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=Lecture at Hacking Feminism=
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=Lectures at Hacking Feminism=
  
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Fist lecture in this series:
 
* 6 April 2016, 8PM
 
* 6 April 2016, 8PM
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* At LAG
 
* By '''[[User:Becha|Becha]]'''
 
* By '''[[User:Becha|Becha]]'''
 
* https://wiki.laglab.org/Hacking_Feminism
 
* https://wiki.laglab.org/Hacking_Feminism
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GOALS:
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* Empower each-other with knowledge
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* Learn the basics technical concepts of underlying Internet works
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* Discover & emphesise roles of women
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* Practice & get our hands dirty
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* Work on the alternatives together!
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* Personal goals: learn by teaching; develop series of lectures; practice practice practice!
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* What's your goals?
  
 
=Internet Plumbing=
 
=Internet Plumbing=
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Internet Plumbing is a word-game with multiple layers of meaning (ha! a recursive pun ;-)  
 
Internet Plumbing is a word-game with multiple layers of meaning (ha! a recursive pun ;-)  
  
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===Series of Tubes===
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[[File:Squirrel eating cable.jpg|200px|right]]
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===Internet As a Series of Tubes===
  
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
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* http://www.salon.com/2012/05/28/tubes_what_the_internet_is_made_of/
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* Andrew Blum 2012 book " Tubes: A Journey to The Center of The Internet" , starts with the squirrel that ruins his Internet (connection/tube).  
 
* http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/series-of-tubes
 
* http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/series-of-tubes
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* http://www.submarinecablemap.com/  
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* http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
  
 
===Ubiquitous and complicated as plumbing?===
 
===Ubiquitous and complicated as plumbing?===
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* just like "plumbing" (water & sewage), there is underlying "technology" to it, so complex, that no-one seems to grasp how all of it works  
 
* just like "plumbing" (water & sewage), there is underlying "technology" to it, so complex, that no-one seems to grasp how all of it works  
 
* 60% of the population of the planet does NOT have "teh Internets", and 30% does not have plumbing either (http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/sanitation.shtml)
 
* 60% of the population of the planet does NOT have "teh Internets", and 30% does not have plumbing either (http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/sanitation.shtml)
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* Mary Midgley: "Utopias, dolphins, and computers - problems in philosophical plumbing "
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https://openlibrary.org/books/OL968959M/Utopias_dolphins_and_computers
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[[File:women role models in computing.jpg|right|300px]]
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===Women's role===
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* [[Ladies_Night/women_in_history_of_STEM | Women in history of computing, engineering, internet]]
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* [[Female_experts]]  -- Women who wrote about Internet: history, hacking, ethics, (hack)tivism,  governance, economy, (anti)capitalism , climate change, philosophy
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* [[Ladies_Night#Gender_gap_in_tech]]
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* [[Ladies_Night#Increasing_the_gender_diversity]]
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* [[Ladies_Night#Anti-capitalism]]
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* Geek/cyber feminism: [[Ladies_Night#Feminism]]
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==Participate, take action, join==
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* contribute to this wiki page
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* learn more!
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* join mailing lists discussions for technical policy development & Internet governance
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* learn to code & take part in FLOSS community
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* join a hackerspace
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* teach your skills to others
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* contact me: BECHA @ xs4all dot nl // @Ms_Multicolor
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=Basics=
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Internet is network of networks
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==Step by step==
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[[File:Addressing-basics.png|300px|right]]
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===Local networks===
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* "Small network" -- computers "talking" to each other
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** Local Area Network = LAN
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** With cables (ethernet), or Wireless (WiFi)
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** How do they find each other? using unique numbers: MAC (ethernet) address (layer 2), translated by ARP (MAC to IP address)
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[[File:750px-Ipv4 address.svg.png|300px|right ]]
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===IP addresses===
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* About IP (Internet Protocol) addresses
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** binary numbers, written as decimal (IPv4) or hexadecimal (IPv6)
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** Can be "public" or "private" (=local) 
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** What is the format?
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'''Exercise!!''' (ifconfig)
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* Typical / mainstream home (or small office) network
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** Private IP addresses 
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** NAT = Network Address Translation - translated from multiple private to (usually) one public IP address
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** Home router is (usually) a gateway, firewall, and NAT box at the same time
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** ... and because of IPv4 exhaustion there is also double-NAT aka NAT444
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    10.0.0.0        -  10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
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    172.16.0.0      -  172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
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    192.168.0.0    -  192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
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[[File:TheNAT444Model1.jpg|right|300px]]
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[[File:Nat-images.png]]
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* Video on NAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBqPzHEDzvo (not to watch during the lesson...)
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* Further reading about IPv6:  [[User:Becha/DeeperIPv6]]
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[[File:Where do they come from.png|300px]]
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* Where do the IP addresses come from?
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** Hierarchical distribution (see charts)
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** Principles: fairness, aggregation, conservation, registration
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** Used to be "needs based", now open to "market forces"
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** Policies for distribution ("rules") are developed in open, transparent, bottom-up process
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** IPv4 is "legacy", has run out - but is still DE FACTO THE ONLY STANDARD in use!
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[[File:Ipv4-space-distribution.png|300px]]
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===Inter-connecting and Routing===
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[[File:Isps.png|right|200px]]
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* Connecting "to the Internet"
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** usually through commercial ISP (Internet Service Provider): dial-up, fibre, ... modem or router.
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** "free Wifi"
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** over mobile!
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** alternatively: community-mesh-peer-to-peer : [[MeshNet]]
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* ISPs connecting with each other
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** ISPs are "autonomous networks" (autonomous from each other)
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** Using BGP and AS numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
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** routing = finding a "path" between networks
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** Advanced concepts: announcing, prefix, route,
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* Monty Python's "Life of Brian": Funny way to illustrate BGP hijacking:
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** https://youtu.be/OMtoGj0dcSo?t=213
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** https://youtu.be/CcSOr0HHmbo?t=4338
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** http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/35.htm
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Judith: Release Brian!
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Pilates: I shall... "welease" "Bwian"!
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...
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Guard: Where is Brian of Nazareth? I have an order for his release.
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Brian: ... You stupid bastards!
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Joker: Uh, I'm Brian of Nazareth.
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Brian: What?
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Joker: Yeah, I'm Brian of Nazareth.
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Guard: Take him down.
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Brian: I'm Brian of Nazareth!
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random slave: I'm Brian!
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Another random slave: I'm Brian!
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Rich merchant: I'm Brian, and so's my wife!
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Guard (pointing to Joker): Take him away and release him.
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Joker: No, I'm only joking. I'm not really Brian.  I'm only pulling your leg. It's a joke! I'm not him!
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Guard (hits him)
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Joker: Bloody Romans. Can't take a joke.
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* Later on: [[User:Becha/DeeperBGP]]
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[[File:Becha-Autonomous-system.png | 400px ]]
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'''Exercise!!''' (ping)  & '''Video!!!''' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLPKuAOe50) (Youtube taken over / hijacked by Pakistan Telekom)
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[[File:With-ixp.png|300px|right]]
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* Relationships between "providers"
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** direct peering: between more-less same size & same "importance" ISPs
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** usually at  IXP (Internet eXchange Point, e.g. Ams-IX, LINX...)
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** "buying transit" from a "national Telco", usually
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** large providers and carriers create a "backbone"
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* Further reading: Social scientist explains: Uta Meier-Hahn
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** Internet Interconnection: Networking in Uncertain Terrain https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/internet-interconnection-networking-in-uncertain-terrain
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** The Regulatory Conditions of IP Interconnection 2016 https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-regulatory-conditions-of-ip-interconnection
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** October 2016: the death of transit? https://blog.apnic.net/2016/10/28/the-death-of-transit/
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'''Video!!!''' "Internet Revealed, a movie about IXPs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuBde4Sn3f0
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===Domain Name System===
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[[File:500px-An_example_of_theoretical_DNS_recursion-nl.svg.png|right|500px]]
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* How do '''humans''' find services on the Internet? -> BY NAME!
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** numbers (IP addresses) are translated to names by DNS
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** web-sites, servers, services have DNS "names"
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** hierarchical distribution of names
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** Advanced concepts: resolver, cashing, primary & secondary name-servers, master-slave, recursive resolver, labels, zones, A & AAAA records
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* DNS with NAT
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[[File:Network Address Translation (file2).jpg|right|500px]]
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'''Exercise!!'''
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* COMIC BOOK by "Simple" DNS: https://howdns.works/
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* Much later: [[User:Becha/DeeperDNS]]
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* Video / movie: "From .yu to .me" https://vimeo.com/95833310
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* https://messwithdns.net/
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* Funny facts: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/tlds.html
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==Exercises==
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[[User:Becha/InternetPlumbing/Exercises]]
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==Videos==
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* youtube hijack
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* How IXP's work
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* Net of Rights
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==Want to learn more?==
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* ISOC on-line course: https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/inforum-learn-online/inforum-course-introduction-network-operations
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* RIPE NCC training materials are free to use: https://ripe.net/training
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* See also "resources"
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* "Lesson 8: The Internet Is for Everyone" https://curriculum.code.org/csp-18/unit1/8/#:~:text=He%20wrote%20a%20memo%20entitled,%2C%20gender%2C%20creed%2C%20location%2C
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* CS Principles 2020-2021 https://curriculum.code.org/csp-20/
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=Networking Principles=
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[[File:protocol stack hourglass 1.jpeg|200px|right]] 
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==Concepts==
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[[File:More-dolls-fig2.jpg|200px|right]]
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* packets & packet switching
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* encapsulation 
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* layered network model
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* (open) protocols & (open) standards
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* end-to-end principle
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* ports
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* server/client architecture
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* cryptography
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[[File:Networking-fig3.jpg|200px]] [[File:Email-tmp3163.jpg|400px]]
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[[File:Tcpip pat.gif|400px]] 
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==Comparing OSI & TCP / IP layers==
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Original borrowed from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
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{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
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|-
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| TCP / IP Model
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! colspan="4" | OSI Model
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|-
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| Layer
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| OSI Layer
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! [[Protocol data unit]] (PDU)
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! style="width:30em;" | Function
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! Examples
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|-
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! rowspan="2" | Application
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| style="background:#d8ec9b;" | 7. [[Application layer|Application]]
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| style="background:#d8ec9c;" rowspan="3" | [[Data (computing)|Data]]
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| style="background:#d8ec9c;" | <small>High-level [[API]]s, including resource sharing, remote file access, [[directory service]]s and [[virtual terminal]]s</small>
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| [[Transport Layer Security|TLS]], [[FTP]], [[HTTP]], [[HTTPS]], [[SMTP]], [[Secure Shell|SSH]], [[Telnet]], BGP!
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|-
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| style="background:#d8ec9b;" | 6.&nbsp;[[Presentation layer|Presentation]]
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| style="background:#d8ec9b;" | <small>Translation of data between a networking service and an application; including [[character encoding]], [[data compression]] and [[Encryption|encryption/decryption]]</small>
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| [[CSS]], [[GIF]], [[HTML]], [[XML]], [[JSON]]
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|-
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! rowspan="2" | Transport
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| style="background:#d8ec9b;" | 5. [[Session layer|Session]]
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| style="background:#d8ec9b;" | <small>Managing communication [[Session (computer science)|sessions]], i.e. continuous exchange of information in the form of multiple back-and-forth transmissions between two nodes</small>
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| [[Remote Procedure Call|RPC]], [[DECnet|SCP]], [[Network File System|NFS]], [[Password authentication protocol|PAP]],
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|-
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| style="background:#e7ed9c;" | 4. [[Transport layer|Transport]]
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| style="background:#e7ed9c;" | [[Packet segmentation|Segment]] (TCP) / [[Datagram]] (UDP)
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| style="background:#e7ed9c;" | <small>Reliable transmission of data segments between points on a network, including [[Packet segmentation|segmentation]], [[Acknowledgement (data networks)|acknowledgement]] and [[multiplexing]]</small>
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| [[NetBIOS Frames protocol|NBF]], [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]], [[User Datagram Protocol|UDP]]
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|-
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| Network / <br> Internet
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| style="background:#eddc9c;" | 3. [[Network layer|Network]]
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| style="background:#eddc9c;" | [[Network packet|Packet]]
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| style="background:#eddc9c;" | <small>Structuring and managing a multi-node network, including [[Address space|addressing]], [[routing]] and [[Network traffic control|traffic control]]</small>
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| [[AppleTalk]], [[Internet Control Message Protocol|ICMP]], [[IPsec]], [[IPv4]], [[IPv6]]
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|-
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! rowspan="2" | Link <br> layer
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| style="background:#e9c189;" | 2. [[Data link layer|Data link]]
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| style="background:#e9c189;" | [[Frame (networking)|Frame]]
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| style="background:#e9c189;" | <small>Reliable transmission of data frames between two nodes connected by a physical layer</small>
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| [[IEEE 802.2]], [[L2TP]], [[LLDP]], [[Media access control|MAC]], [[Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]], [[Asynchronous Transfer Mode|ATM]], [[Multiprotocol Label Switching|MPLS]]
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|-
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| style="background:#e9988a;" | 1. [[Physical layer|Physical]]
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| style="background:#e9988a;" | [[Bit]]
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| style="background:#e9988a;" | <small>Transmission and reception of raw bit streams over a physical medium</small>
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| [[DOCSIS]], [[DSL]], [[Ethernet physical layer]], [[ISDN]], [[USB]]
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|}
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<!----- {{Clear}} ------->
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Cross-layer functions:
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* ARP is used to translate IPv4 addresses (OSI layer 3) into Ethernet MAC addresses (OSI layer 2).
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* Domain Name Service is an Application Layer service which is used to look up the IP address of a given domain name. Once a reply is received from the DNS server, it is then possible to form a Layer 3 connection to the third-party host.
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* etc
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==Resources==
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Many many more resources: books, videos:
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* [[Internet_Governance_and_hackers#How_does_the_Internet_work]]
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Links:
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* http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship/ch006_chapter-1-how/
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
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* http://what-when-how.com/data-communications-and-networking/network-and-transport-layers-data-communications-and-networking/
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* http://what-when-how.com/data-communications-and-networking/network-models-data-communications-and-networking/
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* http://www.laneye.com/network/how-network-works/mac-address-and-ip-address-relationship.htm
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* https://www.amplicon.com/building/networking-principles.cfm#ip
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* DNS & CDNs: Internet plumbing: Think globally, route locally, Mar 16th 2011, http://www.economist.com/node/21016766/print
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Wonderful site for teaching Internet concepts to children:
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http://networks.land/
  
 
==Acronyms!==
 
==Acronyms!==
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RIPE NCC Glossary: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/new-member/ncc_glossary_print.pdf/at_download/file
  
 
* TCP/IP
 
* TCP/IP
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* SMTP
 
* SMTP
 
* HTTP  
 
* HTTP  
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* CDN
  
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[[File:protocol stack hourglass 1.jpeg|200px]]  [[File:500px-An_example_of_theoretical_DNS_recursion-nl.svg.png|500px]] [[File:Becha-Autonomous-system.png | 400px ]]
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=Advanced topics=
  
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==Basics==
 
  
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[[File:More-dolls-fig2.jpg|200px]] [[File:Networking-fig3.jpg|200px]] [[File:Email-tmp3163.jpg|300px]] [[File:Best-tmp314.jpg|300px]]
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==Layers as an allegory==
  
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Many many more resources: books, videos:  
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[[File:Osi-layers-ti-shirt-download.jpeg|200px]] [[File:Evi nemeth.jpg|300px]] [[File:The art of engineering.png|right|200px]]
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* [[Internet_Governance_and_hackers#How_does_the_Internet_work]]
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Left: OSI Model T-shirt enhanced to include an 8th and 9th layer as defined by Evi Nemeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth //  (old, broken link -> https://www.isc.org/product/isc-9-layer-osi-model-cotton-t-shirt/ )
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https://shop.isc.org/collections/shirts/products/osi-9-layer-model-t-shirt-1
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(TODO: add ISC reference to Evi's wikipedia page!!)
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Right: back of the T-shirt from the IETF75 in Stockholm, 2005
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==ABSTRACTION==
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[[File:Osi-deployment-layers.png|right|300px]]
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Explaining complex concepts using layers is a useful abstraction.
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Goal here is to illustrate layers by practical examples,  and point out '''owners, developers, dangers, mitigations & alternatives.'''
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This is not exactly technically correct, for the detail oriented people!
  
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* http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship/ch006_chapter-1-how/  
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
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| Number
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* http://what-when-how.com/data-communications-and-networking/network-and-transport-layers-data-communications-and-networking/
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| Layer name
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* http://what-when-how.com/data-communications-and-networking/network-models-data-communications-and-networking/
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| Example
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* http://www.laneye.com/network/how-network-works/mac-address-and-ip-address-relationship.htm
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| Practically 
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* https://www.amplicon.com/building/networking-principles.cfm#ip
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| Owner
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* DNS & CDNs: Internet plumbing: Think globally, route locally, Mar 16th 2011, http://www.economist.com/node/21016766/print
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| Developed by
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| Vulnerabilities / Dangers
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| Mitigation / Securing
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| Alternatives
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|-
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|9
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| Organisation / Political
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| (Internet) Governance
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| technical community, civil society, governments
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| IGF (Internet Governance Forum), UN, ITU, IETF, ICANN, 
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|
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| awareness, take part!
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| someone will build a new *net, AlterNet :-)
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|-
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|8
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| Individual / Financial
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| Operating System (OS) + choice of software
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| Linux, FreeBSD, Minix...; iOS, Android, Windows...  
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| User!
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| programmers & developers: FLOSS community; <br> Apple, Google,Micro$oft 
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| backdoors, surveillance, spying on users; lock-in; monopoly;
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| community participation; unionization of programmers; see articles here [yy]
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| knowledge, self-empowerment, solidarity
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! rowspan="3" | 7
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! rowspan="3" | Application
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| 7.3 -> VoIP
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| skype
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|
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|
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|-
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|7.2 -> SMTP
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| email 
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|
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|-
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| 7.1  HTTP: web, WWW
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| web sites! LoLCats!
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| individuals, on their own servers! <br> blogs (blogspot?), mainstream media, hosting companies; CDNs (Akamai, Amazon...); corporations: Google, Facebook, Twitter... YouTube..
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| W3c, IETF
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| censorship; silos; walled gardens; commercialization, consumerism;
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| technically: httpS, SSL, TLS; Tor; <br> politically: activism, digital human rights; associations of users;
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| torrent! p2p! alternative social media!
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|6
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| Presentation
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| HTML, CSS, JSON
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|-
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|5
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| Session
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| BGP (actually layer 7...) 
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| routing: exchanging AS reachability info via gossip: based on trust & peering agreements! <br> physical routers by routers: Cisco/Juniper (commercial monopolists ;-)
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| Large ISPs; Tier1 / Tier2 ; IXPs!!  RIRs give out AS numbers
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| "routing-wg" @ RIPE; *NOGs! (nano, nlnog, grnog; peering forums; Euro-IX); IETF; Open-Source community ; hackers
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| "route hijacks", government regulation & takeover (killer switch), hierarchies;
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| technically: BGPsec, IRR, RPKI; <br> politically: influencing governance
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| p2p protocols, Betman [xx]; MPLS, SDN; Tor?!
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|-
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|4
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| Transport
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| UDP -> e.g. DNS (see above!)
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| www.belastingdiest.nl
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| User; Registrar, Registry, ccTLD, gTLD, ICANN, US government!
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| DNS OARC, IETF, root-nameserver operators, ICANN, IGF/UN/ITU 
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| "balkanisation", US hegemony; internationalization; censorship;
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| technically: DNSSEC, DANE ; Tor; <br> politically: participating in governance
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| Alternative trees; blockchain (namecoin); etc
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|3
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| Network
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| Internet / IP
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| ifconfig; IPv4, NAT, 10.10.10.10, IPv6
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| no-one: IP addresses are "leased"! <br> (PI,PA,LIR,RIR,IANA,IETF)
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| RIR PDP, IANA, IETF
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** [[Hackers_tribes#Against_Anthropocentrism]]
 
** [[Hackers_tribes#Against_Anthropocentrism]]
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[[User:Becha/InternetPlumbing/Traceroute_Much]]
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===Linux Install Fest!===
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https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Becha/unixoid_xkcd
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===Lectures to be made in the future===
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[[User:Becha/DeeperIPv6]]
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[[User:Becha/DeeperBGP]]
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[[User:Becha/DeeperDNS]]
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===Misc===
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* It shouldn't be hard: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1349:_Shouldn%27t_Be_Hard // http://www.xkcd.com/1349/
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** http://waawfoundation.org/stem-in-a-handbag-kits/
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** https://criticalengineering.org/courses/cli/
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** http://www.selenasmall.com/command-line-mac-os-x/
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Lectures at Hacking Feminism

Fist lecture in this series:

GOALS:

  • Empower each-other with knowledge
  • Learn the basics technical concepts of underlying Internet works
  • Discover & emphesise roles of women
  • Practice & get our hands dirty
  • Work on the alternatives together!
  • Personal goals: learn by teaching; develop series of lectures; practice practice practice!
  • What's your goals?

Internet Plumbing

Internet Plumbing is a word-game with multiple layers of meaning (ha! a recursive pun ;-)

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Internet As a Series of Tubes

Ubiquitous and complicated as plumbing?

  • Internet as a utility
  • just like "plumbing" (water & sewage), there is underlying "technology" to it, so complex, that no-one seems to grasp how all of it works
  • 60% of the population of the planet does NOT have "teh Internets", and 30% does not have plumbing either (http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/sanitation.shtml)
  • Mary Midgley: "Utopias, dolphins, and computers - problems in philosophical plumbing "

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL968959M/Utopias_dolphins_and_computers

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Women's role

Participate, take action, join

  • contribute to this wiki page
  • learn more!
  • join mailing lists discussions for technical policy development & Internet governance
  • learn to code & take part in FLOSS community
  • join a hackerspace
  • teach your skills to others
  • contact me: BECHA @ xs4all dot nl // @Ms_Multicolor

Basics

Internet is network of networks

Step by step

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Local networks

  • "Small network" -- computers "talking" to each other
    • Local Area Network = LAN
    • With cables (ethernet), or Wireless (WiFi)
    • How do they find each other? using unique numbers: MAC (ethernet) address (layer 2), translated by ARP (MAC to IP address)
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IP addresses

  • About IP (Internet Protocol) addresses
    • binary numbers, written as decimal (IPv4) or hexadecimal (IPv6)
    • Can be "public" or "private" (=local)
    • What is the format?

Exercise!! (ifconfig)

  • Typical / mainstream home (or small office) network
    • Private IP addresses
    • NAT = Network Address Translation - translated from multiple private to (usually) one public IP address
    • Home router is (usually) a gateway, firewall, and NAT box at the same time
    • ... and because of IPv4 exhaustion there is also double-NAT aka NAT444
    10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix) 
    172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
    192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
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  • Where do the IP addresses come from?
    • Hierarchical distribution (see charts)
    • Principles: fairness, aggregation, conservation, registration
    • Used to be "needs based", now open to "market forces"
    • Policies for distribution ("rules") are developed in open, transparent, bottom-up process
    • IPv4 is "legacy", has run out - but is still DE FACTO THE ONLY STANDARD in use!

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Inter-connecting and Routing

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  • Connecting "to the Internet"
    • usually through commercial ISP (Internet Service Provider): dial-up, fibre, ... modem or router.
    • "free Wifi"
    • over mobile!
    • alternatively: community-mesh-peer-to-peer : MeshNet
Judith: Release Brian!
Pilates: I shall... "welease" "Bwian"!
...
Guard: Where is Brian of Nazareth? I have an order for his release.
Brian: ... You stupid bastards!
Joker: Uh, I'm Brian of Nazareth.
Brian: What?
Joker: Yeah, I'm Brian of Nazareth.
Guard: Take him down.
Brian: I'm Brian of Nazareth!
random slave: I'm Brian!
Another random slave: I'm Brian!
Rich merchant: I'm Brian, and so's my wife!
Guard (pointing to Joker): Take him away and release him.
Joker: No, I'm only joking. I'm not really Brian.  I'm only pulling your leg. It's a joke! I'm not him!
Guard (hits him) 
Joker: Bloody Romans. Can't take a joke.


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Exercise!! (ping) & Video!!! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLPKuAOe50) (Youtube taken over / hijacked by Pakistan Telekom)

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  • Relationships between "providers"
    • direct peering: between more-less same size & same "importance" ISPs
    • usually at IXP (Internet eXchange Point, e.g. Ams-IX, LINX...)
    • "buying transit" from a "national Telco", usually
    • large providers and carriers create a "backbone"

Video!!! "Internet Revealed, a movie about IXPs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuBde4Sn3f0

Domain Name System

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  • How do humans find services on the Internet? -> BY NAME!
    • numbers (IP addresses) are translated to names by DNS
    • web-sites, servers, services have DNS "names"
    • hierarchical distribution of names
    • Advanced concepts: resolver, cashing, primary & secondary name-servers, master-slave, recursive resolver, labels, zones, A & AAAA records


  • DNS with NAT
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Exercise!!

Exercises

User:Becha/InternetPlumbing/Exercises

Videos

  • youtube hijack
  • How IXP's work
  • Net of Rights

Want to learn more?

Networking Principles

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Concepts

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  • packets & packet switching
  • encapsulation
  • layered network model
  • (open) protocols & (open) standards
  • end-to-end principle
  • ports
  • server/client architecture
  • cryptography

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Comparing OSI & TCP / IP layers

Original borrowed from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

TCP / IP Model OSI Model
Layer OSI Layer Protocol data unit (PDU) Function Examples
Application 7. Application Data High-level APIs, including resource sharing, remote file access, directory services and virtual terminals TLS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SSH, Telnet, BGP!
6. Presentation Translation of data between a networking service and an application; including character encoding, data compression and encryption/decryption CSS, GIF, HTML, XML, JSON
Transport 5. Session Managing communication sessions, i.e. continuous exchange of information in the form of multiple back-and-forth transmissions between two nodes RPC, SCP, NFS, PAP,
4. Transport Segment (TCP) / Datagram (UDP) Reliable transmission of data segments between points on a network, including segmentation, acknowledgement and multiplexing NBF, TCP, UDP
Network /
Internet 		3. Network Packet Structuring and managing a multi-node network, including addressing, routing and traffic control AppleTalk, ICMP, IPsec, IPv4, IPv6
Link
layer 		2. Data link Frame Reliable transmission of data frames between two nodes connected by a physical layer IEEE 802.2, L2TP, LLDP, MAC, PPP, ATM, MPLS
1. Physical Bit Transmission and reception of raw bit streams over a physical medium DOCSIS, DSL, Ethernet physical layer, ISDN, USB

Cross-layer functions:

  • ARP is used to translate IPv4 addresses (OSI layer 3) into Ethernet MAC addresses (OSI layer 2).
  • Domain Name Service is an Application Layer service which is used to look up the IP address of a given domain name. Once a reply is received from the DNS server, it is then possible to form a Layer 3 connection to the third-party host.
  • etc

Resources

Many many more resources: books, videos:

Links: 

Wonderful site for teaching Internet concepts to children: 
http://networks.land/

Acronyms!

RIPE NCC Glossary: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/new-member/ncc_glossary_print.pdf/at_download/file

  • TCP/IP
  • IPv4, IPv6: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
  • NAT: Network Address Translation
  • DNS: Domain Name System
  • ASN: Autonomous System Number
    • used for BGP routing (Border Gateway Protocol)
  • IXP: Internet eXchange Point
  • SMTP
  • HTTP
  • CDN

Advanced topics

Layers as an allegory

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Left: OSI Model T-shirt enhanced to include an 8th and 9th layer as defined by Evi Nemeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth // (old, broken link -> https://www.isc.org/product/isc-9-layer-osi-model-cotton-t-shirt/ )

https://shop.isc.org/collections/shirts/products/osi-9-layer-model-t-shirt-1


(TODO: add ISC reference to Evi's wikipedia page!!)

Right: back of the T-shirt from the IETF75 in Stockholm, 2005

ABSTRACTION

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Explaining complex concepts using layers is a useful abstraction.

Goal here is to illustrate layers by practical examples, and point out owners, developers, dangers, mitigations & alternatives. 

This is not exactly technically correct, for the detail oriented people!
Number Layer name Example Practically Owner Developed by Vulnerabilities / Dangers Mitigation / Securing Alternatives
9 Organisation / Political (Internet) Governance technical community, civil society, governments IGF (Internet Governance Forum), UN, ITU, IETF, ICANN, awareness, take part! someone will build a new *net, AlterNet :-)
8 Individual / Financial Operating System (OS) + choice of software Linux, FreeBSD, Minix...; iOS, Android, Windows... User! programmers & developers: FLOSS community;
Apple, Google,Micro$oft 		backdoors, surveillance, spying on users; lock-in; monopoly; community participation; unionization of programmers; see articles here [yy] knowledge, self-empowerment, solidarity
7 Application 7.3 -> VoIP skype
7.2 -> SMTP email
7.1 HTTP: web, WWW web sites! LoLCats! individuals, on their own servers!
blogs (blogspot?), mainstream media, hosting companies; CDNs (Akamai, Amazon...); corporations: Google, Facebook, Twitter... YouTube.. 		W3c, IETF censorship; silos; walled gardens; commercialization, consumerism; technically: httpS, SSL, TLS; Tor;
politically: activism, digital human rights; associations of users; 		torrent! p2p! alternative social media!
6 Presentation HTML, CSS, JSON
5 Session BGP (actually layer 7...) routing: exchanging AS reachability info via gossip: based on trust & peering agreements!
physical routers by routers: Cisco/Juniper (commercial monopolists ;-) 		Large ISPs; Tier1 / Tier2 ; IXPs!! RIRs give out AS numbers "routing-wg" @ RIPE; *NOGs! (nano, nlnog, grnog; peering forums; Euro-IX); IETF; Open-Source community ; hackers "route hijacks", government regulation & takeover (killer switch), hierarchies; technically: BGPsec, IRR, RPKI;
politically: influencing governance 		p2p protocols, Betman [xx]; MPLS, SDN; Tor?!
4 Transport UDP -> e.g. DNS (see above!) www.belastingdiest.nl User; Registrar, Registry, ccTLD, gTLD, ICANN, US government! DNS OARC, IETF, root-nameserver operators, ICANN, IGF/UN/ITU "balkanisation", US hegemony; internationalization; censorship; technically: DNSSEC, DANE ; Tor;
politically: participating in governance 		Alternative trees; blockchain (namecoin); etc
3 Network Internet / IP ifconfig; IPv4, NAT, 10.10.10.10, IPv6 no-one: IP addresses are "leased"!
(PI,PA,LIR,RIR,IANA,IETF) 		RIR PDP, IANA, IETF hierarchy, run-out, incompatibility, market forces; surveillance IPSec Blockchain? GSM? Radio?
2 Data-link MAC addresses, Ethernet device drivers, WiFi drivers licensed to users Broadcom, Realtech, INTEL.. patents, closed source, Intellectual Property Laws open source SW, open HW  ?!
1 Physical Network connections Ethernet cables, WiFi antennas, fibers, satellites, satellite dishes, base-stations, under-sea cables  ; POTS (old-fashioned phones -> BBS, dialup) Individuals
communities, ISP, "carriers", corporations, governments, 		Hackers
commercial companies, governments 		"ownership" models; hierarchy of server-client model; pollution & distraction of Earth; surveillance commoning; shared infrastructure; development of sustainable technologies (?!), recycling; awareness & activism Community WiFi, Project Loon, Drones
HW - end user equipment Computer, tablet, phone... User Commercial companies: Apple, Siemens, Samsung... Un-ethical manufacturing, security backdoors, pollution caused by e-waste disposal, Hard: Open HW movement; fair-phone; DIY, Repair Cafes, fair-trade...

Security, Privacy, Avoiding Censorship

Alternatives

MeshNet: "Hackers and philosophers building an utopia together": http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

MeshNet#Education

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P2pbgpsec#Technical_view

November 2014: Nature will have the last word, on Future of Technology, RIPE69 , London https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/File:Nature-speaking-on-future_of_the_internet-RIPE69.pdf

UnCivilization: critical thinking about Internet & capitalism: https://lists.puscii.nl/wws/info/uncivilization

  • Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization, technologies and architectures

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-04.txt

Next topics

Internet Governance

See this lecture : Internet_Governance_Digital_Culture#Internet_Governance

Internet_Governance_and_hackers

Traceroute Much?

User:Becha/InternetPlumbing/Traceroute_Much

Linux Install Fest!

https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Becha/unixoid_xkcd

Lectures to be made in the future

User:Becha/DeeperIPv6

User:Becha/DeeperBGP

User:Becha/DeeperDNS

Misc

Other resources for learning

  • "Internet in a Bottle"

5G

/5G = https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/InternetPlumbing/5G

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