Last week, November 27 through December 1, Rome hosted the 87th conference of the RIPE community. The event brought together 557 participants in-person, with another 171 joining online. The list of participants included experts from the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ.
The participants discussed internet stability and resiliency, development of policies for regional internet registrars, and measures to combat the illegal use of DNS and other current issues.
In particular, the issues of compliance of the physical location of IPv4 network prefixes with the regions to which they were allocated were considered. According to data presented by Rob Beverly (CMAND), the compliance rate is 98.1 percent in the RIPE region. Raffaele Sommese (University of Twente) reported on progress in achieving transparency in ccTLD zone data. According to Sommese, more than half of all ccTLDs are already transparent in releasing information about them.
The participants shared their experience in creating big data platforms with open source code, as Christian Petrasсh (DE-CIX) said; they also discussed the specifics of using IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, which was also the topic of Jen Linkova’s speech (Google); and they also listened to a short course in astrophysics from Jeff Houston (APNIC), who presented an analysis of the Starlink satellite constellation operation.
The notable working group sessions included a session dedicated to the development of the Internet of Things ecosystem and strengthening their security. At the IoT working group meeting, Anna Maria Mandalari spoke about strengthening the IoT ecosystem by exploring the privacy and security implications of IoT protection, and Eric van Uden (AVM) shared information about Matter, a new protocol for the smart home.
The session on the activities of the Eurasian Group of Network Operators (ENOG) was also noteworthy. This group was primarily involved in supporting the development of the internet in the post-Soviet space, but has now effectively ceased this work. The session participants discussed the reasons for this and expressed their opinions on the possibility of re-integrating the ENOG region into the RIPE community while expanding this region to Central Asia.
The review of measures planned and taken by the European Union to regulate the internet was among the key topics. The participants also discussed the process of developing policies for regional internet registrars, proposed measures to combat the abuse of domain names, and analyzed the activities of the RIPE NCC.
During the final day of the conference, the Pulse Project was presented: it monitors interruptions in the global network and assesses the economic damage caused by these interruptions. In general, the topic of stability and fault tolerance on the internet was very popular; this clearly demonstrates the growing interest in the activities of the RIPE NCC and the importance of the role of regional internet registrars.
The next RIPE NCC will take place in Krakow, Poland, in May 2024.
