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JANOG Gives Officers a Separate Route to Rewrite Its Rules
JANOG’s public rules make mailing-list subscribers members, but they also let an officer supermajority amend the rules—or dissolve the voluntary association—without using the separate membership-approval route.
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The RPKI Trial That Asked How to Fail Safely
Japan’s 2023 ROV exercise treated recovery as part of the security control, not as an apology after the control went wrong.
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Green, Up, and Running at a Fraction of Normal: JANOG58's Rack-Scale Acceptance Gap
The LED was green. Link Status was UP. Optical power sat inside the normal range. An NCCL check across all links nevertheless found one connection delivering only an unspecified fraction of normal throughput. SoftBank's JANOG58 account is a compact lesson in the difference…
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JANOG58 host report records two 400 Gigabit Ethernet Internet links for the meeting network
JANOG58’s host report puts a concrete number on a part of conference infrastructure that often stays invisible: for the July meeting in Matsuyama, the JANOG network provided two 400 Gigabit Ethernet Internet access links. The useful operational lesson is not a claim of measured…
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JANOG58 host report puts four parallel sessions beside two 400GbE links
A newly public note from JANOG58’s host records an event-network design rather than a benchmark: four concurrent discussion tracks, an NOC-built venue network and two 400GbE Internet links.
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JANOG58 turned a sponsor annex into its first local-5G operations trial
JANOG58’s most consequential wireless result was not a headline speed test. Faced with an overflow of sponsor booths in a separate annex, the meeting team assembled a licensed local-5G service, provisioned it through CPE routers and operated it across three conference…
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When Trust Data Goes Dark: The Safety Question Inside RPKI
Origin validation can make Internet routing safer. But a repository fault, an incomplete cache view or a mistaken local policy must not be allowed to turn a degraded security signal into lost connectivity. A six-month JANOG experiment in 2013 brought that tension into an operator…
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JANOG58 finds MAC identities multiply before switch tables fill
Japan's network operators planned for an address-table surge that never arrived. Their new field data instead shows a subtler cost: private MAC rotation enlarged and destabilised the identity state used to operate the venue network.
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JANOG 55 to spotlight Japan’s networking advancements
What happened: JANOG 55 comes together The Japanese Network Operators’ Group (JANOG) successfully hosted its 55th conference, JANOG 55, in 2025, bringing together a diverse group of professionals to explore the latest trends and innovations in the networking sector. The event…
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JANOG54 Kicks Off in Nara: Bridging network innovations
The JANOG54 meeting was held in Nara City, Nara Prefecture from Wednesday, July 3 to Friday, July 5, 2024. The JANOG conference is a place where all kinds of people come together to discuss, and this year’s theme is “Connecting to the Internet.” At present, JANOG has grown into a…
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Unveiling JANOG53: A dynamic confluence of Japan’s tech minds
Dive into JANOG – Japan’s vibrant hub for internet experts. Join dynamic discussions, share insights, and shape the future of internet technology. Explore now!
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