From webmaster at ripe.net Thu May 1 15:54:59 2003 From: webmaster at ripe.net (RIPE NCC WebMaster) Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 15:54:59 +0200 Subject: General Meeting 2003 announcement Message-ID: <200305011355.h41Dt0Ss023886@birch.ripe.net> [Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, 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 pm to 17.00 pm on Friday, 5 September 2003. It is hoped that this new date will enable more of the RIPE NCC membership to attend, and participate in, the annual General Meeting. For more information about RIPE NCC annual General Meetings, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/gm/ Regards, Axel Pawlik, Managing Director RIPE NCC From webmaster at ripe.net Thu May 8 15:34:39 2003 From: webmaster at ripe.net (RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service) Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:34:39 +0200 Subject: [staff] New Document available: RIPE-271 Message-ID: <200305081334.h48DYdqo008119@birch.ripe.net> New RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-271 Title: RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st Century Author: Daniel Karrenberg Date: 8 May 2003 Format: PDF=98090 TXT=8008 Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st Century A New Direction for Measurements by the RIPE NCC The RIPE NCC has collected data and published statistics from its inception. In fact the hostcount has even started before the RIPE NCC began operations. Other measurement and data collection activities have been added later, most notably Test Traffic Measurements (TTM) and the Routing Information Service (RIS). After more than 10 years it is time to re-visit this area and adjust the direction based on input from the RIPE community and the NCC membership. This memo proposes the new direction and seeks to establish consensus among the RIPE NCC membership. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE documents in HTML format via our website at the following URL:. http://www.ripe.net/docs/hostcount.html The RIPE Document Store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-271.pdf PDF version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-271.txt plain text version From henk at ripe.net Wed May 21 12:28:55 2003 From: henk at ripe.net (Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)) Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Draft minutes from the TT-WG session @ RIPE45 Message-ID: Dear all, Attached you'll find the draft minutes from the Barcelona meeting from next week, comments to tt-wg at ripe.net please. Henk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Test Traffic WG - RIPE45 - Barcelona - 15 May 2003 -------------------------------------------------- Chair: Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE NCC) Scribe: Mark Santcroos (RIPE NCC) Agenda: ------- A. Opening B. Administrivia * Appointment of Scribe * Attendance Sheet * Agenda bashing * Minutes of last meeting C. TTM Status and Plans - Henk Uijterwaal D. RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st Century - DFK E. Discussion =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= break =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= F. The Spectrum of Internet Performance - Roberto Percacci G. First Measurements with IPv6 - Henk Uijterwaal H. AOB A. Opening ---------- Henk opens the meeting at 9:10 and welcomes all attendees. He outlines the agenda and introduces the first speaker: himself. B. Administrivia ---------------- Minutes of RIPE 44 approved. He announces that the chair (Keith) can not make it anymore to most meetings and that he has resigned. So the WG is looking for a new chair. C. Test Traffic Measurements - Henk Uijterwaal ---------------------------------------------- Slides at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tt-status/ Questions: None D. RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st Century - DFK ----------------------------------------------- No slides, but see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-271.html RIPE was already doing measurements before the NCC. The current model is that a limited set of people cover for the costs of the measurements. Due to not enough hosts this is not realistic. Why are we doing measurements: - Statistics about address usage and routing is important for policy making. - Measurements statistics for day to day operations - Need for authoritative measurements by government and general public Cross subsidizing Strengths as RIPE NCC for doing these measurements: - Neutrality - Staff doing the measurements have experience in doing measurements - High quality data - Only active measurements -> no privacy issues - Long term data -> nice for trends Weaknesses: - Output too detailed (Too much of an academic attitude) - Closed user group service - only participants can see data Proposal: Build on our strength and continue with high quality measurements. Continue to do active measurements and not look at other traffic. More Incident Reports as done for the saphire worm and the attack on the NCC office. Develop more simple to use products that are immediately useful. (But no traffic light kind of things) As come out of the survey: do more things that are generally available. Personalized view of measurements. Discontinue TTM as a closed user group. Make data available to general public. So why are we still charging for it: having a probe in your network still makes it more interesting and useful for you. But the charge will be significantly less than it is now. Structurally measure DNS (root) server quality. React on reports in press about bad DNS. Will do significant effort of making the products more usable. As the NCC has a long history of doing training courses we will extent that to the measurements. Provide better documentation. Depending on the feedback we get we will approach you in the near future about the direction we will go in. Next step will be to go the membership and ask for permission to use a certain amount of the budget for these measurements. All of this is also in RIPE-271. E. Discussion -------------------------------------- Q: Is this your idea or is it already presented to the board and such? A: It's being discussed inside the RIPE NCC and with the board. Q: Would be interesting to investigate a setup with GPS. A: Yes Q: We are academic: no problem. But there might be some carriers / ISP's that wont want their data published. A: We don't have negative responses yet, but we didn't officially ask yet. Q: How about half open/half closed? A: That will not solve the problem for doing things for a small group. Q: Maybe move to voluntary disclosure? A: Again, that will not solve the problem for doing things for a small group. Q: Will you offer all details? A: Yes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= break =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= F. The Spectrum of Internet Performance - Roberto Percacci ---------------------------------------------------------- Slides have not been received (yet) but the paper is available online at: http://moat.nlanr.net/PAM2003/PAM2003papers/3693.pdf More quantitive results instead of qualitive. This would be useful for generating stimulations. Questions from Anja Feldman, U.Munich Q: How much of your results depends on the placement of the host A: Q: You completely ignored the time it takes to actually send the data A: Hosts are at sites that are well connected Q: What is the maximum range in terms of values that you can ever expect? A: As you can see in the samples is that there is a cutoff somewhere between the sample is finite G. First Measurements with IPv6 - Henk Uijterwaal presenting for Florian Frotzler ------------------------------------------------- Slides at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tt-ipv6/ Questions: Comment from Gert Doering on v6 being faster than v4 in some cases. He said that it is because of non commercial transit for v6 which in some cases is a directer path. H. AOB ------ No other business. K. Closing ---------- Henk thanks all speakers and attendees and closes the meeting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal at ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That problem that we weren't having yesterday, is it better? (Big ISP NOC) From henk at ripe.net Tue May 27 14:22:16 2003 From: henk at ripe.net (Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Florian Frotzler's master thesis Message-ID: Dear All, In my talks in Barcelona on "first results of the IPv6 version of TTM", I referred to Florian Frotzler's master thesis. This document is now on the web at: http://www.ripe.net/ttm/Documents/Various/ffrotzler.pdf Kind regards, Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal at ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That problem that we weren't having yesterday, is it better? (Big ISP NOC) From webmaster at ripe.net Wed May 28 15:20:41 2003 From: webmaster at ripe.net (RIPE NCC WebMaster) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:20:41 +0200 Subject: RIPE NCC offices closed 29 May 2003 Message-ID: <200305281320.h4SDKfHk025681@birch.ripe.net> ********************************** Dear Colleagues, Please note that the RIPE NCC offices will be closed on: Thursday, 29 May 2003. 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