Heya,
There have been periodic inquiries for network-based experiments
on the NANOG conference network. While there is a serious benefit
to be gained by experimenters exposing their projects to the NANOG
attendees, there is a need to balance that with meeting attendees
having a functional network during the conference.
We'd like to hear the community's opinion on this. The SC has
drafted a "Network Experiments" policy based on prior experience
and what we think our conference attendees need to have available
while on-site. Please see the attachment below and share your
opinions and suggestions.
Cheers!
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RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
Criteria for Network Tests During a NANOG Meeting
Members of the community who wish to test, trial or otherwise run
an experiment on the live network at a NANOG meeting may submit
their plan to the NANOG Steering Committee (SC) for consideration.
Running on the live meeting network will expose your experiment to
hundreds of highly skilled IP network specialists.
Since this has the possibility of being highly disruptive to the
meeting attendees, there are basic requirements which apply to all
applicants. The SC will evaluate submissions, conferring as needed
with the Program Committee, Merit staff, and the hosting entity as
needed through each meeting???s engineering team.
In short, to be approved there must be adequate return on the effort
to the community as a whole and the meeting attendees in particular.
The experiment MUST:
- Be voluntary rather than compulsory, therefore an incentive
for attendees' participation is encouraged.
- Fill a need or directly address a question of interest to
the NANOG community, ideally of specific relevance to the
meeting attendees.
- Provide a benefit to the attendees through their participation.
- Have clear measurement of the success or at least effectiveness
of the experiment, which will be able to be at least summarized
and related in a lightning talk submission, if not a full
presentation.
- Have finite and well-defined requirements for support and
assistance of Merit and the NANOG local meeting host, including
but not limited to space, power, addressing/number resources,
equipment, security and staff time.
- Treat any observed or collected data (be it raw usage, vague
aggregate, anonymized, etc.,) as ephemeral and of use only
for public, noncommercial presentations.
An experimenter must send the following to the SC 90 days (three
months) prior to a meeting to be considered for that meeting:
- a description of the purpose/goals of the experiment;
- detailed network diagram[s] and bandwidth requirement;
- any relevant configuration examples; and
- a statement regarding resources the proposer is committing to supply.
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