RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, Qatar, January 2006

Updates to Agenda

A revised agenda for the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in Doha, Qatar (17 - 18 January 2006), is now available at:
http://www.ripe.net/meetings/regional/qatar-2006/agenda.html

This meeting is specifically designed to provide participants with a forum to discuss topics related to IP networking in the region.

Topics on the agenda include:

• A review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the way forward
• IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 consumption
• Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation (Shim6)
• Internet security and new developments in Internet routing
• The RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP)
• RIPE NCC training seminars on Routing Registry and DNSSEC

The meeting will also feature demonstrations of services such as the Routing Information Service (RIS), BGPlay and Test Traffic Measurements (TTM) that help users analyse network behaviour.

You can find more information about these demonstrations at:
http://www.ripe.net/meetings/regional/qatar-2006/demos/index.html

In addition, RIPE NCC IP Resource Analysts will be at the meeting to answer any questions about IPv4 / IPv6 allocations and assignments.

Registration
Attendance to the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting is open and free of charge. However, attendees are responsible for covering their own travel and accommodation costs.

Registration for the Regional Meeting is now open and will close on Friday, 13 January 2006.

To register, please see:
http://www.ripe.net/qatar2006/register

Presentations from the Local Community
We have reserved space in the agenda for presentations from the local community on current issues affecting the region. If there is a particular presentation or topic you would like included in the agenda, please send your suggestion to: contact@ripe.net.

More Information
More information about the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in Qatar is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/qatar2006

You can send any further questions to: contact@ripe.net.