited attack surface in unrouted address space, which
warrants reconsideration of RPKI eligibility restrictions by RIRs,
and reconsideration of AS0 policies by both operators and RIRs.

Speakers
  • Speaker Gautam Akiwate - Stanford University
Mike Starr - trackd.com
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This talk will explore the potential use cases for ChatGPT in network engineering, including automating configuration management, troubleshooting, and documentation. Examples will be provided of how ChatGPT has been used to assist in these tasks for popular vendors such as Cisco and Juniper. Additionally, the challenges and limitations of using ChatGPT in network engineering will be discussed. The talk will provide an overview of the benefits and possibilities of using ChatGPT in network engineering and how it can help network engineers to focus on more critical tasks.

ChatGPT Prompt: Can you create an outline for a 30 minute talk about how ChatGPT could be used by network engineers in their daily duties?

ChatGPT Response: I'd be happy to help! Here's an outline for a 30-minute talk on how ChatGPT could be used by network engineers in their daily duties:

ChatGPT Prompt: Can you write an abstract for this talk?

ChatGPT Response: The use of ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI, in network engineering can help to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, reduce human error, and improve the efficiency and accuracy of network operations.

Speakers
  • Speaker Mike Starr - trackd.com
hasan siddique
Michael Hollyman
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Verisign's role as a Root operator and TLD for com/net anchors our position in the global Internet supply-chain coupled with our implementation of unique origin ASN's (BCP: 169) further provides differentiation in our RPKI implementation. As such, Verisign has a compelling use-case that will provide value to Internet stakeholders, operators and stewards alike.

hasan siddique: Hasan Siddique is a director of engineering at Verisign. Since joining Verisign in 2012, he has worked in various roles, including network operations, engineering, and development. Hasan currently manages the network automation and monitoring teams while helping to lead external engagement with various industry organizations, including Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS). For the past two years, he has been focusing on evolving Verisign’s internet routing security posture to better protect mission-critical internet infrastructure.
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  • Speaker hasan siddique
  • Michael Hollyman
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ARIN President and CEO John Curran will provide a brief summary of global developments in the Internet Number Registry System, including ongoing developments in AFRINIC governance.

Speakers
  • Speaker John Curran - ARIN
Full Abstract

In a few days it will be 1 year since Russia invaded Ukraine, this talk is to say thank you to all donors and individual supporters for helping us keep Ukraine connected.

Speakers
  • Speaker Ester Paal
John Kristoff - NETSCOUT / Dataplane.org
Full Abstract

We not only connect LANs together, we also connect with each through venues such as NANOG meetings and mailing lists. Increasingly we also utilize a number of more modern social media platforms to connect and interact with one another. One such platform that has recently attracted a great deal of interest is the "fediverse" and specifically the micro-blogging software better known as Mastodon. This lightning talk provides a quick introduction to Mastodon, netop-specific suggestions on how to get started, and a nudge to to consider joining others there.

John Kristoff: John is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago studying under the tutelage of Chris Kanich. He is a principal analyst at NETSCOUT on the ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT). He currently serves as a research fellow at ICANN, sits on the NANOG program committee, and operates Dataplane.org. John’s primary career interests, experience, and expertise are in Internet infrastructure. He is particularly focused on better understanding and improving the routing system (BGP), the naming system (DNS), and internetwork security. John is or has been associated with a number of other organizations and projects involving Internet operations and research, some of which include: DNS-OARC, DePaul University, Dragon Research Group (DRG), IETF, FIRST, Internet2, Neustar - formerly UltraDNS, Northwestern University, nsp-security, ops-trust, REN-ISAC, and Team Cymru.
Speakers
  • Speaker John Kristoff - NETSCOUT / Dataplane.org
Full Abstract

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Topic/Presenter
Full Abstract

Don’t miss our Community Meeting for an opportunity to hear about what is happening with NANOG and the Program Committee.

Edward McNair: Edward McNair is the Executive Director of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). He is also the co-founder of Kaskadian, an agency that provides branding, marketing and sales support for startups and new businesses. Prior to Kaskadian, Edward served as Chief Executive Officer for Verilan, an IT company that delivered just-in-time, enterprise-quality networks. Previously, he was Vice President of Internet Marketing for R2C, a leading direct marketing agency, and was Creative Director for the WiMAX Forum, a global Internet and telecom consortium. In the computer industry, Edward has developed corporate training solutions for Nike, Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Kaiser Permanente, and FEI, among others. In addition, he has delivered professional services to NANOG, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Facebook, Intel® and Mentor Graphics. Edward also developed the first web design program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art where he taught web and graphic design and interactive media courses for more than a dozen years. In his free time, Edward is involved in community theatre aimed at supporting local charities. His most recent production was playing the lead in the musical "Oklahoma!”
Speakers
Full Abstract

Overview of the Fundamental components for Kubernetes that every Network Professional should know: Intro to Network Namespaces and the fundamentals of Pods and how they communicate in a Kubernetes Cluster. K8s services like NodePort and LoadBalancer. An overview about CNI plugins, the built-in ones and the ones available in the market (i.e. Calico, Cilium). Comparison between the most popular CNI Plugins. Why multus is so important in Telco? Security Policies.
About the last trends regarding Segment Routing (SRv6 and Cilium) and Kubernetes, Customer Resource Definitions for Network Orchestration (i.e. Nephio) and eBPF vs iptables.

Mauricio Rojas: Mau has been working in the IT Industry for more than two decades, most of this time, leading the introduction of new technologies for Data Centers and Cloud in new markets. Originally from Santiago of Chile, he's currently working as Network Automation rPLM in Nokia, supporting US and Canada. Continuously testing the limits of use cases that involves techs like Kubernetes, YANG or Automation Frameworks in General. Mau's also passionate with art (Instagram: p1nrojas), using what is left of his creativity at work into the canvas or digital illustrations.
Speakers
  • Speaker Mauricio Rojas - Nokia
Full Abstract

The idea is to share the impact and the records that the FIFA World Cup 2022 generated over the Internet, and also the users. Warning NANOG that the next one is going to be in USA, Canada and Mexico, so better get ready for new records.

Showing how capacity on the customers or peers should be ready for events with this characteristic to let the users use the internet without bad experiences.

Agustín Speziale: From Buenos Aires, Argentina with more than 20 years working in the industry, now as Mgr. Product Management at Cirion Technologies. Magister in Business Administration, degree in Information System and graduated in a specialization of project management.
Speakers
  • Speaker Agustín Speziale
Full Abstract

Pluggable Digital Coherent Optics (DCO) is a breakthrough technology that allows routers to integrate state of the art coherent DWDM interfaces without the need for specialized hardware. This is possible thanks to the incredible power efficiencies and compactness of recent DCO implementations over QSFP56-DD and other transceivers that can be deployed directly into standard 400GE host ports. Replacing traditional DWDM transponders by pluggable DCO significantly lowers the cost of building high-speed networks with massive capacity and extended reaches. Even greater gains in cost efficiencies are possible with Routed Optical Networking, a novel network architecture that couples DCO with innovations in IP/MPLS, management and automation to build a fully converged and programmable network architecture optimized at the packet switching layer.

As the industry embraces DCO, adoption increases and new use cases are explored, questions about how to manage this technology when deployed in the routers emerge. What are the new optical parameters that DCO expose to the router? How to leverage them for pro-active fiber and DWDM performance management? How to give visibility of that data to fellow transport operations teams and data lakes without exposing the IP network details?

This session will present DCO technology covering its basic concepts, the new optical signal monitoring capabilities enabled by its built-in the Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and transport encapsulations, and how they can be used to enhance IP networks and their operations. It will also discuss the state of the industry standards and open networking initiatives that can be leveraged to build a multi-vendor ecosystem.

Speakers
  • Speaker Emerson Moura
Full Abstract

Join us for a 15 minute video recap of the hackathon - where the theme was Interacting With Sources of Truth
You'll hear from hackathon coordinators, open source maintainers, and participants.

Eric Miller - GiGstreem / SkyWire
Full Abstract

IPv4 is exhausted. We can do a better job of being efficient with our IPv4 utilization while also making IPv6 a reality in our networks. The perfect combination is dual-stacking IPv4 CGNAT and IPv6. Utilizing RFC6598 space, we can extend a dedicated VLAN per customer to make IPv6 EUI-64 possible without running out of IPv4 space to assign with it.

Speakers
  • Speaker Eric Miller - GiGstreem / SkyWire
Full Abstract

The need to reliably monitor today’s ever-growing networks in the WAN, edge, and data center domains is now more critical than ever. The industry relies largely on SNMP to monitor present networks, a protocol that falls short when used to monitor large networks let alone the increasingly complex networks of the future.

Openconfig's gRPC-based streaming telemetry protocol, gNMI is considered by many to be the prime successor to SNMP. It packs features to build modern monitoring stacks, such as a push-based telemetry model, reliable transport, default TLS security, data model-based access to monitored data leaves, and exceptional performance on the wire.

This tutorial introduces gNMIc, an open-source software suite which blends together a feature-rich gNMI CLI client and a performant, highly-available telemetry collector. Focusing on gNMI-based streaming telemetry, gNMIc sets itself apart from other general-purpose collectors with unique features including high availability and clustering of collector instances, rich data processing pipelines, sheer support for various outputs for metrics, and embedded caching, to name a few.

By the end of this session, participants will understand how gNMIc can be used to configure network devices, and building a modern open-source telemetry stack comprised of a collector, time-series DB, and visualization layer.

Roman Dodin: Roman Dodin is a Product Line Manager at Nokia and a vivid member of various communities built around network automation. He is an active contributor to the open source projects in the field of network programmability and a maintainer of the containerlab project. At Nokia Roman is governing the evolution of Nokia SR Linux NetOps Development Kit and is busy building communities revolving around SR Linux programmable interfaces.
Karim Radhouani: Karim Radhouani is a Network Automation engineer at Nokia and an active contributor to multiple open source projects. At Nokia Karim builds network automation tools used both inside and outside of Nokia.
Speakers
  • Speaker Roman Dodin
  • Karim Radhouani
Alex Latzko - DEFT.COM
Full Abstract

Habits die hard, and the concepts of address allocation which are perfectly valid for IPv4 just don't work for IPv6, and in fact some IPv4 habits will technically break IPv6 routing efficiency.

This is a summary of good address allocation hygiene when people have large blocks to split up, based on RFC suggestions and fifteen years of operational experience in IPv6

Speakers
  • Speaker Alex Latzko - DEFT.COM
Full Abstract

Recent research studies highlighted a phenomenon known as “BGP zombies", which refers to active RIB entries for prefixes that have been withdrawn, but still persist in BGP routing tables.
The research has investigated the prevalence and characteristics of BGP zombies, with a focus on data collected from RIPE RIS, and found that ASes announcing a high number of prefixes, and also prefixes with a higher degree of "noise" (e.g. BGP beacons), are more likely to have BGP zombies.
In this presentation, we aim to raise awareness to the BGP zombie phenomenon and extend previous work by investigating:

• the identification of BGP zombies using a BGP monitoring platform other than RIPE RIS (namely the Code BGP Platform) will yield comparable results to those obtained from RIS Live
• whether announcing a limited number of new prefixes, originated from a new AS not announcing other prefixes, will still result in BGP zombies

Our results reveal that BGP zombies are a pervasive problem in the Internet routing system, regardless of the monitoring platform and prefix announcement characteristics utilized. We advocate that monitoring platforms should develop mechanisms for accurately identifying and labeling BGP routes as zombies, as well as implementing strategies for promptly alerting users to their presence in order to mitigate the potential negative effects they may have on network stability and performance.

Lefteris Manassakis: Lefteris is a network engineer with a background in networking research. He is now co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Code BGP. Prior to founding Code BGP, Lefteris worked at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) - as a research engineer, and a member of the INSPIRE research group. His research interests include Internet routing, Internet measurements, routing security and network automation. For more info, please check his personal web page: https://manassakis.net/
Speakers
  • Speaker Lefteris Manassakis - Code BGP
Full Abstract

DE-CIX has been working on the introduction of EVPN on its peering platform since the beginning of 2022. Considering the increasing number of participants, especially in New York and Frankfurt, the introduction of EVPN, including ProxyARP/ND, is required to get the exponentially growing broadcast/multicast traffic in the Peering LANs under control and to reduce the load on customer routers. Additionally, further security features based on a ProxyARP/ND agent according to RFC 9161 are activated and the protocol stack of the DE-CIX global network will be expanded to include RSVP-TE and sBFD. In this presentation, we will present the course of the project, benefits, and side effects for DE-CIX customers explained in technical detail.

Speakers
  • Speaker Thomas King
Full Abstract

Video-conferencing applications impose high loads and stringent performance requirements on the network. To better understand and manage these applications, we need effective ways to measure performance in the wild. For example, these measurements would help network operators in capacity planning, troubleshooting, and setting QoS policies. Unfortunately, large-scale measurements of production networks cannot rely on end-host cooperation, and an in-depth analysis of packet traces requires knowledge of the header formats. Zoom is one of the most sophisticated and popular applications, but it uses a proprietary network protocol. In this talk, we demystify how Zoom works at the packet level, and design techniques for analyzing Zoom performance from packet traces. We conduct systematic controlled experiments to discover the relevant unencrypted fields in Zoom packets, as well as how to group streams into meetings and how to identify peer-to-peer meetings. We show how to use the header fields to compute metrics like media bit rates, frame sizes and rates, and latency and jitter, and demonstrate the value of these fine-grained metrics on a 12-hour trace of Zoom traffic on our campus network.

Oliver Michel: Oliver Michel is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University working with Professor Jennifer Rexford. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder. Oliver’s research focuses on network support for real-time video-conferencing applications, scalable packet-level network monitoring, programmable data planes, and high-performance software packet processing.
Speakers
  • Speaker Oliver Michel - Princeton University
Full Abstract

Synopsis: Measurement Lab and Cloudflare want to empower network operators with free and open access to data that represents their user’s experience. Our presentation will:

1. Discuss how end-users define “good Internet” and how AIMScore defines the answer
2. Announce the free and open availability of AIMScore data that enable network operators to get actionable insights from CloudFlare and Measurement Lab’s speed tests
3.Solicit feedback from NANOG community about access and usability of the data and discuss future milestones

Running a distributed network is a challenge by itself, but ensuring that users are having a good experience on that network adds a layer of complexity that can make anyone’s head spin. It’s hard enough ensuring that users can reach the Internet through your network, but ensuring that they can access a myriad of services and applications at peak performance for each is orders of magnitude harder, especially when each application has a different concept of what peak performance looks like. To put it another way: it’s hard enough to know if every user on your network can access Discord, Netflix, and Dota reliably, but it’s even harder to know if every user on your network has a good experience accessing those services because each of those have completely different understandings of what it means to have a good experience.

The way we use the Internet on top of a network is ever changing, and the success criteria for the ways we use the Internet is also constantly changing. New metrics like responsiveness are being developed and rolled out to help track these new criteria. Being able to make sure that users have a good experience on your network no matter what is critical for customer retention and cost efficiency. If people have a good experience, they’ll keep using your network. And if people have a good experience, they won’t call support and try and get things fixed.

We are proposing a framework and data set that will not only give you insight into what applications consider success, but ways to programmatically detect when users in your network are experiencing degradations from success: Aggregated Internet Measurement

Speakers
  • Speaker David Tuber
  • Lai Yi Ohlsen
Full Abstract

My talk will describe my thoughts and impressions on the first professional conference I have attended, this NANOG. I will share my perspective and experiences as a college senior studying electrical engineering and compare it to my experience here at NANOG.

Speakers
  • Speaker Moira Johnson
Full Abstract

We're going to launch a survey to collect information on the state of network automation in 2023. Anonymized and analyzed results of the survey response will be provided to all participants, as well as presented at one or more major networking conference(s). My hope is that we will be accepted to present the results at NANOG 88.

I intend to use my 10 minutes to describe the trends in networking and network automation that we are seeing, the different types of automation in the wild today, and primarily to introduce the survey to the audience in hopes of increasing participation and thus providing better results for all.

You can find the survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5J_i2rkcpgkvI83Vj3DRVsau5jZ1u99M7p_ecWOgnW_9XHg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Chris Grundemann: Chris Grundemann is a passionate, creative technologist and a strong believer in technology's power to aid in the betterment of humankind. In his current role as Managing Director at Grundemann Technology Solutions he is expressing that passion by helping technology businesses grow and by helping any business grow with technology. Chris has been using technology, marketing, and strategy to build businesses and non-profit organizations for two decades. He holds 8 patents in network technology and is the author of two books, an IETF RFC, a personal weblog, and a multitude of industry papers, articles, and posts. Chris is the lead research analyst for all networking and security topics at GigaOm and is the creator and co-host of The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast, focused on encouraging the next generation of digital infrastructure engineers. He is also a co-founder, Director, and Chair Emeritus of IX-Denver and a Board Director of OIX, the global data center and interconnection standards body. He has held previous volunteer positions with CO ISOC (which he founded), ISOC-NY (Vice President), ARIN, NANOG, SANOG, AfPIF, CEA, UPnP, DLNA, RMv6TF, and several others. Chris has given presentations in 34 countries on 5 continents and is often sought out to speak at conferences, NOGs, and NOFs the world over. Currently based in West Texas, Chris can be reached via Twitter. More at chrisgrundemann.com
Speakers
  • Speaker Chris Grundemann - FullCtl
Full Abstract

Mapping Autonomous Systems (AS) to the owner organizations is critical to connect AS-level and organization-level research. Unfortunately, constructing an accurate dataset of AS-to-organization mappings is difficult due to a lack of ground truth information. CAIDA AS-to-organization (CA2O), the current state-of-the-art dataset, relies heavily on Whois databases maintained by Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to
infer the AS-to-organization mappings. However, inaccuracies in Whois data can dramatically impact the accuracy of CA2O, particularly on inferences of ASes owned by a same organization (sibling ASes).

In this work, we leverage PeeringDB (PDB) as an additional data source to detect the potential errors of sibling relations in CA2O. By conducting a meticulous semi-manual investigation, we discover the sources of inaccuracies in CA2O are two pitfalls of Whois data, and we systematically analyze how the pitfalls jointly influence the CA2O. We also build an improved dataset on sibling relations, which corrects mappings of 12.5% of CA2O organizations with sibling ASes (1,028 CA2O organizations, associated with 3,772 ASNs). To make the process more scalable, we design an automatic approach to reproduce our manually-built dataset with high fidelity. The approach is able to automatically improve inferences of sibling ASes for each new version of CA2O.

Speakers
  • Speaker Zhiyi Chen


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