JANOG JANOG Chair

Seiichi KAWAMURA

mail: kawamucho at mesh.ad.jp

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18 years of fun and progress

About JANOG : the usual stuff• Founded 1997• 7000+ mailing list members• Meetings

• Held twice a year, usually January and July.• 2 days of plenary sessions + 1/2 day of tutorials and BoFs

• mostly focus on technical and operational discussions

• No registration fee for meeting• Presentations and discussions are in Japanese

• English acceptable but rough translation is recommended• around 10 non-native attendees per meeting

• 800+ attendees at Tokyo meetings• 500+ attendees at other Cities

• Next meeting July , 2015 in Kitakyushu City

More about JANOG : Working groups• Working Groups

• Special interest working groups are formed when request arises from the members.

NTP-WG

RPKI-WG

• Ongoing working group, expected to conclude in a few weeks

• Produced a document covering reflection attacks and recommendations to operators

• Concuded July 2013• Hackathon events testing RPKI tools• Working with JPNIC to get RPKI running!!!

even more interesting stuff

• Interim meetings• Experimental one day meeting

• No hosts and sponsors, so no one takes risks• Successful ventures are fed back to regular meetings

• Held once a year

• Collaboration with other bodies• ISOC-JP, JPNIC, various academic societies

• BCP documents• BCOP collaboration needs some work

Recent Discussion Topics at JANOG

• MVNO talks• Only 3 MNO in Japan. MVNOs are becoming popular and provide a

source for competition in the mobile market. How does an MVNO work?

• BGP Flow Spec, why it’s needed and what is wrong with it• Need a fast and intelligent way to mitigate growing # and scale of

attacks • Manual operation is too slow• BGP Flow Spec implementation is inconsistent among vendors and

lacks (a reasonably usable) IPv6 support

• Where are we today with white box switches • Where we need them, why we need them, and what more does it

take to put them into production

JANOG’s All Time Favorite Topics

• Favorite tools• Fiber installation tools, clamps, special wrenches, ‘what I take to th

DC when I do installations’

• Automation• Software tools• Team organization issues

• IPv6• Voices from the people who DON’T want to do IPv6 (this is actually

important!) versus people who DO• Lots of past technical issues with IPv6 were discussed at JANOG

and resolved

• Routing• Size, default routes, IRRs, and BGP hacks

Challenges : the language

• Main language is Japanese even for speaking• In the past, we tried volunteer translators, translated slides, and a

few other hacks• Relies too much on (few number of) bilinguals

• Try to upload material before meeting so overseas attendees can use internet translation services

• APNIC sponsorship• Outsourcing slides translation (not all, but a few) to professional

translation firms so some content will be available in English• Began just this year• Thanks to Miwa-san! NEW !

How we organize JANOGJANOG members

= Mailing list subscribersSteering Committee

+ ChairpersonMeeting staff

Meeting Hosts

Meeting Chairappointment

Call forvolunteers

System adminHosts / sponsor relationsLiaisonsMeeting staff supportWG managementEverything else

Conducts twice a year meetingsProgram Committee, Organizing

Committee, and Local Arrangement Commiteei18n team

english web maintenace

Resource sponsors(colo, translations,

servers, etc)Meeting sponsors

Changes per meetingStanding committee

Tools we use at JANOG today

• Confluence for STAFF management• Thanks to Atlassian for the community license!!!• Static web-> various versions of wiki -> Confluence

• Concrete5 for web content management

• Slack and Chatwork for STAFF communication

• Google apps or home written tools for surveys

• Ustream or Niconico for streaming

JANOG is run by volunteers

The most important value is member involvement and engagement

Many ways to get involved- Meeting staff- i18n volunteer

- Lead a working group- Present, give tutorials, coordinate BoFs

- Host or sponsor a meeting- Sponsor resources

Questions?

Contact the Steering Committeesecretariat at janog.gr.jp

Plenary BoF

NOC Sake