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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: November 2020
by Boris Duval 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hello RIPE NCC members, Today, we’re organising an all-day Deployathon to celebrate ten years of RIPE Atlas and you can still join the fun! You’ll find more on the event at the end of this update. In the meantime, here’s everything you need to know about our services and what’s happening in the RIPE community this month. 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats -- End of Year LIR Account Closures -- RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2020 -- Voting Issue at RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 2. Your Technical Update -- RIPE Atlas -- Where We're at with RPKI Resiliency -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- Good Vibes at RIPE 81 -- A New Look at RIPE Labs -- Changing the Internet -- Update on WTSA-20 Preparations and New IP -- IGF 2020 Liveblog -- Regulatory Updates 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats Number of LIRs: 24,379 (-486) LIRs with IPv6: 16,235 (-216) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in October: 664,192 (+67,456) -- End of Year LIR Account Closures We kindly ask you to complete your LIR account closure requests before the end of 2020 to avoid being charged for 2021. This also includes closure requests due to policy transfers and changes in business structure: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-November/001460.h… -- RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2020 The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee is happy to announce that eight projects have been selected as the 2020 funding recipients: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2020 -- Voting Issue at RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 We’ve recently discovered that three extra votes were wrongly allocated to members at the last GM. We take this issue very seriously and will amend our voting process ahead of the next General Meeting: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-November/001458.h… 2. Your Technical Update -- RIPE Atlas --- Reviewing RIPE Atlas Software Probes RIPE Atlas software probes were launched in February 2020. Stephen Strowes analyses their performance and how they fare compared with hardware probes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/reviewing-ripe-atlas-software… --- 10 Years of RIPE Atlas - Tales From The Dev Team To celebrate 10 years of RIPE Atlas, the Dev Team shares behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the development of the platform: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/10-years-of-ripe-atlas-tales-from-the-… --- Rolling Out the RIPE Atlas Redesign RIPE Atlas has a new style! Michela Galante gives you a quick tour of the updated design: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/michela_galante/rolling-out-the-ripe-atlas-re… --- Language Support for RIPE Atlas Software Probes We’re looking for volunteers to help us translate instruction materials for RIPE Atlas software probes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/lia_hestina/language-support-for-ripe-atlas-s… -- Where We're at with RPKI Resiliency Nathalie Künneke-Trenaman gives an update on the RPKI Resiliency project that kicked off last May: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/where-were-at-with-rpki-res… -- Service Announcements --- Upcoming RPKI Planned Downtime (30 November 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/rpki-planned-downtime-2 --- Recent RIPE NCC Access Planned Downtime (24 November 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ripe-ncc-access-planned-… 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- Good Vibes at RIPE 81 The RIPE Chair Team, Mirjam and Niall, share some thoughts and highlights from our second virtual RIPE Meeting: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam_kuhne/good-vibes-at-ripe-81 -- A New Look at RIPE Labs Following RIPEstat and RIPE Atlas, RIPE Labs is also getting an upgrade! Our new RIPE Labs Editor, Alun Davies, walks you through the changes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/a-new-look-at-ripe-labs -- Changing the Internet Marco Hogewoning shares some thoughts on how the Internet has changed and how to tackle upcoming challenges: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_hogewoning/changing-the-internet -- Update on WTSA-20 Preparations and New IP In another article, Marco gives an update on the preparations for the next World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-20) and the New IP proposal: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_hogewoning/update-on-wtsa-20-preparatio… -- IGF 2020 Liveblog Our colleagues share key moments and highlights from the last Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that took place from 9-17 November 2020: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/igf-2020-liveblog -- Regulatory Updates This month, we have two regulatory updates to share with you. --- Your EU Regulation Update: October 2020 Edition The fifth in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent digital policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/your-eu-regulation-upda… --- Russia Regulatory Update This is the first in a series of updates on Russian Internet regulation where we’ll give you an overview of relevant policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in Russia: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/maxim_burtikov/russia-regulatory-update 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon, 25 November 2020 Join us on 25 November 2020 to help us celebrate 10 years of RIPE Atlas again by adding 10x10 software probes over 10 hours. Register at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/atlas-deployathon/ More information about the Deployathon is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/lets-deploy-together-ripe-atlas-softwar… Thank you for reading till the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] End of Year LIR Account Closures
by Henriette Van Ingen 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Dear members, We received requests for clarifications on our closure procedure for 2020 and invoicing for 2021. Any valid request made before the end of 2020 to close an LIR account will mean that the account in question will not be charged in 2021. Policy transfers and changes in business structure that lead to the closure of an LIR account will also not be charged in 2021 provided the request is made to us with all necessary information before the end of the year and the intention to close the account is confirmed to us in our follow-up communication to the request. With policy transfers, the resources must be transferable at the time of the request. Automated invoices will be corrected for valid requests processed after 31 December 2020. But we kindly ask you to complete closure requests, policy transfers and notifications of changes in business structure in time so we avoid sending the automated invoice in Q1 2021. This reduces unnecessary administrative burden for ourselves and for members. If you still need any further information, do not hesitate to contact us at <ncc(a)ripe.net <mailto:ncc@ripe.net>>. Kind regards, Henriette van Ingen

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[service] Planned Downtime for RIPE NCC Access
by Theodoros Polychniatis 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, On Tuesday, 24 November at 09:00 (UTC), we plan to upgrade the infrastructure supporting RIPE NCC Access (SSO). This will involve around two hours of downtime, provided the upgrade goes to plan. You will not be able to log in with your RIPE NCC Access account during this period, or perform any actions where the account is required. This includes accessing the LIR Portal, RIPE Database updates, managing RIPE Atlas probes, Certified Professionals exams, etc. Best regards, Theo -- Theodoros Polychniatis Asst. Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC

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[GM] Voting Issue at RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020
by Hans Petter Holen 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

Dear members, It was brought to our attention last week that a member received an extra vote for the recent October RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM). Following this, we conducted a full audit of all members who received voting rights at the GM. We found that three LIR accounts should have been recorded as belonging to three already existing members, but they were not. Instead they were recorded as separate members with voting rights. As a result we allocated three extra votes to these three LIR accounts. The three extra votes could not have had an impact on the results of the voting on resolutions. In the closest vote, a three-vote swing would mean approval by 75% rather than 75.25%. See full voting numbers at the end of this mail. However, we take this very seriously and we will amend our processes ahead of the next GM to ensure all members are assigned the correct voting rights. We are also analysing previous GM votes to assess whether this issue had an impact on previous voting results. The draft minutes of the GM containing the voting results are published and members can review them and lodge objections should they wish to do so: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/minutes-… Voting Results: Resolution 1 - Simple majority Yes 1,336 No 48 Approval: 96.5% Resolution 2 - Two-thirds majority Yes 1,082 No 154 Approval: 87.5% Resolution 3 - Two-thirds majority Yes 900 No 296 Approval: 75.25% Resolution 4 - Two-thirds majority Yes 1,059 No 165 Approval: 86.5% Regards, Hans Petter Holen Christian Kaufmann Managing Director Chair RIPE NCC RIPE NCC Executive board

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[news] LIR Account closure? Notify us by 1 December
by henriette＠ripe.net 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, We would like to inform you that a request to close an LIR account or any request that will result in the closure of an LIR account should be submitted in full before 1 December 2020. This includes closures that result from policy transfers and changes in business structures. Any requests submitted after this date mean that you could be invoiced for 2021. The request should contain all the requested information and documents in order for the RIPE NCC to process it before the end of the year. An overview of the required documents can be found at: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-transfers-and-mergers/req… For requests resulting in the closure of an LIR account that are submitted later than 1 December 2020, or requests that are incomplete, we can not guarantee that the LIR account will be closed before 31 December 2020. Invoices for 2021 will be issued for LIR accounts still open on 1 January 2021. Best Regards, Henriette van Ingen Registry Services Assistant Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] 139th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes
by Hans Petter Holen 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 139th Meeting via teleconference on 30 October 2020. The draft minutes of the meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020/minutes-139th-ex… 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 RIPE NCC Executive Board decided to re-appoint Hervé Clément for another term on the Number Resource Organization Numbers Council (NRO NC), representing the RIPE NCC service region. Hervé's term will begin on 1 January 2021 and ends on 31 December 2023. - The Executive Board discussed moderation of the Membership Discussion mailing list. The Board agreed that general moderation should be removed to allow good discussion among members and instead individual members who do not act in accordance with the purpose of the mailing list and the principles of the RIPE Code of Conduct should be moderated. Kind regards Hans Petter Holen RIPE NCC Managing Director

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[meetings] ENOG 17 Starts Today
by ENOG 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, ENOG 17 will start today at 14:00 CET (UTC+1). You can join our first virtual ENOG Meeting via Meetecho (if you’re registered) or watch the livestream on the ENOG 17 website (https://www.enog.org/live-stream/). More information on how to participate is available at: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/how-to-participate/ Today, we kick off with Tutorials! The agendas are online and linked to the interactive meeting plan. All times shown are in CET (UTC+1): https://www.enog.org/enog-17/programme/meeting-plan/ ----- Learn more about the meeting at: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/ Follow us on Twitter at @ripencc for live updates or by using the #ENOG17 hashtag. You can also follow the ENOG 17 event page on Facebook. Best regards, Martina de Mas ENOG Meetings Team

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[news] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2020
by Alastair Strachan 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund (CPF) supports projects from the RIPE NCC service region working for the ‘Good of the Internet’ with a total fund of €250,000. We opened the call for applications in June 2020. The application period was open for just over 8 weeks and more than 35 applications from 21 different countries were received. The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following eight projects have been selected as the 2020 funding recipients. Congratulations to the selected projects: - BGP Hijacking Observatory, University of California San Diego’s Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) - Closed Resolver Project, Grenoble Alpes University, Computer Science Laboratory (LIG Lab) - Cryptofuzz, Guido Vranken - FRRouting Fuzzing, Sartura d.o.o. - Improve Tails for censorship circumvention, Riseup Labs - NRTM v4, Sasha Romijn, DashCare B.V. - Some Congestion Experienced (SCE), netDEF - Virtual School of Internet Governance, Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities You can read more about the selected projects here: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2020 <https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2020> All projects funded through the CPF also share updates on RIPE Labs. You can find articles by previous recipients by using the ‘Community Projects Fund’ tag: https://labs.ripe.net/ I would also like to thank the members of the Selection Committee for volunteering their time to support the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Best regards, Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator

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[meetings] ENOG 17, Virtual, 9-13 November 2020
by ENOG 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, ENOG 17 will be held as a virtual meeting and will take place from 9-13 November 2020. Registration is free of charge and open to everyone: https://www.enog.org/register/ The meeting will use Meetecho as its conference platform and simultaneous Russian/English translation will be provided throughout the meeting. In addition to Meetecho, the presentations can also be streamed live on the ENOG 17 website but without chat facility. ------------------- Programme ------------------- The meeting plan and the draft agenda are available online: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/programme/meeting-plan/ Tutorials will take place on Monday, 9 November: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/programme/tutorials/ Plenary, lightning talks and panel discussions will take place from Tuesday, 10 November to Friday, 13 November: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/programme/plenary/ ---------------------- For updates about the meeting, follow the #ENOG17 hashtag on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. More information is available online at: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/ Best regards, Martina de Mas Event Organiser RIPE NCC

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