Hello RIPE NCC member, May was an active month with RIPE 80, the General Meeting and a lot of interesting developments in the community. Here’s an overview: 1. What We’re Doing for You -- Your LIR Stats -- Hans Petter Holen starts as RIPE NCC’s new Managing Director -- RIPE NCC General Meeting Results -- What Happened at RIPE 80? -- Working Together While Apart -- Learn Online -- Usability Testing 2. Your Technical Update -- RPKI Update -- From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead -- Cleaning Up Locked Person Objects in the RIPE Database 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- RIPE Chair Selection - Next Steps -- Your EU Regulation Update: May 2020 Edition -- RIPE Chair Commitments -- Academic and NREN Session -- DNS Working Group Remote Sessions -- Focus on: the IPv6 Working Group 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- Virtual Member Lunches 1. What We’re Doing for You -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,328 (-30) LIRs with IPv6: 16,612 (+47) Policy transfers in April: 627,200 IPv4 addresses (+56,576) -- Hans Petter Holen starts as RIPE NCC’s new Managing Director On 1 May 2020, Hans Petter Holen started his new role as Managing Director of the RIPE NCC: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/hans-petter-holen-start... -- RIPE NCC General Meeting Results Congratulations to Christian Kaufmann, Maria Häll and Raymond Jetten for being elected to the RIPE NCC Executive Board. A full voting report detailing the voting numbers and a link to vote receipts that members can use to verify their votes is available: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/voting-report The membership adopted three resolutions during the meeting including the RIPE NCC Financial Report 2019, Charging Scheme 2021 and discharged the Executive Board with regard to its actions as they appear from the Annual Report 2019 and Financial Report 2019. Information on the General Meeting, including the supporting documents and presentations, is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/minutes -- What Happened at RIPE 80? RIPE 80 was our first virtual meeting and our largest meeting so far with 2002 attendees registered. You can catch up on the meeting highlights by reading our daily meeting report: https://ripe80.ripe.net/programme/report/ -- Working Together While Apart Fergal Cunningham reports on how the RIPE NCC adapted to remote working and how it impacted its operations: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/working-together-while-apart -- Learn Online We offer a wide range of e-learning options, so that you can keep on learning while staying at home: Webinars: One-hour interactive sessions. Remote Learning Sessions: Two-hour long sessions adapted from our regular training courses. Online Courses: The RIPE NCC Academy offers three online courses that are free and open to all. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online Missing something on your CV? Show your expertise by earning the RIPE Database Associate badge! We’ve sent three vouchers to each LIR that you can use to become a RIPE NCC Certified Professional: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals -- Usability Testing Help us improve! We’re looking for volunteers to carry out usability testing. If you would like to help us improve our user experience, sign up here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/consent-form-for-usability-test... 2. Your Technical Update -- RPKI Update Nathalie Künneke-Trenaman shares lessons learned from the recent RPKI outages: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/lessons-learned-on-improving... Felipe Victolla Silveira looks back at RPKI’s beginnings and its current and future role in securing the Internet's routing infrastructure: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/felipe_victolla_silveira/rpki-past-present-and... -- From REX to RIPEstat: a Look at the Past and the Challenges Ahead Christian Teuschel reflects on 10 years of RIPEstat and the future of the platform: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/cteusche/from-rex-to-ripestat -- Cleaning Up Locked Person Objects in the RIPE Database Ed Shryane explains why and how the RIPE NCC decided to lock and clean-up unmaintained person objects stored in the RIPE Database: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ed_shryane/cleaning-up-locked-person-objects-i... 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- RIPE Chair Selection - Next Steps Three NomCom members, Daniel Karrenberg, Rob Evans and Joe Abley, answer questions about the next steps in the RIPE Chair and Vice Chair selection process: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/ripe-chair-selection-next-steps -- Your EU Regulation Update: May 2020 Edition Suzanne Taylor put together a comprehensive update on the current digital policies being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/your-eu-regulation-updat... -- RIPE Chair Commitments To help the NomCom select the new RIPE Chair and Vice Chair, Hans Petter Holen listed all the role's accountabilities: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/ripe-chair-commitments -- Academic and NREN Session Parallel to RIPE 80, we organised a session for academics, NRENs and other attendees working in the research and education industry. During the session, there were eight 5-minute talks on topics such as e-voting, detecting BGP anomalies, adapting universities to online environments after COVID-19 and using RIPE Atlas for smart data filtering. The recordings are available at: https://ripe80.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/academic-nren/ -- DNS Working Group Remote Sessions The DNS Working Group is organising remote sessions outside of the RIPE Meeting. More information about this initiative and the session schedule is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/shane/dns-is-virtually-awsome -- Focus on: the IPv6 Working Group The IPv6 Working Group is promoting IPv6 adoption by helping people deploy IPv6 and manage IPv4/IPv6 co-existence. Interested? Get involved at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/ipv6 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- Virtual Member Lunches Bring your own lunch! Like regular Member Lunches, you will have the chance to chat with each other and RIPE NCC staff in a more informal setting: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/virtual-membe... Thank you for reading till the end, we’ll be back next month with more news! Best, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC