Presentation on EDCO - Enterprise Data Center Operators

1. Enterprise Data Center Operators
SANOG
July, 2017
Nalini Elkins and Vinayak
Hegde

2. Enterprise Data Center Operators (EDCO)
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What is it?
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Why was it formed?
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What will it do?
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What is the future?
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3. EDCO : What is it?
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Informal consortium of organizations who operate large data
centers
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THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL IETF ACTIVITY
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Core group includes: financials, Internet-based companies, U.S.
government agencies
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First meeting at IETF98 in Chicago (end of March)
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Boot camp (volunteer organized)
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http://www.enterprisedatacenteroperators.com
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4. EDCO : Why was it formed?
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TLS1.3 issue
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Over 100 groups at the IETF, no one organization can
monitor them all
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Many areas in an organization affected: security
(infrastructure, voice), routing, architecture (IPv6)
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5. EDCO : What will it do?
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Discuss protocol changes with participants
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Collaborate
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Bring point of view of enterprises to the IETF
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Enterprises are not used to going to the IETF: IETF is
not used to enterprises
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6. EDCO : Success Story
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TLS1.3 deprecated RSA key exchange
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RSA keys used by enterprises for fraud monitoring,
leakage detection, diagnostics, and so on
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Potential multi-billion dollar problem
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Draft for static Diffie-Hellman key exchange possibility
underway. This can be used in a similar way to RSA.6

7. EDCO : India Specific
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India has unique issues (internationalization, rural
population, etc.)
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Enterprises / ISPs need to be involved
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IETF participation must be consistent for best results.
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8. EDCO : What is the future?
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In-person attendance at IETF best, but not always
possible
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Form trade organization
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Subscription to report with reviews of WG
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Webcasts to discuss report / protocol changes
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9. EDCO : What is the future?
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Article in IETF Journal:
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https://www.ietfjournal.org/grass-roots-collaboration-en
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