Category: Operators and the IETF

Mar 20

At IETF92 Next Week, Much Happening With IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS and more…

Dallas skylineNext week is IETF 92 in Dallas, Texas, and there will be a great amount of activity happening with the topics we cover here on Deploy360: IPv6, DNSSEC (and DANE), TLS, anti-spoofing and securing BGP.  As part of the Rough Guide to IETF 92, several of us have written posts outlining what’s happening in the various topic areas:

In each of those posts you’ll find a summary of what’s happening and a list of the relevant working groups and the associated links about how to learn more.  More information about IETF 92 in general can be found on the main Rough Guide to IETF 92 page at:

https://www.internetsociety.org/rough-guide-ietf92

Beyond all of that, Chris Grundemann will also be talking about our “Operators and the IETF” work and discussing Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) with people as well.

If you can’t get to Dallas next week, you can attend remotely!  Just visit the IETF 92 remote participation page or check out http://www.ietf.org/live/ for more options.

To that end, as a bit of a change both Megan Kruse and I (Dan York) will be participating in this IETF 92 remotely.  It’s very strange to not be attending an IETF meeting in person, but different circumstances have made it not possible for both of us.  Jan Žorž will also be remote having just returned from v6 World Congress in Paris and about to head off to another event.   Chris Grundemann will be there on site in Dallas, though, and so if you have any questions about Deploy360 activities or want to get more involved, please contact Chris!

We’re looking forward to the usual crazy busy blur of a week that is an IETF meeting… and we’re looking forward to learning what else we can do to help accelerate the deployment of these key Internet technologies to make the Internet work better, faster and be more secure!

 

Mar 20

At IETF92 Next Week, Much Happening With IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS and more…

Dallas skylineNext week is IETF 92 in Dallas, Texas, and there will be a great amount of activity happening with the topics we cover here on Deploy360: IPv6, DNSSEC (and DANE), TLS, anti-spoofing and securing BGP.  As part of the Rough Guide to IETF 92, several of us have written posts outlining what’s happening in the various topic areas:

In each of those posts you’ll find a summary of what’s happening and a list of the relevant working groups and the associated links about how to learn more.  More information about IETF 92 in general can be found on the main Rough Guide to IETF 92 page at:

https://www.internetsociety.org/rough-guide-ietf92

Beyond all of that, Chris Grundemann will also be talking about our “Operators and the IETF” work and discussing Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) with people as well.

If you can’t get to Dallas next week, you can attend remotely!  Just visit the IETF 92 remote participation page or check out http://www.ietf.org/live/ for more options.

To that end, as a bit of a change both Megan Kruse and I (Dan York) will be participating in this IETF 92 remotely.  It’s very strange to not be attending an IETF meeting in person, but different circumstances have made it not possible for both of us.  Jan Žorž will also be remote having just returned from v6 World Congress in Paris and about to head off to another event.   Chris Grundemann will be there on site in Dallas, though, and so if you have any questions about Deploy360 activities or want to get more involved, please contact Chris!

We’re looking forward to the usual crazy busy blur of a week that is an IETF meeting… and we’re looking forward to learning what else we can do to help accelerate the deployment of these key Internet technologies to make the Internet work better, faster and be more secure!

An audio commentary about IETF 92 is also available from our SoundCloud account:

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Jan 12

In 5 Days, ION Sri Lanka Will Cover IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, BGP, TLS, BCOP and more

ION Sri Lanka logoComing up in just over 5 days, our ION Sri Lanka event will take place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, January 18, 2015, beginning at 10:00 am India Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30).  As our agenda shows, we have an ambitious list of sessions covering pretty much all of the topics we cover here at Deploy360. Sessions include:

  •  Welcome from the Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter, Prof. Gihan Dias (Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter)
  • Two Years After World IPv6 Launch: Are We There Yet?, Vivek Nigam (APNIC)
  • Why Implement DNSSEC?, Jitender Kumar (Afilias)
  • Deploying DNSSEC: A .LK Case Study, Sashika Suren (LK Domain Registry)
  • DANE: The Future of Transport Layer Security (TLS), Dan York (Internet Society)
  • Lock it Up: TLS for Network Operators, Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
  • What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How to Get Involved, Dan York (Internet Society) and Thilini Rajakaruna (former IETF Fellow)
  • Operators & the IETF, Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
  • Best Current Operational Practices – An Update, Jan Žorž (Internet Society)
  • IPv6 Success Stories– Network Operators Tell All!, Asela Galappattige (Sri Lanka Telecom); Senevi Herath (LEARN); Matsuzaki Yoshinobu (IIJ)

We have an excellent set of speakers and are very much looking forward to this event!

REGISTRATION IS FREE! If you can get to the Amaya Hills Hotel in Kandy, Sri Lanka, there is no additional cost to attend ION Sri Lanka.  You do need to register by filling out the SANOG registration form.

If you will not be able to get to the ION Sri Lanka location, we’ll be offering a live video stream / webcast of the event via YouTube Live events. Do note that all events happen on Sunday, January 18, starting at 10:00 am India Standard Time (IST).  Given that this is UTC+5:30, the start of ION Sri Lanka may actually be in the late hours of Saturday, January 17, for people in the United States.  Here are some examples:

  • 10:00 am, Sunday, Jan 18 – IST, Kandy, Sri Lanka
  • 5:30 am, Sunday, Jan 18 – CET, central Europe
  • 4:30 am, Sunday, Jan 18 – UTC
  • 11:30 pm, Saturday, Jan 17 – EST, east coast, USA
  • 8:30 pm, Saturday, Jan 17 – PST, west coast, USA

You may find it helpful to use one of the time/date conversion tools to ensure your timing is correct. All the sessions will be recorded for later viewing and the slides will be available online as well.

To stay up-to-date about ION Sri Lanka you can also join:

If you are on Twitter, you can follow @Deploy360 and use hashtag #IONConf for all things ION!

We’re looking forward to seeing many people at the ION Sri Lanka event and joining in the other SANOG 25 activities happening there.  If you are in Sri Lanka (or can get there), please do join us for ION Sri Lanka!

P.S. And if you want to get started today with IPv6, DNSSEC or other topics, please visit our Start Here page to begin – why wait for ION Sri Lanka?  Why not start now?

Nov 12

Deploy360@IETF91, Day 3: DANE, HOMENET and Operators and the IETF (OPSAWG)

Sharon Goldberg ANRP prize winnerToday’s third day of IETF 91 is for us on the Deploy360 team both a lighter day in terms of a schedule, but a heavier day in that we have two actual presentations today: Chris is speaking in the OPS Area meeting this morning about our Operators and the IETF project and I’ll be speaking in the DANE working group in the afternoon about DANE deployment.  HOMENET is also meeting this morning and there are connections there to both the IPv6 and DNS security work we talk about here on Deploy360.

These are, of course, only a very small fraction of the many different working groups meeting at IETF 91 today – but these are the ones that line up with our Deploy360 topics.

Read on for more information…

NOTE: If you are not in Honolulu but would like to follow along, please view the remote participation page for ways you can listen in and participate.  In particular, at this IETF meeting all the sessions will have Meetecho coverage so you can listen, watch and chat through that web interface.  All agenda times are in HST, which is UTC-10 (and five hours earlier than US Eastern time for those in the US). I suggest using the “tools-style” agenda as it has easy links to the chat room, Meetecho and other documents for each session.

In the morning 9:00-11:30 block our attention will be focused in two working groups.  Of primary importance, our Chris Grundemann will be in the Operations and Management Area Working Group (OPSAWG) in Coral 1 presenting on the work he and Jan Žorž have been doing as part of our Operators and the IETF project to collect information and feedback from network operators about their participation, or lack thereof, in the IETF.  Today he’ll be presenting a summary of the results of the survey he and Jan undertook.  Chris’ slides are available online and he and Jan also published an Internet Draft, draft-opsawg-operators-ietf,  with more information.  (And you can listen live starting at 9:00 HST (UTC-10) , although it looks like Chris is scheduled later in the session.)

Simultaneously over in Coral 3, the HOMENET WG will be meeting to discuss standards related to home/small networks.  As Phil Roberts wrote about, there is a great bit of IPv6-related activity happening within this group.  As I mentioned earlier, too, there is are a couple of DNS-related matters in HOMENET this time around.  One draft, draft-jeong-homenet-device-name-autoconf, explores how home network devices and appliances and sensors that make up the “Internet of Things” (IoT) can be automatically configured with DNS names for monitoring and remote control. Our interest is naturally in how this interaction with DNS can be secured.  Another draft looks at the idea of using a “.home” top-level domain (TLD) for home networks.

After lunch our attention then moves to the DANE Working Group happening from 13:00-15:00 HST in Coral 3.  As I described in my Rough Guide post about DNSSEC, there is a great amount of activity happening here related to DNSSEC and DANE.  As I mentioned in a recent post, I’ll be presenting at the end of the session asking the question “what can we learn from existing DANE deployments?”  I summarized many of the thoughts and questions in draft-york-dane-deployment-observations but have expanded upon that in the slides I’ve prepared for today’s session.  (I also couldn’t resist adding in photos of broccoli and cookies… but why will become clear in the discussion!)

When DANE is done we don’t have a particular focus in the final 15:20-16:50 HST session block on the IETF 91 agenda today, although several groups are of personal interest.  There are also several DNS-related side meetings that are seeming to be scheduled during that time.

We’ll end the day with the usual IETF Operations and Administration Plenary from 17:10-19:40 HST that typically provides good insight into how the IETF is doing… and the “open mic” sessions can usually be educational, entertaining or both.  :-)

If you are around at IETF 91 in Honolulu, please do find us and say hello!

P.S. Today’s photo is of Sharon Goldberg presenting about RPKI and BGP security in the ANRP presentation mentioned yesterday.

See also:

Relevant Working Groups

We would suggest you use the “tools-style” agenda to find links to easily participate remotely in each of these sessions.

OPSAWG (Operations and Management Area) WG
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 0900-1130 HST, Coral 1
Agenda: https://tools.ietf.org/wg/opsawg/agenda
Documents: https://tools.ietf.org/wg/opsawg/
Charter: https://tools.ietf.org/wg/opsawg/charter

HOMENET (Home Networking) WG
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 0900-1130 HST, Coral 3
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/91/agenda/homenet/
Documents: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/homenet/
Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/homenet/charter/

DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) WG
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 1300-1500 HST, Coral 3
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/91/agenda/dane/
Documents: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dane/
Charter: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dane/charter/

 

For more background on what is happening at IETF 91, please see our “Rough Guide to IETF 91″ posts on the ITM blog:

If you are here at IETF 91 in Honolulu, please do feel free to say hello to a member of the Deploy360 team.  And if you want to get started with IPv6, DNSSEC or one of our other topics, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources appropriate to your type of organization.

Sep 08

Watch UKNOF Today To Learn About IPv6, IXPs, Internet Connectivity

UKNOF 29 - ION BelfastWant to learn about IPv6, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and some of the latest connectivity ideas in the United Kingdom? If so, you can watch the live webcast of UKNOF 29 starting today, September 8, 2014, at 13:30 British Summer Time (BST, which is UTC+1). The critical links to know are:

Today’s sessions are mainly focused on network operations and Internet connectivity and include:

  • HEAnet’s Optical Backbone & School’s Connectivity
  • Watery Wireless
  • Options for Metro 100Gig
  • Network Function Virtualisation, bringing virtualised network infrastructure into the cloud
  • Broadcast editing and delivery over IP (from the BBC)
  • LINX’s UK regional peering strategy
  • An overview of BT’s network infrastructure in Ireland and Northern Ireland including connectivity to the the rest of the UK
  • UKNOF Status Update

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9, 2014, the morning sessions include some that may be of interest to our readers and then the afternoon will be our ION Belfast event.  Here’s the current UKNOF agenda going from 09:30-12:35 BST:

  • Latest Internet Plague: Random Subdomain Attacks  (about DNS security)
  • Tales of the unexpected – handling unusual DNS client behaviour
  • Using 100 Billion DNS Queries to Analyse the Name Collision Problem
  • What went wrong with IPv6?
  • IPv6-only Data Centres
  • Introduction of UK IPv6 Council

In particular I would point your attention to the “What went wrong with IPv6?” talk at 11:30 BST by Dave Wilson from HEAnet. He recently gave a version of this talk at RIPE 68 and both the video and the slides from that talk are available. He asks some great questions and, I think, has some great ideas for we can advance IPv6 deployment – definitely worth listening to!

ION Belfast LogoAfter a lunch break, our ION Belfast event will then begin with a packed agenda talking about IPv6, DNSSEC and securing BGP.  That, too, will be webcast live for all to see!

All in all it will be two days of outstanding sessions talking about the Internet’s infrastructure and how we can make it work better, faster and more secure!

I hope you will join me in tuning in to watch!

Jul 23

Deploy360@IETF90, Day3: Operators and the IETF, DHC, DANE in TRAM, CrypTech and more

IETF LogoWednesday at IETF90 is a bit quieter day for our Deploy360 topics, which is nice after the crazy schedule of yesterday and of Monday .  It’s still quite busy and starts off with our team member Jan Žorž presenting in the OPS Area Working Group about our “Operators and the IETF” project, as well as IPv6 activity happening in the DHC Working Group. We learned of a new DANE draft happening in the TRAM Working Group. The CrypTech project has a lunch briefing and the Routing Area Working Group meets this afternoon.  More info below…

If you’d like to join the OPSAWG or TRAM sessions (or any of the others) remotely to hear the discussion you can follow the instructions on the IETF 90 Remote Participation page or use the “tools-style” agenda page that provides easy links to the audio stream, jabber chat room documents and more for each of the sessions.

OPS Area Working Group  - and IPv6 in DHC

In the Operations Area Working Group from 9:00-11:30 EDT, Jan is going to be speaking about our “Operators and the IETF” project and presenting some preliminary results from the survey we undertook to understand what were some of the reasons network operators had for not participating in the IETF standards process.  The goal here is to relay the feedback we’ve collected thus far and have a conversation about how we might be able to get more network operators involved with the IETF so that we can improve the amount of operational feedback provided into the standards process.

At the same time in another room the DHC Working Group will be covering a great many topics related to IPv6 and DHCP, specifically clarifying various points about how DHCP works with IPv6 and how to use DHCP more securely.

Lunch Briefing About The CrypTech Project

During the lunch break from 11:30-13:00 EDT in the Quebec Room there will be a briefing about the CrypTech Project, a fascinating project to develop an open hardware cryptographic engine.  Our colleague Lucy Lynch recently wrote about this in a blog post, “The Black Box Paradox – How to Trust a Secret on Today’s Internet“.  It looks quite interesting.

A DANE Draft in TRAM

In a side conversation with Marc Petit-Huguenin here at IETF 90 on Monday I learned that he has a DANE-related draft in the TRAM Working Group. The TRAM WG is focused on improving the TURN and STUN servers that facilitate real-time communications between people who are behind NAT boxes such as home / enterprise firewalls. This is particularly of interest to people working on WebRTC/RTCWEB.  Marc’s draft, draft-petithuguenin-tram-stun-dane-00, defines how DANE can be used by STUN clients to secure the TLS connection with servers.  His slides are available.

After that we’ll probably be in the Routing Area Working Group and then listening to the Operations and Administration Plenary tonight.  And then we’ll be getting ready for another VERY busy day tomorrow!

The information about the relevant working groups today is:

DHC (Dynamic Host Configuration) WG
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/90/agenda/dhc/
Documents: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dhc/
Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dhc/charter/
(Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 0900-1130 EDT, Salon B)

OPSAWG (OPS Area Working Group) WG
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/90/agenda/opsawg/
Documents: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/opsawg/
Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/opsawg/charter/
(Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 0900-1130 EDT, Ontario)

TRAM (TURN Revised and Modernized) WG
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/90/agenda/tram/
Documents: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tram/
Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tram/charter/
(Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 1300-1130 EDT, Manitoba)

RTGWG (Routing Area Working Group) WG
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/90/agenda/rtgwg/
Documents: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/rtgwg/
Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/rtgwg/charter/
(Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 0900-1130 EDT, Ballroom)

For more background on what is happening at IETF 90, please see our “Rough Guide to IETF 90″ posts on the ITM blog:

If you are here at IETF 90 in Toronto, please do feel free to say hello to a member of the Deploy360 team.  And if you want to get started with IPv6, DNSSEC or one of our other topics, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources appropriate to your type of organization.

May 16

Congrats on 25 Years of RIPE Meetings – And We’ll Be Promoting Videos From RIPE68

ripe-25-anniversaryAs the RIPE 68 meeting has drawn to a close in Warsaw, Poland, we would just like to take a moment to join with our CEO and many others in congratulating the RIPE community on their 25th anniversary.  Over these past 25 years the RIPE community has done an amazing amount of work together to create a stronger and better Internet.  On a global level, we are all collectively so much better off because of all the work that has happened within the RIPE community. Do check out their “25 Years of RIPE Timeline” to learn more.

We heard from Chris Grundemann and Jan Žorž that the 25th anniversary celebration on Tuesday evening was a great event – and both of them have raved about what an excellent – and exhausting – week this has been for them. As we wrote about last week, they’ve had an extremely busy week with a great amount of activity on IPv6, DNSSEC, securing BGP and our BCOP and  Operators and the IETF projects. Outside of that, Jan is also a member of the RIPE Program Committee (and was chosen again for that role) and so he was super-busy with helping with general organizational issues.  Our colleague Andrei Robachevsky was also there being very active on issues around routing resiliency and some of the great work happening there.

One of the great things about the RIPE meetings is how quickly they make the videos and presentations available for viewing.  There were some outstanding presentations at this RIPE 68 meeting in Warsaw, and so we’ll be highlighting and promoting some of the sessions that we found most valuable and interesting.  We’ve already started this yesterday with a post about Chris’ presentation about operators and the IETF, but we’ll be doing more of that over the next few weeks.

Congrats again to the RIPE community on their 25th anniversary - and we look forward to seeing all that will happen over the next 25 years!

May 15

Video: Chris Grundemann on our “Operators and the IETF” Project (RIPE 68)

What is our “Operators and the IETF” project all about?  Why should you care?  How can you help?  Chris Grundemann is in Warsaw this week at the RIPE 68 meeting and the video is now available (as are his slides) of his lightning talk:

ripe68-grundemann-operatorsIf you are interested in helping more, please check out our project page – and take the online survey! Thanks!

 

 

May 09

Deploy360 at RIPE68 May 12-16 in Warsaw: IPv6, BCOP and more

RIPE 68Next week will be an extremely busy week for two of our team members at the RIPE 68 meeting happening May 12-16 in Warsaw, Poland. Both Jan Žorž and Chris Grundemann will be there and as Jan is also a member of the Program Committee he has a very active week there.

Looking at the very packed RIPE 68 Meeting Plan, the week looks like this:

Monday

First, Chris Grundemann will be speaking in the “Lightning Talks” plenary session happening sometime between 16:00-17:30 about our “Operators and the IETF” project and what we are doing to try to get more network operators involved with the IETF standards process.

Jan will be chairing one of the early plenary sessions but his main activity will be the Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) Taskforce meeting happening Monday night.  Several aspects:

  • Jan is chairing the overall session along with Benno Overeinder
  • Jan will be speaking about the document on “IPv6 Troubleshooting for Helpdesks”, of which he is one of the editors
  • Our colleague Andrei Robachevsky will be speaking about the “Code of Conduct” initiative

Jan, as you may be aware, also heads up our effort focused on getting more BCOP documentation out there.

Tuesday

Chris will be speaking in the 11:00-12:30 plenary session on the topic of “Security in an IPv6 World: Myth & Reality” looking at IPv6 security issues.

I’ll note that later in the day (16:00-17:30) there will be a session celebrating 25 years of RIPE which will be great to see! (And congratulations are certainly due to everyone in the RIPE community on hitting that milestone!)

Wednesday

On Wednesday we don’t have any specific Deploy360-related presentations, although Jan will be presenting as an individual in a session about the address policy working group.

Thursday

For us, Thursday will be all about the IPv6 Working Group, with multiple activities:

  • Jan and Sander Steffann will be presenting about the work underway to update the RIPE-554 requirements for IPv6 in ICT equipment.
  • Jan and Benno Overeinder will be speaking again about the BCOP document for IPv6 troubleshooting for helpdesks.

You can expect to find both Jan and Chris in that session given the other very interesting presentations as well.

While there in Warsaw both Chris and Jan are very interested to talk to people about how we can help you with your deployment of IPv6, DNSSEC or the other topics we cover.  If you’d like to meet with either of them, you can find them in the sessions above – or email us at deploy360@isoc.org.