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[news] The IPv6 Fundamentals – Analyst Exam Is Live
by exams＠ripe.net 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, The IPv6 Fundamentals – Analyst exam is now live! You can use your LIR’s vouchers to schedule a RIPE NCC Certified Professionals exam using our online exam platform. The IPv6 Fundamentals - Analyst exam is intended for individuals who are familiar with best current practices in IPv6. It certifies your ability to calculate IPv6 subnets, create an IPv6 addressing plan and recognise the application of IPv6 transition mechanisms, among other skills. We would like to thank the RIPE community members who supported the exam creation process by writing and reviewing questions, and also answering our Job Task Analysis survey. You can find out more about the IPv6 Fundamentals – Analyst badge at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals/ipv6-fundamentals-anal… <https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals/ipv6-fundamentals-anal…> As for us here at Learning and Development, we’re getting back to work on our next exam – IPv6 Security Expert, which we expect to launch towards the end of 2020 or early 2021. All the best for the exam! Best regards, Sandra Bras Assistant Manager, Learning and Development RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: July 2020
by Boris Duval 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Hello RIPE NCC member, 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 -- New RIPE Chair and Vice Chair -- Executive Board Election Task Force -- Moderating members-discuss -- RIPE NCC and CITC Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) -- RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020 -- Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions August-September 2020 -- Coming Soon: IPv6 Fundamentals - Analyst badge! 2. Your Technical Update -- RPKI: Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- “Let’s Go Virtual!”: Reflections on a Community Discussion -- What the Digital Services Act Means for All of Us: A Community Discussion -- LACNIC Inter-RIR Transfer Policy Implemented 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Kazakhstan -- RIPE 81: Call For Presentations -- ENOG 17: Call For Presentations 1. What We’re Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,285 (-37) LIRs with IPv6: 16,691 (+17) Policy transfers in June: 596,992 IPv4 addresses (-7,168) -- New RIPE Chair and Vice Chair Congratulations to Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly, our new RIPE Chair and Vice Chair: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-community-selects… -- Executive Board Election Task Force Following an earlier call for volunteers, a task force of members has formed to carry out an evaluation of the process for board elections: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2020-July/004112.ht… -- Moderating members-discuss A number of messages that breached the RIPE Mailing List Code of Conduct were sent to the members-discuss mailing list last week. As a result, the Executive Board decided to put the list in moderation until further notice: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2020-July/004198.ht… For reference, you can find the Code of Conduct here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-list-ripe-forum-code-of-… -- RIPE NCC and CITC Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Last week, we signed an MoU with the Communication & Information Technologies Commission (CITC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/mou-signed-with-citc-s… -- RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020 The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund is now accepting applications for 2020. We provide up to EUR 250,000 every year to projects that support the good of the Internet: https://ripe.net/community-projects-fund -- Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions August-September 2020 We’ve published our new schedule for webinars (1 hour) and Remote Learning Sessions (2 hours) in August and September 2020: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses You can find more information on the sessions at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online Register for a Webinar or Remote Learning Session at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses You can also learn online using the RIPE NCC Academy: https://academy.ripe.net -- Coming soon: IPv6 Fundamentals - Analyst badge! We’re putting the final touches on the next RIPE NCC Certified Professionals exam, which will be announced soon. A big thank you to all the experts from the community who supported the exam creation process. 2. Your Technical Update -- RPKI: Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing Supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, NLnetLabs launched Krill 0.7, which is the biggest update to their open source RPKI Certificate Authority software so far. This latest version lets you create and maintain Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) based on your BGP announcements. You can find more details on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/AlexBand/krill-gains-powerful-roa-management-… 3. What’s Happening In Our Community? -- “Let’s Go Virtual!”: Reflections on a Community Discussion Chris Buckridge shares key insights from the recent RIPE NCC Open House discussion on the impact that "remote only” events has had on the Internet technical community: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/lets-go-virtual-reflections-on-a-commu… -- What the Digital Services Act Means for All of Us: A Community Discussion We hosted a RIPE NCC Open House event on how Internet service providers, DNS providers, content hosting providers and others are likely to be affected by the European Commission's upcoming Digital Services Act. Suzanne Taylor provides an overview of the discussion: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/what-the-digital-servic… -- LACNIC Inter-RIR Transfer Policy Implemented LACNIC recently implemented their inter-RIR transfer policy. IPv4 addresses can now be transferred between organisations in the RIPE NCC and LACNIC regions (IPv6 and AS Numbers are excluded from LACNIC's inter-RIR transfer policy): https://www.lacnic.net/4711/2/lacnic/lacnic-starts-processing-inter-rir-tra… 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Kazakhstan We invite RIPE NCC members and other Internet stakeholders in Kazakhstan to join us for this Open House discussion on Wednesday, 5 August from 10:00-11:30 (UTC). The event will be held in Russian. We will be discussing various topics including the state of the Internet in Kazakhstan and across our service region, how RIPE NCC tools and measurements can help operators (RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat, RIPEIPmap, etc.) and more. You can register now at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-in… -- RIPE 81: Call For Presentations The RIPE Programme Committee is seeking presentations for plenary sessions, BoFs and lightning talks at RIPE 81. Deadline: 30 August 2020: https://ripe81.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ -- ENOG 17 / RIPE NCC Regional Meeting: Call For Presentations The call for presentations for ENOG 17 is now online: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/cfp/ Please submit your talk, including the abstract and draft version of the slides before 11 October 2020 for full consideration. Submissions filed before 6 September 2020 will be evaluated by the Programme Committee before 11 September 2020. Proposals submitted after this date will be considered depending on the slots still available in the programme. 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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[training] Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions August-September 2020
by Training Services 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, We invite you to learn online with us in the coming months. You can attend our webinars, or our Remote Learning Sessions, which are online versions of our face-to-face training courses. As always, our trainers are available to guide you and answer your questions. Here's our new schedule for both webinars (1 hour) and Remote Learning Sessions (2 hours) scheduled for August and September 2020. You can find more information about the sessions at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online Register for a Webinar or Remote Learning Session at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses You can also learn online using the RIPE NCC Academy https://academy.ripe.net We hope to meet you online soon! Yours sincerely, RIPE NCC Learning and Development

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[news] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Call for Applications 2020
by projectsfund＠ripe.net 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Hello, For more than 25 years, the RIPE NCC has been supporting activities and projects for the “Good of the Internet”. Community-driven, non-commercial work has been fundamental to the success of the Internet from its earliest days, and continues to play an important role in making the Internet resilient, secure and accessible for everyone. Under the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC will provide up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, sustainability and resilience of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in the Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Apply now to get your project funded! https://ripe.net/community-projects-fund <https://ripe.net/community-projects-fund> If you or your organisation is working on a new or existing project that fits the criteria below, and need some financial support to get it off the ground or keep it going, we want to hear from you! Is your project of benefit to the Internet, particularly the RIPE community? Is your project non-commercial in nature? Do you have a clear project plan and timeline? A few things to keep in mind: - Funding may be used to purchase equipment, but this cannot be the sole expenditure - Funding cannot be used for humanitarian aid, donations, or to encourage political reform - Funding cannot be used to provide scholarships or cover tuition fees - Funding cannot be used to support any form of commercial activity We’re also happy to announce the addition of Jaya Baloo, Chief Information and Security Officer of Avast Software and a Vice Chair of the Quantum Flagship Strategic Advisory Board of the EU Commission, to the selection committee. The selection committee for 2020 consists of Nuno M Garcia, Bert Hubert, Andreas Larsen, Tim Wattenberg, Jaya Baloo and Remco van Mook (RIPE NCC Executive Board representative). Thank you to the selection committee for volunteering their time to support the Community Projects Fund. Kind Regards Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator

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[news] New RIPE Chair and Vice Chair
by Hans Petter Holen 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, I would like to congratulate Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly on their selection as the new RIPE Chair and Vice Chair. Both Mirjam and Niall have a long history within RIPE; they are experienced chairs, they understand consensus, and they share the community's expectations in terms of transparency and openness. I am sure they will continue to serve the community well in their new roles. I am happy that I no longer have to occupy both the RIPE Chair and RIPE NCC Managing Director roles. I intend to pass the torch to Mirjam and Niall as soon as they are ready to assume their new RIPE responsibilities. I do not expect this will take very long. As Managing Director, I am fully committed to giving the new leadership and the RIPE community the support it needs, just as my predecessors supported myself and Rob Blokzijl before me. On behalf of the RIPE NCC, I would like to wish our new RIPE Chair and Vice Chair the very best. Kind regards Hans Petter Holen RIPE NCC Managing Director

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[news] 136th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes and Minutes
by hholen＠ripe.net 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 136th Meeting via teleconference on 16 June 2020. The draft minutes of the meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020/minutes-136th-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 Board reviewed the first fully remote RIPE NCC General Meeting, and in particular the RIPE NCC Executive Board Election. The Board agreed that calling for a Task Force would be appropriate in order to involve the membership and gain valuable feedback for discussion at the next RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2020. - The Board resolved that the RIPE NCC will provide funds for the physical participation of Working Group Chairs at RIPE Meetings in accordance with the relevant published procedure until the end of 2023. The RIPE NCC Executive Board will re-evaluate this resolution for the RIPE Meetings after 2023. - The Board discussed each board member’s functions and additional tasks. An overview of functions and assignments for official representation will be published on the RIPE NCC website. - The Board reviewed the Treasury Statute according to the yearly review cycle and resolved that it would remain unchanged. - The Board approved the document “Virtual Meeting Registration Terms and Conditions” and approved amendments to the document “RIPE NCC Privacy Statement”. Kind regards Hans Petter Holen RIPE NCC Managing Director

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RIPE NCC Member Update: June 2020
by Boris Duval 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

Hello RIPE NCC member, Here’s an overview of everything you need to know this month about our services and what’s happening in the RIPE community: 1. What We’re Doing for You -- Your LIR Stats -- End of the Payment Period Extension -- IPv4 Transfer Listing Service -- Sanctions and the RIPE NCC: Status Update -- RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6-only -- IPv6 Job Task Analysis -- Learn Online 2. Your Technical Update -- Locked Person Objects Cleanup -- From Zero to RPKI Hero -- New Beta RIPEstat UI 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- EuroDIG 2020 Live Blog -- COVID-19: Changing the Internet Governance Landscape -- IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics -- RIPE 80: How We Built a Zoom Alternative with AWS -- Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon -- Focus on: the Cooperation Working Group 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- ENOG 17 -- RIPE 81 -- SEE 9 1. What We’re Doing for You -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,322 (-6) LIRs with IPv6: 16,674 (+62) Policy transfers in May: 604,160 IPv4 addresses (-23,040) -- End of the Payment Period Extension After a three-month extension, the payment period for the 2020 invoice is now ending. We are pleased to see that most members have already paid, and we thank you all for that. For those who haven’t paid yet, we will send reminders to do so on 1 July 2020. We will also include a questionnaire that will help us determine if there are issues preventing members from paying their bills. If you have any questions about a billing issue, don’t hesitate to contact us at: https://www.ripe.net/contact-form?topic=billing -- IPv4 Transfer Listing Service After receiving strong feedback in favour of the IPv4 Transfer Listing Service, we’ve decided to keep the service on our website until we find a more permanent solution: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-June/001426.html -- Sanctions and the RIPE NCC: Status Update Christian Kaufmann, Chairman of the Executive Board, gives an update on the latest developments concerning the sanctions that are affecting some of our members: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-June/001427.html -- RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6-only On 8 June 2020, we organised the RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6-only, a full day of discussions about all things IPv6. During the event our staff and other IPv6 experts looked at IPv6-only in data centres, ISPs, enterprises and more. Session recordings are available at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa/ripe-ncc-educa-ipv6-20… -- IPv6 Job Task Analysis Get ready to earn our next badge! We’re about to launch our second digital badge ‘IPv6 Fundamentals - Analyst’ in the coming weeks. Before we do that, we try to ensure that exam questions are aligned with the tasks professionals like you carry out as part of your jobs. You can help us by filling out this short five-minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W7J296H -- Learn Online We offer a wide range of e-learning options so that you can keep on learning while staying at home. Webinars: One-hour interactive sessions. Remote Learning Sessions: Two-hour long sessions adapted from our regular training courses. We will announce new dates for Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions next week at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses Online Courses: The RIPE NCC Academy offers three online courses that are free and open to all. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online Does your CV show your RIPE Database expertise? You can make sure that your experience and knowledge is accurately reflected on your CV by earning the RIPE Database Associate badge. Your LIR has three vouchers that are valid until 31 December 2020. Read more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals 2. Your Technical Update -- Locked Person Objects Cleanup On 3 June 2020, we cleaned up locked person objects in the RIPE Database. Affected LIRs and resource maintainers were notified by email. You can learn more about the cleanup at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ed_shryane/cleaning-up-locked-person-objects-… -- From Zero to RPKI Hero We recently participated in a live demo showing how to create ROAs, using two different validators - the RIPE NCC Validator and the NLnet Labs Routinator - and how to configure routers from four different companies (Nokia, Cisco, Juniper and Arista). The session recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBBz-IcEl4 -- New Beta RIPEstat UI We’ve made significant changes since the last beta update including: • New use cases and new info cards • Speed and stability improvements • Updated look and feel More features coming soon! You can see what it looks like at: https://beta-ui.stat.ripe.net/ 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- EuroDIG 2020 Live Blog The 12th edition of EuroDIG, the pan-European Internet governance event, took place from 10-12 June 2020. The RIPE NCC covered the event live on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/eurodig-2020-liveblog -- COVID-19: Changing the Internet Governance Landscape Chris Buckridge looks at what COVID-19 means for the future of Internet Governance: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/covid-19-changing-the-internet-governa… -- IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics Rene Wilhelm analyses IPv6 adoption statistics data from five different sources (Akamai, APNIC, Cisco, Facebook and Google) and explores interesting differences in their measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/ipv6-adoption-statistics-a-comparison… -- RIPE 80: How We Built a Zoom Alternative with AWS Not all attendees were able to use Zoom to attend RIPE 80, so we set up an alternative video feed. Oliver Payne explains how it was done: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/oliver_payne/ripe-80-setting-up-a-zoom-altern… -- Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon While working from home, we organised our first virtual hackathon to measure and visualise the health of the Internet. Vesna Manojlovic shares the results: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/report-from-the-first-virtual-ripe-ncc-… -- Focus on: the Cooperation Working Group The Cooperation Working Group is a forum for discussion focusing on cooperation between the private and public sectors on Internet matters. Interested? Get involved at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/coop 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- ENOG 17 ENOG 17 will take place as a virtual meeting from 9-13 November 2020. We will keep you informed about the programme, registration and logistics via email and the ENOG website: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/ -- RIPE 81 RIPE 81 will be a virtual meeting and will take place on 27-30 October 2020. More details will be announced in the coming weeks. -- SEE 9 SEE 9 was postponed to next year and will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 28-29 June 2021. More information about the event is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-9 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] Sanctions and the RIPE NCC: Status Update
by Christian Kaufmann 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

Dear members, I want to briefly update you on the current situation involving sanctions, following my last email back in April[1]. In short, there have been no major developments and the situation is largely unchanged. However, to keep you informed, allow me to briefly run through this again. STATUS OF EXEMPTION REQUEST AND FROZEN MEMBERSHIPS In April, we mentioned that the RIPE NCC was seeking an exemption from EU sanctions regulation from the Dutch authorities. The authorities have indicated that their response will take longer than usual, possibly due to the COVID-19 situation. We will inform you when we receive a decision on our request. For the three members believed to be on the sanctions list, this means that their LIR accounts remain frozen and they remain unable to access RIPE NCC services. While this is not ideal, it does mean that their resources have not been deregistered. BANK TRANSFERS FROM IRANIAN AND SYRIAN MEMBERS My earlier email also mentioned that the RIPE NCC's bank had temporarily revoked its ability to receive bank transfers from members in Iran and Syria. Unfortunately, this restriction remains in place and will likely remain so until the RIPE NCC receives a response to its exemption request. As this will probably take longer than the 1 July payment deadline, the RIPE NCC is looking at ways to address this and will follow up with affected members directly. RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD POSITION This is also unchanged, but I think you'll agree that this is a good thing: "The Executive Board of the RIPE NCC believes that the means of communication should not be affected by political discussions or disputes. This includes the provision of correctly registered Internet numbering resources."[2] At our board meeting last week, we reaffirmed that the RIPE NCC is committed to pursuing all legal means to continue providing services to all of its members. As we have already stated, we believe the Internet is a critical tool for humanity and should not be affected by political discussions. I regret that we are not yet able to give a more positive update, we are doing all we can to resolve this issue. If you have any questions or comments for the board, please contact us at <exec-board(a)ripe.net>. Regards Christian Kaufmann RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman [1] Sanctions and the RIPE NCC: Current Status and Executive Board Position: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-April/001413.html [2] Executive Board Resolution on Continuity of Services to all RIPE NCC Members: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/executive-bo…

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[service] IPv4 Transfer Listing Service
by Felipe Victolla Silveira 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

Dear members, Thank you for providing feedback on the IPv4 Transfer Listing Service. The comments were constructive and it was very helpful to find that there is support for the service. What we heard was that while the listing service might not be used that much, it's worth preserving an option for members who don't want to go through a broker. That being the case, and as there is no urgent need to retire the service, we will keep it as-is for now. We are just about to start our planning for next year. Given that transfers will probably be with us for longer than we want to continue supporting the current implementation, we will also see if we can find a more permanent solution. Regards, Felipe Victolla Silveira Chief Operations Officer RIPE NCC

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[meetings] ENOG 17 Virtual Meeting / 9-13 November 2020
by ENOG 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC in agreement with the ENOG Programme Committee is pleased to announce that ENOG 17 will take place as a virtual meeting, from 9 – 13 November 2020. The RIPE NCC is currently investigating the best way to implement a successful virtual ENOG Meeting, and we will keep you informed of any updates via this mailing list and on the ENOG website: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/ If you have any questions or concerns, you can always contact the ENOG Meeting Organisation Team at enog(a)ripe.net Best regards, Martina de Mas ENOG Meeting Organisation Team

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