[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Data Center Working Group

Thanks, I'll check it out!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:00 PM Leslie <geekgirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Yousef -
>
> This email list is actually used for discussing how we will select a
> future RIPE chair.
>
> Your idea for a bof sounds great - and you can submit your bof
> proposal here - https://ripe77.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/
>
> I hope to see you at RIPE77!
> Leslie Carr
> Programme Committee
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 5:55 AM Yousef Naimi <u3fnmir at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear RIPE chair,
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I am planning to send this to the RIPE List but thought to check with
> you first. Please kindly let me know if you have any reservations or
> comments.
> >
> >
> > My name is Yousef Naimi, Data Center Manager of Asiatech (AS43754).
> >
> > As an engineer who has been in IT industry for over 10 years, I was
> wondering why the RIPE doesn’t have a separate working group for Data
> Center Management and Issues.
> >
> > After having a cheking how to move forward with this idea with RIPE NCC
> staff at MENOG 18, I learned how the process for having a BoF works and
> here is my request to have one at RIPE 77.
> >
> >
> > At first, it may look that the Data Center WG has might overlap with
> other WGs like connect, but there are lot of issues related to the data
> center world that RIPE does not cover in its current WGs.
> >
> > Here are some examples:
> >
> > •  Automation and SDN, we need to discuss the road towards
> software-defined data centers as well as the way we incorporate automation
> and AI into our operations for optimal efficiency and transparency in
> real-time. How awesome that would be to share ideas about how can AI
> improve uptime and efficiency in data centers? What are the various AI
> applications available to improve our data system? (EPMS, DCIM, BCMs, BMS)
> >
> > •  Data Center Architecture and emerging networks, there are lots of
> organizations/teams which are working on data center policies and network
> architectures in order to meet increasing demands of growing
> contents/applications. Some of these orgs are as:
> >
> > ü  http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/
> >
> > ü  https://tmt.knect365.com/data-center-world/
> >
> >
> >
> > The proposed WG can compile and act as a bridge between these venues and
> RIPE:
> >
> > •  Data Center policies towards content, after all these years of
> centralization and decentralization of contents all over the world,
> governments are more concerned about reducing their budgets on
> building/maintaining data centers by integrating and merging several data
> centers into fewer ones. The project FDCCI (Federal Data Center
> Consolidation Initiative) in USA and similar projects in other countries
> shows how important this matter is. On the other hand, how we can identify
> the early signs that offloading some of our data congestion to the edge
> will be necessary? What kind of data should be taken to the edge and what
> are the latest applications and use cases for edge deployments?
> >
> > •  Data Center Services pricing, we are still in the middle of the
> challenge that whether the data center owner has to charge content owners
> or if the content owner has to charge the end user for using its content in
> order to make the deal fair for all sides. However, we all are aware of
> pricing Colocation service or dedicated server or IXP
> interconnection/cross-connection services, but talking about new
> cloud-based services, we have not much clear method to distinguish
> costs/benefits of IaaS/SaaS/PaaS services. That would be awesome if we
> could share best practices from economical point of view.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, my question is what others think about this? Should we have a BoF at
> RIPE 77 in Amsterdam and explore this further? If there is support for the
> BoF, then we can see how it goes and possible propose formation of a new WG.
> >
> >  I’d appreciate if I get opinion of others on this.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Yousef Naimi
>


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Yousef Naimi
Network/Security Engineer
CCNP R&S
CCNP Security
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