The program

Schedule

First Tour Bus
10:00 - 10:30

This is a bus sightseeing tour of Berlin, lunch will be provided at the Tower Bell at 12:30 followed by a tour of the NSA listening station starting at 2pm. Expect to arrive back at the hotel at 5pm.

*There are limited number of spaces on the tour bus. 

Second Tour Bus
12:30 - 13:00

The second bus will first go to the Tower Bell where lunch will be provided at 12:30 followed by a tour of the NSA listening station starting at 2pm. Expect to arrive back at the hotel at 5pm.

*There are limited number of spaces on the tour bus. 

IXP Manager Workshop
17:00 - 19:00

Following the success of the IXP Manager Workshop in Marseille, Barry & Nick from INEX will be back with a second workshop.

If you are interested in joining please contact secretariat@euro-ix.net as there is limited space.

The workshop will take place at the Melia Hotel in room Palma II.

( 40 minutes )
IXP Manager Workshop
Barry O'Donovan
Internet Neutral Exchange Association
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Sunday Social
19:00 - 22:00

The Sunday social will take place in the hotel tapas bar, drinks and a buffet style meal will be provided.

 

Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Welcome
09:00 - 09:30
  • Explanation of Forum Programme
  • Welcome from Bijal Sanghani (Secretary General)
  • Welcome from Forum Hosts BCIX and ECIX
Introductions
09:30 - 10:00

One representative from each newly affiliated IXP or prospective member IXP will be asked to introduce themselves and give a very brief summary of developments/issues within their IXP.

Our Members, Patrons and Guests will then be given the opportunity to do the same.

Euro-IX Update
10:00 - 10:30
( 30 minutes )
Euro-IX Update
Bijal Sanghani
Euro-IX
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Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
General Session
11:00 - 12:30

Greg Hankins - Session Chair

Link to lastest version of the NERA paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2680186

( 15 minutes )
Beirut-IX: Challenges & Opportunities
Nicolas Rouhana
Beirut Internet Exchange
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( 30 minutes )
Competition Economics of Interconnection Data Centres
Frank Maier-Rigaud
NERA Economic Consulting
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( 10 minutes )
Euro-IX Forum Programme Commitee (FPC) Update
Greg Hankins
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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( )
The IX-F Response to the ITU Consultation on IXP Best Practices
Malcolm Hutty
Euro-IX
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General Meeting Part 1
12:30 - 13:00

Chair: Ondrej Filip

Last call for Executive Board Nominations

  1. Opening of 29th General Meeting
  2. Agenda approval
  3. Approval of 28th General Meeting minutes
  4. Address from all board nominees

Closing Part 1 of the General Meeting

( 20 minutes )
General Meeting Part 1
Ondřej Filip
NIX.CZ
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Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Automation at IXPs
14:00 - 15:30

Greg Hankins - Session Chair

( Lightning Talk )
A Sociable Day Out
Trefor Davies
London Network Access Point
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( )
PeeringDB 2.0
Greg Hankins
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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( Lightning Talk )
SFMIX's use of DevOps Methods
Matt Peterson
San Francisco Internet eXchange
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( )
Taming the Floods of Maintenance Notifications
Barry O'Donovan
Internet Neutral Exchange Association
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( 10 minutes )
The 101 of 100G Interoperability
Thomas Weible
FLEXOPTIX GmbH
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Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Technical Session
16:00 - 17:00

Greg Hankins - Session Chair

( )
A New Traffic Measurement System for DE-CIX Using Open Source Technology
Thomas King
DE-CIX Management GmbH
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( )
Internet Draft about "BLACKHOLE BGP Community for Blackholing": Status Update
Thomas King
DE-CIX Management GmbH
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( )
TouSIX an SDN Fabric in Production
Marc Bruyere
Le GIX de la grande region Toulousaine
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Patron Round Table
17:00 - 18:00

For Patrons only, a round table meeting with Euro-IX staff and board members to provide feedback, and to talk about about needs and expectations.  Room Palma II.

Monday Dinner at Berliner Fernsehturm
19:30 - 23:00
  • Gathering in the hotel - 19:30
  • 20 min walk to Berliner Fernsehturm at Alexanderplatz
  • Arrival at restaurant - 20:00
    • Welcome drinks
  • Dinner starts - 20:30
  • Make your way back to hotel - 23:00
Access to meeting room
08:00 - 09:00
Tools Tutorial
09:00 - 10:00

Aleksi Suhonen - Session Chair

( 40 minutes )
Automating IXP Device Configurations with Ansible
Elisa Jasinska
BigWave IT
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Segment Routing 101
10:00 - 10:30

Aleksi Suhonen - Session Chair

( )
Introduction to SPRING (Segment Routing)
Julian Lucek
Juniper Networks
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Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Technical Session
11:00 - 12:15

Aleksi Suhonen - Session Chair

( )
Peering Observations 2007 vs. 2015
Greg Hankins
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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( )
Routeserver Filtering at IXPs
Bernhard Hahn
DE-CIX Management GmbH
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( )
Traffic Volume Dependencies of Two Major IXPs
Thomas King
DE-CIX Management GmbH
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General Meeting Part 2
12:15 - 13:00

Chair: Ondrej Filip

  1. Budget for 2016
  2. Standing down of Board members
  3. Executive Board Elections
    • Explanation of voting system (STV)
    • Ballot
    • Ballot count and results
  4. Euro-IX Governance 
  5. Any other business
  6. Next General Meeting
( 30 minutes )
General Meeting Part 2
Ondřej Filip
NIX.CZ
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Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Customer Views
14:00 - 14:45

Rob Lister - Session Chair

( 20 minutes )
Customer Views
Timothy Creswick
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General Session
14:45 - 16:00

Rob Lister - Session Chair

Exploring the regulatory conditions of internet interconnection survey URL: https://pad.okfn.org/p/interconnection

( )
How Trust and Distrust Among Networkers Shape Connectivity
Uta Meier-Hahn
Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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( 15 minutes )
Peering into the Future
Andy Davidson
London Network Access Point
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Lightning Talks
16:00 - 16:30

Rob Lister - Session Chair

( Lightning Talk )
Brief Introduction of GoBGP: Yet Another OSS BGPd
Katsuyasu Toyama
Japan Network Access Point
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( )
Current Status of OpenBSD / OpenBGPd
Peter Hessler
OpenBSD
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( Lightning Talk )
EPF11 Update
Ben Hedges
London Internet Exchange Ltd., The
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( Lightning Talk )
IX.br Participants Diversity
Eduardo Reis
NIC.br
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Raspberry Pi
John Souter
London Internet Exchange Ltd., The
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( Lightning Talk )
Switch Wishlists Again
Alexander Ilin
MSK-IX
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Closing
16:30 - 17:00
BIRD Tutorial
17:00 - 18:00

Presented by Ondrej Filip and Ondrej Zajicek.

  • BIRD Introduction
  • Basic Usage
  • BGP Setup
  • Route Server Setup
  • Advanced Route Filtering
( 40 minutes )
BIRD Tutorial
Ondřej Zajíček
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