IAA Newsletters

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.

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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!

This month our newsletter announces details of our AGM, outlines our timetable for deploying RPKI and welcomes back Tanzia to the team.

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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.

This month our newsletter looks back at our first online event, announces increased capacity between out capitals and reports on the outcomes of the NZIX AGM.

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What a tremendous welcome I’ve had to the Association, with many members and colleagues across the industry reaching out with their good wishes. Thank you to everyone who has made this first month so enjoyable – and productive.

We have had our first online event and successfully supported NZIX in their AGM. We have also managed to plan out a series of upgrades which we look forward to telling you more about over the coming months as the new switches and extra bandwidth across Australia come online. Those people after extra extended reach capacity should put in their orders!

I hope to meet as many of you as possible as soon as is possible – in person when we are COVID-safe, but via videoconference if you want to catch up sooner. What role do you see the Association playing into the future? How would you like to see our products improve? Send an email to ceo@internet.asn.au

Warm Regards
Narelle Clark
IAA CEO

This month our newsletter welcomes our new CEO, announces our first online event and explains our move to fully automated DNS.

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This month our newsletter welcomes a new peering engineer, looks into NBN Co’s relief package for RSPs and introduces our new looking glass.

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