[17-meetings] RIPE87 in a Local Hub, Rotterdam today: Sustainability in Networking

[Vesna Manojlovic]

Dear all,

today, in the afternoon, there are two interesting events (in Rome):

  ~14:30 - 15:00 (UTC+1) ""The Internet of Tomorrow Must Sleep More and 
Grow Old" https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/#mon1

& @ 18:00 - 19:00 "Sustainable Networking: Where are we and where should 
we go?" https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/

Some of us will meet in a "Local Hub" in Rotterdam :
https://bpn.servus.at/ripe87/


You can register to ask question online: 
https://ripe87.ripe.net/attend/register/

Or you can just watch as livestream on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RIPENCC


Regards,
Vesna

Talk: Monday, 27 November ~14:30 - 15:00 (UTC+1)
https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/#mon1


Today, the ICT industry has a massive carbon footprint (a few percent of 
worldwide emissions) and one of the fastest growth rates. The Internet 
accounts for a large part of that footprint while being also energy 
inefficient, i.e., the total energy cost per byte transmitted is very 
high. Thankfully, there are many ways to improve the current status; we 
discuss two relatively unexplored directions in this paper.

Putting network devices to “sleep,” i.e., turning them off, is known to 
be an efficient vector to save energy; we argue that harvesting this 
potential requires new routing protocols, better suited to devices 
switching on/off often, and revising the corresponding hardware/software 
co-design. Moreover, we can reduce the embodied carbon footprint by 
using networking hardware longer, and we argue that this could even be 
beneficial for reliability! We sketch our first ideas in these 
directions and outline practical challenges that we (as a community) 
need to address to make the Internet more sustainable.

BoF: Monday, 27 November 18:00 - 19:00 (UTC+1)
https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/

Everybody is concerned with sustainability today, and rightfully so. In 
academia, there is a renewed momentum building for sustainable 
networking questions. But are we tackling the correct problems?

Researchers often have biased, outdated, or simply wrong mental models 
of how today's networks (really) operate and the problems they face. In 
this BoF, I would like to gather first-hand experience from 
practitioners and operators working "on the ground."
- Is sustainability a topic for ISPs today?
- What initiatives/efforts have already been taken?
- What issues or questions related to sustainability are left open?
- How can academics best help practitioners make their networks more 
sustainable?

Conversely, academics are often limited by the lack of information that 
is easily accessible to practitioners. This BoF may be the opportunity 
to establish data-sharing collaborations between active forces in 
industry and academia.





-- 
Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/



On 16/11/2023 12:07, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> RIPE87 is coming up (27.11.-1.12) and it's having an interesting programme:
> https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/
> 
> Instead of traveling to Rome, or watching alone (remote participation is 
> *gratis*),
> you can join the local community in :
> 
> - Rotterdam (Monday afternoon), with Inari
> 
> https://bpn.servus.at/ripe87/
> 
> 
> - Amsterdam (Tuesday & Thursday) , at TechInc
> https://wiki.techinc.nl/RIPE87_Local_Hub_Amsterdam
> https://wiki.techinc.nl/Thursday_RIPE87_Local_Hub
> 
> Spread the word!
> Hope to see you there!
> (let us know if you are joining)
> 
> Ciao,
> Vesna
> 
> 
> Other Local Hubs for RIPE87 (so far), in: Bruges, Kyiv, Glasgow, Sanaa, 
> Tallinn.
> https://ripe87.ripe.net/attend/call-for-local-hubs/local-hubs/
> 
> To organise & announce your own Local Hub:
> https://ripe87.ripe.net/attend/call-for-local-hubs/
> 
> More links to the programme:
> https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/
> https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ripe-community-plenary/
> https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/diversity-equity-inclusion/
> 
> To register for remote participation:
> https://meeting-registration.ripe.net/meeting-pub/registration?0&meetingId=0baebe05-4707-471a-989a-cad0631456d6
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/