One year on, in a different kind of school...

A year ago (to the day), I started what I would seriously consider a "dream job title" - that of Network Architect at a University (at the first place in sub-Saharan Africa to have an Internet connection - so long ago that its first IP address allocation was done within an RFC!). It ticked all my boxes in terms of favourite things to do, and promised to throw me in at the deep end in a much more challenging environment. I didn't have any particular desire to leave my last position (which I enjoyed immensely), but when I got two phone calls some time apart strongly suggesting I ought to apply for the position, and with an interesting list of "things we need done", after much hand-wringing, I jumped at the chance, and made it through the selection process. #GreatSuccess.

Securing Internet Routing: RPKI OV and ROAs

For some time now, I've had a ticket in my queue to "Investigate RPKI". A few weeks ago, we experienced some strange internet outages that turned out to be because not all is well with RPKI Origin Validation at one of our upstream ISPs...