Jeff Doyle keynoted CHI-NOG 13 on the Network Automation Framework. Wrote up the parts worth keeping: the six-layer framework as a BS-detector for vendor demos, the return of "single source of truth," and why engineers lose the budget argument to execs.
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On IPvImperial and IPvMetric flatnetworksociety.com/proceedings/...
The most honest moment at CHI-NOG 13: I asked Brad Gorman (ARIN) what stops someone spoofing a sub-AS as the real origin, and he said “Nothing.”
BGPSec died, RPKI won, ASPA is finally shipping. Where routing security actually stands in 2026 (spoiler: not “solved”):
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Upscale AI at NFD40: no products yet, but the best AI networking tutorial of the year.
Why ECMP fails with 10 flows vs 10K. Why one packet stalls the collective.
SkyHammer (scale-up), Spectrum-X (scale-out).
Good pitch. Now ship.
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Amazon announced this week that they'd built the first "flat" hyperscaler data center network. The Society convened. The Society reviewed. The application was declined.
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Git for Network Engineers, Part 1: From Zero to Your First Pull Request routerjockey.com/git-for-netw...
Selector at NFD40: Show Your Work routerjockey.com/selector-nfd...
Heading to CHI-NOG 13 routerjockey.com/chi-nog-13/
Networks Are Graphs. NetAI Acts Like It. routerjockey.com/netai-nfd40-...
AI Networks Can't Use SDN. Netris Built What's Next. routerjockey.com/netris-nfd40...
Jeff Doyle's CHI-NOG 13 keynote on the Network Automation Framework. The six layers worth knowing, the cultural-resistance trap that kills most automation projects, and the engineer-to-executive …
An observation on the parallels between the American resistance to the metric system and the American resistance to IPv6. –
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BGPSec didn't ship. RPKI did. A walkthrough of where RPKI and ROV stand in 2026, the gaps Brad Gorman's ARIN workshop exposed, and what's coming next with ASPA.
About thirty seconds into Aravind Srikumar’s NFD40 talk, he said the thing that made me stop fidgeting and start paying attention: “We haven’t announced any products yet.” That’s an unusual opener for...
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An institutional notice regarding the application of Amazon Web Services and the Society's findings. –
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Last Tuesday you made changes to a playbook because the on-call engineer needed an ACL pushed in a hurry. This morning the same playbook is failing, and the version that worked last week is on a …
Most “AI-powered observability” pitches you sit through ask you to trust the model. The dashboard says the cloud gateway is the problem, the chat box says open a ticket with your circuit provider, …
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Somehow I’ve never made it to CHI-NOG, the Chicago Network Operators Group’s annual gathering. That changes this year. I’ll be at CHI-NOG 13 on May 27-28, 2026 at the Voco Chicago Downtown (350 West …
Dr. Deepak Kakadia got about ninety seconds into his NFD40 talk before he said the thing nobody else on the AI Ops circuit is willing to say out loud. LLMs were invented to model human behavior. Human...
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Alex Saroyan had about ninety seconds onstage before he made the architectural claim that the rest of the AI-networking conversation has been ducking. SDN won the data center virtualization fight a …
