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UKNOF43 (Manchester)

Europe/London
Charter 1, 2 & 3 (Manchester Central Convention Complex)

Charter 1, 2 & 3

Manchester Central Convention Complex

Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
Chris Russell (UKNOF), Keith Mitchell (UKNOF), Marek Isalski (Faelix Limited)
Description

The UK Network Operators' Forum is returning to Manchester for UKNOF43 on Tuesday 9th April!

UKNOF events offer an OPEN environment for anyone within or interested in the Internet Industry. Network with industry colleagues, participate in knowledge sharing and freshen up on best practice around network operations and security.

For more information about UKNOF itself, please visit our primary site.

Social Media hashtag: #UKNOF43

We are currently looking for corporate patrons and sponsors to support UKNOF.

 


PREMIUM SPONSORS

Corero
Zen

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS

LINX
ThousandEyes

PINTS N' PACKETS Networking Event

CenturyLink Corero Zen

PARTNERS

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Registration: Open

Call for Presentations: Now closed

Webcast: http://uknof.bogons.net/uknof43.html

IRC Chatroom: #uknof@irc.terahertz.net

Twitter hashtag: #UKNOF43


Volunteers: We always appreciate volunteer help in setting up and running UKNOF events. If you're interested in helping at UKNOF43, please indicate this on the registration form. Our helpers always make a big difference.


Funding UKNOF: We have the following funding opportunities for UKNOF in 2019 (covering UKNOF43 and UKNOF44)


If you are interested in supporting UKNOF, please contact us on admin@uknof.org.uk

Participants
  • Adrian Bolster
  • Alan Cheshire
  • Aled Morris
  • Alex Bloor
  • Andrew Ingram
  • Andrew Webster
  • Andy Davidson
  • Andy Fidler
  • Anthony Turner
  • Barney Sowood
  • Barry McGinley
  • Basil Fillan
  • Ben Carter
  • Ben Nicklin
  • Bob Sleigh
  • Brandon Butterworth
  • Brett Carr
  • Carl Evans
  • Chris Malton
  • Chris Russell
  • Christopher Kendregan
  • Colin Cheung
  • Daniel Greaves
  • Daniel Lynch
  • Darren Storer
  • David Etchen
  • David Groves
  • David Murray
  • David Whitaker
  • Debbie Casey
  • Denesh Bhabuta
  • Drew Marshall
  • Dunc Lockwood
  • Fearghas McKay
  • Filip Cerny
  • Frank Dupker
  • Gary Hawkins
  • Giles Tomlinson
  • Hal Ponton
  • Iain Lawson
  • Ian Chilton
  • Ian Waters
  • Ignas Bagdonas
  • Inga Turner
  • Jack Doswell
  • Jake Lee
  • James Bensley
  • James Melville
  • Jan Zorz
  • Jason Alcock
  • Jennifer Holmes
  • Jeremy Orbell
  • Jody Botham
  • John Bretherick
  • Jonathan Fowler
  • Keith Mitchell
  • Kieran Lam
  • Lance Davis
  • Laura Winters
  • Lee Pedder
  • Lewis Green
  • Liz Stevens
  • Louise Ashtonhurst
  • Lyndon Fawcett
  • Marek Isalski
  • Mark Stokes
  • Markus Arnold
  • Martin Atkinson
  • Matt Edgley
  • Matt Illingworth
  • Matt Melbourne
  • Matthew Jepp
  • Matthew Park
  • Michelle Deeney
  • Mike Bullen
  • Mike Hughes
  • Mike Odysseas
  • Mike Powell
  • Nat Lasseter
  • Neil Lathwood
  • Neil McRae
  • Neil Miller
  • Nick Ryce
  • Nico Cartron
  • Nigel Titley
  • Ondřej Surý
  • Paul Cammish
  • Paul Collier
  • Paul Edwards
  • Paul Lawrence
  • Paul Thornton
  • Peter Cutler
  • Peter Dorey
  • Peter Stevens
  • Peter Taphouse
  • Rebecca Smiley
  • Rene Fichtmueller
  • Richard Irving
  • Richard Patterson
  • Richard Pearson
  • Richard Shaw
  • Robert Lee
  • Robert Lister
  • Robie Basak
  • Robin Williams
  • Sam Mitchell
  • Sam Smith
  • Sean Newman
  • Sean Richards
  • Serge Radovcic
  • Shane Mc Cormack
  • Simon Beevers
  • Stephen Dyer
  • Stephen Maloney
  • Stephen Morris
  • Stephen Warburton
  • Stuart Steele
  • Susan Forney
  • Suzie Lewis
  • Thomas Debost
  • Tim Maltman
  • Tim Stallard
  • Tom Bird
  • Tom Hill
  • Tony Hoyle
  • Trefor Davies
  • Veronika McKillop
  • Will Hargrave
  • William Black
  • Yaseen Patel
  • Zsolt Horvath
UKNOF43 admin
    • 09:00 10:00
      Registration 1h
    • 10:00 10:05
      Introduction and Welcome 5m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
      Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)
    • 10:05 10:35
      I have pre-emptively replaced you with a small shell script 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Mythic Beasts maintains a large number of managed services for a large number of customers with a small team. This talk covers the multiple layers of automation,, we write code to create config that feeds code that automates customer deployments and automates our auditing. This includes automating the auditing of acquisitions and how we (have merged|are merging) them into Mythic, and how to choose when to automate versus when to throw staff time.

      Speaker: Peter Stevens (Mythic Beasts)
    • 10:35 11:05
      Peering Economics 101 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Peering is fundamental to the Internet, but without planning, it can be expensive and ineffective. This talk looks at the basic economics of peering and explains techniques and strategies for getting the most from your investment.

      Speaker: Susan Forney (Hurricane Electric)
    • 11:05 11:35
      Morning Coffee Break 30m The Gallery

      The Gallery

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

    • 11:35 11:55
      Control the Kraken - Being a more efficient NOC 20m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
      Speaker: Mike Powell (Corero Network Security)
    • 11:55 12:10
      Ultrafast and 5G update 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Lightning talk on G.FAST and deployment feedback, also update on 5G mmwave trials and how useful this technology might be to connect customers in a fixed wireless access scenario.

      Speaker: Neil McRae (BT)
    • 12:10 12:25
      Office 365 Deployment - How NOT to do it 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Recently called into a client who where in the process of adopting Office 365 and experiencing large performance issues.
      It appears no one read the Microsoft networking best practice.

      Internal politics and old fashioned view on security made the implementation more complex than it needed to be.

      The presentation covers the key issues and some of the most creative work arounds i have ever had to implement.

      Speaker: Andrew Ingram (High Tide Group)
    • 12:25 13:50
      Lunch Break 1h 25m The Gallery

      The Gallery

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

    • 13:00 13:30
      PGP Signing Session 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
      Speaker: Mr Ondrej Sury (Internet Systems Consortium)
    • 13:50 14:20
      Potential ISP challenges with DNS over HTTPS 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      The future introduction of DNS over HTTPS (DoH), defined in RFC8484, presents a number of challenges to network operators. BT, Comcast, Deutsche Telecom, OpenXchange and others have prepared an Internet Draft to present at the March IETF in Prague. The objective was to document the problem space and make suggestions that could help inform network operators on how to take account of DoH deployment. The document also identified topics that may require further analysis.

      This presentation will provide an overview of these challenges, report on the outcome of the IETF meeting and provide an opportunity for the wider UK operator community to engage with the proposal.

      Speaker: Mr Andy Fidler (BT)
    • 14:20 14:35
      How we made DNSSEC Simple(r) 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      DNSSEC Can be complex to deploy and operate. Nominet changed their DNSSSEC Infrastructure to make it simpler and less stressful. This presentation is about what we did and how we did it.

      Speaker: Mr Brett Carr (Nominet)
    • 14:35 15:05
      BIND - making a modern DNS server 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      What we did in the past year and what we are planning to do with BIND this year to make it up-to-par with modern standards and modern Internet

      Speaker: Mr Ondrej Sury (Internet Systems Consortium)
    • 15:05 15:20
      Anycast in the Cloud 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Nominet have recently expanded their Auth DNS Infrastructure into the "Cloud" this talk is aimed at talking about how we did that and the challenges we came up against during the project

      Speaker: Mr Brett Carr (Nominet)
    • 15:20 15:50
      None of us knew what we were doing, we made it up as we went along - Part 3 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Dusting off the old hard drives again, and forcing them to give up some more old history. This time with some interesting tales from around the turn of the millennium in the middle of the dot com bubble and beyond.

      Speaker: Paul Thornton (PRT Systems Ltd)
    • 15:50 16:15
      Afternoon Coffee Break 25m The Gallery

      The Gallery

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

    • 16:15 16:40
      Journey from Service Provider to Infrastructure Player 25m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
      Speaker: Richard Shaw (Zen)
    • 16:40 17:10
      NAT64Check v.2 tool 30m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      As many mobile operators were moving to IPv6 only which is incompatible with IPv4 on the wire, it’s necessary to employ transition mechanisms such as 464XLAT or NAT64.

      When using NAT64 there are many things that need to be checked to ensure they work correctly. NAT64check has therefore been developed to allow websites to be checked for consistency over IPv4, IPv6-only and NAT64, as well to compare responsiveness using the different protocols. This allows network and system administrators to easily identify anything is ‘broken’ and to pinpoint where the problems are occurring, thus allowing any non-IPv6 compatible elements on the website to be fixed. For example, even if a web server is not running IPv6 (why not?), hardcoded IPv4 addresses can cause NAT64 to fail. After quite successful first version of the tool we decided to build version 2, a complete rewrite, built on different, distributed architecture and platform. NAT64Check v.2 tool is published, so we'll discuss mainly new version of the tool.

      Jan Zorz from ISOC will give an insight and discuss some issues that he found while testing NAT64/DNS64 technology in real life scenarios and use-cases.

      Speaker: Mr Jan Zorz (Internet Society)
    • 17:10 17:25
      Psychology of IPv6 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      Thoughts about the human side of IPv6 deployment which has often an underestimated and unexpected influence on the progress of your IPv6 project. It is a humorous and serious look at what really prevents/makes IPv6 deployments happen based on my experience over the years in various companies and the UK IPv6 Council.

      Speaker: Mrs Veronika McKillop (UK IPv6 Council)
    • 17:25 17:40
      IPv6-only Remote Access VPN - a road less travelled 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      You may have heard that the road towards an IPv6 only network is a really bumpy one, probably that is why it is not taken that much. To stay with the analogy, in this presentation I will cover how it felt for Microsoft CCE (formerly known as Microsoft IT) to drive their Next Generation Remote Access VPN service down that route. We haven’t arrived yet, but along the way we have already passed several points of interest that are worth telling about not only to family but also to the friends from the industry.

      Speaker: Zsolt Horvath (Microsoft)
    • 17:40 17:55
      Scanning IPv6 Address Space… and the remote vulnerabilities it uncovers 15m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX

      During some research which found CVE-2018-19298 (MikroTik IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol exhaustion), I uncovered a larger problem with MikroTik RouterOS’s handling of IPv6 packets. This led to CVE-2018-19299, an unpublished and as yet unfixed (despite almost one year elapsing since vendor acknowledgement) vulnerability in RouterOS which allows for remote, unauthenticated denial of service. Unpublished… until UKNOF 43!

      Speaker: Marek Isalski (Faelix Limited)
    • 17:55 18:00
      Wrap-up, UKNOF44 5m Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Charter 1, 2 & 3

      Manchester Central Convention Complex

      Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
      Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)
    • 18:00 20:00
      Pints n' Packets 2h The Gallery

      The Gallery

      Manchester Central Convention Complex