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Dear colleagues,
The results of the Membership and Stakeholder Survey 2011 were presented
at the RIPE 63 Meeting, which took place in Vienna, Austria from 31
October-4 November 2011.
The full report is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/survey2011
These large-scale surveys are used by the RIPE NCC to assess its current
service offering and to shape its strategy for the years ahead.
The RIPE NCC carries out these every three years. They are extremely
important in finding out the views of RIPE NCC members and other
stakeholders on the direction the RIPE NCC should be taking as an
organisation.
An independent third party, the Oxford Internet Institute (OII),
conducted the analysis of the survey data. Any information that might
identify the respondent was removed by the OII and was not made
available to the RIPE NCC or published in the report.
If you have any questions or comments relating to the survey, please
email <surveys(a)ripe.net>.
Best regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC
Dear Colleagues,
RIPE 63 took place last week from 31 October - 4 November 2011 in Vienna, Austria. 465 people attended, making it the the most well-attended RIPE Meeting to date.
RIPE 63 Meeting Report
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The full RIPE 63 Meeting Report is now available at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/
Sessions Archive
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Presentations from the week can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/presentations/
Webcasts and stenography transcripts can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/archives/
Thanks
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We would like to thank everyone who participated at RIPE 63 - onsite and remotely - who helped to make this such a successful meeting.
We would also like to thank the RIPE 63 sponsors: A1, Arbor Networks, Google, Netnod, next layer, Nokia Siemens Networks and 6connect.
And special thanks goes to the local hosts of this meeting: ACOnet, nic.at, University of Vienna and the Vienna Internet Exchange.
Next Meeting
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RIPE 64 will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 16 – 20 April 2012. We hope to see you there!
Your Opinion
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As always we appreciate your feedback. You can either send an email to <meeting(a)ripe.net> or fill in the anonymous feedback form at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/feedback/
Best regards,
The RIPE Meeting Team
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that Wilfried Woeber was appointed by the
RIPE NCC Executive Board to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource
Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). He will serve a three-year term
that runs from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014.
The RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman, Nigel Titley, made the
announcement during the Closing Plenary on Friday, 4 November 2011, at
the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna.
More information about the NRO NC and the selection process can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/nronc2011
Kind regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC
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Dear colleagues,
A short summary of Friday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The
full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations,
webcasts and further information, can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/thursday/
Friday Plenary
Friday morning's Plenary began with updates from the other four Regional
Internet Registries (RIRs). Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC,
also gave an update on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Executive
Council (EC) activities and Andrea Cima, Registration Services Manager,
RIPE NCC, presented a global overview of allocation and assignment
statistics. Filiz Yilmaz, Senior Director of Participation and
Engagement, gave the IANA Update.
Closing Plenary
The Closing Plenary began with Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC,
giving an entertaining and informative presentation on IPv4 exhaustion.
Next on the agenda were three IPv6-related lightning talks and one on
"RPKI Validation Performance". The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) held
elections for the revolving vacant seat. The audience thanked Rob Evans,
who is standing down from the PC. Filiz Yilmaz was elected by the
attendees in the room by show of hands.
It was also announced that Joao Damas, IRC, was standing down from the
PC. He received a standing ovation for his efforts in coordinating the
RIPE Meeting plenary content over the last several years. Brian Nisbet
was welcomed as his replacement.
Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, asked the Plenary if it agreed that the RIPE
NCC could continue to use an address block for RIS activities. The
attendees present agreed by show of hands. Marco Hogewoning, RIPE NCC,
announced that the resource request for business operations he had
presented on earlier in the week has been revoked.
Nigel Titley, Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board, announced that
Wilfried Woeber had been selected as the RIPE NCC Executive Board
appointee to the NRO Number Council (NC).
Erik Romijn, RIPE NCC, gave the RIPE 63 Technical Report. A report from
the Secret Working Group followed and Rob Blokzijl closed the RIPE 63
Meeting with a short overview of meeting statistics, thanked the meeting
hosts, the organisation team and the attendees and encouraged everyone
to take part in the RIPE 64 Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Dear colleagues,
A short summary of Thursday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The
full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations,
webcasts and further information, can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/thursday/
Address Policy Working Group
The third AP WG session started on Thursday with discussion on the IPv6
PI/PA unification proposal made by Gert Doering, AP Working Group
co-Chair. There was an analysis of special cases, the costs and the
"multiple blocks per LIR" scenario that would result from the
unification. The RIPE NCC was tasked to look into possible reasons why
LIRs would like to be able to request multiple prefixes. More feedback
was encouraged on the mailing list.
During the Open Policy Hour, the recent RFC 6382, published by the IETF,
was presented. Some possible interpretation issues with the ripe-525
policy, "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policy" were
highlighted. The attendees present reached the conclusion that a policy
proposal should not be submitted.
DNS Working Group
The first session of the DNS Session WG had a very diverse set of
presentations, ranging from an update by the RIPE NCC, an update on the
DANE work in IETF, to DNS configuration management and two different
implementations of an authoritative DNS server.
The second DNS session started with an interesting presentation about
the excessive increased query load on the root name servers that
occurred for a brief time this summer, followed by a presentation on
"DNSSEC Trigger". There was also an update on the "IDN Variant Issues
Project" and an update on the status of the DNSEASY and SSR Meetings.
The session ended with a very engaging panel discussion, ranging from
the technical to the political implications of blocking or rewriting DNS
query results at the registry or ISP level and how that affects
operators throughout the world.
EIX Working Group
The first presentation of the session was an introduction to the local
peering scene in Austria, given by Christian Panigl, VIX. There was then
an update on EIX activities, which included the new IPv4 policy and
switch wishlist. Remco van Mook, Equinix, and Martin Pels, AMS-IX,
offered to help with the document. The session continued with a
presentation on "Monitoring Platforms for Internet Exchange Points" and
"Jumbo Frames in AMS-IX", which prompted many in the audience to voice
their opinions.
The second EIX WG session began with a presentation on "Extended
Communities for Route-Servers and ASN32", followed by "How to Resolve
Edge Redundancy for Peering". Next up was Joao Damas, ISC, who talked
about the Open Source Routing project he was working on. There were two
presentations on problems experienced with Proxy-ARP and discussion
focused on why this happened. A Cisco representative said he would bring
this feedback back to Cisco. The session ended with on open mic session
of lightning updates.
RIPE Database Working Group
The RIPE NCC shared the latest RIPE Database developments. RIPE NCC
staff members, Kaveh Ranjbar and Denis Walker, presented on the action
points from the RIPE 62 Meeting, all of which have been completed.
The main discussion of the session was about the geolocation service.
The RIPE NCC showed a prototype of the service and the WG Chair will
present the proposed way forward on the RIPE Database mailing list. The
RIPE NCC was also requested to investigate how internationalisation
could be made possible and what would need to be done if it is decided
to fully serve the data in utf-8.
As reported in the Anti-Abuse WG earlier this week, a requirement of an
abuse contact i in the RIPE Database will start the PDP in the coming
weeks.. This is the result of the Abuse Contact Task Force. An other
issue raised was that objects sponsored by an LIR are not shown in the
RIPE Database. The mailing list will be used to analyse how to move
forward.
Cooperation Working Group
The RIPE Cooperation Working Group met in the final session of the day,
and included a remote presentation from European Commission
representative Andrea Glorioso, who emphasised the need for more
synchronisation between the RIPE community and the Commission. Chris
Buckridge, RIPE NCC, gave an update on the Internet Governance Forum
2011, while Nurani Nimpuno, Netnod, spoke about the work of the United
Nations CSTD Working Group on "Improvements to the IGF".
MAT Working Group
The session started with NIC Brazil reporting on how RIPE TTM data is
being used in real time in Brazil. Next there was a presentation on
Google's "Measurement Lab (M-Lab)" . After the talk, a number of people
asked if Google was considering integrating or sponsoring RIPE Atlas.
Wolfgang Nagele, RIPE NCC, then presented on "PCAP Analysis with
HADOOP". The session concluded with two presentations by the RIPE NCC,
one of which updated the audience on the recent developments in the RIPE
NCC's measurements activities. The other announced the introduction of
user defined measurements for RIPE Atlas. David Freedman, Claranet, then
asked the audience how the reachability of a prefix could be measured so
that people can build filters properly and proposed an experiment.
Interest was expressed and he said he would formulate a more solid
proposal.
IPv6 Privacy BoF
An IPv6 Privacy BoF was held in the Park Congress I room following the
last working group sessions of the day. The German NGO Arbeitskreis
Vorratsdatenspeicherung’s (Working Group on Data Retention) position on
how user privacy should be supported by ISPs and software/hardware
vendors was discussed as well as how privacy concerns will influence
ISPs’ IPv6 assignment practices.
Dear members,
The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) was held 2-3 November 2011 adjacent to
the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna. There were 117 attendees, excluding RIPE
NCC staff and observers from the other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
There were six resolutions to be voted on at the GM. The full text of
all resolutions is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/agenda
The presentations given at the GM are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/presentations
The GM was broadcast for members via webcast. The archive is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/webstream
The results of the voting on the GM resolutions were as follows:
a) Certification: Option A
No 161
Yes 83
Abstain 17
a) Certification: Option B
No 120
Yes 114
Abstain 26
b) The General Meeting adopts the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2012.
No 148
Yes 102
Abstain 11
c) The General Meeting, in accordance with Article 21 of the Articles of
Association, adopts the amendments to the Articles of Association as
proposed and announced by the Executive Board on 5 October 2011.
Yes 193
Abstain 41
No 27
d) The General Meeting adopts the proposed new RIPE NCC Standard Service
Agreement, makes obsolete the old RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement
and the RIPE NCC Standard Terms and Conditions, and instructs the RIPE
NCC Executive Board and management of the RIPE NCC to implement the
necessary changes.
Yes 200
No 38
Abstain 23
e) The General Meeting approves the addition of David Freedman to the
RIPE NCC Arbiters Panel.
Yes 203
No 31
Abstain 27
The RIPE NCC would like to thank its membership for the input and
support given at the General Meeting.
Regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC
Dear members,
The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) began today, 2 November, and will
conclude at 16:00 (UTC +1) tomorrow, 3 November, when the results of the
voting on the GM resolutions will be announced.
The electronic voting period for those who registered will remain open
until 14:00 (UTC +1) on 3 November.
The archive of the webcast from tonight's section of the GM is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/webstream
The results of the voting will be broadcast via webcast on the same page
tomorrow from 15:40 (UTC +1).
The presentations from tonight are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/presentations/
Best regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC
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Dear colleagues,
A short summary of Wednesday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The
full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations,
webcasts and further information, can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/wednesday/
Address Policy Working Group
Emilio Madaio, RIPE NCC Policy Development Officer, gave on overview of
"Current Policy Topics" and the "Policy Development Office Activities".
Alex le Heux, RIPE NCC, continued with "Feedback from RIPE NCC
Registration Services", showing how the implementation can take from
days to years.
The APWG co-Chairs announced their intention to declare consensus on
proposal 2011-02, "Removal of multihomed requirement for IPv6 PI".
2011-04, "Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation" and
2011-05, "Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space" were presented and
discussed.
Dave Wilson, HEAnet, gave an overview "On Inter-RIR Transfers" and asked
for discussion on whether we need an inter-RIR transfer policy. The RIPE
NCC was requested to evaluate the current transfer policy. Rob Blokzijl
then introduced his initiative for the "IPv4 Maintenance Policy" document.
Shane Kerr, ISC, explained the conclusions from yesterday's IPv6 WG
session about IPv6 renumbering. The last item on the agenda was a review
of the withdrawn policy 2008-08, "Initial Certification Policy in the
RIPE NCC Service Region".
ENUM Working Group
The ENUM WG started with Wolfgang Nagele, RIPE NCC, giving an update of
the RIPE NCC's ENUM service. Patrik Faltstrom, Cisco, gave a short
presentation about User ENUM in Sweden. The third presenter, Lino
Santos, reported about the progress made with ENUM in Portugal.
Most of the WG session was covered by an interesting panel discussion
with ENUM experts from various countries and a speaker from from TERENA.
The discussion focused around why ENUM is not so successful and if ENUM
itself is a service or if it is an underlying technology on which
services can be based. An action was assigned to contact all ENUM
operators between now and RIPE 64.
Routing Working Group
Geoff Huston, APNIC, presented the mystery of "The Flat World of BGP"
and Thomas Mangin, EXA Networks Ltd., presented on exaBGP and asked for
feedback. Randy Bush, IIJ, presented the "Impact of the Tohoku
Earthquake on Japanese ISPs" and concluded this was a boring event; the
Internet worked around failures. He also presented on the CPU load of
BGPSEC. Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC, asked for input on the usefulness
of RIS routing beacons. The responses were that they were useful. There
was an action on the RIPE NCC to publish the IPv6 Routing
Recommendations document.
RIPE NCC Services Working Group
The RIPE NCC Services Working Group was the final session of the day.
Following an introduction to the newly composed Senior Management team
by Axel Pawlik, RIPE NCC Managing Director, there was an update from the
RIPE NCC Senior Managers on the organisation's various activities,
priorities and developments and the results of the RIPE NCC Membership
and Stakeholder Survey 2011. There were presentations on the RIPE NCC's
preparation for the distribution of the last remaining IPv4 address
space, and on the progress of the RIPE NCC's project on Contractual
Relationship Requirements for End Users. Finally, Daniel Karrenberg,
RIPE NCC Chief Scientist, reported on the development and future plans
for RIPE Atlas.
PGP Key-Signing Party
The PGP Key-Signing Party has been a regular feature at the last few
RIPE Meetings, and RIPE 63 was no exception. While cryptography ensures
the secrecy of communication, it is important to establish a “web of
trust” so that the authenticity of the involved parties is also known
with a high degree of confidence. The RIPE Meeting presents an ideal
opportunity for attendees to meet, exchange, verify and sign each
others' public keys. Yesterday’s Key-Signing Party was attended by 10-15
people and will be continued at future RIPE meetings.
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Dear Colleagues,
A short summary of Tuesday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The
full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations,
webcasts and further information, can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/tuesday/
Plenary
Day two of RIPE 63 began with a busy Plenary session, with talks on
"DDoS Attack Trends Through 2009-2011", the "Reputation of Networks –
RIPE Region" and "Operational Experiences in Deploying 100 GbE". The
RIPE NCC talked about "IPv4 and IPv6 assignments for RIPE NCC Routing
Information Service" and "Resource Request for Business Operations".
There were several comments from the audience about this and it was left
to the community to decide the outcome during the Closing Plenary on
Friday.
The second Plenary session continued the focus on technical issues,
starting with a presentation on transit costs, followed by BGP policy
violations in the data-plane, and an analysis of IPv6 latencies. A study
of measured trends in IPv6 adoption looked primarily at trends seen
around and following World IPv6 Day.
The third Plenary session saw RIPE NCC's Managing Director, Axel Pawlik,
share the RIPE NCC's plan for contacting legacy space holders in the
RIPE NCC service region. The presentation prompted a lot of
participation from the audience, many of whom were legacy space holders
themselves. Axel encouraged legacy space holders, even those with
particularly specific situations, to contact the RIPE NCC. RIPE Chair,
Rob Blokzijl, supported the efforts to "blow off the dust" of legacy
address space.
IPv6 remains a hot topic at RIPE Meetings, with a talk on "IPv6
Deployment Beauty Pageant" and a four-person panel discussing "CPE and
End-User IPv6". Audience comments indicated that having hardware
providers speaking about IPv6 deployment was an encouraging indication
that things were moving in the right direction. Next, several
interesting Lightning Talks were held and David Kessens, reported from a
draft document currently reviewed by the IETF: IANA Reserved IPv4
prefixes for shared CGN space and urged everyone to look at the draft
and participate in the discussion. At the end of the session, Marco
Hogewoning, WG co-Chair, introduced 'speed dating' between those who
have deployed IPv6 and those busy deploying it.
IPv6 Working Group
Shane Kerr, ISC, gave a presentation on renumbering for enterprise
networks and the IETF Working Group that has been established to look at
this issue, seeking operator feedback on their work. The update to RIPE
Document, ripe-501, "Requirements for IPv6 in ICT Equipment", which will
conclude its Last Call phase next week, was discussed. Constanze Bürger
delivered an update on the German government's roll-out of a federal
IPv6 network, which led to some discussion and Timo Hilbrink provided an
update on the IPv6 deployment of Dutch ISP XS4ALL.
Anti-Abuse Working Group
There was a good mix of the technical, the practical and the policy at
the Anti-Abuse Working Group session. Joao Damas, ISC, gave an
interesting presentation on passive DNS. Laura Cobley, Customer Services
Manager at the RIPE NCC, spoke about how to report abuse to the RIPE
NCC. She received many helpful suggestions on how the process should
work. Michele Neylon, Blacknight, talked about how hosting companies
deal with abuse. The session ended with lengthy discussion on
interactions with governments and legal enforcement agencies.
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Dear Colleagues,
The RIPE 63 Meeting opened today. A short summary of Monday's events can
be found below. The full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links
to presentations and further information, can be found at:
http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/
RIPE 63 Plenary
The RIPE 63 Meeting began Monday afternoon with welcome addresses from
Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, and the RIPE Meeting hosts, Christian Panigl,
UniVie/ACOnet/VIX, and Robert Schiscka, nic.at. Desiree Miloshevic, of
the Oxford Internet Institute, then gave an introduction to the results
of the recent RIPE NCC Membership and Stakeholder Survey
The Plenary continued with a detailed presentation by Emile Aben, RIPE
NCC, on “World IPv6 Day - What Did We Learn?”. The presentation showed
statistics from the day itself and concluded that it was a positive
experience. Brian Nisbet, HEAnet, with the first technical presentation
of the week, had the attendees laughing out loud at his amusing account
of HEAnet’s experience with “Cisco CRS-1 & IOS-XR”.
The second Plenary session began with an emotive speech from Daniel
Karrenberg, Chief Scientist RIPE NCC, entitled "Almost 20 Years of RIPE
NCC: A Personal View on Current Challenges". It was followed by a
high-level panel discussion on resource certification (RPKI). The
discussion saw lengthy debate on the technical and potential regulatory
issues surrounding certification.
RPKI Workshop
Earlier in the day, a RPKI workshop was held. Around 80 people
participated in the event, during which they had the chance to make use
all of the available open source tools and configure routers to base
routing decisions on RPKI data.
BoF: RIPEstat Demo
The RIPEstat demo took place during Monday’s BoF session. The demo gave
an overview of the purpose of RIPEstat, explained some features related
to the application’s views, mentioned the new iPhone/iPad version that
was released yesterday and outlined upcoming features. More information
about RIPEstat and the demos can be found online at:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ripestat
Database Tricks and Tips
Around 35 people attended the "Database Tricks and Tips" session, run by
the RIPE NCC, on Monday morning. The session introduced attendees to the
most important objects in the RIPE Database, showed simple ways to get
precise information and explained the best methods for updating the
database. There was also some discussion of geolocation.
Abuse Contact Management Task Force
The Abuse Contact Management Task Force held their fourth meeting on
Monday morning. The goal of the task force is to propose a solution for
abuse contact provision by members. The task force will report back to
the Anti Abuse Working Group on Tuesday afternoon. The task force also
came up with a policy proposal outline that will be submitted in the
coming weeks.
