RIPE 52 Bird of a Feather (BoF) Sessions

At RIPE 52 there will be two Bird of a Feather (BoF) sessions. They will take place in the Bosphorus II Room.

Whither Multicast: An Informal Multicast BoF Meeting
Monday, 24 April at 17:15

The BoF at the RIPE 52 meeting in Istanbul is an attempt to bring the Multicast Backbone Deployment (Mboned) IETF Working Group closer to the operator community and to help the working group better understand the current practice of Multicast. [MORE]

RIPE "IP Spoofing" Task Force
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 at 17:15

IP source address spoofing is the practice of originating IP datagrams with source addresses other than those assigned to the host of origin. In simple words the host pretends to be some other host. This can be exploited in various ways, most notably to execute Denial of Service (DoS) amplification attacks which cause an amplifier host to send traffic to the spoofed address.
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