[lir-wg] RIPE 45 Meeting Report

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RIPE 45 Meeting Report

Dear Colleagues:

The RIPE 45 Meeting was held at the Hotel Fira Palace from 12 - 16 May 2003 
in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total of 322 attendees comprised of the 
RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community and government representatives. 
Attendees also included representatives from APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and ICANN.

HIGHLIGHTS
==========
Highlights of RIPE 45 included the open discussion during the Plenary on 
the services of the RIPE NCC; an ICANN update by Paul Twomey, President and 
CEO of ICANN; the proposal to split and rename the LIR Working Group into 
the RIPE NCC Services Working Group and the Address Policy Working Group; 
the deactivation of the Tools and NetNews Working Groups; and the second 
phase of RIPE Meeting webcast trials.

Paul Wilson, APNIC Director General, provided a presentation on RIPE 261 
that proposes reorganising the distribution of IPv6 allocations "from the 
root" to LIRs. RIPE 261, "IPv6 Address Space Management", can be found at:

    ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-261.txt

Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist, RIPE NCC, spoke on the measurement 
activities and statistics performed by the RIPE NCC, referencing RIPE 271, 
"RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st Century". He noted the benefits and 
necessity of these activities and requesting support from the community. 
RIPE 271 can be found at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/hostcount.html

"ROSIE", the RIPE On-site Information Exchange, was also launched at the 
meeting. ROSIE provided up-to-date meeting information and resources to 
RIPE Meeting attendees and will be featured again at RIPE 46.

The RIPE NCC would like to thank RedIRIS, CESCA, SATEC, FocusPoint, MFN, 
SURFnet and NRN for the support they provided to the meeting.

SUMMARY
=========

LIR
===
- The LIR Working Group will split into two groups. The policy-making 
function will move to the new "Address Policy Working Group" and the RIPE 
NCC services reviewing function will be moved to the "RIPE NCC Services 
Working Group". Kurt Erik Lindqvist, Netnod CEO, has agreed to chair the 
new "RIPE NCC Services Working Group". The LIR WG mailing list will remain 
active during the transition phase.

- The RIPE NCC presented its plans for improved secure communication (via 
X.509 PKI) with RIPE NCC members:

     http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-lir-pki/

A discussion document has been published at:

     http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/pki-20030429.html

DATABASE
=========
- Wilfred Woeber, UniVie-ACOnet and DB WG Chair, requested feedback from 
the community on changes to the "status:" attribute and their impact on 
scripts.

- The RIPE NCC will look into the possibility of dbupdate accepting updates 
with the usual indentation inserted by most mail clients.

- The RIPE NCC will also review a request on allowing users more access to 
its code.

- Wilfred Woeber proposed a discussion for the DB mailing list on revising 
the charter for the DB Working Group.

IPv6
====
- Gert Doering, SpaceNet AG, provided a global v6 routing update noting 
fewer undesired prefixes leaking into the global routing tables; a decline 
in 6bone prefixes being routed; and a corresponding increase in RIR v6 
space being routed.

- John Crain, ICANN, spoke on the RIR/ICANN discussion to replace the 
current /23 prefix delegation procedure to facilitate automatic filtering 
of addresses per RIR. (See RIPE 261.)

- ICANN is testing implementation of "AAAA" records in the root server 
system to start this summer and will produce a document in co-operation 
with RSSAC. Production use is pending approval by the U.S. Department of 
Commerce.

- It was noted that the cut off date for allocating 6bone pTLAs is 
1/01/2004. The phase out date of 6bone address space is 6/06/2006.

- The RIPE NCC was tasked to enable IPv6 for future RIPE Meeting webcasts.

ROUTING
========
- Two approaches to secure BGP were presented and discussed. Stephen Kent, 
Chief Scientist - Information Security at BBN Technologies, provided a 
presentation on how RIRs put secure BGP implementation into production:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-routing-sbgp/ 


And David Cook, CISCO, provided a presentation on soBGP:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-routing-sobgp-ripe/ 


DNR FORUM
===========
- After a proposal by Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, the RIPE Working Group 
Chairs agreed to combine future DNS WG and the DNR Forum sessions into the 
"DN*" Working Group, beginning at RIPE 46.

DNS
====
- Presentations regarding lameness followed by a panel discussion on 
technical and policy issues were provided. It was noted that lameness 
checks, on the reverse tree in particular, might become a working group 
item. The discussion was moved to the DNS mailing list.

TTM
====
- Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist, RIPE NCC, spoke on re-focusing the 
measurement activities performed, and the statistics presented, by the RIPE 
NCC. Referencing RIPE 271, he noted the benefits of these activities and 
the importance for the community of access to unbiased and credible data 
about the overall operation of the Internet. He requested community support 
for this new approach to RIPE NCC measurement activities. RIPE 271 can be 
found at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/hostcount.html

- Florian Frotzler, RIPE NCC intern, presented his thesis on the effects of 
IPv6. This was of special interest to those attempting to build native v6 
networks:

    http://www.ripe.net/ttm/Documents/Various/ffrotzler.pdf

TECHSEC
========
- A discussion on draft-ietf-dnsop-interim-signed-root-01.txt was held. 
Comments are to be posted to the DNSEXT mailing list.

  - A status update on DISI (Deployment of Internet Security 
Infrastructures) was provided:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-techsec-disi/ 


ANTI-SPAM
==========
- Unsolicited Broadcast E-mail (UBE) volume greatly increased in the last 
three months with ISPs expecting the UBE load to become a serious technical 
problem for them by the end of 2003.

- The working group was tasked to develop a "best practice advice" on 
defensive measures against UBE.

EIX
===
- It was noted that the EIX Working Group session at RIPE 46 will be in two 
parts: The first session will be orientated towards ISPs with a series of 
presentations from IXPs discussing recent trends and statistics in a 
regular format. The second session will focus on IXPs with presentations on 
technical, operational and commercial issues that affect IXPs in the RIPE 
community.

EOF
====
- The European Operators Forum convened Monday and Tuesday at RIPE 45. 
Emphasis was on inter-domain routing and BGP security. A discussion on how 
to develop the EOF from its current state at future RIPE Meetings was also 
held.

TUTORIALS
=========
- The RIPE NCC staff presented the RIPE NCC IP Request Tutorial. It 
explained address space assignment and allocation procedures in the RIPE 
NCC region:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/tutorials/ip-tutorial/

- A tutorial on the "myAS" system, which allows users to devise a 
control/notification system for BGP route propagation in real-time, was 
provided at RIPE 45:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tt-myas/

RIPE MEETING WEBCASTING
=======================
- The second phase of RIPE Meeting webcasting trials was held at RIPE 45. 
Recordings of sessions have been archived and can be accessed at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/webcast-archive.html

HOSTMASTER CONSULTATION CENTRE (HCC)
====================================
- The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Centre was open during RIPE 45. The centre 
continues to be a useful facility for the meeting attendees and will be 
provided at RIPE 46. Later consultation hours were successfully introduced 
at RIPE 45 and will be repeated at RIPE 46.

"MEET & GREET"
==============
- The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" desk was available for first time RIPE 
Meeting attendees at RIPE 45. "Meet & Greet" was introduced at RIPE 44 and 
introduces newcomers to the meetings, to key attendees of the RIPE 
community and to social events throughout the week.

RIPE 45 REFERENCE PAGE
======================
- A complete list of RIPE 45 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be 
found at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/index.html

RIPE 46
======
- RIPE 46 will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 1 to 5 September 
2003.

Information on RIPE 46 will be made available later this month at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/

RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING
========================
- The RIPE NCC Executive Board has announced that the 2003 annual General 
Meeting will be held adjacent to the RIPE 46 Meeting in Amsterdam from 
14.00 to 17.00 on Friday, 5 September 2003.

For more information about RIPE NCC annual General Meetings, please see:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/gm/

New Local Internet Registries (LIRs) please note:
- LIRs who signed up in 2002 are entitled to two (2) free tickets to attend 
RIPE 46. The tickets cover registration only and do not apply to the RIPE 
dinner, your travel or hotel accommodations. More information on the new 
LIR tickets can be found at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/new-lir.html

Or contact <meeting at ripe.net>.


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