Upcoming Webinars and Events: November 2018
The last two months of 2018 will be jam-packed with webinars and on-site events:
- Dinesh Dutt will talk about network observability, how it’s different from monitoring and why it matters on November 8th;
- I’ll continue the Amazon Web Services networking saga with the third live session on November 15th. We already covered VPCs, interfaces and addresses, network security, route tables, and Internet connectivity. Now it’s time for VPNs, Direct Connect and VPC peering;
- The annual Data Center Fabric Architectures update will take place on November 22nd. I’ll cover the changes in data center switching market, and new hardware launched by major vendors;
- The Network Connectivity and Graph Theory webinar was a huge hit, so we agreed with Rachel Traylor to do a whole series of similar webinars. On November 29th she’ll cover Reliability Theory: Networking through a Systems Analysis Lens;
December will be a storage, EVPN and SDN month:
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IETF 103, Day 2: IPv6, NTP, Routing Security & IoT
This week is IETF 103 in Bangkok, Thailand, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. And following on from the previous day, Tuesday also features a packed agenda.
LPWAN will be discussing whether to move to a Working Group Last Call on the Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) framework for IPv6 and UDP, that provides both header compression and fragmentation functionalities. Three other drafts describe similar schemes for SigFox,LoRaWAN and IEEE 802.15.4 type networks.
NOTE: If you are unable to attend IETF 103 in person, there are multiple ways to participate remotely.
Then at 11.20 UTC+7, IPWAVE will be focusing on updates to the specification for transmitting IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.11 Networks in Vehicular communications, and the use cases for IP-based vehicular networks. There have also been a couple of updates to DNS Name Autoconfiguration for Internet of Things Devices and IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Prefix and Service Discovery in Vehicular Networks, so these may also be discussed.
6MAN will be meeting at 13.50 UTC+7 and has nine drafts up for discussion. The couple of working group Continue reading
A Tale of Two DCs for Supply Chains: Distribution and Data Centers
Supply chains need IT systems that are highly available, and in an era in which most organizations rely on distributed data centers and cloud services, that’s become a far more complex task.
China Telecom’s Internet Traffic Misdirection
In recent weeks, the Naval War College published a paper that contained a number of claims about purported efforts by the Chinese government to manipulate BGP routing in order to intercept internet traffic.
In this blog post, I don’t intend to address the paper’s claims around the motivations of these actions. However, there is truth to the assertion that China Telecom (whether intentionally or not) has misdirected internet traffic (including out of the United States) in recent years. I know because I expended a great deal of effort to stop it in 2017.
Traffic misdirection by AS4134
On 9 December 2015, SK Broadband (formerly Hanaro) experienced a brief routing leak lasting little more than a minute. During the incident, SK’s ASN, AS9318, announced over 300 Verizon routes that were picked up by OpenDNS’s BGPstream service:
Woah, an ASN in Korea just hijacked a bunch of other ASNs across APAC. pic.twitter.com/46Ih5CaVmi
— Compose Button Richard Westmoreland (@RSWestmoreland) December 9, 2015
The leak was announced exclusively through China Telecom (AS4134), one of SK Broadband’s transit providers. Shortly afterwards, AS9318 began transiting the same routes from Verizon APAC (AS703) to China Telecom (AS4134), who in turn began announcing them to international Continue reading
The Youth Internet Governance Forum India: Our Experience
On 12 October, the Internet Society’s India Delhi Chapter (ISOC-Delhi) hosted the Youth Internet Governance Forum (YIGF) in New Delhi, India. Adarsh Umesh and Praneet Kaur share their thoughts on the event.
Hello everyone! A special “Hi!” from our side to the youth because this blog is specially dedicated to the youth of India.
We’re very much inspired to write this blog due to the wonderful experience with the India Youth Internet Governance Forum (YIGF 2018). It was amazing to be a part of the multistakeholder advisory group and the event overall was a grand success. This would not have been possible without the consistent support from inSIG, ICANN, APNIC and the Internet Society.
The YIGF 2018 was organized as day 0 event on the 12th October 2018, a day before the India School on Internet Governance 2018 (inSIG-2018) at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW). The event was well-designed and planned with a lot of technical exposure as well as fun. It extended support to youth from all over the country to attend the event. We provided fellowships to 15 delegates from different parts across India. The fellowship covered both travel and accommodation expenses for five Continue reading
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Foes Raise Security Concerns Related to Huawei, ZTE
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Vestberg Revamps Verizon to Focus on Consumers, Enterprise, and Media
Calling the initiative Verizon 2.0, the new operating structure is intended streamline the company. This latest move builds on Verizon’s promise to cut $10 billion in costs.
Symantec Buys Appthority, Javelin Networks to Strengthen Endpoint Security
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Extreme Networks Busts Into Agile Data Center Networking
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BGP Hijacks: Two more papers consider the problem
The security of the global Default Free Zone DFZ) has been a topic of much debate and concern for the last twenty years (or more). Two recent papers have brought this issue to the surface once again—it is worth looking at what these two papers add to the mix of what is known, and what solutions might be available. The first of these—
Demchak, Chris, and Yuval Shavitt. 2018. “China’s Maxim – Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom’s BGP Hijacking.” Military Cyber Affairs 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.5038/2378-0789.3.1.1050.
—traces the impact of Chinese “state actor” effects on BGP routing in recent years. Whether these are actual attacks, or mistakes from human error for various reasons generally cannot be known, but the potential, at least, for serious damage to companies and institutions relying on the DFZ is hard to overestimate. This paper lays out the basic problem, and the works through a number of BGP hijacks in recent years, showing how they misdirected traffic in ways that could have facilitated attacks, whether by mistake or intentionally. For instance, quoting from the paper—
- Starting from February 2016 and for about 6 months, routes Continue reading
Google Launches $25 Million Fund, Doubles Down on AI for Social Good
The new fund follows Google’s decision not to bid for the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI contract because the work may not support its principles.
The Week in Internet News: Companies Fear AI Will Destroy Business Models
AI against businesses: More than 40 percent of U.K. companies believe Artificial Intelligence will destroy their business models within five years, according to a Microsoft survey featured on CNBC.com. Still, more than half of businesses in the U.K. have no AI strategy. And while 45 percent workers are concerned their job could be replaced by AI, 51 percent are not learning skills to prepare for the changes.
Government AI board: Meanwhile, Public Knowledge, a digital rights advocacy group, has called on the U.S. government to create a new federal authority to develop AI expertise, as a way to effectively regulate and govern the technology, reports IP-watch.org. “The rapid and pervasive rise of artificial intelligence risks exploiting the most marginalized and vulnerable in our society,” the group argues.
Math against fake news: Professors from the U.K. and Switzerland have released a mathematical definition of fake news, in the hope that it will give lawmakers ideas on how to combat it, Phys.org says. The researchers have also introduced a model for fake news that can be used to study the phenomenon.
Vietnam against fake news: A new cybersecurity law in Vietnam is intended to combat Continue reading
Amazon, Druva Team Up on AWS Snowball Edge
Snowball Edge is AWS’ data transfer device that includes on-board compute. Druva’s data management platform now integrates with the device.
10 Year CCIE – My Reflection
How time flies – it is now over 10 years ago that I earned my Cisco CCIE R&S number of …
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