RIPE 45 Meeting Report
The RIPE 45 Meeting took place from 12 May to 16 May 2003 at Hotel
Fira Palace in Barcelona, Spain. RIPE Meetings
are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity to participate
in Internet policy discussions. Additionally, there will be various
tutorials that will be of interest of network operators and administrators.
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Hotel Fira Palace
Avinguda Rius i Taulet, 1-3
08004 Barcelona
Spain
Tel: +34 93 4262223
Fax: +34 93 4248679
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Working Group Sessions
During a RIPE Meeting, RIPE Working Groups convene in various scheduled
sessions. Times and dates of all sessions are listed in the Meeting
Plan. Agendas of the RIPE Working Group sessions will be posted in
the agendas section.
More information about RIPE Meetings is available here.
Registration
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Webcasting Trials
The RIPE NCC conducted technical webcasting
trials (audio and video) of certain sessions during RIPE 45 that were
scheduled in the Verdi room of the Fira Palace. Archives of these webcasts are available here.
Timeline Barcelona
c. 500BC Foundation by the Carthaginians under Amilcar Barca
27BC-AD14 Roman occupation of Barcino (Barcelona)
3rd C Barcino replaces Tarraco (Tarragona) as the most important Roman
outpost
in the Hispanic Citerior
988 Count Borrell II achieves independence for the county of Barcelona
1000-1200 Barcelona becomes one of the most important Mediterranean ports
13th C Construction of Cathedral de la Seu begins
14th C Barcelona conquers foreign ports. War between Barcelona and Genoa
1336 -1387 Reign of Pere III. Building boom in the city
1391 Pogrom - massacre of Barcelona's Jewish community
1479 -1516 Influence shifts to Castile
1640 Catalan revolt against Spanish monarchy begins in Barcelona; Catalonia
allied to Louis XIII of France
1652 Siege of Barcelona by Don Juan José of Austria ends the Catalan
rebellion
1680 War against France
1690 War against France
1705 -1714 War of Independence against Spain; alliance with England and
Genoa
11 Sept 1717 Philip V of Spain conquers Catalonia and abolishes the region's
constitution
18th Beginning of cotton trade with the Americas and the start of the
textile
industry
18th Napoleonic Wars
1821 Yellow fever epidemic
1848 First Spanish railway is constructed between Barcelona and Mataró
1868 Spanish revolution - Bourbons removed from power
1888 World Exhibition held in Barcelona
1901 General strikes in the city
1909 Riots in the city; buildings destroyed by anarchists
1931 Left-wing coalition forcibly exiles King Alfonso XIII
1936 Beginning of Spanish Civil War
1960 Massive influx of workers from the impoverished countryside
1977 Catalonia recovers some self-government under the Estatut de Autonomia
1992 Olympic Games held in Barcelona
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