- Date
- April 19, 2004 – April 20, 2004
- Registration
- April 19, 2004 – April 20, 2004
- Proposal submission
- April 19, 2004 – April 20, 2004
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Host IXP(s)
- DE-CIX Management GmbH
Hotel Information
Grand Hotel Esplanade, Berlin
Venue Information
Grand Hotel Esplanade
Lützowufer 15
Berlin, Germany
My Proposals
April 19, 2004
Registration and access to meeting room
Official welcome
- Introduction from Euro-IX
- Introduction from DE-CIX
- Introduction from Extreme Networks
- Explanation of Forum Programme
- Update since 3rd Euro-IX Forum
Introductions from all member IXPs
Member IntroductionsUnknown presenter
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)?
- Which methods are offered/used at various IXPs?
- Any new developments ?
- Who is using or planning to use a route server?
- Update on LINX White Paper on DDoS Defense
- Who is using or planning to use AntiDDoS gear/measures?
Coffee Break
Regulatory issues
- Outline of the Regulatory Affairs monitoring service
- Demonstration of new Regulatory Affairs portal
- Overview of current topics
Lunch
Customer view workshop
Neil Levine of Claranet and Neil McRae of COLT will share some insights from an IXP customer perspective.
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
Coffee Break
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?
Extreme Networks sponsored dinner
- Restaurant Kaefer
- Roof top of the German Parliament
April 20, 2004
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).
Coffee Break
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 .).
JPNAP Presentation
A presentation on the Japan Network Access Point (JPNAP) and an overview of other IXPs in Japan.
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
Lunch
'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!
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)