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)