[Apologies for duplicate messages.]
Dear members and stakeholders,
You may be aware that the RIPE NCC recently announced that we have
commissioned KPMG to independently carry out a member and stakeholder
survey on our behalf to take place from 1 September to 1 November
2002. The aim of this survey is to gather information from RIPE NCC
members and stakeholders to help the RIPE NCC plan and improve its services
to the membership.
We would therefore like to invite you to participate in this survey by
filling out and returning the survey forms to KPMG by 31st October. All
responses go directly to KPMG and the source or identity of any input to
the survey will remain confidential.
The full details regarding this project can be found on our web site at:
http://www.ripe.net/survey2002
Here you will find the Members Survey form, the Stakeholder Survey form and
information for respondents.
John Earls from KPMG will be coordinating this project. He will attend the
RIPE 43 Meeting in Rhodes and will be available to discuss the survey with
you in further detail.
During September and October, John will be visiting a number of cities in
the RIPE NCC service region to talk face to face with randomly selected
members and stakeholders. In each city he has also scheduled a late
afternoon opportunity for an informal discussion open to all members of the
RIPE NCC. These open forums will allow those who attend to raise issues
that they believe should be considered in the RIPE NCC future planning
process. The schedule of locations and dates for these meetings can also
be found on our web site at:
http://www.ripe.net/survey2002/locations.html
We will be sending out additional information over the next few weeks.
If you do not feel that you are the correct person from your organisation
to respond to the survey, please forward this information to the
appropriate colleague.
The RIPE NCC is dedicated to serving the needs of all its members and the
Internet Community. Your participation in this survey is therefore greatly
valued.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Kind regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE Network Coordination Centre
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to inform you that the pre-registration for RIPE 43 will be closing on 2 September.
If you have not registered yet, please make sure to do this within the next days. You will find our registration form on our website <www.ripe.net>.
When you have any questions regarding the registration, please do not hesitate to contact us on meeting(a)ripe.net.
With kind regards,
Asha Raghoebarsing
Meeting Coordinator
Dear Colleagues,
[Apologies for duplicate mails]
Beginning today, 16 August, the RIPE NCC will implement "e-mail address
masquerading" for messages displayed on the web site in the RIPE and the
RIPE NCC mailing list archives. E-mail masquerading makes it more difficult
for spammers to harvest e-mail addresses from the mailing list archives.
When masquerading is applied, the e-mail address of the sender will be
hidden in the mail archived messages. Those reading archived mail will see
a return e-mail address that appears as "<somebody@localhost>". When
clicking on this e-mail address, the address of the original sender will be
loaded in your mail program, enabling you to send a message to the author.
The RIPE NCC has chosen to implement this security measure as there have
been various complaints from members of the RIPE community that e-mail
addresses were being abused by spammers for Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE).
By implementing this security measure we anticipate there will be a sharp
reduction to address harvesting of archived e-mail addresses.
We will be checking for harvesters who manage to overcome this measure and
will take further steps if necessary.
E-mail masquerading will be applied to all mailing lists found in the
following directories:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mail-archives/http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/
We appreciate your understanding on this matter.
Regards
Jeroen Bet
RIPE NCC WEBMASTER
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Dear colleagues,
Only a few weeks away from RIPE 43. Rhodes is the location for RIPE 43 and all information on travelling and accommodation can be found on our website www.ripe.net.
The agenda for the whole week can also be found on our website.
Here is a snapshot of some interesting items:
SDU/DNS workshop by Edward Lewis (ARIN):
A workshop that covers the issues concerning dynamic update, the advantages and the risks. Setting up dynamic update, securing it, creating and managing keys for updates, and authorization configuration will be covered. The workshop will progress from setting up an unsecured dynamic update zone, securing the zone via TSIG and SIG(0), and using the two different authorization policy statements. Tools to be used are BIND 9.3 (snapshot) servers, rndc, dig, and nsupdate.
Presentation by Andy Linton (Lionra):
"As Internet backbone connectivity becomes more complex, it becomes more
difficult to keep track of peering policies with providers and customers.
By specifying routing details using RPSL in the public Internet Routing
Registry (IRR) providers can use the information to check consistency and
build router configurations".
"You will learn how to register objects in an RPSL routing
registry and gain an understanding of the use of the IRRToolSet".
Please see our website for further information www.ripe.net. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us meeting(a)ripe.net.
With kind regards,
Asha Raghoebarsing
Meeting Coordinator
