JANOG Update, by Chika Yoshimura. A presentation given at APRICOT 2016’s NOG Updates session on 24 February 2016.

2. About JANOG : the usual stuff
• Founded 1997
• 7500+ mailing list members as of Jan 2016
• Meetings
• Held twice a year, usually January and July.
• Three day meeting
• 2 days of plenary sessions + 1/2 day of tutorials and BoFs
• mostly focus on technical and operational discussions
• Internet live streaming & video archive (1 month after meeting) available
• 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 (JANOG38) July 2016 in Okinawa

3. Plenary (JANOG36)
BoF (JANOG31)
Plenary (JANOG37)
Tutorial (JANOG36)

4. Recent Discussion Topics at JANOG
• Software forwarding vs hardware forwarding
• The architecture of IA server is totally different from that of hardware
switches (including white-box switches).
• What are the differences in terms of performance characteristics
perspective?
• Net neutrality from traffic management perspective
• Net-Neutrality is not yet discussed in Japan as real life issue.
• Topics such as zero rating and abolishing of roaming fees are getting
increasing attention globally.
• What would be an impact of Net-Neutrality in Japan?
• MVNO in the future
• MVNOs are becoming popular and provide a source for competition in
the mobile market.
• What are technical challenges for them and their future roadmaps?

5. Recent Discussion Topics at JANOG
• The Internet in the Asia Pacific region
• In Asian countries, there is an exploding increase in the use of the
Internet. What’s the speaker’s experience on the current state of
the Internet in Asia?
• BGP Hijack Issue
• There was a huge BGP hijack issue November 2015.
• What happened during the hijack in a Tier1 ISP network?
• What are general preventive solutions against such BGP hijack
issues?
• Lab test items
• What test items do you use when testing technical functions in lab?

6. More about JANOG : Working Groups
• Working Groups
• Special interest working groups are formed when request arises
from the members.
NTP-WG
RPKI-WG
• Concluded February 2015
• Produced a document covering reflection
attacks and recommendations to operators
• English documentation
https://www.janog.gr.jp/wg/doc/ntp-wg-en.pdf
• Concluded July 2013
• Hackathon events testing RPKI tools
• Working with JPNIC to get RPKI running

7. Challenges: Experimental meetings
• Interim meetings
• one day meeting in Tokyo
• No hosts and sponsors, so no one takes risks
• Successful ventures are fed back to regular meetings
• Held once a year
• Lightning Talk (LT) Night
• Half day meeting in Tokyo
• lightning talks only
• Held occasionally
• US Regional Meeting
• Half day meeting in the US
• Involve overseas JANOG members to the community
• Talk about overseas topics
• Held occasionally

8. JANOG35.5 Interim Meeting (Apr 15 2015)

9. JANOG LT Night #1 (Aug 27 2015)

10. US Regional Meeting (Oct 23 2015)

11. Fellowship program for younger generation
• Began in 2015 (JANOG35)
• Sponsored by the JANOG fellowship committee
• Officially founded since JANOG37
• An independent team from the JANOG steering committee
• Financial support to attend a JANOG meeting
• Transportation (including air fare)
• Hotel accommodation
• Social event registration fee
• Eligibility to anyone between 18 to 29 years old
• 9 fellows in JANOG37
• Mostly students
NEW !

12. Challenges : the language
• Main language is Japanese even for speaking
• Occasionally have English speakers
• Speak English using Japanese deck
• Speak English using English deck + rough Japanese interpretation
• i18n (Internationalization) team
• Volunteer based team
• provide JANOG info in English
• https://www.janog.gr.jp/en
• APNIC sponsorship
• Outsourcing slides translation (not all, but a few) to professional
translation firms so some content will be available in English
• https://www.janog.gr.jp/en/index.php?JANOG%2Fenglish_slides
• Began in 2015
• Thanks to Miwa-san!
NEW !

13. How we organize JANOG
JANOG members
= Mailing list subscribers
Steering Committee
(including Chair + Vice Chair)
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 Committee
i18n team
English web maintenance
Resource sponsors
(colo, translations,
servers, etc)
Meeting sponsors
Changes per meeting
Standing committee

14. 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

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