Network Startup Resource Center

Mission Statement

Type:	non-profit
Industry:	Internet
Founded:	Late 1980s
Founder(s):	Randy Bush, John Klensin
Headquarters:	1600 Millrace Drive, Suite E256 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403
Country:	USA
Products:	Education Outreach and Training (EOT) Calendar for Internet Development (nsrc.org/calendar), Global R&E Network Routing Report (bgp.nsrc.org/REN/), Training Videos (learn.nsrc.org), Virtual Training Platform (VTP)
Employees:	51-100
Email:	nsrc[at]nsrc.org
Website:	NSRC
Blog:	NSRC Blog
Facebook:	NSRC.ORG
LinkedIn:	Network Startup Resource Center
Key People
Steven G. Huter, Director Hervey Allen, Assistant Director

The NSRC cultivates collaboration among a community of peers to build and improve a global Internet that benefits all parties. We facilitate the growth of sustainable Internet infrastructure via technical training and engineering assistance to enrich the network of networks. Our goal is to connect people.

Core Mission

Network Startup Resource Center or NSRC works with numerous orgs worldwide to enhance network operations, affordable Internet access and human resource development of network engineers. NSRC leverages long-term built relationships with government, academia, industry, and private investments to facilitate building shared Internet infrastructure. NSRC builds and help to strengthen global cyberinfrastructure ecosystems to help advance International science collaboration among American scientists, researchers and engineers.

Since 1992, the NSRC has helped develop Internet infrastructure and network operations communities in over 130 countries, assisted thousands of universities, facilitated the deployment of dozens of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in all world regions, and provided technical guidance to dozens of ccTLD registries for stable, secure DNS operations in cooperation with ICANN.

In addition to technical training via network operator groups, national research and education network communities, and shared infrastructure such as Internet Exchange Points, the NSRC emphasizes Direct Engineering Assistance (DEA) to improve operational infrastructure, resulting in better, faster, more resilient networks.

NSRC achieves this through targeted capacity building activities and partnerships with universities, RENs, NGOs, Internet Service Providers, industry, government and supranational agencies in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America-Caribbean, and North America.

History

NSRC started building Internet infrastructure in 1988 in South Africa, funded initially by an initial investment from the NSF. They gradually moved on to other countries and played a key role in helping establish the first Internet connections and ccTLD delegations in Peru, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Egypt, Guinea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya, Morocco, Liberia, Senegal, Tanzania, Cambodia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, Togo and others. NSRC assisted with building centers in local universities to help establish initial networks and connectivity to the outside world. In 1996, NSRC officially moved to University of Oregon. Since NSRC's inception, it has provided more than $40 million of aid for the equipment and publications necessary to establish Internet connections in more than 130 countries.

Events

NSRC arranges workshops, tutorials, presentations and direct engineering assistance activities across the globe. Activities are based on a request-driven model to help drive self-sustaining technical organizations. A complete list of upcoming events can be found at https://nsrc.org/where as well as additional events run by NSRC and partners at the Education Outreach and Training (EOT) Calendar for Internet Development. NSRC has regularly been arranging workshops with hands-on training of networking since 1990. All the past and future workshops provided by the center can be seen here.

Work with ICANN

NSRC and ICANN have worked together to support ccTLDs, DNS and DNSSEC infrastructure, Network Routing Security (RPKI) and KINDNS.

Work with RouteViews

RouteViews is a tool that allows Internet network operators to look at the BGP table from different backbones and locations around the world to troubleshoot and to assess issues such as reachability, hijacks, bugs, peer visibility, mass withdrawals, RPKI status, and more. Operators using RouteViews also peer to contribute to the value of the collected data. RouteViews operates collectors strategically positioned at IXPs around the world. NSRC is currently the lead organization organizing and supporting the RouteViews project, based at the University of Oregon, since it's start in 1995. NSRC staff, contractor and volunteers assist with maintaining and improving the RouteViews infrastructure and functionality.

Volunteers and Instructor Trainers

• NSRC' works with experts to assist with education, outreach, and training programs as volunteers in NSRC activities.
• Technical, engineering and teaching assistance is provided pro bono by colleagues from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), NOGs, Internet2, Energy Sciences Network, CENIC, Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), ICANN, ISOC, Google, Amazon, Apple, Juniper and colleagues from universities and R&E networks all over the world to work on NSRC’s international Internet development activities.
• Select participants from NSRC training programs volunteer to be instructor-trainees to expand their skills, take more expertise back to their home environments, and spread their knowledge further.

Internet Exchange Point

Country code top-level domain, as determined by "ISO 3166: Country Codes".

National Science Foundation

Country code top-level domain, as determined by "ISO 3166: Country Codes".

Domain Name System Security Extensions

Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Society