Remembering Geoff Huston’s comments from five months ago: “‘Screaming car wreck’ of internet routing needs a fire brigade: Geoff Huston” (13 Sep 2019) zdnet.com/article/scream… #APRICOT2020
But at that same event, APNIC 48 in Chiang Mai, a bunch of work was done to try to improve that. zdnet.com/article/dear-n… #apricot2020
Good to see some more RKPI rollouts. These African telcos will be dropping all invalid routes from 1 April, says Mark Tinka from SEACOM. #APRICOT2020 
Also good to hear that internet routing is still a train wreck. These conferences always remind me that keeping the internet running is like juggling spinning plates. #APRICOT2020
Excellent RPKI work happening in Bangladesh and surrounds, that’s how I’m reading the data from Mozilla’s Mohammad Abdul Awal. #APRICOT2020
This is what I mean. The figures are excellent. I’ll have some of them in a @zdnetaustralia article at some point. #APRICOT2020
@zdnetaustralia Taiji Kimura from JPNIC asks how many network operators use Slack to coordinate the fixing of routing problems. A solid number do. Email alerts are hard because tech contact addresses in WHOIS attract too much spam. Have to manually find better contacts. #APRICOT2010
Hah! APNIC’s Tashi Phuntsho refers to data that is “only about an experimental protocol called IPv4”. Troll. #APRICOT2020
Tashi Phuntsho on having to convince people to clear up their routing glitches: “We don’t need instructions to wash our hands”. Except we do. #APRICOT2020
Photo by @ApostrophePong. outtospace.com/2019/11/wash-y…
Photo by @ApostrophePong. outtospace.com/2019/11/wash-y…
Audience member asks why Telstra doesn’t use RPKI. No one knows. Telstra is not in the room. #APRICOT2020
OK, there’s some more on RPKI deployment coming up. As with the previous conference, they had a deployathon yesterday to increase the usage. Pic is yesterday’s agenda. This the post mortem. Maybe not tweet much ’cos it’s VERY deep in the weeds. #APRICOT2020
Things I like about this conference is that they bring in their own networking team. Gigabit wifi access points through the centre, and 240Gb of pipe connecting us to the world. Yes you read that right. #apricot2020
Welcome to Country by Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Ian (Warrend-Badj) Hunter. conference.apnic.net/49/program/sch… #APRICOT2020
This is the 25th APRICOT. Gaurab Raj Upadhaya is reminiscing. “We had rats eating the conference network once. That was my favourite.” #APRICOT2020
“Congratulations to Geoff Huston for being made a member of the order of Australia.” Now we should all call him “Your Excellency” to troll him. #APRICOT2020
First keynote is David Conrad, founder of APRICOT, “The Internet as viewed through APRICOT 1996-2020-2045” #APRICOT2020
Conrad is summing up current internet protocols development as “Put it in the DNS” (a Geoff Huston phrase) and Everything-over-HTTPS. #APRICOT2020
Conrad’s crystal ball on the internet of 2045, the year which Ray Kurzweil reckons we’ll become immortal. #APRICOT2020
“Domain names are like cockroaches: they’ll never go away,” but the DNS protocol will go away. [Orly?] #APRICOT2020
IP address will still be around, he says. #APRICOT2020
Political pressures on the fragmentation of the name space will also fragment the addressing space, he says. I will explore this later. #APRICOT2020
Final slide from Gordon, a reminder about 2038. #APRICOT2020
Second keynote is Prof Mark A Gregory from RMIT University, “A comparison and contrast of FTTH/FTTP deployments across Asia Pacific” #APRICOT2020
The future is 10Gb/s PON fibre, Gregory says. #APRICOT2020
Have some diagrams. #APRICOT2020
“Premises Passed” is a magical metric, of course. #APRICOT2020
More stats. #APRICOT2020
Penetration rates and predictions. #APRICOT2020
Now, Australia vs New Zealand. #APRICOT2020
Market share of NBN retailers, and the technology mix. #APRICOT2020
A chart about Chorus fibre connections in NZ, at prices which will make Australians weep. #APRICOT2020
There’s lots more data being presented. I’m just pulling out a few highlights. Like this future plan for Chorus. #APRICOT2020
Hyberfibre! #APRICOT2020
Comparison of 100/20Mbps connection typical evening speeds, AU vs NZ. #APRICOT2020
Gregory outlines the argument that for reliable 5G you need a solid fibre network foundation to build it on. This is not an uncommon position to hold. #APRICOT2020
Mark A Gregory finishes. Coffee break. #APRICOT2020
Another good thing about this conference is that even in Melbourne, and even without our colleagues from China, white guys like me are in the minority. Makes a nice change. #APRICOT2020
Next session for me is APOPS 1 (Asia Pacific Ops), but I’ll just catch Geoff Huston’s usual pessimism before ducking out to do some things. conference.apnic.net/49/program/sch… Streamed live on YouTube any minute now. #APRICOT2020
Geoff’s slides are up already. conference.apnic.net/49/assets/file… (PDF) Yes, this will be extremely geeky. Extremely Geoff. Here’s a random example. #APRICOT2020
Here we go. #APRICOT2020
The guts of this is how we build routers and internet protocols to maximise speed. Vendor answer is But more memory.” But that’s not it. #APRICOT2020
I won’t tweet Geoff’s thing. You should watch the video. You’ll learn stuff. It’s very good. And here’s another random chart. #APRICOT2020
OK, Geoff is explaining yet another method for destroying the internet to benefit himself. This is fine. #APRICOT2020
Geoff Huston AM is off the stage. For now. #APRICOT2020
So our 240Gbps pipe to the internet? During the opening plenary there were 900 devices connected from 500 attendees. They’re installing more wifi access points for tomorrow. #APRICOT2020
That’s all my conference tweets for today. I’m really quite tired and will skip the social event tonight. “Interacting with Australian native wildlife” can wait, because I know these annoying critters. I’ll start a new thread tomorrow on the same hashtag. #APRICOT2020
I’ll miss this bit though: “Melbourne Town Hall also hosts the largest pipe organ in the Southern Hemisphere, and we are privileged to have John Giacchi to demonstrate this wonderful instrument to the early arrivals at the Opening Social.” #APRICOT2020
