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[training] RIPE NCC Training Courses October-December 2019
by Training Services 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

Dear colleagues, Here's your opportunity to pick up new technical skills or learn more about the administration of Internet number resources! The RIPE NCC has a dedicated training team who offer support across our service region. In the coming months, the training team will be delivering face-to-face training courses in Helsinki, Bucharest, Baku, Berlin, Limassol, Manamah, Chisinau, Brussels, Belgrade, Barcelona, Lyon, Doha. The membership fee covers all our training courses, so that means there is no additional cost to attend. Here are the training courses we currently deliver: - LIR Training Course - RIPE Database Training Course - Basic IPv6 Training Course - IPv6 Security Training Course - Measurements Tools Workshop - Advanced IPv6 Training Course (two days) - BGP Operations and Security Training Course (two days) To find out when we'll be in your city and to register for an upcoming training course, go to: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses For more information, see: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/courses ------------ Can't make it to a training course? Learn online! ------------ We offer online webinars that you can attend from home or the office: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/webinars The RIPE NCC Academy is a virtual learning environment where you can complete online courses. We offer courses on being a Local Internet Registry, a RIPE Database Expert and an Introduction to IPv6. It is available to all members and non-members, free of charge: https://academy.ripe.net Whether it's in person or online, we hope to see you soon! Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager

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[news] NRO NC Call for Nominations
by Axel Pawlik 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Dear colleagues, This is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The three-year term of Filiz Yilmaz ends on 31 December 2019. The election to the NRO NC seat will take place during the RIPE 79 Meeting to be held in Rotterdam from 14-18 October 2019. All members of the Internet community who are present at the RIPE Meeting may vote in the election. The deadline for nominations is 20 September 2019. 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/nro-rc/nominations2019/process Please send your nominations to <nominations(a)ripe.net> by 23:59 UTC on 20 September 2019. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC website by 23 September 2019. 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/nro-rc/nominations2019/ Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important dates: 20 September 2019: Deadline for NRO NC nominations 23 September 2019: Deadline for all confirmed nominations to be posted on the RIPE NCC website 14-18 October 2019: Election to fill NRO NC seat at the RIPE 79 Meeting in Rotterdam 18 October 2019: Announce successful candidate at closing plenary of RIPE 79

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[news] Reminder: RACI Applications Close on 7 August
by Gergana Petrova 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Dear colleagues, This is the final call for applications for the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI). Applications from students, academics and researchers are accepted until *Wednesday, 7 August*. Please help us to spread the word and share this notice with your academic networks! https://www.ripe.net/raci Submit an abstract and your draft slides to apply for funding, which will cover the cost of your meeting ticket, return flights and accommodation. You will also have the opportunity to present your research at the following meetings: - RIPE NCC Regional Meeting (24-25 September, Kyiv) - RIPE 79 (14-19 October, Rotterdam) Examples of relevant research topics include: - Network measurements and analyses - IPv6 deployment - BGP routing - Network security - Internet governance - Peering and interconnectivity - Internet of Things RACI mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list Twitter: https://twitter.com/ripencc RACI LinkedIn Group: https://www.ripe.net/raci/linkedin For any questions about the initiative or about applying, please email me back. Best regards, Gergana Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update July 2019
by Elena Signorelli 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hello RIPE NCC member, You will be pleased to know that there will be no more emails asking you to participate in the RIPE NCC Survey! A big thank you to everyone who participated in the survey and helped spread the word. We had over five thousand people participate this year, with 4,161 people completing to the end! Survey Matters is now busy reading and analysing your responses, and we look forward to presenting the findings at RIPE 79 in Rotterdam. Now, for your July Member Update! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- Improving our Service Management Tool (Zendesk) -- RIPE Database Release -- The RIPE NCC Certified Professionals Pilot Exam ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Release of the RPKI Validator -- RIPEstat Service Terms and Conditions -- New RIPEstat Abuse Reporting Feature in the Making ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RACI: Call for Applications -- RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund – Apply Now! -- What do we Know About an IP Address? -- Internet Tools BoF Discovers Common Challenges for Network Operators -- Hackathon @ Africa Internet Summit 2019 -- Geopolitics of Routing -- Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NCC Days Kyiv, 24-25 September 2019, Kyiv -- IoT Hackathon Rotterdam 2019 -- RIPE 79: Rotterdam ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 23,326 (+663) LIRs with IPv6: 15,197 (+227) Policy transfers in June: 628,736 IPv4 addresses (+75,776) -- Improving our Service Management Tool (Zendesk) Earlier this year, members raised a security concern on the way we store attachments on Zendesk. When a user sent an email attachment to us, we stored it in the Zendesk environment, causing a potential privacy issue. We addressed this concern at RIPE 78, advising the community that we would store attachments on our internal documents system (Alfresco). Attachments are now removed from Zendesk as soon as a ticket is updated. -- RIPE Database Release We have made some improvements to the Whois RDAP service. The service now conforms to the RDAP standards and behaves more consistently, including address formatting and RIPE-specific attributes. You can find the release notes at: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/release-notes/ripe-database-rel… If you want details on the changes, you can find the documentation at: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/README.RDAP.md -- The RIPE NCC Certified Professionals Pilot Exam Test the testers! You still have the chance to take part in our pilot testing for the RIPE Database exam. If selected, you could earn our first digital badge, and be one of the very first RIPE NCC Certified Professionals! Find out more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certifiedprofessionals Sandra Brás shared more details on how this project is being developed in a recent RIPE Labs Article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sandra_bras/ripe-ncc-certified-professionals-… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Release of the RPKI Validator After a few weeks of testing, we have released Validator 3.1. This version offers a stable and fast user experience along with a Docker image. You can download the latest version at: https://ftp.ripe.net/tools/rpki/validator3/prod/generic/ You can find a full change log at: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/rpki-validator-3 -- RIPEstat Service Terms and Conditions To provide more legal clarity on the usage of RIPEstat, we recently published the Terms and Conditions for RIPEstat. https://stat.ripe.net/faq#termsandconditions -- New RIPEstat Abuse Reporting Feature in the Making Together with Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob - Lead Security, Stability and Resiliency Specialist at ICANN - we are planning to add a new feature that provides analytics on domain and IP address abuse for different threat types such spam, phishing and malware. Currently we are in the phase of evaluating abuse feeds. More information about the methodology can be found at: https://www.icann.org/octo-ssr/daar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RACI: Call for Applications For the academics and researchers among you, don't forget, apply for RACI! You could receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation for RIPE 79 in Rotterdam or the RIPE NCC Days in Kyiv. Find out more at: https://www.ripe.net/raci Subscribe to the RACI mailing list and stay up to date with academic-related news: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list -- RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund – Apply Now! You can apply for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund until 1 September 2019. The fund provides up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation and resilience of the Internet. Do consider that there is a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical communities in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Find out more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/ripe-ncc-community-projects-fund -- What Do We Know About an IP Address? You may know what you need to, but have you ever asked yourself the question, “Can we actually use an IP address as a decision point or not?” In this RIPE Labs article, Ólafur Guðmundsson explores this question and explains what decisions we make based on where the IP addresses originate from, and if these decisions even make sense: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/olafur_gudmundsson/what-do-we-know-about-an-i… -- Internet Tools BoF Discovers Common Challenges for Network Operators Our colleagues Agustin Formoso and Michela Galante joined Sofia Silva Berenguer from APNIC to host a BoF at the recent LACNIC event. Read about how attendees identified five main categories of challenges in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sofia_silva_berenguer/internet-tools-bof-disc… -- Hackathon @ Africa Internet Summit 2019 Willem Toorop collaborated with Jasper den Hertog and Lia Hestina to report on the recent hackathons organised by the ISOC African regional bureau at the Africa Internet Summit (AIS). Read about it in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/willem_toorop/hackathon-africa-internet-summi… -- Geopolitics of Routing Want to know how Louis Petiniaud and Loqman Salamatian used the BGP feeds provided by the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS), and other BGP feeds, to illustrate the geopolitics of cyberspace? Read about it in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/louis_petiniaud/geopolitics-of-routing -- Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP In this RIPE Labs article, Danilo Giordano, a RACI fellow, shares the results of a large-scale measurement study from the perspective of a Tier-1 ISP based in Europe. Find out how the study helped them to better characterise Internet usage trends and more at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/danilo_giordano/five-years-at-the-edge-record… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NCC Days Kyiv, 24-25 September 2019, Kyiv Join us for the RIPE NCC Days in Kyiv! Formerly known as a RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, we decided to change the name to better reflect the content and structure of the meeting. You can find out more about the meeting and register at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/ripe-ncc-days-k… -- IoT Hackathon Rotterdam 2019 The weekend before RIPE 79 (12-13 November), we will be hosting a two-day hackathon on the Internet of Things (IoT) where participants will develop several IoT tools, products and apps for the RIPE community. If you want to get involved, you can apply by 1 September 2019: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/iot-hackathon-at-ripe-79-in-rotterdam -- RIPE 79, 14-18 October 2019, Rotterdam You can now register for RIPE 79! Take your first step towards joining us in Rotterdam and register now at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/attend/register/ The RIPE Programme Committee has announced the first call for presentations. You can submit your presentation topics at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ Would you like support to attend the meeting? You might be eligible for the RIPE Fellowship! Find out more at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/attend/ripe-fellowship/ We still have some sponsorship opportunities available. Find out how your organisation can participate at the link below or contact meeting organisers directly: meeting(a)ripe.net https://ripe79.ripe.net/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ Thanks for joining me for this month’s Member Update. Please do let me know if there are any other specific updates you would like to receive monthly. We’re always looking to improve the way we connect with members. My best, Elena Elena Signorelli Communications and Marketing Officer RIPE NCC | Amsterdam

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[news] 123rd RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes and Minutes
by Axel Pawlik 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 123rd Meeting on 21 June 2019. The draft minutes of this meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2019/minutes-123rd-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 agreed on the functions of board members as required by the RIPE NCC Articles of Association (AoA), as follows: Chairman: Christian Kaufmann Treasurer: Remco van Mook Secretary: Piotr Strzyżewski - On receiving a report on the current status of the draft RIPE Chair selection procedure, the RIPE NCC Executive Board noted its willingness to take on the role of appointing the Nomination Committee (NomCom) chair and confirming the selections made by the NomCom. Should the RIPE Chair selection procedure be adopted by the community, the RIPE NCC Executive Board will pass a formal resolution to accept their role in the process. - The Executive Board received a report from the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC, Axel Pawlik, including an update on the outcomes from the recent meeting with European Commission (EC) and Europol representatives in Brussels in response to concerns about inclusivity of the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). - The RIPE NCC Executive Board agreed to re-evaluate the option of offering paper ballots at RIPE NCC General Meetings. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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[meetings] Register Now for RIPE 79
by Martina De Mas 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hello community members, We are happy to let you know that registration for the RIPE 79 Meeting is now open! Rotterdam is set to be another exciting host city, so make sure you read up on the social activities we have planned for you as well. But, first things first: Register for RIPE 79! Go to: https://ripe79.ripe.net/register/ RIPE 79 will take place at the Postillion Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam from 14-18 October 2019: https://ripe79.ripe.net/on-site/meeting-venue/ ------------- Ticket Options ------------- Week ticket: EUR 350 Day ticket: EUR 125 Student (week) ticket: EUR 50 Are you a new LIR? If so, did you know that you have two free tickets to a RIPE Meeting? If you haven’t used them yet, make sure you do for RIPE 79. You can find more information about ticket options at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/register/ ------------- Accommodation ------------- There are many hotels and B&Bs in the area, several of which offer a discounted rate to RIPE 79 attendees. Please see the accommodation page to find accommodation that suits you the best. Rates are subject to availability, to avoid disappointment, reserve now: https://ripe79.ripe.net/on-site/accommodation/ ------------- Call for Presentations ------------- The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is seeking presentation proposals from the RIPE community for the plenary sessions, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), workshops, tutorials, and lightning talks at RIPE 78. Find out how to submit a proposal at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ Proposals must be submitted using the meeting submission system and no later than *16 August 2019*. ------------- Call for Sponsors ------------- Supporting a RIPE Meeting through sponsorship gives your organisation fantastic exposure in the global Internet community. We offer a range of options aimed to suit organisations of all sizes: https://ripe79.ripe.net/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ -------------------------------- Diversity Initiatives at RIPE 79 ------------------------------- We have several initiatives aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion at RIPE Meetings... - RIPE Fellowship - We fund a meeting ticket, accommodation and travel to the RIPE Meeting for those in need of financial assistance from the RIPE NCC service region. Apply before 7 August at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/attend/ripe-fellowship/ - RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI)- RACI funds a meeting ticket, accommodation and travel for successful applicants to present their research at RIPE 79. Apply before 7 August at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/programme/raci/ - On-site Childcare - We make it easier for parents in the community to fully participate in the meeting by offering professional, on-site childcare for children ages 6m-10yo. Space is limited, so be sure to confirm your child's place when you register for the meeting. More info: https://ripe79.ripe.net/on-site/on-site-childcare/ - Women in Tech Session - This open, inclusive lunch session brings together attendees to celebrate the achievements of women in the community. The session provides meeting attendees a space to discuss experiences, best practices and ways to improve inclusivity in the RIPE community and beyond. - 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. More info at: https://www.ripe.net/mentoring ---- More information on RIPE 79 can be found at: https://ripe79.ripe.net/ We look forward to seeing you in Rotterdam! For updates about the meeting, follow us on Twitter: @ripemeeting, #RIPE79 Kind regards, RIPE Meetings Organisation Team

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[News] Apply for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund
by projectsfund＠ripe.net 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hello, For the third year in a row, the RIPE NCC is committing to support activities and projects ‘for the Good of the Internet’. We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for funding from the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Through the Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC will provide up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation 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. The Internet today owes its success to a lot of non-commercial, community-driven work, and this continues to ensure the Internet remains resilient, secure and accessible. 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 couple of 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 - Applications will be accepted until 1 September 2019 See the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund website for more details! For more information, visit: https://ripe.net/community-projects-fund <https://ripe.net/community-projects-fund> Kind Regards Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator

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

24 Jun '19

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

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

20 Jun '19

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

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

18 Jun '19

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

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