This month our newsletter celebrates a major switch upgrade, announces voting is open for the board elections and looks at our next Life Under Lockdown event.
Read the full newsletter here.
This month our newsletter celebrates a major switch upgrade, announces voting is open for the board elections and looks at our next Life Under Lockdown event.
Read the full newsletter here.
IAA’s recent audit of the RPKI status of the prefixes advertised over the exchanges found a number of invalid advertisements from member peering sessions.
We have now notified all members affected by this and as per our timetable outlined in last month’s newsletter item, we will begin dropping prefixes with invalid RPKI status, starting from September 1, 2020.
If you need further assistance with any routes that have been flagged as invalid or would like more information regarding our RPKI deployment, email peering@internet.asn.au
Have you ever wondered what the IAA Board does? Well, wonder no more as they have started producing quarterly reports on their activities. In a nutshell, however, the IAA Board meets monthly and is responsible for the overarching governance and strategy of the Association.
The Board reports can be downloaded from our website.
It’s been a little quieter around here over the last month, as it’s been head down, tail up ploughing through the upgrades (well done Nick and Aaron) and preparing for our AGM in just over a week’s time. I participated in a panel as part of APNIC’s Networking from Home Oceania event and will be part of the line up next month for APNIC 50 giving a recap of the Australian ISP industry’s survival tactics during the pandemic. I’m also gradually getting to meet with many of our corporate members, and your feedback led to our taking a strong stand in the media on the upcoming CVC charge resumption by NBN Co.
The team have also made great progress implementing RPKI – if you’ve received an email saying your routes include invalids, please make the changes or liaise with us to help. It’s important we keep the routing table as clean as possible.
Speaking of the AGM, I hope you will take the time to vote on the changes to our Rules, and for the board election. A strong and active board is essential to our governance and are frequently our go to team for strategic advice. If you haven’t received your ballot email – do be in touch!
The Internet Association of Australia, operator of Australia’s largest and longest-standing, non-profit, carrier-neutral Internet Exchanges, believes NBN Co’s recent announcement, that it will be continuing with its withdrawal of their COVID-19 inspired 40% CVC boost in September, to be detrimental to both customers and the internet community.
“NBN Co’s recent intervention on pricing has been a welcome relief and greatly improved sentiment towards the NBN generally,” explains IAA Chief Executive Officer, Narelle Clark.”
“It is the Association’s view that it is too early to remove this relief. ISPs, especially those smaller providers, have found their cost base unexpectedly and massively altered due to the pandemic and need time to adjust their capital and operating programs.”
“Removal of this additional support now by NBN Co will disproportionately affect providers at the smaller end of the spectrum who are also vital businesses supplying Australia’s industry and social fabric.”
Given the Federal Government’s relief package is still in place, IAA believes the withdrawal of NBN Co’s pricing relief on CVC capacity has the potential to significantly reduce the quality of service to residential and business customers.
At a time when the shift to working and studying from home is crucial, the reliance on Australia’s broadband network has never been more important. By extending their relief package, IAA believes NBN Co will help service providers continue to provide Australia’s necessary connectivity and continuity of services.
This month our newsletter announces details of our AGM, outlines our timetable for deploying RPKI and welcomes back Tanzia to the team.
Read the full newsletter here.
We have had another busy month at IAA. After running the first successful online event, we hosted a more technical deep dive on RPKI and are compiling an event program that will take us to the end of the year. Thank you to those who have made suggestions for topics and speakers, and particularly to those who have offered to speak. In September we will have the ACCC explain the broadband performance monitoring system, a topic no doubt many of you are passionate about. The RPKI session also gave us the opportunity to release our own plans to implement RPKI along with route validation, meaning for some of you, some announcements will be dropped. We trust you will all appreciate the cleaner routing table as a result.
I am also knee deep in working through some of the hefty compliance issues that exist for our industry and have had meetings with a range of regulators. The government has recently announced its review into consumer safeguards – is that something members would like us to comment on? You may have seen our press release welcoming the report recommending changes to the assistance and access bill (TOLA), please let us know if there are any other issues you think we should be commenting on. I’m keen to hear your thoughts, so please send them through to ceo@internet.asn.au
By now, members should have received the call for nominations to the IAA Board. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage members to consider what skills and capabilities you want to see on the Board, or even to consider running.
IAA is pleased to be able to welcome back Tanzia Hewer to the Association following her parental leave. Tanzia will be working directly with IAA CEO, Narelle Clark, assisting her with administration tasks, as well as taking on the day to day business operations and governance support for the New Zealand Internet Exchange. It is great to have Tanzia back on the team.
Tanzia’s return also coincides with a move for the Association’s admin team into a new office in Perth CBD. With stunning views over the Swan River, the new office will give the team the opportunity to get together for work on a regular basis. With recent office vacancy rates increasing, we were able to strike a great deal for the space, meaning the staff should be happy there for some time to come.
The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications has released the third part of its Consumer Safeguards review. The latest consultation looks to position Australia’s consumer safeguards for a post-2020 environment.
Part C reviews how best to provide choice and fairness in the consumer-provider relationship, including the role of industry self-regulation, legacy consumer protections for traditional phone services, digital inclusion approaches and productivity.
Clearly, there are issues that will affect Internet Service Providers and IAA is considering making a submission, so all comments are welcome as we work to develop an IAA response.
Submissions to the Department are due by 24 August.
We welcome you to share your thoughts and feedback with us by emailing admin@internet.asn.au
Alternatively you can make your own submissions directly to the Department, and feel free to send us a copy if you do.
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