Hello RIPE NCC member, The RIPE NCC hive is buzzing with activity as we prepare for the meeting season. In Kyiv, we have over 300 people attending the RIPE NCC Days event, and you can participate via this live streaming link: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-ncc-days-kyiv/remote-participation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2019 -- Synchronising Users from the LIR Portal to the Default Maintainer in the RIPE Database -- We’re Getting Ready for IPv4 Run-out -- New LIR Account Applications -- Webinars in October, November and December 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- How Diverse is the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS)? -- RIPE Atlas Supports Measuring the Impact of DNS Flag Day ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 78: The Big Picture -- Community Projects Fund Selection Committee Introduces Two New Members -- The RIPE Chair Selection Process ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NCC Days Kyiv, 24-25 September 2019 -- RIPE 79, 14-18 October 2019, Rotterdam -- Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon -- Upcoming Member Lunches ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 24,843 (+841) LIRs with IPv6: 15,832 (+373) Policy transfers in August: 1,309,952 IPv4 addresses (+890,624) -- RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2019 You can now register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) October 2019. The draft agenda and supporting documents have been published, including the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2020. Register at: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-october-2019 Read more at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2019 -- Synchronising Users from the LIR Portal to the Default Maintainer in the RIPE Database We're introducing a new feature to synchronise users from the LIR Portal with the default maintainer in the RIPE Database. This removes the need to manually update the same information in two places. It also reduces the risk of giving unauthorised access to the wrong parties. Read about how the synchronisation works and how it will be developed at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ed_shryane/synchronising-users-from-the-lir-po... -- We’re Getting Ready for IPv4 Run-out We are expecting to reach the end of our remaining IPv4 pool in the coming months. In preparation, the community agreed on a policy change to establish a waiting list from which /24 allocations will be made from returned address space. The waiting list only becomes active once our pool of available IPv4 addresses is depleted. We have updated our software and procedures and are ready to go when the policy is triggered, which is the moment we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/getting-ready-for-ipv4-run-out -- New LIR Account Applications We currently have a delay in processing new LIR account applications. This is due to the high number of requests we have received recently. All applications are being processed in the order that we receive them. Applications we receive from today will be waiting several weeks before being processed. From now on, applicants will almost certainly not be able to request a /22. Instead, they will join the waiting list to receive a /24 allocation from returned address space in the future. -- Webinars in October, November and December 2019 Learn about our measurement tools, the RIPE Database, IPv4 in the transfer market and more. If you will be joining us for the first time at a RIPE Meeting, make sure you register for the RIPE 79 Newcomers Webinar at: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/ripe-79-newcomers-webinar-registration-507806222... Find more information about our webinars at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- How Diverse is the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS)? Is the current set of the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) peers providing you with a good level of diverse data? Our colleague, Emile Aben, looked into some measurement results from all the RIS route collectors and their peers for IPv4 and IPv6: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/how-diverse-is-ris -- RIPE Atlas Supports Measuring the Impact of DNS Flag Day Want to know how RIPE Atlas probes were used to send queries and measure the impact of DNS Flag Day? Willem Toorop shares his research in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/willem_toorop/measuring-the-impact-of-dns-flag... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 78: The Big Picture With RIPE 79 only a few weeks away, let’s take a look at some of the key events and meeting discussions from RIPE 78. Hans Petter Holen shares this report on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/ripe-78-the-big-picture -- Community Projects Fund Selection Committee Introduces Two New Members Find out who will be joining the selection committee in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alastair_strachan/community-projects-fund-sele... -- The RIPE Chair Selection Process After community consensus was reached the "RIPE Chair Selection Process" and the "RIPE Nominating Committee" were published as RIPE Documents. The RIPE Chair Selection Process: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-727/ The RIPE Nominating Committee: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-728 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE NCC Days Kyiv, 24-25 September 2019, Kyiv If you can’t join us for the RIPE NCC Days in Kyiv, please participate remotely. We have colleagues there who will also read out any questions you may have, so you can ask them via chat. Find out how you can participate online now at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-ncc-days-kyiv -- RIPE 79, 14-18 October 2019, Rotterdam It’s only 19 days until RIPE 79. Have you registered? https://ripe79.ripe.net/attend/register/ Find out about the RIPE 79 venue, the Postillion Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam, and what you will find nearby: https://ripe79.ripe.net/on-site/meeting-venue/ -- Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon There's still time to apply for the pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon. And we might have a sixth node joining us in Switzerland! We'll keep you updated. This hackathon takes on the challenge of developing some of the first applications that use quantum mechanics to secure their online communications. Interested? Apply now: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/take-part-in-pan-european-quantu... -- Upcoming Member Lunches This month we were in Lisbon, Portugal and next week we’ll be in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan! After that, there are still four more lunches for the year. Find out if we have one coming up in your city at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches Thanks for catching up with us. We will be in touch again soon, with more information about the agenda for RIPE 79! My best, Elena Signorelli Marketing and Communications Officer RIPE NCC