The History of the Pacific Network Operators Group
PacNOG was established initially as a mailing list for ISP operations
engineers in the Pacific region who participated in the ISP Routing Workshop
held prior to the APNIC 18 conference in Nadi, Fiji in August 2004.
PacNOG's History
A Network Routing Workshop for ISPs was held at the Tanoa
International Hotel in Nadi, Fiji, in August 2004 in what was
to be the fore-runner for the PacNOG meetings.
The workshop was hosted by PITA at the Tanoa International
Hotel with its PITA-APT Regional ICT meetings in conjunction with
APNIC 18, that was being held in the Pacific for the first time,
in August 2004, at the Sheraton Denarau. (PITA relocated its
Regional ICT meeting from Vanuatu to Fiji to be with APNIC 18,
and for the synergies such as with this workshop)
Given that the APNIC 18 event was to be held in the Pacific,
Dr Philip Smith of Cisco Systems CTO Consulting Engineering Group
proposed with APNIC (Savenaca Vocea) of running an ISP Routing
Workshop for the network operators in the Pacific and then further
proposed and discussed with PITA (Fred Christopher) by APNIC
(Savenaca Vocea) for the synergy opportunities of APNIC 18
and PITA Regional ICT meetings. and in particular the specialised
needs for this operational area in its emerging prominence. Thanks
to ITU funding jointly requested by APNIC and PITA, fellowships
was provided to bring in the Pacific internet managers and
network engineers from the Pacific. (These funds supported
fellowships for the internet engineers for two years and then
operators began funding their own personnel for training)
The workshop was conducted and led by Dr Philip Smith
There were 26 attendees at the Routing Workshop, from Fiji, Papua
New Guinea, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Solomon
Islands, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Samoa, Federated States of
Micronesia, Niue and Vanuatu. The three members of the APNIC
Training Team also took part (Miwa Fujii, Champika Wijayatunga and
John H'ng).
At the end of the workshop, and following the extremely positive
feedback from the participants, Philip, Save and Fred proposed
creating a mailing list so that the participants could keep in
touch after the workshop, and promised to investigate ways of
holding more training events of this nature. This mailing list
was set up as the PacNOG mailing list, leading to the creation
of the Pacific Network Operators Group. Of the further workshops,
PITA agreed to take the role of regional coordinator and be host
by rotating venue amongst the Pacific members. NSRC (Steve Huter)
immediately rendered its support to what became partnerships
between PITA, APNIC, ICANN (when Savenaca joined ICANN), and
NSRC.
Hence the PacNOG community commonly referring to the workshop held
prior to APNIC 18 as PacNOG 0.
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