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[news] 130th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes and Minutes
by RIPE NCC Management 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 130th Meeting on 12 December 2019. The draft minutes of this meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2019/minutes-130th-ri… 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 Executive Board introduced a new action for the drafting of a document that will define and describe how the RIPE NCC Executive Board functions, engages and works among itself. - In support of the ongoing development of a transparent conflict of interest policy that applies to RIPE NCC staff and RIPE NCC Executive Board members, the Executive Board agreed that all Internet and industry related activities will be published in the biographies of RIPE NCC Executive Board members on the RIPE NCC's website. - The RIPE NCC Legal team will take on the task of producing a new proposal regarding Meeting Presenter Terms and Conditions. The proposal will be produced in coordination with the RIPE Working Group Chairs and the RIPE Programme Committee and will be presented for the review of the RIPE NCC Executive Board. - The RIPE Chair continues work on a draft procedure describing funding for RIPE Working Group Chairs. The procedure will provide clear terms and conditions for applications for funding. The draft procedure will be presented to the RIPE Working Group Chairs mailing list for discussion. - The Executive Board received reports from the RIPE NCC Management Team, the HR Director and the Chief Financial Officer. Kind regards RIPE NCC Management Team Felipe Victolla Silveira, Gwen van Berne and Kaveh Ranjbar

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[news] RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2020 Published
by RIPE NCC Management 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2020 is now available. This definitive document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from our membership. It outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year and the associated costs for each activity. The document is available at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-735 The main points from this year's Activity Plan and Budget are: - Our budget will increase by 4% - No increase to our FTE count - A forecast revenue decrease of 12% in 2020, as we expect to end the year with approximately 1,500 fewer LIR accounts than we started with - The membership fee remains at EUR 1,400 - There is an anticipated surplus of 3,332 kEUR to potentially be redistributed to the membership - The cost per LIR is expected to be EUR 1,498, up from EUR 1,367 in the 2019 Budget Feedback we received from the Executive Board and from the membership at last October's General Meeting (GM) did not result in any significant changes since the draft version was published in September. Kind regards RIPE NCC Management Team Felipe Victolla Silveira, Gwen van Berne and Kaveh Ranjbar

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[training] RIPE NCC Webinars January - March 2020
by Training Services 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinars scheduled for January, February and March 2020. The RIPE NCC Webinars are live, free and take only one hour. You can interact with our trainers without leaving your desk. We focus on the topics and issues that are relevant to you. ------------------ January Webinars ------------------ - Internet Routing Registry Webinar (Thursday, January 16, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - IPv6 Addressing Plan Webinar (Thursday, January 23, 10:00-11:00 UTC) --------------------- February Webinars --------------------- - IPv6 in the RIPE Database Webinar (Tuesday, February 4, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RPKI Webinar (Wednesday, (February 5, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - Introduction to the RIPE Database Webinar (Thursday, February 20, 10:00-11:00 UTC) --------------------- March Webinars --------------------- - Webinar for New LIRs (Tuesday, March 3, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RIPE Database - Advanced Topics Webinar (Wednesday, March 4, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RIPE Policy Webinar (Wednesday, March 11, 10:00-11:00 UTC) - RIPE Atlas Usage Webinar (Thursday, March 12, 10:00-11:00 UTC) Register for the webinars here: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars If you have any questions, please email <training(a)ripe.net>. We look forward to seeing you online. Kind regards, RIPE NCC Training Services

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: December 2019
by Elena Signorelli 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Hello RIPE NCC member, If you follow the Gregorian and Julian calendars, this time of year can be both special and busy, so we’ll get straight to the point. Welcome to your final Member Update for 2019: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- We’re Looking for our Next MD -- December Deadline for Closure Updates -- We're Revamping the RIPE NCC Academy -- Our Approach to the Cloud -- Germany Country Report -- In Conversation with Axel Pawlik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Celebrating 10,000 RPKI Certificates -- Improved RIPEstat SEO and Sharing Link Previews -- New RIPEstat Widgets Developed by APNIC's NetOX Team ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NomCom Announced -- Call for RIPE Chair and Vice Chair is Open -- RACI: Apply Now -- Focus on Portugal -- IGF 2019 Liveblog -- What Network Engineers Need to Know About Software Engineering ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 80, 11-15 May 2020, Berlin, Germany -- MENOG 20 and Peering Forum, 15-19 March 2020, Manama, Bahrain -- SEE 9, 7-8 April 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- RIPE NCC Day Tashkent, 29 April 2020, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,284 (-79) LIRs with IPv6: 16,299 (+125) Policy transfers in November: 753,664 IPv4 addresses (+23,424) -- We’re Looking for our Next MD We’re hiring a Managing Director to set the strategic course of the RIPE NCC and lead us through 2020 and beyond. Could this be you? Read the full job description at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/careers-at-the-ripe-ncc/vacancy/148244 -- December Deadline for Closure Updates Do you need to make a request to close an LIR account? Or do you need to update us on any changes that will result in the closure of an LIR account? If you do, please provide us with all the information by 16 December 2019, or you might be invoiced for that account in 2020. -- We're Revamping the RIPE NCC Academy We will be making some updates to our e-learning platform, so it won't be available from 2-27 January 2020. Our colleague, Ulka Athale, wrote this RIPE Labs article, telling you about some of the exciting changes you can expect from us in 2020: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/revamping-the-ripe-ncc-academy -- Our Approach to the Cloud Want to know the reasoning behind why we're moving some of our technical infrastructure to the cloud? Read this RIPE Labs article where our colleague, Kaveh Ranjbar, shares some insight: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/our-approach-to-the-cloud -- Germany Country Report Using our measurement tools – RIPEstat, RIPE Atlas, RIPE Labs statistics and Routing Information Service (RIS) – we created the Germany Country Report. Our colleague, Suzanne Taylor, shares more about what you will learn from the report in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-country-report… -- In Conversation with Axel Pawlik Our colleague, Ulka Athale, sat down with Axel Pawlik to talk about his 20-year tenure as the RIPE NCC’s Managing Director. Read the interview on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/how-far-weve-come ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Celebrating 10,000 RPKI Certificates Here's proof that more and more network operators are seeing the need for routing security. We hit 10,000 RPKI certificates! Read more about the impressive milestone in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/celebrating-10-000-rpki-cer… -- Improved RIPEstat SEO and sharing link previews We improved the sharing link previews on RIPEstat. You can now share neat RIPEstat previews on social media with clear titles. -- New RIPEstat Widgets Developed by APNIC's NetOX Team We developed two new widgets in collaboration with APNIC, which are currently featured on NetOX (https://netox.apnic.net/) but they will also be available soon on RIPEstat's result page. APNIC Abuse Contact Finder https://stat.ripe.net/widget/apnic-abuse-contact-finder#w.resource=AS3333 APNIC Transfer History https://stat.ripe.net/widget/apnic-transfer-history#w.resource=115.124.0.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NomCom Announced Thank you to the 36 people who came forward and volunteered to join the RIPE Nominating Committee. This morning, the Chair of the 2019-2020 RIPE NomCom, Daniel Karrenberg, announced who the voting members will be. You can read the announcement at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-December/001720.html -- Call for RIPE Chair and Vice Chair is Open Who will be the next RIPE Chair and Vice Chair? You’re invited to nominate candidates, perhaps even yourself, by sending your nominations to <nominations(a)ripe-nomcom.org>. Please include a description of the skills or expertise that make your candidate a desirable choice. -- RACI: Apply Now We encourage all students, academics and researchers from across our service region to apply for the RACI grant. This initiative could fund your meeting ticket, accommodation and travel to one of our upcoming meetings where you could present your research! The first deadline is 19 January! Learn more about the topics and how to apply at: https://www.ripe.net/raci -- Focus on Portugal This RIPE Labs article takes a look at what our data tells us about Portugal in terms of membership development, IPv6 adoption and routing. Read it and learn about IPv4 transfers and more: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/focus-on-portugal -- IGF 2019 Liveblog Want to know what topics were discussed at this year's IGF? Some of our team reported live and you can read the blog on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/igf-2019-liveblog -- What Network Engineers Need to Know About Software Engineering Sasha Romijn, an active community member, shared some valuable advice for software engineers looking to improve their code and more. Read the article on RIPE Labs at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sasha_romijn/what-network-engineers-need-to-k… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 80, 11-15 May 2020, Berlin, Germany Registration opens next week! On 16 December you can make your way to the RIPE Meeting website and be the first to register: https://ripe80.ripe.net You will also be able to apply for the RIPE Fellowship, which opens the same day as registration. Learn more about this opportunity at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-fellowship -- MENOG 20 and Peering Forum, 15-19 March 2020, Manama, Bahrain The call for presentations is open to experienced network operators! Submit your proposals for plenary sessions no later than 1 February 2020. https://www.menog.org/menog-20/call-for-presentations Join us in Manama, Bahrain and register at: https://www.menog.org/menog-20 -- SEE 9, 7-8 April 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia Call for presentations is open. The submission deadline is 17 February 2020. Learn more about what content the programme committee is looking for at: https://www.ripe.net/see-9/call-for-presentations -- RIPE NCC Day Tashkent, 29 April 2020, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Submit your content proposals for the plenary session presentations, panels and lightning talks no later than 28 February 2020. Learn more about the topics of interest and the event at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-ncc-day-tashkent/call-for-presentations If you want to know what’s happening as it’s happening, join us on all our social media channels (if you’re into that kind of thing). https://www.ripe.net/social Thanks for reading the whole way through :) We’ll be back in the new year, ready to join you for another year of shaping the future of the Internet! /elena Elena Signorelli Marketing and Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2019 Recipients Announced
by Alastair Strachan 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund opened its call for applications in July 2019. The application period was open for 8 weeks and we received more than 45 applications from 23 different countries. We’d like to thank all the applicants - the number and diversity of topics show that there are many great ideas that need support. The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following seven projects have been selected as the 2019 recipients of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Congratulations to the selected projects! - Antikraak: Protecting non-routed and transferred address space against spear-hijacking, SimulaMet - ASNR: ASN Ranking system - A path to detect fake ASNs, Alireza Vaziri - Cryptofuzz, Guido Vranken - Improving the Tor network’s IPv6 support, The Tor Project - IRRexplorer v2, NLNOG Foundation - RPKI Ecosystem Health Monitoring, NLNet Labs - Verification and monitoring of BGP prefix hijacking incidents using RIPE Atlas probes in the ARTEMIS open source detection tool, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) You can read more about how these projects will contribute to the ‘Good of the Internet’at: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2019 Kind regards, Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator

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[news] RIPE NCC Managing Director Recruitment
by Christian Kaufmann 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Dear fellow RIPE NCC and Internet community members, As previously announced, the Executive Board is hiring a new Managing Director for the RIPE NCC via a specialised executive search company. Hagoort & Partners / IRC Netherlands is supporting the RIPE NCC in the search and selection of candidates, and the recruitment process. Patrick Westerburger is the contact person for this. A description of the Managing Director job profile and requirements is available at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/careers-at-the-ripe-ncc/vacancy/148244 If you are interested in this position, you can address your application and motivation letter, in English, to <Pwesterburger(a)hagoort.com> before 1 January, 2020. Kind regards, Christian Kaufmann Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board

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[training] RIPE NCC Academy unavailable from 2-27 January 2020
by Sandra Brás 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Academy will not be available from 2-27 January 2020 as we are upgrading the platform and changing how we offer digital badges and certificates. Here’s what we’re changing: ------------------------------------------ *Important Information* ------------------------------------------ If you are currently following a course, or have earned a badge or certificate from the RIPE NCC Academy: - Going forward, we will no longer issue certificates through the RIPE NCC Academy. - Badges earned by completing activities in the Academy courses will also be removed. - If you would like to receive a RIPE NCC Academy certificate, make sure to finish any incomplete courses before 2 January 2020. Your progress in a course will not be saved beyond this date. - Please download and save your RIPE NCC Academy certificates as they will not be available from 2 January onwards. - The new RIPE Database course will be available after 27 January 2020. - We will issue verifiable digital badges and certificates through the RIPE NCC Certified Professionals programme from 2020 onwards. ------------------------------------------ A fresh RIPE Database Course ------------------------------------------ The RIPE Database online course will return with new, up-to-date content. This content is aligned with the RIPE NCC Certified Professionals exam. Other major changes include making the modules shorter, meaning that you can learn about a topic in 10-20 minute sessions. We have also improved the interactivity and have added exercises to help you practice your RIPE Database skills. ------------------------------------------ Training Database Upgrade ------------------------------------------ The Training Database is a copy of the RIPE Database for learners. It will be updated to the latest version of the RIPE Database software and, from now onwards, it will be synced with every future update of the RIPE Database software. While the bad news is that we will take the Academy offline for most of January 2020, the good news is that it will come back with improved functionality and a better learning experience. You can read more about these changes on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/revamping-the-ripe-ncc-academy If you have any questions, write to us at <academy(a)ripe.net> Best regards, Sandra Brás E-Learning Programme Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] The RIPE NCC has run out of IPv4 Addresses
by Nikolas Pediaditis 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, Today, at 15:35 UTC+1 on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses. Our announcement will not come as a surprise for network operators - IPv4 run-out has long been anticipated and planned for by the RIPE community. In fact, it is due to the community's responsible stewardship of these resources that we have been able to provide many thousands of new networks in our service region with /22 allocations after we reached our last /8 in 2012. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Recovered IPv4 Addresses and the Waiting List ---------------------------------------------------------------- Even though we have run out, we will continue to recover IPv4 addresses in the future. These will come from organisations that have gone out of business or whose LIR accounts are closed, or from networks that return addresses they no longer need. They will be allocated to our members according to their position on a new waiting list that is now active. While we therefore expect to be allocating IPv4 for some time, these small amounts will not come close to the many millions of addresses that networks in our region need today. Only LIRs that have never received an IPv4 allocation from the RIPE NCC (of any size) may request addresses from the waiting list, and they are only eligible to receive a single /24 allocation. LIRs that have submitted an IPv4 request can see their position on the waiting list in the LIR Portal. A new graph has also been published that shows the number of requests on the waiting list and the number of days that the LIR at the front of the queue has been waiting: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ipv4-waiting-list ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Greater Progress on IPv6 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This event is another step on the path towards global exhaustion of the remaining IPv4 addressing space. In recent years, we have seen the emergence of an IPv4 transfer market and greater use of Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) in our region. There are costs and trade-offs with both approaches and neither one solves the underlying problem, which is that there are not enough IPv4 addresses for everyone. Without wide-scale IPv6 deployment, we risk heading into a future where the growth of our Internet is unnecessarily limited - not by a lack of skilled network engineers, technical equipment or investment, but by a shortage of unique network identifiers. There is still a long way to go, and we call on all stakeholders to play their role in supporting the IPv6 roll-out. At the RIPE NCC, we are here to support our membership and the wider RIPE community in this work. Aside from allocating the IPv6 resources that will be required, we will continue to provide advice, training, measurements and tools to help network operators as they put their deployment plans into action. We are optimistic and excited to see what the next chapter will bring. So let's get to work - and together, let's shape the future of the Internet. Best regards, Everyone at the RIPE NCC

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[news] Update: IPv4 Pool Running Low - Waiting List Published
by Nikolas Pediaditis 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, With less than 100 IPv4 /22-equivalents remaining in our pool, we expect that we will announce run-out early next week. Ahead of this, we have published a table and graph which will show the number of /24 requests when the waiting list becomes active (both the table/graph will obviously remain at zero until then). You can find this here: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ipv4-waiting-list Because of the way we have implemented the waiting list, there is a small chance that some people will know we have reached IPv4 run-out before we do. While this is not overly important, to avoid confusion we thought it might be worth explaining why this could happen. To ensure fairness, each request effectively "reserves" a /22 until the allocation can be made. Depending on the rate of IPv4 requests, it's possible that we might end a workday with only a handful of /22s remaining in our pool. If the number of requests we receive outside of office hours exceeds the number of remaining allocations, any further requests will be added to the waiting list automatically. This will generate an email notification for the LIR that submitted the request - thereby informing them that we are out of /22 allocations. Of course, we would not have "officially" run out, as we would still have some (at least one) /22s waiting to be allocated when we returned to the office. We will make our announcement only once we have made the final /22 allocation. Kind regards, Nikolas Pediaditis Registration Services and Policy Development Manager RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Training Courses January-March 2020
by Training Services 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, The cold winter days are the perfect opportunity for you to brush-up your IPv6 knowledge or learn more about the RIPE Database to manage your resources more efficiently. The RIPE NCC’s training team will be delivering face-to-face training courses in Amsterdam, London, Sofia, Amman, Düsseldorf, Riga, Tirana, Muscat, Stockholm, Dushanbe, Manamah, Minsk, and Bern in the coming months. 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 ------------ Last call to participate in the RIPE NCC Certified Professionals pilot exam ------------ Over the past few months, we’ve invited the community to test our very first Certified Professionals exam – RIPE Database Associate. We will be closing the pilot at the end of 2019. If you’ve been planning to get your RIPE Database expertise certified, do take a look at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals ------------ 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. The RIPE NCC Academy will be closed to users from 2 January until 26 January 2020, while we update course material and improve its features. If you are currently following a course on the Academy, please make sure to complete it in 2019! Learning on the Academy is open to everyone and is 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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