Over 100 network operators from across New Zealand attended the annual Network Operators Group Conference in January. The conference was held at Waikato University and featured expert speakers on technical subjects including IPv6, Internet security and ENUM.
InternetNZ was an event sponsor and is a strong supporter of the conference, which has been running since 2004 and is a valuable forum for exchange of technical information and industry networking.
The Society was well-represented, with InternetNZ Policy Director Jordan Carter updating conference-goers on recent InternetNZ activity focusing on Copyright, ACTA, Filtering, IPv6, and the Government's fibre plans.
Over twenty people spoke over the two days of the conference, an insightful mixture of keynotes and lightning talks.
Peering guru Bill Norton gave a fascinating talk on the emergence of the video internet peering ecosystem and Marcel van den Berg from Internet security research firm Team CYMRU presented on the latest trends in cybercrime and malicious internet activity.
Other speakers included the National Library’s Gordon Paynter, who outlined the Library’s planned harvest of .nz websites in April 2010, and the DNC’s Paul McKitrick, who introduced the work of the New Zealand Internet Taskforce - a newly-formed entity aimed at mitigating emerging threats on the Internet.
For more information visit the NZNOG website:
http://2010.nznog.org