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[news] Fourth Prize Winner and Final Week of RIPE NCC Survey 2019
by Fergal Cunningham 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the fourth winner of an iPad for completing the RIPE NCC Survey 2019. Congratulations to Philippe Teissier from Geneva in Switzerland. There is one more iPad up for grabs and the survey closes this Sunday, 30 June at 23:59 UTC. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey and add your input to this year's results. The survey is available at: https://www.ripe.net/survey This year, the survey is also available to take in Arabic, Russian, Farsi, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Polish. If you have questions about the survey, please email us at <survey(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Marketing and Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update June 2019
by Elena Signorelli 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

Hi RIPE NCC member, Welcome to your monthly Member Update. This month we have an important opportunity for all RIPE NCC members. Every three years, we reach out and collect your feedback, which helps shape our plans to support the Internet community. Have you taken 10 minutes to complete the survey? Make sure you do before 30 June. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing For You --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC Survey Closing 30 June 2019 -- Become One of the First RIPE NCC Certified Professionals --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RPKI Webtest -- RIPEstat New UI Concept Update -- RIPE Atlas Software Probe Questionnaire -- New RIPEstat Data API Extension -- RIPE NCC Receives /12 IPv6 Allocation From IANA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE Database Questionnaire -- RACI: Call for Applications -- EuroDIG 2019 Liveblog -- The Microphone is the Devil Some Know -- Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated -- Inter-RIR Collaboration Produces New Product Prototype -- The Tale of Website Popularity Rankings: An Extensive Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us For These Meetings and Events --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 82 Call for Host -- RIPE 79: Rotterdam -- RIPE 78 Archives -- RIPE NCC Member Lunches --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing For You --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 22,663 (+193) LIRs with IPv6: 14,970 (-2) Policy transfers in May: 552,960 IPv4 addresses (-343,552) -- RIPE NCC Survey Closing 30 June 2019 Tell us what you need. This is your chance to be part of our plans to support the Internet community. It only takes around 10 minutes to contribute to change. Complete our survey and you could also win an iPad! https://www.ripe.net/survey -- Become One of the First RIPE NCC Certified Professionals Would you like to be one of the very first RIPE NCC Certified Professionals? We are now calling for applications to participate in our pilot testing for the RIPE Database exam. If selected, you could earn our first digital badge! Find out more here: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals Sandra Brás shares more details on how this project is being developed in a recent RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sandra_bras/ripe-ncc-certified-professionals-… --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RPKI Webtest Want to know if a network is dropping invalid Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) BGP announcements? Job Snijders and our colleagues Nathalie Trenaman, Emile Aben and Jasper den Hertog have launched an RPKI test web page so you can find out: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/rpki-webtest -- RIPEstat New UI Concept Update We continue to explore concepts related to the new UI, and we have released several new versions (including the latest on 13 June) for the community to play around with and provide feedback. Recent versions have included performance enhancements, improved search suggestions, and more. There are many more features and refinements to come. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_suess_1/ripestat-next-generation-ui -- RIPE Atlas Software Probe Questionnaire We're working on making the RIPE Atlas measurement software available as an installable package so you can run RIPE Atlas probes entirely in software without any need for a dedicated physical device. To let us know what you think about RIPE Atlas software probes, or whether you’d be willing to help package the software for various operating systems and platforms, please answer our questionnaire: https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/atlas-probes/ -- New RIPEstat Data API Extension A new data call provides meta information on collector nodes (RRCs) of the RIS network. The feature was requested on RIPEstat's public feature tracker, https://ripestat.featureupvote.com. https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#rrc-info -- RIPE NCC Receives /12 IPv6 Allocation From IANA We are the first Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to receive a second /12 IPv6 allocation. Find out how we distributed our first /12 allocation in this article by Riccardo Stagni: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/riccardo_stagni/we-re-running-out-of-ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE Database Questionnaire We need your support to make our RIPE Database exam as relevant to the workplace as possible. If you use the RIPE Database frequently, please take a couple of minutes to answer this questionnaire: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals/ripe-database-question… -- RACI: Call for Applications For the academics and researchers among you, don't forget, apply for RACI! You could receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation for RIPE 79 in Rotterdam or the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in Kyiv: https://www.ripe.net/raci Subscribe to the RACI mailing list and stay up-to-date with academic related news: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list - EuroDIG 2019 Liveblog Are you attending EuroDIG 2019? Our colleagues Chris Buckridge, Suzanne Taylor, Marco Hogewoning, Maria Stafyla, Richard Leaning and Gergana Petrova are there and will keep us updated via a live blog on RIPE Labs. You can read the article and catch up on the event and the discussion topics at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/eurodig-2019-liveblog -- The Microphone is the Devil Some Know How can we make RIPE Meetings more inclusive and diverse? Find out one of the ways the RIPE Diversity Task Force is addressing this concern in an article by Amanda Gowland: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/the-microphone-is-the-devil-some-kno… -- Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated One of our RACI applicants, Carolina Are, shares her research about online hate speech and outlines how her research supports regulation: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/carolina_are/indicators-of-online-hate-speech -- Inter-RIR Collaboration Produces New Product Prototype We joined forces with the APNIC product team to provide you with a comprehensive statistical analysis. Sofía Silva Berenguer, a Data Scientist at APNIC, tells us more in this RIPE Labs Article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sofia_silva_berenguer/inter-rir-collaboration… -- The Tale of Website Popularity Rankings: An Extensive Analysis In this RIPE Labs article, Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob analyses four ranking lists and discovered the impact they have on research results, uncovering how easily they can be manipulated: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/samaneh_tajalizadehkhoob_1/the-tale-of-websit… --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us For These Meetings and Events --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 82 Call for Host Do you love your city? Would you like to host industry professionals from across the globe? Support the Internet community and become a RIPE Meeting host. The meeting will be held on 17-21 May 2021. You have until June 30 to apply: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/call-for-host -- RIPE 79: Rotterdam Registration will open soon! Keep an eye on our social media handles for live updates as well as the ripe-list and website. Join us in Rotterdam on 14-18 October. https://ripe79.ripe.net -- RIPE 78 Archives Would you like to reminisce or catch up on what happened at RIPE 78? You can download or watch the presentations at: https://ripe78.ripe.net/archives/#mon -- RIPE NCC Member Lunches The next member lunch will be held in Slovenia! It’s an opportunity for you to meet with us and offer feedback over an informal lunch. Join us for the next one near you: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches For now, you’re updated! As you know, our industry moves quickly, so stay in touch via our mailing lists and social media: https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/social-networking My best, Elena Elena Signorelli Sales and Marketing Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] Third iPad Winner: RIPE NCC Survey 2019
by Fergal Cunningham 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, We are pleased to announce the third iPad winner - congratulations Mehdi Siahi from Iran! Thank you for taking the time to participate. Almost 3,000 people have taken this important survey for the RIPE NCC and the membership. We hope you will help us to boost that number before the closing date on 30 June. Completing the survey takes just a few minutes, and you can take it now at: https://www.ripe.net/survey We have two more iPads to give away - complete the survey by 09:00 UTC this Thursday, 20 June to be entered in the next two draws for an iPad. We designed the survey to ask our members and the community: - How can we better meet your needs? - What direction should the RIPE NCC take in the coming years? - What are the important issues in your industry/community that we need to be aware of? The survey is run by an independent third party (Survey Matters) to guarantee that responses are anonymous and that analysis of the results is impartial. If you have questions about the survey, please email us at <survey(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Marketing and Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Webinars July-September 2019
by Training Services 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our upcoming Webinars scheduled for July, August and September 2019. 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. ---- July ---- Introduction to the RIPE Database Webinar RIPE Atlas Usage Webinar ---- August ---- Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Webinar RIPE Database - Advanced Topics Webinar Internet Routing Registry Webinar ---- September ---- IPv6 Addressing Plan Webinar IPv6 in the RIPE Database Webinar Webinar for New LIRs Register now at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/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] Second iPad Winner: RIPE NCC Survey 2019
by Fergal Cunningham 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, We are happy to announce that the second winner of an iPad for completing the RIPE NCC Survey 2019 is Ivan Popov in Hilversum, the Netherlands with Euronet Communications BV. Congratulations, Ivan! We have three more iPads to give away - complete the survey by 09:00 UTC this Thursday, 13 June to be entered in the next three draws for an iPad. You can take the survey now at: https://www.ripe.net/survey The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete, and this year we translated it into the following eight languages: - Arabic - Farsi - French - Italian - Polish - Russian - Spanish - Turkish If you have questions about the survey, please email us at <survey(a)ripe.net>. We thank you for your help and look forward to your participation. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Marketing and Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Receives Additional /12 IPv6 Allocation from IANA
by Nikolas Pediaditis 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, On 5 June 2019, the RIPE NCC received the following IPv6 allocation from IANA: 2a10:0000::/12 All allocations of IPv6 unicast address space made by IANA to RIRs are listed here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments/ipv6-unic… We received our previous /12 allocation (2a00:0000::/12) on 3 October 2006. The conditions under which we qualified for an additional allocation are described in the IANA Policy For Allocation of IPv6 Blocks to RIRs: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/allocation-ipv6-rirs-2012-02-25-en The RIPE NCC is the first RIR to receive an additional /12 IPv6 block. As today is also the seventh anniversary of World IPv6 Launch Day, we took the opportunity to look at some of the history of IPv6 and how it has been distributed in our service region: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/riccardo_stagni/we-re-running-out-of-ipv6 Kind regards, Nikolas Pediaditis Registration Services & Policy Development Assistant Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] First iPad Winner: RIPE NCC Survey 2019
by Fergal Cunningham 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, We are happy to announce that the first winner of an iPad for completing the RIPE NCC Survey 2019 is Alexander Mokhonko in Novosibirsk, Russia from the LIR ru.avm. Congratulations, Alexander! We have four more iPads to give away - one every week until the end of June. If you complete the survey this week, you will be entered into all four draws. Survey Matters will draw the next prize winner this Thursday at 09:00 UTC. You can take the survey now at: https://www.ripe.net/survey This is your chance to have your say anonymously on how we can work to improve our services and activities. It will also ensure that the views of your industry/region are taken into account when the survey results are being analysed. Apart from taking the survey yourself, we ask that you share it with your colleagues. The more feedback we get, the better we can do. The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete. If you have questions about the survey, please email us at <survey(a)ripe.net>. We thank you for your help and look forward to your participation. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Marketing and Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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