Data Protection, Implications for modern Technologies

The Data Protection Commissioner is responsible for upholding the rights of individuals as set out in the Acts, and enforcing the obligations upon data controllers. The Commissioner is appointed by Government and is independent in the exercise of his or her functions. The Commissioner makes an annual report to the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament. Individuals who feel their rights are being infringed can complain to the Commissioner, who will investigate the matter, and take whatever steps may be necessary to resolve it.
The Commissioner also maintains a register, available for public inspection, giving general details about the data handling practices of many important data controllers, such as Government Departments and State-sector bodies, financial institutions, and any person or organisation who keeps sensitive types of personal data.

In his talk, Joe Meade will cover the following: Data Protection- Background, what is it,the principles and rights of data protection, role of Data Protection Commissioner , Technology matters- security, monitoring of emails and webbrowsing, biometrics, spam and marketing, law enforcement area; Technology can be an aid to privacy; What organisations must do and some past experiences of bad practice

Open Plenary -Networking for CERN's Large Hadron Collider

David Williams was born in 1944 and studied Physics and Computer Science at Cambridge University. He led the Computing and Networks Division at CERN from 1989 until 1996. At the present time he is responsible for the coordination of CERN's relations with the organisations of the EU, and in that context has been one of the initial European promoters of computer grids .

He was the President of TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association) – for a four-year term of office which ended in May 2003. He was the principal author of several reports on European networking

He recently chaired the Steering Committee of the FP6 SERENATE project (http://www.serenate.org/), which looked at the strategic evolution of Europe’s Research and Education Networks on the 5-10 year timescale, and which produced its summary report “Networks for Knowledge and Innovation” (ISBN-90-77559-01-9) in December 2003. He is a member of the UK’s eScience Steering Committee, and of the related Technical Advisory Group. He is also a member of the UKLight Steering Committee, and of the Groupe de Réflexion RENATER. He has been a Fellow of the British Computer Society since 1981.

Simon Conant
Security Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

SPAM Pannel

Panel Description:
Anyone who regularly has to deal with Spam knows that there is no silver bullet, no single way to solve the problem, but that doesn't mean that nothing can be done.

In this panel discussion we hope to examine some of the methods used to combat spam within both HEAnet and ITnet and to help raise awareness of those tools and procedures that can reduce the amount of Spam that reaches inboxes. The panel will consist of four presentations followed by an open discussion during which it is hoped that others will share their experiences with Spam and their methods of fighting it.

Dr. Henry O'Keeffe , UCC

Dr Henry O'Keeffe is the Systems and Network Engineering Manager in the Computer Centre, U.C.C. Having previously worked as a software and delevopment engineer in the process control industry, he has been in the higher education sector for over 20 years. During this time, he has been heavily involved in the EARN/BITNET and HEAnet academic networking activities.
His primary degree is a B.Sc. in Mathematical Science which he followed with an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics and Computer Science. He has recently completed a (leisurely) Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics, the results of which have applications to error correcting codes and systems theory.
Henry's presentation, which forms part of SPAM panel session, will outline UCC's experiences with collateral SPAM - it's causes, effects and some coping strategies.

Patricia Keena - DIT

Patricia Keena is a Systems Administrator in the Dublin Institute of Technology. Patricia joined the Dublin Institute of Technology as a member of technical staff following the completing of whole-time studies at the Institute. She subsequently moved to IS Services whilst completing part-time studies and has recently graduated with a BSc in Information Technology. Patricia works with a variety of hardware, software and operating systems and has been actively involved the Dublin Institute of Technology's SPAM and anti-virus detection solution.

Yves Poppe ,
Director IP Strategy, Teleglobe

IPv6 in the Real World

Yves Poppe has spent his more than 30 years career in data communications with both manufacturers and telecom carriers. Yves involvement in Next Generation Internet include the first transatlantic STM-1 connection between the North-American and European Research and Education networks in 1994 and the first transcontinental wavelength connection at 2.5Gb between SURFnet in Amsterdam and STARLIGHT in 2001. Representing Teleglobe on the Canarie (Canadian R&E network) Policy Board, Yves supported the early IPv6 efforts including the creation of 6TAP in Chicago . Yves has been a long time promoter of IPv6 experimentation and deployment. Teleglobe became a founding member of the IPv6 Forum and first announced its IPv6 plans at the IPv6 forum in Telluride, Co in March 2000. Deployment of IPv6 has now started in Teleglobe’s Global IP network..

Yves Poppe also represents Teleglobe at the TERENA General Assembly, Internet2 and APAN. He is a frequent presenter on the impact of the telecom recession, the evolution of the internet and the key role of IPv6. His most recent interventions on the topic of IPv6 include the ITU organized Arab IPv6 Workshop in Tunis as well as the Brazilian Global IPv6 summit and the European Commission IPv6 Taskforce .

Virtual Telescopes

Bart Busschots graduated from NUI Maynooth in September 2001 with a double honors degree in Computer Science and Experimental Physics. He
is currently working towards a PhD degree, under the direction of Dr. John Keating (NUI Maynooth), in the area of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). In particular, Bart is working on the NCTE-funded Virtual Telescopes in Education (VTIE) project and is employed as the
schools co-ordinator for this project which is building a complete VLE to promote scientific investigation at primary and secondary level, using research-quality telescopes accessed via the Internet. Bart is an
Associate Member of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Bart will be getting a few telescopes lined up for the event - California, Chile and hopefully Hawaii-. He'll be demonstrating access and some of the prototype tools that they use for the VLE in the schools.

Virtual Learning Environments; demonstrating Moodle

Dublin City University implemented Moodle as their virtual learning environment in October 2003.
Denis will demonstrate that to have introduced a similar initiative using a proprietary system, this would have cost in the region of 60 to 70 thousand euros. DCU have over 2800 students using the Moodle virtual learning environment in 100 courses, supported by 80 teachers.
This will be a practical session, a demonstration of this sistem that students have welcomed enthusiastically and fully based on Open Source code, which has made it possible to customise the software to meet the particular needs of DCU.

Care and Feeding of your DNS

Dr Niall O'Reilly has over 25 years experience in academic computing and data communications services. For almost all of this time he has been with UCD Computing Services, with a number of periods of absence on leave or secondment.
During his career, Niall has been responsible for developing and operating computer systems and network services for UCD Computing Services, has played key roles in setting up HEAnet and HEAnet-2, has installed and operated a continental X.25 network for EARN (one of the predecessors of TERENA), has managed the .IE domain registry, has chaired the RIPE TLD Working Group, and has contributed to the foundation of CENTR.
Niall is currently working on network and infrastructure development at UCD, is an active participant in the Irish ENUM Trial, and has recently been nominated Co-Chair of the RIPE ENUM Working Group.
Niall holds BE and PhD degrees from the National University of Ireland, both of them in Electrical Engineering and awarded at University College Dublin.

Niall's presentation, "Care and Feeding of your DNS", reflects operational problems uncovered during a recent nameserver upgrade and identifies tools and procedures for avoiding such problems.

Responding to Network Worms

Eoin Fleming is a founding member of the ISSA Chapter in Ireland and has been the chapter Secretary for the last 2 years. Outside of the ISSA Eoin is the Chief Security

Specialist for HP Services Ireland and is currently working on the Bank Of Ireland account. He is an avid collector of letters after his name such as BSc. Dip. SS, ISSMP, CISSP, CISA.

Chris is a Systems/Network Administrator in IT Tralee and have ~12 years experience primarily in UNIX and Networking. I hold a BSc and MSc (both in Physics) from UCD and among my previous employments before joining IT Tralee, I worked for Sun Microsystems in a similar role for 3+ years.

The following items will be covered hi his talk:
* Brief overview of VoIP technology and technical principles
* How and why we chose to implement VoIP vs traditional PBX
* Overview of our chosen implementation
* Our experiences in the ~3 years since implementation and lessons learned
* How our deployment of Cisco VoIP technology has benefited IT Tralee
* Future technology and plans

Real-Time Networks with Ethernet?

Anthony Keane has a BSc (Physics) from UCG, an MSc (Astrophysics) from University College London and PhD from UCD. Before joining ITB in 1999, Anthony worked in Cosmic Physics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, first as a doctorate research student and later as a post doctorate researcher. He is currently working as a lecturer and researcher in ITB on real-time distributed networks.
This presentation will start with an overview of Real-Time issues and definitions, a review of the Ethernet protocol and introduction to the proposals to make Ethernet more real-time compliant, for example; use of adaptive traffic smoothing and master/slave techniques including ETHERNET Powerlink and FTT-Ethernet protocols, how Ethernet/IP takes advantage of switches to improve real-time capabilities and the case for Ethernet taking the place of fieldbuses. The presentation will conclude with a summary of the case for using Ethernet on real-time networks.

HEAnet Update

John holds a B.E in electronic engineering from University College Dublin and has embarked on an ongoing M. Sc in Computer Applications with Professor Alan Smeaton in DCU.
Before he joined the company in1997 John was Systems and Networks Manager at Dublin City University and was a member of the HEAnet Network Management Committee.
John is dedicated to ensuring that Ireland's Education and world-class Network serves the Research community and places Ireland at the leading edge of worldwide Internet activity . Two of the key components for this are HEAnet's National Backbone Project and Next Generation Internet projects - both of which are implemented with the support of the HEA and Department of Education and Science and funding under the National Development Plan.
He and the senior HEAnet staff represent Ireland on the strategic European networking organisations, including DANTE (Connecting European Research) who are primarily responsible for delivering the EC-funded pan-European Gigabit network to which Ireland is connected, TERENA (the Trans-European Research Network) and ENPG (European network policy group). Along with representing HEAnet on the IBEC Telecomms Internet Federation and the ISPAI (Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland).

Ann Harding,
NOC Manager, HEAnet

HEAnet Network Operations

In 2003, HEAnet technical departments were divided into three teams - Network Development, Managed Network Services and Network Operations.
This talk will focus on the Network Operations Team and the role it plays in the delivery of HEAnet services. Important areas include network management, client support, change and problem management and service developments, past and future.

Ann graduated with honours from TCD in English and History. She also holds the H. DIP CS from UCD and she is currently pursuing the MA in Cultural and Media Studies with the Open University, specializing in the effects of new communications technologies .
Before joining HEAnet, Ann worked as Technical Support Engineer for Esat Net. and was affiliated to TCD Netsoc.
After working as Network Engineer for two years, Ann was promoted to Network Operations Manager in 2002, and her main duties include managing the Day to day operations in the NOC, documentation, Network Management systems, Géant liaison, Measurement Infrastructure and IE Hostcount.

Warren Daly ,
Security Expert, HEAnet

SECURITY WORKSHOP ; Warren Daly, Jarek Woznica

Details the aspects of designing, configuring and deploying IPSec tunneling and encryption services based on Cisco Routers IOS and Cisco PIX firewalls using preshared keys as well as the Certificate Authorities.

These technologies allow remote users VPN access to their campus LAN or ‘home’ network.

Main topics covered in the workshop: Various encryption methods, IPSec tunnels creation & termination and how data is secured over the IPSec tunnel

The great emphasis will be the hands-on experience of
configuring, testing and trubleshooting the IPSec technology on both, Cisco routers and Cisco PIX firewalls.

50% theory, 50% practical

IMPORTANT: Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 20 delegates per workshop. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. If you are interested in attending any of this talks, please book your place early (by indicating so in the electronic registration form).

Jarek Woznica,
Senior Network Engineer,
HEAnet

Sean O'Brien, Network Engineer, HEAnet

MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP; Sean O'Brien, John Lyons

---Video Services in HEAnet, standards and basics
---How to set up a video stream ; hardware, servers...
---How to set up a video conferencing service ; hardware, H. 323 network components...

IMPORTANT: Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 20 delegates per workshop. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. If you are interested in attending any of this talks, please book your place early (by indicating so in the electronic registration form).

John Lyons, Network Engineer, HEAnet

Dave Wilson, Senior
Network Engineer, HEAnet

IPv6 WORKSHOP

Configuration of IPv6 connectivity and routing on Cisco routers with an existing IPv4 setup, both as tunnels overlayed on IPv4 and in a native dual-stack configuration.

IMPORTANT: Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 20 delegates per workshop. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. If you are interested in attending any of this talks, please book your place early (by indicating so in the electronic registration form).

This talk will discuss the future of the National Backbone of HEAnet. At present it's network is mostly based on rented circuits from telcos, but looking around in the National Research and Educational Network environment, one sees more and more that the networks are based on directly utilizing fibre (both nationally and regionally). Not so much just to own dark fibre, but it will provide a much more flexible and cheaper way of providing the continuous evolving high speed connections
to HEAnet's customers. ARdnet is a project effectively started in 2003 and will end around 2009.

ARDnet has started in 2003 with a small user show case in the Dublin region. Now utilizing this experience, the idea can be propagated over Ireland by utilizing the national fibre infrastructure and the regional fibre networks installed by the Government. During the talk issues like
services (10 to 1000 Mbit/s), technology (fibre, ethernet framing), operational management (inhouse/out-sourcing), spread of the network (WAN, MAN, LAN) and idea about tariffs will be covered.