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RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Task Force Members
by Ondřej Filip 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board would like to thank everyone who volunteered for the Charging Scheme Task Force 2024. We were pleased to receive many applications from members with expertise in finance and the Internet market across a broad geographical location. After careful consideration, we have selected the following individuals from the membership to form the Task Force: - Alptekin Sunnetci - Carlos Miguel Queiros Friacas - Ivaylo Josifov - Alex de Joode - Cynthia Revström - Alexandru Doszlop - Pavel Odintsov - Ulf Kieber - Clara Wade - Peter Hessler - Victor Bolaños Guerra - Sébastien Brossier We believe this group reflects the diverse range of experience, background, organisation type, nationalities and knowledge that exists within our membership. They will bring valuable perspectives and expertise to the Task Force, contributing to the development of fair and effective charging scheme principles. The Task Force will hold its first meeting in August/September 2024, and we look forward to their progress and recommendations. Updates will be shared with the membership as the Task Force carries out its work. Thank you again to all those who volunteered for your willingness to contribute your time and efforts to this important task. Best regards, Ondřej Filip RIPE NCC Executive Board Chair

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Analysis of Voting Registrations at the GM
by Fergal Cunningham 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

Dear all, We just published a RIPE Labs article that takes a closer look at the voter registration data from the recent May General Meeting: https://labs.ripe.net/author/ilke-ilhan/voting-analysis-gm-may-2024-a-first… If you have thoughts on the article, or suggestions on other aspects you'd like to see covered in future analyses, we'd love to hear them. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Quarterly Planning Q3 2024
by Adonis Stergiopoulos 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, We have now published the Q3 2024 quarterly plans for our development teams: https://www.ripe.net/support/documentation/quarterly-planning These plans include the work items that will be carried out over the next quarter and give you the chance to provide your feedback and suggestions 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 Please share your suggestions on this list or the RIPE NCC Forum: https://forum.ripe.net/ Kind regards, Adonis Stergiopoulos Senior Marketing & Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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RIPE ticketing tracker?
by Hank Nussbacher 11 Jun '24

11 Jun '24

Is there some RIPE NCC page where one can see the total number of open tickets as well as how long they have been in the queue? Is there some SLA in regards to initial response to a newly opened ticket? Thanks, Hank

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Questions to RIPE NCC in light of last GM
by Hans Petter Holen 30 May '24

30 May '24

Dear all, I would like to thank the members for their input over the previous weeks, and especially during the General Meeting last week. We have received a lot of input from the members and community that we have taken on board, and now begins the work of addressing that feedback. We see the requests for more details on a wide range of topics including on IT infrastructure costs and set-up. Our CTO has written a RIPE Labs article that gives more detail and he also presented at the RIPE Meeting on this topic. Links to both are below: https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/reducing-the-ripe-ncc… https://ripe88.ripe.net/archives/video/1336/ More information on depreciation and bad debts (and much more besides) is available in the Financial Report 2023 (see pages 17, 18, 32 and 33): https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-821/ We also answered many questions that arose during the recent discussions in the Q&A we provided as part of the charging scheme discussion: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/member-and-community-consultations/cha… We will work to make this Q&A more comprehensive, adding topics outside the charging scheme discussion and adapting it as we see interest in other areas. We are always looking for ways to improve our reporting and we can see how we can publish more information on an ongoing basis through our regular reporting. We are a very transparent organisation, and some of the questions asked on this list are already answered in our documentation or presentations. We will look at ways to make the considerable amount of information we provide easier to find. The goal here should not be transparency for transparency’s sake - we aim to strike the right balance so we can increase trust and understanding of our governance and operations. Providing details on every line item or euro spent costs us a lot of time and effort, and this translates into costs for the members. The people who would work on providing those details also run the organisation or are essential to maintaining services. So we need to prioritise accordingly and work to ensure our regular reporting contains the information you need while carrying out our work to maintain our services. This is perhaps where you can help us. Are there organisations of similar size or type to us who are providing more details than we are? And are they providing it in a more coherent way that makes it easy for you to understand? Let us know. We are always happy to get suggestions or inspiration on how we might do our reporting in a better way. The Executive Board also committed at the General Meeting to discussing ways of involving members in charging scheme proposals, and this will be added to the agenda for the upcoming Board meeting in June. I am now starting the Activity Plan and Budget cycle with my management team, and we will make it a point to include more details there that address the points raised by members. This document will be published at the beginning of October to give members four weeks to comment before the General Meeting on 28 October. We see this process as a good opportunity to provide more details that will help give you an insight into the workings at the RIPE NCC. Best regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director RIPE NCC

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Questions to RIPE NCC in light of last GM
by ROSKOMNADZOR LIMITED 28 May '24

28 May '24

Hello. After viewing video from last GM Im have some questions, hope you can help me with it. 1) Was been noticed about RIPE currently hold 46 racks, are possible to know information about that racks? What are servers used? How much power its consume and etc... 2) Are RIPE NCC currently use some sort of "cloud services" - for example Amazon S3 (or similar) and related. If YES - where is possible to found report about how much its used and how much its cost? 3) Are RIPE NCC was been used or evaluate of possibility to start using IBM Z mainframe for mission critical services - like a RIPE Database and etc... what are must have max uptime and max security? If RIPE NCC (not matter CTO all whole RIPE NCC) are evaluate it early - then can are you share your conclusion about it, if not evaluate it early - may I ask about RIPE NCC to make internal evaluation of this and after show conclustion? 4) @hpholen said about RIPE NCC have some "private" NDA contract, but I didnt see any documentation about some sort of "tenders". Are maybe for more transparency RIPE NCC need to do some sort of Request For Tender (RFT) - need some clarification about that. 5) @hpholen said about details related with datacenter contacts under "NDA" - okay, but can RIPE NCC at least reveal information what are datacenters used for A+B locations? Its not related with financial information. 6) RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024 have part "IT Support", are its possible to receive max possible detalizations about that spendings? 3.750.000 EUR for sure not smallest part of spendings. 7) RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024 have part "Bad Debts and Deprecation", are its possible to receive max possible detalizations about that spendings? As I understand its not a secret/NDA information. Right? Thank you.

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Three appeals by DFK on RIPE community mailing list...
by Jan Zorz - Go6 28 May '24

28 May '24

Hey, I just spotted the Daniel's submission to the RIPE community discuss last week, and in the light of the recent discussions - I thought it would be appropriate to forward it here. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2024-May/003204.html Cheers, Jan

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Re: [members-discuss] Questions to RIPE NCC in light of last GM
by Jan-Henning Plassmann 26 May '24

26 May '24

+1 Gesendet von Outlook für Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces(a)ripe.net> on behalf of Randy Bush <randy(a)psg.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2024 7:46:27 PM To: ROSKOMNADZOR LIMITED <admin(a)roskomnadzor.io> Cc: members-discuss(a)ripe.net <members-discuss(a)ripe.net> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Questions to RIPE NCC in light of last GM > No, Im already seen this article. Its same what are was been showed on > GM. Its doesnt have detalization. i, for one, do not want detail. if i wanted to micro-manage the ncc, i would fill out a job application. they have done an amazing job for decades, and i trust them to keep doing so. the extent of the ncc's transparency is often more than i have time read. randy _______________________________________________ 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/jan.plassmann%40jhp-…

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Sustainability and diversity
by Vaclav Nesvadba 21 May '24

21 May '24

Dear community, I understand that - RIPE needs more money to keep the quality of services - thousands of LIRs create much more work for RIPE team But killing most of the smaller LIRs by very non-linear pricing will LOWER the business competition and finally create very HIGH prices for all Internet end-users and LOW income for RIPE. RIPE team, please try to think about it. I hope, you can find the best way for the sustainability and diversity of the environment ;) -- S přáním hezkého dne / Best regards Václav Nesvadba CTO nesvadba(a)faster.cz | +420 533 433 343 | Jarní 44g, 614 00 Brno | FASTER.CZ

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Recording Available: Meet the Executive Board Candidates
by Fergal Cunningham 17 May '24

17 May '24

Dear all, On Wednesday this week we held the Open House: Meet the RIPE NCC Executive Board Candidates. The recording is now available: https://www.ripe.net/membership/meetings/open-house/meet-the-may-2024-execu… If you want to ask candidates more questions or have them elaborate on their responses at the Open House, please ask them on the EB Candidates mailing list where they are waiting to hear from you. https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/eb-candidates All the best, Fergal

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