Day four of RIPE 76 featured another full day of RIPE Working Group sessions. Without a doubt, RIPE 76 is the largest RIPE Meeting to-date with 707 checked in at the end of the day (200 of those first-time attendees).
Thursday’s RIPE Working Group session highlights:
Routing WG
- The ARTEMIS project (funded by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund) showed a new way to quickly counter BGP hijacks
- A new idea to prevent IP address spoofing, using a new BGP community to set BGP local preference metric to zero
- A proposal to use AS-Cones to bring the functionality of AS-sets to RPKI – with a mix of positive and negative feedback from the audience on the idea
Cooperation WG
- An overview of IPv4 pool size distribution in Europe and the need for some countries to use CGN
- A warning that the recent Internet ecosystem consolidation might have an impact on Internet infrastructure, with a call for more research in this area
- An update on recent EU regulatory developments like the NIS Directive, e-evidence and the Cybersecurity Act proposal
- An introduction to EURALO, the European At Large Organisation
- A presentation on how to protect the crucial elements of the Internet using international law and norms
Anti-Abuse WG
- Brian Nisbet was selected as co-chair again
- A lively discussion about abuse-c validation
- Update on the global efforts related to the Anti-Abuse Working Group
- Insight into the law enforcement landscape that Russian network operators and Internet users are subject to
Open Source WG
- RIPE NCC update on architecture and operations features and improvements
- Insights on FRRouting progress, features and support with many comments from the audience on the benefits of using FRR in their implementations
- Experiences on practical end-to-end datacenter deployment purely based on open networking gear and software and how to make it cost-effective, agile and highly scalable
- A presentation on CZ.NIC developed SOHO router, Turris Omnia, including hardware specifications and software challenges
- An update on recent Kea developments, especially high-availability support and a note that ISC is serious about replacing ISC DHCP with Kea
- A RACI presentation looking at the applicability of blockchain to secure IP addresses allocations and delegations
IoT WG
- The first regular meeting of the IoT WG!
- An overview of the various IoT related activities in which the RIPE NCC is involved
- A look at how smart city data is used by law enforcement to detect illicit drug abuse and how this can potentially harm people’s privacy even if it’s anonymised data
- Two talks on better security in the Internet of Things
- A discussion of how the number and naming communities can play a vital role in the IoT field
IPv6 WG
- Geoff Huston, APNIC, presenting yet another highly interesting series of data collected by the APNIC IPv6 measurement project to help describe the phenomenon that puts India and other developing countries at the top of IPv6 deployment
- A presentation on important work being done at the IETF to improve IPv6 and implement mechanisms for putting it ahead of IPv4 in terms of features for enterprises
MAT WG
- A look at opportunities and challenges of ad-based measurements from the edge of the network
- A tool for real time monitoring and trouble shooting of web browser sessions
- An update on RIPE NCC’s measurement tools highlighting a host of recent developments and new features in RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat, RIPE IPmap, and a new visualisation for examining the infrastructure underlying user to user connections
After the working group sessions, a BoF was held to discuss the needs of government and large organisations when it comes to IPv6 address allocations and ASN assignments, followed by dinner at the Stock Exchange Palace at the heart of the historical centre of Marseilles.
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