RIPE 63 Daily Meeting Report - Wednesday

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Dear colleagues,

A short summary of Wednesday'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/wednesday/

Address Policy Working Group

Emilio Madaio, RIPE NCC Policy Development Officer, gave on overview of 
"Current Policy Topics" and the "Policy Development Office Activities". 
Alex le Heux, RIPE NCC, continued with "Feedback from RIPE NCC 
Registration Services", showing how the implementation can take from 
days to years.

The APWG co-Chairs announced their intention to declare consensus on 
proposal 2011-02, "Removal of multihomed requirement for IPv6 PI". 
2011-04, "Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation" and 
2011-05, "Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space" were presented and 
discussed.

Dave Wilson, HEAnet, gave an overview "On Inter-RIR Transfers" and asked 
for discussion on whether we need an inter-RIR transfer policy. The RIPE 
NCC was requested to evaluate the current transfer policy. Rob Blokzijl 
then introduced his initiative for the "IPv4 Maintenance Policy" document.

Shane Kerr, ISC, explained the conclusions from yesterday's IPv6 WG 
session about IPv6 renumbering. The last item on the agenda was a review 
of the withdrawn policy 2008-08, "Initial Certification Policy in the 
RIPE NCC Service Region".

ENUM Working Group

The ENUM WG started with Wolfgang Nagele, RIPE NCC, giving an update of 
the RIPE NCC's ENUM service. Patrik Faltstrom, Cisco, gave a short 
presentation about User ENUM in Sweden. The third presenter, Lino 
Santos, reported about the progress made with ENUM in Portugal.

Most of the WG session was covered by an interesting panel discussion 
with ENUM experts from various countries and a speaker from from TERENA. 
The discussion focused around why ENUM is not so successful and if ENUM 
itself is a service or if it is an underlying technology on which 
services can be based. An action was assigned to contact all ENUM 
operators between now and RIPE 64.

Routing Working Group

Geoff Huston, APNIC, presented the mystery of "The Flat World of BGP" 
and Thomas Mangin, EXA Networks Ltd., presented on exaBGP and asked for 
feedback. Randy Bush, IIJ, presented the "Impact of the Tohoku 
Earthquake on Japanese ISPs" and concluded this was a boring event; the 
Internet worked around failures. He also presented on the CPU load of 
BGPSEC. Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC, asked for input on the usefulness 
of RIS routing beacons. The responses were that they were useful. There 
was an action on the RIPE NCC to publish the IPv6 Routing 
Recommendations document.

RIPE NCC Services Working Group

The RIPE NCC Services Working Group was the final session of the day. 
Following an introduction to the newly composed Senior Management team 
by Axel Pawlik, RIPE NCC Managing Director, there was an update from the 
RIPE NCC Senior Managers on the organisation's various activities, 
priorities and developments and the results of the RIPE NCC Membership 
and Stakeholder Survey 2011. There were presentations on the RIPE NCC's 
preparation for the distribution of the last remaining IPv4 address 
space, and on the progress of the RIPE NCC's project on Contractual 
Relationship Requirements for End Users. Finally, Daniel Karrenberg, 
RIPE NCC Chief Scientist, reported on the development and future plans 
for RIPE Atlas.

PGP Key-Signing Party

The PGP Key-Signing Party has been a regular feature at the last few 
RIPE Meetings, and RIPE 63 was no exception. While cryptography ensures 
the secrecy of communication, it is important to establish a “web of 
trust” so that the authenticity of the involved parties is also known 
with a high degree of confidence. The RIPE Meeting presents an ideal 
opportunity for attendees to meet, exchange, verify and sign each 
others' public keys. Yesterday’s Key-Signing Party was attended by 10-15 
people and will be continued at future RIPE meetings.