REMOTE - Everything you always wanted to know about the Internet (but were afraid to ask) - How to break the Internet: a talk about outages that never happened (2/5)

by Job Snijders

Tuesday 29 Mar 2022, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

ABSTRACT:

You think you know how the internet works, but do you really understand the complexity of today’s pervasive internet or do you think of it simply as a scaled up version of the Arpanet just after TCP/IP was introduced? If you aren’t sure what an ASN is or what MPLS does then these lectures are for you. Although our speakers will cover how the internet was born—and touch on the role that institutes such as CERN played in its development—the focus will be on the technologies, both hardware and software, that enable interconnect billions of devices and move exabytes of data. Even if you do know what an ASN is and understand MPLS, you’re be bound to learn something as these experts explain the rules and standards that regulate these technologies and how they are created and agreed.

 

BIO:

Job Snijders is a Principal Engineer at Fastly where he analyzes and architects global networks for future growth. Job is co-chair of the IETF GROW working group, co-chair of the RIPE Routing Working Group, vice president of PeeringDB, director of the Route Server Support Foundation, manager of the IRRd v4 project, member of the RIPE NCC Executive Board. Job also is an OpenBSD developer.

Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both operational, engineering, and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & APRICOT, and as developer in a number of community projects for over 15 years.

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Snijders_CERN_breaking_internet.pdf

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