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BDX8 removal – Melbourne

At long last we have migrated off the BDX8. When Covid prevented the road trip to Melbourne the team had planned, it was down to crossing our fingers and hoping Delta could be stopped. After 6? 8? 10? weeks of lockdown and countless error messages, the decision was made to pull the proverbial plug, and engage remote hands.  

Aaron has apparently compiled the best set of work instructions ever, and our remote smart hands followed the bouncing ball all the way through to the end. The BDX8 is no longer at the heart of VIC-IX; however, it continues to have three 1Gbps users.   

A special thanks to Aaron for a great job, our remote hands for your assistance over the distance, Nick for the late-night supervision, and to Washif for the checking.  

Brilliant effort, team. A huge well done. 

Netflix becomes opt-in

This morning, members received an email regarding a configuration issue with Netflix caches. The issue was recently identified and has since been resolved. As a result, members will need to complete the following process to access these caches: 

1. Create an AS-SET that lists your residential customers or provide the information to our team. 

2. Tag BGP advertisements to route-servers with the following communities, based on peering location. 

  • 10084:2504 WA OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2514 VIC OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2524 QLD OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2544 NSW OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2534 SA OCA Opt-In 

If you require any further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our team at support@internet.asn.au or call us on 1300 793 320. 

Open Submissions

September’s Advocacy Corner Update

Submissions that may be of interest to members include:

Review of Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Violent Abhorrent Violent Material) (AVM) Act 2019 | 15 October 2021 

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement is enquiring into the effectivity of the AVM Act 2019, which was passed following the Christchurch terrorist attack. The AVM Act enforces that internet, hosting or content services proactively need to communicate to law enforcement that abhorrent violent material is accessible on their networks and work to ensure it is inaccessible in Australia. This inquiry will specifically focus on whether the AVM Act has helped reduce the misuse of online platforms, whether the powers given to the eSafety Commissioner and the federal police are appropriate and consider the definition of ‘violent abhorrent material.’ 

Telstra Migration Plan | 21 October 2021 

Telstra submitted a proposed variation to the ACCC adjusting the plan for the shutdown of legacy copper services occurring as part of the migration to NBN. Changes include amendments to the management disconnection arrangements in unit common areas, to differentiate between private and public payphones, to expand Telstra’s authority for reconnecting copper or hybrid fibre coaxial services if required and to extend for managed disconnections for premises not serviceable by NBN yet. After submissions close, the ACCC will make a decision on the proposed changes offered by Telstra.   

If you have any comments or would like to find additional information about the above, please email us at policy@internet.asn.au

 

From the CEO’s Desk

Well, here we are almost into the last quarter of the year. This last month has been another productive one, with the old BDX8 Extreme (aka ‘Black Diamond’) replaced in VIC-IX and the team are close to declaring the new WLG-IX across the ditch ready for service. The team have also redesigned and updated our out-of-band network and commenced the rebuild. 

Normally by now we would also have announced our AGM date, however this year we are working to manage a seamless transition to a company limited by guarantee. With lockdowns, postal delays and now even the earthquake, paperwork processing at ASIC has been delayed. Members should rest assured that we will call the AGM as soon as we hear from ASIC! Regardless of this, we will publish the annual report and annual financials ahead of the meeting as they are close to final now. 

Our policy effort is also very much head down, tail up, too. The NBN SAU and defamation reform work is progressing, and we’ve made a few submissions. The eSafety Commission has now set out with a bit more clarity how it wants the new Codes to work to ensure the industry minimises the risk the public is exposed to the most serious categories of material by July 2022. It seems they are expecting to see file scanning on internet-based storage services for known serious content. 

International Smile Day 2021

Happy international smile day! To mark this day, we would like to share with you a snippet from one of our newsletters in ’97 about the use of emoticons.

April 1997
EMOTICONS

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These are “emotion icons” and are used to convey feelings in such things as email and postings to newsgroups, just to name a few. The standard smiley : ) usually conveys happy bright feelings with
whatever was said. For instance, Australians seem to use insults to convey how much they like someone, but when used in email, especially if being read by someone who is feeling a bit niggley, “you old so and so” can be taken as a real insult. The addition of a smiley, “you old so and so. : – )” lets the reader know how the other person intended the email to read.

Then there are these <G> or *G* for a “grin” or sometimes even <grynne> and yet again, these <BG> <EG> <VEG> <VBG> representing big grin, evil grin, very evil grin, and a very big grin. I even know of someone who might qualify for <VBEG> – a very big evil grin.

Other emoticons are: : – D laughing, : – 7 wry, : – > sarcastic, : – P cheeky, ; – ) winking, : – o shocked. There are many variations, and experimentation can produce some pretty clever comments in themselves.

Annette

:) :-D :P

Recent Submissions

As an organisation with a proud heritage deep-seated in advocacy, we are pleased to share our most recent submissions:

If you have any comments or would like to find additional information about the above, please email us at policy@internet.asn.au

 

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