RIPE 47 Meeting Report

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RIPE 47 Meeting Report

Dear Colleagues,

The <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/index.html>RIPE 47 Meeting 
was held from 26 - 30 January 2004 at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, 
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There were a total of 253 attendees comprised 
of the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community and government 
representatives. Attendees also included representatives from APNIC, ARIN, 
AfriNIC, LACNIC, ICANN and IANA.

HIGHLIGHTS
==========
- Highlights of RIPE 47 included the open discussion on the services of the 
RIPE NCC during the RIPE NCC Services Working Group; updates on the World 
Summit on the Information Society from Mirjam Khne, ISOC, and Axel Pawlik, 
Managing Director, RIPE NCC; an AfriNIC update; the proposal by the RIPE 
community to make RIPE 152 ( 'Charging by Local Internet Registries') a 
historical document.

- As announced by Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, two RIPE Meetings will be held 
in 2005. Based on the feedback from the community, this schedule will 
continue in 2006.
The RIPE NCC will offer additional support to RIPE Working Groups to 
facilitate discussion and progress between RIPE Meetings.

- Robin Tasker (CCLRC) gave a presentation on the European 
Commission-sponsored DataTAG project.

- The European Operators Forum (EOF) featured an NSP Security BoF, a 
presentation on which types of SMTP flows should be blocked to prevent 
spam, a case study on the migration of AOL's backbone network from OSPF to 
IS-IS and discussion on the use of XML in network configuration.

EOF presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/index.html#eof>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/index.html#eof

- The RIPE NCC, Afilias, Cisco, NIKHEF, NOKIA, Riverhead and SURFnet are 
thanked for the support they provided to the meeting. Global Voice Networks 
are thanked for the provision of excellent Internet connectivity.

SUMMARY
========
ADDRESS POLICY

- It was proposed that RIPE 152  ('Charging by Local Internet 
Registries')  should be made a historical document and that the RIPE NCC 
should make a clear statement on <http://www.ripe.net/>www.ripe.net that it 
does not charge for IP addresses.
- Hans Petter Holen, Chair, will form a task force to write a policy 
development process proposal.
- Consensus is needed on the mailing list on the AfriNIC proposal regarding 
/22 minimum allocation size.
- Hans Petter Holen, Chair, will start a discussion on the mailing list on 
changing the 80% rule for IPv4 allocations.

Address Policy Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#ap>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#ap

DATABASE

- The issue of CRISP versus joint Whois was discussed.
- The proposal to introduce new attribute "abuse-c" in the inet(6)num 
objects was discussed.
- A detailed proposal about "abuse-c" will be sent to Database Working 
Group mailing list.

Database Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#db>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#db

TEST TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT (TTM)

- It was noted that as of 1/1/2004 changes were made to the TTM service 
contract: Fees were lowered (from 3000 EUR per year to 1000 EUR per year) 
and all data has been made public as specified in RIPE 300 ('Test Traffic 
Measurement Service Data Disclosure Policy').
- Two presentations made use of TTM delay data: a presentation on delay 
tomography used traceroute data from the TTM project; a presentation on the 
reordering of IP packets used delay data.

TTM Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#tt>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#tt

ANTI-SPAM

- A proposal has been sent to the Database Working Group mailing list 
regarding the inclusion of an abuse-c attribute/object in the RIPE Database 
to help solve the problem of misdirected/multiple spam complaints.
- It was noted that the European Commission Directive is now widely 
implemented and that in the United States CAN-SPAM is the first federal 
legislation.

IPv6

- The anycast policy discussion was sent to the Address Policy Working Group.
- There was discussion on how 6 to 4 is being used to spoof IPv4 origin 
addresses to make Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks anonymous.
- There was a presentation on the security implications of IPv6 on IPv4 
networks.

IPv6 Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#ipv6>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#ipv6

EIX

- An editorial group will be set up to revise the exchange point operator 
wish list for switches.
- Operator-member charters for exchange points were discussed.
- DE-CIX presented their experience migrating to new hardware and adding 
new premises.

EIX Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#eix>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#eix

DN*

- The DNR Forum and the DNS Working Group were combined under the DNS 
Working Group heading.
- It was noted that the ENUM RFC 2916bis has been approved by the IETF 
Working Group and is in the queue of the RFC editor.
- It was noted that Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) are being deployed 
in more new regions.

DN* Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#dn>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#dn

ROUTING

- There was a presentation on RISwhois, a tool that allows IP address to 
origin ASN mapping.
- Case studies about convergence of IGP protocols were presented and discussed.

Routing Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#routing>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#routing

RIPE NCC SERVICES

- Bijal Sanghani, FLAG Telecom, was appointed as the co-chair of the 
Working Group.
- The RIPE NCC will explore the possibility of providing a service giving 
test statistics on the routability of new blocks.
- The RIPE NCC will give a status update on the Activity Plan 2004 and 
request input for the Activity Plan 2005 during the RIPE NCC Services 
Working Group at RIPE 48.

RIPE NCC Services Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#ncc-services>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/presentations/#ncc-services 


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-47/tutorials/ip-request/>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/tutorials/ip-request/

RIPE 47 WEBCASTING AND ARCHIVES
==============================
During RIPE 47, the RIPE NCC held trials in collecting feedback from 
participants watching the webcast. The mediums used for this were IRC and 
Jabber.

Archives of presentations, webcasts and IRC/Jabber feedback from RIPE 47 
are available at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/sessions-archive.html>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/sessions-archive.html

HOSTMASTER CONSULTATION CENTRE (HCC)
====================================
The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Consultation Centre was open at RIPE 47, allowing 
RIPE NCC Members to discuss issues relating to their business directly with 
RIPE NCC Hostmasters.

RIPE 47 REFERENCE PAGE
======================
A complete list of RIPE 47 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be 
found at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/index.html>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/index.html

"MEET & GREET"
=============
The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" was available for first-time RIPE Meeting 
attendees at RIPE 47. "Meet & Greet" introduces newcomers to the meetings, 
to key attendees from the RIPE community and to social events throughout 
the week. More information can be obtained by contacting: 
<meet-greet at ripe.net>.

RIPE 48
======
RIPE 48 will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 3 - 7 May 2004.

Information on RIPE 48 will soon be made available at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/

New Local Internet Registries (LIRs)
==========================
Please note: New LIRs are entitled to two (2) free tickets to attend a 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>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/new-lir.html

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

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