Segment Routing (SR) architecture seeks to forward data packets on a network based on source routes as encoded in the data packet itself. This session will introduce the basic concepts of segment routing and then go in details of SRv6 (Segment Routing over IPv6 dataplane) technology. Find out about the IPv6 extension header and the potential of the SRv6 network programming concept that provides the ability to code directly into each packet header where the packet needs to be sent and how it should be treated.
Darren Dukes is a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems where he designs and build solutions across Cisco’s routing and switching platforms. His current focus is on Segment Routing (SRv6 and SR MPLS) software and their implementation, as well as building the next generation of routing and switching software stacks for Cisco’s enterprise networking portfolio.
He’s active within the IETF, most recently concentrating on the SRv6 RFC8754, and SRv6 compression.
In his 25+ year career, Darren has built solutions at all levels of the routing stack from drivers to forwarding and control plane, focusing on creating simple solutions in complex problem spaces.
Dhruv Dhody has been working in the networking domain for the last 20 years with Huawei Technologies. Their current designation is Chief Architect – Standards. Over the years they have worked on MPLS VPNs, OSPF, NTP, ALTO, CSPF, etc for Huawei’s Routing Platform (VRP). They are currently working on research & standards for various emerging technologies such as Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), and network slicing.
They have been an active IETF contributor since 2010 in Path Computation and Traffic Engineering with 33 RFCs as the main author or contributor. They have filed 21 patents. They have been selected to serve on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).They are also serving as the PCE WG and EO-DIR co-chair at IETF as well as a part of the Routing Directorate and Operations directorate. They are currently Secretary of the Industry Network Technology Council (INTC). They are a founding member and on the advisory board of the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) and ISOC Hyderabad Chapter.
Dhruv was awarded the Technical role model award by Zinnov and was recognized as a Technology stalwart in India.
The goal for the first security session is to understand some of the terms which are crucial to cryptography. The explanation will be for those implementing security protocols rather than academics or cryptographers. We will cover:
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DES
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3DES
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Asymmetric encryption / symmetric encryption
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Elliptic curve cryptography
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Certificate authorities
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Diffie-Hellman key exchange
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Diffie-Hellman groups
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Hashed message authentication code (HMAC)
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Message authentication code (MAC)
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Message digest algorithm 5 (MD5)
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Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA)
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Secure hash algorithm (SHA)
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X.500 distinguished name
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X.509 digital certificates
Nalini Elkins is the President of the Industry Network Technology Council. She is also the CEO and Founder of Inside Products, Inc. Nalini is a recognized leader in the field of computer performance measurement and analysis. In addition to being an experienced software product designer, developer, and planner, she has been the founder or co-founder of four start-ups in the high-tech arena.
Nalini started her career doing network design and monitoring for the Chevron network. She specializes in network performance analysis, measurement, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting of large enterprise networks.
One of her specialties is training and network design for IPv6 migration for large enterprises. Many of the Fortune 1000 level companies as well as the large US government organizations have taken her classes on various networking topics.
She has developed network monitoring and diagnostic products which were later marketed by IBM and other software companies. She received the A.A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group for her contributions to the field. Nalini is on the Advisory Board of the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc).
From: Thursday, 9th March 2023 to Thursday, 30th November 2023
Session Topics for IPv6 webinars
- Introduction to Segment Routing and SRv6: March 9, 11 am Eastern 9:30 pm India
- Extension Headers-PDM results: May 4, 11 am Eastern, 8:30 pm India
- VPNs: June 1, 10 am Eastern, 8:30 pm India
- Extension Headers testing in Cloud: July 6, 11 am Eastern, 8:30 pm India
- Enhancements for Neighbour Discovery: August 24, 11 am Eastern, 8:30 pm India
- TBD: September 28, 11 am Eastern, 8:30 pm India
- IPv6 + CDN: November 30, 11 am Eastern, 9:30 pm India
From: Thursday, 23rd February 2023 to Thursday, 12th October 2023
Session Topics for Security webinars:
- Fundamentals of Cryptography: February 23, 11am Eastern, 9:30pm India
- Fundamentals of Cryptography: April 20, 11am Eastern, 8:30pm India
- Fundamentals of Cryptography: May 18, 11am Eastern, 8:30pm India
- How does TLS work? (up to 1.3): June 15, 11am Eastern, 8:30pm India
- How does TLS1.3 work?: August 10, 11am Eastern, 8:30pm India
- Introduction to MLS: September 14, 11am Eastern, 8:30pm India
- MLS in Depth: October 12, 11am Eastern, 8:30pm India
Please join us for the annual members meeting of the Industry Network Technology Council. You must be a member to attend. You may sign up to become a member at no charge by going to https://industrynetcouncil.org/membership.
We will be announcing the agenda soon. We will also have INTC Board nominations coming soon. There are two member terms which are expiring. So, please be thinking of who you may wish to nominate. Self-nominations are welcome!
The 6LoWPAN adaptation layer defines compression, fragmentation and reassembly, and frame delivery mechanisms for IPv6 datagrams. As specified in RFC 4944, when an entire IPv6 datagram fits within a single IEEE Std 802.15.4 frame, then the datagram is transmitted unfragmented without adding a fragmentation header in the LoWPAN encapsulation. On the opposite hand, if the compressed IPv6 datagram is larger than the IEEE Std 802.15.4 MTU (i.e., 127 bytes), then fragmentation is required to split the large datagram into multiple link-layer fragments of up to 127 bytes. The length of each link fragment is specified in multiples of eight bytes. The first part of this talk will be dedicated to the whole process of 6LoWPAN Fragmentation and Reassembly operation. The second part of the talk will be dedicated to 6LoWPAN Frame Delivery modes, the mesh under and the route over (or Per-Hop Fragmentation and Reassembly mode). Both approaches are widely employed in the Smart Grid networks around the world. The first mode takes place at the 6LoWPAN adaptation layer, where the nodes require the knowledge of the routes at Layer 2 based on MAC, whereas the second mode does it at Layer 3 based on IP. Finally, in the third and last part of the talk, an alternate approach called 6LoWPAN Fragment Forwarding (6LFF), i.e., RFC 8930, will be presented, whereby an intermediate node forwards a fragment without reassembling the complete IPv6 datagram first.
Georgios’s Bio:
This session will be presented by Georgios Z. Papadopoulos who has received the prestigious French national ANR JCJC 2017 grant for young researchers. He has been involved in the organization and program committee of many international events, such as IEEE ISCC’20, IEEE DIPI’19, AdHoc-Now’18, IEEE CSCN’18, GIIS’18, IEEE ISCC’17. Moreover, he has been serving as Associate Editor for Wireless Networks journal and Internet Technology Letters since 2018. He is author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in the area of computer communications, networks and cybersecurity. He actively participates at the IETF standards organization with multiple drafts in the ROLL and RAW Working Groups. His research interests include Industrial IoT, 6TiSCH, 6lo, LoRa & LPWAN, Wireless Battery Management System, Smart Grid, Cybersecurity and Moving Target Defense. Dr. Papadopoulos has received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award granted by the University of Strasbourg and he was a recipient of two Best Paper Awards (IFIP Med-Hoc-Net’14 and IEEE SENSORS’14).
In this session, we will provide an overview of how you can use IPv6 on AWS today – how to enable and migrate workloads at scale from IPv4-only to either dual-stack or IPv6-only architectures. We will cover the Amazon VPC IPv6 capabilities, how you can achieve IPv6 connectivity on AWS and hybrid network, and we’ll review common adoption patterns for hybrid connectivity, Internet-facing applications, and applications hosted on the edge. We’ll start with IPv6 address management on AWS using Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) and take a step-by-step journey to an IPv6-enabled environment with Amazon VPC, peering, Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN, Direct Connect and VPN, are more.
Alexandra Huides Bio:
Alexandra Huides is working as a Networking Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS in Strategic Accounts. Alexandra is an experienced architect with extensive background in IPv4/IPv6 network design (routing/switching), network security (IPSEC/GRE/MPLS), troubleshooting, and network overlays/virtualization, software defined network design patterns and cloud networking solutions. She has designed and implemented multiple enterprise-scale networking solutions, spanning traditional data center technologies (Cisco/Juniper) and cloud vendors and services (AWS and Azure), and currently working with the largest scale AWS customers on their network infrastructure design.
IPv6 Extension Headers are an important part of the IPv6 protocol. In this session, we will learn:
- What are the frequently-used Extension Headers?
- What is the basic architecture?
- How are they used?
- What is the nature of the controversy surrounding them?
We will also present the results of our testing of IPv6 Extension Headers on the Internet and next steps.
The speaker will be Nalini Elkins, President of the Industry Network Technology Council.
Nalini’s Bio:
Nalini Elkins is the President of the Industry Network Technology Council. She is also the CEO and Founder of Inside Products, Inc. Nalini is a recognized leader in the field of computer performance measurement and analysis. In addition to being an experienced software product designer, developer, and planner, she has been the founder or co-founder of four start-ups in the high-tech arena.
Nalini started her career doing network design and monitoring for the Chevron network. She specializes in network performance analysis, measurement, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting of large enterprise networks.
One of her specialities is training and network design for IPv6 migration for large enterprises. Many of the Fortune 1000 level companies as well as the large US government organizations, have taken her classes on various networking topics.
She has developed network monitoring and diagnostic products, which were later marketed by IBM and other software companies. She received the A.A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group for her contributions to the field. Nalini is on the Advisory Board of the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc).
Mesh routing is difficult, mesh routing for low power and lossy networks is straight up comatose. This session will help understand how the signalling/messaging works and depict sample packet captures for RPL signalling from real environments. It will also introduce tools apart from wireshark, such as scapy that can help construct/deconstruct the messaging. Obtaining performance data for mesh networks is another aspect covered in the session. What makes taking performance difficult? What are the best practices and some of the case studies? The session will also provide a demo into creating a sample 10 node RPL network on a laptop and getting the packet capture for the network formation.
Rahul Jadhav is an avid coder, and a system engineer working on solutions involving network and transport optimization. I have contributed towards more than a dozen open sources including Linux Kernel and worked closely with IETF Standards Working Groups (such as ROLL, 6lo, LWIG) and Linux Foundation Groups. Taken several projects from conception to market. Architected metering infrastructure based on 802.15.4G + PLC/6lo/RPL for Smart Grids and has a special interest in scalable mesh network architectures for low-power networks and has contributed towards IETF protocol standardization in the domain. Currently, I am part of the Accuknox team figuring out the best way to handle Zero-Trust based Security solutions involving Cloud/Edge/IoT.