9.4. Hackthon@AIS

The Hackathon@AIS goal is to identify, encourage, and expose engineers from Africa to open Internet Standards development, so that they can contribute to the work at organisations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). 

The 2019 Hackathon@AIS held in Kampala, Uganda, at the Africa Internet Summit had five tracks: 

• Network Programmability covered network programmability concepts and components, including the IETF standards such as YANG, NETCONF, and RESTCONF, and tools such as pyang, ncclient, and Postman programming languages.
• Network Time covered the ongoing work to secure  NTS (Secure Network Time) and the use of the Chrony for synchronisation with the time server.
• IPv6 covering IPv6 and IETF IPv6 working groups (6MAN and v6OPS) and a challenge to enable IPv6 in several IPv4 only open source tools.
• IPWAVE covered testing and implementation of an Internet-Draft under the IPWAVE working group. 

Measurement covered DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) setups and measuring the performance of caching resolvers against locally-setup DoT and DoH servers against publicly available DNS resolvers. Read a report of the experience of the track from Willem Toorop, a facilitator from NLnet Labs. The track contributed an update to the IPWAVE Working Group at the IETF.