RIPE NCC Member Update: January 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - Redistribution of 2016 Surplus - Annual Statement/Invoicing 2017 - RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model Discussion - Member Lunches in 2017 - RIPE Database - Reverse DNS Wizard - LIR Contact Migration - Processing New Member Applications - Moving Forward with ALLOCATED PI/ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED - RIPE Atlas Video - RIPEstat Routing History Widget - Training Courses And Webinars - RIPE NCC Academy - LIR Training Course - RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) - New on RIPE Labs - MENOG 17 In Muscat - Email Tagging - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 15,122 (+173) LIRs with IPv6: 11,358 (+109) IPv4 addresses transferred in December: 721,920 (-41,984) https://labs.ripe.net/statistics REDISTRIBUTION OF 2016 SURPLUS All members who were active on 31 December 2016 will receive a redistribution following approval of the redistribution of the 2016 surplus at the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October. For a member with one LIR who has no PI space, the redistribution will be EUR 279. Full details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/info/billing/redistribution-... ANNUAL STATEMENT/INVOICING 2017 LIRs can now view their annual statement for 2017 in the LIR Portal, which is an informative statement that includes a detailed specification of the fee to be paid in 2017. Invoices can also be viewed and paid via the LIR Portal, and they will be sent to members on 19 January. https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/annual-statem... RIPE NCC CHARGING SCHEME MODEL DISCUSSION RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman Nigel Titley made a statement to members regarding the discussion on the charging scheme model used by the RIPE NCC. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2017-January/002615.... MEMBER LUNCHES IN 2017 RIPE NCC Member Lunches allow you to meet with RIPE NCC staff in your country to give your feedback and input on how we can help you with your operations. Registration is already open for the lunches in Beirut and Amsterdam. See where we'll be going in 2017 and hopefully we'll see you for lunch. https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches RIPE DATABASE - REVERSE DNS WIZARD The Reverse DNS Wizard in the RIPE Database now does even more real-time checks to help users with their configuration. We now offer validation on syntax, TCP and UDP pings on port 53, as well as Start of Authority verification. https://twitter.com/alexander_band/status/811953377059938304 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://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2017-January/001125.htm... This migration simplifies user management in the LIR Portal while making members' communication with the RIPE NCC more secure. PROCESSING NEW MEMBER APPLICATIONS The RIPE NCC management applied Resolution 3 of the May 2016 General Meeting by extending the procedures to deal with such cases to include new membership applications from related legal entities (with the same contact person, directors, owners, applicant, etc.) The RIPE NCC Executive Board therefore declares that new membership applications from related legal entities should be processed according to the additional LIR account procedure; one application should be processed at a time. MOVING FORWARD WITH ALLOCATED PI/ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED Based on feedback from the Address Policy Working Group, we are now preparing to contact all LIRs that have resources in the RIPE Database with the status ALLOCATED PI or ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED. We will follow a case-by-case basis to resolve this issue. The aim is to bring clarity in regard to PI assignments made by these LIRs for both the resource holders and the LIRs, and to consistently apply RIPE policies to all ASSIGNED PI address space in the RIPE Database. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2016-August/011661... RIPE ATLAS VIDEO Check out our new video highlighting how you can use RIPE Atlas to troubleshoot connectivity issues in your network: https://youtu.be/Z3SW2vO8qW0 RIPEstat ROUTING HISTORY WIDGET The Routing History Widget provides you with a historical view of the visibility and originators of a prefix. https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=2001:67c:2e8::/48 All RIPEstat widgets are listed at: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/list TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS Is there a RIPE NCC Training Course coming to your country? In February, there will be courses in Russia, Lebanon and Latvia. There will also be webinars on IPv6, the RIPE Database, RIPE Atlas and one for new LIRs. There are still places available at all these courses. https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RIPE NCC ACADEMY - LIR TRAINING COURSE Refresh your knowledge and learn all about the LIR Portal, the RIPE Database and other RIPE NCC services. Take the LIR Training Course in the RIPE NCC Academy – the course takes about four hours to complete: https://academy.ripe.net/ RIPE ACADEMIC COOPERATION INITIATIVE (RACI) There is a call for applications for RACI - academics with interesting research for the RIPE community can receive funding to attend and present at MENOG 17, RIPE 74, ENOG 13 and SEE 6. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2016-November/001095.html Is there research you would like the RACI academics to carry out and present on at RIPE NCC-organised events? If so, please email <raci@ripe.net> with your suggestion. We publish these suggestions at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci/research-topics NEW ON RIPE LABS Content on RIPE Labs is about to become richer as contributors can now embed RIPEstat widgets in their articles. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripestat-widgets-in-ripe-labs-articles On 28 December 2016, the RIPE NCC reached 15,000 LIRs. Rene Wilhelm uses this milestone to examine trends in the membership in the past few years: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/15-000-local-internet-registries Stephen Strowes from the RIPE NCC looks at the impact of the 2016 leap second: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/reviewing-the-2016-leap-second Emile Aben talks about DNS root server transparency: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/dns-root-server-transparency MENOG 17 IN MUSCAT MENOG 17 takes place in Muscat, Oman from 19-20 April. If you would like to present at MENOG, submit your proposal by 19 March. All the details are available at: http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/ 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 Finally, we'd like to extend best wishes to our members for 2017. We hope to see you, in person or online, during the year. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC