Open Source - Side Room (Wed, 09:00)
This is a draft agenda: changes are still being made.
As network operators, we are all familiar with NIS2 by now, with many of us being categorised as operators of essential or important entities. However, operational resilience is only half the equation - the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) directly targets the software supply chain that powers our infrastructure.
With mandatory vulnerability reporting obligations taking effect from September 2026, where does this leave the open-source ecosystem that we rely on every day?
This presentation bridge…
BIRD is widely used in the Internet routing community, but it usually runs on servers, virtual machines, or routers where the forwarding path is abstracted away by a network operating system or vendor-specific integration layer. This talk explores a different approach: running BIRD directly on an open Linux Ethernet switch, using the Novarq TACTICAL 1000 platform based on LAN969x switching silicon and mainline Linux switchdev.
The goal is to evaluate a Linux-native routing path where BIRD insta…
ISC's Stork project is a web-based graphical management tool with a major dependency on the PrimeNG user interface library. PrimeTek, the company behind PrimeNG, made the decision to end their open source project, and relicense under a commercial license. The PrimeNG open source repository was archived on June 29, 2026.
There is a group forming to support a fork of PrimeNG, and there are some alternative web user interface libraries. Given the rate at which new security vulnerabilities are bei…