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TNC25: Brighton, UK | 9-13 June 2025
TNC25: Brighton, UK | 9-13 June 2025
BoFs
The world as we knew it is rapidly shifting. Now more than ever Europe has the responsibility, but also the opportunity, to play a key role in protecting European values. A strong European educational sector is conditional for Europe that has, with a robust economy, the power to influence this balancing act. NRENs and GÉANT are uniquely positioned to help build the connected education infrastructure Europe needs to establish a strong European educational sector.
CARNET, CSC, Jisc, Sikt and SURF initiated in early 2025 the “NRENs4Education” group to discuss concrete activities that NRENs can do together to support universities in the area of education. A BoF at TNC is the perfect opportunity to hear from the European Commission what are the plans for the European Education Plan and how NRENs can transform European education from a collection of digital islands into a connected and interoperable continent of opportunities and give millions of students the seamless educational experience to prepare them with the right skills for a role in a thriving European economy. During the BoF, the activities undertaken by the NRENs4Education group will be presented.
This is an opportunity for the R&E community to come together to reflect on our first ever joint submission of a bid to a commercial tender. What worked? What were our pain points / challenging areas? What could we do differently next time and most importantly what learning points can we use for the future - on both the technical but also on the commercial/contracting/legal side of things?
We intend to bring together a panel for discussion with plenty of audience interactions. The overall aim is to share learnings on the process.
Title: Let’s Make Magic!
Have you ever longed to be able to present with a confident, well projected voice, and an energy that effortlessly communicates with and captures the attention of your audience? Well here is your chance!
In the early stages of her HR and Legal career (and before joining AARNet), Teresa spent a number of years singing opera professionally as an international soloist. Through this experience Teresa developed a ‘never fail’ toolkit of proven performance techniques, to enable management of nerves and anxiety; to vocally project into very large auditoriums without a microphone; and to confidently use her voice and her body to communicate with gravitas and engage her audience.
In this highly interactive session, Teresa will take you on a journey to discover what factors may be holding your presentation style back from full potential, and will equip you with physical exercises that you can easily and immediately incorporate into your public speaking toolkit - enabling you to achieve maximum engagement and success. The session will focus on effectively managing your nerves and adrenalin flow, vocal stability, projection, tone, gravitas, and ways to use your body to increase non-verbal effectiveness and messaging.
This BoF will build on the successful, dynamic Gender Equality BoF held at TNC24 in Rennes, aiming to have an active discussion over the broader equality, diversity and inclusion landscape in the NREN and neighbouring communities. We plan to hold a panel session with short talks – to be invited or volunteered - in this area from across the NREN community leading to an active discussion of progress being made and opportunities to build in this area, with a focus on community building and concrete action.
A linked Community Hub proposal could act as an extension of the BoF, allowing for extended discussions with particular networks following the BoF; this would depend on sufficient attendees being available to provide appropriate staffing of the hub area and/or scheduling specific catchups.
The Global eduroam Governance Committee (GeGC) comprises fifteen senior representatives of roaming operators in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America and Europe. It oversees the governance of the eduroam service, including recommending policy changes and admitting new participants. This open meeting of the GeGC allows NROs and other eduroam participants to get a unique view of the workings of this committee and an opportunity to ask questions or raise concerns.
The FileSender Board invites all interested persons to the annual meeting of FileSender service providers, users and developers to discuss the strategic roadmap, experiences with new versions, requirements, experiences, data mobility infrastructures, an NREN FileSender federation and whatever else is relevant!
Quite a few NRENs have introduced Campus Network as a Service (CNaaS) in their service portfolio and others are considering. At TNC 2024, we organized a well visited BoF for knowledge exchange on CNaaS. In this 2025 BoF, we want to spotlight the new GÉANT CNaaS Special Interest Group (SIG) and invite NRENs to collaborate on developing and running CNaaS services, from a practical perspective and producing tangible results.
We invite BoF participants to share their thoughts about the different components a CNaaS service portfolio should contain, explore opportunities for collaboration on those components and what to prioritise. This could be items such as business models, technology, architecture, procurement, product management principles and software development. Everybody interested in campus network services is very welcome to join the BoF as well as the SIG.
If you’re interested to briefly present your NREN’s CNaaS effort, please contact the BoF organisers Maurice van den Akker or Jan Meijer.
The draft BoF agenda (90 min):
1. Introduction to CNaaS and the SIG (Maurice van den Akker) (10 mins)
2. Good practices for NRENs collaborating producing tangible results (Jan Meijer) (5 mins)
3. Share & discuss: different CNaaS at different NRENs (60 min): Shorter or longer talks from NRENs with CNaaS offerings or plans, with plenty of time for discussion.
4. SIG way forward (15 mins):Longer and shorter term aims to produce tangible results, Plan (a) SIG meeting(s)
This session will look at what it means to become a sustainable NREN.
But what exactly do we mean by sustainable NREN - Is it reducing climate impact? Is it having a diverse and inclusive work environment? Is it having services which are accessible? Is it being financially sustainable? or is it all of this and more?
As members look to make their supply chain more sustainable Jisc is seeing increasing pressure to report environmental impact and social value. Other NREN's are being driven by legislative drivers to report on sustainability. So, how can we ensure that networks are delivered sustainably and that we, ourselves are sustainable organisations.
There will be case studies presented: from JISC, SURF and GEANT followed by an open discussion on how NREN's are delivering against the UN Sustainable Development Goals and what the Sustainability Special Interest Group can do to support peers and promote sustainability across the GEANT network.
Strong member engagement remains critical for NREN success. The aim of this session is to share experiences, insights and perspectives from NREN Member engagement experts from across the globe. What works (and also what didn’t) - with a focus on new strategies and examples of latest initiatives. The session will include short ‘lightening talks’ followed by a moderated panel discussion and includes time for audience questions/participation.
Many organisations are only considering transitioning to IPv6 when they are running out of IPv4 addresses. The canonical solution is dual stack, IPv4 and IPv6 coexisting on the same link, until it's safe to shut off IPv4. But does this really help? IPv4 addresses continue to be used and some problems may remain hidden until the very last moment. Is there a better way forward?
Enter IPv6-Mostly, a technique that allows networks to selectively 'pretend' they are IPv6-Only. Through this approach, endpoints signal that they no longer need IPv4, and the network ensures this 'white lie' is seamless and believable. The beauty of IPv6-Mostly lies in its ability to enable a controlled and incremental transition to IPv6-Only, and highlight where IPv4 is still needed or where it can be de-commissioned.
In this BoF I would like to briefly introduce this technique for people who may not be familiar with it, and share some deployment experiences, including both horror and success stories.
The majority of the session will be an interactive discussion, encouraging participants from all levels of experience - whether they have already implemented IPv6-Mostly, are just beginning to explore it, or are simply curious about the technique - to share their experiences, ask questions, and learn from one another.
This BoF is for people interested in eduVPN. It aims to present the work done since our last meet-up at TNC24 as well as the current roadmap for the software, answer questions from NRENs and research and higher education institutions and gather new requirements
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TNC, the largest and most prestigious research and education networking conference, attracts a diverse audience of over 800 participants from more than 70 countries and offers a unique collaborative experience.
Hoekenrode 3
1102 BR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
City House, 126-130 Hills Rd,
Cambridge CB2 1PQ
United Kingdom
TNC25 is co-funded by Europe’s NRENs and the European Union (EU).
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