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Serious concerns about the RIPE NCC Cloud Technology Status
by Timo Hilbrink 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Hi all, As we have seen in the past several Information Services updates from Felipe, the RIPE NCC has been moving a lot of services to the cloud, this now also includes things like RIPE NCC email, calendars, chat and video conferencing. The follwoing page gives a helpful overview of these services and the relevant cloud platforms: https://www.ripe.net/publications/documentation/cloud-technology-status/ The page states that "all services pass an internal process of strict legal, information security, technology and privacy reviews". That all sounds very reassuring, doesn't it? However.. Even though the "Data Residency" column states "EU" for all these services, these cloud providers are a U.S. legal entity (or a foreign entity with an office in the U.S.), so the data stored on these platforms completely falls under U.S. legislation, such as the CLOUD act and numerous related acts and laws. It is completely irrelevant where this data is stored geographically. This also means that the data stored on these platforms can be subject to U.S. law enforcement warrants and subpoenas. As a concerned and privacy aware citizen, i find it very worrying that basically all my interactions with the RIPE NCC in some way end up in the hands of U.S. based cloud providers. But i can imagine that these concerns are much more serious for RIPE members in countries that have a less favourable relation with the U.S. (there are quite a number of those countries within the RIPE service region) What do other members think about this, and has the RIPE NCC taken these consequences into account when they decided to move all this data and services to U.S. based hyperscalers? Thanks for your thoughts, Timo Hilbrink Freedom Internet

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Charging Scheme Task Force 2024 Meeting Minutes (29 October 2024)
by Karla Liddle-White 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Dear RIPE NCC members, The Charging Scheme Task Force held a hybrid meeting on 29 October at RIPE 89. The minutes from the fourth meeting are now available at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/member-and-community-consultations/cha… The task force welcomes comments on these minutes, either on the list or you can email them directly at: charging-scheme-task-force2024(a)ripe.net The next meeting is scheduled for later this week and the task force's report, presented during the October General Meeting, is also available to watch online. The report begins 53 minutes into the main session video: https://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/meetings/october-2024/video-archive/ Best regards, Karla Liddle-White Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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Re: Review your RIPE NCC Contact Information before 2025
by Brandon Butterworth 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

On 13/11/2024 19:55:48, "RIPE NCC via RT" <hostmaster(a)bogons.net> wrote: >Please check the accuracy of the following information in the LIR Portal (https://my.ripe.net/#/billing): >You can use this form to estimate your costs for 2025: >https://www.ripe.net/membership/payment/charging-scheme-2025-estimator/ Someone obviously put some effort into making that but why? You included a dump of info to check, why not also send the output of the billing software instead of everyone having to find their data and enter it manually into another tool? Simpler, quicker. brandon

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Charging Scheme Task Force 2024 Third Meeting Minutes (22 October)
by Karla Liddle-White 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Dear RIPE NCC members, The Charging Scheme Task Force held a hybrid meeting at RIPE 89 today and approved the minutes of the last meeting. The minutes from the third meeting are now available at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/member-and-community-consultations/cha… <https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/member-and-community-consultations/cha…> The task force welcomes comments on the minutes, either on this list or you can email the task force directly at: charging-scheme-task-force2024(a)ripe.net The task force will present a report tomorrow at the RIPE NCC General Meeting under agenda point 5. You can still register to attend and vote at the General Meeting until 14:00 (UTC+1) on Wednesday, 30 October. Register at: my.ripe.net Best regards, Karla Liddle-White Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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Language Support and Community-Sourced Translations
by Fergal Cunningham 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Dear all, I want to let you know that we have moved our translated content to a new language centre on www.ripe.net. You can access it from the languages icon on the top right of our website, or go directly to: https://www.ripe.net/languages/ We currently provide material in six languages (Arabic, Farsi, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). And we are now opening up translations to the membership and community. You can help us translate content into your language by filling out the volunteer form at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/ripe-community-translators/ I explain all this and what we hope to achieve with these initiatives in a RIPE Labs article at: https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/language-support-and-community-sourced… All the best, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC

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RIPE Labs Article on the Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2025
by Hans Petter Holen 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Dear all, Earlier this week, I published a RIPE Labs article on the RIPE NCC’s Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2025: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hans_petter_holen/building-resilience-the-ripe… In the article, I talk through the overall picture of the draft Activity Plan for 2025 and our commitment to long term resilience. If you have any feedback on the draft document or my article, please let me know on this mailing list or in person at RIPE 89. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director and CEO RIPE NCC

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2nd RIPE Labs article on the Draft Activity plan and Budget 2025 published
by Simon-Jan Haytink 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Dear all, Yesterday, I published a RIPE Labs article on the RIPE NCC’s draft budget for 2025: https://labs.ripe.net/author/Simon-Jan/financial-stability-and-beyond-a-loo… In a follow up to Hans Petter's article on the RIPE NCC’s Draft Activity Plan, I take a look at the RIPE NCC's budget 2025, our financial stability and beyond. If you have any comments or questions, let me know! Kind regards, Simon Jan Haytink Chief Financial Office RIPE NCC

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Re: [ncc-announce] [news] 177th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes
by Kaj Niemi 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Hi, Thanks for the meeting minutes, they’re always interesting to read. I’ve been wondering about the redistribution for years, but I guess never really voiced my thoughts about them. Referring to items and discussion under section 3 and section 6, why do we nowadays (and seemingly want to continue to) redistribute part of the precious year’s membership fee back to members? As a transaction it’s like lending money at zero interest and then possibly (optionality) having the excess, which wasn’t used for operations, netted against the membership fee the following year. Should there be an excess and should the GM vote in favor of it, I mean. I realize an extra-extra buffer improves working capital but to me it would seem like RIPE has ample amounts of cash at hand as well as in reserves so that seems like an unlikely reason. Kaj Sent from my iPad ________________________________ From: Hans Petter Holen <hph+announce(a)ripe.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 2:52:22 PM To: ncc-announce(a)ripe.net <ncc-announce(a)ripe.net> Subject: [ncc-announce] [news] 177th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 177th meeting from 18 - 20 September 2024. The minutes are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2024/177th-executive-… The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent to the membership it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes. ------------------------------- Main Items ------------------------------- - I presented the Draft Activity Plan and Budget for 2025, outlining costs, key strategic areas and a request for additional budget in Information Security and Technology as an investment in the organisation's future stability. - Each main section of the Draft Activity Plan and Budget (Registry, Information Services, Community and Engagement, and Organisational Sustainability) was presented by the relevant owner who shared the current status, risks and plans for 2025. Chief Information Security Officer Eleonora Petridou also presented the Information Security, Risk & Compliance section. - Chief Community Officer, Hisham Ibrahim, provided a Q3 2024 update on Community and Engagement, including a successful summer school campaign, community engagement efforts, translated YouTube training materials, along with a joint RIPE-RIPE NCC presentation to encourage participation. - Chief Technology Officer, Felipe Victolla Silveira, provided a status update where he covered the modernisation of RIPE Atlas infrastructure and the reduction of data centre costs and issues that have been experienced related to that. - Chief Financial Officer, Simon-Jan Haytink, provided a financial status update and presented budget proposals for 2025. - Chief Legal Officer, Athina Fragkouli, gave a presentation on the work to update “Criteria for Establishment of New Regional Internet Registries” (ICP-2). She outlined the plan and said that the ASO AC (NRO NC) is carrying out work to review the ICP-2 document. - Athina also presented the amendments made to the closure procedure and the legacy services legal framework, as well as amendments to the transfer procedure and revised transfer requirements for Ukraine. - RIPE Chair Mirjam Kühne provided an update on RIPE community developments, including planning for RIPE 89. She gave an update on RIPE Working Groups, strengthening relationships with LEAs and Europol, and RIPE outreach activities. - Jan Žorž was appointed by the Executive Board Chair to lead the RIPE Nominations Committee as it worked to appoint the next RIPE Chair. The Board fully supported this appointment and expressed its good wishes to Jan. Other topics: - GM Agenda - Staff Pulse Check survey - Executive Board Travel Policy Update - Charging Scheme Task Force - Aligning RIPE NCC's Strategic Objectives with Funding - Harnessing Community Power - AFRINIC - Meeting with the Works Council - Board Remuneration ------------------------------- Resolutions Adopted ------------------------------- Resolution EB#177-R-01 The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the minutes of EB#176. Resolution EB#177-R-02 The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2025 as amended. Resolution EB#177-R-03 The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the draft agenda for the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2024 as amended. Resolution EB#177-R-04 The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the amendments to the RIPE NCC procedural document “Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Internet Resources” as well as to the RIPE NCC legal documents “RIPE NCC Services for Legacy Internet Resources of RIPE NCC Members Terms and Conditions” and “RIPE NCC Services for Legacy Internet Resources Agreement (Legacy Agreement)”. Resolution EB#177-R-05 The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the amendments to the RIPE NCC procedural document “Transfer of Internet Number Resources and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name”. Resolution EB#177-R-06 The RIPE NCC Executive Board resolves to lift the restriction imposed by the resolution EB#163-R-02, according to which all transfer requests from Ukraine would be only permitted if accompanied by notarised supporting documents. As a result, notarisation of documents will only be required in accordance with the RIPE NCC procedural document “Due Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data”. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer RIPE NCC

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Open House on Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2025: Recording Available
by Fergal Cunningham 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

Dear all, Yesterday, we had an Open House on the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2025. The recording is now available at: https://www.ripe.net/draft-activity-plan-open-house-2025/ The session saw statements from our Executive Board Chair and Treasurer, and presentations from our Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. These were followed by a Q&A with members. Please view the recording and if you have comments or opinions you'd like to share, please discuss on this list so we can consider your input when drafting the final version of the Activity Plan and Budget for next year. And we ask that you register for the General Meeting taking place on 30 October, where there will be further presentations on our plans for next year among other items. The draft agenda and all supporting information is available from our GM pages: https://www.ripe.net/gm/oct2024/ Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC

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Dangerous scam email claim from RIPE NCC
by Lu Heng 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hi I have attached the email, I didn’t click on it. I think RIPE NCC should immediately make a member based wide announcement and clarification on registry assisted check should look like. Think what happen to LIR account last year, this is very scary. -- Kind regards. Lu

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