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NSRC Personnel Activities Around the World

2025 Upcoming Activities

October

Oct 6-10: Hervey Allen, Carlos Armas and Antonio Lobo from NSRC will participate in LACNIC 44 / LACNOG 2025 to be held in San Salvador, El Salvador. Hervey Allen with present the Keynote address for LACNOG 2025 and NSRC will provide a RouteViews Update and Summary session during the LACNOG Peering Tutorial, Thursday, October 9.

Oct 13-16: NSRC will teach the Internet Routing & BGP Workshop (more details here during NGNOG 2025 to be held in Abuja, Nigeria. During the NGNOG Conference Day NSRC will provide presentations on DNS Best Practicies by Patrick Okui, and an update on the RouteViews project by Nina Bargisen.

Oct 20-24: NSRC will attend the RIPE 91 to be held in Bucharest, Romania.

November

Nov 1-7 : NSRC will participate in IETF 124 that will take place in Montreal, Canada.

Nov 16-21 : NSRC will take part in Supercomputing 25 (SC25) to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Nov 10-14 : NSRC's instructors Antonio Lobo and Carlos Armas will teach a two-day Network Monitoring and Management Workshop during WALC 2025.

Nov 24-28 : NSRC will teach a workshop on Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators (PCIO) during PacNOG 36 that will take place in the Cook Islands.

December

Dec 8-12 : NSRC will participate in the 2025 Internet2 Technology Exchange to be held in Denver, Colorado, USA.

2026 Upcoming Activities

February

Feb 4-12 : NSRC will teach a MasterClass workshop on hybrid virtualisation during APRICOT 2026 that will take place in in Jakarta, Indonesia. This APRICOT event will be part of the APNIC 61 meeting as well.

2025 Completed Activities

September

Sep 29-Oct 3: NSRC will participate in MNNOG 7 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, delivering a keynote at the conference. The team will also provide workshops, including a Network Managing and Monitoring Workshop led by Hervey Allen, Owen Conway and Philip Paeps and a BGP Deployment Operations Workshop conducted by Philip Smith, Owen Conway and Tashi Phuntsho.

September

Sep 22-Oct 3: NSRC participated in Afnog 2025, that took place from September 22–26, where NSRC instructors Hervey Allen and Cleven Mmari helped to deliver a Network Monitoring Essentials Tutorial as part of the program. NSRC volunteers from Nigeria and Ghana lead much of the teaching of this tutorial. NRSC provided a virtual training platform that was used to provide access to labs for hands-on exercises as part of the tutorial sessions.

Sep 1-5 : NSRC conducted a 4-day CNDO Workshop during ZAMREN Week held in Livingston, Zambia. Prior to the meeting, NSRC contractors provided direct engineering assistance to ZAMREN in Lusaka, Zambia.

August

Aug 25-29: NSRC provided direct engineering assistance to ZAMREN in Lusaka, Zambia.

Aug 19-21: NSRC staff participated in AfPIF 2025 and deliver a RouteViews Update Presentation during the event.

Aug 17-21: NSRC took part in btNOG 12 (Aug 17-21) conducting BGP, CNDO and Virtualization workshops during the event and participated in SANOG 43 (Aug 22-23). Both events were held in Thimphu, Bhutan.

July

Jul 22-23: Philip Paeps lead a workshop on Securing the Resource Naming with KINDNS Framework during LKNOG 9 .

Jul 19-25: Hans Kuhn from NSRC participated in IETF 123 as a NOC volunteer and will also join the DNS, V6 and BGP working groups. The event was held in Madrid, Spain.

Jul 4: Edwin Sandys of The University of the South Pacific, Fiji (USP) provided a report during the Pacific IGF 2025 Meeting held in Apia, Samoa on NSRC ccTLD work in DNSSEC, root-servers and BGP Routing.

June

Jun26: NSRC staff attended the Link Oregon 2025 Annual Member Meeting held in Wilsonville, Oregon at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) Portland Metro Campus.

Jun 23-27: NSRC conducted workshops on Cybersecurity, DNS, KINDNS, Routing Security during PacNOG 35 that was held in Suva, Fiji.

Jun 9-13: NSRC staff and contractors attended the TNC25 meeting held in Brighton, UK. Discussion about the RouteViews project was part of the planned meeting strategy.

May

May 24: NSRC participated in the bdNOG 19 Conference Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where Philip Paeps, on behalf of NSRC, delivered a tutorial on DNS & DNSSEC operational best practices.

May 19-21: NSRC contractor Philip Paeps led the "Mastering DNSSEC: Building a Trusted DNS Infrastructure Workshop" during the Phoenix Summit 2025 held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

May 18-23: NSRC staff will attend BKNIX Peering Forum that took place in Bangkok, Thailand. As part of the event, NSRC taught a BKNIX Workshop (May 18-21), followed by a technical update on RouteViews (May 22). Finally, NSRC participated in ThaiNOG Day (May 23)and presented a BGP Routing Table Update.

May 12-16: NSRC staff and contractors took in the RIPE 90 meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal. Nina Bargisen from NSRC discussed the RouteViews project and current updates, as well as participated in the Measurements and Tools (MAT) Working Group.

April

Apr 22-24: Steve Huter and Philip Paeps from NSRC participated in the TWNIC Engagement Forum held in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Apr 18: Philip Paeps of the NSRC gave a RouteViews Project Update as well as a Tutorial on DNS & DNSSEC operational best practices during TWNOG 6 held in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Apr 10-11: NSRC contractors Anna Secka Saine, Alain Aina and Khoudia Gueye Ndoye participated and represented NSRC in the WACREN 2025 conference held in Dakar, Senegal. The conference remembered Dr. Boubakar Barry.

Apr 7-9: NSRC in conjunction with snRER (Réseau pour l’Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche du Sénégal) taught a 3-day class on Internet Routing & BGP Workshop held at Université Amadou Mahtar in Dakar, Senegal.

March

Mar 24-27: NSRC and GARNET organized a four-day CNDO Workshop bringing together participants for hands-on training held in Accra, Ghana.

Mar 15-21: Hans Kuhn of the NSRC attended the IETF 122 meeting that was held in Bangkok, Thailand. Hans assisted with meeting setup and IETF NOC operations during the meeting.

Mar 10-15: NSRC's instructors Anna Secka Saine, Brian Candler and Patrick Okui taught a CNDO Workshop from March 10-13 for The Sierra Leone Research and Education Network - SLREN. They also provided Direct Engineering Assistance from March 14 to 15 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Mar 8-13: NSRC staff took part in the ICANN 82 meeting held in Seattle, Washington.

Mar 7: On behalf of NSRC, Nina Bargisen presented a RouteViews Update during DKNOG 15 held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

February

Feb 19-27 NSRC staff, contractors, and partners assisted with the organization of the APRICOT 2025 workshops and conference held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. NSRC led two new APRICOT MasterClasses in Practical Virtualisation with Hybrid Strategies as well as KINDNS: DNS & DNSSEC operational best practices to improve the DNS Ecosystem. NSRC also gave a Peering IXP and LiveNOG tutorial during the event.

Feb 10-13 NSRC contractor Philip Paeps trained on "Kinds of KINDNS as part of the APTLD 87 meeting held in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. In addition, Philip was part of the "Business Continuity Protocols" session on day 2 of the event.

Feb 8-14 NSRC staff gave a "RouteViews Update" during GMI AIMS 5 Workshop held at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.

Feb 6 Hans Kuhn of the NSRC gave a presentation on "RIPE RIS and RouteViews on evolving data collection infrastructure" during Georgia Tech Routing Security Workshop 2025 held online.

January

Jan 19-22 NSRC staff participated in the Pacific Telecommunications Council PTC25 meeting held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Jan 17-18 Steve Huter and Philip Smith of the NSRC attended TPRE 2025 held in Honolulu, Hawaii.