The London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the world's largest Internet Exchange Points, has announced that it is to sponsor the RIPE NCC regional meeting in Moscow on 17-18 September, 2009.

LINX Sales & Marketing manager, Richard Yule, will be making a presentation at the event. He said: "The RIPE NCC regional meetings are an excellent opportunity to meet with the Internet community in different areas and we are particularly excited to be visiting Russia again. The region is seeing rapid growth at the moment and LINX is pleased to be supporting an event that is actively promoting that - the relationships we establish here can help lead to peering opportunities for our members in the future."

RIPE NCC Regional Meetings bring together RIPE NCC members, local government officials and key players in the global and local Internet industry. The meeting content will mainly focus on technical, administration and policy issues for what is a very large international audience. Over 320 have registered to attend the event and sessions will be given in either English or Russian with a simultaneous translation in the other.

The comprehensive agenda for the two day meeting includes updates from the RIPE NCC and the IETF, an Internet Governance Panel Session plus a talk on the danger of IP Hijacking, amongst many others. The second day is wholly dedicated to IPv6 training and is run by RIPE NCC course trainer, Ferenc Csorba.

In preparation for the event, LINX has created a detailed Russian language version leaflet which explains the benefits of being a LINX member and services they provide. An electronic version of this form can be downloaded from the LINX website: https://www.linx.net/files/join/LINX09-Russian.pdf