Daily recap

Thursday, May 21st, began with the following five parallel activities: FLIP6, the LACTLD meeting, LAC-IX, the CSIRTs meeting, and the Public Policy Forum. 

Latin American IPv6 Forum (FLIP 6)

FLIP6, the Latin American IPv6 Forum, seeks to promote and encourage IPv6 adoption throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The Forum also promotes sharing experiences in the implementation of IPv6-based services and applications in our region.

Leading international experts participated in the Forum and presented on topics relating to security, business cases, corporate networks, mobile broadband, as well as success stories and techniques for transitioning to the new IPv6 protocol.

Gregorio Manzano kicked off the meeting with his presentation on a community initiative aimed at deploying IPv6 in Venezuela. Then, Kathleen Moriarty spoke of IETF CodeMatch and Fernando Gont spoke of the recent advances in IPv6 security. To conclude, Mariela Rocha presented an update on the IPv6 Portal.

LACTLD Meeting

The LACTLD policy workshop began with Sven Kivvistik's presentation on risk management, followed by César Vilchez, who spoke about network security regulations in Peru.

During the afternoon, a panel discussed various approaches to cybersecurity and ccTLDs.

Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Computer Security Incident Response Teams

This meeting has become a space for Latin American and Caribbean actors to share security-related issues. This sharing of knowledge among participants aims at strengthening the region in terms of computer security incident prevention and impact mitigation.

The meeting took place in the Limatambo 1 room and addressed the following topics:

Cristine Hoepers and Klaus Steding-Jessen (CERT.br/NIC.br): Compromised CPEs and Rogue DNS Servers: Attacks and Response Challenges
Julio César Balderrama (Framework NIST ISACA): A Strategy for Cybersecurity
Eduardo Carozo (CPAP, School of Engineering, UdelaR): Contents and topics that  must be addressed during a CSIRT's initial training
Elgeline Martis (CARICERT)
LACNIC Public Policy Forum

Just hours after announcing his resignation tenure, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé made a presentation during which he spoke of the next steps in the IANA functions transition process. He also highlighted the current relationship between the RIRs, ICANN, and other organizations that are part of the Internet ecosystem. 

After this presentation, a LACNIC Region Representative to the ASO Address Council was elected. Esteban Lescano and Ricardo Patara were the two candidates running for the position; in the end, Ricardo received the highest number of votes and was elected our region's representative. 

Three parallel meetings took place after lunch: the Network Security Forum, the LACTLD meeting, and the Peering tutorial.

LACSEC - The Network Security Forum

The goal of LACSEC, the Network Security Forum, is to provide a space for network security stakeholders to meet and discuss concrete actions and coordinate regional network security projects.

During this meeting, both regional and extra-regional experts presented their points of view. Kathleen Moriarty shared her thoughts on promoting security and privacy and the effects of ubiquitous encryption. Javier Romero made his presentation titled Triangulating a Digital Attacker's IP Address. Juan Dávila then talked about developing national cybersecurity strategies and the protection of critical infrastructure.

The meeting's final speaker was Gabriel Lazo, who explained the anatomy of a computer security attack.

Peering Tutorial

Instructors: Arturo Servín, Google / Christian O'Flaherty, ISOC / Carlos Martínez, LACNIC

This tutorial analyzed the basics of traffic exchange, peering, and CDNs, and discussed their business relationships as well as other relevant technical aspects. Specific topics addressed in this workshop included how, who with, and where to implement peering relationships, what kind of traffic exchanges should be used, how network traffic should be analyzed in order to make better interconnection decisions, and the importance of IXPs or NAPs.

Wednesday, May 20th, began with the following parallel activities: the FLIP6 Forum, the LACTLD meeting, and the CSIRTs meeting.

Latin American IPv6 Forum (FLIP 6)

FLIP6, the Latin American IPv6 Forum, seeks to promote and encourage IPv6 adoption throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The Forum also promotes the exchange of experiences in the implementation of IPv6-based services and applications in our region.

Leading international experts participated in the Forum and presented on topics relating to security, business cases, corporate networks, mobile broadband, as well as success stories and techniques for transitioning to the new IPv6 protocol.

Highlights included the presentation by John Correa, who spoke about securing IPv6 services in Linux. This was followed by a vendors panel made up by Tomas Lynch (Ericson), Hugo Peña (Alcatel), Wadner Maia (Mikrotic), and Enrique Dávila (CISCO).

John Brzozowski (Comcast Cable) then gave his keynote presentation on IPv6. Jordi Palet was responsible for the session's last presentation, which was on 464xLAT.

LACTLD Meeting

During the LACTLD policy workshop, participants had the chance to learn about the role of ccTLDs in national Internet Governance spaces. Manuel Haces's presentation addressed the Mexican case, while María Antonieta Chavarría spoke about Costa Rica's Consultative Committee for Internet Issues.

Lunch was followed by Andrés Almanza, who presented on the cybersecurity challenges faced at organization level. To conclude, several ccTLDs shared their experiences and interactions with computer security incident response teams.

Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Computer Security Incident Response Teams

This meeting has become a workspace for Latin American and Caribbean actors to share security-related issues. This sharing of knowledge among the participants aims at strengthening the region in terms of computer security incident prevention and impact mitigation.

The meeting took place in the Limatambo 1 room and addressed the following topics:

Lucimara Desiderá, CERT.br/NIC.br : Practical recommendations for incident reporting.
Paula Venosa – CertUNLP: Towards an integratable incident management system
Jacomo Piccolini - Team Cymru: Unwanted traffic removal service
After lunch, various topics relating to the LAC-CSIRTs forum were discussed.

After lunch, it was the Public Policy Forum's turn. LACNIC's Public Policy Forum is the place for presenting, discussing, and approving policy proposals regarding the rules or policies for Internet resource management in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Today's Forum began with a brief introduction to the policy development process, after which Ricardo Patara, David Huberman, and Mike Burns presented the following policies:

LAC-2014-3: Update to the PDP - Author: Ricardo Patara, NIC.br
The proposal was APPROVED by the LACNIC community.

LAC-2015-2: Inter-RIR transfers - Author: David Huberman, Microsoft
The proposal was discussed at length and different opinions were shared, including the participation of attendees from other RIRs.
Although the community agreed on the need for an inter-RIR transfer policy, it was concluded that this policy should continue to be discussed on the mailing list to modify some of its current aspects.

LAC-2015-1: Trigger 2.3.2.18 for LACNIC addresses - Author:  Mike Burns, IPTrading.com
Participants from other RIRs also participated in this proposal's discussion.
In the end, the forum chairs called for consensus and the following results were obtained: 35 vores against the proposal, 9 votes in favor of the proposal, and 16 abstentions,

The policy titled Update to the PDP was approved with a total of 56 votes in favor.

The afternoon's coffee break was followed by Sergio Roja's report on IPv4 exhaustion in the LAC region and an update on IPv4 status in each of the other four RIRs: RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNIC, and AFRINIC.

Ricardo Patara presented an update on the ASO AC and then Rodrigo de la Parra presented a report on the IANA.

The IPv6 Tutorial for Decision Makers was held in the Cusco Ballroom and presented by Juan Carlos Alonso and Guillermo Cicileo.

This tutorial is geared towards decision makers within the ICT sector. The workshop will present the basics of IPv6, its importance for Internet development, and business cases that show that IPv6 is the best solution to the problem of address scarcity from the technical and commercial point of view.

Wednesday came to a close with a social event at La Noche de Barranco.

The event's opening ceremony took place at 9:00 a.m. in the Limatambo 3-5 room. The session was attended by more than 407 participants from 29 countries throughout the region and the world. The opening ceremony was attended by: Oscar Messano (LACNIC CEO), Rolando Toledo (Red Científica Peruana), Gonzalo Ruiz Díaz (Osiptel Chairman of the Board), Carolina Aguerre (LACTLD General Manager), and Ariel Graizer (LAC-IX Chair).

Oscar Messano welcomed participants and highlighted two major events: Oscar Robles joining LACNIC as the organization's new CEO and the numbers community's efforts towards the IANA functions stewardship transition.

Gonzalo Ruíz Díaz emphasized Peru's position as leader of IPv6 traffic and highlighted LACNIC's role in the LAC the region.

The opening ceremony was followed by the general  LACNIC/ LAC-IX/LACTLD session, where Oscar Robles, Ariel Graizer, and Carolina Aguerre presented an update for each of their organizations.

Oscar Robles spoke of the evolution of LACNIC's membership base, IPv6 deployment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and how future IPv4 assignments will be made.

He also noted LACNIC's role as leader of RPKI adoption as compared to the other RIRs and encouraged the community to participate in LACNIC's policy development processes.

The panel on the transition of stewardship of the IANA functions began at 11:00 a.m. This panel addressed the current status of the proposals that the different communities –names, protocols, and numbers– have been developing in order to process the IANA functions stewardship transition.

Panelists included Demi Getschko (NIC.br, ICG), Paul Wilson (APNIC, ICG), Esteban Lescano (CRISP), Jari Arkko (IAB/IESG), Erick Iriarte (CWG), Pedro Ferraz (Brazilian Government), and
Jorge Villa (CCWG).

Demi Getschko and Paul Wilson provided an update on the progress achieved by the numbers, names, and protocol parameters proposals and explained the role of the ICG (IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group).

Esteban Lescano then explained the CRISP team's role in this process and provided a brief summary of the proposal submitted by the numbers community.

Finally, Jari Arkko presented the protocol parameters proposal and Erick Iriarte spoke of some of the difficulties found in the names proposal.

The panel that began at 2:00 p.m. provided an update on the current status of the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) Team's proposal for the transition of stewardship of the IANA functions.

This panel was made up by the three LAC region's representatives to the CRISP Team –Esteban Lescano, Nico Schepher, and Andres Piazza– and was moderated by Oscar Robles. The panelists explained how the CRISP proposal was developed and how it will be implemented.

The complete proposal is available at the following link: https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight/consolidated-rir-iana-stewardship-proposal-team-crisp-team

The public debate and consultation with the LACNIC community regarding possible scenarios in the transition of stewardship of the IANA functions began at 3:00 p.m.

In this case, the panel was made up by Oscar Robles (LACNIC CEO); Lito Ibarra (Member of the LACNIC Community Committee for the Transition); Jorge Villa (Member of the LACNIC Community Committee for the Transition and the CCWG); Paul Wilson (APNIC CEO), and Rodrigo de la Parra (ICANN VP for Latin America and the Caribbean).

LACNIC's Annual Member Assembly met from 4:30 to 6.00 p.m. Members had the chance to vote on several issues that are relevant to the organization and its members.

The day ended with the sixth edition of Women and IT, where all women attending the event were invited to share a pleasant moment with their Latin American and Caribbean colleagues in the Limatambo 1 room. This time, Graciela Martinez (Head of LACNIC's Warning, Advice and Reporting Point) and Lia Solis (Head of IP Internet Services at ENTEL S.A.) shared their professional experiences in the field of new technologies.

On Monday 18 May, 2015, more than 338 participants met at the registration desk set up at the Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center to register for the event participate in the six scheduled parallel tutorials.

IPv6 in Fixed and Mobile Access Networks
From 9:00 am to 6:00 pmm the Cusco Ballroom welcomed the IPv6 in Mobile and Fixed Access Networks Turorial, during which Thomas Lynch (Ericsson) and Alejandro D'Egidio (Telecentro) explained various technologies and implementation techniques used by IPv6 access providers for the last mile in both fixed and mobile access networks. Other topics were also discussed, including dual stack vs. NAT vs. tunneling, as well as different methods for assigning and deploying IPv6 in fixed and mobile networks, among others.

Secure Routing with BGP (Part 1)
Instructors: Hans Reyes, CUDI / Guillermo Cicileo, LACNIC / Gerardo Rada, LACNIC

During the first session, the basics of the BGP protocol were presented, as well as basic operational aspects in carrier environments. During the second session, some of the latest trends in routing security were introduced, specifically origin validation using resource certification (RPKI).

Hands-On Basic IPv6 Tutorial
Instructor: Alejandro Acosta, LACNIC

During the Basic IPv6 tutorial, participants had the chance to work on DNS and HTTP in a Linux environment. DNS and IPv6 were briefly explained, then IPv6 was configured in Bind and Apache.

Testing v6 Tutorial
Instructors: Gustavo Guimerans, CES /Gerardo Rada, LACNIC / Laura Kaplan, LACNIC

LACNIC will offer its members and the Internet community in general Certiv6, a methodology for testing equipment and applications, as well as a course that will include both theory and practice.

This tutorial is an introduction to the full course. Participants worked on exercises illustrating real-life situations where a system operating on IPv6 malfunctions and the problem is solved by applying this methodology.

Internet Numbering Resource Management
Instructors: Sergio Rojas/Elisa Peirano, LACNIC.

This tutorial was specifically designed for representatives of organizations that are already LACNIC members. During the tutorial, participants learned how to use LACNIC's Resource Management System, register sub-allocations to third parties, use the Whois service, update the contact information for a block or an organization, and delegate a block's reverse resolution.

Internet Governance Tutorial
Instructor: Andrés Piazza, LACNIC

LACNIC has an important role in what is known as Critical Internet Resource Governance, in other words, the administration of Internet numbering resources and the interaction with other organizations related to these technical functions, which are essential to the global Internet. This workshop briefly explained what Internet Governance is, which organizations are part of this system, and the international and regional discussions that are currently taking place.

Finally, a session was held in the Cusco Ballroom where Ernesto Majó, LACNIC's Communications and External Relations Manager, welcomed more than 172 newcomers and explained to them the dynamics of LACNIC events.

The day ended with a welcome cocktail. Participants met at 7:00 pm at Casona Ayahuasca, where all participants were invited to share a pleasant moment with their Latin American and Caribbean colleagues.

We invite you to join us tomorrow at 9:00 am (local Peru time) for the opening ceremony. If you want to keep up with the latest news, go to the event's website (eventos.lacnic.net/lacnic23), where you will find live broadcast, pictures and presentations. You can also follow us on twitter with the hashtag #LACNIC23.

Simultaneous translation into Portuguese, Spanish, and English will be provided starting on May 19th.