RIPE 48 Meeting Report

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RIPE 48 Meeting Report

Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE 48 Meeting was held from 3 - 7 May 2004 at the Grand Hotel 
Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There were a total of 267 
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 48 included an update on the Number Resource 
Organization from Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC; an open 
discussion on the proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the 
Number Resource Organization and ICANN; the community consensus to create 
an ENUM Working Group.

J. Scott Marcus, Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the 
United States, gave a presentation on the deployment challenges involved 
with evolving the core of the Internet.

This presentation can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/ripe48-plenary-marcus.pdf 


The European Operators Forum (EOF) featured presentations on lawful 
interception of IP traffic, managing a DoS attack, stable BGP routing, 
strategies for IP traffic engineering, analysing the Internet Routing 
Registries, IP Address Space and AS Number hijacking and applications of 
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).

EOF presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#eof

The RIPE NCC, FLAG Telecom, Amsterdam Internet Exchange and Interoute are 
thanked for the support they provided to the meeting. Global Voice Networks 
are thanked for the provision of the meeting Internet connectivity.

SUMMARY

ADDRESS POLICY WORKING GROUP

- It was agreed that the issue of worldwide "shopping" for address space 
needs to be carefully considered before adopting different IPv4 additional 
allocation procedures (i.e. HD Ratio) in each region.

- There were calls for the clarification and review of the initial 
allocation criteria for IPv6 allocations. The RIPE NCC will propose a 
rewrite of the IPv6 policy after the issue has been discussed in more 
detail on the mailing list.

Address Policy Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#ap

DATABASE WORKING GROUP

- It was agreed that the 'country:' attribute should be either removed or 
be optional.

- It was decided that the default behaviour of the RIPE Database will be 
changed to return the Incident Response Team (IRT) object if available, in 
order to make it easier for users to find relevant security contact 
information.

Database Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#db

TEST TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT (TTM) WORKING GROUP

- Three presentations were given by Test Box users that offered useful 
tutorial information for all Test Box owners.

- The Working Group Chair encouraged the RIPE NCC to investigate moving 
measurements into the O/S kernel and/or to hardware.

- It was noted that the RIPE NCC has lowered the annual TTM service fee to 
1000 euro/year for the first box, 500 euro/year for the second to ninth 
boxes and that a large company has offered to sponsor hardware for 
non-profit, research institutes.

Test Traffic Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#tt

ANTI-SPAM WORKING GROUP

- The community was asked to look at the Anti-Spam Working Group charter 
and to suggest how it should be changed.

- Fearghas McKay reported on the sender-pays stream and specifically on the 
'camram' proposal which uses a well-documented system for generating 
cryptographic signatures ('hashcash').

- There was a proposal to establish a top level domain 'mail.' to be used 
as a type of DNS white-listing service.

IPv6 WORKING GROUP

  - It was agreed that the Working Group Chair will seek consensus from the 
Working Group on whether the Minimum Technical IPv6 Peering Requirements 
(MIPP) document should become a RIPE document.

- The community was asked to provide feedback on larger than default IPv6 
allocations.

- Pim van Pelt asked for members of the community who would like to run 
public 6to4 relays.

IPv6 Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#ipv6

EIX WORKING GROUP

- Kurtis Lindqvist presented his view from the IXP Customer View workshop.

- Bijal Sanghani gave a presentation on the expectation an ISP has for an IXP.

- European IXPs gave an update about the latest developments, including a 
presentation on the shared experience of engineers when they migrated their 
customers from one switch to another.

EIX Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#eix

DNS WORKING GROUP

- It was agreed that the RIPE NCC will review the zone checks done by the 
reverse delegation robot.

- DNS MODA was proposed by Jim Reid as a not-for-profit body to work on DNS 
protocol issues.

- It was noted that the expansion of IPv6 makes the streamlining of IPv6 
direct and reverse DNS even more necessary.

DNS Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#dns

ROUTING WORKING GROUP

- It was agreed that the RIPE NCC should publish an IRR Toolset maintenance 
schedule.

- There was a presentation on some of the technical issues of high-speed 
global roaming (flying an 802.11b wireless hot-spot at around 900 km/hr at 
altitudes around 10km).

- There was a presentation on BGPlay, a tool that visualises Internet 
routing activity.

Routing Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#routing

RIPE NCC SERVICES WORKING GROUP

- The RIPE NCC was asked to make a more detailed presentation on PGP 
encryption.

- It was agreed that the RIPE NCC should start implementing the key-signing 
proposal.

RIPE NCC Services Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#ncc-services 


TECHNICAL SECURITY WORKING GROUP

- There was a presentation on security aware resolvers and discussion on 
the requirements for them.

-  There was discussion on 'server-side' protocol bits and the feeling that 
they are solid and ready for deployment; it was noted that 
validator/application communication and key-management issues need work.

Technical Security Working Group presentations can be viewed at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/index.html#techsec

TUTORIALS

The RIPE NCC Training Team 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-48/tutorials/ip-request/index.html

RIPE 48 WEBCASTING AND ARCHIVES

During RIPE 48, 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 48 
are available at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/sessions-archive.html

HOSTMASTER CONSULTATION CENTRE (HCC)

The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Consultation Centre was open at RIPE 48, allowing 
RIPE NCC Members to discuss issues relating to their business directly with 
RIPE NCC Hostmasters.

RIPE 48 REFERENCE PAGE

A complete list of RIPE 48 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be 
found at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/index.html

"MEET & GREET"

The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" was available for first-time RIPE Meeting 
attendees at RIPE 48. "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 49

RIPE 49 will be held in Manchester, the United Kingdom, from 20 - 24 
September 2004.

Information on RIPE 49 will soon be made available at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/

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

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