RIPE NCC Member Update: December 2016 Contents: - Rob Blokzijl Foundation - New Invoicing Process for 2017 - New LIR Portal Billing Features - RIPE Atlas Probe Deployment Widget - RIPE Accountability Task Force - New on RIPE Labs - Simplifying Contact Management in the LIR Portal - Office Move - RIPE Database - Internet Governance Forum 2016 - Europol MoU - Social Media Number of LIRs: 14,949 LIRs with IPv6: 11,249 IPv4 addresses transferred in November: 679,936 ROB BLOKZIJL FOUNDATION We’re proud to announce the creation of the Rob Blokzijl Foundation as part of the RIPE NCC’s Good of the Internet Initiative. See the Rob Blokzijl Foundation webpage for more information: http://rob-blokzijl-foundation.org. NEW INVOICING PROCESS FOR 2017 We are currently preparing the invoicing process for 2017 and we expect to send the first invoice in the second half of January. The billing procedure and fee schedule 2017 are already online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/info/billing/billing-procedu... NEW LIR PORTAL BILLING FEATURES In early December, we deployed a new feature that offers a specification of the independent Internet number resource assignments and legacy Internet resource registrations that are charged for 2017. These details are available through the LIR Portal and will be made available to the billing contacts of the LIR. LIRs will be able to copy the list to the clipboard or download it as a csv. RIPE ATLAS PROBE DEPLOYMENT WIDGET We developed a new widget in RIPEstat that allows you to follow the RIPE Atlas probe distribution in a country over time. Select a country or country code on stat.ripe.net, then choose "Activity" on the left hand side, and you will find this new widget at the bottom of the page. Here’s an example for Germany: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/atlas-probe-deployment#w.resource=DE RIPE ACCOUNTABILITY TASK FORCE At RIPE 73 there was support for a review of the RIPE community's accountability, by looking at its current procedures, documentation and structures. A RIPE Accountability Task Force has now been established to carry out this work. A mailing list will be created for the Task Force’s discussions and the archives will be publicly available: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2016-November/001104.html NEW ON RIPE LABS – Impact of IPv4 Transfers on Routing Table Fragmentation https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/impact-of-ipv4-transfers-on-routing-ta... – RIPE Atlas: Countering Hardware Issues with Better Firmware https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ripe-atlas-countering-hardware-issues-w... – Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016 https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/internet-access-disruption-in-the-ga... SIMPLIFYING CONTACT MANAGEMENT IN THE LIR PORTAL If you haven’t yet migrated your LIR contacts to user accounts, do it today. It simplifies user management and makes communication with the RIPE NCC more secure. Use the wizard in the LIR Portal: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2016-September/001093.h... OFFICE MOVE The RIPE NCC will move to a new office in Amsterdam Central Station next week. We’re doing everything we can to keep things running smoothly during the move, and a service announcement has been released providing details of certain unavoidable interruptions due to take place: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/temporary-unavailability-during-ripe-... The current office will be closed as of 20 December at 17:00 UTC+1, and the new office opens on 23 December at 09:00 UTC+1. RIPE DATABASE We recently completed a new wizard for setting up Reverse DNS in the RIPE Database. Take a look at how it works here: https://youtu.be/7JzapYkca-Y We also made the real-time tests for the Reverse DNS name servers a lot more comprehensive: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/configuring-reverse-dns INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM 2016 The 11th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place from 5-9 December in Guadalajara, Mexico. The forum focused on this year’s theme of enabling inclusive and sustainable growth. The RIPE NCC participated in two sessions: “The Network of Networked Things: Finding the Internet in IoT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRLwOtPQ7Bo “Can law enforcement catch bad actors online anymore?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6b8CRJ5Spg EUROPOL MoU The RIPE NCC is pleased to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Europol, with the aim of fostering continued cooperation between the two in the areas of cybercrime and Internet security: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/europol-mou 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 feedback about the contents of this mail, please reply and let me know. If there is information about particular services or activities you would like to see included, we can add it to future issues. Kind regards, Nick Hyrka Communications Manager RIPE NCC