RIPE 46 Meeting Report

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RIPE 46 Meeting Report

Dear Colleagues:

The RIPE 46 Meeting was held from 1 - 5 September 2003 at the Grand Hotel 
Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There were a total of 307 
attendees comprised of the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community and 
government representatives. Attendees also included representatives from 
APNIC, ARIN, AfriNIC, LACNIC and ICANN.

HIGHLIGHTS
==========
Highlights of RIPE 46 included the open discussion on the services of the 
RIPE NCC during the first session of the RIPE NCC Services Working Group; a 
presentation on current RIPE NCC services and plans for 2004 by Axel 
Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC; an AfriNIC update; and an update on 
the changes to Test Traffic Measurement.

The European Operators Forum (EOF) featured a full-day tutorial on Voice 
over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and ENUM that included an overview of current 
technologies and a focus on practical deployment aspects such as gateways, 
security, provisioning and use of the new ENUM standards.

Geoff Huston, Telstra, gave a presentation on IPv4 Address Lifetime Expectancy.

The RIPE NCC would like to thank SURFnet, BIT, FLAG Telecom and KPN 
EuroRings for the support they provided to the meeting.

SUMMARY
========

ADDRESS POLICY
==============
- Hans Petter Holen, Chair, requested community involvement to help revise 
ripe-152 ("Charging by Local Internet Registries") if necessary.

- The RIPE NCC will resubmit the IPv4 policy document for community review.

- There was a discussion on PI/PA issues and whether the distinction is 
still valid.

- It was agreed that a more formal process was needed for the policy 
development process.

Address Policy Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#ap

DATABASE
========
- Wilfried Woeber, Chair, will co-ordinate with the RIPE NCC to prepare a 
document summarising the basic assumptions about the use of the RIPE Database.

- "status:" attribute values will change. Current efforts aim at 
consistency between the RIRs and having easy to understand values.

- The organisation object proposal received positive feedback from the 
working group, with suggestions for other features.

- The RIPE NCC will implement X.509 authentication before the next RIPE 
Meeting.

Database Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#db

TEST TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS (TTM)
=========================
- As of 1/1/2004 changes will be made to the TTM service contract: Fees 
will be lowered, all data will be made public with lightweight Acceptable 
Use Policy (AUP).

- Bandwidth measurements: tests showed that results are not conclusive 
enough so the TTM service will wait before delivering this new product.

TTM Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#tt

ANTI-SPAM
=========
- Rodney Tillotson, Chair, will post a proposal to the Anti-Spam mailing 
list regarding methods to improve finding abuse contacts in the RIPE Database.

Anti-Spam Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#anti-spam

IPv6
===
- The 6BONE phase-out was discussed. The next milestone will be 01/01/2004 
when new allocations stop.

- Discussion on the separation of the identifier and locater functions of 
IP addresses in regards to IPv6 multihoming.

IPv6 Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#ipv6

TECHSEC
========
- Community feedback was requested on the requirements needed to secure 
large scale IP infrastructure especially around CLI interface requirements.

- The RIPE NCC presented a report on DNSSec status, DISI achievements since 
RIPE 45 and the impact of signing on zone size.

- George Jones, Mitre, gave a presentation on operational security 
requirements including the history and current status of the requirements, 
related work, next steps and milestones.

- Baiba Kaskina, TERENA, gave a presentation on Euro CSIRT developments 
that included details on the CSIRT Task Force, the countries involved, the 
projects and deliverables.

- NLNetLab presented an update on Fonkey and PKI-related developments in IETF.

TechSec Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#techsec

EIX
==
- Support was expressed for aligning and harmonising IPv6 address space 
policy regarding IXPs with other RIRs and existing IPv4 policies.

- Reports were presented by 11 European IXPs in Europe that showed a trend 
of steady growth, use of GE instead of FE and wide deployment of IPv6.

- Discussion of the Inter-Provider Traffic Analyzer that uses past data and 
statistical calculations to detect anomalies in traffic patterns.

- EIX presentations were given on the anycast deployments of the "F" and 
"K" root servers by ISC and the RIPE NCC.

EIX Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#eix

DN*
===
- From the merging of the former DNS Working Group and DNR Forum it was 
concluded that one working group is sufficient to deal with everything 
related to Domain Names. A new name/charter will be discussed on the 
mailing list.

- Jaap Akkerhuis, DN* Co-Chair, will organise a "DNS Related Issues" document.

- Peter Koch, DN* Co-Chair, talked about how firewall vendors could make 
mistakes handling DNS communication issues.

DN* Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#dn

RIPE NCC SERVICES
================
- Axel Pawlik noted that the RIPE NCC will present more details in next 
year's RIPE NCC budget.

- There were comments on the current RIPE NCC services, whether they 
benefit the entire community and whether a 'pay per service' system could 
be an option.

- There was discussion about the need for a more transparent evaluation of 
RIPE NCC activities and how they benefit the community.

RIPE NCC Services Working Group presentations can be viewed at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/#ncc

TUTORIALS
=========
- The RIPE NCC staff presented the RIPE NCC IP Request Tutorial. It 
explained address space assignment and allocation procedures in the RIPE 
NCC region:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/tutorials/ip-request/

- A full-day tutorial on VoIP and ENUM was presented during the European 
Operators Forum (EOF). For more information about the EOF at RIPE 46 see:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/eof.html

RIPE MEETING WEBCASTING
=======================
- The third phase of RIPE Meeting webcasting trials was held at RIPE 46. 
Recordings of certain sessions from RIPE 46, including the Plenary, have 
been archived and can be accessed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/webcast.html

HOSTMASTER CONSULTATION CENTRE (HCC)
====================================
- The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Consultation Centre was open at RIPE 46, allowing 
RIPE NCC Members to discuss issues relating to their business directly with 
RIPE NCC Hostmasters. Later consultation hours, as introduced at RIPE 44, 
were continued.

"MEET & GREET"
===============
- The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" was available for first-time RIPE Meeting 
attendees at RIPE 46. "Meet & Greet" introduces newcomers to the meetings, 
to key attendees of the RIPE community and to social events throughout the 
week. More information can be obtained by contacting the RIPE NCC's Pepa 
Tejedor Carnicero at <meet-greet at ripe.net>.

RIPE 46 REFERENCE PAGE
======================
- A complete list of RIPE 46 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be 
found at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/index.html

RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING
=======================
- The RIPE NCC General Meeting 2003 was held Friday, 5 September 2003, 
adjacent to the RIPE 46 Meeting, at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam.

For the highlights from the RIPE NCC General Meeting 2003, please see:

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/gm/gm2003/highlights.html

RIPE 47
======
- RIPE 47 will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 26 - 30 January 
2004.

Information on RIPE 47 will soon be made available at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/

NEW LOCAL INTERNET REGISTRIES (LlRs) - PLEASE NOTE

LIRs who signed up after 1 January 2002 are entitled to two (2) free 
tickets to attend the next RIPE Meeting. The tickets cover the meeting fee 
only and do not apply to the RIPE dinner, travel or hotel accommodation. 
More information on the new LIR tickets can be found at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/new-lir.html

For more information, contact <meeting at ripe.net>.



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