The LINX108 member conference and EGM will take place at the Park Plaza Victoria, in London on Monday 24th February 2020.

Registration

Registration for the LINX108 member conference is now open.

If you are not a LINX member but would like to attend please email us at register@linx.net.

Meeting Tool

For LINX108 we will again be using a system whereby delegates can arrange 30 minute peering meetings with one another in a dedicated meeting area. Everyone registered for LINX108 will be subscribed to the online meeting tool and will receive email notifications from register@linx.net with details of how to access the facility. The email will also the option to unsubscribe from the tool.

Attendee List

The LINX108 attendee list for this event will be viewable on the LINX member portal.

Please note that a member log-in to the portal is required to gain access.

Connectivity

We provide wireless connectivity (ssid=linx) during the event. Search for the ‘linx’ network and key the password ‘linx-meeting’. Please don’t hack, snoop, or otherwise do anything that would detrimental to other users.

Meeting Sponsors

Headline Sponsor

TBC

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

TBC

Meeting Sponsorship

If you would like to sponsor LINX108 or an upcoming meeting, please read more about our  Sponsorship Packages.

Additional Information

• Unlike previous events LINX108 is a one day meeting with a networking social on the Monday evening
• The Park Plaza Victoria is a no smoking zone and in the event of a fire alarm, please vacate the room by the nearest marked exit
• Members are encouraged to provide lightning talks on their networks with these often taking place before a refreshment or lunch break. Please speak to a member of the LINX team if you would like to get involved in this
• Refreshments will be available from 9.15am for the pre scheduled peering meetings with a light lunch scheduled at 1.00pm
• The meeting commences at 10.00pm with day one closing at approximately 5.30pm
• The official event social begins at 5.45pm at a location to be announced

LINX108 Feedback

We encourage all attendees to give their feedback after attending the event. During the afternoon a link will be posted to the LINX108 survey. Attendees who complete the form will be entered into a prize draw for one of four £25 Amazon vouchers.

Draft Agenda

As announced in November LINX are trialing a more condensed one day event programme for its February member meeting. The agenda structure for LINX108 is shown below with the full topic details and speakers for each session to be made available shortly.

With registration opening on Monday 13th January we wanted members to see how the day is expected to run so they can play their day appropriately. In summary…

• Morning session: LINX operational, network, governance and regulatory presentations by staff plus headline sponsor
• Afternoon session: External talks including member technical talks, guest IXPs, panel sessions and gold and silver sponsors

Please note that timings and content shown below is still subject to change but any alterations will be announced by all the usual social media channels.

Monday

Session

Speaker

9:00 AM

Registration Opens

• Refreshments available
• Free wireless connectivity available

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10:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

• Housekeeping & agenda bashing
• Promotion of the sponsors

Jeremy Orbell

10:05 AM

CEO update

Kurtis Lindqvist

10:30 AM

LINX Operations

• General update inc. EGM preview and billing

Malcolm Holt

10:40 AM

LINX Technology update

• CTO overview
• Projects
• Service issues
• Network developments
• Tooling and Services

Richard Petrie
& Mike Hellers

11:15 AM

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11:45 AM

Public Affairs update

Malcolm Hutty

12:20 PM

Headline sponsor TBC

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12:35 PM

Introduction to new LINX Chairman, Pieter Knook

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13:00 PM

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14:00 PM

Member presentation TBC

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14:30 PM

Extraordinary General Meeting, including:

• Voting on appointment of new LINX Chairman

Simon Woodhead

14:35 PM

Associate member presentation: Team Cymru / TC-UK Internet Security

James Shank

14:50 PM

BGP Telemetry
In network engineering there is a subtle difference between “it works” and “it appears to work”. BGP is no exception to this – it is universally deployed building block for a multitude of network services, and yet it may be difficult to get insight into the actual operation of BGP, even more so in the case of possible malicious or unintentional problems. Over time network engineering community has developed practices and tools that would allow for some insight into the operation of BGP, but the state and fragmentation of those practices certainly could be better. IETF has produced a telemetry mechanism for BGP monitoring – BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP).

This talk will provide a brief overview of BGP monitoring domain problem space, take a quick look at available mechanisms prior to BGP, provide the motivation for the new protocol and the overall concept of routing protocol telemetry, and discuss possible practical use cases of BMP. In addition there will be an overview of the results of BMP implementation interoperability testing that has been ongoing during IETF meetings.

Ignas Bagdonas

15:15 PM

Gold sponsor presentation: Telent

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15:25 PM

Silver sponsor presentation TBC

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15:30 PM

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16:00 PM

Update on DNS over HTTPS – standards, browsers, resolvers, ISP trials & impact areas
This presentation will provide an update on status of DNS over HTTPS within the IETF, summary on latest browser and OS adoption plans, cloud / ISP resolver support, early observations from BT’s DoH trial and key impact areas requiring further industry engagement.

Your speaker will be Andy Fidler, Principal Network Architect at BT Technology

Andy Fidler

16:25 PM

RIPE Policy update
In his regular member conference presentation Nigel Titley will explain progress on RIPE policy

Nigel Titley

16:35 PM

Guest IXP presentation: France-IX
An update on developments at the Paris exchange with an overview of what’s happening in the French telecoms market.

Franck Simon

17:00 PM

The IXPDB and other Euro-IX Activities
In this presentation Bijal Sanghani will give an update on some of Euro-IX’s activities. This will include the IXPDB and tools, workshops and outcomes an update on Euro-IX route server projects and the Peering Toolbox.

Bijal Sanghani

17:15 PM

Member presentation TBC

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17:45 PM

LINX108 Round Up & Close
What have we learned, call for any last comments and feedback form filling for a chance to win one of four £25 Amazon vouchers

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17:45 PM

LINX108 Social

The social will be held at a venue close to the Park Plaza Victoria and is free to attend to guests and all delegates who attend the LINX108 event in person.

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