OpenStack andRadio Free Asia

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.

RFA Languages •Burmese•Cantonese•Khmer•Korean•Lao•Mandarin•Tibetan•Uyghur•Vietnamese

RFA Asian Bureaus•Phnom Penh, Cambodia•Taipei, Taiwan•Seoul, South Korea•Hong Kong•Ankara, Turkey•Bangkok, Thailand•Delhi, India •Dharmsala, India

www.rfa.org

Traditional Anti-Censorship Funding

Traditional Anti-Censorship Funding

• Competition between developers

• Reinventing the wheel

• No economies of scale for infrastructure

New Anti-Censorship Funding Model

http://f2c.rfa.org

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.”

f2c Project Funding

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

f2c Components: Technical Council

• 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

[academic – private sector – development – hybrid]

• Provides guidance to Coordinate development between projects

• Reviews ongoing projects and development in the space for assessment of new and continued funding

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

f2c Components: Analytics

• Track behavior anomalies

• Traffic analytics and load

• Project levels utilization

• Infrastructure performance in different environments

f2c Components: Global IaaS

Isolated sandbox development and test environment

Global cloud deployment infrastructure (double blind)

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

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

f2c Project Funding

= Some

= 0

= 0

Piston Enterprise OS• Bulletproof remote

management

• Turnkey supported solution

• Security and Audit features

• Plausible Deniability

Deployment IssuesHardware: Silicon Mechanics

Future: Looking for local component assembly•Logistics Import

Connectivity•Bandwidth / Not an Issue•IP / IP4 Becoming an Issue•Future: MPLS Direct USA

More Information

www.rfa.org

http://f2c.rfa.org

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