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Tickets are sold out for the annual AusNOG Conference happening next week! The programme has been released so you can start planning for the sessions you would like to attend. This year, our engineers will be taking part in the RPKI Deployathon, where they will be guided by the facilitators and will discuss/debate and work on properly signing ROAs for your address space, installing and configuring different RPKI validators, connecting routers to the validators, configure infrastructure to implement ROV and more.
We have a booth again this year, so please stop by for a chat and pick up some swag while you’re there! With a couple of fun things to do at our booth, it should be a nice break for you all between sessions.
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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:
- properly signing ROAs for your address space (based on what you announce/accept in BGP);
- install and configure different RPKI validators (diff the validated outputs and under the hood defaults?);
- connect routers to the validators (multi-vendor infra);
- configure infrastructure to implement ROV (to drop or not to drop?).
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.
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Completed Submissions
2022 Broadband Speed Claims Guidance Consultation | ACCC | 25 February 2022
The ACCC’s proposed updated guidance includes six principles regarding expectations for network operators, RSPs and consumers, and is part of ongoing periodic reviews by the Commission.
We responded to the Commission regarding its 2022 Broadband Speed Claims Guidance. On the whole, we expressed our support for the principles driving the Industry Guidance but asked for greater clarification, and guidance to be provided, particularly for our members who are smaller RSPs.
Review of the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Bill 2022 | Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security | 1 March 2022
Following consultations which closed in early February, the SLACIP Bill has been submitted to the PJCIS for review. We submitted our response to the PJCIS’ Inquiry into the Bill and particularly noted our grave concerns with the extreme speed at which the Department of Home Affairs is pushing the Bill, despite its inclusion of some potentially very problematic powers that will see businesses being required to download government software.
Following our response, we were invited by the PJCIS to attend and provide evidence to their public hearing into the Review of the SLACIP Bill on 16 March, where we reiterated our concerns at the hearing. Their report on this has been released, and we are now assessing its impact.
Code C661:2022 Reducing Scam Calls and Scam SMS | Communications Alliance | 11 March 2022
In our response to the updated Industry Code which expanded the code’s scope to include scam SMS, we expressed our general support for the draft code, but also raised some issues. In particular, we advised against the requirement to block originating numbers outside a CSP as it could greatly impede competition in the telco sector. We believe it should be sufficient that members validate the number ownership before routing given the dominance of certain players in the 13— number space.
Open Submissions
Security information obligations for carriers and eligible carriage service providers | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications | 29 March 2022
DITRDC is requesting consultation on new Rules for carriers and carriage service providers to apply equivalent security measures for the telecommunications sector as under the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Act 2021 for other sectors. Under these new rules, essentially all carriers and carriage service providers will be subject to the obligations which include providing information to the Secretary of Home Affairs to be kept on a register, as well as mandatory incident reporting scheme.
Consumer Data Right rules and standards design paper for telecommunications sector | Department of Treasury | 29 March 2022
The Treasury is seeking input into the Rules and Standards that have been developed following the sector’s designation in December 2021, with which we were also involved.
Digital Platform Services Inquiry | ACCC and others | 1 April 2022
A coalition of regulatory bodies is embarking on an inquiry into Digital Platform Services. This inquiry is part of the ACCC’s five-year Digital Platform Inquiry and follows the release of its fifth interim report. The Discussion Paper considers and invites submissions as to whether the current competition and consumer protection laws are sufficient to address the harms identified in the inquiry.
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Last year, we launched our IAASysters@AusNOG Program. Based on the international systers.org and systers@IETF programs, this program helps to support and enable women to access the valuable technical content and business networking opportunities that come from the Australian Network Operators Group (AusNOG) conference.
Sponsored attendees will receive:
- Economy airfares to Sydney and three nights accommodation for interstate participants
- Admission to the AusNOG conference (April 6 and 7) – sponsored by AusNOG
- Admission to the IAASysters@AusNOG workshop (April 5)
- A one-year complimentary Professional membership to IAA – subject to Board approval.
An essential part of our program is the IAASysters@AusNOG workshop. This is a one-day event; offering targeted technical and presentation skills training in addition to a career planning session delivered by industry professionals, designed to help you advance your career.
Whether you are at the beginning of your career, yet to begin or starting again, the IAASysters@AusNOG program offers a variety of opportunities designed to boost your knowledge, skills, and confidence.
Details for the IAASysters@AusNOG workshop:
Date: Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Time: 9:00am AEST – 5:00pm AEST
Location: The Fullerton Hotel, Sydney
This program is proudly sponsored by AusNOG and Amazon Web Services, and we would like to express our appreciation of their support.
For more information, please visit the IAASysters@AusNOG information page on our website.
Program Sponsors
The IAASysters@AusNOG Program is proudly brought to you with the help of our sponsors.
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The Australian Institute of Office Professionals (AIOP) is hosting a virtual webinar, and our wonderful Executive Officer and Company Secretary – Kitty Hibble – will be presenting! From Enthusiasts to Critical Infrastructure will take you through the journey of the growth of the Internet in Western Australia and a little known but crucial part of its infrastructure – Internet Exchange Points.
Kitty Hibble will show how the association grew from a bunch of people with vision, to now being a fundamental – even critical – part of the Internet today and illustrate some of the organisational changes that had to occur to support this evolution.
Event details:
Date: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Time: 10:00am AWST
Location: Online
If you would like to attend, please email us at events@internet.asn.au to access your exclusive IAA member discount code!
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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.
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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.
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We are excited to share with members news of the safe arrival of Nick’s baby girl – Aria Pratley – on Wednesday 16th February. Both mum and baby are doing well, and we wish their family all the very best with this new chapter!