Agenda

	Tuesday, 15 April 2008
9:00-10:30	Opening Ceremony − Treasure of the Ocean: Keynote: CAIT’s Activities Eng. Ali Al-Shuraidah (CAIT) Keynote: Future of Regulation in the Region: The Regulator/Incumbent/OLO Relationship Alan Horne (Chairman of ARNET)
10:30-11:00	Coffee: Six Palms Lounge (in front of boat)
11:00-12:30	Opening Plenary − Treasure of the Ocean: Kuwait Information Network (KIN) Eng. Ali Al-Yaseen (CAIT) Eng. Hussain Al-Safran (CAIT) Eng. Layali Al-Mansouri (CAIT) Eng. Suad Al-Rasheedi (CAIT) Keynote: Evolution to a Global ISP Nishal Goburdhan (Internet Solutions) Keynote: IPv4 Run-out, Trading, and rpki Randy Bush (IIJ)
12:30-14:00	Lunch: Atlantis Restaurant
14:00-15:30	Panel Session − Treasure of the Ocean room: Middle East Fibre cuts Recent Cable Breaks – A Middle Eastern Perspective Earl Zmijewski (Renesys) Middle East Cable Cuts And Network Outages Mark Dranse (RIPE NCC) TATA International Yves Poppe Panel Q&A session
16:00	Coffee: Six Palms Lounge (in front of boat)
16:00-17:30	Technical Operations 1: Routing Systems and Services Pakistan vs. YouTube − a RIS With a View Mark Dranse (RIPE NCC) The Day the YouTube Died – What happened and what we might do about it Earl Zmijewski (Renesys) Routing Security Randy Bush (IIJ) IP Resource Certification Oleg Muravskiy (RIPE NCC) Prefix-list Sanity Checker Philip Smith (for Gaurab Raj Upadhaya − PCH)

	Wednesday, 16 April 2008
9:00-10:30	Tutorial 1 − Pearl: An Introduction to Security with IPv6 Dan Phelps and Nora Al-Abdullah (QCERT) Tutorial 2 − Coral: Introduction to Anycast Philip Smith (for Gaurab Raj Upadhaya) Meeting Room for Business – Oyster Chair: Fahad AlShirawi (MENOG Chair)
10:30-11:00	Coffee: Six Palms Lounge (in front of boat)
11:00-12:30	Tutorial 3 − Pearl: IPv6 Routing Philip Smith (Cisco) Tutorial 4 − Coral: Optimizing Peering with Routing-Aware Traffic Analysis Pete Crocker (Packet Design) Meeting Room for Business – Oyster Chair: Fahad AlShirawi (MENOG Chair)
12:30-14:00	Lunch: Atlantis Restaurant
14:00-15:30	Tutorial 5 − Pearl: BGP for Internet Service Providers I − BGP Introduction Philip Smith (Cisco) Tutorial 6 − Coral: Wireless LAN Introduction Osama I. Al-Dosary (Cisco) Meeting Room for Business – Oyster Chair: Fahad AlShirawi (MENOG Chair)
16:00	Coffee: Six Palms Lounge (in front of boat)
16:00-17:30	Tutorial 7 − Pearl: BGP for Internet Service Providers II − ISP Best Practices Philip Smith (Cisco) RIPE NCC Services Centre − Coral Ingrid Wijte (RIPE NCC) Meeting Room for Business – Oyster Chair: Fahad AlShirawi (MENOG Chair)
20:00-23:00	Social dinner at Marina Hotel

	Thurday, 17 April 2008
9:00-10:30	Technical Operations 2 − Treasure of the Ocean: IPv6 IPv6 Hour introduction Randy Bush (IIJ) IPv6 ISP Applications and Etisalat Experience Omar Fareed (Etisalat) IPv6 Routing System Update Philip Smith (for Gert Doering − SpaceNet) IPv6 Statistics and policies Update Filiz Yilmaz (RIPE NCC) ICANN IPv6 Update Baher Esmat (ICANN)
10:30-11:00	Coffee: Six Palms Lounge (in front of boat)
11:00-12:30	Technical Operations 3 − Treasure of the Ocean: Peering and IXPs Beruit IX Experiences Dima Saleh (BeruitIX) sFlow Implementation at LINX Richard Yule (LINX) JINX evolution and peering in South Africa Nishal Goubardhan (Internet Solutions) Peering Resiliency Andrew Oon (Equinix) Peering Wars: Lessons learned from the Cogent-Telia De-peering Earl Zmijewski (Renesys)
12:30-14:00	Lunch: Atlantis Restaurant
14:00-15:30	Technical Operations 4 − Treasure of the Ocean: Network Operations DDOS: CERT and ISP collaboration Nora Al-Abdullah (QCERT) RIPE NCC Activities and Services Axel Pawlik (RIPE NCC) Statistics and Policy Update Filiz Yilmaz (RIPE NCC) IPv6 Hour Summary Randy Bush (IIJ)
16:00	Coffee: Six Palms Lounge (in front of boat)
16:00-17:30	Closing Plenary − Treasure of the Ocean Keynote: Internet Governance for Operators: Why you should care David Conrad (VP of Research and IANA Strategy, ICANN) MENOG 4 Host Welcome Sultan Al Shamsi (Etisalat) MENOG Chair Vote of Thanks Fahad AlShirawi (MENOG Chair) RIPE NCC Vote of Thanks Paul Rendek (RIPE NCC)