24th SIG-NOC meeting - Utrecht, Netherlands

12:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 13:15

Welcome, Harold Teunissen, SURF

ASPA: The Next Frontier in Practical Inter-Domain Routing Security, Simon Leinen, Switch

Over the past years, Route Origin Validation (ROV) based on the Resource
Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has been widely deployed by ISPs,
including NRENs. The emerging ASPA (AS Provider Authorization)
mechanism promises to further improve inter-domain routing security.

We briefly present the ASPA publication and validation mechanisms,
estimate the timeline for its wider introduction, talk about some early
experiences at AS559 (Switch), and discuss deployment considerations,
with particular emphasis on NREN-specific routing policy issues as well
as risks related to misconfigurations. 

Slides

AI Agent in the WorkFlow Orchestrator, Peter Boers, SURF

This presentation will give some insights on the AI agent recently included into the Workflow Orchestrator (WFO). This software, which SURF is actively developing in collaboration with other international parties, has been enhanced with RAG functionality. This makes it possible to search the orchestrator’s database in a comprehensive manner and to extract all kinds of cross-sectional information from the orchestrator using natural language.

Slides

Multi-domain communication between teams on the EuroHPC Network, Keith Slater, Scott Campbell, GÉANT

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AI in the NOC - Discussion , Jonny Lundin, SUNET

How do we use the AI tools on the NOC? Are we sharing our confidential information with open AI tools? Are we aware of the risks?

SURF NOC and tooling landscape, Dennis Maat, SURF

SURF has an outsourced NOC with Quanza. In this talk, we will see how they are working together to deliver services and the tools they use in the NOC. 

Sustainable Working practices in Asiera, Andy Byrne, Asiera

Andy will provide details on some of the network-related sustainability initiatives undertaken in HEAnet/Asiera. He will also share real-world examples of the practices Asiera has implemented to measure and reduce our CO₂ emissions

Wrap up

End of Day 1

9:15 - 9:45

Network Development Tools and Services, Ivana Golub, PCSS

This talk will give an overview of some of the tools and services available to the R&E community from the Network Development side: perfSONAR, Performance Measurement Platform, Argus, TimeMap, nmaas and Network eAcademy.

Security Activities and Services, Scott Campbell, GÉANT

This talk will give an overview of some of the tools and services available to the R&E community from the Security side.

Discussion: Community-based NOC tools,  Ivana Golub, PCSS and Jonny Lundin, SUNET

What are the tools that we use? Are there tools that should be developed jointly? What kind of products, tools or services would be relevant and would be used in case they were developed in the GÉANT project? With this discussion, we would like to gather feedback from the community and share experiences with the tools we use.

Finding and onboarding people in the NOC, Mick O'Donovan, Asiera

The landscape for hiring and retaining new technical staff to NREN or indeed any NOC nowadays is a difficult one to navigate. This talk will see how Asiera have dealt with this recently and what plans they have to try and retain their newly on-boarded colleagues.

Flash talks:

• The Network Automation Forum, Simon Leinen, Switch
  NAF is a forum for discussion on networking that includes automation, orchestration and observability. In this flash talk, we will see an overview of the updates on network automation given at the last Autocon meetings. 
• GÉANT Network Updates, Temoor Khan, GÉANT