RIPE NCC Member Update: October 2018 - LIR Statistics - RIPE 77 Starts Today - Policy Discussions at RIPE 77 - RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) - Validating abuse-c Contacts - Finding Abuse Contact Information - Charging for Independent Resource Assignments and Legacy Resource Registrations - RIPE NCC Payment Options - 20,000 LIR Accounts - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - DNSSEC Signer Migration Update - RIPE Atlas Probes - Version 4 - ITU Plenipotentiary 2018 - RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund recipients - RIPE NCC Training Courses and Webinars - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 20,065 (+105) LIRs with IPv6: 13,863 (-33) Policy transfers in September: 400,640 IPv4 addresses (-924,928) RIPE 77 STARTS TODAY RIPE 77 just kicked off in Amsterdam and we hope you will join us for what promises to be a great event. All the information you need, including the full programme and other useful pages, are available from the RIPE 77 website: https://ripe77.ripe.net Online Participation: We have a wide range of remote participation options (webcasts, chat rooms, live stenography). You can join the meeting right now at: https://ripe77.ripe.net/live/main Onsite Networking: If you are with us on site for the meeting, the RIPE Networking App has great new features and many attendees are using it. Network with them by downloading the app now: https://ripe77.ripe.net/on-site/ripe-networking-app POLICY DISCUSSIONS AT RIPE 77 On Wednesday, three Working Groups will discuss policy proposals during RIPE 77. The Address Policy Working Group will check whether the IPv6 Policy needs an update regarding the definition of assignments. The Routing Working Group will discuss whether IRR objects should be deleted if they conflict with RPKI ROAs. And the RIPE NCC Services Working Group will discuss whether the RIPE NCC should publish the legal address of resource holders, which would help to identify them. Full remote participation in all these sessions is possible from the RIPE 77 website. And don't forget to bring your opinion to the relevant working group mailing list, as only these opinions can be formally considered for the Policy Development Process (PDP). RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) Nearly 1,000 members have registered for the GM, which takes place this Wednesday, 17 October. Full remote participation and voting options are available. Members will discuss the Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2019 and vote on four resolutions, and there will be reports from the Executive Board and RIPE NCC management. Register now at: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2018 VALIDATING abuse-c CONTACTS We’re busy working out a process so we can start validating approximately 70,000 abuse contact email addresses in the RIPE Database. Angela Dall'Ara outlines the steps we'll take in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/angela_dallara/how-we-will-be-validating-abuse... FINDING ABUSE CONTACT INFORMATION If you are having problems with network abuse, our Abuse Contact Finder gives you an easy way to find the right person to contact: https://www.ripe.net/support/abuse CHARGING FOR INDEPENDENT RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS AND LEGACY RESOURCE REGISTRATIONS On 30 September, a snapshot of independent Internet number resource assignments and legacy Internet resource registrations was made and is the basis for the 2019 charges for these resources. The information is available via the LIR Portal. You can copy the list to your clipboard or download it as a CSV file. RIPE NCC PAYMENT OPTIONS Currently, payment of invoices can be done by bank transfer or by online payment. Different online payment options are available depending on the country. Please let our friendly colleagues from the Finance department know if you would like some alternative local payment options added to the existing methods so that they can investigate the feasibility of requested options. You can contact them at <billing@ripe.net>. 20,000 LIR ACCOUNTS We recently passed 20,000 LIR accounts, and Rene Wilhelm used this as an opportunity to look at how we got there and what the future holds for membership developments at the RIPE NCC: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/20000-local-internet-registries RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES In the next month, we are meeting our members in Barcelona, Sarajevo, Dubai and Brussels. If one of these cities are near you, register today and meeting our staff and members of your local networking community: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches DNSSEC SIGNER MIGRATION UPDATE This migration is almost complete (we're already live on the new signers) and there will be a presentation with more details from Anand Buddhdev at the RIPE Meeting in the DNS Working Group session from 14:00 UTC+2 on Thursday. For background to this, see the RIPE Labs article from Anand at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/dnssec-signer-migration RIPE ATLAS PROBES - VERSION 4 We have already started to send the new RIPE Atlas Version 4 probes to applicants. We are working on clearing our request backlog, but if you apply for a probe now we will send it to you shortly: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-a-host ITU PLENIPOTENTIARY 2018 This meeting takes place in Dubai from 29 October to 16 November, and we wanted to give you an idea of why these meetings are important for the RIPE community and explain a little more about how the RIPE NCC participates. Read the article from Chris Buckridge on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/why-the-itu-plenipotentiary-matters-in-... RIPE NCC COMMUNITY PROJECTS FUND RECIPIENTS There are five recipients of the Community Projects Fund for 2018. You can read about their work at: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2018 The recipients from 2017 have reported on their work on RIPE Labs. Rogier Spoor on Let's Connect: an easy to install and secure VPN software that respects your privacy: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rogier_spoor/lets-connect Phil Roberts on CrypTech - next steps towards a safer Internet: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/phil_roberts_1/cryptech-next-steps-towards-a-s... Andrej Petrovski on the Internet Atlas - tools for digital literacy: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/andrej_petrovski/internet-atlas-tools-for-digi... And Vasileios Kotronis on ARTEMIS: neutralising BGP hijacking within a minute: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/vasileios_kotronis/artemis-neutralising-bgp-hi... RIPE NCC TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS Over the coming month, we'll have face-to-face Training Courses in Madrid, Manchester, Brussels and Belgrade. The courses will cover basic and advanced IPv6, LIR training and the RIPE Database. There will also be webinars for new LIRs, RIPE Atlas usage and IPv6 in the RIPE Database. You need to register to attend courses and webinars, and you can find the details at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses 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 Member Updates containing an overview of what the RIPE NCC is doing at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/member-update Did you get to the end? If you have suggestions for how we could make it easier to get you the information you need, I'd love to hear from you! Best regards, Fergal Cunningham RIPE NCC