netnod news – issue 4 – 2015

Netnod and NIX sign mutually The Internet Protocol beneficial MoU Journal rises again

no freaking paper, PAGE 14 PAGE 15 i want it on my smartphone. Word from the CEO New IXP networks september 2014 – april 2015 so that we continue to understand and evaluate the most effective way to deliver meet the needs of our customers. IXP services for the future. Softlayer Dutch Holdings (AS36351) Completel (AS44020) SoftLayer provides cloud infrastructure services from datacentres http://www.cln.net. Emerging and increasing competition The rapid change to 100GE ports, and and PoPs around the world, including bare metal and virtual servers, Contact: [email protected] networking, turnkey big data solutions and private cloud solutions. IXP member upgrades will drive us to evaluate everything from the scaling for this growth, will pose Ziron (AS202112) http://www.softlayer.com september 2014 – april 2015 operations and cost structure to challenges, but we believe we need to Contact: [email protected] Ziron provides API- driven wholesale voice and messaging services. https://www.ziron.com partnerships and branding. To do this, continue to support the fast growth we Excedo Networks (AS199150) Contact: [email protected] we are launching qualitative customer have seen so far. I have been mocked in Excedo provides data communication security and domain related Telavox (AS44123)* services to the corporate market, including data communications, IDNet (AS12496) surveys, performed by an external party, the office for my gross underestimate of security, infrastructure, DNS and domain names. http://www.excedo.se IDNet is a leading technology-driven Internet services & communi- [email protected] Contact: [email protected] cations provider (ISP/CP), delivering high performance data and to make sure we know what you, our 100GE takeoff, but to be honest I’m happy telecoms solutions for businesses, blue-chip corporations, and TransTelecom (AS20485) customers, need and that we understand to have been wrong and to see Netnod Mainloop (AS43893) government agencies in the UK. http://www.idnet.net/ [email protected] http://www.mainloop.se Contact: [email protected] how you view us as a provider and at the forefront of 100GE customer port Contact: [email protected] Microsoft (AS8075) market actor. We will follow these up with uptake. For the DNS services, we are also Canadian Internet Registration Authority (AS55195) Highwinds (AS12989) CIRA manages the .CA domain. http://www.cira.ca/ [email protected] regular quantitative surveys to make sure working on some new services and have Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Tyfon Svenska AB (AS21250) we track emerging trends. launched our largest ever development CloudFlare (AS13335) Twitter (AS13414) [email protected] project. I will get back to this project in CloudFlare provides services to protect and enhance websites online. Twitter provides social networking and microblogging services. https://www.cloudflare.com https://about.twitter.com. Netnod has always believed strongly in future newsletters. Golden Telecom (AS3216)* Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] [email protected] working together to create added value Core-Backbone (AS33891) Serverel (AS50245) In the Internet industry, we are all used for partners, customers, and the Internet Finally, besides all the work on market Core-Backbone is a hosting company and international network, Serverel is a hosting company that offers everything from storage AllTele (AS44581) to constant change, as the technologies, which guarantees secure, high-availability and high-performance to managed clusters to databases, as well as providing applications [email protected] in general. We were proud and excited at analysis, strategic development, and connection to the Internet. Core-Backbone also provides services like and programming. Serverel also offers VPS and server co-location. markets, and services we work with all the Netnod meeting when we announced partnerships, we have also been busy IP-transit, remote-peering, Layer2-connections, DDoS protection, http://www.serverel.com Hi3G Access AB (AS44034) continue to develop and mature. In the and CDN. http://www.core-backbone.com Contact: [email protected] [email protected] the Memorandum of Understanding developing our organization. The past Contact: [email protected] two main Netnod areas – IXP and DNS (MoU) with NIX, the Norwegian Internet year saw a record seven new staff join Götalandsnätet (Gotanet) (AS12597) Limelight Networks (AS22822) DGC Access AB (AS21195) Gotanet is a national ISP whose services are primarily targeted to – we are also seeing a transformation Exchange. This MoU will see us working us. And we have just hired one extra. https://www.dgc.se customers in the west of . http://www.gotanet.se/about/ [email protected] from relatively new, disruptive markets Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Mobile TeleSystems (AS8359) into more traditional, mature markets. InternetOne (AS44160) Host Virtual (AS36236) [email protected] These changes pose new challenges for InternetOne implements ICT services with high added value. Host Virtual is a cloud hosting provider operating dual-stack IPv4 “It’s an interesting challenge to see markets shift from http://www.internetone.it and IPv6 clouds worldwide, built around scalability, self-service, Com Hem (AS39651) us as a supplier and actor, calling for new Contact: [email protected] and ease of use. http://www.hostvirtual.com [email protected] strategies. At Netnod, we are busy updating Contact: [email protected] services more or less provided on good reputation and ViaEuropa (AS47155) EasySpeedy Danmark ApS (AS30736) our mission, vision, and strategy to deal http://viaeuropa.net OnLive EMEA Sàrl (AS46391) Contact: [email protected] OnLive provides cloud computing services to millions of users [email protected] with this changing environment. These geographic location – to a market where product portfolio, across the US and Europe, including OnLive Game and OnLive processes help us evaluate how well Metroset (AS50923) Desktop. http://www.onlive.com Linkedin (AS14413) http://metro-set.ru Contact: [email protected] [email protected] our current services match customer price, and brand recognition become deciding factors.” Contact: [email protected] Telekom Srbija (AS8400) expectations and guide us in following Tyfon Svenska AB (AS21250) Valve (AS32590) Telekom Srbija is a modern, locally-owned, telecommunications [email protected] the market developments. Tyfon has provided high-speed Internet access and VOIP services company with international PoPs in Frankfurt, Vienna, Budapest, to business and consumers since 1999. http://www.tyfon.net Ljubljana, Timisora, and Sofia. http://www.telekom.rs British Telecom (AS5400) on technical and commercial cooperation, These hires reflect our commitment to Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] It’s an interesting market challenge to see [email protected] and we have a lot to learn from each continuous service development and Nexellent ag (AS31424) SEACOM (AS37100) both markets shift from services more other. It also highlights how the Nordics high customer service standards. With Nexellent is a Swiss ICT service provider with future-oriented SEACOM is a global communications service provider, with EdgeCast Networks Inc. (AS15133) or less provided on good reputation and infrastructure services. Nexellent can meet the highest demands emphasis on connectivity solutions between Africa and the rest of [email protected] are a tightly integrated market, where we these hires, we are better positioned to security, availability, and quality of service thanks to multiple the world. SEACOM operates a global IP/MPLS backbone as well geographic location – as was the case in need to provide uniform peering alternatives. handle future growth and a much larger datacentres and an innovative, modular range of colocation, hosting, as submarine cable systems between Africa, Europe, and the Asia 31173 Services AB (AS39351) and housing services; servers; private clouds; and networks services. the mid-1990s – to a market where Pacific. http://seacom.mu [email protected] With NIX and COMIX together, Netnod customer base. https://www.nexellent.ch Contact: [email protected] product portfolio, price, and brand offers a great peering service portfolio. Contact: [email protected] Nordiska Servercentralen (AS49515) Hurricane Electric (AS6939) recognition become deciding factors. I feel privileged to work in such dynamic Keycom PLC (AS25178) http://www.servercentralen.se/ [email protected] That said, I personally don’t believe the Keycom PLC designs, develops, installs, maintains, monitors, and Contact: [email protected] Furthermore, we are working on a new times in such a dynamic industry. I am supports best-in-class high-speed broadband, IT, and telecommuni- original core values that created our in- Amazon, AS16509 IX network architecture and evaluating quite excited to see what the future will cation solutions across diverse sectors. http://www.keycom.co.uk Inter Connects (AS57858) [email protected] dustry have been completely abandoned, Contact: [email protected] Inter Connects provides IP transit, colocation, and servers. the model for and COMIX. hold in store for us! http://interconnects.us but they are now mixed up with a number Those of you who attended the Netnod NetIX Communications Ltd (AS57463) Contact: [email protected] NetIX Communications is a global platform for sharing ethernet of other deciding factors. Nevertheless, meeting in March saw a presentation on traffic and services exchange. It connects all members without Swedish Armed Forces (AS9201) * multiple upgrades we cannot be naïve, and we need to some of our thinking. The current models intermediaries across Layer 2 access technology around the world. Försvarsmakten (Swedish Armed Forces) is the Swedish authority http://netix.net responsible for Sweden's military defence. ensure we are prepared to handle change have served us well so far, but we need to CEO, Kurt Erik Lindqvist, Netnod Contact: [email protected] http://www.forsvarsmakten.se Contact: [email protected]

www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 2 3 www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 netnod news: expanding netnod’s outreach & communications: We are growing – and we make sure services keep up with the demand We welcome two new team members

meet alexander: Alexander Borodin started What do you like to do? I like to travel, experience things, and meet at Netnod last year as a new people. I’m quite adventurous and New traffic record of new services, puts greater demands Interested to join? never afraid to test new things (although Netnod has seen a tremendous increase on our Operations team of course. The There is actually room for even more Communications Officer, I also like quiet and cosy nights at home). in traffic volume as well as many new latest additions are JörgenThun, Data people at Netnod. This year, we will see I’m a cineast and into all sorts of movies members signing up to us. 16 October Centre Engineer, and Love Dufva and further growth in the organisation. We working with marketing – from Bergman to the latest Hollywood 2014 marked an important day at Netnod Kim Dahlgren, Junior Systems and know where we are going, but we are action adventures. I like art and my home as we reached 1 TB in traffic volume Network Engineers. With these great looking for the right people to join us for activities such as customer is full of paintings (mostly Swedish con- across our IXPs. additions, we strive to provide better and that journey. And we know that it’s the temporary art). I love running – I compete quicker first line support to our customers. individuals in an organisation that makes events, business development, regularly and do 10 km just under 40 New staff members it succeed, rather than what title each role minutes. And I love music of all sorts. To continue to meet the increased needs Additions in the RnD team to improve is given on paper. and press related tasks. of our customers, in the last 12 months automation: In order to continue to Yes, we heard some rumours about your Netnod has added seven new staff improve our tool sets, and to automate Sounds interesting? Have a look at: involvement in the music industry, tell us? What’s your favourite drink? members. external and internal processes, the RnD https://www.netnod.se/about/organisa- You have worked here now for some months Eurovision is really big in Sweden, and Easy – that’s coffee. I need coffee to wake team is adding a programmer to continue tion/employment/netnod-growing – what’s your impression of Netnod? I am one of the founders (and a former up in the morning, to keep going during The Communications and Outreach that important work. I’m so impressed by the technological editor-in-chief) of a big website about Euro- the day. Maybe that’s not healthy, but it’s team added three new team members: know-how at Netnod and its commitment vision and Swedish music in general. I still my only real vice. Martin Eriksson as Strategic Account to the Internet. We are really so closely tied blog sometimes, and I’m a board member Manager, Alexander Borodin, as Commu- to the community, wherever we attend for the official Swedish Eurovision fan club. What’s your favourite gadget? nications Officer and just recently, Siri COMIX one year on events, it feels like everyone knows us That’s for sure my new iPhone 6. I use Brenden, as Events and Marketing Officer. personally. I also like that Netnod really What’s so interesting about the Internet? it whenever I’m not working on my Mac It has already been a year since Netnod old nodes that consisted of several cares about its staff. It’s a great company What’s not interesting you mean? Almost Book Pro or iPad. A boring answer, maybe, Our Communications and Outreach team launched COMIX. By merging COPHIX servers and took up around 8 rack units and I’m proud to work here. everything happens online now. For a guy but this is how it is. I cannot say it’s a is our window to the world – staying in and the Netnod Malmö IXP into COMIX, of space. that was interested in media, it was only Swiss Army knife or anything like that! touch with our customers and partners, we created an optimum solution for natural to focus my interest where the whole Internet is such a part of my life now, at conferences, at our own Netnod content providers and network opera- With the connection of Netnod's DNS “Netnod works at the media industry is heading. Even early on, I need access to it always. Plus, I can events, and through our external tors to interconnect. COMIX services a services to COMIX, we are making use I was into programming, web design, and control my TV and many other things communication channels. Our aim is to very large and dynamic region in Sweden of the distributed benefits of COMIX. heart of the Internet, so it’s usability. Netnod works at the heart of the with it. In the worst case, you could even provide the Netnod customer base with and . Currently there are over While the server is physically installed at Internet, so it’s exciting to be part of it! use your iPhone as a bottle opener! great services, and to give you updated 30 members connected to COMIX, and our site in Malmö, network operators at exciting to be part of it!” and accurate information. growing. all the COMIX locations in (, Global Connect and Telia Tell us a little bit of yourself! Say Hello to Siri! Serving our expanded board and Netnod deployed our first ”Nano site” Telehouse), can directly access the I was born in Stockholm to a Ukrainian Siri Brenden has just started at Netnod as our Events and executive team: To meet the increased at COMIX services through the COMIX IXP. mother and a Swedish father, who raised need for support in the expanded board Netnod has deployed our first small me with a mix of cultures. I studied in Marketing Officer and will be focusing on developing our and in the executive team, we recently DNS "nano site" at COMIX, These value-adding services, as well as Stockholm and Amsterdam and have a Netnod meetings and our events in the future. She has welcomed Nathalie Alberti Fidani as our which is a 1U server with a virtualisation the increased network base at COMIX, master’s degree in Media and Commu- a background in event organisation from the hospitality Executive Assistant. environment. The new server system benefits all connected operators and nications. Before Netnod I held various industry and a great knack for adding just “that little bit is used for distributing the Netnod CDNs at COMIX IXP. communications and marketing roles extra” to an event. You can meet Siri, as well as rest of the The Operations team adds more anycast DNS services, such as i.root- in different industries. But my focus has Netnod team at our summer drinks social. Interested in support staff: More customers, servers.net (I-root) and the DNSNODE mostly been on online and digital marke- Håkan Hellström discussing Netnod meeting ideas or sponsoring our next increased traffic and the development TLD anycast service. The new server Head of Operations ting, so now it feels exciting to be a part of meeting? Make sure to grab Siri! only requires 1U compared to the the Internet’s infrastructure.

www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 4 5 www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 function. The process started with CWG website: https://community.icann. discussions in each of the five RIR org/x/37fhAg Towards the IANA communities, which informed the regular CRISP Team meetings, culminating in a Public consultation document: proposal delivered on time. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/ functions transition files/cwg-naming-transition-01dec14-en.pdf CRISP Team website: https://www.nro. net/crisp-team Early last year, the US government’s National Telecommunications Proposal: https://www.nro.net/ What has been and Information Administration (NTIA) made an historic wp-content/uploads/ICG-RFP-Number- Resource-Proposal.pdf proposed so far? announcement: it intends to cease its role as the oversight body Names Protocol parameters for the Internet naming and numbering functions managed by The names community, coordinated Under the IETF’s rather minimal by the GNSO and ccNSO, formed the protocol parameters proposal, relatively IANA. But making history can take a lot of time and effort, and expansively titled Cross Community little would change. This reflects the Working Group to Develop an IANA uncontroversial – indeed uneventful – the task of replacing NTIA’s role is complex and politically sensitive. Stewardship Transition Proposal on history of protocol parameter Naming Related Functions (CWG). registration functions. The proposal The work on the naming proposal has, does seek assurances about preserving So what has happened so far and what Protocol parameters unsurprisingly, proved more complicated the integrity and public domain nature remains to be done to ensure a smooth, The IETF took on this task, forming the than that for the other functions. Within of the registry in the event of any future orderly transition? IANAPLAN Working Group (IANAPLAN the CWG multiple subgroups (called transition away from ICANN. WG), which followed normal IETF Design Teams) have formed and, late in As we reported in an earlier article, the processes and produced a proposal 2014, the names community spawned But otherwise, it states that “no new issue at stake is that of the NTIA’s ahead of the deadline. a new group, the Cross Community organizations or structures are required” stewardship role over the IANA functions, Working Group on Enhancing ICANN and reaffirms the existing framework of • IANA function stability and reliability • Review Committee – Reviews not the IANA functions themselves. IANAPLAN website: http://www.ietf.org/ Accountability (CCWG-Accountability), protocol parameter functions and the – ICANN to continue as the IANA performance of IANA Numbering Affirming the value and legitimacy of the iana-transition.html chartered to “deliver proposals that oversight role of the IAB. Numbering Services Operator; orderly Services and advises the RIRs; provides Internet’s multistakeholder development would enhance ICANN’s accountability transition to another operator if community perspective; representative model, the NTIA specifically tasked Proposal: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft- towards all stakeholders” in the absence Numbering need arises. of each RIR, members selected by ICANN to coordinate a process in which ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-09 of an NTIA-ICANN contract. By the time At the core of the CRISP Team proposal, RIRs’ bottom-up processes. interested stakeholders develop a of writing, the names community had not the NTIA’s contractual accountability • RIRs (as representatives of RIR transition proposal. Numbering yet submitted a proposal. It has, however, role would be taken over by the RIRs, communities) to replace NTIA’s role • Clarify IPR-related issues – Intellectual The Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship set itself a revised timeline aiming for a who would be informed by community – RIRs to establish a service level property rights related to IANA services In response, ICANN formed the IANA Proposal (CRISP) Team was formed to nd 2 draft proposal on 22 April and a final advice from a review committee. The agreement with the IANA Numbering stay with the community. Stewardship Transition Coordination develop a proposal for the numbering proposal by June. main components of the proposal are: Services Operator. Group (ICG) to coordinate proposals from the three stakeholder groupings responsible for the three main IANA >> functions, numbering, protocol icg timeline parameters, and domain names.

The ICG held its first meeting during the London ICANN meeting in July 2014.

With the current IANA contract set to expire in September this year, the ICG was set an aggressive timeline (see sidebar), including community development of proposals by 15 January 8 Sep – 20 Oct 2014 Request for communities8 Sep 2014 – 15 Jan 2015 15 Jan – 13 Mar 2015 13 Mar – 15 May 2015 13 Mar – 17 Jul 2015 (and beyond)15 May – 19 Jun 2015 19 Jun – 17 Jul 2015 17 Jul – 31 Jul 2015 31 Jul – 30 Sep 2015 2015. So the various communities to produce proposals Communities develop proposalsICG develops draft responseCommunities review draft Testingresponse ICG develops final responseFinal community review of responseProposal delivered NTIA Approval quickly got to work.

www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 6 7 www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 The 52nd ICANN meeting, held in “Netnod has assured the Internet community that our commitment Singapore in February, heard reports from all communities on their progress. to providing the i.root-servers.net service in a stable manner remains, Netnod’s contribution to African peering Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator independent of any future changes to the IANA stewardship.” Lawrence E. Strickling has since published community recognised an article praising the efforts so far, issue being politicised and brandished In the meantime, other work is ongoing but reminding stakeholders of the need as a vital issue of national sovereignty. to communicate details of the proposals The African Internet is on the move. discussions and peer interactions needed Af-IX, has been established. Rates to keep their efforts synchronised. In and process to the various stakeholder Internet penetration across most of the to seed IX development. of traffic exchange have also grown, and this process, once all of the separate On 25 February, Strickling testified communities. The ICG has worked with continent, which has long lagged the rest providers are more aware of the benefits proposals are complete, the ICG will before the Senate Committee on Com- the IETF and the numbers communities of the world, is now growing rapidly. Netnod supports AfPIF of exchanging traffic locally, to the extent still have the task of coordinating broad merce, Science, and Transportation, to clarify some aspects of their However, while several major cable Netnod is committed to promoting that AfPIF participants have requested community support for a single, explaining in very careful language proposals and ensure there were no landings in recent years have interconnection for the good of the dedicated bilateral peering sessions, consolidated proposal to be submitted the background to and status of the conflicts between the two on the subject greatly improved Internet, and in many ways, sees AfPIF’s which Mwangi interprets as indicating to the NTIA. transition process. The activities of of intellectual property rights. And to international role as similar to the European faster than anticipated community this committee could be well worth ensure timely coordination of upcoming connections, Peering Forum, which Netnod growth. “We will only consider a coordinated observing in coming months. issues, the CRISP Team recently wrote there’s still a hosts with Ams-IX, DE-CIX, and complete transition plan,” writes to the CWG asking that group to lot to be and LINX. In particular, the “Netnod’s involvement truly hel- Strickling. On 17 April, Netnod publicly re-affirmed “communicate directly to the Chair and done to face-to-face interaction and its commitment to operate DNS root Vice-Chair of the CRISP team, regarding improve relationship building ped catalyse the amazing change Apart from achieving a consolidated name server I-root in a stable manner, any proposals or developments that (or create) that these meetings that is happening across Africa” proposal, it will also be necessary to independent of any future changes to the might affect the numbers community local infra- offer is an invaluable stress test the proposal to demonstrate IANA stewardship. Netnod assured the in advance, and not wait for the final structure, part of building a that it can work. If all of this raises doubt Internet community that our commit- submission to the ICG”. interconnection, and healthy, functional IX With Internet penetration now passing that the NTIA will have anything to review ment to providing this service and to co- regulatory policy. community. 15 percent, and growing faster than before the IANA functions contract ordinating appropriately with ICANN and The next ICANN meeting will be held in in other regions, the business case is expires, then Strickling does give some the other root server operators, remains June in Buenos Aires, where the transi- In this context, the African So the decision for strengthening for domestic and global hope, noting that quality will be more and will not be affected by the outcome tion process will be one of the major Peering and Interconnection Netnod to get behind content providers and networks to turn important than timeliness. of these discussions. issues. Forum (AfPIF) plays an increasingly AfPIF was clear. Right to Africa. This, in turn, could stimulate https://www.netnod.se/netnod-re-affirms- important role. from the start, Netnod more in-region peering and drive the “While September 2015 has been a target commitment-operate-i-root Read more has provided support demand for geographically wider date … we have the flexibility to extend IANA Stewardship Transition AfPIF and expertise, investment in broadband access. the contract if the community needs Coordination Group (ICG) website: AfPIF was launched including sponsor- more time to develop the best plan What is left to do? http://www.ianacg.org in 2010 by the ship of all five The most recent AfPIF attracted possible,” he writes. Internet Society’s AfPIF meetings almost 200 participants – despite the As noted above, we must now wait for Larry Strickling, “Stakeholders Continue Michuki Mwangi and Karen Rose (now held so far. concerns of the Ebola outbreak in the CWG and the CCWG-Accountability However, the further this process Historic Work on Internet DNS Transition also a Netnod board member) to develop West Africa – and many regional and to complete their tasks before work can stretches into the next US election cycle at ICANN Singapore Meeting”: a more cohesive African IX community At the most recent AfPIF – held in Dakar, international sponsors. begin to consolidate the proposals and (which has already begun), the greater http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/stake- and promote the establishment of an IX Senegal in August 2014 – Netnod’s achieve broad community support. the risk of this essentially administrative holders-continue-historic-work-internet- association. support was recognised with a special The next meeting will be held in Maputo, dns-transition-icann-singapore-meeting award of thanks. Mozambique from 25-27 August, 2015, At that time, many of the IXes in Africa and registration is already open. Testimony of Assistant Secretary Strick- were the failed attempts of development “I know it can be hard to gauge the ling before the Senate Committee on agencies which had put too much focus value of participating in such efforts,” Once again, Netnod will sponsor the Commerce, Science, and Transportation on deploying hardware and technical says Rose. “But I can tell you from event and is looking forward to enjoying on “Preserving the Multistakeholder solutions and not enough on the experience that Netnod’s involvement a dynamic agenda of stimulating Model of Internet Governance”: human factor. Without sufficient social truly helped catalyse the amazing change discussions, learning, and sharing. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/speechtesti- engineering, technical deployments that is happening across Africa.” mony/2015/testimony-assistant-secretary- typically struggle to reach a critical mass More information is available here: strickling-senate-committee-commerce- of members or gain regulatory support. From the five years since AfPIF’s launch, https://www.internetsociety.org/ science-and- several positive developments are afpif-2015 AfPIF’s presence is a significant worth highlighting. For one thing, the improvement, both helping with basic number of IXes in Africa has grown and, Nurani Nimpuno Kurt Erik Lindqvist Head of Outreach and Communications capacity building and stimulating the vital importantly, a new African IX association, Chief Executive Officer

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The Netnod Spring Meeting 2015 attracted “Staying Happy with SIP”. And we ended more than 130 participants – our biggest with Måns Nilsson from SR giving us a meeting so far – and featured several practical example of service convergence keynote speakers from the international in telecoms from a customer perspective. community. IPv6 is always a hot topic, and in Sweden Emlie Aben from RIPE NCC gave a great the Internet geeks are complaining that presentation on IXP measurements and the rollout is too slow – especially as many peering in different countries, using RIPE operators still can’t deliver IPv6 to end Atlas. His conclusion was perhaps not customers. Thomas Nilsson from Certezza surprising, but no less important: IXPs carried out an IPv6 survey in Sweden in help keep local traffic local! 2011, which he presented at the Netnod meeting back then. He came back to There were quite a few DNS presentations conduct a new survey this year, and while this year. Jim Reid used 100 Billion DNS there have been some improvements, he Queries to Analyse the Name Collision still found that only 12 of 19 of the major Problem. Mikael Kullberg told us about Swedish ISPs could deliver IPv6 to end the latest Internet plague: Random customers. A frank panel discussion Subdomain Attacks, and Cathy Almond followed, exploring the challenges of gave a great presentation about how to finding a business case in IPv6 to present handle unusual DNS client behaviour, to the management layer in the organisation. which sparked some spirited discussion. There is no clear customer demand seen yet, so the message to everyone in the Ondrej Filip, CZ.NIC talked about Knot room, was to start demanding IPv6 as a DNS – the authoritative and recursive customer, from your ISP. DNS servers developed by CZ.NIC, and he also demonstrated the Turris project. Our social at the fabulous Trattorian restaurant offered drinks, classic rustic On the more operational side, Pablo Barrera Italian dining, and beautiful views of the from Spotify gave a very interesting talk water – all on a gorgeous Stockholm spring about network usage in a distributed Kafka evening. The bar was full right up until setup, and Anders Berggren from Halon closing time! Many thanks to the TeleCity talked about Trusted email with DKIM/ Group for sponsoring this fantastic evening. DMARC. Check out the meeting photos at: Jan Zorz from ISOC organised a panel https://www.facebook.com/netnodix/pho- discussion on how to get more operators tos_stream involved in the work of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), and you can read All meeting presentations and video more about ISOC’s work on this at: streaming at: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ https://www.netnod.se/netnod-spring- blog/2015/03/operators-and-the-ietf-upda- meeting-2015 te-from-ietf-92/ Save the date for the Autumn Meeting on Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, from .SE 14-15 October! presented about monitoring the Swedish https://www.netnod.se/netnod-autumn- ccTLD to get rid of malicious code. Robert meeting-2015 Malmgren talked about attacks against critical infrastructure. Susmita Adhikari, from HUBER+SUHNER Cube Optics AG Alexander Borodin dealt with Real-time monitoring and fault Communications Officer localization. Olle E. Johansson discussed

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EPF9 mage to the Internet. There were several and seven remote hubs throughout Latin ICANN52 The ninth European Peering Forum proposed ITU resolution texts covering America Privacy, encryption, open source, The ICANN 52 meeting in Singapore (EPF) took place in beautiful Split, aspects such as IP addressing, routing and data models were high on the agenda, was a big and busy one as usual. Unsur- Croatia. It had over 240 attendees, and Internet exchange points which rai- and so was the IANA stewardship prisingly, discussions on the IANA making it the most well attended EPF to sed concerns about the ITU attempting transition. The IANAPLAN working group stewardship transition dominated the date. Mario Klobučar from CIX presented to expand its mandate. But despite the had a lively discussion about the IETF meeting, as well as broader discussions an interesting overview of the Internet many fears beforehand, the outcome was transition plan for the IANA services. And about ICANN accountability. For Lars-Johan landscape in Croatia, and Grzegorz overwhelmingly positive, resulting in the there was a surge of YANG data models Liman, Patrik, and Nurani it meant a Janoszka from Booking.com made a event being labelled “The Busan consen- submitted to the IETF. YANG is a data hectic, but productive week! strong case for peering by showing hard sus” by the U.S. Government and others. modelling language for the NETCONF data on how peering improves speed network configuration protocol, and NANOG 63 for his company. Apart from the great these models are needed to manage NANOG 63 took place in San Antonio, content in the agenda (and some network nodes in operator networks in Texas, with 622 attendees from 19 lovely socials of course) the meeting was centralised fashion. A great report from countries. Netnod was represented by from IANA, gave a great comprehensive CEE Peering day 2015 packed with bilateral peering meetings. the IETF91 meeting is available on the Mathias Wolkert and Kurtis, who each report of the history of IANA and the The third edition of CEE Peering Day took IETF chair’s blog: had a full three-day agenda of presen- Internet numbering system. Check out place at the Sheraton Hotel in Bratislava, tations and meetings. The topics of http://www.ietf.org/blog/2014/11/ietf- APNIC’s blog post and video at: Slovakia. The event has expanded to a 91-summary DevOps and real life network automation http://wp.me/p4XXJg-Od two-day meeting and now gathers 250 got a lot of attention during the confe- attendees, mostly from within the region. rence. These days everyone is talking DKNOG 5 Netnod was a Gold partner this year, and about automation and autoconf, so it’s Netnod has been a proud supporter of we gave out a rainbow collection of our becoming a hot topic to follow. On other the Danish Network Operator Group ever-so-popular “Peer into the future” topics, a DWDM-panel session featured RIPE 69 DKNOG since its inception, so we were t-shirts, which all disappeared in no Talks at the RIPE 69 meeting were discussions about the fact that fibre happy to see another successful event. time. We also very much appreciated unsurprisingly dominated by the IANA prices are going down so fast now that DKNOG is a tight-knit community of the social evening that took place in the stewardship transition. The enthusiastic some business cases do not hold any- operators in a small, but still very vital old town of Bratislava, where we got a discussions in the RIPE community mate- more. One potential scenario is the raise and changing scene. This year saw 100 lesson on how to make yourself a real rialised into a set of guiding principles for of co-operative fibres, with operators ICANN 51 participants at DKNOG. Netnod also vodka ice cream. The ICANN 51 meeting was, like many the numbers community proposal group, splitting channels. celebrated COMIX’s first anniversary other meetings in this period, focused called CRISP (Consolidated RIR IANA Ste- with a special giveaway: a special We are already looking forward to mainly on the IANA stewardship transi- wardship Proposal Team). The RIPE com- APRICOT 2015 edition of our “Peer to the future” t-shirt, next edition. tion discussions and the key expectations munity chose Andrei Robachevsky and APRICOT is the largest operators’ forum in the Danish colours red and white, with of the names community, namely secu- Nurani as RIPE community representati- in Asia Pacific, and this year’s event the COMIX logo on the back – a future rity, stability, predictability, redress me- ves on the CRISP team. There were also attracted 835 participants. The Peering collector’s item indeed! The main social, chanisms, and separation of functions. good reports on the positive outcomes of Forum had lots of interesting intercon- presented by Netnod, turned out to be a Nurani Nimpuno Discussions on ICANN accountability Plenipot, with the message “engagement nection presentations and the security highly appreciated event. Head of Outreach and Communications intensified, as ICANN had published a works”. In other news, Bind provider ISC track included great discussions on new accountability proposal just before announced that it will take over distribu- Internetdagarna 2014 national and regional security challenges. the meeting. tion and secretariat functions for NLnet Kurtis Lindqvist, Patrik Fältström, and Discussions on security, threat mitigation, Labs, to help its Dutch competitor in the Nurani all presented at the yearly and incident handling all showed how ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14) DNS server software market manage the Swedish Internet conference. Kurtis gave cooperation is the key to reducing secu- The much-anticipated ITU Plenipotentiary transition from foundation funded to self a technical perspective on Net neutrality rity threats. APRICOT 2015 also saw the conference (Plenipot) in Busan was an funded. in the session “Should Net neutrality launch of the Cooperation SIG, a forum intense three-week intergovernmental be legislated?”. Nurani moderated the for broader Internet policy and Internet conference. Netnod’s Nurani Nimpuno IETF 91 session “Internet governance – who will governance issues. This meeting was participated as part of the Swedish dele- The IETF 91 meeting marked a return shape the future of the Internet?” with the first RIR meeting since the number gation. There were many concerns before to Honolulu, Hawaii, fifteen years after a great line-up of speakers from NTIA, community submitted its IANA Steward- the conference about the potential risks IETF-15, which had the tagline “Nerds in ICANN, ISOC and the IETF. Patrik gave ship transition proposal, which meant of the meeting ending with relations bet- Paradise”. This “Nerds in Paradise 2.0” an update in the “The latest and greatest intense discussions with a focus on the ween nations broken, and significant da- had 1100 participants from 50 countries, from SSAC” session. next steps in the process. Elise Gerich

www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 12 13 www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 Netnod and NIX sign MoU for ongoing cooperation The Internet Protocol Netnod and the Norwegian , NIX, have signed a mutually beneficial memorandum of understanding (MoU), setting a framework for ongoing cooperation. Journal rises again

believe we can benefit from at NIX.” Since June 1998, the quarterly The relaunch of the journal is thanks to For Netnod, which last year solidified the dedication of Jacobsen and the its presence in Denmark by establishing publication The Internet generous support of many organisations COMIX, cooperating with NIX is an and individuals within the Internet opportunity to now make a greater Protocol Journal (IPJ) has been community. Despite no longer publishing contribution to networking and IPJ, Cisco Systems is one of the journal’s interconnection in Norway. exploring and documenting sponsors, maintains the archive of back issues, and allows the IPJ name and “We have always had very good relations Internet protocol development. subscriber list to be used under licence. with NIX,” says Lindqvist. “We see that taking this step to somewhat formalise Although published by Cisco “Netnod, is proud to be a supporter of our cooperation as a very positive signal IPJ as a corporate subscriber,” says to the region. We hope we can help Systems, IPJ remained a vendor- Nurani Nimpuno. “It’s great news that further boost the interconnection market such an important and useful publication Netnod CEO Kurtis Lindqvist and • Community building in Norway, and we want to explore how agnostic journal, intended as an will continue, and we congratulate Ole NIX CEO Kjetil Olsen, announced the • Commercial development we can work together for the Internet in Jacobsen for securing such a diverse arrangement on 11 March 2015, during the whole Nordic region.” informational and educational group of supporters.” the Netnod spring meeting. The MoU The full extent of the cooperation in those is a non-binding statement of the parties’ areas will emerge over time. NIX is operated by the Centre for resource, and it soon became The IPJ archive is a rich history of nearly shared understanding about how they Information Technology Services (USIT) two decades of Internet technical can work together for the good of both “We look forward to closer cooperation of the University of Oslo. one of the most important and development. The first issue explored organisations and The Nordic Internet with Netnod,” says Olsen. “While we at various efforts to retrofit security community. It covers four broad areas this point don't know exactly where this respected publications for measures onto protocols first developed of cooperation, namely: cooperation will take us, a good start in an era of assumed trust, including a is information sharing and knowledge Kurt Erik Lindqvist “...engineering professionals in- primer on the emerging technology of prominent names in the technical Technical development transfer. Netnod is a mature IXP in the Chief Executive Officer Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The current community, including several from Internet • Other technical cooperation region, whose experience we really volved in the design, development, issue looks at how the DNS root, which co-creator Vint Cerf, who remains a has scaled to accommodate not just member of IPJ’s Editorial Advisory Board. and operation of public and you are cordially invited to the netnod summer drinks 2015 private internets and intranets.” “Netnod, is proud to be a supporter of IPJ. The Netnod team invites all our friends, partners and customers to the Netnod summer drink – an opportunity to catch up before the But then, in October 2013, the IPJ fell It’s great news that such an important and summer with bubbly, drinks and some nice food. victim to new business realities, with Cisco Systems announcing it would no This time we are going to Josefina, behind the Nordic Museum. longer be published. useful publication will continue” A summer oasis at Djurgården, that offers superb views over Nybroviken and Djurgården Canal. Ole Jacobsen, IPJ editor from issue 1, network growth but also IPv6 and Anyone coming to the next Netnod A perfect place for an exciting party! reached out to the Internet community, DNSSEC deployment, will continue to meeting will be able to get a free prin- and in the true spirit of Internet scale for future developments, and it ted copy of the latest issue (Volume 18, Are you joining us? development, the community responded. examines the status of standardisation Number 1, March 2015). In the meantime, So, after a hiatus of one year, IPJ rose efforts in Gigabit Ethernet. Mail us at: [email protected] with your: everyone is welcome to download the IPJ again, with Volume 17 Number 1 • Full name, Email & Organisation in PDF format at: published in September 2014. Over the years, the IPJ has published http://protocoljournal.org • AS number (if available) articles from some of the most

www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 14 15 www.netnod.se • issue 4 | 2015 Work meets pleasure: Sofia – EuroDIG 4-5 June Sofia, Bulgaria Like other great cities cursed to be built on a strategic location, Sofia has a long Your travel guide to the history of “visitors” leaving their mark on culture, food, architecture, and art. The UNESCO-listed Rotunda of St George upcoming industry events is the oldest building in town and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is the most popular, but for a more playful Chicago – International Telecoms week alternative, try the Snail House. Come spoken, so one useful word you should atmosphere, Libros del pasaje combines (ITW) dinner time, try shopska salad, kebapche, learn is “ресторан”, meaning restaurant, a café and bookstore in a classic Palermo 10-14 May kyufteta, and kavarma. And don’t miss café, or pizzeria. To catch some summer house. B-Blue serves refreshing juices, Chicago, the third biggest city in the USA, Bulgarian yoghurt. For traditional food, sun, head for the artificial beach on the coffee, and pastries. is heaven for skyscraper lovers or, if there’s Resaturant Petleto, or to sample north shore of the Kazanka River. The you prefer a beach, try the ten kilometre the work of a famous TV chef, try Hristo main tourist attraction is the majestic Prague - IETF 93rd stretch along Lake Michigan. Downtown, Belchev. For a coffee fix, giveSparrows local kremlin, parts of which date back to 19-24 July around The Loop, River North and Kafe a try, or for an evening tipple, try the the 1200s. Hungry? Try Pashmir restau- Prague has one of the most beautiful Streeterville, you’ll find restaurants, cocktail bar Kolibri. Browse books in the rant, for good Uzbek and Tartar cuisine. old towns in Europe. Unfortunately, that stores and bars. Check out Millennium book market at Slaveykov Square or get means swarming tourists. But battle the Park and the Cloud Gate (a giant silver fruit, vegetables, and cheese at Zhenski Buenos Aires - ICANN53 crowds to Charles Bridge, going strong bean!). For architecture lovers, a boat Pazar (the Women’s Market). 21-26 June since 1357 (is your engineering that trip on the river gives a great view of the In Buenos Aires, it’s enough to spend good?). All the regular tourist things are city. Downtown, we recommend Frontera Kazan – ENOG 9/RIPE NCC time drinking good coffee, eating in here, portrait painters, street performers, Grill for great Mexican food. If it’s full, try 9-10 June restaurants, and admiring the view. But and pickpockets. In Wenceslas Square, their sister restaurant around the corner, Kazan is the capital and largest city of to learn more about Argentina, a visit to soak up the atmosphere of some of the XOCO. Gilt Bar is a trendy restaurant the Republic of Tatarstan and the "Sports the national historical museum is a great biggest moments on the 20th century, with a fantastic bar. Or escape downtown capital of Russia". It’s also home to start. To eat and drink, try Chan Chan, explore the National Museum, or simply for Wicker Park, Bucktown, or Logan international opera, ballet, and music home to some of the best ceviche in the enjoy its restaurants, pubs and many Square for good restaurants and cool, festivals. In June, the locals celebrate city. Try their pisco sour, a South Ameri- stores. Choose a river cruise for great stylish stores. Sabantuy, the Tatar summer festival. The can classic. Don Julio offers an affordable city views. And when the Astronomical want without anyone caring. Sounds taking in the Golden Gate Bridge and easiest way to discover the city is to jump introduction to Argentina’s famous beef, Clock rings beer o’clock, head for one of perfect for the technical community! The Alcatraz. SF is one of the best American Amsterdam – RIPE70 on a tourist bus. English is not widely grilled to perfection. For coffee with Prague’s many specialty beer bars. Try U most authentic way to go is by cable car cities for fine dining. One of its Michelin- Medvídků, U Černého vola, U Houdků, 11-15 May and stand on the side. Don´t miss spec- starred restaurants is Coi, in the North May in Amsterdam means tulips. Every- U Provaznice, or U Vejvodů. You don’t tacularly steep and colourful Lombard Beach district. The local coffee culture is where. Bring your camera because the have to pronounce them to enjoy them. Street. To enjoy the skyline, the best way also legendary. Try the oldest cafe on the city will be bursting with colour. Get is to take a bay cruise away from the city, west coast, Cafe Trieste. mobile like a local – grab some wheels Maputo – AfPIF 2015 from one of the bike rental places you’ll 25-27 August find all over town. It’s the best way to Mozambique’s capital is a vibrant port explore and there are plenty of chances town, famous for colourful markets and to stop for a coffee or a beer. Or stop at thriving nightlife. Surprisingly, Maputo’s some of the many markets for flowers, most popular attraction is its century-old antiques, art, fruit, and anything else you train station, once named by Newsweek can imagine. For the unimaginable, try as the world’s seventh most beautiful. eating at Febo – or don’t. For something Mozambique is famous for its food, different, catch a cult movie and a meal and you should try some sizzling peri- at The Movies. peri prawns. To get around, look for the green-yellow taxis. These are the most San Francisco – NANOG 64 reliable, but agree on the rate before you 1-3 June start. And remember that taking photos In San Francisco, you can say what you of official buildings, airports and police like, act like a freak, or wear what you stations is forbidden.

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Netnod manages Internet exchange points (IXPs) in Sweden and Denmark, offers DNS anycast & unicast slave services to TLDs, and is the operator of i.root-servers.net, one of 13 logical DNS root name servers.