RIPE NCC Member Update: July 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - Unifying the LIR Portal and RIPE Database User Experience - RIPE NCC Support for NOGs - RIPE Database Switch to Zonemaster - New RIPE Atlas Measurement Options - Transfer of Resources Due to Company Acquisition? - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - My Resources - Trends in RIPE NCC Service Region IPv4 Transfers - ENOG 14 Minsk - RIPE 75 Dubai - The RIPE Fellowship - RACI - RIPE IoT Roundtable Meeting in Leeds - LIR Development per Country - RIPEstat Preview - Anchoring Measurements: Bringing Back the Balance - SEE Meeting Archive - IPv6 Updates - Training and Webinars - RIPE Diversity Task Force - RIPE Labs - The RIPE NCC is Hiring - RSS News Feeds from the RIPE NCC - Email Tagging - Monthly Policy Updates - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 16,341 (+343) LIRs with IPv6: 12,069 (+182) IPv4 addresses transferred in April: 1,248,512 (+745,728) All our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true UNIFYING THE LIR PORTAL AND RIPE DATABASE USER EXPERIENCE The RIPE NCC is working to unify the LIR Portal and RIPE Database interfaces for users. You can read about our plans at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/AlexBand/unifying-the-lir-portal-and-ripe-data... RIPE NCC SUPPORT FOR NOGs The RIPE NCC is committed to supporting the establishment and development of network operator groups (NOGs) throughout our service region. A new resource centre is available on RIPE Labs to provide information and support for NOGs: https://labs.ripe.net/nogs/ RIPE DATABASE SWITCH TO ZONEMASTER The RIPE Database has switched over to Zonemaster for better Reverse DNS checks. Please be aware that errors/warnings might be phrased slightly differently than before. NEW RIPE ATLAS MEASUREMENT OPTIONS We’ve added a number of new measurement options on RIPE Atlas. Users can now customise their DNS measurements with the added 'timeout' and 'use_macros' options, as well as SSLcert and Ping measurements, which now have options for specifying hostnames and including probe ids, respectively. More details are available in the RIPE Atlas API reference: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/reference/#!/measurements/Measurement_Lis... TRANSFER OF RESOURCES DUE TO COMPANY ACQUISITION? If there has been a company acquisition since you became a member, please let us know. Not informing us of changes like this can cause problems for your future interactions with the RIPE NCC and can take time to resolve on both sides. If there has been a company acquisition, please let us know through the LIR Portal at: https://my.ripe.net/#/update-registry RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES The RIPE NCC recently had a member lunch in Athens – you can read about the event at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-memb... There are currently member lunches scheduled for Krasnodar, Glasgow, Stockholm and Bucharest. You can find the registration links and more information on our member lunches at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches MY RESOURCES My Resources is a new service in the RIPE Database that allows resource holders and members who sponsor resources to get a comprehensive overview of all IPv4, IPv6 and ASN resources they hold or sponsor at a glance. Resource holders can also manage their resources with an easy-to-use inline editor. https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/announcements/launching-my-resou... TRENDS IN RIPE NCC SERVICE REGION IPv4 TRANSFERS Rene Wilhelm takes a closer look at the trends relating to IPv4 transfers in our service region: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/trends-in-ipv4-transfers ENOG 14 MINSK The ENOG 14 Meeting takes place in Minsk, Belarus from 9-10 October 2017. There is a call for presentations with a deadline of 20 August. See the meeting details at: https://www.enog.org/enog-14/ RIPE 75 DUBAI RIPE 75 takes place in Dubai from Sunday, 22 October to Thursday, 26 October. Registration is open and there is a call for presentations (deadline 20 August). All the meeting details are available at: https://ripe75.ripe.net/ THE RIPE FELLOWSHIP The RIPE Fellowship Programme provides basic assistance for successful candidates in the RIPE NCC service region to participate in a RIPE Meeting. Find out more at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-fellowship RACI There is currently a call for RACI applications for RIPE 75 in Dubai and for ENOG 14 in Minsk. The deadline to apply for both meetings is 20 August 2017. All the RACI details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/raci RIPE IoT ROUNDTABLE MEETING IN LEEDS On 21 September, a RIPE IoT Roundtable Meeting that follows up on the IoT sessions from RIPE 73 and RIPE 74 takes place in Leeds in the UK. The goal of the meeting is to facilitate further discussion between the RIPE community and other stakeholders about the potential impact of the IoT on the RIPE community’s business interests as well as the services offered by the RIPE NCC. All the meeting details, including draft agenda, are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/roundtable/september-2017 LIR DEVELOPMENT PER COUNTRY - RIPEstat PREVIEW There is a preview of a widget that shows how the number of Local Internet Registries (LIRs) has been changing on a national level. The widget supports all 76 countries of the RIPE NCC service region and we'd like your feedback on it. https://stat.ripe.net/ripestat-web/html/country-report/lirs-preview.html ANCHORING MEASUREMENTS: BRINGING BACK THE BALANCE In order to balance the number of RIPE Atlas probes and anchors used in anchoring measurments, we've decided to split anchoring measurements into two separate types: anchor mesh measurements and probe measurements. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/balancing-act SEE MEETING ARCHIVE The Sixth South-East Europe (SEE 6) Meeting took place in Budva last month. The full archive of presentations is now available at: https://www.ripe.net/see6/presentation-archive IPv6 UPDATES On RIPE Labs, Enno Rey looks at local packet filtering with IPv6: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/enno_rey/local-packet-filtering-with-ipv6 Jordi Palet Martinez has two articles on simplifying IPv6 addressing for customers. The first of those articles is at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/jordipaletm/simplifying-ipv6-addressing-of-cus... And the second part is at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/jordipaletm/simplifying-ipv6-addressing-for-cu... TRAINING AND WEBINARS Up to the end of August, we will hold face-to-face training on a wide range of topics in Lithuania, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. There will also be webinars on the IPv6 in the RIPE Database, RIPE Atlas usage and an introduction to the RIPE Database. You can sign up for these at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/ RIPE DIVERSITY TASK FORCE This task force was set up at RIPE 74 to look at ways to improve diversity and inclusivity in the RIPE community. There is a mailing list where discussion is ongoing and the task force would like to see more participation from the community. You can see the archives and subscribe to the mailing list at: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity RIPE LABS Job Snijders gives the lowdown on RFC 8195, “Use of BGP Large Communities” and RFC 8212 on Default EBGP Route Handling Behaviour: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/job_snijders Mian Usman, Network Architect at GÉANT, compared research and education networking to the commercial alternatives and provides the results: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/taking-it-to-the-limit-testing-the-perf... Stephen Strowes from the RIPE NCC looks at BGP even-more specifics in 2017: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/bgp-even-more-specifics-in-201... Uta Meier-Hahn investigates the narrative that the Internet is built on trust to see whether it still holds true: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-internet-was-built-on-trust... 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. THE RIPE NCC IS HIRING There are currently two open positions at the RIPE NCC - if you know someone who would be interested in coming to work for us, please let them know: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/working-at-the-ripe-ncc 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]. MONTHY 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