The program

Access to meeting room and internet.

"Salon Rhein" on the 1st floor of the

Intercontinental Hotel - Frankfurt

• Welcome from 9th Forum Chair - Christian Panigl VIX
• Explanation of programme and 'real-time' polls
• Introduction from DE-CIX (Forum host)

One representative from each attending IXP will be asked to
introduce themselves and give a very brief summary of
developments/issues within their IXP and one suggestion/idea
for the future of Euro-IX.

Please keep this to less than two minutes per IXP.

Our Patrons will then be given the opportunity to do the same.

• Maintenance Stories - Mike Hughes
• Introduction to Internet2 - Simone Arena
• Public Administration Network in Italy - Daniele Arena
• Growing pains of a small but somewhat old IXP - Carlos Friacas
  

1. Opening of 11th General Meeting

2. Agenda approval

3. Approval of 10th GM minutes

4. Address from all board nominees

• Current market news - Remco van Mook
• Power requirements - Ludwig Pregernig
• Availability, Pricing and Market effects in the UK - Vanessa Evans
  
• AMS-IX plans for own facility - Job Witteman
• Panel discussion
  

This session will introduce our newly affiliated patrons to the membership and Ian Robertson will pose the following questions to each of them:

1/. What is the anticiapted end of life / end of support of your current range of products?

2/. What is your position regarding OEM equipment? Do you think that that not allowing installation of third party equipment such as memory or transceivers will hurt your business?

3/. Can you add a feature based on a customer's request (e.g. port security on Etherchannels.) Can you give an example of when you have done this?

4/. Why will your company still be in business in 2008 and beyond?

Welcome drinks followed by dinner at:

Living Bar Restaurant

At the base of the Eurotower,

Willy-Brandt-Platz

5. Budget for 2007

        a) Presentation of the Euro-IX budget for 2007

        b) Approval of the the Euro-IX budget for 2007

6. Standing down of Board members

7. Executive Board Elections

        a) Explanation of voting system (STV)

        b) Ballot

        c) Ballot count and results

8. Aob & Next GM

9. Closing

• Update from IEEE HSSG - Henk Steenman
• Switch vendor mailing lists
• Co-locating TLD servers at IXPs - Kurtis Lindqvist
  
• 6to4 relays near IXPs - Carlos Friacas
• Affect on traffic from the TPB bust - Kurtis Lindqvist

• Review of current events - Malcolm Hutty
  
• The common theme: "mere conduit" and the end-to-end principle
• A plan for defending "mere conduit" protection in the E-Commerce Directive

• sFlow developments - Elisa Jasinska
• Mapping IXP locations - Luca Cardone
• Marratech configurations - John Souter
• EBGP Responsiveness Enhancement on MIX Peering LAN through BFD - Mauro Magrassi

• The European IXP scene - Kurtis Lindqvist
• Euro-IX Staff eXchange - John Souter
  
• Euro-IX website - Job Witteman
  

• Round up from sessions
• Open mike
• Thank you
• Final announcements