Agenda

MENOG 17 Programme

Day Zero (18 April 2017)

Crowne Plaza Muscat
Al Khanjar Room

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Tropicana Restaurant
14:00 – 15:30 Middle East IXPs Meeting (open)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Middle East IXPs Meeting (by invitation only)

 

Plenary Day 1 (19 April 2017)

Crowne Plaza Muscat
Al Sinbad A&B Room

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 10:30 Opening Session (Moderator: Khalid Samara)
  • Welcoming Speech
    – Mr. Mohammed Al-Ismaili, Vice President Regulatory and Compliance Unit, TRA
  • Welcoming Speech and Update from the RIPE NCC
    – Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC
  • Welcoming Speech
    – Raul Echeberria, Internet Society (ISOC)
  • Building a Global Network
    – Salim Al Mazrui, Omantel
  • Introduction to Peering Bilaterals and Negotiations – What You Need to Know
    – Thomas Volmer, Google
  • Peering Introductions
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Peering and Interconnection (Moderator: Hisham Ibrahim)
  • BGP Routing Table
    – Anurag Bhatia, Hurricane Electric (HE)
  • PCH 2016 Survey of Interconnection Agreements
    – Nishal Goburdhan, Packet Clearing House (PCH)
  • Isolario – the Real-time Internet Routing Observatory
    – Alessandro Improta, Isolario Project (IIT-CNR)
  • Peering Introductions
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch: Al Mandaloon Room
14:00 – 15:30 Peering and Content (Moderator: Nishal Goburdhan)
  • Missed Peering Opportunities in the Middle East
    – Johan ter Beest, RIPE NCC
  • Content and Peering in the Middle East (Panel)
    Marco Brandstaetter, UAE-IX
    Mohammed Yahia, Etisalat
    Miraj Rajan, Zain Group
    Bassam Al-Drewesh, ITC
    Thomas Volmer, Google
    Samir Abdel-Hafez, Netflix
    MBC – Shahid.net
  • Peering Instructions
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Research and Interconnection (Moderator: Chafic Chaya)
  • Research and Education e-Infrastructures in the Arab Region
    – Yousef Torman, Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN)
  • The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI)
    – Gergana Petrova, RIPE NCC
  • IPv6 CGAs: Balancing Between Security, Privacy and Usability
    – Ahmad Alsadeh, Birzeit University (RACI)
  • Analyzing Various Internet Metrics Over Time in GCC Countries and Yemen
    – Abdulsalam Alkholidi, Sana’a Univesity (RACI)

 

Plenary Day 2 (20 April 2017)

Crowne Plaza Muscat
Al Sinbad B Room

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 11:00 IPv6 (Moderator: Aftab Siddiqui)
  • IPv4 Transfers 5 Years after Runout
    – Elvis Daniel Velea, V4Escrow
  • A CDN’s Perspective on IPv6 Adoption in the Middle East
    – Marty Strong, CloudFlare.
  • Du – IPv6 Deployment Plans
    – Tarek Fouad, Du
  • NAT64/DNS64 Real Life Experiments; Warnings and One Useful Tool
    – Jan Zorz, Internet Society (ISOC)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 DNS (Moderator: Fahd Batayneh)
  • DNS Technologies for Resiliency
    – Eric Ziegast, Farsight Security
  • DNSSEC KSK Rollover
    – Champika Wijayatunga, ICANN
12:30 – 13:30 Closing Session (Moderator: Osama Al-Dosary)
  • VXLAN – Design and Deployment
    – Aftab Siddiqui, Internet Society (ISOC)
  • Lighting Talks
    • ‘NetNite’ Building Beirut’s Technical Community
      – Nelly Baz, Internet Society Chapter, Lebanon
    • Searching for Moderators for ISOC Online Tutorials
      – Salam Yamout, Internet Society (ISOC)
    • Supporting Unconditionally Secure Authentication within E-Government Infrastructure Based on QKD
      – Sufyan Faraj Al-Janabi, University of Anbar (RACI)
    • User Interference Effect on Routing of Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Networks
      – Tauqeer Safdar, Higher College of Technology (RACI)
    • Anonymization of Network Traces Using Differential Privacy
      – Ahmed AlEroud, Yarmouk University (RACI)
  • MENOG New Logo and Website Unveil
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch: Al Mandaloon Room