RIPE 63 Daily Meeting Report - Tuesday

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Dear Colleagues,

A short summary of Tuesday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The 
full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations, 
webcasts and further information, can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/tuesday/


Plenary

Day two of RIPE 63 began with a busy Plenary session, with talks on 
"DDoS Attack Trends Through 2009-2011", the "Reputation of Networks – 
RIPE Region" and "Operational Experiences in Deploying 100 GbE". The 
RIPE NCC talked about "IPv4 and IPv6 assignments for RIPE NCC Routing 
Information Service" and "Resource Request for Business Operations". 
There were several comments from the audience about this and it was left 
to the community to decide the outcome during the Closing Plenary on 
Friday.

The second Plenary session continued the focus on technical issues, 
starting with a presentation on transit costs, followed by BGP policy 
violations in the data-plane, and an analysis of IPv6 latencies. A study 
of measured trends in IPv6 adoption looked primarily at trends seen 
around and following World IPv6 Day.

The third Plenary session saw RIPE NCC's Managing Director, Axel Pawlik, 
share the RIPE NCC's plan for contacting legacy space holders in the 
RIPE NCC service region. The presentation prompted a lot of 
participation from the audience, many of whom were legacy space holders 
themselves. Axel encouraged legacy space holders, even those with 
particularly specific situations, to contact the RIPE NCC. RIPE Chair, 
Rob Blokzijl, supported the efforts to "blow off the dust" of legacy 
address space.

IPv6 remains a hot topic at RIPE Meetings, with a talk on "IPv6 
Deployment Beauty Pageant" and a four-person panel discussing "CPE and 
End-User IPv6". Audience comments indicated that having hardware 
providers speaking about IPv6 deployment was an encouraging indication 
that things were moving in the right direction. Next, several 
interesting Lightning Talks were held and David Kessens, reported from a 
draft document currently reviewed by the IETF: IANA Reserved IPv4 
prefixes for shared CGN space and urged everyone to look at the draft 
and participate in the discussion. At the end of the session, Marco 
Hogewoning, WG co-Chair, introduced 'speed dating' between those who 
have deployed IPv6 and those busy deploying it.


IPv6 Working Group

Shane Kerr, ISC, gave a presentation on renumbering for enterprise 
networks and the IETF Working Group that has been established to look at 
this issue, seeking operator feedback on their work. The update to RIPE 
Document, ripe-501, "Requirements for IPv6 in ICT Equipment", which will 
conclude its Last Call phase next week, was discussed. Constanze Bürger 
delivered an update on the German government's roll-out of a federal 
IPv6 network, which led to some discussion and Timo Hilbrink provided an 
update on the IPv6 deployment of Dutch ISP XS4ALL.

Anti-Abuse Working Group

There was a good mix of the technical, the practical and the policy at 
the Anti-Abuse Working Group session. Joao Damas, ISC, gave an 
interesting presentation on passive DNS. Laura Cobley, Customer Services 
Manager at the RIPE NCC, spoke about how to report abuse to the RIPE 
NCC. She received many helpful suggestions on how the process should 
work. Michele Neylon, Blacknight, talked about how hosting companies 
deal with abuse. The session ended with lengthy discussion on 
interactions with governments and legal enforcement agencies.