February 2014 - ncc-announce - mailman.ripe.net

[GM] RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2014: Registration Open
by Axel Pawlik 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear RIPE NCC member, Registration for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2014 is now open: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/registration The GM will be held on Wednesday, 14 May from 16:00-20:00 (UTC +2) at the Sofitel Warsaw Victoria Hotel in Poland, adjacent to the RIPE 68 Meeting, which runs from 12-16 May. The GM begins with presentation of the reports from the RIPE NCC in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group at 16:00. The formal, members-only section of the GM starts immediately after the RIPE NCC Services Working Group. Information on the GM is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014 Electronic Voting ----------------- Today, 27 February 2014, all organisations that have been members of the RIPE NCC for longer than six months will receive an invitation to vote electronically. Following a resolution approved by members at the last GM, registering to vote electronically no longer requires sending identification to the RIPE NCC. All those listed in the LIR Portal as contacts for RIPE NCC members will receive the invitation to register. The registration process takes less than a minute to complete. A video demonstrating the process is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/electronic-voting-registr… Please ensure you are listed as an contact person for your organisation in the LIR Portal to ensure you receive the invitation to register. A reminder will be sent in April 2014 to those who have not registered. Proxy Voting ------------ You can be represented by a third party who is not an authorised employee or director of your organisation. If you wish to do this, please fill out the proxy form and send it to us using the details on the form by 30 April 2014. Any proxy sent to us after this date will not be valid. The proxy form is available to download at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/proxy-voting Executive Board Elections -------------------------- There is a call for nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board. All information on the elections and how to nominate candidates is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/call-for-nominations A new document outlining the RIPE NCC Executive Board functions and expectations is now available: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/ripe-ncc-executive-bo… All those considering standing for election to the board are advised to read this information. Participation Overview ----------------------- A short overview of the ways you can participate in the GM proceedings is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/participation-overview If you have any questions about the GM, please email us at <agm(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important Dates 27 Feb - Open GM registration 27 Feb - Call for nominations to Executive Board 27 Feb - Open electronic voting registration 16 Apr - Publish all GM documents, including RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2013 23 Apr - Close nominations for Executive Board elections 30 April - Deadline for proxy vote nominations 30 April - Deadline for members to propose resolutions 30 April - Deadline to publish final GM Agenda 13 May - Close registration for electronic voting 14 May - RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2014 begins with main meeting 15 May - RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2014 ends with vote announcement

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[GM] Call for Nominations to RIPE NCC Executive Board
by Axel Pawlik 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear RIPE NCC member, In compliance with the RIPE NCC Articles of Association (AoA), the RIPE NCC is calling for nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board. There will be an election for three vacant seats at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) on 14-15 May 2014, which are for three-year terms. Two seats are to fill the places currently held by Fahad AlShirawi and Christian Kaufmann, whose terms expire in May 2014. A third seat is available following the membership's approval of a resolution to expand the Executive Board in October 2013. A new document outlining the RIPE NCC Executive Board functions and expectations is now available: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/ripe-ncc-executive-bo… All those considering standing for election to the board are advised to read this information. Nominations ----------- A nomination for the appointment of a member of the Executive Board requires the written support of at least five members. You must be a RIPE NCC member and a registered LIR contact to nominate a candidate or support a nomination. Nominations and support submissions should include the following information: - Your full name - Your organisation - Your LIR RegID - Name of the candidate you wish to nominate/support Nominations and support submissions must be submitted by email to <agm-nominations(a)ripe.net> by Wednesday, 23 April 2014 following the guidelines outlined in article 9 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association. Excerpts from the Articles of Association are available at the end of this email. Voting -------- Voting for the appointment of the RIPE NCC Executive Board members will take place at the upcoming GM. The GM will be held on Wednesday, 14 May from 16:00-20:00 (UTC +2) at the Sofitel Warsaw Victoria Hotel in Poland, adjacent to the RIPE 68 Meeting, which runs from 12-16 May. The GM begins with presentation of the reports from the RIPE NCC in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group at 16:00. The formal, members-only section of the GM starts immediately after the RIPE NCC Services Working Group. You must be registered for the GM if you wish to attend and vote in the Executive Board election. You can register now at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/registration Information on the GM is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014 If you would like to vote but cannot attend the GM, there are two options that enable you to vote in the Executive Board elections: 1. Electronic Voting Registration to vote electronically at the GM will open later today on 27 February 2014. All RIPE NCC members who are registered contacts will be sent invitations by email to register to vote electronically. If you wish to vote electronically, you must register to do so by 13 May 2014 at 14:00 (UTC +2). Please ensure you are listed as an contact person for your organisation in the LIR Portal to ensure you receive the invitation to register. A reminder will be sent in April 2014 to those who have not registered. 2. Proxy Voting You can be represented by a third party who is not an authorised employee or director of your organisation. If you wish to do this, please fill out the proxy form and send it to us using the details on the form by 30 April 2014. Any proxy sent to us after this date will not be valid. The proxy form is available to download at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/may-2014/proxy-voting If you have any questions about the GM, please email us at <agm(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important Dates 27 Feb - Open GM registration 27 Feb - Call for nominations to Executive Board 27 Feb - Open electronic voting registration 16 Apr - Publish all GM documents, including RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2013 23 Apr - Close nominations for Executive Board elections 30 April - Deadline for proxy vote nominations 30 April - Deadline for members to propose resolutions 30 April - Deadline to publish final GM Agenda 13 May - Close registration for electronic voting 14 May - RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2014 begins with main meeting 15 May - RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2014 ends with vote announcement Excerpts from the Articles of Association 8.2 The Executive Board of the Association shall consist of at least three and at most seven natural persons. They shall be members of the Board in a personal capacity and do not have to be Members of the Association. Employees of the Association cannot be appointed members of the Executive Board. 9.1 The members of the Executive Board shall be appointed by the General Meeting from a list of nominees to be drawn up by the Members. A nomination for the appointment of a member of the Executive Board shall need the written support of at least five Members and shall be submitted no later than three weeks before the General Meeting. If the number of nominees exceeds the number of vacancies, the General Meeting shall elect Executive Board members in accordance with Article 18.4.

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[news] RIPE NCC Website Restructuring Project
by Mihnea-Costin Grigore 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, In 2014, we will be working on a project to restructure the RIPE NCC website to provide a better web experience for our users. This project comes in response to feedback received via the RIPE NCC Survey 2013 and various other feedback mechanisms. The specific action items identified in the survey were to: - Improve navigation, structure and usability - Improve the search functionality Work on the website will take place throughout 2014, and we will involve RIPE NCC members and the RIPE community in the project at various stages. We'll be asking for feedback via a survey on our website, conducting interviews with users and reporting back at all stages on developments. From next week, we will also deploy a web analytics tool on our website to help us better understand how it is being used. We will use Piwik for this purpose, free/open-source software that is installed on our own servers. The information gathered will be anonymised, it will not leave our network and the software will obey the "Do Not Track" option for those who would prefer not to have their activity on the website measured. The data will be used solely to help us improve the website. More information on Piwik is available at: http://piwik.org/ All the feedback on the website received in the RIPE NCC Survey 2013, including the full list of action areas for the RIPE NCC, is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/info/surveys/ripe-ncc-surv… If you have any questions or comments about the project, please let me know. Kind regards, Mihnea-Costin Grigore Web Services Team Leader RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Webinars - new dates
by Training Services 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the launch of new dates for our Webinars. The RIPE NCC Webinars are live and take only one hour. You can interact with our trainers without leaving your desk. We focus on the topics and issues most important for LIRs. Register now at https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/e-learning/webinars Participation is limited to 20 people, so don't hesitate if you want to take part! If you have questions, please email <training(a)ripe.net>. We look forward to seeing you online. Kind regards, RIPE NCC Training Services

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[meetings] SEE 3 Meeting in Sofia: Share Your Expertise
by SEE Meeting Team 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, The SEE 3 / RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place from 14-15 April 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and we are asking for your help in creating an excellent programme for attendees. If you are an experienced network operator willing to share your expertise with peers in South East Europe, the SEE Programme Committee (PC) is now accepting presentation proposals until 7 March. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Managing IPv4 scarcity in operations - IPv6 deployment - Network operator best practices - Commercial transactions involving IPv4 addresses - Data center technologies - Network and DNS operations - Internet governance and regulatory practices - Network and routing security - Content delivery - Internet peering and mobile data exchange - Efforts to establish Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in the region - Reports from existing IXPs - Regional success stories Submit your talk by 7 March at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/regional-meetings/see-3/cfp The SEE 3/ RIPE NCC Regional Meeting will be held at the Kempinski Hotel Zografski from 14-15 April 2014. The meeting is free to attend and open to everyone. You can register at: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/see-3/registration If you have any queries or suggestions about the meeting, please email <seeurope(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Gergana Petrova Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Hosts Largest Roundtable Meeting To Date
by Chris Buckridge 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, On Wednesday, 19 February, the RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators in Brussels. Around 60 representatives of governments, national regulators and industry participated, making it the largest RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting to date. The agenda of the meeting covered a range of topics including a particular focus on developments in Internet governance. Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC Director of External Relations, led a wide-ranging discussion about the increase in groups and forums dealing with Internet governance issues, including the recently formed 1Net and the upcoming NETmundial meeting in Brazil. He stressed the RIPE NCC’s strong support for the Internet Governance Forum as the key venue for multi-stakeholder consideration of such topics. Alain Van Gaever, Co-Chair of the RIPE Cooperation Working Group, gave attendees an update on recent activities in the working group, including the workplan proposed by the three co-chairs late last year. The afternoon session looked at the RIPE NCC’s recent and upcoming engagement activities in two areas: the institutions of the European Union, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This led into general discussion of capacity-building activities and cooperation between the public and private sectors. The RIPE NCC would like to acknowledge the cooperation of the European Commission in coordinating the organisation of this meeting adjacent to a meeting of the Commission’s High Level Group on Internet Governance (HLIG). This cooperation has been vital in reaching out to new public sector representatives and facilitating their participation. The RIPE NCC will hold its next Roundtable Meeting in the second half of 2014. If you have any questions or comments regarding RIPE NCC Roundtable Meetings, please send them via email to <roundtable(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Chris Buckridge Senior External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Training Courses April-June 2014
by Training Services 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Dear Colleagues, Our training team travels the RIPE NCC service region to deliver training courses to our members without any additional cost. Over the next few months, we'll be in St. Julian's, Zagreb, Sofia, Brussels, Edinburgh, Tehran, Helsinki, Moscow, Kiel, Almaty, Reykjavik, Geneva. Visit the following page to register and to check which training courses we are giving in your area: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses The RIPE NCC delivers the following training courses: - LIR Training Course - Database Training Course - IPv6 for LIRs Training Course - Routing Security Training Course - 3 day Deploying IPv6 Training Course (New) - DNSSec Training Course (New) For more information visit: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/courses With kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager

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[news] The RIPE NCC Welcomes 10,000th Member
by Axel Pawlik 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that today, 18 February 2014, the RIPE NCC welcomed its 10,000th member into the association. This is an exciting milestone that the entire RIPE NCC membership should be proud of. The RIPE NCC fully embraces the addition of so many new members from all 76 countries in its service region and from an expanding range of industries. The RIPE NCC is committed to providing support and guidance to all its members and fostering a spirit of cooperation among them. We believe that the open processes of the RIPE NCC are fundamental to the expansion of the membership. These processes are developed in line with feedback received from our members and the policies decided by the RIPE community, so the current growth rate is testament to the successful collaboration among the RIPE NCC, its members and the wider community. While this is a landmark to be proud of, we are also conscious that such growth brings its own challenges in terms of integrating new members. New members are joining from all corners of the service region, and we must be diligent in reaching out to these organisations and ensuring that they feel fully part of the membership, while maintaining excellent support and service for our longer-term members. Personally, I find it extremely rewarding to see members from very different countries and industries coming together in person and online to discuss common issues and concerns, and deciding among themselves the best way forward for the association. The RIPE NCC management and the Executive Board are prepared to meet any challenges that the organisation may face going forward. An increased membership, reflecting the full diversity of the Internet community, allows us to work together with a greater pool of knowledge and it gives us a much stronger voice than if we were to proceed separately. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all members for their support and help in bringing us to our current position. We look forward to working together to increase the strength of the membership in the coming years. A dynamically updated graph showing the current membership statistics is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/number-of-lirs Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE 68: Registration is Now Open!
by RIPE Meeting 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, Registration for the RIPE 68 Meeting is now open! You can register at: https://ripe68.ripe.net/register RIPE 68 will take place at the Sofitel Warsaw Victoria Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, from 12-16 May 2014. --------------- Ticket Options --------------- - Day tickets cost EUR 125. - Week tickets for EUR 350 are also available. These tickets are valid for the full five days of the RIPE Meeting. - Students are eligible for a discounted week ticket for a single payment of EUR 50. This ticket provides entry to all five days of the RIPE Meeting. - All new RIPE NCC members are eligible for two free week tickets. More information about ticket options and costs is available at: https://ripe68.ripe.net/attend ------------------------------------ Discounted Accommodation at the Meeting Venue ------------------------------------ The Sofitel Warsaw Victoria Hotel offers RIPE 68 attendees discounted rates on its hotel rooms. These exclusive rates are valid until 9 April 2014. Monday to Thursday: 529,20zł (EUR 127) per night Friday to Sunday: 388,80zł (EUR 93) per night Rates include breakfast, WiFi and VAT. You can find booking information and alternative hotel options near the meeting venue at: https://ripe68.ripe.net/venue/hotels ------------------------------------ RIPE 68 Plenary Presentations Submission Deadline - 2 March ------------------------------------ The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is seeking presentation proposals from the RIPE community for the plenary sessions, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), workshops, tutorials, and lightning talks at RIPE 68. Find out how to submit a proposal: https://ripe68.ripe.net/programme/cfp Proposals must be submitted using the meeting submission system and no later than 2 March 2014. Proposals submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available basis. ------------------------------------ RIPE 68 on Twitter and Facebook ------------------------------------ Follow the RIPE Meeting organisation team on Twitter: @ripemeeting You can also join Twitter conversations about the upcoming meeting using hashtag #RIPE68. Join the Facebook RIPE Meetings page: https://www.facebook.com/ripemeetings See you in Warsaw in May! Kind regards, Gergana Petrova Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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Network Maintenance: 17/02/2014 17:00-19:00 (UTC)
by Menno Schepers 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, On Monday, 17 February 2014, between 17:00 and 19:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on its core network infrastructure. There will be intermittent access to all services hosted behind AS3333 by the RIPE NCC during this period. Public DNS services operated by the RIPE NCC should be available as normal. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact <ops(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Menno Schepers Senior Systems Engineer RIPE NCC

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