RetroNetCall¶

• Table of contents
• RetroNetCall
  • Timing
  • Venue / Platform
  • Topics (for the "presentation" part)
    • Future
    • Past
  • Code of Conduct

Initially we started to cover a couple of retronetworking topics at the OsmoDevCall, but it really made sense to run the pure retro related topics as a separate series of events. In October 2022, we forked the Retro Net working Call format from OsmoDevCall.

The format serves two major purposes:

1. technical presentations about retronetworking relevant topics - ideally current/recent developments
   • can be pre-recorded to avoid any problems with technical setup, streaming, ...
   • should ideally have a Q+A session at their initial "airing" during one OsmoDevCall
2. unstructured supplementary social event (USSE)
   • random chat in audio (optionally video)
   • not recorded, obviously

The recording of the technical presentation should then be permanently made available. The recordings can be found in several formats at https://downloads.osmocom.org/videos/retronetcall/ . They can also be found on https://media.ccc.de/c/retronetcall

Not every RetroNetCall would necessarily need the two parts, but I think it would be great if we can make that happen.

Timing¶

Wednesday evening, 8pm CET/CEST, every 1st Wednesday of the month

The next couple of events hence are:

• Wednesday, November 9, 2022 (OCTOI project status update)
• Wednesday, December 7, 2022
• Wednesday, January 4, 2022
• Wednesday, February 1, 2022
• Wednesday, March 1, 2022

Venue / Platform¶

We are currently using infrastructure of KNF, a German non-profit internet organization of which laforge is a member.

The URL to join the meeting is https://meeting5.franken.de/b/har-0y1-wch-et4

There currently is no password or authentication, we try to welcome anyone. If this turns out to be a problem, we might lock it down in the future, let's hope that's not required.

Topics (for the "presentation" part)¶

Future¶

This is a wishlist of future topics for the "presentation" part:

Topic	Possible Speaker	Tentative Date
OCTOI project status update	laforge	2022-11-09
ISDN B-Channel protocols (X.75, V.120, V.110, T.70, ...)	laforge
FDDI
Token Ring
Arcnet
Frame Relay
The X.25 Packet Switched Network
The X.21 synchronous serial interface
Analog Telephone Modems and towards a 2022 OSHW softmodem	laforge + tnt
E1: The analog side	tnt
ISDN: Differences DSS1 <-> 1TR6
X.31: Two flavours of X.25 over ISDN

Past¶

We'll move the events from the above table to here once they have happened.

Topic	Speaker	Date	Video
TDM, E1, PDH, SDH, STM-1 and Pseudowires	laforge	2021-11-12	H.264
iceE1usb in practice	tnt	2021-11-12	H.264
Retronetworking: V5 interfaces in ISDN/PSTN	laforge	2021-12-28	H.264
Osmocom Community TDMoIP (OCTOI)	laforge	2022-04-29	H.264

Code of Conduct¶

The existing Code_of_Conduct of our previous physical / on-site / presence meetings applies.