December 2017 - ripe-list - mailman.ripe.net

Proposal for a full-time position for the RIPE Chair
by Erik Bais 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Dear RIPE community members and RIPE Exec Board, As proposed during the GM in Dubai, I would like to discuss if it is possible to change the Chair position of RIPE into a full-time paid position. I would like to explain why this might be good for the community and my thinking behind it. As one might expect, being a RIPE chair, requires a huge amount of spare/private and vacation time and an employer (if not self-employed) that would see the value or benefit of employing the RIPE Chair.. and there is the ‘stress’ especially if it is busy at the office (day-job) and seeing issues that would demand your attention, with a community with its huge size … Currently it is my expectation that the RIPE chair position is consuming more than 14 weeks of work in its current way how Hans-Petter is running the position. And that is currently unpaid … Obviously not everything is covered in this by his vacation days .. and it is not that he is sitting idle on his hands at his day job. If the RIPE Chair position would be a full time position, it would allow the RIPE chair to attend more regional NOG meetings, member lunches, other RIR meetings or ICANN meetings or help with more Governance discussions with the various Governments that require our communities perspective. Or talks about GDPR or alike … It would be good for the community if the RIPE Chair would and could position/voice the community view, which may or may not be similar or be voiced differently in meetings with governments or ICANN meetings, apart from the view of the RIPE NCC itself. The RIPE community currently doesn’t have its own Governing entity .. we say, we are the community .. but the community doesn’t have its own entity. What I would propose, is to setup a separate entity … with a small separate board. The RIPE Community board role would be to act as a management oversight.. they would be make sure that the finances of the new RIPE Community entity are in balance and to assist with possible Chair rotations ( interviews for future candidates etc. ) but also act as peers in discussions for the Chair in certain more delicate situations / discussions that the Chair might face) Obviously should the finances in consolidated form, be open for the community. Currently we have a great Chair.. and I think Hans Petter is doing a stellar job, but it is my question if this particular point should be updated. And I think it should. What I like to see is that the Chair position is going to be funded by a 6 year grant from the membership fees via the RIPE NCC. And the position itself would be for an initial 5 year with 1 optional renewal of 5 year by RIPE Community Board approval. So a max of 10 years in total for the position per named person (Chair). The idea behind the 6 year rolling grant, is to make sure that the RIPE Chair will never get in a position where the RIPE NCC might cut the funding because of unpopular decisions towards the RIPE NCC. If the Chair (after being a Chair for 10 years) is rotated, I think the former Chair should have no problem getting another position, if one of his primary roles is to network or communicate with members in the community. His/her role should provide sufficient connections for other activities after the RIPE Chair position. As a Community, we have a voice and the community makes policy. And the RIPE NCC is the company that operates based on the guidance of those policy on behalf of the community and its members. I would personally like to see the community and membership, be embedded in the new RIPE community setup. If that would also mean that the new RIPE Community entity should hold (/obtain) the RIPE NCC (company) shares, is something that I like the Exec Board to discuss. How this should be setup in the governance model, is something I would like to ask the Exec Board to provide in a proposal, once the discussion looks positive … From a cost perspective, it is my expectation that it would be about 25 to 35 euro per LIR per year … While we look at a refund of 300 euro per year per LIR because of the budget surplus … I don’t think that the cost are going to be an issue. Regards, Erik Bais

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Survey about interconnection agreements
by Pedro de Botelho Marcos 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Dear community, We are a group of researchers conducting a survey about the future of the interconnection agreements. Our goal is to understand the current process and reasons for establishing inter-domain interconnection agreements and how this ecosystem can be improved in the future. Can you please help us by answering a set few objective questions reflecting your views? This survey will take you less than 10 minutes, and you can earn a prize by doing it! Survey URL: https://goo.gl/bJxJzZ This survey is in the context of our proposal to create truly dynamic interconnection agreements. Please watch this short (3 minutes) introductory video. https://youtu.be/DVbjR7JQTvo We are offering a redeemable prize worth 25.00 USD (twenty-five United States Dollars) for the first 200 (two hundred) respondents that meet the following eligibility criteria: - You must be a peering coordinator or a network operator working with inter-domain interconnection aspects - Your organization must operate an autonomous system (AS) - You must be able to provide personal information that allows us to verify if you are eligible You can also participate in the survey without disclosing your identity. In this case, you are not eligible for the prize. Research records will be kept confidential. All data will be anonymous and collected and published in a manner that would not allow identification of your identity. A summary of the aggregate results will be made available to the community and used as a part of a scientific article. If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us. Also, if you want to know more about our project, please visit our website: https://dynam-ix.github.io Thank you very much, -- Pedro Marcos Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

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RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2017 Recipients
by Alistair Strachan 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund launched on 22 October 2017 during RIPE 75 in Dubai. The fund provides EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation and resilience of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in our service region. The application period was open for just over a month and more than 70 applications from 30 different countries were submitted to the selection committee. The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following seven projects have be awarded funding for 2017: Congratulations: - ARTEMIS (Automatic and Real-Time dEtection and MItigation System) - Internet Atlas - Tools for Digital Literacy - iSEND (Lightweight IPv6 SEcure Neighbor Discovery Implementation for Android Platform) - Let’s Connect! - OpenBGPD - Tajikistan K-Root DNS Mirror - The Cryptech Project To read more about the selected projects see: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2017 Due to an administrative error on the part of the RIPE NCC regarding the closing time of the application period, a small number of projects were not considered in the Selection Committee’s initial assessment. Upon being made aware of this error, a process was initiated to consider these projects. This process identified an additional funding recipient, and the RIPE NCC has decided to provide an additional EUR 45,000 of unused funds from its 2017 "Good of the Internet" budget. This process was closely coordinated between the selection committee, RIPE NCC staff and the RIPE NCC Executive Board. The selection committee is pleased to stand behind all of the projects. The RIPE NCC is proud to support these projects and we look forward to seeing them develop. We see great potential and look forward to sharing the progress reports with the community. Congratulations to our selected recipients and thank you to everyone that submitted their interest in the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund! Warm regards, Alistair Strachan RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator

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Comment Phase Open for 2018 ICANN Board Seat 9 Elections
by agollan 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

This message is sent on behalf of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). Comment Phase Open for 2018 ICANN Board Seat 9 Elections In line with the ICANN Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the ICANN Bylaws, the ASO Address Council (AC) is responsible for the appointment of a representative to serve on Seat 9 of the ICANN Board. Following a call for candidates, the ASO AC is pleased to announce that the following four candidates are standing for election: - Johan Mikael “Julf” Helsingius - Kris Seeburn - Ron da Silva - William Michael Cunningham In accordance with the ASO AC election procedures, the comment period is now open and will close on 18 March 2018. To comment, please visit the following web page and click on each candidate's name: https://aso.icann.org/comment-phase-open-for-2018-icann-board-seat-9-electi… Please note that as per section 9.4.5 of the ASO AC Operating Procedures, all comments will be moderated by the ASO secretariat prior to being published on the ASO website. Selection Process Nomination Phase: 2 October 2017 – 17 December 2017 Comment Phase: 18 December 2017 – 18 March 2018 Interview Phase: 17 January 2018 – 18 March 2018 Selection Phase: 19 March 2018 – 18 April 2018 Due Diligence Review: 19 April 2018 – 17 May 2018 Announcement: Around 19 May 2018 All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified. Further Information For further information and updated announcements on the election process, please see the dedicated 2017-18 Election page: https://aso.icann.org/aso-icann/icann-board-elections/2017-elections/ Detailed procedures for election of individuals to the ICANN Board of Directors by the ASO AC can be found in Section 9 of the ASO AC Operating Procedures: https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-…

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DMARC Solution Applied to this Mailing List
by Adam Castle 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Dear Working Group, As more email providers enable Domain Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), some people find they can no longer receive emails from the mailing lists they are subscribed to. We have deployed a Mailman setting change to address this problem. After consultation with the RIPE Working Group Chairs, we have enabled the DMARC "Munge From" setting on all RIPE mailing lists. This means that if your email service provider has DMARC enabled, you will continue to receive all emails sent to this mailing list, but the "From" part of the header will change. If you don't have DMARC enabled, you won't see any change to the emails you receive from this mailing list. You can find more information about how we have been handling DMARC in the following RIPE Labs articles: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/dmarc-and-the-ripe-ncc https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/ripe-mailing-lists-and-dmarc To ensure all working group participants are aware of the changes, I am sending this mail to all working groups. If you have any questions or encounter any issues on this mailing list, please let me know. Many thanks. Adam Castle Web Services Manager RIPE NCC

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How to obtain an IP address
by Seyed Farhad Seyedzadeh Tajan Gookeh 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hello experts, We would like to obtain a few IP addresses for our server. The data center where we are getting our server from is not being cooperative enough to change the IP whois data (perhaps this is something that can't be done). However, they suggested that we should obtain our very own IP addresses if we want to have our own info on the IPs. Thank you Regards Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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New on RIPE Labs: The First Albanian Network Operators Group
by Mirjam Kuehne 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

Dear colleagues, The first Albanian Network Operators Forum (ALNOF) took place last month in Tirana and ended with the creation of a new NOG and an IXP. Please find the report on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/daniele_arena/the-first-albanian-network-oper… You can find more NOG reports and other related information on this page: https://labs.ripe.net/nogs Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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Final Reminder: Nomination Period for Seat 9 on the ICANN Board Closes 17 December 2017
by Antony Gollan 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

This email is sent on behalf of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). The Address Supporting Organization Address Council's (ASO AC) call for nominations for Seat 9 on the ICANN Board will close at 23:59 UTC on Sunday, 17 December 2017. Nomination Process ------------------- Community members are invited to submit nominations by email to <nominations(a)aso.icann.org> by Sunday, 17 December 2017 at 23:59 UTC. Nominations must include the following information: - The full name of the person being nominated - Contact email address for the person being nominated - Contact telephone number (if available) of the person being nominated - The full name of the person making the nomination - Contact email address for the person making the nomination - Contact telephone number of the person making the nomination Election Procedures -------------------- Procedures for election of individuals to the ICANN Board of Directors by the ASO AC can be found at: https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-… Regional Restrictions ---------------------- The ICANN Bylaws state "no two Directors selected by a Supporting Organization shall be citizens from the same country or of countries located in the same Geographic Region.” (see section 7.2:c). The current ASO AC selection for Seat 10, Akinori Maemura, resides in the APNIC region. Therefore, no nominations for Seat 9 will be accepted from candidates residing in the APNIC region. Eligibility Requirements ------------------------ All nominated candidates must meet the selection criteria and conflict of interest requirements as outlined in Article 7 of the ICANN Bylaws. The selected candidate will undergo an independent due diligence review by an ICANN contractor, and announcement of the candidate will follow once this review has been successfully completed. Important Dates ----------------- - Nomination Phase: 2 October 2017 – 17 December 2017 - Comment Phase: 18 December 2017 – 18 March 2018 - Interview Phase: 17 January 2018 – 18 March 2018 - Selection Phase: 19 March 2018 – 18 April 2018 - Due Diligence Review: 19 April 2018 – 17 May 2018 - Announcement: Around 19 May 2018 All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified. Further Information ------------------- For further information and updated announcements on the election process, please see the 2017 ICANN Board Election page at: https://aso.icann.org/aso-icann/icann-board-elections/2017-elections/ If you have any questions about the elections or the election process, please contact <secretariat(a)aso.icann.org>. Kind regards, ASO Secretariat secretariat(a)aso.icann.org

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