Colleagues, here's the agenda for the Dubai RIPE meeting. I hope to see you there! Tuesday Afternoon Administrivia (5 mins) Review of Action Items (10 mins) ICANN/IANA Update (15 mins) Kim Davies, IANA Discussion on NTIA DNSSEC NoI (20 mins) Etisalat DNS Operational Experiences (10 mins) Abdulla Bushlaibi, Etisalat A description of Etisalat's experience in the field of implementing DNS services, across different type of services and requirements. It explains past, present and future plans for DNS architecture in Etisalat, considering network convergence as well as expansion. It describes problems and challenges on the way and some solutions. A versatile platform for DNS metrics with its (30 mins) application to IPv6 penetration Stephane Bortzmeyer, AFNIC AFNIC is developing a DNS-based measurements & statistics project in order to monitor the evolution of an open list of technical activities (IPv6, DNSSEC, EDNS0 support, SPF & DKIM deployment...). The project started with IPv6 penetration measurements and an overview of the results based on collected DNS data from .fr is presented. Wednesday Morning IETF WG news update (15 mins) Lars-Johan Liman, Autonomica NCC Update (15 mins) Anand Buddhdev, RIPE NCC (TBC) Discussion on stale domain objects (15 mins) Peter Koch, DENIC .org's Next Steps with DNSSEC (20 mins) Lance Wolak, PIR This described how .ORG has initiated an industry coalition to streamline the implementation of DNSSEC through the collaborative development of specific educational material, common tools and implementation guides. IDN GCC trial project (15 mins) Amani Mohammed Bin Sewaif, Etisalat The presentation will focus on how the DNS aspects of the IDN trial project that has been implemented among the GCC countries. It explains the initial discussion/requirements for the DNS architecture to serve the trial,what approaches were considered and the final setup. It will briefly show how it works, and elaborate on the tools developed for the community as well as point to other resources/work done in this project. Followup on NTIA DNSSEC NoI (5 mins) AOB/General Discussion (5 mins)