JANOG JANOG Chair Chika Yoshimura e-mail: chika at ntt.net twitter: @chikayossy

19 years of fun and progress

APRICOT 2016 in Auckland

About JANOG : the usual stuff• Founded 1997• 7500+ mailing list members as of Jan 2016• Meetings

• Held twice a year, usually January and July.• Three day meeting

• 2 days of plenary sessions + 1/2 day of tutorials and BoFs• mostly focus on technical and operational discussions• Internet live streaming & video archive (1 month after meeting) available

• 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 (JANOG38) July 2016 in Okinawa

Plenary (JANOG36) BoF (JANOG31)

Plenary (JANOG37) Tutorial (JANOG36)

Recent Discussion Topics at JANOG• Software forwarding vs hardware forwarding

• The architecture of IA server is totally different from that of hardware switches (including white-box switches).

• What are the differences in terms of performance characteristics perspective?

• Net neutrality from traffic management perspective• Net-Neutrality is not yet discussed in Japan as real life issue.• Topics such as zero rating and abolishing of roaming fees are getting

increasing attention globally. • What would be an impact of Net-Neutrality in Japan?

• MVNO in the future• MVNOs are becoming popular and provide a source for competition in

the mobile market.• What are technical challenges for them and their future roadmaps?

Recent Discussion Topics at JANOG• The Internet in the Asia Pacific region

• In Asian countries, there is an exploding increase in the use of the Internet. What’s the speaker’s experience on the current state of the Internet in Asia?

• BGP Hijack Issue • There was a huge BGP hijack issue November 2015. • What happened during the hijack in a Tier1 ISP network?• What are general preventive solutions against such BGP hijack

issues?

• Lab test items • What test items do you use when testing technical functions in lab?

More about JANOG : Working Groups

• Working Groups• Special interest working groups are formed when request arises

from the members.

NTP-WG

RPKI-WG

• Concluded February 2015 • Produced a document covering reflection

attacks and recommendations to operators• English documentation

https://www.janog.gr.jp/wg/doc/ntp-wg-en.pdf

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

Challenges: Experimental meetings• Interim meetings

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

• Held once a year • Lightning Talk (LT) Night

• Half day meeting in Tokyo • lightning talks only

• Held occasionally • US Regional Meeting

• Half day meeting in the US• Involve overseas JANOG members to the community• Talk about overseas topics

• Held occasionally

JANOG35.5 Interim Meeting (Apr 15 2015)

JANOG LT Night #1 (Aug 27 2015)

US Regional Meeting (Oct 23 2015)

Fellowship program for younger generation

• Began in 2015 (JANOG35)• Sponsored by the JANOG fellowship committee

• Officially founded since JANOG37• An independent team from the JANOG steering committee

• Financial support to attend a JANOG meeting• Transportation (including air fare)• Hotel accommodation • Social event registration fee

• Eligibility to anyone between 18 to 29 years old• 9 fellows in JANOG37

• Mostly students

NEW !

Challenges : the language• Main language is Japanese even for speaking

• Occasionally have English speakers• Speak English using Japanese deck• Speak English using English deck + rough Japanese interpretation

• i18n (Internationalization) team• Volunteer based team • provide JANOG info in English• https://www.janog.gr.jp/en

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

translation firms so some content will be available in English• https://www.janog.gr.jp/en/index.php?JANOG%2Fenglish_slides• Began in 2015• Thanks to Miwa-san!

NEW !

How we organize JANOGJANOG members

= Mailing list subscribersSteering Committee

(including Chair + Vice Chair) Meeting 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 Committeei18n team

English web maintenance

Resource sponsors(colo, translations,

servers, etc)Meeting sponsors

Changes per meetingStanding committee

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