Agenda

• 09:00-09:05: Opening Speech
  – Khalid Samara, MENOG, PC Chair
  – Hans Petter Holen, RIPE NCC
• 09:05-09:10: Host Welcome Speech
  – Eng Adnan Al Alawi, AWASR Oman Telecommunications Company
• 09:10-09:30: IXP Tracker, Cache and Content Locality in MENOG Region
  – Hanna Kreitem, ISOC
• 09:30-10:30: Panel Discussion: “Peering and Interconnection Trends in Middle East”
  
  Moderator:
  Nishal Goburdhan

  Panelists:
  Mehmet Tik, META
  Denis Dincic, Equinix
  Huda Said Mohammed Al-Ghabshi, ZOI
  Marco Brandstätter, DE-CIX

• 11:00-11:30: SCION: Secure Path-Aware Internet Routing
  – Kevin Meynell, SCION Association
• 11:30-11:45: Stairway to Anycast
  – Jan Žorž, Go6 Institute
• 11:45-12:15: CDN Locator: Finding the Closest CDN Servers
  – Massimiliano Stucchi, Glevia GmbH
• 12:15-12:30: RIPE NCC Updates

– Hisham Ibrahim, RIPE NCC

Moderator: Taha Hussain

• 14:00-14:30: SRv6 uSID
  – Clarence Filsfils, Cisco and Omar Alsharad, Zain Kuwait
• 14:30-15:00: IP Measurements
  – Ahmed Abdelsalam, CISCO Systems
• 15:00-15:30: Lighting Up the Dark – Addressing Visibility Challenges in Fixed Networks
  – Rishad Karkala, Netscout
• 15:30-15:40: The Internet Landscape in the Middle East

– Jad El Cham, RIPE NCC

• 15:40-16:00: Peering Personals

• 16:30-17:00: RPKI ROV Adoption in the Middle East
  – Doug Madory, Kentik
• 17:00-17:30: ROA Signing Session

Moderator: Nishal Goburdhan

• 09:30-10:00: Be kind, Be KINDNS! A Framework to Improve Secured DNS Operations
  – Yazid Akanho, ICANN
• 10:00-10:30: A Look at a Root Cause for DNS Latency
  – Ties de Kock, RIPE NCC
• 10:30-10:45: Peering Personals

Moderator: Massimiliano Stucchi

• 11:00-11:30: Indexing Internet Resilience in the Middle East
  – Amreesh Phokeer, Internet Society
• 11:30-12:00: Transformation of Peering in Middle East
  – Bernd Spiess, DE-CIX / UAE-IX
• 12:00-12:30: Coherent Optical Transceivers – Current Capabilities and Future Possibilities
  – Thomas Weible, Flexoptix GmbH

• 14:00-14:15: Oman – An Emerging Leader on the Global Connectivity Map
  – Abdaullah Shaikh Qamar, TRA

• 14:15-15:30: Lightning Talks