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LACNIC Technical Forum: Ten Experts, 200 Minutes and Plenty of Interaction
May 7, 2020
This
Wednesday, ten qualified speakers from different parts of the region and the
world came together at the LACNIC Technical Forum (FTL) to present before an
online audience that averaged 250 participants.
Presentations
included topics such as network operation, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, IPv6
deployment, RPKI measurements, DNSSEC, interconnection, the Internet of Things
(IoT), and security vulnerabilities.
For more
than 200 minutes divided into four sessions, ten speakers (Javier More,
Massimo Candela, Agustín Formoso, Karen O’Donoghue, Richard Hummel, Claudio
Risso, Tim Bruijnzeels, Hugo Salgado, Carlos Martínez and José Camargo) shared
their presentations with the technical community. This time, a simultaneous
transcription service was provided in three languages (English, Spanish and
Portuguese).
“The FTL is
a LACNIC initiative that tries to promote a space for our region and other
communities to exchange information and share their experiences for the purpose
of having information on the operational needs in our areas of responsibility,”
observed LACNIC CTO Carlos Martínez in his closing remarks.
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The level
of the presentations has been improving each year, which makes the work of the
Program Committee increasingly challenging.
Martínez
announced that the 2021 LACNIC Technical Forum will take place in May of 2021
and will maintain the current thematic areas. He urged the technical community
to submit their questions to advance potential lines of work.
Back and
forth. The first presentation at the FTL was by Javier
More, who spoke about the experience with Microwave
and Fiber Optic Transport Networks and Radio Spectrum for the Deployment of 5G
Networks in Peru. He explained that, due to Peru’s geography, there is a
significant concentration of fiber in the coastal areas, while much of the
country’s forest region has greater difficulties in obtaining good quality
connections.
The level
of the presentations has been improving each year, which makes the work of the
Program Committee increasingly challenging.
Martínez
announced that the 2021 LACNIC Technical Forum will take place in May of 2021
and will maintain the current thematic areas. He urged the technical community
to submit their questions to advance potential lines of work.
Back and
forth. The first presentation at the FTL was by Javier
More, who spoke about the experience with Microwave
and Fiber Optic Transport Networks and Radio Spectrum for the Deployment of 5G
Networks in Peru. He explained that, due to Peru’s geography, there is a
significant concentration of fiber in the coastal areas, while much of the
country’s forest region has greater difficulties in obtaining good quality
connections.
Massimo
Candela then presented his research on BGP
Monitoring, which
allows monitoring announcements, even those that are not covered by an ROA
Next,
Agustín Formoso shared De-bogonizing
2a10::/12, a project that studies how the Internet reacts when a new
address block is assigned to an RIR.
In turn, in
her presentation titled The Road to
Deployment: Network Time Security, Karen O’Donoghue concluded that a prototype
implementation model should be developed to improve Internet architecture.
Richard
Hummel then shared NETSCOUT’s research on the cyberthreat landscape. More than
23,000 denial of service attacks occur each day. “If you convert this into
dollars, you will see that it is a lot of money,” the expert said during his
presentation. “How much money are we losing by not preventing or mitigating
these attacks? How much does each of those attacks cost?” Hummel asked.
Next, Claudio
Risso shared his work titled Designing
Optimal iBGP / MPLS Topologies for ANTEL’s International Network, and Tim
Bruijnzeels shared Trends in RPKI
Deployment, including relevant data on the development of security
standards and resource certification.
Later in
the afternoon, Hugo Salgado and Carlos Martínez presented their work on SGA-1 and Algorithm Rotation in DNSSEC, and
José Camargo spoke about an Alternative
Low-Cost Solution for Controlling Volumetric Attacks in Latin America.
Click here to watch all the presentations given at the FTL.
