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[meetings] Register Now for ENOG 18
by ENOG 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, ENOG 18 will be held as a virtual meeting and will take place from 7-8 June 2021. Registration is free of charge and open to everyone: https://www.enog.org/register/ ------------------- ENOG 18 Format ------------------- We are pleased to inform you that the ENOG 18 Meeting will use Meetecho as its conference platform and SpatialChat as its virtual networking space. In addition to Meetecho, you will be able to watch the presentations live on the ENOG 18 website and/or on YouTube. Please note that in both cases, there will be no separate IRC channel or chat functionality. If you would like to participate in the discussions and ask questions, you will have to register for the meeting and join Meetecho. More information on how to participate in the meeting is available on the ENOG 18 website: https://www.enog.org/enog-18/how-to-participate/ This time, there will also be the option of attending the meeting in-person in a Remote Broadcast Hub, provided that local COVID -19 restrictions are followed. During the ENOG 18 registration process, you will be asked to select the Remote Broadcast Hub of your choice. We will then contact you with more information about your Remote Broadcast Hub participation. Please note that space is limited and hub registration is on a first come, first serve basis. More information about the Remote Broadcast Hub can be found here: https://www.enog.org/enog-18/remote-hub/ ------------- Programme ------------- The ENOG Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals for the plenary sessions, tutorials, lightning talks and BoFs. Please submit your talk, including the abstract and draft version of your slides before *14 May, 2021* for full consideration: https://www.enog.org/enog-18/cfp/ ------------- Call for Sponsors ------------- Supporting an ENOG Meeting through sponsorship gives your organisation fantastic exposure in the ENOG and global Internet community. Get in touch with the organisers if you are interested in sponsoring ENOG 18 at <enog(a)ripe.net>. ---- For the latest updates, check the website at https://www.enog.org/enog-18/ or follow us on Twitter at @enogmeeting and by using the hashtag #ENOG18. Best regards, Martina de Mas Event Organiser RIPE NCC

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[news] Apply for RACI Project Funding before 31 May
by Gergana Petrova 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, RACI provides funding for academics to present their research at events such as the RIPE Meeting and RIPE NCC regional meetings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the funds for this initiative for the year 2021 will instead be used to support research projects relevant to work carried out by the RIPE NCC. We invite universities and research institutes in the RIPE NCC service region to submit proposals to work on projects in these areas: - Apply machine learning and big data analytics to the collected routing data to identify and predict trends. - Apply and customise big data visualisation frameworks to the collected routing data to better display the data to users. More details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/raci-funding If you are interested, please send us a project proposal by 31 May. We encourage you to share this call with anyone who might be interested in applying for RACI funding. If you have any questions, please write to raci(a)ripe.net. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2021
by Boris Duval 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Hello RIPE NCC members, 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 -- LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022 / GM Supporting Documents Published -- Improving Mitigation of Web-based Threats -- Training Courses in May -- RACI Project Funding 2. Your Technical Update -- RPKI and AS3333 -- RIPEstat -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- A Brand New Look at the Best of RIPE Labs -- RIPE Database Requirements Task Force BoF -- Code of Conduct Task Force - Spring 2021 Update -- Does The Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2021 -- RIPE Community Resilience: Network and Belonging -- The RIPE Chair Team Reports - March 2021 -- NRO Updates 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: IPv6-only Networks -- RIPE NCC Open House: Meet the Executive Board Candidates -- RIPE 82 -- RIPE NCC General Meeting -- ENOG 18 1. What We're Doing For You -- LIR Stats Number of LIRs: 23,704 (-18) LIRs with IPv6: 16,146 (+6) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in March: 2,146,304 (+1,287,236) -- RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022 / GM Supporting Documents Published The RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022, to be voted on during the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2021, has been published. The Executive Board proposes to continue with the existing fee model in 2022 but to reduce the sign-up fee to lower the barrier for new members to join. All supporting documents for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2021 are now finalised and available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021/documentatio… -- Improving Mitigation of Web-based Threats In order to help mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against our web infrastructure, we have started testing Cloudflare’s DDoS protection services in parts of our production environment. We have seen an increase in the amount and severity of attacks in recent weeks, and this measure will give us added protection. We are also investigating other options for longer-term improvements to the resilience of our web infrastructure during DDoS attacks in the coming months. -- Training Courses in May Our webinars for the month of May are open for registrations: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses Here's the schedule: BGP Security: RPKI Webinar Thursday, 6 May 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) RIPEstat Webinar Thursday, 27 May 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) -- RACI Project Funding We invite academic and research institutes in the RIPE NCC service region to apply for funding to work on projects in these areas: - Apply machine learning and big data analytics to the collected routing data to identify and predict trends - Apply and customise big data visualisation frameworks to the collected routing data to better display the data to users If you are interested, please send us a proposal by 31 May 2021: https://www.ripe.net/raci-funding 2. Your Technical Update -- RPKI and AS3333 On 19 April 2021, we decided to “eat our own dog food” and started to perform Route Origin Validation on our own network, AS3333. So far, we have received very positive feedback about the initiative. Nathalie Trenaman talks about why we've held back so far, and why now was the right moment to run RPKI on our network: https://labs.ripe.net/author/nathalie_nathalie/rpki-and-as3333-or-how-we-ea… -- RIPEstat --- An Eventful Ten Years in RIPEstat RIPEstat turns 10 this May! To mark the occasion on RIPE Labs, we look back at how RIPEstat has helped us get a clearer picture of the way the Internet has fared when faced with outages, blackouts, natural disasters, and Nyan Cat: https://labs.ripe.net/author/alun_davies/an-eventful-ten-years-in-ripestat/ --- RIPEstat's Next UI At RIPE 82 the default user interface of RIPEstat will switch to its new use-case based UI. See the progress at: https://beta-ui.stat.ripe.net/launchpad --- Blacklist replaced by Blocklist The respective data call and widget have been renamed to Blocklist: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#blocklist https://stat.ripe.net/widget/blocklist --- Multi-resource support for BGPlay fixed Support for multiple resources has been restored in BGPlay: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/bgplay#w.resource=2001:67c:2e8::/48,193.0.0.0/… --- Enjoy full size RIPEstat widgets All RIPEstat widgets can now be viewed programmatically in full size mode: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/widget_api#fullscreen -- Service Announcements --- Recent Service disruption to RIPE Labs (7 April 2021): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/service-disruption-to-ri… 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- A Brand New Look at the Best of RIPE Labs RIPE Labs has just gone through a big transformation into a better, brighter, more beautiful version of itself. To help get a feel for what's changed, we take a tour through some of your favourite articles from the past year: https://labs.ripe.net/author/alun_davies/a-brand-new-look-at-the-best-of-ri… -- RIPE Database Requirements Task Force BoF: The RIPE Database Requirements Task Force (DBTF) will organise its third BoF on Wednesday, 5 May 2021 from 16:00-17:30 (UTC+2) via Zoom. During this BoF, the DBTF will present its latest recommendations and discuss open issues. More information and joining details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/rdb-requirements-tf/bof-5-may-2021 -- Code of Conduct Task Force - Spring 2021 Update Leo Vegoda presents the Code of Conduct Task Force’s history, key feedback on the latest Code of Conduct draft, and looks forward to a BoF at RIPE 82 and the next stages of the task force’s work: https://labs.ripe.net/author/leo_vegoda/code-of-conduct-task-force-spring-2… -- Does The Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2021 To investigate whether the Internet routes around damage in 2021, Emile Aben carries out an analysis of the impact of the recent LINX London outage: https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damag… -- RIPE Community Resilience: Network and Belonging All layers of the pyramid of needs are important for physical and mental health just as all layers of the Internet stack are important for the resilient Internet. In this instalment of this series, Vesna Manojlovic goes to the third layer - network connections and the need for belonging: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-network-and-be… -- The RIPE Chair Team Reports - March 2021 March saw the publication of a draft RIPE Code of Conduct, lots of activity from RIPE Working Groups, and ongoing preparation in the lead up to RIPE 82. The RIPE Chair Team reports on all this and more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-march… -- NRO Updates --- NRO NC Call for Nominations The call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) will close on 23 April 2021. Any individual residing within the RIPE NCC service region is eligible for nomination, except Regional Internet Registry (RIR) staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. The nomination process is available at: https://www.ripe.net/nro-nc-nominations-process-may-2021 Please send your nominations to <nominations at ripe.net> by 23:59 UTC on 23 April 2021. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC website by 26 April 2021. 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: IPv6-only Networks, 4 May 2021: What are the challenges when deploying an IPv6-only network and what has the experience been like? Join us for this RIPE NCC Open House with two IPv6 experts who know all about deploying IPv6-only solutions - Jordi Palet from The IPv6 Company and Richard Patterson from Sky UK. They will talk about their experiences with 464XLAT and MAP as transition mechanisms to connect their IPv6-only networks with the existing IPv4 Internet: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-ip… -- RIPE NCC Open House: Meet the Executive Board Candidates, 12 May 2021: Here’s your opportunity to interact with the candidates in the running for the RIPE NCC Executive Board: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/meet-the-executive-boa… The Open House is for you to ask candidates questions and have an open discussion. Questions for candidates can also be sent in writing to agm(a)ripe.net before the Open House. -- RIPE 82, 17-21 May 2021 Register for free at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/attend/register/ The meeting plan is available at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 19-21 May 2021: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021 -- ENOG 18, 7-8 June 2021: The ENOG Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals for the plenary sessions, tutorials, lightning talks and BoFs. You have until 14 May 2021 to submit your presentation proposals: https://www.enog.org/enog-18/cfp/ Registration will open on 26 April 2021 and is free of charge. Thank you for reading to the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[GM] Participate in the RIPE NCC Open House: Meet the Executive Board Candidates
by General Meeting Organisation Team 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Dear RIPE NCC members, We invite you to participate in the RIPE NCC Open House: Meet the Executive Board Candidates. The event takes place online on Wednesday, 12 May 2021 from 10:00 – 11:30 UTC. You can register here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/meet-the-executive-boa… <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/meet-the-executive-boa…> There will be an election for two vacant seats at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) on 19-21 May 2021, each of which is for a three-year term. Members are invited to participate in the Open House to interact with the candidates in the running for the RIPE NCC Executive Board. The Open House is for you to ask candidates questions and have an open discussion. Questions for candidates can also be sent in writing to agm(a)ripe.net before the Open House. If you are unable to attend, the session will be recorded for you to watch at a later time. There will also be a dedicated mailing list where you can interact with the candidates and submit questions to them. The list will become active on 3 May 2021. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Nominations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The call for nominations for the Executive Board elections will close in two weeks. Nominations and support submissions must be submitted by Wednesday, 28 April 2021. To make a nomination or to support a candidate, fill out the nomination form at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/agm-nomination/ <https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/agm-nomination/> A nomination for the appointment of a member of the Executive Board requires the support of at least five RIPE NCC members, among other criteria. 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 email address – Your organisation – Your LIR RegID – Name of the candidate you wish to nominate/support – Email address of the candidate – Reason for nominating/supporting the candidate ------------------------------------------------------------- You can register to participate in and vote electronically at the GM at: https://my.ripe.net/#/meetings/active Further information on the GM is available at: https://www.ripe.net/gm/may-2021 If you have any questions about the GM, please email us at agm(a)ripe.net. Best regards, General Meeting Organisation Team RIPE NCC ------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates and Deadlines ------------------------------------------------------------- 21 April: All supporting documents for the GM published, including the Annual Report 2020, the Financial Report 2020 and the Charging Scheme 2022 28 April: Close nominations for the RIPE NCC Executive Board 5 May: Deadline for proxy vote nominations 5 May: Deadline for members to propose resolutions 5 May: GM Agenda finalised 12 May: RIPE NCC Open House session with candidates for the Executive Board election 19 May: Registration closes at 16:00 (UTC+2) 19 May: GM begins with main meeting at 18:00 (UTC+2) 21 May: GM closes with voting results announcement at 10:15 (UTC+2)

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[service] RPKI Route Origin Validation on RIPE NCC Network
by Nathalie Trenaman 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, On Monday, 19 April 2021 we will enable Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Route Origin Validation (ROV) on our own network, AS3333, and reject RPKI invalid Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements. This follows discussions with the Routing Working Group (WG), which has agreed we should move forward with this. We have already contacted everyone who might be affected to explain the steps they need to follow. RPKI ROV is a security mechanism that authenticates route advertisements as originating from an expected Autonomous System (AS), with the goal to drop BGP announcements that do not match the routing intentions of the IP address holder as stated in a ROA (Route Origin Authorisation). This also means that operators who made a typo in their ROA might not be able to reach ripe.net anymore. We have reached out to all 215 organisations in the RIPE region that currently have a ROA that does not match with what we see in BGP. You can find more information on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/nathalie_nathalie/rpki-and-as3333-or-how-we-ea… We are very excited to perform ROV on our network as this complements the rest of our RPKI activities -- running a Trust Anchor and one of the root Certificate Authorities, hosting a platform for maintaining ROAs, and offering a publication server accessible over rsync and the RPKI Repository Delta Protocol (RRDP). Reaching this milestone will be of great benefit to the RIPE community and I want to thank the Routing WG and its Chairs for their support. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Kind Regards, Nathalie Trenaman Routing Security Programme Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] NRO NC Nominations Deadline
by Hans Petter Holen 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, The call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) will close on 23 April 2021. Any individual residing within the RIPE NCC service region is eligible for nomination, except Regional Internet Registry (RIR) staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. The nomination process is available at: https://www.ripe.net/nro-nc-nominations-process-may-2021 Please send your nominations to <nominations(a)ripe.net> by 23:59 UTC on 23 April 2021. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC website by 26 April 2021. The election for this NRO NC seat will take place during the RIPE 82 meeting that will be held virtually from 17-21 May 2021. All members of the Internet community who are attending the RIPE Meeting except Regional Internet Registry (RIR) staff members may vote in the election. All nominees may submit a written statement in support of their nomination for publication on the RIPE NCC website. Other people can express support for nominated individuals by sending an email to <nominations(a)ripe.net>. Expressions of support will also be published on the RIPE NCC website. To find out more about the NRO NC and the election process, please see: https://www.ripe.net/nro-nc-may-2021 Regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director RIPE NCC ------------------ Important dates ------------------ 23 April 2021: Deadline for NRO NC nominations 26 April 2021: Deadline for all confirmed nominations to be published on the RIPE NCC website 20-21 May 2021: Election to fill NRO NC seat during RIPE 82 21 May 2021: Announce successful candidate in closing plenary of RIPE 82

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[meetings] Register Now for RIPE 82
by RIPE NCC Event Team 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, RIPE 82 will be held as a virtual meeting and will take place from 17-21 May 2021. You can now register for free at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/attend/register/ ------------- RIPE 82 Conference Platforms ------------- We are pleased to inform you that the RIPE 82 Meeting will use Meetecho as its conference platform and SpatialChat as its virtual networking space. In addition to Meetecho, you will be able to watch the presentations live on the RIPE 82 website and on YouTube. Please note that in both cases, there will be no separate IRC channel or chat functionality. If you would like to participate in the discussions and ask questions, you will have to register for the meeting and join Meetecho. More information on how to participate to the meeting is available on the RIPE 82 website: https://ripe82.ripe.net/attend/how-to-participate/ ------------- Programme ------------- The RIPE 82 Meeting plan uses the CEST time zone (UTC+2): https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ -- Pre-meeting events on Friday, 14 May Keep some time free on the Friday before RIPE 82 begins to participate in these pre-meeting events: - Platform-testing for Meetecho and SpatialChat - Newcomers' Introduction - Newcomers' Social and Mentoring Programme Meet up -- Plenary Sessions The draft plenary programme is online: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/ BoFs and lightning talk proposals can still be submitted at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ -- WG Sessions Each working group has a dedicated session in the RIPE Meeting agenda for presentations on topics relevant to the working group’s agenda. If you want to present in one of the WGs, get in touch with the relevant WG chairs via email: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/ripe-wg-chairs/ ------------- RIPE Meeting Mentoring ------------- Experienced RIPE Meeting attendees can help newcomers make the most of their meeting by volunteering to be a mentor. We match mentors with mentees based on interests and areas of expertise. You can sign yourself up to be a mentor or mentee when you register for the meeting. The deadline is *3 May*. Learn more at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/attend/mentoring-programme/ ------------- Call for Sponsors ------------- Supporting a RIPE Meeting through sponsorship gives your organisation fantastic exposure in the global Internet community. Get in touch with the RIPE Meeting team if you are interested in sponsoring RIPE 82: https://ripe82.ripe.net/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ ---- More information on RIPE 82 can be found at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/ For the latest updates, you can follow us on Twitter at @ripemeeting and by using the hashtag #RIPE82. Best regards, RIPE Meetings Team

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[GM] RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022 / GM Supporting Documents Published
by Hans Petter Holen 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022, to be voted on during the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2021, has been published. The Executive Board proposes to continue with the existing fee model in 2022 but to reduce the sign-up fee to lower the barrier for new members to join. All supporting documents for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2021 are now finalised and available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021/documentatio… The documents include: - RIPE NCC Annual Report 2020 - RIPE NCC Financial Report 2020 - RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022 We encourage members to read these documents and provide feedback on them on the Members Discuss mailing list or during the GM itself. The draft agenda containing all the resolutions to be voted on is also available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021/agenda An election will be held at this GM to fill two seats on the RIPE NCC Executive Board. There are currently two confirmed candidates. The deadline to nominate candidates is Wednesday, 28 April 2021. All the details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021/eb-elections Full remote participation is available to all members, including webcast, live chat and electronic voting. Registration can be completed quickly and easily via the LIR Portal: https://my.ripe.net/#/meetings/active Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen RIPE NCC Managing Director ------------------------------------------ Important Dates and Deadlines ------------------------------------------ 28 April: Close nominations for the RIPE NCC Executive Board elections 5 May: Deadline for proxy vote nominations 5 May: Deadline for members to propose resolutions 5 May: GM Agenda finalised 12 May: RIPE NCC Open House session with candidates for the Executive Board election 19 May: Registration closes at 16:00 (UTC+2) 19 May: GM begins with main meeting at 18:00 (UTC+2) 21 May: GM closes with voting results announcement at 10:15 (UTC+2)

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Improving Mitigation of Web-based Threats
by Oliver Payne 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, In order to help mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against our web infrastructure, we have started testing Cloudflare’s DDoS protection services in parts of our production environment as of today. We have seen an increase in the amount and severity of attacks in recent weeks, and this measure will give us added protection. Cloudflare will be used on an experimental basis, with our 24x7 engineers on standby to monitor the situation closely. If we encounter any issues in configuring it, we have the capability to roll the entire infrastructure back to its original state within 60 seconds. We are also investigating other options for longer-term improvements to the resilience of our web infrastructure during DDoS attacks in the coming months. If you have any questions or would like to share your feedback, please reach out to me. Kind regards, Oliver Payne Web Services Team Manager RIPE NCC

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