On 12/11/20 8:07 AM, Denesh Bhabuta :: UKNOF wrote: >> https://wiki.uknof.org.uk/Charter “UKNOF's remit is technical, and >> any discussion or activities involving commercial, legal or >> political issues should be limited to where they have a direct >> impact on technical aspects of network operations."
> Thank you for that reminder to the list, Will. +1 :-) > Would people Here be interested in being involved in the panel? The > challenges to network operators and infrastructure considerations in > light of Brexit and the end of the transition period. > > Would be good to see what views and considerations the larger > operators, smaller operators, infrastructure providers and IXes > have. Objective data gathering, as well as subjective discussions, is also good. I suspect people are kind of burned out looking at pandemic-inflected traffic graphs by now, but perhaps further into 2021 some analysis of traffic/routing data over the Brexit transition window might be interesting, and generate an insightful presentation or two. On 12/11/20 9:05 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > But nowadays, training is Cisco or Juniper courses, field work is > corporate scale not core global backbone, and even the best struggle > when presented with infrastructure that is of the highest scale or > with problems that can't be found in a text book or Google. > > Sadly this is not the beginning of the demise but it likely will be a > catalyst for further decline. Some investment, government programs > into training, R&D, research, key worker visa program might help I > guess. It's seemed to me for a long time that the culture of British employers spending resources on the professional development of their IT operations people has been sadly lacking compared to world-class best practice, and also feels like this is getting worse :-( We've always tried to bridge that gap at UKNOF by bringing in international speakers, seems like there are some challenges to come to keep this going.. Keith
