September 2025 - members-discuss

Reminder: Open House on Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2026 This Week
by Fergal Cunningham 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

Dear all, At 11:30 UTC on Thursday, 2 October this week, there will be a RIPE NCC Open House to discuss the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2026. There will be presentations from our Managing Director, Hans Petter Holen, and our Chief Financial Officer, Simon-Jan Haytink, who will give an overview of our plans for next year and the associated budget. Our Executive Board will also be there to hear your feedback and answer your questions. We hope you will take the time to participate at this online event. You can register to attend now at: https://www.ripe.net/s/open-house/Draft-Activity-Plan-and-Budget-2026/ The Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2026 is available at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/news/draft-activity-plan-and-budget-2026-publ… For those unable to attend, we will record the session and publish it on our website. I will be moderating the session, so if there are questions you would like to put to the presenters or the Board, please feel free to let me know and I will make sure to raise the topic for you. Below this mail, I also include links to next week’s Open House on the Draft RIPE NCC Strategy 2027-2031 and a link to our member consultation survey on the strategy that we hope you will fill out. We look forward to seeing you online to discuss our plans for next year and beyond. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC Open Member and Community Consultations: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/member-and-community-consultations/ Draft RIPE NCC Strategy 2027-2031 Open House: https://www.ripe.net/s/open-house/strategy-2027-2031/ Draft RIPE NCC Strategy 2027-2031 - Document and Consultation Survey: https://www.ripe.net/s/draft-strategy-consultation/

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Moderation of the Members Discuss Mailing List
by Fergal Cunningham 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Dear all, In June this year, the RIPE NCC Executive Board passed a resolution to temporarily place the members-discuss mailing list under moderation following the posting of inappropriate mails to the list. At its recent meeting on 4-5 September, the Board passed a further resolution to keep moderation on the list permanently. The Board took this decision because moderation has been activated for the list periodically when discussions become heated. The Board intends that this will bring a stable situation and ensure discussions are always carried out in a respectful and productive manner. The relevant section of the minutes from the recent Board meeting are available at: https://www.ripe.net/s/188th-executive-board-meeting-minutes/116/ The Board also decided to amend the process by which moderation takes place in order to streamline the process and ensure mails are processed as quickly as possible. Rather than having a RIPE NCC staff member and an Executive Board member jointly moderate the list, now the list will be jointly moderated by a member of the RIPE NCC’s Legal and Communications Departments. With this new process, emails will continue to be moderated in accordance with the RIPE Code of Conduct and the purpose of the mailing list. Members who feel their mails have not been moderated correctly can appeal by sending a mail to the Board at: exec-board(a)ripe.net. If the Board agrees that a mail has not been moderated correctly, they will instruct the RIPE NCC to process the mail through to the list. Additionally, all mails sent to members-discuss, whether moderated or not, are visible on the Unmoderated Members Discussion List for three months should you wish to check how mails are processed: https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/members-discuss-unmoderated@ripe.net/ The Board and RIPE NCC staff thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to seeing good discussions in the coming weeks and months on the Draft RIPE NCC Strategy, the Draft Activity Plan and Budget and proposals around the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Quarterly Planning Q4 2025
by Boris Duval 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We have now published the upcoming quarterly plans for our development teams: https://www.ripe.net/quarterly-planning We publish these plans each quarter to showcase the work items we will be carrying out over the next months. We welcome your feedback and encourage you to suggest items that the RIPE NCC should be working on going forward. The plans cover the following areas: - RIPE Database - Business Applications, including the LIR Portal, Registry Services and other applications. - DNS and K-root - RIPE Atlas - RIPEstat - Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) - Routing Information Service (RIS) - Information Security, Risk, and Compliance - Training and Certification If you have any questions or input on these plans, please share your suggestions on this list or the RIPE NCC Forum: https://forum.ripe.net/ Kind regards, Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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Spam Mistakenly Put Through to List
by Fergal Cunningham 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Dear all, We mistakenly moderated some spam messages through to the list along with valid emails this afternoon. Apologies for this. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC

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