UKNOF29 & Internet Society ION Conference

8 Sept 2014, 12:20 → 9 Sept 2014, 18:30 Europe/London

Assembly Buildings

Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

Participant Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UKNOF29

Webcast: http://uknof.bogons.net/uknof29.html

IRC Chatroom: #uknof@irc.terahertz.net

Twitter Hashtags: #UKNOF29 and #IONConf

We are thankful to our sponsors for supporting UKNOF, enabling us to keep attendance at UKNOF meetings mainly free.

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Registration: Registrations are still open at the REGISTRATIONS PAGE.

Monday, 8 September

12:30 Registration

1 Atlas Probe Distribution

Speaker: Fearghas McKay (UKNOF)

2 HEAnet's Optical Backbone & School's Connectivity

In 2013 HEAnet partially rebuilt and greatly enhanced the resilience of our optical networks in Dublin and around the country. Around the same time we continued our roll out of 100Mbps connectivity to every secondary school in the Republic of Ireland. This talk aims to describe the technology design choices, the implementation process and some of the interesting issues and pitfalls encountered along the way.

Speaker: Mr Brian Nisbet (HEAnet)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/Osizfm7c2XM?list=PLjzK5ZtLlc93o7OXwocqNWLDzqNogCKhh

Slides HEAnet_BN_UKNOF_29.pptx

3 Watery Wireless

Research, design and testing of a licence exempt 5.8GHz wireless Link solution for streaming data back from an offshore marine research buoy.

Speaker: Mr Brendan Minish (Westnet)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/hkAiWegdaE4

Slides Minish-Watery_wireless.odp Minish-Watery_wireless.pdf

4 Options for Metro 100Gig

Agenda Overview Metro 100G market Optical Transmission windows Options 100G LR4 100G DWDM Coherent 100G DWDM Direct detect Examples Some test results

Speaker: Mrs Susmita Adhikari (Cube Optics)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/fvaemAMA4mU

Slides UKNOF29_CUBO_100G_Optics_4to3.pdf

5 Network Function Virtualisation, bringing virtualised network infrastructure into the cloud

Sponsor Presentation

Speaker: Kenny Marlow (Alternative Networks)

Presentation Videos http://youtu.be/FFzaolacoSA

Slides Marlow-sponsor.pdf uknof_NFV-kmarlow.pptx

15:15 Afternoon Coffee Break

6 Broadcast editing and delivery over IP

Over the summer BBC R&D tested a few of the technologies we're working on as part of our ip end to end long term research Featuring content from the Rio World Cup and Commonwealth Games in UHD (4k) with IP/software delivery from the camera to the consumer we expect this to take over from traditional broadcasting. We'll present how we did it and some of the results

Speaker: Mr Brandon Butterworth (BBC)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/b6YYTXpU2dc

Slides uknof29_bbc_cwg.pdf uknof29_bbc_cwg.ppt

7 LINX's UK regional peering strategy

An update on LINX's UK regional peering strategy, where we are today and our plans for the future. I'll also give some thoughts on what might be achievable in Northern Ireland/Belfast, based on our current experience developing an exchange in Cardiff.

Speaker: Mr John Souter (LINX)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/YFJm2I8QZTY

Slides LINX-regional-peering-UKNOF29.pdf

8 UKNOF Status Update

It's been a busy year at UKNOF since our last update. This presentation, prepared for the UKNOF AGM, gives a brief overview of UKNOF's operations, visibility into its governance and finances, what we have achieved in 2013, and some strategy and plans for the future.

Speakers: Denesh Bhabuta (UKNOF), Mr Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/t-pOtVxJTKk

Slides Mitchell-UKNOF-Update.odp Mitchell-UKNOF-Update.pdf

9 Introduction of UK IPv6 Council

UK IPv6 Council was formed in April 2014 as a local chapter of IPv6 Forum. It's a non-profit organisation with the aim of bringing together technical and business community in the UK and share experience with and knowledge of IPv6. This presentation is aiming at introducing the organisation to the the UKNOF meeting attendees and raise awareness of the UK IPv6 Council initiatives.

Speaker: Mrs Veronika McKillop (Chair of UK IPv6 Council)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/xuEq2qQ3PZc

Slides McKillop-UKIPv6Council.pdf UKIPv6Council_UKNOF29.ppt

Tuesday, 9 September

08:30 Registration

10 Latest Internet Plague: Random Subdomain Attacks

DNS DDoS attacks continue, fueled by open DNS proxies. Now they're stressing resolvers and authorities worldwide using pseudo random subdomains. In June of 2014 there was a 400% increase in this traffic and popular domains continue to be targeted. Analysis of recent DNS data reveals other interesting details. For instance, Response Rate Limiting in authorities appears to aggravate attacks. This presentation will cover the latest attack data as well as tests of the major resolvers showing the impact of capabilities to mitigate them, ranging from changes in recursive behaviors to filtering traffic at ingress.

Speaker: Mr Ralf Weber (Nominum)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/BDa2akVgbLg

Slides Weber-Subdomain_attacks.pdf Weber-Subdomain_attacks.pptx

11 Tales of the unexpected - handling unusual DNS client behaviour

Over recent months ISPs and other operators of Recursive DNS services have been reporting their experiences with unusual DNS query patterns both to the community and to their DNS software providers. Increasing attention is now being paid to the performance of recursive servers under different circumstances, including the evolution of various techniques to help manage client queries in a way that favours 'good' and minimises the impact of 'bad'. This talk looks at some of the problems that can be encountered and then presents for discussion the experimental features that are being tested with BIND currently as well as introducing other ideas that have been considered but not yet coded by ISC. Active discussion will be sought on all potential mitigation and tuning strategies, whether internal to DNS software or as part of an organisation's network infrastructure.

Speaker: Ms Cathy Almond (Internet Systems Consortium)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/tWic1iRVEYQ

Slides Tales_of_the_unexpected_-_handling_unusual_DNS_client_behaviour_Final.pdf Tales_of_the_unexpected_-_handling_unusual_DNS_client_behaviour_Final.pptx

12 Using 100 Billion DNS Queries to Analyse the Name Collision Problem

For some time there have been concerns that new gTLD strings were already being informally used on the Internet. ICANN commissioned a study in 2013 to assess the extent of the problem. This was used by ICANN to develop a risk mitigation strategy. The key assumption behind that strategy was then examined in a followup study. An explanation of what was done and the findings from these studies are discussed in this presentation.

Speaker: Jim Reid (RTFM)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/JkGbVueCRJg

Slides

• RTFM-UKNOF29.key.zip
• RTFM-UKNOF29.pdf
• UKNOF29.key.zip

11:00 Morning Coffee Break

13 What went wrong with IPv6?

HEAnet has been trying to encourage IPv6 deployment since... oh, since ever. So have lots of the rest of us. But for something that's taken a decade or two of effort, the numbers still don't look very good. What happened? More importantly, what do we need to change? There's an area of research called Disruption Theory that teaches us how a less well equipped competitor can beat a dominant incumbent - can we use this to change our approach to IPv6?

Speaker: Mr Wilson Dave (HEAnet)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/3-82COKzhLU

Slides

• davew-v6-disruption-16-9
• davew-v6-disruption-4-3
• davew-v6-disruption-slides-with-notes

14 IPv6-only Data Centres

Subtitle: What happens when you turn off IPv4 When Bytemark decided to build our own datacentre, we wanted to avoid using IPv4 wherever possible. Almost all of our internal systems are already dual-stacked, and all staff have native IPv6 at home as well as IPv6 via openvpn. The usual issues with IPv6 in a dual-stack environment not withstanding, we found some new issues when we tried to go IPv6-only.

Speaker: Tom Hill (Bytemark)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/GBz6Oa8Suaw

Slides UKNOF29-Belfast-IPv6-only-data-centres-v2.pdf

15 An overview of BT’s network infrastructure in Ireland and Northern Ireland including connectivity to the the rest of the UK

Speaker: Mr Neil McRae (BT)

Presentation Video http://youtu.be/gvLb6i4ULbg

Slides uknof29-bt-mcrae.pdf

12:40 Lunch Break

ION Conference

Agenda http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/belfast2014/agenda/

Video #1 - Internet Society ION Opening http://youtu.be/-phv5-YuoSo

Video #2 - Two Years After World IPv6 Launch http://youtu.be/IWAAYi_fiJ0

Video #3 - Why Implement DNSSEC http://youtu.be/5tjAgcZOrEU

Video #4 - IPv6 Success Stories- Network Operators http://youtu.be/d-kllOnOaz4

Video #5 - IETF Update http://youtu.be/z_XgkPGBVNw

Video #6 - Panel: Routing Around Catastrophe http://youtu.be/Jve3kwKbafY

Video #7 - Securing BGP http://youtu.be/iRanuyzibHg

15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break