Keynote Speakers
Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC. Internet Futures
Philip Smith, Cisco. BGP Deaggregation Report
Bill Manning, EP.NET. Decline and Fall of the Routing System?
Dean Pemberton, Prophecy Networks. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Conference Speakers
Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC. Internet Futures
Geoff Huston has been working in the Internet for ages. He started the Australian Academic and Research Network a couple of eons ago and then was given a 10 year sentence to work for Telstra. Upon his release he has been working as APNIC's Chief Scientist. He's been on the Internet Architecture Board, and chairs a couple of IETF working groups on BGP security and IPv6 multi-homing. He writes a bit, plays with routing a bit and sometimes talks a bit.
Philip Smith, Cisco. BGP Deaggregation Report
Philip has been with Cisco Systems since 1998. He is part of the Internet Architectures Group in Corporate Consulting Engineering. His role includes working with many ISPs in the Asia Pacific region, specifically in network design, configuration, scaling and training. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent five years at PIPEX (now part of UUNET's global ISP business), the UK's first commercial Internet Service Provider. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in the UK, and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Europe.
Bill Manning, EP.NET. Decline and Fall of the Routing System?
William Manning is a contributing scientist on CenterGate's UltraDNS, and serves on the research staff at USC's Information Sciences Institute. He is currently involved in projects understanding the operational impact of new features in the DNS, IPv6, DNSSEC, and IDN. His primary technical interests have been in network operations and naming systems. He is active in the IETF, and has been active in the DNS and Routing working groups as an active participant, working group chair and code developer.
Elly Tawhai, Internet Resource Analyst, APNIC. APNIC Policy Update
Elly will provide and update on where APNIC is at, and where it is headed. Current policies and policy proposals will be discussed.
Rex Lovelock, CityLink. CityLink Update
Rex will provide an update on what's happening at CityLink, specifically including:
- Streaming Net update.
- IPV6 Update
- Sky Tower Upgrade/Tidy up
- 10 Gig Upgrade
- Switch Upgrade decision process
- Service delivery; Power outages in Wellington
- Service delivery; October the 6th update
Rex is currently an Engineer at CityLink having previously worked with the sales teams at Clear and Logical. Prior to that he was an Engineer and a manager in the pre Telecom incarnations of that organisation.
Dean Pemberton, Prophecy Networks. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
A look at the ramifications of the Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Act 2004 on the ISP and Network provider community in NZ. When you're presented with an interception warrent, what are your obligations?
Dean (IANAL, TINLA) Pemberton is a Senior Technical Specialist with Prophecy Networks. Dean has also worked at places such as TelstraClear, Juniper, Lucent and Ascend.
Gerard Creamer, Netspace Services Ltd. Distributed IDS/IPS
This talk will look at deployment of distributed intrusion iectection and provention systems.
Gerard has been doing web things since 1996, initially on the pretty pictures side of things. Since 1999 he has been working in hosting and networking, primarily for the finance sector. Using open source solutions in a sector that is very jumpy about security has given Gerard a unique insight in network security. Gerard has been using snort for IDS since around 2001/2002. Gerard has been running linux / BSD on pretty much everything (routers / firewalls / servers), generating netflow records, and using nfsen with a custom module for accounting since 2004/2005.
Nathan Ward. IPv6 Deployment Summary.
This will summarise the really important points from the full day tutorial, including low effort things that networks intending to stay IPv4-only should do right now. We'll also talk about Nathan's IPv6 tunnelling appliance project - AKA 'Tui', and whatever else comes up between now and then.
Nathan Ward has worked in the NZ Internet and IT industry for a number of years. He was worked for several NZ ISPs, one NZ telco by proxy, and one NZ network security box vendor. He has also done some time with a couple of small ISPs and VoIP providers in Africa. He is active in the IPv6 community, and has been using IPv6 in anger for 4 or so years.
Patrick Jordan-Smith, Disruptive Technologies Ltd. Multicast in MPLS Networks
Patrick will be looking at design and operational issues running multicast over MPLS networks.
Patrick has been working in the ICT industry for eleven years. Starting at the Allied Telesis R&D group after 4 years he left and started a web development/contract programming firm. He spent 3 years traveling through Asia and then worked at Quicksilver Internet until the company was bought in late 2006 by Woosh. He moved to Kordia and left 8 months later to form his own consultancy firm doing work for ISPs and telcos.
Alastair Johnson, Alcatel-Lucent. IPv6 and Carrier Strategy
A look at IPv6 from a carrier's perspective.
Alastair has had a bit to do with the internet for a while. These days, he lives on a plane.
Note: This presentation was originally scheduled to be given by Mark Seward; unfortunately he is unable to make it so that AJ has stepped in.
Shane Alcock, WAND. IPFIX, Open Standard Flow Measurements
Many network operators use flow measurements exported by routers to perform tasks such as accounting, billing and network management. These flow measurements are often exported using proprietary standards such as Cisco Netflow or Juniper CFlow. In 2006, the IETF formed a working group to develop a common and universal open standard for flow measurement called IPFIX (Internet Protocol Flow Information eXport).
This talk will introduce the IPFIX standard and describe the key features of the standard, including the differences between IPFIX and existing flow measurement standards such as NetFlow.
Shane Alcock has been working with the WAND Group as a research programmer since 2004. Over that time he has worked on a variety of traffic capture and trace processing projects including libtrace, the Active Measurement Project (AMP) and the Waikato traffic capture point. More recently, he has been the lead developer of an IPFIX meter implementation built around libtrace.
Jonny Martin, Senior Network Engineer, FX Networks. Beyond 10Gbit/s
This talk will explain current 10gig, 40gig, and 100gig standards, and where these fit into current LAN/WAN physical and DWDM interfaces. The current 40gig vs. 100gig debate will be addressed, as well as a look at scaling issues in large ISP and carrier networks when busting past the 10Gbit/s barrier.
Jonny has been interfering with the NZ internet for a while now. He's done time with Telecom, Alcatel, CityLink, designing and running DSL, optical, ethernet, and VoIP networks. Jonny now works for FX Networks.
Beau Butler. Web Proxy Auto Discovery and your network
Web Proxy Auto Discovery is an interestingly still-active-after-all-these-years design misfeature courtesy originally of Microsoft. It is of particular relevance to those of us who 'live' anywhere except the .com domain, MS fixed their handling of it for .com a long time ago, but due to it's DNS-(ab)using nature it is still a problem for everyone else. This talk will explain the mechanism and it's ramifications in some detail, and collect and present statistics of interest. Beau will also be explaining all the ways in which networks can be configured in order to make wpad leakage a non-problem.
Beau has recently emerged from a number of years deep within the bowels of embedded platform hackery (REAL embedded plaforms, not winCE). While slowly recovering from the brutal insanity that is embedded assemblers and toolsets, he is dragging his web/x86/etc knowledge kicking and screaming into the naughties, and has become a rabid Python fanboy in the process. Beau likes packets, messing with protocols, making stuff talk to stuff it's not meant to, and registering "interesting" domain names.
Greg Shepherd, Cisco. IPVideo / IPTV deployment.
IPVideo/IPTV deployments today differ in approach as they attempt to solve various objectives in quality and scope. This talk attempts to cover these approaches, their rational, degrees of success, and to summaries the challenges faced in the future.
Greg has been working with multicast and IPVideo deployments for over 10 years: in R&E networks as an operator, then with Cisco, Juniper, Procket, now back at Cisco. He has given numerous workshops at NANOG, APRICOT, RIPE, AFNOG, SANOG, AIT, as well as directly with customer engineers. Through ISC.org he currently opperates a global multicast peering network.
Greg Shepherd, Cisco. LISP routing - Locator/ID Seperation protocol
This talk introduces the Locator/ID Separation Protocol, one of several attempts at a solution to the ever expanding routing table size.
Greg has been working with multicast and IPVideo deployments for over 10 years: in R&E networks as an operator, then with Cisco, Juniper, Procket, now back at Cisco. He has given numerous workshops at NANOG, APRICOT, RIPE, AFNOG, SANOG, AIT, as well as directly with customer engineers. Through ISC.org he currently opperates a global multicast peering network.
Mike Jager, Senior Network Engineer, Web Drive. Tool and Script Making for Monitoring the Tubes.
This session is aimed at getting you thinking about automating those routine tasks that you probably should be doing, and writing/using tools to get a little bit more of the low down on what's up on your network. Examples will be provided to demonstrate how quickly you can write some mostly-useful tools, and still leave enough time to go to the pub.
Mike has spent recent years working for Web Drive, dumping enormous amounts of other peoples' material on the series of tubes known as the Internet. In this role, he gets to wear both systems and networks hats. This explains his interest in topics that overlap these two areas. And why he spends his nights curled in the foetal position. Whimpering quietly.
Ryan Connolly, Team Cymru. The Underground Economy.
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This talk will reveal the dark but stunning side of underground Internet economy. Different forms of Internet crime, the manner in which the crimes are committed, and the ways in which different governments as well as organizational bodies could help better control and prevent such incidences from occurring are all highlighted.
Since his initial forays into networking and software development in the early 1990's, most of Ryan Connolly's professional work has been focused on making computer and network systems more secure. Over the years, Ryan's areas of concentration have included network security analysis, computer and network forensics, and software engineering for both large companies, such as Cisco Systems, and a wide variety of smaller ones. Most recently, Ryan has focused on providing security training, spreading awareness, and assisting with collaborative efforts in the service provider security community. Ryan has worked for Team Cymru since 2005 and obtained a computer science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in 2001.
Raimund Eimann, Auckland University. Network event detection with T-entropy.
Significant events in networks often occur unpredictably as a result of equipment failure, misconfiguration, or denial-of-service attacks. Detecting such events in heterogeneous networks is a challenging task. The events are very diverse in nature, and the non-event background traffic itself is subject to considerable variation. In recent years, entropy and complexity-based measures have begun to emerge to complement the existing statistical and signature-based event detection tools. This talk reviews the existing approaches in this new area and also proposes a new techique, T-entropy. Results gained experimentally and by simulation will be presented, showing that T-entropy is suitable for the detection of real events. Finally, the influence of a number of traffic properties on the observed entropy of a network stream will be discussed.
Raimund Eimann studied Computer Science at the universities of Bonn (Germany) and Auckland. He has a PGDipSci and and MSc from Auckland. Currently he is in the final stages of a PhD project at Auckland University. This project focuses on entropy-based network event detection techniques.
Keith Davidson, Executive Director, InternetNZ. InternetNZ Update.
Keith will be presenting on some of substantial work that InternetNZ has undertaken of late. Along with anything of great importance that pops up before the conference, the following will be covered:
- Peering - an update on the InternetNZ peering report
- Impact of copyright law on ISPs - notice and takedown regime
- Update on Telecom Op Sep and its potential impacts on ISPs
Keith Davidson is former President and current Executive Director of InternetNZ.
Robert Raszuk, Juniper Networks. Distributed Traffic Filtering.
We will discuss the new application in Junos which allows to automatically propagate and apply traffic filters for individual flows. Such tool integrated with routing information and distributed by BGP can very quickly stop Distributed DoS attacks as well as can be used to rate limit on all edge ASBRs high traffic flows (for example due to peer to peer protocols). The application architecture as well as applicability with sample configuration in Junos will be described.
Robert Raszuk is part of Juniper Routing Protocol Engineering team. He joined the company in Jan 2007 as Dist. Eng after spending 10 years in Cisco System's Routing Protocols Deployment and Architecture group. He is author & co-author of over 30 patents & 10 ietf drafts as well as RFCs. His focus has been during last years concentrated on large scale routing (mainly BGP), mpls and it's applications. He has over 14 years experience in the computer networking industry and number of very good relations with many key world wide service providers. His main role in Juniper is to provide a very close liaison between key customers and routing engineering team.
Bill Choquette, REANNZ. KAREN Update.
KAREN New Zealand's 10Gbps research network has completed 1 year of successful operations, adding a new capability to institutions and researchers nationwide. But like any computer network it is still evolving and in 2008 we plan to add further resiliency to the architecture and roll out services to make it essential infrastructure in New Zealand's digital future.
Bill Choquette has been educated in the US and the UK. Currently, he is the Development Coordinator at REANNZ promoting the maximum use of KAREN by member communities. He has experience in eCommerce software development and education.