The 2nd day of the ENOG meeting was opened by the panel “Net security” moderated by Andrei Robachevsky, ISOC. The panel participants discussed various technical aspects of ensuring net security. Specifically, Shane Kerr, ISC, briefed on the SIE (Security Information Exchange) platform designed for the centralized exchange of information and ensuring exchange security. The panelists focused on the theme of classification and analysis of modern DDos attacks. Two presenters addressed this issue: Alexander Lyamin, XTEN, elaborated on what DDos attacks constitute today and what trends can be observed in this respect. He spoke about the increased size and magnitude of attacks, as well as about the new varieties of botnets. Yaroslav Rosomakho, Arbor Networks, submitted to the panel participants a regular corporate report on the situation with DDos attacks in Russia and worldwide and demonstrated what threats in this sphere the Internet community will face in the near future. Sergey Myasoedov in his presentation touched upon the theme of DNSsec in ISP and in corporate networks.
The issue of IXP t is a traditional one at Moscow RIPE NCC meetings, and this theme did not escape the ENOG meeting participants’ notice this time either. At the panel “Internet Exchange Points” moderated by Elena Voronina, CEO of MSK-IX, presenters focused on issues of the building an IXP and its evolution. Specifically, Andy Davidson, Hurricane Electric/LONAP, elaborated on what challenges a company, which decided to start its IX, may face. He accentuated not only technical details of starting an IXP but the financial, legal and even psychological peculiarities, which should be taken into account by any organization, which has decided to take this step. “The most important thing is to form a community, which will network through IX!” - said he. Arnold Nipper, DE CIX, followed him by answering the question, “What is to be done if we grow?” and described options of IXP evolution in a situation where the volume of traffic surged by 300% per annum. Alexander Ilin, Technical Director, MSM-IX elaborated in his presentation on the evolution of the Moscow IX forecasted that IXP will evolve towards a higher speed and development of customer services, significant expansion of the IX geography-wise, ultimately, an increased number of remote connections.
Leonid Todorov, Deputy CEO of the Coordination Center for TLD RU, moderated the panel on Internet Governance. Igor Khimchenko, Acting Director of the Department of Formation and Development of Information Society of the RF Ministry of Telecommunications and Mass Media, elaborated in his opening address on the government program “Information Society” set for implementation over the period of 2011-2020. He asserted that in 2011, the state will increase its presence on the Internet markedly: thanks to a single technological platform, government agencies will be able to create their own typical sites, and citizens will be able to get a wider range of public services via Internet. Today, the Single portal of the state and municipal services has already been created; a law on electronic signatures was adopted. The Government also supports incorporation of the free license principle into the law of the Russian Federation. Mikhail Yakushev, Deputy Director of Mail.Ru Group, spoke about urgent challenges in the Internet regulation area. Specifically, M. Yakushev reckons that the law is not the only mechanism in Internet governance, and regulation should not encompass all the areas therein. At the end, the panel moderator, Leonid Todorov, shared experience gained during a wide panel discussion on the Internet development scenarios, which took place at the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) in May this year in Moscow.
Panel “IPv4/IPv6: Transition Technologies” was opened by the panel moderator, Shane Kerr, who reminded the audience that tomorrow, on 8 June, the World IPv6 Day will be held: “Further Internet development is possible only in the case of correct transition to the IPv6 protocol, and tomorrow, in many ways, will help us to disseminate knowledge about this protocol and overcome some ill feelings.” Marco Hogewoning, co-chair of the ad-hoc group in IPv6 RIPE NCC, spoke about RIPE NCC’s activities regarding promotion and proliferation of the IPv6 protocol. He also briefed the audience on progress with dissemination of the ripe501 document, which comprises requirements to running IPv6 on ICT equipment.
Presentation by Christian Kaufmann, Akamai, aroused much interest among the attendees. He elaborated on a major global distribution network’s IPv6 rollout plan of. Interestingly, transition will start tomorrow when Akamai, together with other major content providers, will make their resources IPv6 accessible and already offer two protocol- supported content for clients. Andrey Idlis, Cisco, centered upon the reasons behind the delayed transition to IPv6 and cited both technological and economic ones, among others. “Introduction of IPv6 will not raise ARPU per client, and, consequently, operators will strive to minimize costs for this period.”
The panel on DNS, which was moderated by Julia Ovchinnikova, Coordination Center for TLD RU, and Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC, was opened by Peter Andreev, Technical Center of Internet, who continued with the issue of the previous panel and highlighted on the record of implementation of the IPv6 protocol in DNS networks in Russia. So far the IPv6-enabled traffic has been low and come to only 1-5% of the overall volume of traffic; besides, practically all IPv6-enabled traffic comes from Moscow and St Petersburg. But, nevertheless, statistics demonstrate that the volume of such traffic is constantly growing. His colleague, Dmitry Kovalenko, described the situation with DNSSEC implementation in the DNS infrastructure. He argued that the TCI together with MSK-IX created a functional pilot zone DNSSEC and, as of today, are about to launch implementation of DNSSEC throughout the Russian segment of the Internet. In his presentation, Shane Kerr introduced a new BIND 10 version and described benefits the transition to it for the users. The Technical Center of Internet was one of the sponsors of the new version of this popular software. Dmitry Kohmanyuk, UA Hostmaster, was the last on the panel with his account of the Ukrainian national registry UA’s performance.
