The meeting was attended by 50 people representing ISPs, network operators, universities, and content providers. Three ISPs came from Syria in order to attend the workshop.
The workshop was dedicated to best practices in setting up and operating Internet Exchange Points. It was facilitated by four international experts who shared their experiences setting up Internet Exchanges and answered questions from the audience:
- Jane Coffin, Internet Society
- Nick Hilliard, INEX
- Hisham Ibrahim, RIPE NCC
- Bijal Sanghani, EURO-IX
The experts met with officials at the Ministry of Telecommunications and Ogero who shared with the experts their vision of transforming the Beirut IX into a regional Internet hub. The officials also shared their desire for a neutral and open IXP structure that can be used by all legal entities desiring to peer together and keep local traffic within the country.
The Internet Society played the role of a neutral advisor to help the Ministry of Telecommunications put a roadmap for evolving the current IXP of Lebanon into a neutral one able to grow and attract content providers. ISOC also played the role of coordinator by starting the national dialogue with all active stakeholders.
Agenda
This Workshop was held in Collaboration between the the Internet Society, the European Internet Exchange Association, the RIPE-NCC, and with the participation of the Irish Neutral Exchange Association Ltd.
Friday 24 March – 2pm – 6pm | |
IXP Video (in Arabic) | Bijal Sanghani |
Why Peer – Benefits of Peering | Nick Hilliard |
Successful Peering Stories | Jane Coffin |
IXP Community Development(Governance/Development) | Bijal Sanghani |
Saturday 25 March – 9am – 3pm | |
RIPE Atlas Anchors and Why Measurement Analyses are Important | Hisham Ibrahim |
RIPE NCC – Getting your own Resources | Hisham Ibrahim |
Technical and Practical IXP Best Practices (BGP, IPv6, DNSSEC all) | Jane Coffin |
Tools and databases | Bijal Sanghani |
Introduction to BGP | Nick Hilliard |
Presentations
BGP Best Practice at IXPs – Nick Hilliard