Joining CAIDA's ipn conference channel on jabber

For instructions on how to get on CAIDA's IPN jabber channels, see the steps in How to connect to a CAIDA jabber server, specifically joining the "ipn" conference room with JID:ipn@conference.jabber.caida.org, which would be a visible chatroom during the step at Service Discovery / Joining a room.

About ipnc

Providers have expressed concern that their outage/maintenance information could be used by competitors to gain an advantage. The below terms attempt to limit misuse of outage/maintenance engineering information.

• ISP agrees to make good-faith effort to share scheduled maintenance and ongoing outage information. The primary focus of the tool is the communication of major outages/maintenance visible to other Internet providers.
• ISP agrees not to redistribute IPNC information and to use the information for the sole purposes of operations/network management.
• If a majority of IPNC participants believe a provider has not acted in good-faith with regards to the above criteria, the majority can elect to exclude that provider from the IPNC.

CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) is a proposed effort to promote greater industry cooperation in architecting and managing the Internet. It seeks to address global engineering concerns that are highly dependent on cross-ISP coordination. This includes efforts to:

1. identify, develop and deploy measurement tools across the Internet;
2. work with commercial providers to provide them with a neutral, confidential vehicle for data sharing and analysis;
3. provide networking researchers and the general Internet community with current data on Internet traffic flow patterns;
4. assist in the introduction / deployment of emerging internet technologies such as multicast, IP v.6, web caching, bandwidth reservation protocols, etc.; and
5. enhance communications among commercial Internet service providers and the broader Internet communities.