Agenda

MENOG 15 Programme

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Meeting room Creek B Meeting room Creek A
08:30 – 09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 10:30 Opening Plenary

  • Welcome – Osama Al-Dosary, MENOG Chair
  • Welcome – AbdulRahman Al Marzouqi, UAE TRA
  • Welcome – Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC
  • Middle Eastern Content Hosting in 2015: Jim Cowie (Dyn)
  • Domain & Hosting Industry Insight from a UAE hosting company: Munir Badr (AEserver FZE)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Technical Plenary

  • Facilitator: Osama Al-Dosary (MENOG)
  • The Flat Earth Theory: Convergence of Prices Around the World: Alan Mauldin (TeleGeography)
  • Cable Infrastructure in the Gulf: Georges Jaber (GBI)
  • Why is Peering still relevant in the Middle East?: Gael Hernandez (PCH)
  • IXP Related Projects at Euro-IX: Bijal Sanghani (Euro-IX)
12:30 – 14:00 Buffet lunch is served in the Thai Kitchen restaurant
14:00 – 15:30 IXP/Peering Updates

  • Facilitator: Rani Alami (Coolnet)
  • An Update on the Internet Exchange Point Federation: Bijal Sanghani (Euro-IX)
  • Panel: IXP and Peering Updates from the Middle East:
    – Adel Marzouq (CAIX, Egypt)
    – Shahab Vahabzadeh (Asiatech, Iran)
    – Saleh Mansour (PIX, Palestine)
    – Adel Houas (TUNIX, Tunis)
    – Roger Asmar (BIX, Lebanon)
    – Marco Brandstaetter (UAE-IX, UAE)
    – Ali Al Kaaf (EMIX & SmarthubIX)
Arabic Domain Name Operations:

  • Facilitator: Fahd Batayneh (ICANN)
  • Update on the IDN Program: Sarmad Hussain (ICANN)
  • The .ir Experience: Alireza Saleh (IRNIC)
  • Universal Acceptance of Arabic Script IDNs: Raed Al-Fayez (Saudi NIC)
  • Experiences Implementing Open Source Registry: Abdalmonem Tharwat (Dot Masr)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Network Operations Group BoF

  • Facilitator: Philip Smith (NSRC)
  • Overview of SDNOG: Samir Abdullatif (SudREN)
  • NOG BoF – establishing NOGs in the ME
Meet a Peer

  • Facilitator: Hisham Ibrahim (RIPE NCC)
  • Peering Personals BoF
20:00 – 23:00 Dinner – Palm Garden Park Hyatt Hotel

 

Thursday, 2 April 2015

Meeting room Creek B Meeting room Creek A
08:30 – 09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 10:30 Technical Operations I

  • Facilitator: Philip Smith (NSRC)
  • What’s Happening at the IETF?: Chris Grundemann (ISOC)
  • IPv4 Transfers in the RIPE Region: Andrew de la Haye (RIPE NCC)
  • Introduction to Software Defined Networking: Ahmed Maged (CISCO)
Updates from the EcoSystem

  • Facilitator: Osama Al-Dosary (MENOG)
  • RIPE NCC Update: Axel Pawlik (RIPE NCC)
  • ICANN: The Middle East Strategy: Fahd Batayneh (ICANN)
  • The IANA Transition Stewardship Update: Paul Rendek (RIPE NCC)
  • ISOC update: Jane Coffin & Michuki Mwangi (Internet Society)
  • Updates from the IGF: Salam Yamout
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Technical Operations II

  • Facilitator: Yaman Hakmi (Cisco)
  • Multiple Generations of Mobile Backhaul Technologies: Khalid Samara (MADA)
  • Smart City: Bottom to Top Concept: Rani Alami (Coolnet)
  • RIPE Atlas & RIPEstat: Christian Teuschel (RIPE NCC)
  • Introduction to OpenStack: Yaman Hakmi (Cisco)
Banking on Secure Networks

  • Facilitator : Ahmed Husain (Reload)
  • Online and mobile banking threats, detecting and preventing risks: Asim Azmi, Amr Ismail (Kaspersky)
  • Cyber Security – implications of recent breaches: Sebastian Madden (Protection Group International)
  • How hot is your network: Simon Forster (Spamhaus Research)
12:30 – 14:00 Buffet lunch is served in Thai Kitchen restaurant
14:00 – 15:30 Technical Operations III

  • Facilitator: Fahd Batayneh
  • IPv6 Deployment Case of Sudan/SudREN: Samir Saif (SudREN)
  • Routing Table Report: Philip Smith (NSRC)
  • RIPE NCC technical project update: Kaveh Ranjbar (RIPE NCC)
  • SmartHub: Santhosh Kumar (Etisalat)
Academic Research

  • Facilitator: Salam Yamout (RIPE NCC Excutive Board Member)
  • Internet Governance: Towards a Collaborative Internet Development: Chafic Chaya (Staffordshire University/RIPE NCC)
  • RACI presentations
    1. Zakaria Al-Qudah, Mohamed Sarayreh, Yarmouk University, Jordan – “Internet Path Stability: Exploring the Impact of MPLS Deployment”
    2. Marc Ibrahim, Maroun Chamoun, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon – COMIQUAL: “Collaborative Measurement of Internet Quality in Lebanon”

PGP Key Signing

  • Facilitator: Nishal Goburdhan (PCH)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Closing Plenary

  • Facilitator: Osama Al-Dosary (MENOG)
  • Tagepedia: Ramez Quneibi (Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization)
  • Lightning Talks
    1. IPScoring – request for feedback: Elvis Daniel Velea
    2. Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy: Fahd A. Batayneh
    3. Network Operations and Academia: Better Together: Zakaria Al-Qudah
    4. IPv4 Transfers: Elvis Daniel Velea
    5. Internationalized Domain Names: Abdalmonem Tharwat Ibrahim
    6. Deploy360: Chris Grundemann
  • Open Mic – MENOG Future
  • Closing Remarks: Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC
  • Closing Remarks: Osama Al-Dosary, MENOG Chair