Second day of RIPE NCC Moscow conference was opened by Mr. Pavel Khramtsov’s (MSK-IX) presentation. In his paper he demonstrated comparative analysis of domain names registration in ccTLDs .RU, .SU и .РФ. The speaker provided a detailed description of each domain and drew the audience’s attention to the fact that up todate hosting projects take slightly over 50% in ccTLD .RU. At the same time, different future awaits for all these domains: ccTLD .RU, in Mr. Khramtsov’s judgment, very shortly will be verified to a large extent, ccTLD .SU, according to the speaker, will be “reincarnated”, and the “young” ccTLD .РФ is at the threshold of rapid start и счет идет уже на дни.
Mr. Andrey Robachevsky (RIPE NCC) continued with his presentation the morning session. He shared with conference participants latest news on IAB/IETF activity. The speaker provided a detailed report on how today Internet standards – RFC are being developed, which number over 5000 up todate. Mr. Robachevsky’s presentation focused on IAB/IETF activities in creating and developing IDN-domains.
Mr. Axel Pawlik and other RIPE NCC officials ended the morning session with a short improvised seminar on current RIPE NCC activity and on contemporary trends.
Two conference sessions were held simultaneously: IPv6 seminar and IXP session. Participants of IPv6 seminar reached an agreement that implementation of IPv6 is inevitable and it will take place within the next few years. At the same time, today IPv6 remains practically as non-demanded technology which got into a “vicious circle”. On the one hand, registrants have no possibility to purchase equipment for IPv6 use because there are no producers of final equipment and, on the other hand, vendors do not produce this type of equipment due to lack of demand. Interestingly that practically all large networks are practically ready to IPv6 transition, however, nobody knows how much time it really will require.
At the session dedicated to the Internet Exchange Points (IXP) functioning, participants from overseas exchanged opinion in the sphere of construction and development of IX in their countries. Heated discussion was aroused by moderator’s question regarding how many IXPs should one country have: one or more. For example, Mrs. Kurtis Lindquist from Netnod Co. (Sweden) thinks that major indicator for IX efficiency is not the traffic volume or number of clients but the level of service of local Internet-community interests. That’s exactly why there are 5 IXPs in Sweden. Two IX function in Amsterdam, one of which serves locals traffic and the other – international one.
Connectivity aroused large interest of the conference participants. It happened that speakers at this session were representatives of “the nearly big three”: Mr. Vadim Vankov (Akado-Telekom), Mr. Andrey Alexeev (Komstar-OTS) and Mr. Alexander Teremetsky (Vympelkom-Sovintel). There presentations aroused heated discussion on the future of telecommunications operators and on whether the Internet will be able to remain on the fast track as it happens today. It turned out that unprecedented growth of traffic during last two years in fact paralyzes the Internet and surging demand for operators’ services makes operators’ functioning practically unprofitable: high growth of traffic requires annual investments in channels and equipment upgrading and these costs have no time to be recompensed. Way out is to change the model of relations between service providers and content-providers, however this model needs to be invented.
Experts on DDoS-attacks representing largest service providers discussed the issue of DDoS-attacks at the end of the second day of the conference. In the course of discussion session participants came to a conclusion that DDoS-attacks turn out to be more diverse and there is not single protection mechanism from these attacks. More and more attacks are directed at clients’ attachments and at this level efficient protection is viable solely in close cooperation between operators and clients.
Second day of RIPE NCC Moscow conference ended with review of global NOG meetings presented by Mr. Philip Smith. “New NOG appears in various regions of the globe, which means that we have something to discuss,” – noted the speaker. Mr. Paul Rendek from RIPE NCC called the Moscow conference “neutral platform for an open discussion” and noted that these conferences held over seven years in reality formed Russian NOG and that Russia needs to participate in NOG meetings. Idea of creating Russian NOG and holding meetings under its auspices received a lively response of the audience.
