Chi-Nog-13

Four XRd containers, a full room, and a BGP table with zero prefixes in it. Taran Deshpande’s AI agent had just designed and launched an SRv6 L3VPN lab live on stage at CHI-NOG 13. ISIS came up clean.

In 2015, Matt Griswold was fresh off launching United IX here in Chicago, his own gear, an investor behind him, and he spent that era arguing a commercial, privately owned exchange was the right way …

I’ve been listening to “you should care about IPv6” talks for two decades. I’ve given a few myself… so when Nick Buraglio took the stage at CHI-NOG 13, I knew the script.

Doyle had just wrapped his automation-framework talk, and Tyler Conrad was up next. Principal engineer at Arista, Austin, fifteen years split between customer-side and vendor-side.

Brad Gorman’s ARIN workshop laid out where routing security stands today, ROAs you can trust, ASPA shipping, BGPSec quietly retired.

Declared bias up front. Jeff Doyle is a friend, but that doesn’t influence what comes next.