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Reminder: Call for ICANN Board Nominations Closes 31 December 2014
by Axel Pawlik 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Dear colleagues, The Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) call for nominations for Seat Number 9 on the ICANN Board will close at 23:59 UTC on 31 December 2014. The ASO AC election procedures are found in Section 7 of the ASO Operating Procedures and are available on the ASO website at: https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-… Article VI of the ICANN Bylaws states that: "At any given time, no two Directors selected by a Supporting Organization shall be citizens from the same country or of countries located in the same Geographic Region.” The ASO AC selection for Seat 10 of the ICANN Board of Directors resides in the APNIC region, so nominees for Seat 9 cannot reside in the APNIC region. Submit nominations by email to <nominations2015(a)aso.icann.org> including the following information: * 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 * 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 All candidates must sign a Letter of Certification declaring that they are of good character. 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. The time frame for the selection process is as follows: - Nomination Phase 24 October 2014 to 31 December 2014 - Comment Phase 1 January 2015 to 31 March 2015 - Interview Phase 1 February 2015 to 31 March 2015 - Selection Process 1 April 2015 to 17 April 2015 - Due Diligence Review 18 April 2015 to 31 May 2015 - Announcement no later than 1 June 2015 All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified. For further information and ongoing notices about the selection process, please visit: https://aso.icann.org/aso-icann/icann-board-elections/2015-elections/ Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE Meeting - Call for Hosts for RIPE 73
by RIPE Meeting 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Dear colleagues, Are you interested in hosting the RIPE 73 Meeting, from 24-28 October 2016? We are searching for dependable organisations to help us host the RIPE 73 Meeting outside of the Netherlands. The host helps with Internet connectivity, venue scouting, administrative and on-site support, and assists in finding local sponsors. In return, the host organisation enjoys excellent visibility among the RIPE community and the prestige of hosting a RIPE Meeting. Interested? Please find more information at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-meetings/ripe-73 You can send your proposal by 19 January 2015 to: meeting(a)ripe.net. We look forward to hearing from you, Gergana Petrova Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Regional Meeting Report: Tehran
by Serge Radovcic 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear colleagues, The first RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in Iran was recently held at the Azadi Hotel in Tehran. The meeting took place on 18 November and attracted 270 participants. More information is available here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/regional-meetings/ripe-ncc-regional-meet… The RIPE NCC worked with local host IRNIC, the Iranian ccTLD registry, to provide the event. The day’s agenda attracted RIPE NCC members and other key players from the local and regional Internet community. Among the topics explored were RIPE NCC services and tools, IPv6 deployment strategies, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and Domain Name System (DNS) issues. A full meeting report is available here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/regional-meetings/ripe-ncc-regional-meet… Kind regards Serge Radovcic Chief Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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Wilfried Woeber Appointed to NRO NC
by Axel Pawlik 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

Dear colleagues, Wilfried Woeber was appointed to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) by the RIPE NCC Executive Board. The announcement was made at a plenary session of the RIPE 69 Meeting in London on 7 November 2014. Wilfried will serve a three-year term from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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Become a Member of the RIPE Programme Committee
by RIPE Meeting 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Dear colleague, The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) has two seats up for election. The PC is responsible for recruiting and selecting presentations for the RIPE Meeting Plenary sessions. As the term of two RIPE PC members end, we are looking for new members who will be elected by the RIPE community at RIPE 69 in London. The Charter of the RIPE Programme Committee provides more information about the composition and roles of the RIPE PC: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-600 Send nominations to pc [at] ripe [dot] net before 15:00 on Thursday, 6 November 2014. Please include a biography, statement of interest and a photograph. Please vote for the next two RIPE PC members. Online voting takes place on Friday 7 November, from 10:00-11:00 via this link: https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/ripe-pc/elections Questions about the RIPE PC can be sent to pc [at] ripe [dot] net. Best regards, Gergana Petrova On behalf of the RIPE Meeting Team

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RIPE Chair report October 2014
by Hans Petter Holen 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I would like to share with you what I have been doing as RIPE Chair since the last RIPE meeting in Warsaw in may now that the RIPE 69 meeting in London is just some days away. The agenda for the RIPE meeting as been published at https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ The Program committee has done a very good job in putting together a program for the week, all working-groups have published their agendas, and most working-groups have started working on wg-chair procedures as agreed at the last wg-chairs meeting. The working-group chairs will meet as usual for lunch on Thursday. The agenda for this meeting can be found at https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/agenda/ripe-69-working-group-chair-m… As RIPE Chair I am invited as an observer to the RIPE NCC exec board meetings in order to coordinate activities between RIPE and the RIPE NCC. There have been board meetings in June and September and minutes of the meetings are posted at http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2014 The theme of my first half-year as Chair, and before that as Deputy Chair, has been to get to know the community better, trough participating in regional meetings. * MENOG 14 in Dubai, UAE * SEE 3 in Sofia, Bulgaria * ENOG 7, Moscow, Russia * ENOG 8, Baku, Kazakhstan These meetings have given me a better view of the current issues in our region. While we in Western and Northern Europe have a multitude of Internet exchanges to improve regional and national connectivity, there are challenges in the Middle East and further east. International connectivity is also a challenge - limited by available international fibber, and with higher cost than in areas with more competition between fibber providers. Privacy issues were high on the agenda at ENOG. There was a lively discussion on how to deal with government request. It is great to see the participation of these meetings, both in numbers and in content. The technical discussions in the meeting and the corridors, to exchange ideas and solve problems. The RIPE NCC also does outreach to governments in our region. I participated at the High-level meeting in Brussels the RIPE NCC arranged in close cooperation with CENTR, as well as a Law enforcement meeting earlier this year in London. During the summer I went to Toronto Canada for IETF 90, my primary interest was the discussions on the IANA transition. In addition I attended most of the Operational track. The NRO Number Council appointed me to the ICANN NomCom for 2014 and we completed our work and appointed ICANN board members as well as ALAC, GNSO and ccNSO council members. The report from the 2014 NomCom can be found at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-16oct14-en.pdf the was also an urgent appointment of a board member to replace xxx who stepped down unexpectedly during the ICANN week. I was not able to participate in this appointment due to less than 24 hours notice for the meeting. The NomCom also conducted a peer review of our contributions to the committee. The report from this has been published https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/360-review-members-15oct14-en.p… The Number Council was kind enough to reappoint me to the 2014 Non-com, which started its work with a two day meeting following the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles. The call for nominations will be out shortly. This year the NomCom will be appointing 3 board members. Looking at the board composition there is particular need for board members from the African region and the Latin American region, but good candidates from Europe are also welcome. The NRO NC will in addition to the NomCom appointments, appoint one board member, see the announcement at https://www.nro.net/news/aso-ac-call-for-nominations-for-seat-9-on-the-ican… In order to better understand the Internet Governance issues in a broader sense I have participated in * Annual meeting with the Norwegian regulator, Lillesand, Norway * EuroDig, Berlin Germany * IGF2014, Istanbul, Turkey My interest in Eurodig and IGF was the NTIA transition of the IANA function. ICANN had a strong presence at IGF and there were several good discussions on how ICANN accountability can be improved. * ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 in Busan, Korea. The Norwegian Ministry of Transportation and Communication invited me to participate on the Norwegian delegation at the ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 conference in Busan, with the trip funded by the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC is a sector member of the ITU-D and participating with its own delegation with Chris, Maxim and Chadic. There are excellent reports from the meeting by Samantha Dickinson athttp://linguasynaptica.com/ as well as live twitter updates, see #Plenipot14 With this short report I hope I have given you some insight into what the RIPE Chair has been doing since the last meeting. Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen RIPE Chair # The above text has also been posted at _http://blog.hph.oslo.net/2014/10/ripe-chair-report-october-2014.html_

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Seeking RIPE Community Volunteers for CRISP Team
by Paul Rendek 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Dear colleagues, We are seeking two qualified individuals to join the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) Team as voluntary representatives of the RIPE community. This team will be responsible for producing the Number Community proposal on the IANA stewardship transition for submission to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) by 15 January 2015. For background and details of the CRISP Team, please see: https://www.nro.net/crisp-team Each RIR region will appoint three members to the CRISP Team: one RIR staff member and two community representatives. Volunteers for the two community representative positions should send their nomination to the Cooperation Working Group mailing list (<cooperation-wg(a)ripe.net>) by the close of the first session of the Cooperation Working Group on Thursday, 6 November at 12:30 UTC. Nominations should include your full name, affiliation, and a brief statement of qualifications and interest or a link to your CV or biography. The RIPE Chair, Hans Petter Holen, in consultation with the RIPE NCC Executive Board, will select two representatives, and will bring forward these names to the RIPE 69 Plenary session on Friday, 7 November, for endorsement by the community. The successful candidates will be contacted by email. For background on the IANA stewardship transition process, please see: https://ripe.net/iana-oversight-transition Best regards, Paul Rendek Director of External Relations RIPE NCC

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RIPE 69 Opening Today
by RIPE Meeting 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Dear colleagues, RIPE Chair Hans Petter Holen will open the RIPE 69 Meeting in London today at 14:00 local time (UTC). This will be followed by a welcome speech from John Souter of LINX, the host of this RIPE Meeting. If you cannot be at RIPE 69 in person, you can follow the proceedings and participate remotely by viewing the live webcast and using the chat facilities: https://ripe69.ripe.net/live Your participation will ensure that this will be another excellent RIPE Meeting! Kind regards, Gergana Petrova On behalf of the RIPE Meeting Team

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TNC15 news item
by Karim Mostafi 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Good afternoon, Please find below a news release that we'd like to be sent out on the Ripe list. It's my first time, so if I'm doing something wrong, please tell me. Best regards, Karim Mostafi Communications Officer GÉANT Association, Amsterdam Office (formerly TERENA) Singel 468D, 1017 AW Amsterdam, the Netherlands Email: mostafi(a)terena.org <durnford(a)terena.org> Tel: +31 (0) 20 530 4488 GÉANT Association Networking. Services. People Learn more at: http://www.geant.org START NEWS RELEASE --------------- After having opened the call for proposals for TNC15 on 6 October, the Programme Committee have received a good number of responses already. More proposals are welcome until the deadline of 28 November though, so we encourage everyone to submit a proposal too! This year, you can contribute more ideas to help shape the conference than ever before: In addition to the usual opportunity to submit presentation abstracts, you can now also propose entire sessions. And rather than waiting until next year to submit ideas for lightning talks and posters, you can also do this immediately. The online submissions tool has been improved to provide one unified system to support all these changes. 28 November 2014 is the deadline for submitting presentation abstracts and session proposals. The deadline for submitting proposals for posters and lightning talks is 15 April 2015. TNC15 will be held in Porto from 15-18 June 2015, hosted by FCT|FCCN, Portugal’s unit for the operation of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) within the funding agency for science and research in Portugal. The theme of TNC15 will be ‘Connected Communities’. All proposals must be submitted in English, the official language of the conference, and should be on subjects relevant to the spirit and objectives of the conference: to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking technology and its uses in the research and education community. The topics described below are an indication of the scope of the conference, but are not meant to be restrictive. Connected Communities Today, NRENs find themselves at an exciting crossroads in society. Not only do they provide the basic network infrastructure on which big science and big data build, but they also address the requirements of ever-increasing and more diverse communities of Internet end users in the wider research and education areas. Many questions around cloud computing, software defined networking, mobility, ‘over-the-top’ and more remain unanswered, and their impact on the NREN landscape and their potential to address the needs of the users are still unclear. All of this in a time when privacy and security are not a given. With the TNC15 Call for Proposals we invite you to explore the challenges the research and education networking community faces along the following themes: - Success factors for NRENs - Shining the light on Dark IT - Connecting life, the universe and everything - Control in the connected world - Deconstructing the network The full details are included in the print version of the Call for Proposals (pdf) <http://www.terena.org/gfx/TNC15-CfP-rgb.pdf>. Please feel free to share this among your contacts! Submit TNC15 proposals Upload your proposals via the TNC15 submit <https://tnc15.terena.org/submit> page. Other ways to participate - Sponsorship - For information please contact Gyöngyi Horváth <horvath(a)terena.org> - Demonstrations and exhibits - companies or projects wishing to participate should contact: tnc15(a)terena.org - Side meetings - If you wish to organise a meeting or workshop immediately before, after or around TNC15, please contact Gyöngyi Horváth <horvath(a)terena.org> before 15 January 2015. About TNC TNC is the largest and most prestigious annual networking conference for higher education and research in Europe, with around 650 participants. TNC brings together decision makers, managers, networking and collaboration specialists, and identity and access management experts from all major European networking and research organisations, universities, worldwide sister institutions, as well as industry representatives. Through keynote speeches by renowned specialists, parallel sessions, demonstrations and presentations, the TNC presents participants with a unique overview of the latest developments in research and education networking, both in the technical field and in the area of application and management. TNC15 website: http://tnc15.terena.org -------------------- END NEWS RELEASE

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Key Developments From ICANN 51
by Chris Buckridge 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, The 51st ICANN meeting was held in Los Angeles, USA, from 11-16 October 2014, with questions surrounding the IANA stewardship transition and the accountability of ICANN driving much of the agenda. More information about key developments from the ICANN 51 meeting is available at: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/icann-51-cont… Regards, Chris Buckridge Senior External Relations Officer RIPE NCC

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