Monday: RIPE 61 Begins

RIPE Chair Rob Blokzijl opened the RIPE 61 Meeting, welcomed the attendees to Rome and mentioned that this would be the last RIPE Meeting before the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) runs out of IPv4 addresses. There was a short message from Brian Nisbet, Anti-Abuse Working Group co-Chair, who invited the attendees to come along to the RIPE Meeting Evolution BoF on Thursday at 17.45 in the Main Room. The opening Plenary continued with a panel session on “Additional Path Data for Faster Convergence” and a presentation on “10 Gbit Hardware Packet Filtering Using Commodity Network Adapters”.

In the Plenary – RIR/NRO Reports session, Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist with the RIPE NCC, launched the large Internet measurement initiative, RIPE Atlas. The response was overwhelmingly positive and there was much appreciation for the Atlas effort. Daniel asked people interested in being involved with Atlas to contact him at RIPE 61.

Maarten Botterman from GKNS Consult presented survey results conducted together with the RIRs on IPv6 deployment in 2010. An interesting panel discussion followed the RIR/NRO Reports, with Geoff Huston from APNIC, John Curran from ARIN, Axel Pawlik from the RIPE NCC and Sergio Rojas from LACNIC taking part. The Plenary concluded with the reappointment of Hans Petter Holen to the NRO Number Council (NC) for another three-year term. Congratulations Hans Petter.

IPv6 Tutorials

Two IPv6 tutorials were held on Monday morning prior to the meeting. The RIPE NCC held an IPv6 for LIRs training course for its members. Merike Kaeo of Double Shot Security looked at some of the different strategies that can be used by ISPs and content providers to enable IPv6 in their core and network access infrastructures. The tutorial was the first community-driven RIPE Meeting tutorial, and the organisers are keen to get feedback on future tutorial topics via an online survey: http://tinyurl.com/61tutorial

Monday Night’s Social

Monday evening’s social saw the attendees get a taste of “la dolce vita” at the Jacki O. Drinks and snacks provided by:

PGP Key-Signing Party on Tuesday

If you want to attend the PGP Key Signing Party on Tuesday at 18:00, don’t forget to add your entry to the keyring by 12:00 on 16 November:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=9837

Tonight’s Social Tonight’s Social Event: Drinks, Food

AMS IX and NaMeX invite you to an evening of celebration and partying. Join us for drinks, food, good music and a good time at the Hard Rock Cafe. Sponsored by:

Day 1 attendee count:

300 checked-in so far!

Announcements

For up-to-date meeting announcements and technical information, please see:
http://ripe61.ripe.net/help/technical-information

RIPE NCC Services Centre

Visit the Services Centre in the Campidoglio Room, open during meeting hours from 09:00.

RIPE Labs Demo

Visit Mirjam Kühne at the RIPE Labs demo stand in the upper lobby area during the breaks all week.

RIPE Atlas

Visit the Atlas demo stand in the upper lobby area to find out more about this new active measurements network prototype. Already pre-registered for an Atlas probe? Pick it up at the demo stand on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

RIPE NCC Information Services

Visit Sean McAvoy from RIPE NCC Information Services for information on tools for routing, connectivity and DNs plus information about NetSense and DNSMON. In the lobby on Wednesday 13-18:00 and during breaks all week.

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