David Baden's keynote presentation

1. OpenStack and
Radio Free Asia

2. Mission Statement
Radio Free Asia’s mission is to provide accurate and timely news and information to
Asian countries whose governments prohibit access to a free press. Guided by the
core principles of freedom of expression and opinion, RFA serves its listeners by
providing information critical for informed decision-making.
RFA is mandated to broadcast to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos, and Burma. RFA’s programming primarily comprises domestic news and
information of unique and specific interest to its listeners. All broadcasts are solely
in local language(s) and dialects. Each RFA language service is distinctive,
reflecting the particular culture, language, and preferences of its listeners.
RFA adheres to rigorous journalistic standards of objectivity, accuracy, and fairness.
RFA aims, in turn, to retain the greatest confidence among its listeners and to serve
as a model on which others may shape their own emerging journalistic traditions.

3. RFA Languages RFA Asian Bureaus
•Burmese •Phnom Penh, Cambodia
•Cantonese •Taipei, Taiwan
•Khmer •Seoul, South Korea
•Korean •Hong Kong
•Lao •Ankara, Turkey
•Mandarin •Bangkok, Thailand
•Tibetan •Delhi, India
•Uyghur •Dharmsala, India
•Vietnamese

4. www.rfa.org

5. Traditional Anti-Censorship Funding

6. Traditional Anti-Censorship Funding
• Competition between
developers
• Reinventing the wheel
• No economies of scale
for infrastructure

7. New Anti-Censorship Funding Model

8. http://f2c.rfa.org

9. Article 19
“Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media
and regardless of frontiers.”

10. f2c Project Funding

11. f2c Project Funding
• Cooperation between developers
– best practices – promote
synergies
• Global shared infrastructure –
scalable to needs and events
• Funding targeted to technical
development strengths
• Quality assurance - due diligence
– cross tool applications

12. f2c Components: Technical Council
[academic – private sector – development – hybrid]
• Receives and reviews initial
project proposals within the f2c
framework and principles
• Approves projects for sandbox
deployment testing
• Reviews project progress and
approves for due diligence and
test deployment
• Provides guidance to Coordinate development between projects
• Reviews ongoing projects and development in the space for assessment of
new and continued funding

13. f2c Components: Security Audit /RED TEAM
• Technical due diligence
• Test and reports on project
security to assist developers
in strengthen their tools
• Test and reports on project
performance to assist
impact, help sustain security
and guarantee privacy
protection

14. f2c Components: Analytics
• Track behavior anomalies
• Traffic analytics and load
• Project levels utilization
• Infrastructure performance
in different environments

15. f2c Components: Global IaaS
Isolated sandbox development
and test environment
Global cloud deployment
infrastructure (double blind)

16. Open Stack
• Massively scalable open source cloud operating system.
• A global community of developers, cloud computing technologists and
over 120 companies have put their support behind OpenStack.
OpenStack Compute:
•Designed to provision and manage large
networks of virtual machines (VM)
•Creates a redundant and scalable cloud
computing platform
•Provides all the tools required to orchestrate a
cloud

17. Open Stack
OpenStack Object Storage:
•Creates redundant and scalable object storage, using clusters of
commodity servers to store petabytes of accessible data
•No master point of control, scalability, redundancy and permanence
•Storage clusters scale horizontally with whole nodes hot swappable
OpenStack Image Service:
•Provides discovery, registration and delivery services for virtual disk
images
•Standard REST interface for querying information about VMs and a
variety of backend stores, including Object Storage
•Allows uploads of private and public images in the multiple-formats

18. f2c Project Funding
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19. Piston Enterprise OS
• Bulletproof remote
management
• Turnkey supported
solution
• Security and Audit
features
• Plausible Deniability

34. Deployment Issues
Hardware: Silicon Mechanics
Future: Looking for local component assembly
•Logistics Import
Connectivity
•Bandwidth / Not an Issue
•IP / IP4 Becoming an Issue
•Future: MPLS Direct USA

35. More Information
www.rfa.org
http://f2c.rfa.org
Questions
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