Dear colleagues,

Last week, on 31 January 2018, we held a one-day workshop for Russian Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in Moscow. The workshop was attended by 19 participants.

The event followed the format of similar LEA capacity-building efforts in other parts of our service region. LEAs learned about the RIR system and the respective roles of RIPE and the RIPE NCC, and there were discussions on the RIPE Database and the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP).

The concerns of LEAs were primarily around issues of attribution (knowing who is using an IP address at a given point in time). IPv6 deployment and the Internet of Things (IoT) were also topics of interest.

We went over the current policy proposals in the PDP, including the proposal initiated by the LEA community, 2017-02, "Regular abuse-c Validation" and encouraged LEAs to participate.

Last year, the RIPE NCC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, an agreement which helped to make this initiative possible.

We will be hosting similar capacity-building events with LEAs in Armenia and the UAE later this week.

You can find the agenda and presentations from the workshop here:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/lea-meetings/ripe-ncc-lea-meeting-31-january-2018

Kind regards