Work continues on the OoB project with SA-IX deployment taking place next week; WA-IX and ACT-IX are soon to follow. NSW-IX and VIC-IX are up and running with great results and arrangements are being made for the QLD-IX deployment, amongst other things that we can’t announce just yet – so stay tuned!
Thank you to all the members who completed our member survey last month; your feedback is very valuable and will help determine where the next IX or PoP will go. We have collated the feedback and the Board is currently reviewing it. As this analysis progresses, we will keep you informed, so keep an eye out for updates in future newsletters and our social media posts. As you can well understand, some of these locations are difficult to service with some of the most expensive backhaul around. It may be we need to make compromises on our level of redundancy or capacity, but rest assured we will ensure the best possible standards are maintained.
Sabrina Chang-Rozario joined our Admin Team earlier this month as our new Administrative Assistant. She will be assisting the Admin Team with various tasks including event organisation and has taken over our wonderful Tanzia’s role as the Executive Assistant to Narelle. Coming to us with over 15 years of international not-for-profit experience in stakeholder relations, program and event management, and relationship building, she is already an asset to our team.
In her spare time, Sabrina enjoys Pilates and yoga, dabbling in photography, reading the classics to her children and travelling – Covid dependent at the moment, unfortunately!
On Wednesday 16th March, Narelle and Sophia represented our association at the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security hearing that comprised several panels of stakeholders affected by the proposed bill. This hearing allowed industry representatives to provide feedback and raise concerns about the proposed federal government’s critical infrastructure cybersecurity obligations. This includes laws that could require organisations to install third-party software to gather information from their systems in the name of national security and report them to the government when the government deems them technically incapable of providing such systems information.
During the hearing, Narelle did a fantastic job representing member interests. She explained that technical systems go through a number of upgrades and revisions and that capabilities change, meaning that any requirement to install software on behalf of Home Affairs needs careful and ongoing security and interoperability testing. She further raised the concern that the legislation is unclear, very complex and very difficult to work through and raised a number of specific concerns about the data this software could capture. She expressed that we need to trust in the type of software that goes onto our systems and that we must be able to read the code, assess the code, test the code, and check interoperability and security before it is installed and at any time it is installed.
The hearing was an excellent opportunity to hear the different perspectives of various stakeholders. We hope the Parliamentary Joint Committee was able to gain enough industry insight for its review so that the inquiry can assist in constructing a Bill that is measured, effective and will improve our national security. If you would like to know more about the contents of the hearing, the transcript is available for download. So far, it seems the PJCIS has taken some of our views on board, so we live in hope the legislation will improve.
We’re looking for two PHP developers to build and maintain the new IAA Member Services Portal in addition to business as usual tasks. If you or someone you know is an experienced developer with PHP and Laravel framework knowledge, combined with a deep knowledge of JavaScript, CSS and HTML and can meet the knowledge and experience components required for these roles, then head over to our Careers Page to learn more about the roles or to apply.
This year’s RPKI Deployathon builds on the previous Deployathons held at APNIC48 (Chiangmai) and APRICOT2020 (Melbourne).
Event details
Date: Tuesday 5th April
Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm AEST
Location: Cliftons Sydney, 13/60 Margaret Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
This event will be face-to-face guided by facilitators; participants will discuss/debate and work on:
Participants will analyse the outcomes of each step and summarise any improvements in operational processes to achieve these outcomes. The summaries/findings of each activity will be presented as a lightning talk at AusNOG (PC and time permitting).
Participants will work with different validators, including Routinator, FORT, rpki-client, and rpki-prover, with accompanying routing implementations for IOS-XE/XR, JunOS, SR-OS, EOS, and others (BIRD, FRR).
Participants must meet the pre-requisites to join, and there is a maximum number of 50 attendees, so don’t delay your registration! For more information, please see the APNIC Academy Events page.
Dr Karen Lee, in the UTS Faculty of Law, is undertaking research into the ways service providers engage when codes of practice are drafted; and why industry participants choose to engage or disengage in code development.
Using the development of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (C628: 2019) as a case study, the research seeks to identify the consultation mechanisms used; the difficulties encountered; the barriers to participation that industry participants of all sizes and business types might experience; the effect these mechanisms and barriers have on the code development process, and measures that might be taken to improve industry rule-making activities.
To schedule an interview with Dr Lee or for further information about the project (UTS ETH21-6356), please contact her at karen.lee@uts.edu.au.
With Australia’s newest domain namespace launching next month – .au direct – auDA will be holding a webinar to update users on tools and resources to help get their .au. The webinar will set out how to apply for a .au direct domain name, demonstrate the new tools designed to support .au direct decision making, and how auDA has been working to drive awareness of the new namespace.
Members may need to make some DNS changes or could get extra calls to the helpdesks if customers start seeing these strange new URLs on the interwebs.
Date: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Time: 1:15pm – 2:00pm AEDT
Location: Virtual
If you are interested in attending the auDA webinar, register here.
Thank you to all Corporate and Affiliate members who have completed our member survey. As a member-run association, your input is vital to ensuring that we provide the network you want and need. As we have seen a good amount of growth across the exchanges, we are wanting to expand our network into Hobart, Darwin and other data centres. We’re also keen to get your input on the content you would like to see on the network, so if you haven’t completed the survey yet, please get to it! The survey closes on Friday 4th March 2022, 5:00pm AEDT.
