nog.fi meeting 2026.06nog.fi meeting

This presentation introduces new and enhanced features in PeeringDB that make it easier for the interconnection community to discover opportunities and collaborate. You’ll learn how to compare facilities and networks directly on the website to quickly find mutual peering locations, explore the KMZ export for geographic visualization, and understand new Carrier and Campus objects that enrich the database. We’ll also highlight PeeringDB’s open‑source model, ongoing improvements, and how you can stay engaged through blogs, social media, and by keeping your profiles updated — all aimed at empowering innovation and stronger connections.

In this talk we will talk about the magic of IPv4-with-IPv6 next-hops, and what this enables:

• IXPs without IPv4 peering LAN growth pain
• Completely seamless IPv4 routing at /32 granularity
• IPv4-free transport links (safe all the /31s!)
• A completely ARP free network infrastructure
• Full, ECMP enabled L3 underlays for 100G+ fabrics without LACP

Comes with a free invite to peer with V4LESS-AS; Your friendly RFC8950 test-bed at an IX near you. ;-)

Tony O’Sullivan will challenge the industry to rethink what it means to build serious infrastructure in an innovative, scalable, and sustainable way. In a world defined by geopolitical tension, climate shocks, and cable cuts, how can we meet customer expectations that don’t tolerate downtime? Tony will share his experiences by operating under fire, literally, and by scaling a lean, 44-country network that has stayed online when others have failed.

ASPA (AS Provider Authorization) is a new RPKI object type that AS holders can use to authorize their upstream providers in BGP. This allows providers to verify the paths they receive from customers and reject invalid AS paths. Furthermore, it helps to detect routing 'valleys' and reject such leaks.

This presentation focuses on the following:

• Introduction into the ASPA verification algorithm
• ASPA signing in the RIPE NCC RPKI Dashboard
• ASPA validation in practice
• Uptake and lessons learned so-far

NLNOG maintains multiple tools for network operators. From sharing shell access via the NLNOG RING to checking IRR and RPKI via the IRRexplorer. And that is not even all.

We will go over what the tools do, what they're useful for, and what challenges we run into maintaining them.

In this talk, Daniel Wagner, Researcher at DE-CIX, reports on the latest progress made in the RIPE labs article series about the IRR landscape. This talk will include insights not yet released on the influence of AS-SET heterogeneity, their lookup order and lastly, the actual traffic impact at a very large IXP.
IRR DBs are used for Route Server prefix filter generation. Their data correctness is critical to enable traffic flow through the peering fabric. Hence, the insights from this overall series propose a call to action which is subject to discussion with the community.

Experiences on virtualizing different type of GPUs on multiple different hardware and some ways to provide them to actually paying customers.

The network engineering and interconnection industry is facing a critical challenge: the decline of experienced engineers and a growing shortage of new talent. In this presentation, I will share our project aimed at making it easier for new entrants to find the right resources and streamline their career paths in interconnection and peering. Recognizing that we cannot tackle this alone, we are partnering with universities and industry experts to build a more accessible, structured, and collaborative learning ecosystem. Together, we can ensure that the next generation of engineers is equipped to carry forward the essential work of interconnection and peering.

What if nog.fi was a registered association?

If people are interested I could have a short talk / lightning talk about this topic, the EC has proposed quite a complex voluntary conciliation and we do not yet know how the discussions will end. Just an offer, just in a case people would like to have an update.