RIPE NCC Member Update: October 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - RIPE 75 Starts This Sunday - RIPE Networking App - RIPE NCC General Meeting - Clean-up of "abuse-c" Attributes - Charging for Independent Resource Assignments and Legacy Resource Registrations - Engaged in a Transfer Due to Merger or Acquisition? - RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - RACI Applications for 2018 Now Open - RIPEstat - RIPE Atlas v3 Anchors - 10,000 RIPE Atlas Probes - IPv6 Day Denmark - Internet of Things Roundtable Meeting - RIPE NCC::Educa - RIPE NCC Training Courses in November - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - Measuring Web Server Reachability with TCP Ping - Recent on RIPE Labs - GDPR - RIPE Forum - RSS News Feeds from the RIPE NCC - Email Tagging - Monthly Policy Updates - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 17, 078 (+298) LIRs with IPv6: 12,433 (+128) IPv4 addresses transferred in August: 678,400 (-218,240) All our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true RIPE 75 STARTS THIS SUNDAY RIPE 75 kicks off in Dubai this Sunday, 22 October and we hope you will join us for what promises to be another great event. There's still time to register, and if you can't make it to Dubai we have a wide range of remote participation options (webcasts, chat rooms, live stenography). All the information on participation, as well as the programme and other useful pages, are available from the RIPE 75 website: https://ripe75.ripe.net/ We'll also be tweeting throughout the event along with members of the RIPE community, so if you're active on social media don't forget to check out the #RIPE75 hashtag! RIPE NETWORKING APP Networking with fellow attendees at RIPE Meetings has become a whole lot easier! The RIPE Networking App, developed by the RIPE NCC and using open-source software, allows you to schedule meetings and send messages to fellow app users. Details on how to get the app are available at: https://ripe75.ripe.net/on-site/ripe-networking-app/ And Adam Castle has written a RIPE Labs article on the app that's available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/ripe-networking-app RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING The General Meeting (GM) takes place on Tuesday next week (24 October) instead of the standard Wednesday. Over 1,000 RIPE NCC members have already registered to participate and we invite you to join them by registering via my.ripe.net at: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2017 At the GM, members will discuss the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2018, which gives a comprehensive overview of the RIPE NCC's plans for 2018 and the cost of those plans. Members will also vote on three resolutions at the GM relating to: - Redistribution of the RIPE NCC surplus in 2018 - Changes to the RIPE NCC Articles of Association - Changes to the RIPE NCC Conflict Arbitration Procedure All the supporting documents you need to make informed decisions are available from the General Meeting webpages: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2017/ CLEAN-UP OF "abuse-c" ATTRIBUTES On 16 October, we deployed whois release 1.90 to production. With this release it will be possible to add “abuse-c:” references to INET(6)NUM and AUT-NUM objects if you want to use an abuse contact for this resource that is different from the one in the ORGANISATION object for your LIR. With this release it will no longer be possible to add “abuse mailbox:” to objects other than ROLE objects that are referenced through “abuse-c:”. We will clean up existing other occurrences of “abuse mailbox:” on 30 October, and you will receive a notification with an explanation about this update if any of your objects are affected. You do not need to take any action because of this, but if you want to verify or change your abuse contact information you can do so using our web interface. You can find a link to view or modify your LIR’s organisation object at: https://my.ripe.net/#/account-details And you can review and modify your resource objects at: https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/#/myresources/overview CHARGING FOR INDEPENDENT RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS AND LEGACY RESOURCE REGISTRATIONS Independent Internet number resource assignments and legacy Internet resource registrations that will be charged for 2018 are available to LIR Billing users through the LIR Portal. LIRs can copy the list to the clipboard or download it as a CSV file. A snapshot of resources held was taken on 30 September and this is the basis for the charges to be made. ENGAGED IN A TRANSFER DUE TO MERGER OR ACQUISITION? If so, make sure you complete the process before the end of the year to avoid paying double fees for the next year! Still need to start the process? Request the update here: https://my.ripe.net/#/update-registry RIPE NCC COMMUNITY PROJECTS FUND On 22 October, we will start to accept applications for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Under this programme, the RIPE NCC will provide 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 our service region. https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf RACI APPLICATIONS FOR 2018 NOW OPEN The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) is opening a call for applicants for the upcoming meetings in spring 2018. RACI covers the cost of flights, accommodation and meeting tickets for the selected academics to present their research. Please help spread the word to academics who could benefit from this programme! https://www.ripe.net/raci Application deadlines: MENOG 18, 14-15 March, TBC: 28 January 2018 RIPE 76, 14-18 May, Marseille: 11 March 2018 ENOG 15, 4-5 June, Moscow: 1 April 2018 SEE 7, 18-19 June, Timisoara: 15 April 2018 RIPEstat RIPEstat has been seeing a tremendous growth in use. The number of daily requests has increased from 30 million at the beginning of 2017 to now over 40 million coming from 1.4 million daily visitors. https://stat.ripe.net/ Country Reports A first preview of the Country Reports project was presented at ENOG 14 in Minsk and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Christian Teuschel will present on the project during the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session at RIPE 75 on 24 October. RIPE ATLAS v3 ANCHORS The wait for the next generation of RIPE Atlas anchors is at an end. The RIPE NCC is now approving applications for the new RIPE Atlas v3 anchor. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors The first ten of fifteen RIPE Atlas anchors to be sponsored by the RIPE NCC have been selected. Read more here: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/campaign-to-sponsor-15-ripe-atlas-... 10,000 RIPE ATLAS PROBES In August, the number of connected RIPE Atlas probes hit 10,000 and we are now consistently above that figure. Looking forward, the RIPE NCC aims to get probes connected in 10% of active ASes. Read more at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/celebrating-10000-active-ripe-atla... IPv6 DAY DENMARK IPv6 Day Denmark will take place on 6 November and there is still time to register! The agenda is now finalised and you can see the details at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/ipv6-day-denmark INTERNET OF THINGS ROUNDTABLE MEETING The RIPE NCC held an IoT Roundtable meeting in Leeds on 21 September 2017. The full report on that meeting is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/roundtable/september-2017/ripe-iot... RIPE NCC::EDUCA The first RIPE NCC::Educa online educational event took place on 5 October, with 60-80 people joining the all-day online series of webinars on RIPE Atlas. There were many good discussions and as well as helping people to get more from RIPE Atlas, we got great feedback on how we can improve the service. A full report will be available shortly and in the meantime, we are planning the next event for early 2018. https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa RIPE NCC TRAINING COURSES IN NOVEMBER In November, there will be face-to-face RIPE NCC Training Courses on the RIPE Database, IPv6, and BGP and Security in Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Krasnodar and Palermo. If you are interested in attending one of these courses, please register at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/ RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES The last three RIPE NCC Member Lunches will take place in November in Bucharest, Tbilisi and Chisinau. If you are a RIPE NCC member based near one of these cities, we'd love to see you there. You can find out about the events and register from: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches MEASURING WEB SERVER REACHABILITY WITH TCP PING Rene Wilhelm has written a useful RIPE Labs article that shows how to measure your web server reachability using TCP Ping: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/measuring-your-web-server-reachability... RECENT ON RIPE LABS Since the last Member Update, we have published a wide range of useful and interesting articles on RIPE Labs. A selection of these articles are provided below. Please contact <labs@ripe.net> if you would like to publish research or anything else that might be interesting for the RIPE community. Martin Hannigan and Job Snijders discuss settlement free interconnection agreements at scale and ask if they are secret and whether they can be: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/martin_hannigan/interconnection-agreements Emile Aben looks at what insights can be gained from RIPE Atlas probe disconnections: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/insights-from-ripe-atlas-probe-disco... Jordi Palet Martinez presents some early results from the IPv6 Deployment Survey: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/jordipaletm/ipv6-deployment-survey-update Stephen Strowes looked at connectivity in Puerto Rico during the recent hurricanes that too place there: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/observable-network-connectivit... Former RACI fellow Sara Solmone published an article on the problem of establishing jurisdiction online: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sara_solmone/establishing-jurisdiction-online And yet another RACI fellow, Uta Meier-Hahn, looks at the interactions between and among network operators who ensure that the Internet functions as it should: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/when-internet-interconnection-t... GDPR We are currently in the process of evaluating our services and procedures in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This includes the personal data in the RIPE Database. Once our evaluation is concluded, we will communicate our findings and any potential amendments to our current procedures that are needed in line with the new legislation. RIPE FORUM We'd like to remind you that you can participate in RIPE community mailing list discussions using a web-based interface rather than an email client. RIPE Forum posts are sent to the mailing lists and everything from the mailing lists are visible in the forum: https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum/ RSS NEWS FEEDS FROM THE RIPE NCC News feeds allow you to see when we add new content on a particular subject in a section of the website that you're interested in. You can get the latest headlines as soon as we publish them. https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/feeds EMAIL TAGGING We use tags so you can filter RIPE NCC emails in your own mail client depending on the topics you’re interested in: [meetings], [news], [GM], [service] and [training]. MONTHLY POLICY UPDATES The RIPE NCC sends a monthly update on the status of policy proposals in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). You can find all the updates at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/policy-updates SOCIAL MEDIA Get updates, see the latest RIPE Labs articles and start conversations with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn: https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/social-networking You can find all the previous RIPE NCC Member Updates containing an overview of what the RIPE NCC is doing at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/member-update If you have any questions or comments on the material in the Member Update, please let me know. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC