October 2021 - cooperation-wg

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Live Blog
by Gergana Petrova 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Dear colleagues, RIPE NCC staff will be sharing key moments and takeaways from the sessions at the global IGF taking place this week. You can already find a few posts there from the week of pre-events: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/igf-2020-liveblog Let us know what you thought. Any feedback and comments are very welcome! Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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RIPE 83 agenda Cooperation Working Group , Tuesday Nov 23rd 16:00 -17:00 CET or 15:00 UTC - open call for agenda topics
by Desiree Miloshevic 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

Dear members We hope that you had a productive time since the last RIPE82 meeting and that you are staying well and healthy. Please have a look at our draft agenda and a call for new topics for RIPE83. 1. Welcome note WG Co-Chairs 2. Agenda bashing 3. Cooperation Working Group Co-Chair Selection 4. Declaration of Principles/ RIPE NCC’s submission to the EU 5. Update on NIS2 developments 6. IGF 2021- Dec 6-12 Katowice, Poland, hybrid meeting Remarks and Q&A session with Anriette Esterhuysen, Chair of the UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group We look forward to your comments and your agenda topic suggestions! RIPE 83 will be yet another virtual meeting and we look forward to seeing you online again. Desiree, Julf and Achilleas — Cooperation WG Co-Chairs

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RIPE cooperation WG Co-chair selection
by Johan Helsingius 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Dear cooperation WG members, We are hereby inviting interested parties to express their interest in serving as co-chairs for the cooperation WG. Two of us, Julf and Achilleas, are up for re-election, and while we both are happy to continue as co-chairs, the group might feel that it is time for more new blood. The Cooperation WG chair Selection process https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/coop/cooperation-wg-chai… states that interested parties have two weeks to make their interest known via the mailing list, or directly to the Chair/s. That means a deadline of 8 November, thus hopefully making it possible to announce the results by the RIPE83 WG session on Tuesday, 23 November. Your Cooperation WG Co-Chairs Julf, Achilleas and Desiree

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Update on NIS2: European Parliament votes to exclude DNS root servers
by Marco Hogewoning 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, Last night the European Parliament's Committee on Industry Research and Energy (ITRE) approved a set of amendments on the NIS 2 proposal, with a majority of 70 votes to 3 and one abstention. The MEPs also voted in favour of opening the negotiations with the other institutions. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211022IPR15610/cybersec… Crucially for this community, these amendments include changes to the way the DNS service providers are included and importantly, the parliament's proposal is to remove the DNS root-servers from the scope of the proposed directive. We are pleased to find the parliament and its rapporteur, Mr Groothuis, agree with our views that the DNS root and the root-servers should not be subject to (national) legislation, quoting the justification from his report: "Root name servers should be out of scope; regulating them is contrary to the EU’s vision of a “single, open, neutral, free, secure and un-fragmented network” and could encourage and empower states advocating for a top-down, state-controlled Internet governance approach, instead of the multi-stakeholder approach." To be clear, this is just one step in the legislative process, but a very important milestone. Meanwhile on the side of the EU member states ("EU Council") The Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues is also busy discussing their views and find consensus on the Council's position. Once that is done, the negotiations between Parliament, Council and Commission can start and develop a final compromise text. Although these meetings are closed, we have been receiving information that the exclusion of root is being discussed. We hope to find that the member states also support our view that matters concerning the root-server operations should be addressed in a multistakeholder setting and will agree to exclude the DNS root-servers from the proposal. We will send further updates to this list when we have them, Best, Marco Hogewoning RIPE NCC

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EU Update: LIBE Committee votes on NIS2 and CER
by Marco Hogewoning 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, I'd like to provide a short update on some of the European legislative proposals which we are tracking, especially as these proposals probably have wider implications for the Internet industry and the members of this community. This update concerns decisions made by the European Parliament's commission on Civil Liberties (LIBE) regarding amendments on two different proposals: One being a new set of rules for providers of critical infrastructure, or "resilience of critical entities" (proposal 2020/0365). The other set of amendments concerns the proposal for a new Network and Information Security directive, or NIS2 in short (proposal 2020/0359). Important in the amendments on the critical entities draft is that MEPs are proposing to alter the scope of the directive and suggest to include language that defines "European significance" for entities that offer a similar service in at least 3 member states. With agreement to this set of amendments the parliament has now adopted its position and is ready to enter the next stage of the process, the so called trilogue in which a final text will be negotiated between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council (member states). A press release, which has references to the directive and the proposed amendments is available at https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211006IPR14307/essentia… The same committee also discussed and agreed to a set of amendments concerning the NIS2 proposal. However, in this case the parliament's ITRE committee is leading on the dossier. This means that the proposed changes from the LIBE committee will be brought as input to the ITRE deliberations and have to be merged with theirs to form a final set of proposed changes that the ITRE committee will then vote on. This final vote is now scheduled for 28 October. Unfortunately not all the amendments are publicly available but the main opinion of the LIBE committee, which contains a large set of them, can be found at https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-PA-693822_EN.pdf We will continue to monitor the developments as the ITRE proposed amendments also contain changes in language and scope, which would remove the DNS root-servers from the scope of the directive. As I explained above, the parliamentary vote on amended text is only the first step towards the final negotiations to find a compromise. We believe however that, if the ITRE committee agrees to exclude the DNS root servers, it would mark a significant milestone. Such a position would provide a great starting point for the trilogue. Where we hope the other parties involved will also agree that the operations of the DNS root name-servers should should be excluded from the scope. On the grounds that core functionality like this, having global significance, should be left to the multistakeholder model of Internet governance. Regards, Marco Hogewoning Manager Public Policy and Internet Governance - RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Securing Critical Infrastructure - New Regulations Mandate Control
by Alun Davies 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, The EU Commission’s directive on the resilience of critical entities (RCE) will set cybersecurity requirements for organisations responsible for managing critical infrastructure. In this guest post on RIPE Labs, Sebastiaan Bosman from Cybersprint talks about how this is going to work and the potential impact: https://labs.ripe.net/author/sebastiaan-bosman/securing-critical-infrastruc… Kind regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC

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