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Proposed Charter for OpenSource WG
by Ondrej Filip 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Dear RIPE community members! I hope many of you were able to follow Martin's presentation during today's plenary. For the others I am sending a short summary how this idea emerged and also a text of the proposed charter. We will appreciate any feedback from you. Originally, the open source routing developers of Quagga and BIRD wanted to have a space to meet with their product users and therefore organized two BoFs at the RIPE meetings. Both BoFs where quite successful with reasonable high attendance about fifty people. We had very interesting discussion and live exchange of ideas between open source developers and users. And it helped to improve both mentioned products as some of the requested features were implemented and therefore it also helped some of the participants in their deployments. On those BoFs an idea of forming RIPE WG emerged. However if was felt that to focus only on routing daemon software would be to narrow. So the idea was modified to create a working group discussing all open source project relevant to RIPE community. This proposed working group charter follows: --- The aim of the Open Source Working Group is to foster discussion among developers, ISPs and other RIPE community members about Open Source projects related to the RIPE community. The working group believes into the future benefits of Open Source in the community and regularly discusses new features and advices on developments on selected projects. The idea of this WG is really focused on open coordination and feedback between developers of Open Source Software and the RIPE community. We want to sustain a platform where developers from a project can present recent updates, discuss their plans and get feedback on their work. We do want to limit the coverage on projects related and of interest to the RIPE community. Example of Open Source projects which we believe are a good fit for the group are Routing products like Bird, Quagga, OpenBGPd, XORP and other projects relevant to the community like DHCP, Network Management tools like RRDtool, Ntop or Nagios. --- To test if this idea might work, we propose to have yet another one BoF during the next RIPE run similarly as a regular WG session. And in case of success we would propose a formation of a new WG. Thank you for you comments! Martin Winter and Ondrej Filip

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Update: Service interruptions
by RIPE NCC Web Services 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Dear colleagues, All external services have been restored. The RIPE NCC experienced a major network failure due to a malfunctioning load balancer that has now been replaced. With the cause isolated, a thorough review is being conducted and a detailed report will be posted in the coming week to RIPE Labs. Please contact <ops(a)ripe.net> if you experience problems with a service you're trying to reach. We thank you for your patience during this unexpected occurrence. Kind regards, Brian Riddle IT Manager

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Selection of NRO NC Representative for RIPE NCC Service Region
by The RIPE NCC 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Dear colleagues, On Friday, 28 September 2012, the RIPE community will select its representative for the vacant seat on the NRO Number Council (NRO NC). The two candidates are: - Dmitry Kohmanyuk - Dr. Robert Poehler Biographies of both candidates are available at: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/internet-governance/internet-tec… All those attending the Plenary session of the RIPE 65 Meeting at 09:00 on Friday, 26 September will receive a ballot and will be invited to select the RIPE representative for the NRO NC. Information on the nominations process and the NRO NC is available at: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/internet-governance/internet-tec… Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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Fwd: WCIT discussions - public comments page
by Randy Bush 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Message-ID: <5061C7EA.304(a)nic.ad.jp> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:04:10 +0900 From: Izumi Okutani <izumi(a)nic.ad.jp> To: Randy Bush <randy(a)psg.com>, Matsuzaki Yoshinobu <maz(a)iij.ad.jp> Subject: WCIT discussions Has there been a mention by someone that there is a public comments page for WCIT? http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/53.aspx It was introduced to us by MIC, and they wanted ISPs in Japan to make comments so I think non-ITU members can also comment here. Izumi

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RIPE 65 Opening Today
by RIPE Meeting 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, The RIPE 65 opening plenary starts today at 14:00 UTC +2. If you cannot be there in person, you can participate remotely by viewing the live webcast and using the chat facilities: https://ripe65.ripe.net/live/main/ We hope you have a great RIPE 65 Meeting week! Kind regards, The RIPE Meeting Team RIPE NCC

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http://xkcd.com/1110/
by Randy Bush 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

enough silliness about policy, measurement, security, ... let's get serious here. does the okura have a large enough wall so we can print http://xkcd.com/1110/ and be able to see the whole thing? randy

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RIPE 65 - Final Reminder to Register
by RIPE NCC Meeting Coordinator 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi everyone, If you have not yet registered for RIPE 65, this is your last chance to get the early-bird discount. In order to get this discount on the week ticket, you need to register and pay before Friday, 21 September at 16:00 UTC. After that time, it will still be possible to register at the meeting venue. Register online: https://ripe65.ripe.net/register The Plenary agenda is now available at: https://ripe65.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary-agenda/ There will be 3 tutorials taking place on Monday morning. For more information and to pre-register please see: https://ripe65.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/tutorials/ We look forward to seeing you at RIPE 65! Kind regards, the RIPE Meeting Team

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ripe 65 lightning talks about to be selected
by Todd Underwood 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

fellow network engineers, policy wonks and enthusiasts, RIPE65 is next week. i'm sure you are as excited as i am. unless you're in UTC+5 or greater. in which case, you're even more excited than i am because it's already thursday! the ripe programme committee is about to select lightning talks for monday (we still have slots for tuesday and friday) so now is your time to improve your chances to be selected early! we will be selecting lighting talks by friday so please submit your proposals by this time tomorrow. submit your lightning talk at: https://meetings.ripe.net/pc/lightning_submit.php?talkid=new (you'll need a ripe speaker account, but you will want one of those anyway, since you'll be submitting lots of talks in the future). all you need is an abstract and a title. no presentation, no slides needed to submit. once we accept your talk, obviously you'll need some slides to present it, so don't submit something you're not prepared to present on monday afternoon. questions? email me or pc(a)ripe.net looking forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam next week. -- Todd Underwood, for the RIPE Programme Committee pc(a)ripe.net tmu(a)google.com

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Security Survey: Please Participate
by Sockrider, Gary 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

[http://www.swiftpage1.com/CampResource/2T0ZVZBHI4PY5TEG/header.jpg] ________________________________ Arbor Networks would like to invite you to participate in our annual Infrastructure Security Survey - a survey of service providers, enterprises, government agencies, universities and other network operators around the world. The purpose of the survey is to gauge and report on general security issues, practices, procedures and observations from the industry. All data gathered from the survey will be compiled in the aggregate and published as Arbor’s 8th annual infrastructure security report and accompanying presentations. Individual responses are treated anonymously and no respondent names will appear in the report or presentations. As a reference, you may access a copy of our 7th annual report here: http://pages.arbornetworks.com/rs/arbor/images/WISR2011_EN.pdf<http://www.swiftpage1.com/SpeClicks.aspx?X=2T0ZVZBHI4PY5TEG00Y9WW> To participate in this year's survey, please click on the following link: http://www.arbornetworks.com/survey/ISR2012<http://www.swiftpage1.com/SpeClicks.aspx?X=2T0ZVZBHI4PY5TEG01Y9WW>. You will be directed to a secure (SSL) connection to begin. The survey should take 30 minutes or less to complete. Survey completion by September 28, 2012 would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for your consideration. Please feel free to contact me at cmorales(a)arbor.net<mailto:cmorales@arbor.net> should you have any questions on the survey or Arbor Networks. Regards, Carlos E. Morales Vice President Systems Engineering and Sales Operations

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RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8
by Axel Pawlik 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Dear colleagues, On Friday, 14 September 2012, the RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool. This means that we are now distributing IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) from the last /8 according to section 5.6 of "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region". This section states that an LIR may receive one /22 allocation (1,024 IPv4 addresses), even if they can justify a larger allocation. This /22 allocation will only be made to LIRs if they have already received an IPv6 allocation from an upstream LIR or the RIPE NCC. No new IPv4 Provider Independent (PI) space will be assigned. This policy can be found online at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-553 Those members with open requests for IPv4 address space will shortly receive an email regarding the status of their requests. It is now imperative that all stakeholders deploy IPv6 on their networks to ensure the continuity of their online operations and the future growth of the Internet. Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC More Information ----------------- For more information on IPv6 and its deployment, advice from experts and where to get training, please see: http://www.ipv6actnow.org/ For more information on reaching the last /8, please see: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion

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RIPE 65 Updates: Tutorials, BoFs, Tram Passes and more!
by RIPE NCC Meeting Coordinator 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hello, RIPE 65 takes place in just over one week (24-28 September) at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam! Be sure to register by 21 September to take advantage of the early bird discount. Registering in advance also means we can prepare your meeting badge in advance and have it ready for you when you check in. You can register at: https://ripe65.ripe.net/register ------------------------------ RIPE 65 Meeting Plan Updates ------------------------------ We've just posted updates for: - Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions: https://ripe65.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/birds-of-a-feather/ - Tutorials (please register in advance): https://ripe65.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/tutorials/ -------------------------------------- Get a Free Tram Pass -------------------------------------- We have 100 public transportation passes available for RIPE 65 attendees not staying at the Hotel Okura. The passes are available at the Registration Desk on a first come, first serve basis. We look forward to seeing you on the 24th! Kind regards, RIPE Meeting Team

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RIPE 65: Latest News
by RIPE NCC Meeting Coordinator 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Hi everyone, Get ready, RIPE 65 takes place in just over two weeks (24-28 September) at the Hotel Okura, Amsterdam. Still haven't registered yet? You can do this online at: https://ripe65.ripe.net/register Here are the latest RIPE 65 updates: ---------------------------------------------- Log In to RIPE NCC Access for Added Features --------------------------------------------- Use your RIPE NCC Access account to get the most out of RIPE 65: - Network with fellow attendees by sharing your contact details - Rate the plenary presentations Don't have a RIPE NCC Access account? Get one at: https://access.ripe.net/registration ------------------------------------------ Rate the Plenary Presentations and Win! ------------------------------------------ Every time you rate a plenary presentation, you'll be entered into a draw to win a EUR 100 Amazon gift card. Winners will be announced during the first morning session on Tuesday and Wednesday. -------------------------------- Early-Bird Discount at the Okura -------------------------------- Hotel Okura is still offering hotel rooms at a discounted rate for meeting attendees, be quick to book your room: https://ripe65.ripe.net/venue/hotels/ -------------------------------- Stay Up-to-Date -------------------------------- For the latest updates for the plenary sessions, RIPE Working Group sessions and the social events, visit: https://ripe65.ripe.net/ Follow us on Twitter @ripemeeting, hashtag #RIPE65 We look forward to seeing you soon at RIPE 65 in Amsterdam! The RIPE Meeting Team RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC has Approximately Four Million IPv4 Addresses Before Reaching Last /8
by Axel Pawlik 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC has now entered phase one of its approach to reaching the last /8. This means that: - As of Tuesday, 4 September, we have approximately one month (or a /10) worth of IPv4 address space (4,134,976 addresses) to distribute before we reach the last /8. - Our IPRAs are now working in pairs to ensure that all requests are dealt with efficiently and to further ensure fairness, consistency and transparency. This means that our response times may be longer than you have previously experienced. You can find the response times for requests for IPv4 address space at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/tools-for-lirs/reponse… - Our "call back procedure" has changed. We will now call requestors about their ticket only when their ticket is at the front of the request queue. This will ensure that no ticket is handled outside of the order it was received in. - Depending on the availability in the RIPE NCC’s free pool of IPv4 address space, you may receive multiple smaller prefixes that add up to the size of your request. - The quarantine period in place for returned IPv4 address space before it can be re-used will be gradually decreased. In the last days before we reach the last /8, the quarantine period may be reduced to one week or less. This will ensure that there is no IPv4 address space left in the quarantine pool when we start to allocate from the last /8. More information about quarantine periods can be found at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/quarantine-for-return… - The Available IPv4 Pool Graph will be updated daily as of Wednesday, 5 September. You can find this graph online at: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-available-po… More information about reaching the last /8 can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/last-8-phases ================================================== Important Billing Information for RIPE NCC Members ================================================== If you have had an outstanding invoice for 60 days or more, we cannot approve any requests for Internet number resources until the outstanding amount has been paid. For more details about billing, please see: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/member-support/info/billing/billing-proce… Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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