Networking BoF

Track: Systems administration, automation and orchestration

Type: BoF (45 minutes)

Blink and you missed it: Debian grew a Networking Team and we invite you to join and discuss our future direction.

Team: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/NetworkingTeam

Networking is a critical piece in any contemporary Operating System with an enormous surface area. It brings into intimate contact large bodies of code, countless technical decisions encoded within and people identifying strongly with all of it.

The Debian project’s overarching uncoordinated do-ocracy is ill-suited to endure this friction without igniting conflicts in this area.

We want to improve the situation by creating a place for friendly consensus to build inside the project so that come release time’s crunch Debian’s users aren’t the ones feeling the heat🔥.

The agenda for this inaugural session includes:

Sustainable maintenance of our Networking Stacks
Testing & QA of Network components
Technical improvements in: DNS handling, Multihoming, VRFs, IPv6 and VPN Security.

Full agenda: https://pad.riseup.net/p/gFV8pU15gNbjrEtvVBJm-keep

Keywords: ifupdown, dhcpcd-base, ifupdown-ng, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved, resolvconf, openresolv.