March 2020 - ncc-announce - mailman.ripe.net

[training] RIPE NCC Webinars April - June 2020
by Training Services 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinars scheduled for April, May and June 2020. The RIPE NCC Webinars are live, free and take only one hour. You can interact with our trainers without leaving your desk. We focus on the topics and issues that are relevant to you. Our webinars are scheduled at 09:00-10:00 UTC --------------- April Webinars --------------- - Introduction to the RIPE Database Webinar (Tuesday, 21 April 2020) - RPKI Webinar (Thursday, 23 April 2020) - IPv6 in the RIPE Database Webinar (Wednesday, 29 April 2020) ------------- May Webinars ------------- - RIPE Database - Advanced Topics Webinar (Wednesday, 6 May 2020) - Internet Routing Registry Webinar (Thursday, 7 May 2020) - Webinar for New LIRs (Tuesday, 12 May 2020) - IPv6 Prefix Calculation Webinar (Thursday, 14 May 2020) - RPKI Webinar (Tuesday, 19 May 2020) - IPv6 in the RIPE Database Webinar (Tuesday, 26 May 2020) - IPv6 Addressing Plan Webinar (Wednesday, 27 May 2020) -------------- June Webinars -------------- - RIPE Atlas Usage Webinar (Wednesday, 3 June 2020) - RIPE Database - Advanced Topics Webinar (Wednesday, 10 June 2020) - Internet Routing Registry Webinar (Tuesday, 16 June 2020) - IPv6 Prefix Calculation Webinar (Thursday, 18 June 2020) - Introduction to the RIPE Database Webinar (Wednesday, 24 June 2020) - IPv6 Addressing Plan Webinar (Thursday, 25 June 2020) - Webinar for New LIRs (Tuesday, 30 June 2020) ----- You can register for the webinars at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars If you have any questions, please email <training(a)ripe.net>. We look forward to seeing you online. Kind regards, RIPE NCC Learning and Development

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: March 2020/Services During COVID-19 Pandemic
by Boris Duval 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hello RIPE NCC member, This month, we have a lot of important information to share with you as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak severely disrupted our 2020 schedule. Due to the pandemic, we were forced to postpone and cancel many of our events and training courses. Please read this update carefully so you are fully informed about the current situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. RIPE NCC Services, Events and COVID-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Training Courses -- Meetings Postponed -- RIPE 80 Will Be a Virtual Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. What We’re Doing for You ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- Hans Petter Holen Appointed as the RIPE NCC's Managing Director -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 13-15 May 2020 -- The RIPE NCC Academy -- TRA Oman Host Capacity-building Workshop in Oman ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Your Technical Update ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPEstat -- What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses? ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. What’s Happening in Our Community? ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hackathons in the Time of Corona -- Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion -- Focus on: the Anti-Abuse Working Group ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. RIPE NCC Services, Events and COVID-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The COVID-19 pandemic is a severe situation, and we will continue to carry out our services to ensure people stay connected at this worrying time. Our staff are now fully working from home with a very small number coming to the Amsterdam office for essential functions once a week. If you experience a delay in service from our end, we ask you to bear with us while we adapt to this new situation. As of now, all our services are operational, we will keep you informed if the situation changes via email and on our website at: https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements Also, if you need to send us documents related to an administrative request (e.g. transfer, merger, additional LIR account), please upload them digitally via the LIR Portal as we are excepting a one-week delay for all documents sent via post. -- Training Courses All face-to-face Training Courses and Workshops have been suspended until further notice. However, Webinars will continue as scheduled and we are planning to organise more remote Training Courses. See Training Courses schedule: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training See Webinars schedule: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars Head of Learning and Development, Rumy Spratley-Kanis, shared more information on how we plan to deliver remote learning in the coming weeks in her RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rumy_spratley_kanis/ripe-ncc-learning-develop… -- Meetings Postponed So far, the following meetings have been postponed due to COVID-19: • MENOG 20 • SEE 9 • RIPE NCC Day Tashkent • ENOG 17 We hope to announce new dates in the future. In the meantime, you can check the status of all our events at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/coronavirus-update -- RIPE 80 Will Be a Virtual Meeting The RIPE 80 Meeting that was scheduled to be held in Berlin from 11-15 May will be a virtual meeting with a reduced programme due to the situation with COVID-19. Anyone who has already paid for a ticket will be refunded and we will keep you informed about how and when the meeting will take place via email and the RIPE 80 website: https://ripe80.ripe.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. What We’re Doing for You ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,365 (+62) LIRs with IPv6: 16,475 (+61) Policy transfers in February: 630,528 IPv4 addresses (+137,728) -- Hans Petter Holen Appointed as the RIPE NCC's Managing Director On 11 March 2020, after a thorough interview process, Hans Petter Holen became our new Managing Director. We are thrilled to have him on board and are looking forward to working together to shape the future of the Internet. Welcome Hans Petter! https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/hans-petter-holen-appo… -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 13-15 May 2020 The General Meeting will be facilitated remotely and will take place as scheduled on 13 May and stay open until 15 May for the voting results announcement. You will soon receive more information on how to participate and vote remotely. Members will vote on next year’s Charging Scheme and elect three members of the RIPE NCC Executive Board among other updates. You can register at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/registration As of now, there is one confirmed candidate for the RIPE NCC Executive Board: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/confirmed-ca… There are three seats available, and you can nominate candidates at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/nominations-… -- The RIPE NCC Academy We're back up and running at the RIPE NCC Academy. Take a look at our improved platform at: https://academy.ripe.net -- TRA Oman Host Capacity-building Workshop in Oman From 2-4 March 2020, we joined forces with the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) in Oman to host a three-day training workshop as part of our collaboration on capacity development. Read about the workshop at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/the-ripe-ncc… ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Your Technical Update ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPEstat New Transfer History Widgets for RIPE NCC and AFRINIC Resources The new transfer tab now combines transfer information from AFRINIC, APNIC and the RIPE NCC: https://stat.ripe.net/216.236.176.0#tabId=transfers Changes for Geo-IP Information Due to licensing changes, we disabled all Maxmind-related data calls and widgets until further notice. We are reviewing the provisioning of Maxmind data and will follow up soon. As an alternative, we provide geo-ip information based on RIR Stats: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#rir-geo (data call), https://stat.ripe.net/widget/rir-geo-by-ip#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3… (widget) New RIPEstat UI Since the last update we’ve worked on new navigation, new and improved search controls, new widgets and an updated look and feel: https://beta-ui.stat.ripe.net -- What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses? Our colleague, Philip Homburg, looked into how IPv6 link-local addresses can impact RIPE Atlas measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/whats-the-deal-with-ipv6-link-… ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. What’s Happening in Our Community? ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hackathons in the Time of Corona Our hacker and colleague, Vesna Manojlovic, is inviting you to participate to an open-ended online hackathon analysing the health of the Internet during the COVID-19 crisis: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/hackathons-in-the-time-of-corona -- Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion Vesna also recently shared her highlights from the 2020 #36c3 event organised by the Chaos Communication Club: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/reporting-back-from-36c3-resource-exhau… -- Focus on: the Anti-Abuse Working Group The Anti-Abuse Working Group is developing solutions to better tackle abuse within our service region. Their mission is three-fold: creating best practices for ISPs (e.g. ripe-409), providing advice and guidance to all stakeholders, and disseminating information on technical and non-technical methods of preventing or reducing network abuse. Interested? Get involved at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/anti-abuse Thanks for reading and stay healthy! Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC General Meeting to be Facilitated Remotely
by Christian Kaufmann 19 Mar '20

19 Mar '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, Yesterday, we held an Executive Board meeting attended by the RIPE Chair and RIPE NCC Management to discuss the May General Meeting (GM) and RIPE 80 in light of the current situation with COVID-19. The RIPE Chair will communicate shortly regarding the RIPE 80 Meeting. For the GM, we decided that the meeting will take place as scheduled on 13 May and stay open until 15 May for the voting results announcement, and it will be facilitated remotely. Further details on this will be communicated to members in the coming weeks. We have tasked the RIPE NCC with ensuring that everything is in place to allow full remote participation in the GM, including voting electronically and participating in discussions. Those who have already registered and have chosen to attend in person or use paper ballots will have those converted to the fully remote option. We therefore encourage all members to register as normal for the GM. Elections will be held for three available Executive Board seats and members will vote on the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme for 2021, among other resolutions. There will also be updates from the Executive Board and the RIPE NCC. As most members have voted electronically for the past few years, we do not foresee any issues with this approach. There are legal requirements that we need to fulfil and we believe we can carry these out successfully. We also need to take this decision to ensure the health and safety of our members as well as the organising staff and the board members. All information about the GM, including registration details, is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020 We look forward to your remote participation and we wish all our members good health and safety during these difficult times. Kind regards, Christian Kaufmann RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman

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[news] New RIPE NCC Managing Director
by Christian Kaufmann 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board has appointed Hans Petter Holen as the new Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. He will start his new position no later than 1 June and will work with the existing Management Team to ensure a smooth transition. You are most likely aware of who Hans Petter is as he has been serving as the RIPE Chair since May 2014. Besides doing really well in the recruitment process, the Executive Board believes that his experience in both his professional career and his strong involvement with the RIPE community make him the best fit for this position. Hans Petter asked me to share some words on his behalf: “I am deeply honoured by this appointment as I have known the organisation for more than 25 years and have grown personally and professionally by being involved in the RIPE community working with the RIPE NCC. I am looking forward to exploring the RIPE NCC in a different light and using the knowledge I have gained over the years as RIPE Chair and in my professional career in the best interests of the RIPE NCC members and the technical community. I am grateful for the possibility to work with the Executive Board, RIPE NCC staff and the community to further improve the organisation. The RIPE NCC is the trusted RIR for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. We should work with the other RIRs to strengthen the global RIR system and ensure its accountability, transparency and resilience. I believe that we all must work together in order to adapt to the changing environment. Our trust is directly affected by the accuracy of the registry and our service delivery to our members. We need to ensure the highest standards are maintained here. Our trust is also dependent on our ability to engage and strengthen our relationships with stakeholders from the industry, governments, law enforcement and society at large. We have an incredibly diverse membership, and addressing the needs of that membership is a challenge that I am excited to take on. Regarding my position as RIPE Chair, I will naturally withdraw my nomination for the RIPE Chair selection. I believe there are good candidates already nominated, and the community still has time to review and nominate candidates for the consideration by the Nominations Committee until the end of the month. I trust the NomCom to make a good choice for my successor.” We would like to thank Hagoort & Partners, who carried out the executive search. And we wish Hans Petter lots of success in this role and we look forward to working together to bring strong leadership and direction to the RIPE NCC for the years ahead. Kind regards, Christian Kaufmann RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman

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[news] COVID-19 and RIPE NCC-organised Events
by Fergal Cunningham 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, Following global concern regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, we’ve been taking measures to protect our staff and guests at all of our events. This includes RIPE Meetings, regional events, training courses and member lunches. To ensure the health and safety of all attendees, we are: - Following the guidance of the World Health Organization (WHO) - Adhering to the travel restrictions and guidance of the host country. Please check the travel advice issued by the host country before travelling. - Encouraging attendees to follow WHO recommendations to help prevent the spread of the virus So far, MENOG 20 has been postponed, which was planned to take place from 15-19 March in Manama, Bahrain. This was necessary to ensure the health and safety of everyone. We hope to announce new dates for MENOG 20 in the future. In the meantime, we are closely monitoring the situation and will keep you informed about new developments. You can check the status of all our events at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/coronavirus-update If you have concerns about attending one of our events, please contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Marketing and Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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