- Date
- April 19, 2004 – April 20, 2004
- Registration
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April 19, 2004 – April 20, 2004
Register
- Proposal submission
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April 19, 2004 – April 20, 2004
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Host IXP(s)
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DE-CIX Management GmbH
Hotel Information
Grand Hotel Esplanade, Berlin
Venue Information
Grand Hotel Esplanade
Lützowufer 15
Berlin, Germany
My Proposals
April 19, 2004
09:00 – 10:00
Registration and access to meeting room
10:00 – 10:15
Official welcome
- Introduction from Euro-IX
- Introduction from DE-CIX
- Introduction from Extreme Networks
- Explanation of Forum Programme
- Update since 3rd Euro-IX Forum
10:15 – 10:45
Introductions from all member IXPs
Member Introductions
Unknown presenter
10:45 – 11:45
General IXP issues - Mike Hughes
- Collect info for a BCP on IXP port security:
- MAC address limit
- STP guarding
- broad/multicast-storm limitation
- ARP watching
- other
- Collect info for a BCP on Resilience & Optimisation
- how much resilience inside switches?
- how many switches?
- how many locations?
- how to optimise traffic flows (for saving trunk capacity)?
* Multi-port connected customers
- Which methods are offered/used at various IXPs?
* Route server
- Any new developments ?
- Who is using or planning to use a route server?
* Anti DDoS
- Update on LINX White Paper on DDoS Defense
- Who is using or planning to use AntiDDoS gear/measures?
11:45 – 12:15
Coffee Break
12:15 – 13:15
Regulatory issues
- Outline of the Regulatory Affairs monitoring service
- Demonstration of new Regulatory Affairs portal
- Overview of current topics
13:15 – 14:45
Lunch
14:45 – 15:45
Customer view workshop
Neil Levine of Claranet and Neil McRae of COLT will share
some insights from an IXP customer perspective.
15:45 – 16:00
6th Euro-IX General Meeting
- Opening
- Agenda approval
- Approval of 5th GM minutes
- Presentation and approval of the Annual report for 2003
- Euro-IX Secretariat for 2005-2008
- Euro-IX Regulatory Services
- Aob & Next GM
- Closing
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:45
Keynote Presentation - Michael Kende of Analysys Consulting
"Understanding the chaos" - what is really going on in the telco
economic sector, is there a recovery, what is driving it?
19:00 – 23:00
Extreme Networks sponsored dinner
- Restaurant Kaefer
- Roof top of the German Parliament
April 20, 2004
09:15 – 10:15
IXP business tools - Richard Almeida
As a follow-up on the presentation by Bill Norton at the 3rd forum,
Richard Almeida will elaborate on what XPE learned and
either incorporated or ignored (and why).
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30
Bench marking workshop
At the 3rd Forum in Lisbon, I proposed a benchmarking club.
What is benchmarking?
Benchmarking is the exchanging of data about your business to
enable you to compare performance (or policies
.).
11:30 – 11:45
JPNAP Presentation
A presentation on the Japan Network Access Point (JPNAP) and an overview of other IXPs in Japan.
11:45 – 12:30
Technical issues workshop - Tomas Marsalek
- Switch Wish List v2.0: Mike Hughes
- MD5 configs in Juniper & Cisco Routers & Quagga: Mike Hughes
- Sharing Experience IXP's members activity: "sharing" lab
with members, WG
participation : Tomas Marsalek
- Extension capacity on IX backbone: - double 1gbps and
etherchannel bundle
using WDM equipment X switch from 1GB to 10GB technology.
- Compatibility with non-cisco GBIC in future IOS : Tomas Marsalek
- Discount from Switch vendors for EURO-IX members : Tomas Marsalek
- IPv6 Allocation Policies and Issues
- Agenda Items for RIPE EIX-WG
- RIPE NCC Action Plan - input
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
'Murphy's Corner'
This workshop is designed as an opportunity for IXPs to share
some stories of things going wrong at their IXP and how they
handled/mishandled these events!
14:45 – 16:45
Tools workshop - Ondrej Filip & Arnold Nipper
- IXP watch (LINX
- Implementation of Nagios (VIX)
- BENTO (Netnod)
- Inter Provider Network Analyzer (MIX)
- A software analyzer for IXPs (NIX.CZ)
- Monitoring tools at Netnod (Netnod)
- Monitoring tools at DE-CIX (DE-CIX)
- Marratech conferencing tool (LINX)
- Possible EU funded monitoring tool development project (LINX/MIX)
16:45 – 17:00
Closing