From keith at isc.org  Mon Dec  4 17:17:02 2006
From: keith at isc.org (Keith Mitchell)
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:17:02 -0500
Subject: [as112-ops] test M4
Message-ID: <4574580E.20901@isc.org>

m4

From keith at isc.org  Wed Dec  6 20:09:53 2006
From: keith at isc.org (Keith Mitchell)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:09:53 -0500
Subject: [as112-ops] New Mailing list hosted at OARC: as112-ops
Message-ID: <45772391.7080202@isc.org>

Further to a request from the folks running the as112.net project, which
has its web site hosted by OARC, I have created a new mailing list
<as112-ops at lists.oarci.net>

This list is for:

"Co-ordinating operators of anycasted AS112 DNS servers for RFC1918
in-addr queries."

The policy for this list is in general open and public, but to avoid
bots getting in, any subscription requests will be vetted against the
list of known AS112 operators with drupal accounts on the
public.as112.net website, any not matching will be asked to verify their
interest.

To join, please go to:

	http://lists.oarci.net/mailman/listinfo/as112-ops

This list is also accessible as <as112-ops at lists.as112.net> or
<ops at as112.net>

List administrators include myself, William F Maton Sotomayer and Joe Abley.

Or see:

	http://public.as112.net

for more info on the AS112 project.

Keith

From wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca  Sat Dec  9 03:23:26 2006
From: wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca (William F. Maton Sotomayor)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 22:23:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [as112-ops] Welcome to the AS112 operators list
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081617480.10546@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca>


Greetings,

 	I see there's a number of you already subscribed, so that's enough 
to get the ball rolling.

 	This list is dedicated to discussions centering around the 
operation (and theory) of the AS112 infrastructure.  Discussions are by no 
means limited to that, anything regarding issues such as statistical 
anaylsis of traffic, constructing nodes or co-ordination between node 
operators are welcome too.

 	So, to kick this off, I'll introduce myself:  I run a relatively 
tiny, but interesting AS112 node at the Federal GigaPOP in Ottawa, Canada, 
which receives a view of the CA*Net 4 routing table as well as the 
networks that connect to it - so it's a pretty exclusive node, no Internet 
access.

 	I'm also the co-author, with Joe Abley, of a set of IETF drafts 
that attempt to document the AS112 operation.

 	I also run the public.as112.net website, and maintain the list of 
'known' AS112 nodes buried a little deeper in there.  Comments about that 
website that will lead to improvements on behalf of you, the community, 
are most appreciated.

Again, welcome to everyone.

wfms

From keith at isc.org  Thu Dec 28 15:22:54 2006
From: keith at isc.org (Keith Mitchell)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:22:54 -0500
Subject: [as112-ops] "Day in the Life" Internet data gathering,
	9th/10th January
Message-ID: <4593E14E.3060009@isc.org>

As you may be aware, OARC and CAIDA have collaborated in working with
root server operators to do detailed annual capture of DNS queries to
root servers over a 48-hour period, in support of CAIDA's "Day in the
Life of the Internet" research project.

As well as being a repeat of previous years' successful efforts, this is
part of a wider effort to gather Internet measurement data from as many
sources as possible during this time-slot, so that it is potentially
available to researchers and operators as a snapshot for further studies.

It is planned to do the next of these 48-hour data capture exercises on
the 9th and 10 of January.  One source of data that has not been
explicitly gathered in the past, but could be potentially be quite
valuable, is query traffic to AS112 authoritative servers.

The data gathering essentially involves running tcpdump on traffic to
the server, see:

http://www.caida.org/research/dns/dns-itr/resources/dnsroot_measurement_recommendations.xml

for more information.

Concerning legality and privacy issues, note that the act of gathering
this data does not imply any publication or disclosure of it at that
point. There are two potential complementary ways of making this data
available to the research community:

- If you are or wish to become and OARC member, and submit this data to
OARC, it can be made available to other OARC members under the OARC
Membership terms, on the same basis as the root server data.

- CAIDA also want to encourage everyone to index the data (& metadata)
gathered in their DatCat Data Catalog (see http://www.datcat.org). This
flags up the data's potential availability to researchers, subject to
any appropriate terms.

If you are able to help gather any relevant data as above and would like
to participate, or have any questions, please drop me a line by 3rd January.

Happy New Year,

Keith Mitchell
OARC Programme Manager


