Dear friends of the Connect WG, Still 2 weeks to go before we gather again in Budapest ! We are pleased to send you our draft agenda for the coming session of Wednesday, May 10th 2017, 11 AM : 1. Introduction + agenda presentation 2. IXP-tools code sprint, 5-6. April 2017, Amsterdam - Vesna Manojlovic, Emile Aben, RIPE NCC (15 min) 3. IXP database - Bijal Sanghani - Euro-IX (10 min) 4. *TENTATIVE* IXP Automation Made Easy with New Open-Source Tool - Pier Carlo Chiedi (10 min) 5. Latest trends in DC optics - Christian Urricariet - Finisar (10 min) 6. BGP shutdown communication - Job Snijders - NTT (10 min) 7. New way of DDoS mitigation in IXPs, Zbynek Pospichal, NIX.CZ (10 min) 8. IXP Roman-IX - Will van Gulik (3 min) 9. Asteroids - Nurani Nimpuno, Andy Davidson (3min) 10. Feedback about the session 11. Closure Kind regards, Co-chairs, Florence and Remco -- Florence Lavroff / lavroff@google.com / +31 6 11 01 55 80 Peering and Content Distribution / Google EMEA