Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) - Updates from around the world
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Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) are living documents that describe best practices agreed upon by subject matter experts in network engineering. BCOPs aim to address the problem that operational knowledge is often shared informally and not documented or accessible over time. BCOPs provide a community-driven process to document practices in an open, transparent way and make them publicly searchable. There are existing BCOP efforts regionally in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America focused on topics such as network testing, visibility, and routing policies. The next steps are to develop new BCOP documents, review existing ones, and coordinate efforts globally.
Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) - Updates from around the world
- 1. www.internetsociety.org Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) Introduction and Opportunity bdNOG 3 | Dhaka | 18 May 2015 Chris Grundemann
- 2. BCOP | February 2013 What’s a BCOP? Best Current Operational Practice • A living document describing the best operational practices currently agreed on by subject matter experts • Vetted and periodically reviewed by the global network engineering community (GNEC)
- 3. BCOP | February 2013 The Problem • Operational knowledge tends to be “tribal” • Presentations, hallway conversations, internal documents, in someone’s head… • Technology, tools, and practices change over time… • There are hundreds of operational forums globally • Archives stored in different formats, some searchable, rarely have speech text or video, no vetting, and state unknown. • How do I find up-to-date, relevant information when I need it?
- 4. BCOP | February 2013 The BCOP Solution Open, Transparent, Bottom-up, and Community led § Community driven, community written, community vetted – from an open forum, list, and publicly searchable site § Community written and approved Development Process § Everyone is welcome to participate 80/20 model
- 5. BCOP | February 2013 BCOP activity around the world: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/about/bcop/ • Africa region: A BCOP group was started under AfNOG • lead by Douglas Onyango • Asia: BCOP BoF held at APRICOT/APAN 2015 • lead by Fakrul Alam • Europe: RIPE BCOP Task Force created • co-chaired by Benno Overeider and Jan Žorž • Latin America: A BCOP Task Force was started under LACNOG • lead by Luis Balbinot and Pedro R Torres Jr. • North America: NANOG BCOP Committee established • co-chaired by Aaron Hughes and Chris Grundemann
- 6. BCOP | February 2013 Potential Topics for Additional BCOPs http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/about/bcop/topics/ • How to test your network performance • How to check your visibility from global Internet • De-Aggregation: strict filtering /48s out of /32 • How are operators using IRR? • IPv6 enterprise network renumbering scenarios, considerations, and methods • DNS Policies • Email Policies • ICMP Filtering • … (we need more suggestions)
- 7. BCOP | February 2013 Next Steps Where are we going from here? • Continue to bootstrap new efforts as needed • Develop new BCOP documents • Lots of low-hanging fruit • Review and update existing BCOP documents • Start thinking & talking about Global coordination
- 8. BCOP | February 2013 Get Involved Today! Join this grass-roots effort at the ground floor! • Contribute to an existing draft • Offer ideas for new drafts • Kick off a new document • Start a local or regional BCOP effort • Email deploy360@isoc.org for more information
- 9. www.internetsociety.org Deploy360@ISOC.org Chris Grundemann Jan Žorž Internet Society Deploy360 Programme http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ Thank You!