Draft Agenda

Chair: Osama I. Al-Dosary (MENOG Chair)

Welcome: Osama I. Al-Dosary (MENOG Chair)

Keynote: IPv6 Promotion and Deployment in Saudi Arabia: Dr. Ibraheem S. Al-Furaih (CITC)

RIPE NCC Update: Axel Pawlik (RIPE NCC)

Chair: Kais Al-Essa (SaharaNet)

Submarine and Terrestrial Network Developments in the Middle East: Alan Mauldin (Telegeography)

Mapping the Middle East’s Financial Industry: Jim Cowie (Renesys)

Internet Measurement Tools and their usefulness: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

Chair: Fahd A. Batayneh (ICANN)

Advanced Traffic Steering and Optimization Technologies in Cellular and Wifi Networks: Bart Salaets (F5)

Middle East Strategy Updates: Fahd A. Batayneh (ICANN)

RIPE NCC Regional Activities and Internet Governance: Paul Rendek (RIPE NCC)

Chair: Marco Hogewoning (RIPE NCC)

NTP and Evil: Geoff Huston (APNIC) and Randy Bush (IIJ). Presented by Philip Smith (NSRC)

IPv4 Address Transfers in RIPE NCC Service Region: Andrew de la Haye (RIPE NCC)

IPv4 Transfers: Elvis Velea (V4Escrow)

Closing Remarks: Osama I Al-Dosary (MENOG Chair)

Chair: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

Introduction to Peering Forum and the Day’s Agenda: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

How to do Effective Peering Personals, and PeeringDB: Martin Levy (CloudFlare)

Peering Personals Template

The Role IXPs and Peering Play in the Evolution of the Internet: Steve Wilcox (IX Reach)

GCC Peering Status & Peering curiosities: Bernd Spiess (UAE-IX)

Peering Personals 1 – Moderator: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

A rapid update session in which network operators have two minutes to present their information from the PeeringDB (one slide showing their PeeringDB entry), explain what their peering policy is, where they are located, and what they are interested in.

Moderator: Osama I. Al-Dosary (MENOG Chair)

Since the last MENOG Peering Forum, we have seen good growth of the Palestine and UAE IXs. Many new initiatives help to connect more regional ISPs to the Internet Exchanges. When there are a reasonable number of root servers online for peering, it becomes attractive for local and global content to peer, as there are also a reasonable number of access users reachable on the IXs. There
has therefore been some good development in the past year, but there are still many issues to be solved. The panel will discuss these achievements and issues that have to be solved in order to build a bigger peering community in the Middle East.

Panellists include:

• Saleh Mansour (Palestine IX)
• Haitham El-Nakhal (NTRA and Cairo IX)
• Christian Kaufmann (Akamai)
• Marco Brandstaetter (UAE-IX)
• Steve Wilcox (IX Reach)

Peering Personals 2 – Moderator: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

Chair: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

Akamai CDN and Peering: Christian Kaufmann (Akamai)

RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat: Christian Teuschel (RIPE NCC)

Routing for an Anycast CDN: Martin Levy (Cloudflare)

Peering Personals 3 – Moderator: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

Chair: Serge Radovcic (RIPE NCC)

Migrating DE-CIX to Apollon: Lessons Learnt: Arnold Nipper (DE-CIX)

ISOC IXP Toolkit and Upcoming Peering and IXP Partnership Opportunities: Jane Coffin (Internet Society)

Euro-IX and IX-F Update: Arnold Nipper (Euro-IX Board)

IXP Personals – Moderator: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (Limelight)

Closing Remarks: Serge Radovcic (RIPE NCC)

Vote of Thanks: Osama I. Al-Dosary (MENOG Chair)