September 2021 - members-discuss

RIPE NCC Planning Q4 2021
by Felipe Victolla Silveira 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Dear members, We are now publishing the quarterly planning for all our development teams. These are available at: https://www.ripe.net/support/documentation/quarterly-planning <https://www.ripe.net/support/documentation/quarterly-planning> The goals of publishing our planning are to be transparent about the work we will be carrying out in the coming months, to get your input on those plans, and to foster a dialogue with our members and the community about what you would like to see the RIPE NCC work on going forward. Last quarter, we published our plans for RPKI and this was shared with the Routing Working Group. Today we publish our planning for the RIPE Database and our Business Applications, which includes work we will carry out with the LIR Portal, registry services and other applications the RIPE NCC provides for its members and community. We will provide status updates as the work progresses and add input from the community to the pages. We will also archive previous plans so you can track how we progress with our work. If you have comments or questions about our planning, I hope you'll let us know. Kind regards, Felipe Victolla Silveira Chief Operations Officer RIPE NCC

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Re: [members-discuss] Registry Services Ticket Response Time
by Elvis Daniel Velea 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Dear Felipe, while we wait for you to crop up a roadmap, I am still waiting for the statistics I asked from Marco weeks ago. Marco, I’d like to see real numbers and not just .. this Q we handled x% more tickets than last Q. Usually when statistics are presented this way, without backing numbers, they express a story you want us to see and not the whole picture. So, while Felipe works on the roadmap, please send us the statistics that you already have about number of tickets handled daily, number of FTEs working on those tickets daily and make sure we receive these numbers for at least since you stopped showing this information transparently (circa 2015). I hope you can provide these numbers swiftly and it won’t take weeks to provide them but rather days (you’ve been working on these stats/numbers since my initial e-mail requesting them, right?) Also, you avoid to respond to one very important question: how many working days in this year have you respected the agreed SLA and how many working days you failed to respect it. I am sure you already have this number and can provide it _today_. Elvis PS: I have yet to see a ticket handled within the SLA for months, still hope this will change swiftly and not months/quarters from now On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 08:11 Felipe Victolla Silveira <fvictolla(a)ripe.net> wrote: > Dear Gert, Elvis, > > First, let me recognise that the ticketing system has been a sore point > for a number of years and we have made little progress in addressing the > issues that you and others have raised. We are not overly proud of our > record here. > > In the next few weeks, we plan to publish roadmaps with our plans for the > next quarter[1]. We will make sure the ticketing system is covered here. > > Given there are other areas which may need priority, I can't promise that > you will be completely satisfied by what we propose in terms of the > ticketing system. However, having public roadmaps should help to inform > discussions about what we focus on and where trade-offs need to be made. > Publishing more detail about our plans and tracking feedback or changes > should also make it easier to hold us to account when we fail to deliver. > > So, if you can bear with us a little longer, once this is ready we can > continue the discussion on this list, using these roadmaps as a starting > point. > > Kind regards, > Felipe > > [1] Using our recent RPKI roadmap as a model: > > https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/rpki/rpki-plan… > > On 6 Sep 2021, at 18:07, Gert Doering <gert(a)space.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 09:06:54PM -0700, Elvis Daniel Velea wrote: > > PS: Note that I wanted to also send an e-mail about the RIPE NCC's > ticketing system (zendesk) to the members-discuss mailing list and to > the board members. I will wait for an answer to the e-mail I sent to HPH > one week ago (which he promised he'll forward to the relevant team for a > reply). > > > The ticket system from hell. > > I'm looking forward to read the issues *you* have with it. > > My complaints have been delivered to Felipe in person, years ago, and > been summarily ignored. As far as I can see. > > But that might be better suited in its own thread, and in ncc-services. > > Gert Doering > -- NetMaster > -- > have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? > > SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael > Emmer > Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann > D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) > Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 > > _______________________________________________ > members-discuss mailing list > members-discuss(a)ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/rsstaff%40ripe.net > > > -- This message was sent from a mobile device. Some typos may be possible.

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Re: [members-discuss] Registry Services Ticket Response Time
by rk＠indyntech.com 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Dear Marco, Our company is a new member, but we also faced all these ticket processing issues. During August our requests were processed within the usual 2-3 business days, but then something incomprehensible happened. I'm glad that the other members are also worried, but it seems strange to me that, the RIPE NCC management has not taken any adequate measures over the past months, and that it does not process members' requests in chronological order, for example, as we see in the previous message: > See ticket #398137, for example. Ticket opened Aug 26 at 4AM, <...> resolved only next Monday? And we sent the documents to our ticket #396762 on Aug 25 and it's still in processing for these 2 weeks without ANY response since Aug 27. I have also tried to check the status over the phone and all the staff was reported to be so busy to reply. How come that the old good 1 day SLA has been discontinued and the RIPE NCC can now simply ignore their members for weeks? Why ticket #398137 that was submitted by Elvis later was processed earlier and our ticket is still stored with an unknown status? What is the current SLA and who is responsible for it? If the management does not cope with this task why is the executive board not notified of this problem and the issue is not widely discussed with the community? Kind regards, Roman Kalinin

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Ticketing System / Roadmaps
by Felipe Victolla Silveira 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Dear Gert, Elvis, First, let me recognise that the ticketing system has been a sore point for a number of years and we have made little progress in addressing the issues that you and others have raised. We are not overly proud of our record here. In the next few weeks, we plan to publish roadmaps with our plans for the next quarter[1]. We will make sure the ticketing system is covered here. Given there are other areas which may need priority, I can't promise that you will be completely satisfied by what we propose in terms of the ticketing system. However, having public roadmaps should help to inform discussions about what we focus on and where trade-offs need to be made. Publishing more detail about our plans and tracking feedback or changes should also make it easier to hold us to account when we fail to deliver. So, if you can bear with us a little longer, once this is ready we can continue the discussion on this list, using these roadmaps as a starting point. Kind regards, Felipe Victolla Silveira Chief Operations Officer RIPE NCC [1] Using our recent RPKI roadmap as a model: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/rpki/rpki-plan…

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Registry Services Ticket Response Time
by Marco Schmidt 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

Dear colleagues, We would like to give you an update on the ticket wait times in Registry Services, after discussions at RIPE 82 [1] and on the mailing list [2]. We have been addressing the issues causing delays. As the number of incoming requests continue to exceed previous years, we have taken on additional staff to help with the workload. We are also automating some of our due diligence processes which are currently time consuming. You should start to see improvements in our response times towards the end of this year once our new colleagues are trained and our automation is ready. In the meantime, you may experience slower response times. In other words, we will be slower before we can get up to speed properly, but we think this will be worth it over the long term. We also know from experience that we receive far more requests towards the end of the year which results in a bottleneck. We will shift resources to counter this, but we would also appreciate it if you could get some of these requests in earlier. Kind regards, Marco Schmidt Registry Services Assistant Manager RIPE NCC [1] RIPE NCC Operational Update (slides 4-10): https://ripe82.ripe.net/archives/video/584/ [2] Discussion on Members Discuss mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2021-May/004353.html

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