NZNOG09 Full Programme

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Topic: NZNOG Year in review

Presenter: Jonny Martin, Dean Pemberton

Detail: A look over 2008.

Slides: To be supplied

Topic: National Library Web Harvesting

Detail: The National Library of New Zealand has a mandate and a responsibility to preserve New Zealand's social and cultural history. In recognition of the increasingly central role of the internet in all areas of life, the Library undertook a large-scale web harvest over a period of ten days in October 2008, eventually collecting 105 million URLs, or 4.1 terabytes of data. This presentation will provide the national, international and legal backstory to the web harvest project; explain how the harvest was designed, including the contentious robots.txt policy and our selection of the Internet Archive to operate the crawl; describe our experience of running the crawl and working with the Internet Archive; and present our initial analysis of the quantity, quality and character of the harvested material.

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Robert Loomans

Detail: Coming soon...

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Gerard Creamer

Detail: Coming soon...

Slides: 20090129-1100_bgp_gerard-greamer.pdf

Presenter: James Spenceley

Detail: With default allocation of 4 Byte AS numbers starting in less than 5 months, Vocus will provide a brief overview of our experience with 4Byte AS Numbers from the perspective of the Transit Provider. The talk will cover support by our equipment suppliers Cisco and Redback (plus info gleaned from other vendors), the process of requesting and allocation of a 4 Byte AS, configuration within the network and finally our experience announcing and updating the AS with Transit providers and Peers.

Slides: To be supplied

Topic: DNS Security

Presenter: Sam Sargeant

Detail: The poor security of the domain name system has been widely accepted for many years, and solutions have been available for most of that time. In 2009 we're slowly making progress to solve these issues but awareness and investment is low.

This talk outlines what's currently broken and how you can fix it.

Slides: To be supplied

Topic: v4/v6 Translation Methods

Presenter: Bill Manning

Detail: With the reduction of available v4 space and the grouth of the Internet with v6, there is a need for viable translation technologies. This talk will review the available choices and look at some performance considerations.

Slides: To be supplied

Topic: Practicalities of the v6 transition era

Presenter: Beatty Lane-Davis

Detail: We’re running out of v4 quickly and the jury is still out on when we’ll be able to completely transition to v6. What are the practical implications of this for network operators? This talk will provide insights into what some of the early adopters around the world have learned from their deployments: what’s worked, what hasn’t, what’s hard and what they wish they’d done differently. We will also consider the v4v6 coexistence mechanisms currently being defined and discuss how they may impact our networks.

Slides: To be supplied

Topic: IPv6 in New Zealand

Presenter: Nathan Ward

Detail: Coming soon...

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Varied

Detail: Lightning talks with an IPv6 theme.

Slides: 20090129-1500_spnat_shane-alcock.pdf

Presenter: Mark Foster

Detail: New Zealand Defence Force has a large and complex ICT environment, with more than 17,000 screens on more than a dozen discrete networks. Some of those networks act as New Zealand's gateway into the world of multi-national military networking, allowing information exchange within both operational and experimental environments. Mark's presentation will shed a little light on the multi-national networking environments New Zealand is involved with, including the annual Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration - an opportunity to trial both leading and bleeding-edge Military-relevant ICT technologies in a mock-combat environment which spans the globe.

Slides: Slides for this presentation will not be published

Presenter: Richard Lamb

Detail: The presentation will describe IANA’s DNSSEC efforts and recent state of affairs regarding signing the root and other domains IANA is responsible for and the TLD interim trust anchor repository.

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Varied

Detail: A series of 5 - 10 minute talks for those who have interesting things to say, or want to give speaking a go. So give it a go!

Slides: to be supplied

Presenter: Patrick Jordan-Smith

Detail: This talk focusses on the theory of Quality of Service as implemented in current routers and switches, covering policing, queueing theory, the different types of QoS possible. If there is some time at the end of the talk some practical exmaples will be given.

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Donald Neal

Detail: This talk presents the results of analysis of a traffic trace collected in May 2008 from users of the Internet service provided by Lightwire to students living on The University of Waikato's main campus. The stereotype suggests that such users will be using peer-to-peer applications heavily, but facts about the use of such applications are thinner on the ground. A brief discussion of methods used in identifying protocols is followed by explanation of what applications these students appear to be using to spend their bandwidth allowances. There may also be some hand-waving in the general direction of how ISP's costs relate to their charges.

Slides: 20090130-1100_lightwire_donald-neal.pdf

Topic: Designing networks for high availability

Presenter: Paresh Khatri

Detail: As modern-day networks grow in size and capability, there is an ever-increasing desire to provide that elusive 5 9s of availability to allow service providers to differentiate them from their competition. This session looks at some of the critical network functions that make this possible - fault detection and subsequent recovery. We look at re-convergence mechanisms available with IGPs and MPLS as well as new and emerging fault detection mechanisms such as BFD, IEEE 802.3ah and IEEE 802.1ag.

Slides: To be supplied

Topic: A view into online badness

Presenter: Marcel van den Berg

Detail: This talk will give insight into the current trends in the Underground Economy in 2008. It will also give a visual overview of online crime seen in 2008 and try to give insight in where these networks are located that are targeting your customers.

Slides: Slides for this presentation will not be published.

Presenter: WAND Group

Detail: An update of the ongoing WAND Research activities.

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Elly Tawhai

Detail: An update of ongoing activities in the APNIC region.

Slides: 20090130-1400_apnic-update_elly.pdf

Topic: InternetNZ update

Presenter: Keith Davidson

Detail: An update of ongoing activities by InternetNZ

Slides: 20090130-1430_internetnz-update_keith-davidson.pdf

Presenter: Richard Naylor

Detail: A talk to stimulate discussion and thought on the issues that need consideration for the future biggish networks that will be appearing. At least 100,000 connections at 100Mbps or better.

What are the issues, what are the features that should be incorporated into such networks. Will they work  ?

What can we learn from other similar sized networks. 

Slides: Richard was way too random to allow capturing in slides.

Topic: Renumbering Still Needs Work

Presenter: Brian Carpenter

Detail: A current IETF draft reviews the existing mechanisms for site renumbering for IPv4 and IPv6, and identifies operational issues with those mechanisms. It will include a gap analysis. The idea of this talk is to get feedback to improve the draft.

Slides: 20090130-1600_renumbering_brian-carpenter.pdf

Presenter: Neil Fenemor, Dean Pemberton, Jonny Martin

Detail: The annual get together to chat about the NZNOG conference.

Slides: To be supplied 

Topic: National Broadband Map

Presenter: Jamie Horrell

Detail: The National Broadband Map is a visual representation of New Zealand’s broadband landscape. It has been created to graphically represent broadband supplier network footprints alongside geocoded points which indicate potential broadband demand locations. It is a unique resource providing the most comprehensive view of Broadband supply and demand in New Zealand.

The Map takes publicly available government location data from various sources and combines it in a way that provides information and tools to aid in demand aggregation and infrastructure planning.

The talk will be an explanation of the functionality developed and how it is being used in infrastructure planning.

Slides: To be supplied

Presenter: Truman D. Boyes

Detail: This talk will outline Multi-Topology Routing (MTR) as a tool that you can use in your IP/MPLS networks. Multi-Topology routing is useful as a means to construct non-congruent inter-domain topologies, basic traffic engineering, and methods to steer particular applications and protocol-families onto specific groupings of links and nodes with and without MPLS.  A few recipes and examples of applicability will be discussed.

Slides: To be supplied