Meeting Plan

The actual RIPE Meeting started on Wednesday at 09.00 (see schedule below), but some sessions took place on Monday and Tuesday.

Monday, 21 September

14.00 - 18.00 EOF Tutorial
Peter Lothberg's EOF tutorial
After the success of the EOF one day tutorial at the previous RIPE meeting, another one is planned for the RIPE 31 Meeting. It will be organised by Peter Lothberg. The subject will be announced later - it will certainly deal with advanced Internet technology.

Tuesday, 22 September

09.00 - 12.00 EOF Tutorial
Peter Lothberg's tutorial continued

13.30 - 18.00 RPSL Course
The RIPE NCC, together with the USC Information Sciences Institute will be organizing an in-depth tutorial on Internet Routing Coordination.

In the tutorial, we will introduce the Internet Routing Registry (IRR), explaining how to register and query routing policy objects. After a brief introduction to routing policies (policies as used in the Internet today and BGP mechanisms to implement those policies), we will discuss the new Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), the IETF proposed standard language for specifying Internet routing policy. RPSL is currently being deployed by IRR participants and will replace RIPE-181, the current IRR routing policy specification language. RPSL provides substantial extensions to RIPE-181, making it possible to specify a much richer set of routing policies.

Attendees should understand basic BGP operations, but need not be familiar with the IRR.

The tutorial is free to RIPE Meeting attendees, and advance registration is required. Use the RIPE Meeting registration page to register for this tutorial. See also RFC 2280.

16.00 - 17.00 Newcomers Orientation Talk
Introduction talk to those who would attend their first RIPE Meeting in Ediburgh. Newcomers were asked to register before visiting this meeting and indicate their interest on the meeting application form.

17.00 Welcome Drink
Opening. Open to all attendees that have registered at the venue meeting desk.

Wednesday, 23 September

Thursday, 24 September

Friday, 25 September

Plenary