Member engagement and consultation is a key objective for LINX in 2016 covering every aspect of the business. Turn to pages 10 and 11 to find out how you can help

Obituary p17LINX was saddened to hear the news of the passing of former RIPE Chairman, Dr Rob Blokzijl, in December. HotLINX looks back on his impressive career on page 17.

LINX America p16LINX’s Ben Hedges has been given the green light to move to the USA to help accelerate the progress of LINX NoVA, as well as other international development plans. Find out more on page 16.

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Data Centre News p05At LINX91 in November Tim Anker of Colo-X updated the members on what’s happening in the colocation scene in London. We also have comment on the Telecity Equinix deal plus news on Telehouse North Two.

LINX Technology p07The Technology team’s Mike Hellers updates us on the Juniper upgrade programme, demand for 100G ports, as well as revealing project plans for 2016.

Public Affairs p08In our Public Affairs section Malcolm Hutty looks at the potential ramifications of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill published in November.

What they’re saying p05Matt Hattersley, IXManchester Steering Committee Chairman, tells HotLINX what he thinks the Telecity Equinix deal means for the city’s regional exchange.

Industry Events p15In Industry Events we preview the PTC’16 and UKNOF33 conferences as well look back at Telecom Exchange, AfricaCom and Capacity Europe.

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Face Off Inside StoriesWelcome to HotLINX44. Here’s a brief summary of the LINX community and industry news articles featured inside this issue.

In the LINX News section we review the recent EGM session at LINX91 and explain what’s been happening with the LINX partner and reseller programmes. We also have a bonus ‘LINX News Extra’ page which covers the launch of LINX America and the new LINX website.

Industry News has a report on the BT and EE merger plus a comprehensive data centre news section focussed on the London colocation scene.

Our governance pages have the latest news from the Internet Society while, on page 14 we have updates from some of LINX’s associate members. These include DNS Belgium, the RIPE NCC, Swedish IXP Netnod, the Internet Systems Consortium and RouteViews.

Finally we take our usual look at the latest LINX member and technical statistics on our back page. It’s been a fantatstic quarter for new members with 31 new connections from 15 different countries.

Internet Industry TweetsBelow are just a few of the LINX and member community related updates seen on Twitter recently.

Andrew Cormack @Janet_LegReg Seriously impressed that Malcolm @LINX_Network has managed to read and summarise #IPBill at the same time as participating in the IGF

Workonline Comm @wolcomm Since launching remote peering services to @LINX_Network Workonline is now the SA network with the highest number of LINX reseller ports.

Tom Hill @tomm3hSomething tells me a rather large content host just arrived at #IXManchester ! New peak of >26Gbit/sec! https://stats.linx.net/cgi-pub/exchange?log=manchester.bits

LINX @LINX_Network Quick shot of today’s #RIPE DNSS training being coordinated by the #IXCardiff Steering Committee

LINX on TwitterKeep up to date with LINX on Twitter following @LINX_Network

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Aiming for ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’By John Souter, LINX CEO

Editorial

The importance of being proactiveBy Jeremy Orbell, HotLINX Editor

As a mutual, not-for-profit, membership organisation LINX has a duty to operate on the behalf of its members. It is a message that is often repeated across our online and print communications but does it truly resonate with the wider Internet community?

For LINX to function at its best interaction between the exchange and the members is vital. It could be argued that if the network just works then why would the members need to get involved. With the Internet and technology developing as rapidly as it is we don’t want to be in a position of having to be reactive rather than proactive with member demands. Let’s all be ready for the future.

To do this we need regular dialogue between all stakeholders in the exchange, whether in the technical or regulatory arenas. This will ensure steady and controlled long-term growth. We can’t, and shouldn’t, leave anything to chance.

It’s never been easier to communicate whether through face-to-face meetings and events to email, social media and video conferencing. However we do it, let’s talk!hotlinx@linx.net

The start of a new year is always an opportunity for reflection but at LINX we always have to look forward too. 2016 is yet another Olympic year, with the games being held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Can it really be four years since they were in London and we undertook all those major network expansion plans? It’s easy to forget that we only had one 100GigE port in operation back then but today it’s an Olympian task just keeping up with demand.

At the time of writing there are 60 connected member-facing 100GigE ports, eight in provisioning and a further 16 confirmed orders. That’s a tremendous rate of growth and highlights just how important it is to be ready to meet our member’s exacting network needs.

The Olympic movement has a motto which is made up of three Latin words: Citius - Altius - Fortius. These words mean Faster - Higher - Stronger and we can justifiably adopt them ourselves when thinking about our business.

Faster...We all want a faster network and therefore latency is very important. Keeping traffic local has been a major driver in recent times with the launch of three UK regional exchanges and another in the US. There is the strong possibility of another LINX regional IXP coming into operation later this year and the membership will certainly get to play a full part in the consultation process. Your views are always important.

Higher...We are also setting ourselves ever higher standards and performance targets. To be the best IXP we can be, we simply can’t allow ourselves to settle for just ‘good enough’. We have to push the boundaries in everything that we do.

StrongerThen of course we need to be stronger. Wanting a more resilient network infrastructure is a given but we also want a strong and united membership that acts for the good of the Internet as a whole.

This all this brings me to the very important topic of member engagement, and one that we cover in-depth in our centre pages. The key point is that LINX exists to work for the benefit of its members which needs all stakeholders to collaborate to ensure we are building the exchange everyone wants.

In 2016 I will be leading a member engagement project with the goal of establishing focus groups to supply relevant data and form ideas. Our future is your future and by working together we can definitely make it happy new year for all of us.

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Telehouse North Two is one of the most hotly anticipated additions to the Telehouse London Docklands campus for 2016, having been operating for more than 25 years. It is set to be the most advanced data centre in Europe. Recent weeks have seen the installation of its façade, the iconic circuit board design, as well as connectivity to the existing facilities Telehouse North, West and East.

As the most concentrated home of LINX, the campus has grown to be the most connected site in Europe. The thriving ecosystem offers access to more than 530 cloud and connectivity partners, ensuring multiple redundant low latency routes. The new site has been designed to enable future technological advances from hybrid cloud environments to the Internet of Things and beyond. When complete the new site will offer 23,000 sqm of space and 18.5MW of future proof power.

Throughout Q4 2015 more than 80 industry executives have already experienced an intimate ‘hard hat’ tour of North Two, and these will continue into 2016.

For enquires or for your chance to experience the North Two tour, visit www.Telehouse.net/NorthTwo

BT Group’s proposed takeover of mobile phone network EE was provisionally cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in October. The CMA stated at the time that the £12.5bn deal was “not expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition in the UK”.

The deal is set to create a communications powerhouse covering fixed-line phones, broadband, mobile and TV. The takeover would more than treble the number of BT’s retail customers adding EE’s 24.5 million direct mobile subscribers to the 10 million they already had.

The CMA said the two firms operated largely in separate markets with BT strong in supplying fixed communications services (voice, broadband and pay TV)

Final CMA report on BT/EE deal to be published in January

Telehouse To Expand Docklands Campus with North Two

with EE at the forefront in providing mobile communications services. However, BT may still be forced to break up its Internet broadband business, Openreach, by communications watchdog Ofcom. Competitors TalkTalk and Vodafone both say that regulators should ensure BT spins off Openreach in order to improve competition and service.

The CMA said in a statement that it was aware of concerns about Openreach, as well as wider issues being considered by Ofcom in their review of the whole telecommunications market.

The CMA’s Inquiry is now considering responses to its provisional takeover report and will publish a final version in January.

In BriefManchester wins £10m in “smart city” tech competitionLINX regional IXP, IXManchester, could be set to benefit following news that the city has won a £10m prize to lead the way in the Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

The CityVerve Project won the Government-led technology competition which aims to encourage more smart technology within cities. Plans include talkative bus stops, which let bus operators know when commuters are waiting, and lamp posts and street cabinets that monitor air quality with data being made available to the public. In all there were 22 entries from 34 cities. The CityVerve project is led by Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership.

Further information is available on the Prolific North website: www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2015/12/manchester-wins-10m-to-become-world-leader-in-smart-city-tech/

5G uptake predicted to be much faster than 4GEricsson’s latest Mobility Report predicts a huge uptake in 5G with up to 150 million subscribers expected to adopt by 2021 in the year following launch. This would mean 5G would be adopted much faster than 4G has been. The markets expected to lead 5G uptake are South Korea, Japan, China, and the US. Part of this rapid adoption is attributed to connected devices and the growth in popularity of the Internet of Things.

Further info and predictions from the Ericsson Report available here: www.ericsson.com/mobility-report

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By Tim Anker, The Colocation ExchangeIn a year of dramatic developments in the London colocation market the purchase of Telecity by US based Equinix was finally given the green light in November by the European Commission who had investigated the proposed deal due to concerns about the large market share the combined group would have.

To address the concerns, Equinix and Telecity have agreed to dispose of eight data centres, of which five are in London, two in Amsterdam and one in Frankfurt. The sale will either include all eight sites to one purchaser or sold city by city, not individually. The five London sites will be very familiar to LINX members and

Data Centre News‘All change’ in London colo scene

What they’re sayingEquinix’s acquisitiion of Telecity could be good news for IXManchester and the local networking sceneMatthew Hattersley, IXManchester Steering Committee Chairman“I’m wary but also quite optimistic about what could happen in Manchester following the Equinix acquisition of Telecity. The European Commission has said that the new company can’t keep hold of all of their facilities because they would be too big, so we expect

certain sites will be lost. Interestingly I think we are going to get more diversity in the city as they’re forced to let go of a couple of locations which will allow new guys to come in and treat those data centres a little differently. Therefore on the whole I don’t think there’s too much to worry about but I think the situation needs watching closely, and any opportunities that present themselves should be seriously looked at. ”

Make IT and facilities work together in the data centre Lex Coors, InterxionTechnology and Engineering Officer“Today we have two camps: we have the IT camp, looking at the business side and what they think is fairly reasonable, and then we have the infrastructure guys on the other side. They can create a better business by coming together. As long as we keep it separate it is not an organism. It is all different things. They must be all together and they must act and work together.”Source: www.cbronline.comhttp://tinyurl.com/o9add5r

include two LINX nodes at Sovereign House and Bonnington House.

There is much speculation as to who will buy the sites: perhaps an existing operator like Interxion, or a wholesale operator interested in retail colocation, perhaps Virtus or DRT (Digital Realty Trust, who now host LINX’s newest node at their Chessington site). It could also be an overseas operator such as the US based Coresite or QTS, or maybe even Singapore based Keppel who have recently acquired facilities in both Amsterdam and Germany. Many carriers have also been in acquisition mode over the past few years including Zayo or Level3.

Analysts are suggesting the eight sites will have a combined valuation of well over USD$1bn and that the transactions will

be pushed through early in the new year to ensure the least disruption for both customers and staff.

In London post disposals Equinix will be left with the important Harbour Exchange campus, their first Docklands based facility, and an important network ecosystem second only to the longer established Telehouse campus. It also will keep the huge Powergate site in north-west London.

With Equinix operating very different policies on cross-connect charges for instance, Telecity customers will be watching closely to see how things evolve post transaction, whilst clients in the sites to be disposed of will simply have to wait and see who ends up being their supplier.

In the meantime, the London colocation scene continues to see significant structural changes as both existing operators adapt their models and new entrants continue to arrive. At Colo-X we are now tracking over 60 carrier neutral facilities both within Central London and around the M25 – making London the most competitive and vibrant data centre market in Europe.

LINX’s reseller channel partners are playing an ever more important role in bringing in new members to LINX. In November over 50% of new applications came via the ConneXions programme and we can only expect that rate to grow as more partners sign up and become established. To put this into context 34% of all member applications in 2015 have come directly as a result of the ConneXions offering.

At present there are 27 ConneXions partners, the full list of which can be viewed on the LINX website: www.linx.net/join/connexions/channelpartners

Virtual PoP programme updateSince the last issue of HotLINX, Volta Data Centres, a leading Tier 3 data centre based in Central London, has announced a vPoP partnership with LINX. In addition the LDeX Group has also signed up with plans to enhance its connectivity services in its newly opened second Data Centre, LDeX2 in Trafford Park, Manchester. This will see the addition of a new Branded PoP from LINX’s IXManchester exchange.

Partner marketingLINX have provided an increased amount of marketing activity for our ConneXions and vPoP partners, producing banners for data centres, promotional literature and social media and PR releases to promote our collaborations.

To learn more about the ConneXions and vPoP programmes please visit: www.linx.net/join/connexions and www.linx.net/join/vPoPs.

LINX Partner & Reseller News

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Murray Steele ratified as the first externally appointed independent LINX ChairmanAt the LINX91 EGM in November the membership formally voted on a number of resolutions including the 2016 budget and fees schedule plus the appointment of Murray Steele as LINX Chairman.

The decision to appoint an independent chairman came after an extensive governance review and member consultations. At the LINX AGM in May it was announced that following the recruitment process Murray had been selected, but a formal vote was required by the membership to confirm the appointment. An overwhelming 95% voted in favour.

Murray brings 20 years of board level experience including significant accomplishments in board governance and change. He has held both chairman and non-executive roles at a wide range of companies and we are sure he will be a tremendous asset to the business.

The new fees schedule, which was also approved at the EGM, came into effect on 1 January 2016. These can be viewed here: www.linx.net/service/servicefees

LINX91 EGM Review In BriefLINX deploy multi-100Gig DWDM over 57kmLINX recently expanded its metro optical network by deploying a simple 100Gig DWDM based solution from HUBER+SUHNER Cube Optics AG.

LINX were seeing increased need for more low latency and high bandwidth between their London sites. LINX also wanted to utilise a switch/router vendors’ native 100G ports whilst also aiming to keep the transport portion of the network simple. Cube Optics’ solution proposed using tuneable 100Gig DWDM transceivers to deliver multiple 100G across 57km between their data centres from Docklands in the east to Slough in the west.

John Souter re-elected to the Euro-IX BoardIn October Euro-IX, the association of Internet Exchange Points, held its AGM and Board elections. This saw three members of its Executive Board - LINX CEO, John Souter, Harald Michl of the Vienna Internet Exchange (VIX) and Andy Davidson (LONAP/ IXLeeds) - all stand down by rotation. Following voting all were re-elected for further two year terms.

The Euro-IX Forum also saw LINX’s Malcolm Hutty’s report on the IX-F Response to the ITU Consultation on IXP Best Practices given the highest rating of all the event’s presentations. Congratulations everyone!

New LINX Chairman Murray Steele speaks with Steve Wright (left) at the LINX EGM

100G demand grows ever strongerLast year’s impressive demand for 100G member ports kept all of the LINX Technology team busy right up to our annual network freeze. Having delivered over 60 new 100G ports for members, while continually upgrading the underlying core and edge capacity to handle over 3Tbps of peak traffic, certainly made it a good and productive year. First indications show that we have no reason to believe that the demand will slow down in 2016.

Project plans for 2016As presented during the LINX91 member meeting in November, one of the significant projects this year will be the introduction of next generation Juniper MX linecards (MPC7). This will allow us to build a number of high density Edge routers purely focused on delivering 100G member ports at some of our London sites.

Each one of these routers will be connected with up to 2 x 960Gbps capacity to the core routers, and allow us to connect up to 20 100G member ports. The final PoC (proof of concept) testing will be completed in early February with a target to deploy the first one of these next generation edge routers in early Q2 this year.

Having addressed some of the edge capacity challenges, focus will also continue on the core capacity. Changing the overall topology of the connection between the core sites will allow us to

further increase the available capacity by enabling a more efficient use of the existing core links while maintaining a fully resilient network. Preparation work for these changes will start in Q1 with a goal of implementing the changes through Q2 and Q3.

Improvements for Systems and ToolsAnother major focus area will be continued improvements on the systems side, with the goal to increase the use of tools to automate provisioning and support processes throughout the different LANs.

This will in the first phase include improvements to many of the internal tools, but will also result in improvements to the LINX member portal on the LINX website.

Combining this with the work to plan and implement the future of the Extreme LAN promises 2016 to be another interesting year for the LINX Technology team and we are certainly ready for it!

Are you considering connecting at 100G? Help us to plan capacity by letting us know

LINX has seen unprecedented demand for 100G ports in recent months. If you are considering connecting at 100G it would help enormously if you could share your plans in advance to

enable us to deliver your port requirements as swiftly as possible. To let us know, or to obtain further information on 100G, please email the Member Relations team: mr@linx.ne

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BGP RoutingIs BGP Badly Broken?By Russell Heiling, LINX Senior Network EngineerInternet routing is largely based on trust. This works well most of the time but when that trust is abused (whether done by accident, in ignorance or maliciously) the consequences can be heavy. DDoS, route leaks, hijacking, etc. are all examples of this and new instances seem to be hitting the headlines constantly.

Trust is key in this area because protocol design focuses on the idealand takes good behaviour as an assumption. In real networks we have to use pragmatic measures to counteract the bad actors and Byzantine failures we see on a daily basis, so we often find a disconnect between technical capabilities and our requirements.

Network engineers often jokingly refer to layers 8-10 of the 7-layer model: in effect this is what efforts such as MAN-RS and attempts to build a taxonomy of routing issues are working towards. Formalising the business agreements networks have into a protocol that allows autonomy while ensuring that the needs of the community are not ignored. Maybe one day we will have a technical solution, but for now these efforts are moving us to a better place.www.routingmanifesto.org

Further informationAn expanded version of Russell’s article is available to view online here: https://goo.gl/UI8dbC

Colin Silcock, LINX Software Engineering Manager, announced the formal launch of the new LINX stats system at LINX91

Engineering Update100G, Juniper upgrades and network capacity challengesBy Mike Hellers, LINX Network Engineering Manager

Malcolm HuttyLINX Head of Public AffairsPublic Affairs

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Expanded data retentionUnsurprisingly, the Bill would make permanent the requirement for ISPs to retain communications data on customer communications, an obligation which is currently upheld by temporary legislation since the European Court struck down the Data Retention Directive. The Bill also expands the scope of what ISPs must retain: under the Directive, the retention obligation was limited to a fixed list of data elements; that will no longer be the case under this Bill, although the full extent of the obligation is unknown.

The Bill also creates new definitions for subsets of communications data: “events data” (data about an online event, such as a communication) and “entity data”, which includes everything else that a telecommunications operator

knows about their user or customer; given the expansion of the meaning of telecommunications operator from telephone companies and ISPs to include enterprises like social networking sites, the range of data covered by “everything known about the user” becomes enormously broadened compared with that under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

A key question for network access providers is whether the Bill requires them to obtain and retain communications data relating to third party data (for example, for an access provider to obtain communications data relating to the use of a third party service, such as webmail). ISPs were solidly opposed to such measures in the Draft Communications Data Bill, as were major providers of online services like social networking.

The Investigatory Powers Bill

The government suggests it has alighted on a compromise: ISPs will be required to retain communications data showing which Internet-based services a customer has accessed, but not to retain data regarding how they have used those services. Part 3 of the Bill, which covers access to communications data, introduces the concept of “Internet connection records”. The government describes these as being a list of websites accessed (but not the full URL, which contains content).

However, it is not entirely clear from the Bill that the retention obligation on ISPs is in fact so limited. Data Retention is contained in Part 4 of the Bill, and states that the obligation on ISPs is to retain “relevant communications data”, not just “Internet connection records” (although the latter can be presumed to be a subset of the former). A clause defining “communications data” is quite ambiguous, with multiple possible readings that would include third party data, and no clear and explicit exclusion. If the government does indeed mean to concede that third party data is not required, ISPs will want to avoid any possible ambiguity on this point in the final legislation.

Equipment interferenceNew powers for equipment interference will likely be of concern to a broad range of enterprises, not just network operators. Enabling law enforcement authorities to hack into computer equipment they have seized from a suspect is likely to be uncontroversial, and using that device to access a suspect’s cloud services is also likely to be widely supported. Hacking directly into a cloud-based system by exploiting security vulnerabilities is another matter entirely. For network operators as well as other operators of critical infrastructure, the prospect of law enforcement and intelligence agencies weakening security or causing accidental damage when hacking into critical systems is likely to be a major concern.

November saw the publication of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, the successor to the much-maligned Communications Data Bill, incorporating many of the same powers and sharing many of its flaws, along with its own set of ambiguities and uncertainties.

The Bill is a huge piece of legislation, consolidating and expanding existing powers. Spread over nine parts, the Bill covers interception, data retention and access to communications data, and adds new powers for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to engage in “equipment interference” (hacking). Additionally, a legal basis is created for the first time for “bulk” interception and mass-scale hacking by the intelligence services.

provisions to require service providers to build or modify their networks in order to facilitate the powers in the Bill. These provisions apply to all communications providers, including over-the-top providers. Therefore, while strong encryption will remain legal, specific service providers could be required to provide back doors to their own particular encrypted systems.

It remains unclear whether this could be used to forbid service providers from providing “serverless”, peer-to-peer services to which they would lack the ability to provide back-doors.

Public Affairs BlogFor the latest industry news and comment on regulatory issues please visit the Public Affairs blog on the LINX website.https://publicaffairs.linx.net/news

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Filtering provisionsThe “filtering provisions” which were a subject of controversy in the Communications Data Bill remain in the new Bill. These would give the secretary of state direct API access to disparate data stores, allowing them to cross-reference relevant communications data. In our previous submission on the Communications Data Bill, LINX described this as “the functional equivalent of building communications data profiles on every user”. The government, however, justifies this provision as a way of protecting privacy by filtering out irrelevant data relating to individuals who are not subject to investigation, before the data is examined by a human being.

EncryptionContrary to rumour, the draft IPB does not seek to ban strong, end-to-end encryption. In fact, the word “encryption” does not appear in the Bill at all. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to assume that the Bill has no implications for encryption. The Bill contains generic

Extra-territorial effectThe Bill attempts to have an extra-territorial effect, imposing obligations on service providers – webmail providers, social networks, and providers of other over-the-top services – provided that their services are available to UK residents, even where the provider has no other connection with the UK.

What happens next?As a Draft Bill, this is not intended to become law. Instead, a Parliamentary Joint Committee has been convened to examine the Bill, and is due to report in February; the government will then bring forward final legislation for Parliamentary approval in the autumn.

IXP Training in Kyrgyzstan with Kurtis Lindqvist The ISOC team traveled to Bishkek in November to conduct follow-on training with experts in Kyrgyzstan. An IXP is in progress in Bishkek, and with Kurtis’ help ISOC were able to provide hands-on experience related to IXP management and to identify the need for more information about L2 switching, additional training options, and potential formation of a NOG. Kurtis was also able to encourage deployment of RIPE Atlas Probes and to encourage existing probes to be activated.

A blog about the meeting can be found here: www.internetsociety.org/blog/development/2015/12/building-technical-capacity-kyrgyz-republicThe team hopes to return to Bishkek in 2016 for more in-depth BGP training.

IXP Best Practices – Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015Along with many in the Euro-IX family, the Internet Society and many experts participated from May-October in formulating baseline IXP best practices. A final version of the IXP Best Practices document can be found here: www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/best-practice-forums/creating-an-enabling-environment-for-the-development-of-local-content/582-igf-2015-bpf-ixps/file

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Save the Date!AfPIF 2016AfPIF 2016 will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 30th August to the 1st September, 2016. An even bigger crowd is expected than was at the 6th AfPIF last year with some excellent discussions planned on developing IXPs, content and hosting, cross-border connectivity and more.

For a perspective on peering, and on AfPIF, check out this recent video put together by Nyani Quarmyne for the ISOC team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oIiP-p4zJM

CarPIF 2016The second Caribbean Peering Forum (CarPIF2) will take place from July 7-8, 2016 in Curacao. This is a joint effort with Packet Clearing House (PCH) and local, regional, and global experts.

The announcement for this event can be found on CarPIF website: http://tinyurl.com/n9otl5m

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Member Engagement:Help Build the LINX of the Future

By Jeremy OrbellHotLINX Editor

IXP Development LINX is obviously no longer all about London due to the establishment of regional exchanges in the North of England, Scotland and Wales. The decision to launch LINX NoVA in the USA as well was born from in-depth member consultation and commitment to join. Any future exchanges will always be built on sensible and sustainable planning and a longer term strategy for growth. Vanity exchanges in areas where the market doesn’t need them is not the goal. So we would like you, the membership, to get involved with consultations throughout the year on potential new IXP locations.

In this special feature we look at LINX as a membership organisation, and how it operates for the benefit of those who join. The key to success is by engaging with the membership so LINX can ensure it is building the membership organisation the members really want.

We want to understand more about our members, and them to understand more about us, so during 2016 we will be running a project led by CEO, John Souter, and supported by the LINX Member Relations team. The aim is to gain a greater understanding of members’ needs by establishing a pool of individuals and organisations to form focus groups to supply data and ideas.

A Focus Group ApproachThe initial thinking is that this should be largely based on members who could easily make themselves available for such consultation. Availability, enthusiasm and commitment are probably most important at this stage. With that in mind LINX are most keen to encourage participation from large and small, content and access providers, including some of the large UK and international members.

Input, Output and TimingIt is not expected that LINX will call meetings of this group, although video conferencing can be organised to get the

benefit of group discussion. It is envisaged it will involve one-to-one discussions, with prepared papers and surveys.

The collected stimulus from this group that will feed into a number of areas. One area of focus will to try to define what the ‘IXP of the future’ will look like.

LINX InfrastructureIn 2016 there is to be a full-scale review of LINX’s Extreme LAN in London. This does not directly relate to the policy of providing resiliency of the main LINX network via two different equipment providers but looks at the overall make-up of its peering infrastructure. This is to ensure the network is robust and flexible enough to enable it to progress to the next stage of development as the drive towards 100G connectivity grows ever stronger. Again, consultation with membership is vital to ensure that the best way forward is achieved.

• LINX Infrastructure including Extreme LAN Consultation• Member Services• Benchmarking and Peering• IXP Development• Investigatory Powers Bill

Identified Areas of Focus

What are the Options?

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Investigatory Powers Bill This topic has already been covered in detail on page 8 of this issue of HotLINX but still needs highlighting within the context of this article. The Investigatory Powers Bill potentially has far-reaching consequences for LINX members. Malcolm Hutty has for many years been the voice of the membership on regulatory issues but to do this effectively LINX needs to know that it has a consensus to act on their behalf. This is why it’s important to gain feedback via LINX meetings and other channels to make sure it can act with confidence when dealing with government bodies and other relevant organisations.

Member ServicesWe want to hear from members on tools for the membership. This will require investigation of available member tools and APIs, and what LINX should develop. Colin Silcock, Software Engineering Manager at LINX, will work with both members and through Euro-IX to get a greater insight into the trends and demands of the membership.

Benchmarking and PeeringHave you ever wondered about how your peer percentage (peering vs transit) compared with other network operators? If you have, where do you get reliable data to compare? LINX is offering to be the ‘honest broker’ for benchmarking of member peering percentages.

Benchmarking clubs need an ‘honest broker’ with which they can entrust their data. The honest broker then typically aggregates and anonymises the data before feeding it back - LINX are offering to undertake this role

There are a number of issues to work through, but basically it is as simple as members providing their data through a portal, LINX aggregating the data provided and working out the averages and demographics.

LINX would then publish the findings in an anonymous form, either as one distribution curve or a set if demographic data is desired. This would be dependent on the relevant source information being provided by members.

Data in = data outOther benchmarking clubs (e.g. the one operated by Euro-IX) use the ‘data in = data out’ rule. It means if you don’t provide data you don’t get to see the output. This could be refined to provide the general distribution curve as a full membership report, but reserve the more detailed demographic data only for members who provide input.

Peering at LINX, or all peering?This doesn’t have to be one or the other as both can be done so doing both could be optional. Performance at LINX is the baseline and optionally you can tell LINX your overall percentage (see ‘data in = data out’ rule).

Network operator classificationsLINX could also provide a basic check-list for self-classification such as ‘are you an ISP, a content host etc’. LINX could also enable contributors to self-classify their peering policy. In addition, some internal data about connected capacity could be included which would enable the compilation of demographic data. This will enable the member to more closely benchmark themselves against similar network operators.

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How often should this be done?This process could be carried out as an annual exercise or a continuous open survey, where more data in elicits more data out. An alternative would be an annual ‘push’ to encourage members to provide data, yielding output an report to be presented at a member quarterly meeting.

There is huge scope for obtaining a huge amount of useful data but input from the membership is vital. If you have a view on how this project should proceed please email us at: benchmarking@linx.net.

For further information please note that the LINX91 member meeting in November John Souter gave a consultative presentation on this topic. The video footage can be viewed here: www.linx.net/benchmarking_peering.mp4 (member login required)

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Whilst traditional CPE routers/secure routers will inevitably still play a part and low cost EDDs might well become the weapon of choice for service providers successful in winning the lion’s share of a customer’s IT Services estate, the move made by Intel earlier this year towards making x86 ATOM cores suitable for dropping into DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modems and the recent launch of CPE

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Virtual firewall deployed at every WAN site, managed by a hosted instance of a central firewall management tool? Yup, still no problem!

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This customer service philosophy is central to everything we do, and we remain wholly accountable from the beginning to the end and beyond, for all our projects.

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DATE OF 2016 LINX AGMThe LINX93 AGM and Council Elections will take place

at the Congress Centre in London on Tuesday 17th May 2016.

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LINX91 Round Up November’s member meeting was one of the very best attended ever. 198 people from 101 different organisations were registered to attend, either in person or via the webcast. Of these 40 were first timers.

Pierre Bichon of platinum sponsor Juniper Networks got proceedings underway with a pre-event tutorial on re-architecting Metro Ethernet networks.

One of the most popular talks was Hibernia Atlantic’s Alasdair Wilkie explaining the background and challenges of building a transatlantic cable. Other talks included a London colocation scene update by Tim Anker and Claude Demuth speaking on behalf of guest IXP LU-CIX from Luxembourg.

LINX’s Head of Public Affairs, Malcolm Hutty, was again an eagerly anticipated speaker with his views on the only just published Investigatory Powers Bill.

Video and presentation PDFs from the full meeting can be viewed by the membership on the LINX website: www.linx.net/LINX91 (log-in required)

LINX Meetings

LINX92 & LINX93 AGM PreviewMeet with LINXHere’s a list of where you can meet with LINX representatives over the next few months.

PTC’16 17-20 January 2016

Honlulu, Hawaii, USAptc.org

UKNOF33 19 January 2016

London, UKindico.uknof.org.uk/event/uknof33

LINX92 15-16 February 2016

Congress Centre, London, UKwww.linx.net/LINX92

GCCM 2016 16-17 February 2016London, UKcarriercommunityevents.com/index.php/home-london-2016

ICANN55 5-10 March 2016

Marrakech, Morroccomeetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55

MENOG17 23-24 March 2016

(inc. Middle East Peering Forum)

Istanbul, Turkeywww.menog.org/meetings/menog-17

Capacity Balkans 5-6 April 2015

Bucharest, Romaniawww.capacityconferences.com/Capacity-Balkans

Data Centre World 12-13 April 2016

London, UKwww.datacentreworld.com

ITW 2016 10-13 May 2015

Chicago, Illinois, USAwww.internationaltelecomsweek.com

LINX93 AGM 16-17 May 2016

Congress Centre, London, UKwww.linx.net/LINX93(web page available from April 2016)

RIPE72 23-27 May 2016

Copenhagen, Denmarkripe72.ripe.net

The date of the next LINX member meeting is confirmed as the 15th and 16th February 2016. As per recent meetings LINX there is to be a pre-event tutorial as well as another technical panel session, this time on secure routing. There are also plans for a ConneXions reseller training session given by the LINX Business Development team.

Recent meetings have been very well attended so we would urge members to register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Registration for LINX92 is now open but will close on Wednesday 10th February at 12:00pm GMT. To sign up and view the current agenda please visit: www.linx.net/LINX92.

Thinking of standing for LINX Council this year? The LINX93 AGM and Council elections won’t be held until May but now is definitely the time to start thinking about making your intentions known. A valid nomination by a LINX member along with a formal confirmation that you are willing to stand is required, which must reach LINX no later than close of business on Monday 25th April 2015.

Thomas Mangin (Exa Networks), James Blessing (Keycom) and Niall Donaghy (GEANT) took part

in a detailed tools and automation session

2016 Events Calendar kicks off in Honolulu and LondonThe new year gets off to a flying start with two important industry events on opposite sides of the globe. These are the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) event in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the UK Network Operators’ Forum in London.

Ben Hedges, who has just commenced work for LINX America in the USA, will be attending PTC between the 17th and 20th of January. This event - which has the theme ‘Moving Forward by Reimagining Telecommunications’ - aims to facilitate the open exchange of ideas, supporting research, education, and training with a view to enhancing economic development in the region. With over 1800 delegates registered, it is important for LINX to be present to promote exchange activities in wider international markets.

Also in January is the 33rd Network Operators’ Forum. UKNOF’s remit is “distribution of clue”, so if the content of a talk fits with that ethos, they are pretty open minded about presentation topics as long as they are relevant to the community’s broad area of interest. If you are interested in contributing to the event programme please contact the event organisers.

UKNOF33 will take place on the 19th of January at 155 Bishopsgate - etc Venues next to London’s Liverpool Street station. For more information please visit: www.uknof.org.uk

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LINX CTO Richard Petrie (right)was a panelist in the round table discussion on Network IT-isation

LINX Business Development Executive, Mark Stokes (left), networks with TEX 2015 attendees

In November LINX sponsored the very first UK Telecom Exchange (TEX) event. The core event philosophy is to connect networks with the people behind these networks while maintaining a true, neutral playing field where all can meet, be inspired and conduct business.

TEX2015 formed part of DatacentreDynamics Converged Europe conference at the ExCeL Centre in London. This featured over 100+ hours of expert presentations, interactive workshops and innovation labs and an Expo floor explored the Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Big Data, cloud, SDN and more.

LINX were delighted to be invited to take part in the TEX round table discussion on ‘Network IT-isation: Shaping the Carrier Future with NFV, Open Source, and SDN technologies’. Chief Technical Officer, Richard Petrie, was LINX’s representative on the panel and he was joined by Erick Contag, COO at GlobeNet and Greg Cubbon of Hibernia Networks.

The next Telecom Exchange event is due to take place in New York on 22nd June 2016. For more information please visit: www.thetelecomexchange.com

Telecom Exchange 2015

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Industry EventsEvents Round UpMembers of LINX’s Business Development team were in Paris for Capacity Europe in early November. With over 1,700 attendees from 77 countries Capacity Europe is understandably recognised as an essential meeting point for the telecoms industry. Also in November was the 19th AfricaCom conference. Held in Cape Town, South Africa, this is one of the largest industry events of its kind welcoming 10,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers and 375+ exhibitors. LINX sponsored the Open Access 3 networking evening and LINX’s Jennifer Holmes, was on hand to meet with guests in the rather unusual setting of an aquarium!

www.ptc.org

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LINX America Inc.We reported in the last issue of HotLINX that LINX CMO, Ben Hedges, was to relocate to the United States to head up LINX’s US operations. We are pleased to say that all the relevant visas have now been obtained and Ben’s new role began, in effect, on January 4th.

In order to have a clear separation between the LINX Ltd operations in the UK and our work in the USA, a new subsidiary company, LINX America Inc has been created. LINX America is a marketing and promotions company that will primarily be concerned with marketing and promoting any LINX

operated Internet exchanges in North America as well as encouraging new networks from the region to become LINX members.

Offices have been acquired in Ashburn, North Virginia, and are ideally located for the LINX NoVA exchange there.

For further information please visit the website: www.linx-america.net.

LINX News ExtraLINX launch new websiteLINX is pleased to announce the relaunch of its website. The new site, which goes live in early January 2016, features a range of dynamic, interactive and customisable content plus plenty of technical information for members. It has a simpler approach to navigation with clearer network statistics, product and service pages along with news sections, events and blogs etc. In addition there are mini sites for all of LINX’s regional exchanges using the same styling as the main site but with their own colour schemes to differentiate between them.

A key part of the LINX website will be the member area and this has been extensively redeveloped from previous versions. The ‘My LINX’ dashboard pulls all its information from new APIs, allowing for easier future updates. All widgets are moveable and customisable and member choices will be retained. Options will include key contacts and on-call engineers, LINX service availability, member events, traffic flow figures, SPN statistics, lists of latest connected members and the status

Recruitment NewsEleni FragiadakiSenior Software EngineerEleni Fragiadaki has joined the LINX Technology team as Senior Software Engineer. Prior to taking up her current position she’d worked in web development roles for nearly ten years, both as a freelancer, and also as a member of software development teams.

Eleni said, “So far, my focus has been the LINX Stats system working on the frontend, middleware and database layers with a particular focus on the scalability and performance of the system. It has been a very interesting period and I am really looking forward to the projects to come.”

In her spare time Eleni is pursuing a PhD on Citation analysis and bibliometrics.

Pia GerhardtSenior Network EngineerThe LINX Technology team has also welcomed Pia Gerhardt as Senior Network Engineer. Pia has worked in systems and network engineering roles for many years including positions at the BBC, Easynet, Globalaxs and The Cloud.

Pia told us, “I’ve really enjoyed my time at LINX so far and it’s great to be part of such a friendly and knowledgeable team. Being a network engineer at LINX is a varied and interesting role that allows me to use the skills I already have, but also offers me the opportunity to develop many more.”

of maintenance tickets. Also available on the My LINX platform control panel will be graphs for a member’s own network traffic across LINX.

To view the new website please visit: www.linx.net.

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Dr. Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair Emeritus and founding member of the RIPE community, died aged 72 on 1 December 2015. HotLINX looks back at the career of one of the most popular members of the Internet communityLINX were saddened to hear of the untimely death of Dr. Rob Blokzijl on 1 December 2015. Rob, RIPE Chair Emeritus and founding member of the RIPE community, died at his home in the Netherlands aged 72. He had led RIPE during for nearly a quarter of a century, only stepping down as Chairman in 2013.

As one of the founders of RIPE, Rob Blokzijl personified all the attributes that have seen the community grow into such a positive force for bringing together those who care about the development of the Internet.

Rob’s background was at the High Energy Physics Institute in Amsterdam and later at CERN in Geneva helping build computer networks essential to that branch of science. The burgeoning IP networking communities in Europe in the early 1980s were very much beneficiaries of his work in this area.

For more than three decades Rob had forged a reputation as an Internet leader and pioneer. His work with RIPE, the RIPE NCC, AMS-IX, ICANN, Nominet and NATO was very much respected.

When RIPE was established in 1989, Rob co-authored the RIPE Terms of Reference. A key passage stated that, “The object of RIPE is to ensure the necessary administrative and technical coordination to allow the operation and expansion of a pan-European IP network.” His efforts, vision and expertise in his role as the RIPE Chairman were of paramount importance in ensuring the

growth of this respected forum. Indeed, RIPE has acted as a model for many subsequent community organisations the world over.

Another of Rob’s key contributions was the creation of the RIPE NCC (RIPE Network Coordination Centre). The RIPE NCC was the first Regional Internet Registry anywhere in the world, and this model has become the accepted method of organising Internet infrastructure in a regionally specific and efficient way.

Among Rob’s many talents was being able to engage with all elements of the Internet community, from government and experienced operators to the more recent members of RIPE. He brought much common sense to otherwise complicated discussions and his mantra of “keep it simple” is one that he will certainly be remembered for.

Those who knew Rob personally will certainly miss his sense of humour. Nigel Titley, Executive Board Chairman for the RIPE NCC since 1998 and a former LINX Board member, said:

“My abiding memory of Rob was his passion for the place of the community in the running of the Internet. This was the underpinning of all that he said and did. He had the rare ability to cut through verbiage and obfuscation to the truth beneath. This sometimes made him enemies, but far more often friends. I will miss his guidance and friendship.”

Nigel Titley, RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman

His contribution has been officially recognised beyond the Internet industry, notably in receiving Dutch royal honours by being awarded the title of Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau in 2010. Only this year he was presented with the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for his outstanding service to the data communications community.

To many in the RIPE community Rob was the voice of reason. He was also a mentor, a trusted confidante and importantly, a friend. His legacy stretches beyond physical networks but to the wider Internet community he helped build. He will be sorely missed.

HotLINX would like to thank RIPE for its assistance in compiling this obituary. Our condolences go out to his family and friends at this time.

ObituaryDr. Rob Blokzijl

RIPE Chair Emeritus and founding member of

the RIPE community,

Dr. Rob Blokzijl, founding member and Chairman Emeritus of RIPE, received the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award during a ceremony at the 93rd IETF Meeting in Prague in July. A video highlighting his achievements can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHyQ04xak4

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LINX AssociatesDNS BelgiumDNS Belgium International Peter Vergote, Legal & Corporate Affairs Manager at DNS Belgium, was recently elected board member of ccNSO for Europe. This organisation is one of the three ICANN supporting organisations and looks after the interests of all country codes, such as .be.

DNS Belgium has been active on the international stage for a long time. It takes part in discussions and meetings both within ICANN and in CENTR. As manager of .be, DNS Belgium actively monitors what is being discussed and decided at international level and brings any arguments to bear as well.

DNS Belgium became a member of ccNSO in 2009, just like a large number of other registries of European ccTLDs. Together with GNSO and ASO, ccNSO forms the trio of ICANN’s supporting organisations and these three organisations discuss proposals and submit them to the ICANN Board. In this way, they are turned into policy decisions. One of the most important subjects discussed within ccNSO this year is the transfer of the IANA stewardship and ICANN’s responsibility to the internet community.

Peter’s election is important for DNS Belgium because it is keen to assume its responsibility internationally even more than before. Peter’s term of office will formally commence as of the 55th ICANN meeting in March 2016 and will last for three years.

Dyn ResearchThe challenge of maintaining Internet connectivity in conflict regionsIn November, Dyn Research combined active performance measurement and BGP routing analysis to reveal what may be a key shift in the Syrian conflict: the restoration of Internet service in the northern city of Aleppo. A shift in upstream transit from Turkish providers to the Syrian incumbent’s traditional Mediterranean submarine cable connectivity suggests that cross-border connectivity through rebel-controlled territory into Turkey may no longer be a tenable alternative.

What are LINX Associate Members?Like LINX, associate members are usually ‘not-for-profit’ organisations. They are members in all respects but they have no voting rights and LINX does not charge them for membership. www.linx.net/good/assocmember.html

RIPE NCCGet Certified through the RIPE NCC AcademyThe RIPE NCC Academy is a virtual learning environment that allows anyone to complete an online course and receive recognition for their knowledge. Participants earn a certificate when they score above 70% and those who are confident that they already know a subject can skip the training content and complete the activities straight away.

A RIPE Database Expert course and an Introduction to IPv6 course are currently available, and a third course is being developed that will help staff from LIRs learn about RIPE NCC procedures.

Since the Academy was launched at RIPE 69, more than 400 certificates have been issued and 1,790 people have enrolled in a course.

You can get started here: https://academy.ripe.net

RouteViewsroute-views2 show command restrictionsDue to the critical role that route-views2 plays in data file collection, the route-views2 router now has a more restricted set of command-line commands. There are no full table dump commands. It was found that a full table dump on route-views2 took over 60 seconds, an excessive load for the router, thus interfering with the route collection process. Users who previously issued this command on this router are encouraged to download the RIBs that appear at two hour intervals, and to “bgpdump” the RIBs to ASCII. If you need assistance decoding the MRT files please email: help@routeviews.org.

Internet Systems ConsortiumKea 1.0 ReleasedISC released Kea 1.0 on December 29th. Kea 1.0 is the new alternative to ISC DHCP (dhcpd), ISC’s older open source DHCP distribution. Kea was developed for DHCPv6 specifically and has all the DHCPv4 and v6 features needed for a corporate datacenter deployment or a public wifi service, including optional database backends, hooks extensions, DDNS, lease expiration, pxe boot, host reservations and prefix delegation. You can find Kea at https://www.isc.org/kea/ or at kea.isc.org.

NetnodNurani Nimpuno elected to the NRO NC / ASO, representing the RIPE regionNetnod’s head of Outreach and Communications, Nurani Nimpuno, was elected to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) at a Plenary session of the RIPE 71 Meeting in Bucharest on 20 November. Nurani will represent the RIPE region on the NRO NC within the ICANN structure and will serve a three-year term from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018.

Peter Vergote, DNS Belgium

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New LINX MembersHere’s a list of LINX members who have connected since the beginning of October 2015. In all there have been 31 new connections from 15 different territories. These include 11 from the UK, three from Germany and the Netherlands, two from Italy and South Africa plus one each from Armenia, Australia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Russia, Singapore and the USA. aTech Media AS60899

Beaming AS48620

Boosty AS202222

Clouditalia Telecomunicazioni AS15589

ColocationIX AS61955

Connectivity I.T. AS58511

Cyprus Telecoms Authority AS6866

Exascale AS61049

Freethought Internet AS41000

G3comms AS198781

Global Communication Net AS12615

Hostkey AS57043

Istituto di Informatica e Telematica AS197440

ISprime AS23393

JSK Severnoe Volokno AS51028

Knipp Medien und Kommunikation AS48519

Leitwert AS39063

Neelana T/A Teleo Comms AS327825

Netrouting AS47869

Pure IP AS204264

Riot Games AS6507

Sensical Services AS59933

Simafelagid AS44735

Starhub AS4657

Syscomm AS56990

TeleMagic AS57262

Ucom AS8932

VTSL AS49415

Wifirst AS52075

Wirulink AS37564

Xconnect24 AS260

You can view a complete list of members on the LINX website: www.linx.net/about/memberlist

Our LINX stats page includes information regarding our local exchanges, plus other notable figures. The above graphic shows the headline numbers for the exchange as a whole but we felt that readers would be interested to see more detail such as available routes and also breakdowns of figures from the UK regional exchanges in England, Scotland and Wales plus LINX NoVA in the USA.

685Member ASNs66 Countries

New LINXapplications in 201560 Member-facing 100GigE ports135

Connected member ports 1632864 Member-facing

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Please note: LAN applications may contain ports on multiple LANs (Juniper, Extreme, IXManchester, IXScotland, IXCardiff and LINX NoVA.) These figures show applications only, not physically connected ports.

New Member Applications by UK LAN in 2015Juniper LAN 105 Extreme LAN 47 IXManchester 10 IXScotland 2 IXCardiff 18