Agenda

09:00 - 10:00

Registration and Welcoming Coffee

10:00 - 10:10

Housekeeping and Agenda Introduction (10 minutes)

Moderator: Vahan Hovsepyan, Senior Community and Public Policy Advisor, RIPE NCC

10:10 - 10:30

Opening Remarks & RIPE NCC Update (20 minutes)

Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC

10:30 - 12:00

Panel Discussion: Enhancing Network Resilience through Redundancy, Diversity and Collaboration (90 minutes)

Resilience is a multi-layered capability that is essential for maintaining continuous operations and quickly recovering from disruptions. This panel aims to provide participants with key insights from different stakeholders in the ecosystem. We will also explore how Internet measurement tools can assist operators and inform public policy decisions, and how multistakeholder collaboration can further enhance the resilience of Internet infrastructure.

Speakers

• Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC
• Agnese Zariņa, Director of the Communications Department, Ministry of Transport of Latvia
• Baiba Kaskina, General Manager, CERT.LV
• Evijs Taube, Member of the Management Board, LVRTC
• Moderator: Romain Bosc, Senior Public Policy and Governance Advisor, RIPE NCC

12:00 - 12:15

Group Photo

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:15

Connectivity in Baltic Countries, a Research based on RIS and RIPE Atlas (30 minutes)

Alex Semenyaka, Senior Community Development Officer-Technical Advisor, RIPE NCC

Recent research reveals a surprising truth: data traveling between neighboring Baltic countries often takes massive hidden detours. This invisible reliance on distant transit providers makes regional connectivity unexpectedly fragile. We will uncover the scale of these roundabouts and discuss how the local telecom community can optimise local connectivity.

14:15 - 14:45

How We See Submarine Cable Outages with RIPE Atlas (30 minutes)

Emile Aben, Specialist Research Engineer, RIPE NCC

In this presentation we look at the effects of submarine cable outages in the Baltic Sea and the Red Sea and what effects we see with RIPE Atlas.

14:45 - 15:15

Unlocking Opportunities: RIPE NCC Registry Services for Baltic States (30 minutes)

Jeremy Walder, Member Services Lead, RIPE NCC

• Becoming a member and what does membership means
• Getting resources
• The RIPE NCC Registry and Registration Services
• Requirements and support for members
• RIPE policies and Community Participation
• Internet Number Resources in the Baltics

15:15 - 16:15

Community Hour

16:15 - 17:15

The RIPE Community: Why You Should Participate (60 minutes)

Ulka Athale, Manager, Community Development, RIPE NCC

RIPE is one of the longest-running communities for network operators in Europe and beyond. Since its inception in 1989, it has helped operators build, grow, maintain and improve the Internet as we have come to know it. This talk will introduce you to the RIPE community and how the RIPE NCC can help you participate.

17:15 - 17:45

Coffee Break

17:45 - 18:15

Resilience & Cooperation: BEREC’s New Possible Tasks Under the DNA Proposal

Zdravko Jukić, Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries

19:30 - 23:00

Social Dinner

09:00 - 10:00

Registration and Welcoming Coffee

10:00 - 10:30

RIS - Shared Routing Intelligence (30 minutes)

Ties de Kock, RIPE NCC

The Routing Information Service (RIS) collects global BGP data to provide critical visibility into how the Internet routes traffic. This presentation will explain what RIS is, why this routing intelligence is essential for network troubleshooting, and outline our structured procedure for selecting new RIS peers to keep this data accurate and valuable.

Multi-Layered Domain Infrastructure Analysis

This presentation will also share the results of a reliability and security analysis of the logical infrastructure underlying selected Latvian government domains. We will conclude by discussing how DNSMON can be utilised for the continuous monitoring of these resources.

10:30 - 11:00

New Technologies in Routing Security: BGP Roles and ASPA (30 minutes)

Alex Semenyaka, Senior Community Development Officer-Technical Advisor, RIPE NCC

Routing security has been a hot topic over the past few years. New technologies are being developed, some of which have already begun to appear in hardware. We’ll discuss what’s already available, what to expect in the near future, and what this means from an operational perspective.

11:00 - 11:30

RPKI Deployment and IPv6 Uptake in the Baltics (30 minutes)

Anastasiya Pak, Senior Marketing and Communications Officer, RIPE NCC

In this talk, we’ll delve into advancing Internet technologies in the Baltic countries from the RPKI Deployment and IPv6 Uptake angles. We will be exploring routing security, in particular the levels of ROA and ROV deployment, and IPv6 capability and adoption levels.

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00

IPv6 Session (60 minutes)

Alex Semenyaka, Senior Community Officer-Technical Advisor, RIPE NCC

IPv6 adoption rates in the Baltic states have reached quite substantial levels over the past few years. However, adoption has stagnated over the past year, and overall, these figures lag behind global averages and are highly uneven—not only between countries but even within the industry. We will discuss the prospects for this protocol in the region and the potential obstacles to its growth.

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 15:00

Capacity Building with the RIPE NCC Academy (30 minutes)

Vahan Hovsepyan, Senior Community and Public Policy Advisor, RIPE NCC

15:00 - 15:30

RIPEstat: Alive and Kicking (30 minutes)

Ties de Kock, RIPE NCC

RIPEstat was originally developed as a single interface for many Internet datasets. We recently gave it an overhaul and want to show some tools to analyse the current state in BGP and BGP events.

15:30 - 15:40

Closing Words

Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC

15:40

Closing Reception