Measuring the public Internet#

João Damas — APNIC (per slides filename)

• Why: Not a technical advance, but the measurement infrastructure behind most public claims about Internet health, routing, and deployment — knowing how those numbers are produced (and where they're blind) is quietly valuable to anyone reasoning about the public Internet.
• What: How the public Internet is measured at global scale. (title only)
• How: Unknown; expect measurement methodology and data platforms rather than a deployable technique.
• Where applicable: General context; no environment-specific constraints.

Not selected: sponsor/community slots (HaliveOS, IXP updates, ITNOG updates, PeeringDB news), 101-level sessions (Improve IPv6 Peering), and off-domain talks (telephony KPIs/fraud analytics, telco edge computing local break, HERABIT interprovider VPN, the NAF automation map, and the "Reimagining Networking in the Age of AI" keynote, which looked like a perspective talk rather than a technical one). NAF and HERABIT were the closest near-misses if you want one more automation-framework and one more inter-AS service case study.