Re: [gaia] GAIA @ IETF 118 November 10th 13:00 Prague Time

Hi All -

To round out the excellent Speakers series for the first half of GAIA will
be Mat Ford who is a Technology Program Manager at ISOC, a long-time
IETFer/IRTFer and one of the key humans that got ISOC Pulse
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org/> off the ground.  Mat will talk about
the new ISOC Internet Resilience Index
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org/resilience>.

We are looking forward to seeing you either in person in Prague or
virtually via Meetecho (see below).

NOTE:  IETF uses a platform called Meetecho, which is a WebRTC
application.  There is a new and improved interface for Meetecho and you
can find more information about it/using it here
<https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/technology/meetecho-guide-participant/>.

Waivers for Friday:  You can request a one-day waiver for Friday to
participate if you are not attending all week.

Jane and Kurtis

Jane R Coffin
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 5:54 AM Kurtis Heimerl <kurtis.heimerl@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just as a heads up; we have an exciting GAIA. We have three speakers and
> then a panel on remote peering:
>
> First up is Theo Benson of Carnegie Mellon University speaking on: Towards
> an African Observatory and Connectivity Index
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> *A significant amount of traffic in sub saharan Africa continues to
> transit EU ISPs and IXPs.  These longer paths introduce performance and
> reliability challenges. Challenges that are further exacerbated by
> congested local links and suboptimal local peering policies.In this (in
> person) talk, I will discuss our goals of informing the African-internet
> ecosystem to explore policies that localize traffic, e.g., more local-IXPs
> and more cross regional peering.A first initiative is to create an Africa
> testbed of probes to characterize network paths from an end-user
> perspective.  The second initiative is to systematize ISP/IXP engagements
> and operational policies -- this will result in a corpus of documents on
> designs, operational practices, and opensource code bases. Taken together,
> we will create a platform consisting of measurement data to help inform
> different policies as well as a simulator based on the mined
> designs/practices to help investigate and answer questions about
> peering/deployment changes.*
>
> Second up is Andrei Ionițăof Commit Global, who will be speaking about
> their humanitarian and civic infrastructure tech.
> https://www.commitglobal.org/en
>
> Our third speaker is TBD from ISOC speaking on Internet resiliancy.
>
> Lastly, following up on the last GAIA, we're going to have a panel on
> remote peering with
> Amreesh Phokeer of ISOC, Brian Longwe of Converged Wireless, and someone
> else TBD!
>
> See you all November 10th Prague Time!
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