Our chapter vice president, Anand Raje has been selected as fellow in APRICOT 2018 and our efforts towards community driven IXP is featured in ISOC APAC March 2018 Newsletter. For more details pl click here.
IICB Bootcamp and Sillycon community Meetup with ISOC Kolkata
Information and Network Security enthusiast group Sillycon (more at www.sillycon.org) organised a meetup on the skills they have learned in the ISOC Kolkata DNS/DNSSEC workshop with their community, this event is hosted by our Chapter on 18th March and our Chapter Chair, Anupam Agrawal shared IICB project to the Sillycon community. We witnessed more enthusiasm in understanding the protocol and standards making process and how IETF works.
Twin Hands On Workshops 7 to 9 March 2017
we have organized twin workshops on DNS/DNSSEC by ICANN and IXP-BGP by APNIC from 7th to 9th March 2017. The DNS/DNSEC workshop was taken by Champika Wijayatunga, ICANN and Anand Raje, VP-ISOC Chapter as co-trainer. The BGP-IXP Workshop was taken by Nurul ISLAM Roman of APNIC and Anurag Bhatia, Hurricane Electric as co-trainer. Around 40 participants practiced hands-on advanced topics of Internet Engineering. Find workshop pics on Flickr –https://www.flickr.com/photos/isockolkata/albums/72157679469748221
The idea was to develop volunteer workforce and equip technical manpower of members to understand the concept of peering and DNS/DNSSEC. We have given ISOC Chapter fellowship to the budding young engineers under 25 to participate in these workshops. The participants came from across country. We had participants from Guwahati, New Delhi etc.
One of the major success of these workshop is signing of MoU with Catla IT & Engineering Company Private Limited to set up an Internet Exchange Point in Guwahati, Assam. Dr. Monowar Bhuian our IICB IETF fellow was also present during the signing of MoU and shown his willingness to support the initiative from Kaziranga University, Jorhat, Assam.
Roundtable – 6 Mar 2017 | State of Critical Internet Infrastructure in India
A series of roundtables with the local community is planned to bring in the local perspective on the State of critical Internet Infrastructure in India. While investments are being made In Internet Backbone infrastructure throughout the country through the National Optical Fiber Network program and National Knowledge Network, there is still a need to optimize traffic management on a peering or transit basis and start looking at local network performance holistically.
The roundtables are planned at Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai & Cochin. The Kolkata Edition of Roundtable happened on 6th March, 2017.
The agenda of the roundtable in Kolkata is available at Agenda_Roundtable_Kolkata_V 1.0 and the Outcome is available t MoM_Roundtable_06Mar17_Kolkata_V 1.0
The outcome of the roundtables will be perused in India Peering & Interconnection Forum being organized in 11-12th May 2017.
IICB@JIS Kalyani
On 22nd Aug, 2016 ISOC Kolkata Team represented by Anupam Agrawal and Anand Raje reached Kalyani to present the activities and opportunities of engagement in IETF as part of the IICB Program. The host was JIS College of Engineering. This was a pre decided visit and proper coordination efforts were being handled by Priyanka from the JIS group headquarters.
The ISOC team met Dr. Malay Dave and had an interesting discussions on the benefits of participating in standards both for college and students. Also being convinced on the fact this initiative has positive effects of employ ability of the students and upgrade opportunities for faculty, the team was handed over to HOD Computer Science and other HODs to look at the program holistically.
Anupam Presented the overall Program goal, reason for its importance in the current times and also the benefits for the community, to which the computer science HOD responded very positively.
The program started with importance of standards in life and how to participate in the standardization process. Anupam talked in detail about the ways and means of contribution in IETF. Anand took things into directly into the technical dimension and explained how a simple URL uses variety of standards for showing up a website. While the session was on, the team connected with Nalini Elkins and other Indian representatives in IETF meeting happening at Berlin and the students interacted with the actual contributors in IETF.
The students question ranged from hand holding request to understanding the networking protocol in detail. The email id was shared with the group and team left with a very positive energy and enthusiastic students.
IICB :2
IICB: 2
11th September, 2015: Mallabhum Institute of Technology, Bishnupur was the location of IICB 2 conference. A conference on Indian IETF Capacity Building Programme, ‘IICB2 Mallabhum’ was organized by ISOC, Kolkata Chapter and hosted by the Dept. of CSE of Mallabhum Institute of Technology on 11th September, 2015 at the Mallabhum Institute of Technology Campus at Bishnupur, Bankura, West Bengal. One hundred delegates both from industry and academia participated in the said conference and many of the presented their research papers. Mr. Anupam Agarwal from ISOC, Kolkata Chapter, Mr. Anand Raje from IICB project, Mr. Abhijan Bhattacharya from TCS Innovation Lab., Mr. Manish Upadhyay from CTS, Mr. Subhendu Chakraborty from Central Detective Training School, Dr. Indrajit De from MCKV Institute of Engineering attended the conference and shared their thoughts on Internet protocol standardization contextualizing India. The inaugural ceremony started at 10 am and continued till 10.45am
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The Chairman of MIT Mr. Er Digbasan Banerjee, gave a warm welcome speech to all the people present at the seminar. He introduced everyone connected with the seminar so that its easy for the students to co-ordinate. Then we had the Principal of MIT Dr A K Mukhopadhay with his words og organising this unique seminar at his venue.
After the inaugural ceremony Mr. Anand Raje was up with his views and idea regarding this Program. He spoke about the importance of internet standards and protocols. The most significant concept he made was to realize the engagement in Indian IETF Activities at an earlier stage will be helpful in cultivating internet engineers. The way he presented his thoughts was extremely commendable. He had clarity and sufficient knowledge in whatever he preached.
Then there was the tea break for few minutes to refresh the minds of people in the seminar. Resuming back with the seminar there were six paper presentation from the students which was evaluated by Indrajit De. There was some exceptionally good and praise worthy papers dealt with during the seminar. To mention few of them
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R. K Deogharia, Dr. B.C. Roy Eng. College
“Internet of Things (IoT): Evolution, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions”
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Priyadarshini Das & Sania Quasmi, Students of 4th Year, ECE Dept., MIT
“Case study of implementation of Internet Protocol: SMTP”
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Ms. Ayani Nandi, Faculty, EE Dept., MIP
“Networked Robot System Using Soft Computing Techniques”
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Sancheti Mishra & Riya Chakraborty, Students of 4th Year, ECE Dept., MIT
“MATLAB Solution Of Microwave Chebyshev LPF Designed For Physical Layer Of OSI Networking Model”
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Mr. Ankan Bhattacharya, Faculty, ECE Dept., MIT
“High End Physical Layer Devices – Microwave Transmitters Theory and Design”.
Mr Indrajit De was having a very interactive session with the students. He engaged with them and steered up brainstorm session. He helped in understanding the bits and pieces of the project and how students can get the most out of it. The students seemed to have gathered a huge amount of knowledge after this session.
The lunch was then a break for everyone to fill up the stomach and even fill up the brain with lot more views and opinions.With that we continued to the second part of the session were we had Mr Anupam Agrawal, Advisor of IICB sharing the relevance of IICB and how it all got started. There has been participation by Indians in IETF but not recognised to a large extent. He spoke about his dreams and expectations from civil society. His sole focus is to host IETF in India.
We also had Mr. Abhijan Bhattacharya, scientist at Tata Consultancy Service with his views on IETF experience while working for his internet drafts. The key challenges he had to come across and other requirements for this project. Some of his stories had a moral which helped us analyse the way other countries look at India in regards to IETF Capacity Program.
Mr. Manish Upadhyay of Cognizant had an important hand in this seminar. He emphasised on incorporation of these ideas and content in the curriculum forum industry and practical viewpoint. No matter how theory you adapt its very important to get things practically done. This gentlemen from Kolkata had excellent features and guidelines to give a shape to our IETF Capacity Building Program.
A most recognised member of Cyber Crime Inspector Mr. Sudhendu Chakraborty was even present in this seminar. He made the students and all other faculty members present aware of the ways some people of our society are misusing the internet. The precautions and measures that can be taken to erode these away from our society. The factor of corruption is always present but it is through perfect use of internet and its things we corruption can be washed away.
The seminar was coming to an end. With enormous amount of knowledge, facts, ideas, practical session the whole program was phenomenal. There was interaction between students and the IICB Members. A good mix between listening and panel discussion. The speakers were responsive to participants’ question. The urge to engage themselves in the IETF Capacity Building Program was very vibrant and positive. The involvement of not only MIT Bishnupur but along with it NSHM Knowledge Campus Durgapur was highly appreciated. Students were looking forward to attend more of such workshops and seminar.
IoT & IPv6 ESSENTIAL WORKSHOP
IoT &IPv6 ESSENTIAL WORKSHOP
3rd and 4th September, 2015: The main motive of taking up this training session can simply be defined as a step towards making the world we live in today an absolute network area where minute of the minute things are controlled and operated by our command. It can be command or just the sensors that needs to get activated for objects around us to operate. Internet Society Kolkata, a global internet community has come up with the innovative adventitious idea of training the upcoming future generation about the norms of IOT, vertical markets, the protocols of communication.
The workshop started by Mr. Anupam Agrawal, chair of ISOC by a small introduction on what exactly will be the event on. What are the things and contents that the workshop will deal with? Later on the whole seminar was conducted by the Vice-President Membership of ISOC Mr. Anand Raje. The participant then introduced themselves to every other. The venue was huge and spacious. The lights were perfect for the projector. The sound system was even perfect. Before the start of the seminar there was a tea break after the introduction so that people would be freshened up. The theoretical part was dealt at the beginning to make people get a clear view of the workshop. Then we had the lunch session which was enjoyed by all as it was of Indian Cuisine and in Kolkata its majority best. We were back on the workshop with some more relevant information about IoT AND Raspberry Pie. Internet Of Things is basically an process where not only individual but also living and non-living object are giving an unique and different identification code which can be accessed through wireless network. So the presence of too much human or machine are lessened. If we can bring about the presence of IOT in day to day business which would activate the sensors to connect to the node and finally the gateway were the unique IP Address is present links to the cloud opens the door to interchange and exchange data communication within. Smart system and Internet of Things are processed by Sensors and actuators that leads to connectivity and finally combined by bi-directional system that integrate people and process. Things get more interesting when the devices starts the compound application within their verticals.
The kit was then given to every group formed by the participants containing of 4-5 people who was instructed to connect it to the laptop.The whole of IoT is based on its technology and architectural structure. The ambience intelligence would be embedded, personalized, anticipatory, and context aware. Electronics would responds built in a sensitive environment. The communication flow that takes place between sensors are actuators are in a systematic and simplified manner. After collecting information from sensors it preprocess it and send it to the cloud. The cloud in turn receives user input, process with ambient info and triggers the actuators
.The Raspberry Pie was the greatest importance here. So to get more detailed information about Raspberry Pie a check on this link is very useful https://www.raspberrypi.org
On the second day of the workshop we had a different room which was quite cozy and comfortable as it was of little smaller size than the previous one so people could interact in a better way. There were new members who missed out on the first day due to some unavoidable reasons but was very eager to attend the workshop. So we couldn’t say them no. For quick brush up of the new members Mr. Anand Raje started with highlighting the main points of yesterday’s workshop session. After a few queries sorted by Mr. Raje we had Mr. Anupam Agrawal with his views and suggestion about the workshop. He then introduced us to Mr. Abhijan Bhattacharya scientist at Tata Consultancy Services. He shared some of is his experience he had while visiting some other countries regarding internet of things. The way had responded to his idea and thoughts about internet.
The second day workshop was totally on practical terms. Participants had their Raspberyy Pie kits ready connected to their laptop and was ready to use. Then we had a break for lunch and the presence of Chinese cuisine delighted everyone. After the lunch, Mr. Anand had videos and photos that guided everyone to demonstrate it on their laptop. Eventually the workshop was coming to an end. Whatever doubts and questions fellow participants had brought up and Mr. Anand solved it out.
The participation of the members was brilliant. There were people from Mumbai who was extremely interested to know about the future of internet of things. They interacted and even had their views exchanged. Their active participation made this event a successful one. A big and huge thanks to our sponsors THE NiXi. Their constant support was brilliant and overwhelming. People were overwhelmed with such a unique workshop. There were suggestion from very experienced people that made the workshop interactive friendly. The student members had actively co-operated. Looking forward to more such seminar was the response of majority participants. People gathered a lot of knowledge about the IoT and Raspberry Pie after the workshop was the feedback we received. We all gathered for a group picture so as to capture such memories till it lasts. All wanted more of such workshop in future.
There were people from different organization across the city. We had people from NIXI as well ISOC India Delhi Chapter, along with it was members from ISOC India Mumbai Chapter. A huge number of members were from MCKV Institute was present. There were participants from NIT as well. We had suggestions from a very reputed fellow who belongs to Indian Army Mr. Amit Jaiswal. The presence of TCS employer who shared some of his knowledge and experience regarding the workshop was fruitful. We even had members representing CMC ltd, Dynafusion Tech Private Limited and A.T.M Technology. There was Rabt Technology Private Limited members present. Last but not the least, as mentioned earlier the whole workshop was delivered by the chair and VP Membership of ISOC Kolkata Chapter i.e., Mr. Anupam Agrawal and Mr. Anand Raje respectively.
IETF – Indian Participation
The Internet we know is primarily defined by the mentioned attributes with an objective of keeping the core working and constant while edge of the network continues to grow. Internet allows for:
- Different Players at Different Layers
- Functional Interoperability
- Voluntary adoption of Technology
- Bottom Up Innovation
- Collaboration where needed.
In this process standardization plays a big role because just for browsing the web, there is a strong interoperability requirements which if not met will make Internet cease to exist.
BROWSING THE WEB
- 802.11 //– IEEE — TCP/IP — IETF
- URL //– IETF — BGP — IETF
- NAT //– Propriet — HTTP — IETF
- CSS //– W3C — PNG — IETF
- HTML //– W3C/ISO — MPEG — ISO/IEC
- XML //– W3C — ADSL — ITU-T
The Standardization helps in meeting interoperability requirements and also enables the following:
- Collective Empowerment
- Voluntary Adoption
- Availability
- Adherence to Principles
- Cooperation
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is the Internet’s premier standards-making body, responsible for the development of protocols used in IP-based networks. IETF participants represent an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture.
The IETF Trust was created by the Internet Society and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives as settlors, the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Initial Trustees on December 15, 2005.The IETF Trust has been requested by the IESG and RFC Editor in November 2014 to provide a license in cases where RFCs contain Templates. The Trustees propose modifying the Trust Legal Provisions (TLP) based upon a need to extract and fill in text from RFCs that contain Templates. The change enables specific text in an RFC that is designated as a Template to be subject to a new provision in the TLP that says that extraction and modification are authorized.
The IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) as an activity housed within the Internet Society (ISOC). It defines the roles and responsibilities of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), the IETF Administrative Director (IAD), and ISOC in the fiscal and administrative support of the IETF standards process. It also defines the membership and selection rules for the IAOC. The process by which the members of the IAB and IESG, and some members of the IAOC, are selected, confirmed, and recalled is specified in RFC 7437.
The IETF’s standards development work is organized into 8 Areas. Each Area has 1 or more Area Directors (ADs), which together comprise the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). The IESG is responsible for technical management of IETF activities, the Internet standards process, and for the actions associated with entry into and movement along the Internet “standards track,” including final approval of specifications as Internet Standards and publication as an RFC
within each Area there is multiple Working Groups (WG) . Each WG has one or more chairs who manage the work, and a written charter defining what the work is and when it is due. There are 129 WGs. The WGs produce Internet Drafts (I-Ds) which often lead to the publication of an Internet standard as an RFC. People interested in particular technical issues join the mailing list of a WG and occasionally attend one or more of the three IETF meetings held every year.
IESG is considering some major changes in the IETF process and structure for balancing the need of timely response to industry and workload on Area Directors. Some major changes on the cards in IETF are:
MERGING OF UPPER LAYER PROTOCOL AREAS – Merge the APP, RAI, and TSV areas into one combined Network Applications (NAPP) area. From March 2015-March 2016, this combined area would be overseen by the five remaining ADs from APP, RAI, and TSV, with some redistribution of WG shepherding responsibilities among them to balance workloads. DISPATCH, TSVWG, and APPSAWG would continue to function much as they currently do.
ADDING A THIRD RTG Area Director- The load in the RTG area is currently unsustainably high. The placement of a third AD will have the effect of spreading that load such that the time requirement may now be more consistent with the work loads of ADs in other areas.
SHIFTING OF WG RESPONSIBILITY TO OUT-OF-AREA ADS – There are numerous instances where the constituency of a WG exists in a particular IETF area, but the most appropriate AD for that work happens to be in a different area, or where the ADs in the area are simply overloaded
and an AD outside of the area is perfectly capable of managing the work. To address these possibilities, the IESG is moving towards a model where a WG can exist in one area, but its shepherding AD comes from another area. This flexibility will allow the IESG to apply its skills where they can be of most use while still keeping related WGs together within an area. The IESG proposes to experiment with this approach initially by shifting to out-of-area ADs for RADEXT, DIME, LMAP, and ANIMA, perhaps with another few WGs to follow.
There has been participation by Indians in IETF and the state of affairs is as below as compiled from various sources.
POINT OF DEPARTURE -2015 – LOW BUT NOT TO BE DISCOURAGED
POINT OF ARRIVAL – 2020 – AMBITIOUS BUT DREAMING IS IMPORTANT
In this context ISOC Kolkata Chapter appreciates the confidence shown on us by NiXi ( Dr.Govind & K B Narayanan) and special thanks to Dr. Ajay Kumar – Joint Secretary DIETY for supporting us. We look forward to your feedback to improve further.
Anupam Agrawal
Chair
Internet Society Kolkata Chapter
Cell : 91 990 399 2838
Email : [email protected]
An interactive session with LEA Officials on Cyber Crime
As part of Internet Society Kolkata Chapter ongoing outreach activities we involve with different stakeholders for awareness, advisory and technical support. The lecture is part of the courses organized by Central Detective Training School, Kolkata for different LEA officials on Cyber Crime. The topic of lecture was ‘Investigation of Internet Fraud and Case Studies’ held on 11-02-2015. Investigation of Internet fraud being a vast domain, we have covered it from general awareness point of discussion to very specific cases which can be bottom line in solving many similar nature of cases. From the discussion it was evident that the majority of incidents are happening due to lack of awareness among users about the secured uses of Internet Online Services, Credit Cards etc.
LEA agencies are facing problem in reaching cyber criminal’s machines or point of operations due to the use of anonymous proxies and other tools available in market. The situation is becoming more alarming when the next evolution IoT (Internet of Things) is knocking the doors. This lack of general awareness in one hand and lighting speed adoption of Internet and its services on the other hand is creating a scary situation and LEA officials are having tough time responding to new age crime situations.
The session was interactive and we discussed basic security principals and protocols like https, digital signatures, and encryption methodologies and even practiced some probing techniques. We went ahead to understand how internet works. An insight into BGP routers behind Internet backbone by using some publicly accessible BGP Looking Glasses.
The concerns and suggestions from the session are as follows:
1. Lack of awareness about secured uses of online services among users are reasons of majority of incidents.
2. Online services like e-commerce, e-payments should maintain proper use activity logs and respond to the lawful investigation of fraudulent activities.
3. Continuous training of all the stakeholders in cyber-crime investigation life cycle.
E Connect North East – Guwahati Edition
The goal of this seminar e-Connecting North East is to promote healthy development of Internet in North East and make it an active part of the world internet community. This is expected to be a link among relevant internet communities, enterprises and organizations for benefitting the whole industry, to protect internet user’s interests, to strengthen communication and coordination between communities and governments, improve the implementation of relevant policies and regulations, promote internet application and public awareness. The reliance on Internet has increased both in the country and in the North East states of India in how we conduct our day to day lives. Though technology has come to remove the barriers of last mile access, thereby reducing the access issues to a larger extent but there are access issues in North East, which needs to be talked about, debated and actions taken against each one of them. The seminar is an attempt to bring the issues on to the table and to the forefront of all, active in policy making so that the issues are differentiated in the context of North East and dealt properly. There are opportunities to participate in the management of Internet’s key technical resources and policy development, wherein the academia and students can play a role and a significant objective of the seminar is to create public awareness around it so that Increased and effective participation creates an opportunity to reframe the debate at the international level, national level and the regional level. The business from North East is having a large stake in ensuring that the policy debate about issues with an Internet dimension taken care off. It needs to be ensured that while efforts are being made to use it to solve broader social issues like education and security, the business requirements, are not undermined. The seminar in Guwahati is the first of the series of seminars on this subject being organized by Internet Society Kolkata Chapter with the help of Business & their Chambers, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) & ISPAI, in each of the North Eastern State. The learning from each of the seminars in the form of interventions, discussions and points raised will be synthesized and a report will be submitted to all stakeholders including government for their action.
