NANOG28 Agenda

Tutorial: BGP Multihoming Techniques

Philip Smith, Cisco Systems

Philip Smith joined Cisco Systems in January 1998. He is a member of the Service Provider Architectures Group of Consulting Engineering, within Corporate Development. His role includes working with many ISPs in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world, specifically in network strategies, design, technology, and operations, as well as helping with network configuration and scaling. Other areas of interest also include Internet routing, Internet protocols, IPv6, and encouraging the growth of the Internet around the world. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 5 years at PIPEX (now part of UUNET\'s global ISP business), the UK\'s first commercial Internet Service Provider. He was one of the first engineers working in the UK Internet, and played a fundamental role in building the modern Internet in the UK and Europe. Philip is co-author of Cisco ISP Essentials, ISBN 1-58705-041-2, published by Cisco Press. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has a First Class Honours Degree in Physics. He lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Tutorial: Introduction to MPLS

Joe Soricelli, Juniper

Joseph M. Soricelli is an Education Services Engineer at Juniper. He is a Juniper Networks Certified Internet Engineer, a Juniper Authorized Instructor, and a Cisco Certified Internet Expert. Joeseph is a contributing author to <I>Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference</I> and <I>Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate Study Guide</I>. In addition to writing numerous training courses, he has worked with and trained carriers, telcos, and ISPs throughout his career in the networking industry.

Interception Technology: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!

Jeff Schiller, MIT

Jeff Schiller received his S.B. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1979. As MIT Network Manager, he has overseen the MIT Campus Computer Network since its inception in 1984. Prior to his work in the Network Group, he maintained MIT\'s Multics timesharing system during the ARPANet TCP/IP conversion. Jeff is an author of MIT\'s Kerberos Authentication system. From 1994 through 2003, he was the Internet Engineering Steering Group\'s Area Director for Security, responsible for overseeing security-related Working Groups of the IETF. He was responsible for releasing a U.S. legal freeware version of the popular PGP encryption program. Jeff is also responsible for the development and deployment of an X.509-based Public Key Infrastructure at MIT. He is the technical lead for the new Higher Education Certifying Authority being operated by the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking, and a founding member of the Steering Group of NEARnet, now part of Level3.

The National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC) Vulnerability Disclosure Framework and What It Might Mean to the ISP Community

Jim Duncan, Cisco Systems

Jim Duncan works in the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group at Cisco Systems, where he is a topic expert on incident response, vulnerability handling, and cyberthreat assessment. Previously, Jim was an Incident Manager for the Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) for four years, where he handled customer security and product security vulnerabilities. In addition to his work with the NIAC Vulnerability Disclosure WG, Jim currently works on proactive issues supporting other incident response teams within Cisco. He is authoring an internal policy for information sharing, and he actively contributes to external projects for several Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs). In the background is a project to adapt \"Inter-NOC Dial By ASN\" technology for inter-ISAC communications. Jim contributed to RFC 1244, the Site Security Policy Handbook, co-authored a tutorial on building an incident response team for USENIX, and is a Liaison Member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. Prior to Cisco, Jim worked for Penn State University. He attended his first NANOG meeting at NANOG8, October 1996, in Ann Arbor.
• Paul Vixie, ISC.

Research Forum: Achieving Record Speed Trans-Atlantic End-to-end TCP Throughput

• Les Cottrell, Stanford University.

Issues in IPv6 Deployment

Jeff Doyle, Juniper

Jeff Doyle is the IPv6 Solutions Manager for Juniper Networks. Specializing in IP routing protocols, MPLS, and IPv6, Jeff has designed or assisted in the design of large-scale IP service provider networks throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and the People\'s Republic of China. Jeff is the author of <I>CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I and II</I>, is an editor and contributing author of <I>Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference</I>, and is the author of a new series of books on large-scale networking, the first of which will be released in the summer of 2003. Jeff has presented numerous corporate seminars for Juniper Networks, and has also spoken at NANOG, JANOG, APRICOT, and at IPv6 Forum conferences.

• Barry Raveendran Greene, Cisco Systems.

• Joe Abley, ISC.

Bidirectional Forwarding Plane Deadness Detection

• Dave Katz, Juniper Networks.
• Dave Ward, Cisco Systems.

• Randy Bush, IIJ.

• Steve Bellovin, AT&T Research.
• Dave Meyer, Sprint.
• Andrew Partan, Partan Labs.
• Alvaro Retana, Cisco Systems.

BGP Vulnerability Testing: Separating Fact from FUD

Sean Convery, Cisco Systems

Sean Convery is a security researcher in Cisco\'s Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group (CIAG). The research arm of the CIAG is tasked to collaborate with various groups on security issues 3-5 years in the future. Before coming to the CIAG, Sean worked primarily on the SAFE blueprint, and is an author of several whitepapers on the subject. Prior to his five years at Cisco, Sean held various positions in both IT and security consulting during his 11 years in networking.

Matthew Franz, Cisco Systems

Matthew Franz is a security researcher in Cisco Systems\' Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group in Austin, Texas. Apart from work on BGP, interests include industrial automation (SCADA/DCS/Industrial Ethernet), security, and automated protocol test tools. Before joining CIAG, Matthew was senior security engineer in the Security Technologies Assessment team, where he conducted product security evaluations on a variety of Cisco products and network protocols. Before coming to Cisco in 2000, Matthew was a network security consultant and taught technical network security courses to government information warfare customers in San Antonio, Texas.

NRIC Best Practices for ISP Security

Ross Callon, Juniper

Ross Callon is an engineer in the protocols group at Juniper Networks. He has experience in Internet protocol standards, high-speed router design, and multi-protocol coexistence and interoperability. Ross is co-chair of Network Reliability and Interoperability Council 6, Focus Group 2, advising the FCC on network reliability. He also was a participant in a recent effort to advise the White House on security in communications networks. Ross is a long-standing participant in multiple IETF working groups, and has previous experience in the ATM Forum, IESG, IEEE, ANSI, and ISO. He has authored or contributed toward VPN, MPLS, PNNI, IPv6, IS-IS and CLNP networking standards. He is a former co-chair of the IETF IP Next Generation (IPv6) working group. Ross has published numerous articles and been awarded twelve patents. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT and an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University.

Implementation of ARIN\'s Lame DNS Delegation Policy

Ed Lewis, ARIN

Edward Lewis is the Research Engineer for ARIN. He has been involved in DNS and DNSSEC Working Groups in the IETF since 1996 and is one co-chair of the Provisioning Registry Protocol Working Group of the IETF.

MPLS-Based Synchronous Traffic Shunt

Yehuda Afek, Riverhead

Yehuda Afek is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University, and the CTO of Riverhead Networks Inc. Currently his research focuses on efficient forwarding and routing algorithms for IP networks, and methods for traffic engineering to stop DDoS attacks. Prior to joining Tel-Aviv University in 1989 he spent four years in AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1985 and 1983, respectively.
• Roy Brooks, Cisco Systems.

Nicolas Fischbach, COLT Telecom

Nicolas Fischbach is a Senior Manager, responsible for the European IP Security Engineering team at COLT Telecom. He also manages the Swiss IP Engineering team, and after participating in the deployment of the Swiss IP network and Internet Solution Center, he helped create the security and network unit of the Professional Services department. He holds an Engineer degree in Networking and Distributed Computing. Nicolas is also co-founder of Sécurité.Org, a French-speaking portal on computer and network security.