December 2019 - ncc-announce - mailman.ripe.net

[news] RIPE NCC Billing Procedure 2020 Published
by RIPE NCC Management 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, We are currently preparing our invoices for next year which will be sent to all members in February 2020. If you want to see how your annual contribution will be calculated or find payment information, please refer to the RIPE NCC Billing Procedure 2020, which is now published. You can find this here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/payment/ripe-ncc-billing-pr… Kind regards Gwen van Berne Chief Financial Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] 130th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes and Minutes
by RIPE NCC Management 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 130th Meeting on 12 December 2019. The draft minutes of this meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2019/minutes-130th-ri… The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent for the membership that it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes. - The Executive Board introduced a new action for the drafting of a document that will define and describe how the RIPE NCC Executive Board functions, engages and works among itself. - In support of the ongoing development of a transparent conflict of interest policy that applies to RIPE NCC staff and RIPE NCC Executive Board members, the Executive Board agreed that all Internet and industry related activities will be published in the biographies of RIPE NCC Executive Board members on the RIPE NCC's website. - The RIPE NCC Legal team will take on the task of producing a new proposal regarding Meeting Presenter Terms and Conditions. The proposal will be produced in coordination with the RIPE Working Group Chairs and the RIPE Programme Committee and will be presented for the review of the RIPE NCC Executive Board. - The RIPE Chair continues work on a draft procedure describing funding for RIPE Working Group Chairs. The procedure will provide clear terms and conditions for applications for funding. The draft procedure will be presented to the RIPE Working Group Chairs mailing list for discussion. - The Executive Board received reports from the RIPE NCC Management Team, the HR Director and the Chief Financial Officer. Kind regards RIPE NCC Management Team Felipe Victolla Silveira, Gwen van Berne and Kaveh Ranjbar

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[news] RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2020 Published
by RIPE NCC Management 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2020 is now available. This definitive document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from our membership. It outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year and the associated costs for each activity. The document is available at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-735 The main points from this year's Activity Plan and Budget are: - Our budget will increase by 4% - No increase to our FTE count - A forecast revenue decrease of 12% in 2020, as we expect to end the year with approximately 1,500 fewer LIR accounts than we started with - The membership fee remains at EUR 1,400 - There is an anticipated surplus of 3,332 kEUR to potentially be redistributed to the membership - The cost per LIR is expected to be EUR 1,498, up from EUR 1,367 in the 2019 Budget Feedback we received from the Executive Board and from the membership at last October's General Meeting (GM) did not result in any significant changes since the draft version was published in September. Kind regards RIPE NCC Management Team Felipe Victolla Silveira, Gwen van Berne and Kaveh Ranjbar

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[training] RIPE NCC Webinars January - March 2020
by Training Services 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinars scheduled for January, February and March 2020. The RIPE NCC Webinars are live, free and take only one hour. You can interact with our trainers without leaving your desk. We focus on the topics and issues that are relevant to you. ------------------ January Webinars ------------------ - Internet Routing Registry Webinar (Thursday, January 16, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - IPv6 Addressing Plan Webinar (Thursday, January 23, 10:00-11:00 UTC) --------------------- February Webinars --------------------- - IPv6 in the RIPE Database Webinar (Tuesday, February 4, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RPKI Webinar (Wednesday, (February 5, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - Introduction to the RIPE Database Webinar (Thursday, February 20, 10:00-11:00 UTC) --------------------- March Webinars --------------------- - Webinar for New LIRs (Tuesday, March 3, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RIPE Database - Advanced Topics Webinar (Wednesday, March 4, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RIPE Policy Webinar (Wednesday, March 11, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RIPE Atlas Usage Webinar (Thursday, March 12, 10:00-11:00 UTC) Register for the webinars here: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars If you have any questions, please email <training(a)ripe.net>. We look forward to seeing you online. Kind regards, RIPE NCC Training Services

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: December 2019
by Elena Signorelli 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Hello RIPE NCC member, If you follow the Gregorian and Julian calendars, this time of year can be both special and busy, so we’ll get straight to the point. Welcome to your final Member Update for 2019: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- We’re Looking for our Next MD -- December Deadline for Closure Updates -- We're Revamping the RIPE NCC Academy -- Our Approach to the Cloud -- Germany Country Report -- In Conversation with Axel Pawlik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Celebrating 10,000 RPKI Certificates -- Improved RIPEstat SEO and Sharing Link Previews -- New RIPEstat Widgets Developed by APNIC's NetOX Team ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NomCom Announced -- Call for RIPE Chair and Vice Chair is Open -- RACI: Apply Now -- Focus on Portugal -- IGF 2019 Liveblog -- What Network Engineers Need to Know About Software Engineering ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 80, 11-15 May 2020, Berlin, Germany -- MENOG 20 and Peering Forum, 15-19 March 2020, Manama, Bahrain -- SEE 9, 7-8 April 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- RIPE NCC Day Tashkent, 29 April 2020, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,284 (-79) LIRs with IPv6: 16,299 (+125) Policy transfers in November: 753,664 IPv4 addresses (+23,424) -- We’re Looking for our Next MD We’re hiring a Managing Director to set the strategic course of the RIPE NCC and lead us through 2020 and beyond. Could this be you? Read the full job description at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/careers-at-the-ripe-ncc/vacancy/148244 -- December Deadline for Closure Updates Do you need to make a request to close an LIR account? Or do you need to update us on any changes that will result in the closure of an LIR account? If you do, please provide us with all the information by 16 December 2019, or you might be invoiced for that account in 2020. -- We're Revamping the RIPE NCC Academy We will be making some updates to our e-learning platform, so it won't be available from 2-27 January 2020. Our colleague, Ulka Athale, wrote this RIPE Labs article, telling you about some of the exciting changes you can expect from us in 2020: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/revamping-the-ripe-ncc-academy -- Our Approach to the Cloud Want to know the reasoning behind why we're moving some of our technical infrastructure to the cloud? Read this RIPE Labs article where our colleague, Kaveh Ranjbar, shares some insight: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/our-approach-to-the-cloud -- Germany Country Report Using our measurement tools – RIPEstat, RIPE Atlas, RIPE Labs statistics and Routing Information Service (RIS) – we created the Germany Country Report. Our colleague, Suzanne Taylor, shares more about what you will learn from the report in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-country-report… -- In Conversation with Axel Pawlik Our colleague, Ulka Athale, sat down with Axel Pawlik to talk about his 20-year tenure as the RIPE NCC’s Managing Director. Read the interview on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/how-far-weve-come ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Celebrating 10,000 RPKI Certificates Here's proof that more and more network operators are seeing the need for routing security. We hit 10,000 RPKI certificates! Read more about the impressive milestone in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/celebrating-10-000-rpki-cer… -- Improved RIPEstat SEO and sharing link previews We improved the sharing link previews on RIPEstat. You can now share neat RIPEstat previews on social media with clear titles. -- New RIPEstat Widgets Developed by APNIC's NetOX Team We developed two new widgets in collaboration with APNIC, which are currently featured on NetOX (https://netox.apnic.net/) but they will also be available soon on RIPEstat's result page. APNIC Abuse Contact Finder https://stat.ripe.net/widget/apnic-abuse-contact-finder#w.resource=AS3333 APNIC Transfer History https://stat.ripe.net/widget/apnic-transfer-history#w.resource=115.124.0.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NomCom Announced Thank you to the 36 people who came forward and volunteered to join the RIPE Nominating Committee. This morning, the Chair of the 2019-2020 RIPE NomCom, Daniel Karrenberg, announced who the voting members will be. You can read the announcement at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-December/001720.html -- Call for RIPE Chair and Vice Chair is Open Who will be the next RIPE Chair and Vice Chair? You’re invited to nominate candidates, perhaps even yourself, by sending your nominations to <nominations(a)ripe-nomcom.org>. Please include a description of the skills or expertise that make your candidate a desirable choice. -- RACI: Apply Now We encourage all students, academics and researchers from across our service region to apply for the RACI grant. This initiative could fund your meeting ticket, accommodation and travel to one of our upcoming meetings where you could present your research! The first deadline is 19 January! Learn more about the topics and how to apply at: https://www.ripe.net/raci -- Focus on Portugal This RIPE Labs article takes a look at what our data tells us about Portugal in terms of membership development, IPv6 adoption and routing. Read it and learn about IPv4 transfers and more: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/focus-on-portugal -- IGF 2019 Liveblog Want to know what topics were discussed at this year's IGF? Some of our team reported live and you can read the blog on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/igf-2019-liveblog -- What Network Engineers Need to Know About Software Engineering Sasha Romijn, an active community member, shared some valuable advice for software engineers looking to improve their code and more. Read the article on RIPE Labs at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sasha_romijn/what-network-engineers-need-to-k… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 80, 11-15 May 2020, Berlin, Germany Registration opens next week! On 16 December you can make your way to the RIPE Meeting website and be the first to register: https://ripe80.ripe.net You will also be able to apply for the RIPE Fellowship, which opens the same day as registration. Learn more about this opportunity at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-fellowship -- MENOG 20 and Peering Forum, 15-19 March 2020, Manama, Bahrain The call for presentations is open to experienced network operators! Submit your proposals for plenary sessions no later than 1 February 2020. https://www.menog.org/menog-20/call-for-presentations Join us in Manama, Bahrain and register at: https://www.menog.org/menog-20 -- SEE 9, 7-8 April 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia Call for presentations is open. The submission deadline is 17 February 2020. Learn more about what content the programme committee is looking for at: https://www.ripe.net/see-9/call-for-presentations -- RIPE NCC Day Tashkent, 29 April 2020, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Submit your content proposals for the plenary session presentations, panels and lightning talks no later than 28 February 2020. Learn more about the topics of interest and the event at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-ncc-day-tashkent/call-for-presentations If you want to know what’s happening as it’s happening, join us on all our social media channels (if you’re into that kind of thing). https://www.ripe.net/social Thanks for reading the whole way through :) We’ll be back in the new year, ready to join you for another year of shaping the future of the Internet! /elena Elena Signorelli Marketing and Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2019 Recipients Announced
by Alastair Strachan 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund opened its call for applications in July 2019. The application period was open for 8 weeks and we received more than 45 applications from 23 different countries. We’d like to thank all the applicants - the number and diversity of topics show that there are many great ideas that need support. The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following seven projects have been selected as the 2019 recipients of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Congratulations to the selected projects! - Antikraak: Protecting non-routed and transferred address space against spear-hijacking, SimulaMet - ASNR: ASN Ranking system - A path to detect fake ASNs, Alireza Vaziri - Cryptofuzz, Guido Vranken - Improving the Tor network’s IPv6 support, The Tor Project - IRRexplorer v2, NLNOG Foundation - RPKI Ecosystem Health Monitoring, NLNet Labs - Verification and monitoring of BGP prefix hijacking incidents using RIPE Atlas probes in the ARTEMIS open source detection tool, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) You can read more about how these projects will contribute to the ‘Good of the Internet’at: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2019 Kind regards, Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator

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