RIPE NCC Member Update: March 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - LIR Contact Migration - RIPE NCC General Meeting MaY 2017 - RIPE NCC Executive Board Election - Historical Data Clean-Up - 2015-04, RIPE Resource Transfer Policies - RIPE NCC Billing, Payment and Fees - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - Country Focus on RIPE Labs - RIPE Atlas Probes - RIPE Atlas Anchors - RIPEstat Looking Glass Widget - RIPE Labs - IPv6 Best Practices - Training Courses and Webinars - RACI Deadlines Approaching - SEE 6 Montenegro CfP - RIPE 74 Budapest - ENOG 13 St. Petersburg - MENOG 17 Muscat - RIPE NCC Website Tips - Email Tagging - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 15,539 (+205) LIRs with IPv6: 11,617 (+132) IPv4 addresses transferred in February: 452,864 (+177,920) https://labs.ripe.net/statistics LIR CONTACT MIGRATION Are you an LIR account administrator? Please use the contact migration wizard in the LIR Portal by 1 April 2017 to ensure we have one list of authorised users for each LIR. https://my.ripe.net/#/contacts RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING MAY 2017 The GM will take place from 10-12 May and will feature votes on the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme and the Executive Board election. All the information, including the registration link and a table listing registrations per country, is available from: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017 Please note that all RIPE NCC members can participate remotely in the GM via webcast and electronic voting. RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION There will be an election to fill three seats at the upcoming GM. Four people have already been nominated - you can nominate your own candidate or support one of the current nominees. Find out how at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/call-for-nomi... HISTORICAL DATA CLEAN-UP We are working to clean up old data in the LIR Portal and will continue with this until 1 May 2017. If there is historical information you would like to retain, please visit the Resources section in the LIR Portal before the deadline to copy the data. https://lirportal.ripe.net/ 2015-04, RIPE RESOURCE TRANSFER POLICIES Consensus has been reached on this policy, which creates a single policy document with all relevant information on the transfer of Internet number resources, replacing text in several RIPE Policies. The policy change also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and 16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership. The RIPE NCC will work on implementation and keep you up to date on progress. See the original announcement for more information: https://www.ripe.net/s/2015-04 RIPE NCC BILLING, PAYMENT AND FEES In our continuing efforts to improve www.ripe.net and provide a more intuitive experience for our members, we have updated the RIPE NCC billing, costs and fees webpage to make it easier to find all the information you need: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/billing RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES Registration is open for upcoming member lunches in Dublin, Amman, Kazan, Lvov and Vladivostok. Space is limited at these events, so please register soon and come meet the RIPE NCC's staff in your home country: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/ COUNTRY FOCUS ON RIPE LABS We provide information sheets for attendees ahead of the member lunches. This week we started to publish these on RIPE Labs - the first one focuses on Uzbekistan to coincide with the member lunch that took place this week: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-uzbekistan-ripe-ncc-statistic... RIPE ATLAS PROBES Having launched an email campaign aimed at helping RIPE Atlas probe hosts resolve disconnection issues, and with the release of a new firmware upgrade to help improve probe connectivity, we’ve seen a steady rise in the number of connected probes. We’ve now hit an all-time high of 9,500 connected probes. https://atlas.ripe.net/ Two new DNS measurements, both designed to assess the impact of issues with one or more root name servers, have been added to every RIPE Atlas probe. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/new-ripe-atlas-root-zone-dns-measur... A new set of system tags have been created to identify RIPE Atlas probes with a proven record of delivering successful measurement results. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/new-ripe-atlas-probe-stability-syst... RIPE ATLAS ANCHORS The campaign to sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas anchors has been well received. A healthy number of applications have already been submitted and we've selected the first five anchor hosts who'll receive sponsored anchor probes. More news on this coming up on RIPE Labs soon. The original RIPE Labs article is at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/campaign-to-sponsor-15-ripe-atlas-... RIPESTAT LOOKING GLASS WIDGET Check the routing status of your network from various locations around the world in real time. https://stat.ripe.net/widget/looking-glass#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3A... It's also accessible via the RIPEstat Data API: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#LookingGlass RIPE LABS Former RACI fellow Uta Meier-Hahn presents the first in a series of articles looking at how network operators collaboratively manufacture Internet connectivity in a competitive environment. In this article, she looks at the role of uncertainty: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/uncertainty-is-key We are always looking for interesting content for RIPE Labs. If you have interesting Internet-related research or analysis to share with the RIPE community, please consider RIPE Labs as a way to get your work noticed. Just email <labs@ripe.net> and let us know. IPV6 BEST PRACTICES An IPv6 Best Practices document was published for the Internet Governance Forum 2016 by Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir and Wim Degezelle. A RIPE Labs article based on that document is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/commercial-incentives-of-ipv6-deploymen... TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS On 21 March, there will be a webinar on IPv6 in the RIPE Database. In April, we'll give training courses in Luxembourg, Ukraine and the UK. You can register for these at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RACI DEADLINES APPROACHING The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) connects members of the academic community with the RIPE community by inviting students and researchers to present their Internet-related research at RIPE Meetings, ENOG, MENOG and SEE meetings. There are approaching deadlines for the upcoming ENOG and SEE meetings: - ENOG 13: 23-24 May, St Petersburg. Apply by 19 March 2017 - SEE 6: 12-13 June, Budva. Apply by 9 April 2017 SEE 6 MONTENEGRO CFP The South East Europe (SEE) 6 Meeting takes place in Budva, Montenegro from 12-13 June. There is still space on the agenda if you have an interesting presentation proposal - the deadline to submit is this coming Monday, 20 March. All details on the meeting are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-6 RIPE 74 BUDAPEST RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary from 8-12 May. Check out the details at: https://ripe74.ripe.net/ ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from 23-24 May. Registration is open and the Call for Presentations deadline is 3 April. https://www.enog.org/enog-13/ MENOG 17 MUSCAT The MENOG 17 Meeting takes place in Muscat from 19-20 April, and it's preceded by IPv6 and DNS workshops. http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/ RIPE NCC WEBSITE TIPS The RIPE NCC website contains a glossary to help you navigate all the terminology you encounter on our pages. If you hover over words underscored with dotted lines on a page, a definition or explanation will appear. Several examples are available on the page at: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6 You can can easily get to every RIPE Forum discussion from each RIPE Mailing list overview. Just expand the working group and click the RIPE Forum button: https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-lists For proposals making their way through the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), you can easily view the changes that were made to each version of the proposal. Just click the document icon in the All Versions section to the right of a proposal. https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04 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]. 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 If you have any questions or comments on the material in this Member Update, please let me know. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC