Dear friends of Connect-WG, As RIPE 71 is coming closer, time has come to share with you our draft agenda for our session on Wednesday, November, 18th from 11:00 to 12.30 : 1. Welcome (1 min) Appoint scribe, present agenda 2. 4 Lightning talks (20 min) a. So, you've decided to peer… - Matthew Walster, Fastly b. Study about Internet interconnections : Preliminary results - Uta Meier-Hahn, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society c. BGP communities for blackholing traffic - Thomas King, DECIX d. Follow up : Working with CDNs : towards BCOP - Florence Lavroff 3. Update on MANRS - Andrei Robachevsky, ISOC (10 min) 4. Traffic Volume Dependencies of Large IXPs - Thomas King, DECIX (20min) 5. Countries, IXPs and RIPE Atlas - Emile Aben, RIPE NCC (20min) 6. Presentation [Title to be provided later] - Elisa Jasinska (20 min) 7. Closure (1min) I also inform you that I, Florence Lavroff, won’t be able to co-chair this Connect-WG session because I am now in a too advanced stage of my pregnancy to travel. Our dear colleague Filiz Yilmaz kindly accepted to jump in and take over my role as co-chair for this meeting. Thanks to her for her availability and support ! Best regards, Florence and Remco Connect-WG Co-chairs -- Florence Lavroff / lavroff@google.com / +31 20 504 5474 / +31 6 11 01 55 80 Peering and Content Distribution / Google EMEA