A presentation given at the NOG Update Session of APRICOT 2015 on Wednesday 4th March 2015.

1. JANOG
JANOG Chair
Seiichi KAWAMURA
mail: kawamucho at mesh.ad.jp
fb: /kawamucho
twtr: @kawamucho
18 years of fun and progress

2. About JANOG : the usual stuff
• Founded 1997
• 7000+ mailing list members
• Meetings
• Held twice a year, usually January and July.
• 2 days of plenary sessions + 1/2 day of tutorials and BoFs
• mostly focus on technical and operational discussions
• No registration fee for meeting
• Presentations and discussions are in Japanese
• English acceptable but rough translation is recommended
• around 10 non-native attendees per meeting
• 800+ attendees at Tokyo meetings
• 500+ attendees at other Cities
• Next meeting July , 2015 in Kitakyushu City

3. More about JANOG : Working groups
• Working Groups
• Special interest working groups are formed when request arises
from the members.
NTP-WG
RPKI-WG
• Ongoing working group, expected to
conclude in a few weeks
• Produced a document covering reflection
attacks and recommendations to operators
• Concuded July 2013
• Hackathon events testing RPKI tools
• Working with JPNIC to get RPKI running!!!

4. even more interesting stuff
• Interim meetings
• Experimental one day meeting
• No hosts and sponsors, so no one takes risks
• Successful ventures are fed back to regular meetings
• Held once a year
• Collaboration with other bodies
• ISOC-JP, JPNIC, various academic societies
• BCP documents
• BCOP collaboration needs some work

5. Recent Discussion Topics at JANOG
• MVNO talks
• Only 3 MNO in Japan. MVNOs are becoming popular and provide a
source for competition in the mobile market. How does an MVNO
work?
• BGP Flow Spec, why it’s needed and what is
wrong with it
• Need a fast and intelligent way to mitigate growing # and scale of
attacks
• Manual operation is too slow
• BGP Flow Spec implementation is inconsistent among vendors and
lacks (a reasonably usable) IPv6 support
• Where are we today with white box switches
• Where we need them, why we need them, and what more does it
take to put them into production

6. JANOG’s All Time Favorite Topics
• Favorite tools
• Fiber installation tools, clamps, special wrenches, ‘what I take to th
DC when I do installations’
• Automation
• Software tools
• Team organization issues
• IPv6
• Voices from the people who DON’T want to do IPv6 (this is actually
important!) versus people who DO
• Lots of past technical issues with IPv6 were discussed at JANOG
and resolved
• Routing
• Size, default routes, IRRs, and BGP hacks

7. Challenges : the language
• Main language is Japanese even for speaking
• In the past, we tried volunteer translators, translated slides, and a
few other hacks
• Relies too much on (few number of) bilinguals
• Try to upload material before meeting so
overseas attendees can use internet translation
services
• APNIC sponsorship
• Outsourcing slides translation (not all, but a few) to professional
translation firms so some content will be available in English
• Began just this year
• Thanks to Miwa-san! NEW !

8. How we organize JANOG
JANOG members
= Mailing list subscribers
Steering Committee
+ Chairperson
Meeting staff
Meeting Hosts
Meeting Chair
appointment
Call for
volunteers
System admin
Hosts / sponsor relations
Liaisons
Meeting staff support
WG management
Everything else
Conducts twice a year meetings
Program Committee, Organizing
Committee, and Local
Arrangement Commiteei18n team
english web maintenace
Resource sponsors
(colo, translations,
servers, etc)
Meeting sponsors
Changes per meetingStanding committee

9. Tools we use at JANOG today
• Confluence for STAFF management
• Thanks to Atlassian for the community license!!!
• Static web-> various versions of wiki -> Confluence
• Concrete5 for web content management
• Slack and Chatwork for STAFF communication
• Google apps or home written tools for surveys
• Ustream or Niconico for streaming

10. JANOG is run by volunteers
The most important value is member
involvement and engagement
Many ways to get involved
- Meeting staff
- i18n volunteer
- Lead a working group
- Present, give tutorials, coordinate BoFs
- Host or sponsor a meeting
- Sponsor resources

11. Questions?
Contact the Steering Committee
secretariat at janog.gr.jp

12. Plenary BoF
NOC Sake