RIPE NCC Member Update: September 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2018 - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2017 - Reverse DNS Consistency: Facelift and New Data Source - RIPEstat Preview - LIRs with IPv6 per Country - Are RIPE Atlas Probes in the Networks where Internet Users are? - Correct Company Name in Our Records? - Ticketing and Document Management at the RIPE NCC - RIPE NCC Receives /20 Block of IPv4 from IANA - ENOG 14 in Minsk - RIPE 75 in Dubai - RIPE Meeting 101: Webinar - RIPE Fellows Attending RIPE 75 - Network Operator Groups on RIPE Labs - RIPE NCC Hackathon Version 6 - RIPE NCC Training Courses Near You - RIPE NCC::Educa - Full-Day Online Learning Event - IPv6 Security Training - RIPE NCC Signs MoUs with GNCC and APTLD - Nominations to the NRO NC - NRO Launches Global Consultation on ITHI Indicators - Latest on 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: 16,780 (+194) LIRs with IPv6: 12,305 (+92) IPv4 addresses transferred in August: 896,640 (+446,080) All our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true DRAFT RIPE NCC ACTIVITY PLAN AND BUDGET 2018 We are asking members to review and comment on the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2018, which outlines the activities we propose to undertake in 2018 along with their associated costs. https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/draft-ripe-nc... RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES On Wednesday this week, there will be a RIPE NCC Member Lunch in Glasgow. We have also scheduled member lunches in Krasnodar, Stockholm and Bucharest. These events are free to attend, and you can find out more about why we organise them and register at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING OCTOBER 2017 The GM will take place from 24-26 October and we ask that all members participate. There will be a vote on the redistribution of the RIPE NCC surplus to the membership as well as changes to the RIPE NCC Articles of Association and the RIPE NCC Conflict Arbitration Procedure. Full remote participation and voting is possible. All information on the GM is available online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2017 REVERSE DNS CONSISTENCY: FACELIFT AND NEW DATA SOURCE The Reverse DNS Consistency widget now shines with a more responsive and cleaner UI. Also the DNS check results are based on the new Zonemaster backend. https://stat.ripe.net/widget/reverse-dns-consistency#w.resource=AS3333 RIPEstat PREVIEW - LIRs WITH IPv6 PER COUNTRY There is a preview of a widget that shows how the number of LIRs with IPv6 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-ipv6-preview.htm... ARE RIPE ATLAS PROBES IN THE NETWORKS WHERE THE INTERNET USERS ARE? We're looking at where RIPE Atlas probes are relative to where the users are. This is a first attempt so we'd like to know what you think. If you have feedback, please contact Emile Aben at the RIPE NCC <eaben@ripe.net>. http://sg-pub.ripe.net/petros/population_coverage/table.html CORRECT COMPANY NAME IN OUR RECORDS Is your membership still registered under the correct company name? Did your company change name, or was it acquired by another company? Do not take any risks and check it online. Please let us know if any updates need to be made via my.ripe.net <https://my.ripe.net/#/update-registry>. If you have problems logging in, you can always ask for help at <ncc@ripe.net>. TICKETING AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT AT THE RIPE NCC We give an update on RIPE Labs on forthcoming changes to how we handle ticketing and document management at the RIPE NCC: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/AlexBand/ticketing-and-document-management-at-... RIPE NCC RECEIVES /20 BLOCK OF IPv4 FROM IANA On 1 September 2017, the RIPE NCC and the other RIRs were each allocated the equivalent of a /20 of IPv4 address space from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-receives-20-fr... ENOG 14 IN MINSK The ENOG 14 Meeting takes place in Minsk, Belarus from 9-10 October 2017. See the meeting details at: https://www.enog.org/enog-14/ RIPE 75 IN DUBAI RIPE 75 takes place in Dubai from Sunday, 22 October to Thursday, 26 October. Registration is open and all the meeting details, including the working group session agendas, are available at: https://ripe75.ripe.net/ RIPE MEETING 101: WEBINAR RIPE Meeting newbie? Learn how to get the most out of your experience. This one hour webinar will be held on 9 October and is free to attend. More details are online: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-ripe-meeting-101-webinar-37727333470 RIPE FELLOWS ATTENDING RIPE 75 The RIPE Fellowship increases diversity at RIPE Meetings by removing the cost barrier to attend. The selection committee received more than 70 applications from across the RIPE NCC service region and chose to invite seven fellows to Dubai. We thank all those that showed interest in the fellowship and congratulate those selected: https://ripe75.ripe.net/attend/ripe-fellowship NETWORK OPERATOR GROUPS ON RIPE LABS There is now a dedicated section on RIPE Labs that provides information and support for network operator groups (NOGs) in our service region. If you organise a NOG and would like to feature a report from your event on our NOG pages, please let us know! https://labs.ripe.net/nogs Last week, we published a report on IRNOG1, the first meeting of the new Iranian NOG: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/milad_afshari_1/the-first-iranian-nog-irnog RIPE NCC HACKATHON VERSION 6 Together with Comcast and DKNOG, we are organising our sixth hackathon, this time on IPv6! Our goals are to promote IPv6 in Denmark, come up with new and creative ways to visualise IPv6 measurements, and hack together tools helpful for IPv6 deployment. Find more information and details on how to apply at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/join-the-ripe-ncc-hackathon-version-6 RIPE NCC TRAINING COURSES NEAR YOU: 20-22 September in Sarajevo 27-29 September in Yerevan 2-4 October in Dubrovnik 11-13 October in Minsk 19-20 October in Salzburg 2-3 November in Bucharest You can register for these courses at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RIPE NCC::EDUCA - FULL-DAY ONLINE LEARNING EVENT RIPE NCC::Educa features speakers from the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community on the subject of RIPE Atlas. This free event takes place on 5 October and registration is now open: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa More information about the initiative is available in the RIPE Labs article announcing the launch of RIPE NCC::Educa: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sandra_bras/introducing-ripe-ncc-educa IPv6 SECURITY TRAINING In November, we will launch a new training course - IPv6 Security Training - bringing our course portfolio to a total of eight. We will announce further information on the course shortly. RIPE NCC SIGNS MOUs WITH GNCC AND APTLD We signed Memoranda of Understanding with GNCC and APTLD. More information on these MoUs is available at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/cooperation-wg/2017-September/001189... NOMINATIONS TO THE NRO NC There is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one vacant seat on the NRO NC. Two candidates have been nominated so far. If you would like to nominate someone or support a candidate, please follow the process described online: https://www.ripe.net/s/nro-nc-nominations-2017 NRO LAUNCHES GLOBAL CONSULTATION ON ITHI INDICATORS The Number Resource Organization (NRO) has developed a proposal for Identifier Technical Health Indicators (ITHI) risk identification and definition in response to an ongoing ICANN initiative: https://www.nro.net/global-consultation-on-identifier-technical-health-indic... LATEST ON RIPE LABS Our Community Builder Vesna Manojlovic shares her experiences from attending NLNOG Day 2017: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/experiences-from-nlnog-day-2017 John Heidemann provided an evaluation of Hurricane Harvey's effects on the Internet's edge: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/john_heidemann/evaluation-of-hurricane-harveys... Geoff Huston has two articles on dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS. The first is at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/dealing-with-ipv6-fragmentation-in-the-dns RIPE Labs is always looking for interesting new content. Have you ever considered RIPE Labs as a way to get your work noticed? Email <labs@ripe.net> for information on publishing. THE RIPE NCC IS HIRING There are currently four open positions at the RIPE NCC - do you know someone who would be interested in working with us? Send them here: 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]. MONTHLY 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