RIPE 50 Report
The RIPE 50 Meeting took place from 2 - 6 May 2005 at the Clarion Hotel, Stockholm,
Sweden.
There were over 375 participants at the meeting.
Attendees also included government representatives and representatives from
AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and ICANN.
Highlights
Highlights of RIPE 50 included:
Afilias, Arbor Networks, Cisco Systems, Force10 Networks, Netnod, NIKHEF, Nokia
and TeliaSonera and the RIPE NCC are thanked for the support they provided to
the meeting.
TeliaSonera are thanked for the provision of the meeting Internet connectivity.
Presentations
All the Plenary and Working Group presentations from RIPE 50 can be viewed
at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/presentations/index.html
Summary
Address policy Working Group
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It was agreed that the Address Policy Working Group Chairs will make a
formal proposal that global policies should go through the RIPE Policy Development
Process.
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There was discussion on the TLD anycast allocation policy proposal, the
IPv6 proposal to remove the 200 customers requirement, the proposal for
removal of the Africa Special Policy, the proposal to add regional boundaries
to policy documents and the IPv4-HD-Ratio proposal.
Anti-Spam Working Group
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There was discussion on whether ripe-206 should be revised to reflect
the updates to the LINX BCP document that was used as the base for the original
ripe-206.
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There was discussion about anti-spammers sometimes behaving worse than
spammers, and action placed on the Working Group Chair to start work on
a document for best practise for spam complaints.
Database Working Group
DNS Working Group
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It was agreed that the DNS Working Group Chair will produce a proposal
to solve the problem that changes to reverse DNS nameservers cannot have
multiple names.
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There was discussion on whether the DNS Working Group should take over
the work to produce a RIPE Document on AAAA resolution issues.
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It was agreed that the RIPE NCC will produce statistics on anycast placement
for K-root and the RIPE region Hostcount in time for RIPE 51.
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It was noted that DNSSEC RFCs have been published, and that DNSSEC is
being tested in Sweden in the .se domain.
EIX Working Group
ENUM Working Group
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It was agreed that Niall O'Reilly and Carsten Schiefner will be the new
ENUM Working Group Chairs.
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It was noted that the IETF is continuing work on ENUM standards.
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It was agreed that the ENUM Working Group will continue to work as it
has in the past, with an emphasis on the exchange of operational experience.
IPV6 Working Group
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The RIPE NCC aannounced that the RIPE Whois Database will continue
to include more services that run in native IPv6.
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It was agreed that the community needs to consider producing a revised
Internet draft to formally address the demands of rfc3177, particularly
the /48 recommendation.
- It was noted that there is now an IPv6 operational IPv6 mailing list.
RIPE NCC Services Working Group
- There was discussion on the value of the Hostcount. It was agreed that
the RIPE NCC should continue working on this, and that the RIPE NCC should
write and put a new Hostcount into service.
Routing Working Group
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There was discussion on route flap damping and de-aggregation practices
raised by Philip Smith in the RIPE 50 Plenary.
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Lorenzo Colliti (RIPE NCC) presented the research work of Roma Tre
University on active BGP probing to discover AS level topology of
the Internet.
Test Traffic Working Group
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It was agreed that the community should provide a proposal on how
TTM infrastructure could be used to certify the quality of service
provided by ISPs and to verify Service Level Agreements.
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Henk Uijterwaal gave an update on the status of the TTM project
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Thomas Wana presented work done to improve the accuracy of TTM time
measurements and a proposal to create even greater accuracy by using
DAG cards for measurement.
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There was discussion on the future directions for the TTM project
and it was agreed that the TTM infrastructure and measurements could
be leveraged to certify the quality of service provided by ISPs. The
Working Group agreed that the RIPE NCC, as a trusted third party,
could perform the measurements and publish the results.
Co-Located Peering BoF
Netnod, LINX and AMS-IX hosted a peering BoF co-located at RIPE 50 on
Sunday, 1 May, where peering policies were presented.
Co-Located LOBSTER Tutorial
A tutorial entitled "Passive Network Traffic Monitoring" was
organised on Friday, 6 May, by the consortium of LOBSTER, a European IST
Project on Large-Scale Monitoring of Broadband Internet Infrastructures.
RIPE 50 Webcasting and Archives
During RIPE 50, the RIPE NCC collected feedback from participants watching
the webcast and listening to the audiocasts. The mediums used for this
were IRC and Jabber.
Archives of presentations, webcasts and IRC/Jabber feedback from RIPE
50 are available at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/sessions-archive.html
Hostmaster Consultation Centre (HCC)
The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Consultation Centre was open at RIPE 50, allowing
RIPE NCC Members to discuss issues relating to their business directly
with RIPE NCC Hostmasters.
"Meet & Greet"
The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" was available for first-time
RIPE Meeting attendees at RIPE 50. "Meet & Greet" introduces newcomers
to the meetings, to key attendees from the RIPE community and to social events throughout
the week. More information can be obtained by contacting <meet-greet@ripe.net>.
RIPE 50 Reference Page
A complete list of RIPE 50 sessions, tutorials and presentations can
be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50
RIPE 51
RIPE 51 will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 10 - 14 October
2005.
Information on RIPE 51 is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51
If you have any questions about RIPE Meetings, please contact <meeting@ripe.net>.
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