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

[Kurtis Heimerl <[e-mail]>]

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





*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!