ENOG 13\/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting took place from 23-24 May 2017 at the Hotel Park Inn Pulkovskaya in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. A total of 356 attendees from 24 countries participated in the event, 272 of them from Russia.<\/p>\n
The meeting was hosted by the RIPE NCC and MSK-IX and was sponsored by Netnod, ISOC, TCI, DDoS-Guard and GlobalNet.<\/p>\n
Before the meeting officially opened, tutorials were available to attendees. The first tutorial, run by the RIPE NCC, covered techniques and use cases concerning RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat. Two other tutorials were devoted to SDN topics: one by Dmitry Dementiev, Cisco, described Segment Routing and currently growing SDN-technology, while the second by Evgeny Zobnitsev, Factor Group, explained an NetConf\/YANG approach in the OpenDaylight SDN solution. The last tutorial by Anton Baskov clarified the PGP Key Signing procedure.<\/p>\n
ENOG 13 was officially opened by RIPE NCC Managing Director Axel Pawlik, who welcomed participants and thanked the ENOG Programme Committee (PC) and the meeting sponsors. Elena Voronina, CEO of MSK-IX, invited contributions to the free paper journal \u201cInternet Inside\u201d, a project of MSK-IX. Sergey Myasoedov, ENOG PC Chair, reported the role of the PC and described some future changes in the ENOG meeting format, encouraging everyone to participate in ENOG 14 in Minsk.<\/p>\n
The morning\u2019s tutorials contributed to the overall tone of the event, as SDN and measurements became the main topics of the meeting\u2019s discussions, alongside IP Transit, Peering, Security and DNS.<\/p>\n
IP Transit on a global scale was discussed during the first plenary: APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston\u2019s presentation on the economics of telecommunications predicted the death of IP transit as content providers encroach on the sphere of network infrastructure. Alexander Azimov, Qrator Labs, presented an opposing thesis to Geoff, using BGP to argue that increasing globalisation of the Internet means failures of connectivity are common problems among all operators.<\/p>\n
After the break, the focus moved to IXPs, with a sizeable panel that included the following contributors:<\/p>\n
Martin Semrad, NIX.CZ, pointed out that there seem to be 54 IXPs in the ENOG region, though many of them do not exist anymore. He encouraged everybody to update their data in PeeringDB regularly.<\/p>\n
The topic of measurements returned with Alexander Stepanov, InData Foundation, who described how InData maintains a repository of the routing information in Russia, researches the interconnectivity of Russian operators and identifies routing anomalies.<\/p>\n
Alexander Isavnin, the Open Net, discussed Internet measurement hackathons organised by the Open Net association. Some projects born during these events include:<\/p>\n
Leonid Evdokimov (OONI, The Tor Project) introduced two measurement projects: OONI and blockcheck. Both projects monitor state mechanisms for Internet content filtration in different countries (Russia, Ukraine, Egypt etc.) and have provided evidence of malware distribution by those mechanisms.<\/p>\n
SDN technology was covered in several presentations. Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Packet Design, described a scalable and reliable way to manage tunnels by combining the Segment Routing approach with YANG technique.<\/p>\n
Alex Semenyaka, RIPE NCC, demonstrated extremely large deployments of IPv6 around the world and constructed a case for such deployment as a money-saving strategy.<\/p>\n
DNS was a major topic of discussion at the meeting. Johan Ihren, Netnod, discussed the importance of DNS Anycast for enterprises, given new challenges from DDoS attacks to necessity in flexibility. He went on to predict the explosive growth of API-based \u201cDNS Anycast As A Service\u201d.<\/p>\n
Dmitrii Kovalenko, MSK-IX, shared his practical experience of stress-testing the Anycast DNS-Cloud of MSK-IX, concluding that to provide the stability of DNS services it is necessary to have Anycast architecture, continuous monitoring and regular stress-tests.<\/p>\n
Jim Reid, RTFM LLP, analysed the name collision problem for new TLDs, presenting statistics that detected widespread misconfiguration issues.<\/p>\n
Richard Lamb, ICANN, covered DNSSEC Deployment and KSK rollover process, concluding that although DNSSEC is indispensable, there are some obstacles for its deployment.<\/p>\n
Security of DNS was also considered during the ISP Security Roundtable, moderated by Artyom Gavrichenkov, Qrator Labs. The participants asserted that DNSSEC is the crucial part of the information security model, but they also suggested operators pay more attention to the protection of the infrastructure and act together to share the information about vulnerabilities and incidents.<\/p>\n
Axel Pawlik\u2019s RIPE NCC Update presentation included confirmation of the changes in the frequency of future ENOG Meetings. In the open mic session following his presentation, Axel received feedback from the audience on several RIPE NCC services. There was also some discussion regarding the handling and complexity of transfer applications to authenticate documentation and avoid fraud. The RIPE NCC confirmed that, if suspicious transactions are detected, this is reported to local Dutch authorities as potential fraud.<\/p>\n
There were questions on if and how the RIPE NCC monitors unallocated address space. The RIPE NCC replied this had been part of the process for the past 15 years, and that any returned address space is carefully checked and monitored.<\/p>\n
The RIPE NCC also acknowledged that it takes approximately five months to reallocate address space following the termination of an LIR.<\/p>\n
Following the RIPE NCC\u2019s decision regarding future ENOG Meetings, the informal BoF, \u201cWe are a community!\u201d featured a proposal from the local ENOG community on how to continue with two or more meetings a year either partially subsidised or fully independent of the RIPE NCC’s support was discussed.<\/p>\n
It was followed with inconclusive debate and may be discussed further in the future. In a related discussion, Maxim Burtikov, RIPE NCC, explained the reasons behind the RIPE NCC\u2019s decision. Opinions were shared on this decision. Some attendees believed there is no need for two meetings but a greater need exists for better quality of presentations and content.<\/p>\n
The meeting presentations were given in English and Russian. On-site translation facilities were provided to attendees. The presentations, and links to the videos on YouTube, are available on the archives page<\/a>.<\/p>\n The RIPE NCC also requested feedback from attendees on how it could improve further meetings.<\/p>\n