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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: July 2021
by Kjerstin Burdiek 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hello RIPE NCC members, Here’s everything you need to know about our services and what’s happening in the RIPE community this month: 1. What We're Doing for You -- LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC 145th Executive Board Meeting Minutes -- New CCO Appointed -- Mediterranean Europe Country Report -- Apply Now for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2. Your Technical Update -- End of Support for the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator -- RPKI Roadmap -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- The RIPE Chair Team Reports – June 2021 -- New RIPE Database Requirements Task Force Draft Report -- New Draft RIPE Code of Conduct -- Three New RIPE Governance Documents -- RIPE Community Resilience: Economy of Care -- NRO Statement on AFRINIC -- EuroDIG 2021 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- Training Courses in August -- Interim RIPE NCC Services WG Session on Cloud Strategy -- SEE 9 Meeting 1. What We're Doing For You -- LIR Stats Number of LIRs: 23,602 (+80) LIRs with IPv6: 16,122 (+80) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in June: 1,645,568 (+993,664) -- 145th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting Minutes Minutes from the 145th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting are now available. The meeting took place from 21-22 June, and the next meeting will be from 23-24 September. Read the minutes here: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2021/minutes-145th-ex… -- New CCO Appointed Congratulations to Hisham Ibrahim, who has been appointed RIPE NCC’s new Chief Community Officer: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/hisham-ibrahim-appoint… -- Mediterranean Europe Country Report We take a comprehensive look at the Internet landscape in five countries in Mediterranean Europe, including their history of development and capacity for future growth. The report offers a detailed picture of both national and international connections in this region: https://labs.ripe.net/author/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-countr… -- Apply Now for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund For the fifth year in a row, the RIPE NCC is committed to supporting activities and projects for 'the good of the Internet'. We are pleased to invite applications for funding from the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. The call for applicants will remain open until 23:59 (UTC), Saturday, 31 July 2021. You can find more details on the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund page: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf 2. Your Technical Update -- End of Support for the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator On Thursday, 1 July 2021, we ended support for the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator. This had no impact on any of our core activities around the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI): https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2021-June/001501.html -- RPKI Roadmap In order to be transparent about the work we do with RPKI, we have released a roadmap for upcoming RPKI developments. Our goal is to start an open dialogue with the community on this topic. Read the roadmap and share your comments with us here: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/rpki/rpki-plan… -- Service Announcements At 11:30 (UTC+2) on 14 July, there were various RIPE NCC service outages that affected services such as the rsync RPKI Repository and RIPE Database, the main RIPE NCC website and other RIPE NCC websites such as RIPE Labs. Services were restored by 12:00 (UTC+2): https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2021-July/001506.html 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- The RIPE Chair Team Reports - June 2021 The RIPE Chair, Mirjam Kühne, reports on current events and ongoing discussions in the RIPE community about RIPE governance, the relationship between RIPE and the RIPE NCC, draft proposals from RIPE Task Forces and more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-june-… -- New RIPE Database Requirements Task Force Draft Report The RIPE Database Requirements Task Force has released a new draft report. The deadline for comments is 13 August: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/rdb-requirements-tf/the-ripe-datab… -- New Draft RIPE Code of Conduct The RIPE Code of Conduct Task Force has released a new draft of the RIPE Code of Conduct. The deadline for comments is 17 September: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-… -- Three New RIPE Governance Documents Three new RIPE documents on governance have been published. These documents are informational guidelines on the roles of the RIPE Working Group Chairs and the RIPE Programme Committee: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2021-July/002276.html -- RIPE Community Resilience: Economy of Care Continuing the discussion on RIPE community wellbeing and resilience, Vesna Manojlovic has published a new instalment in her series applying the OSI Model to the RIPE community. In it, she connects the financial Layer 8 to the need for community actualisation: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-economy-of-car… -- NRO Statement on AFRINIC The NRO released a statement regarding the recent allegations against AFRINIC. Read it here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/statement-of-the-numbe… -- EuroDIG 2021 EuroDIG, the pan-European Internet governance event, took place from 28-30 June. Gergana Petrova wrote a live blog of the conference on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/gergana_petrova/eurodig-2021-live-blog/ 4. Join Us for these Virtual Events -- Training Courses in August Our webinars for the month of August are open for registration: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses Here's the schedule: Introduction to IPv6 Wednesday, 4 August 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) IPv6 Security Myths, Filtering and Tips Wednesday, 11 August 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) IPv6 Host Configuration Wednesday, 18 August 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) IPv6 Prefix Calculation Tuesday, 24 August 2021 (08:00-09:00 UTC) Using RIPE Atlas Wednesday, 25 August 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) Interested in something that you can't find on our upcoming course page? Let us know which topics you would like to see covered in future webinars: https://forms.gle/rhyExMhb7BTCCXyU8 -- Interim RIPE NCC Services WG Session on Cloud Strategy The RIPE NCC Services WG will be holding an interim session on our cloud strategy on 28 July at 16:00 (UTC+2). If you would like to participate, you can find the details for this session here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-July/003446.ht… -- SEE 9 Meeting The RIPE NCC together with the SEE Programme Committee have decided that the SEE 9 Meeting will take place as a virtual meeting with a reduced programme on 28 September 2021. The situation around COVID-19 is still too uncertain and the risks appear too great to justify a physical meeting. Updates on the meeting format, registration and programme will be posted closer to the date on this mailing list and on the SEE 9 website: https://www.ripe.net/see-9 Thank you for reading to the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Kjerstin Kjerstin Burdiek Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[meetings] SEE 9 Will Be a Virtual Meeting, 28 September 2021
by SEEurope 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC together with the SEE Programme Committee have decided that the SEE 9 Meeting will take place as a virtual meeting with a reduced programme on 28 September 2021. While we were looking forward to seeing you all in Ljubljana, we feel this is necessary to protect the health of all attendees and RIPE NCC staff. The situation around COVID-19 is still too uncertain and the risks appear too great to justify a physical meeting. We hope things will get better soon and that we will be able to meet in person for a physical SEE 10 Meeting in 2022. Updates on the meeting format, registration and programme will be posted closer to the date on this mailing list and on the SEE 9 website: https://www.ripe.net/see-9. For any further information and/or clarification, feel free to email <seeurope(a)ripe.net>. Looking forward to seeing you online! Best regards, SEE Meeting Organisation Team RIPE NCC

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[news] Interim RIPE NCC Services WG Session on Cloud Strategy
by Felipe Victolla Silveira 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Services WG will be holding an interim session on our cloud strategy on 28 July at 16:00 (UTC+2). If you would like to participate, you can find the details for this session here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-July/003446.ht… <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-July/003446.ht…> At this session we will give an update on our current thinking and hear more from the RIPE community* to see if we can find a path towards rough consensus. We will publish an initial draft strategy shortly after the WG session and continue the discussion from there. Our strategy will also include some principles for how we will engage with the community around our core services and we will discuss this in the session as well. Kind regards, Felipe Silveira Chief Operations Officer RIPE NCC *The beginning of this discussion in the RIPE NCC Services WG can be found at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-June/003408.ht… <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-June/003408.ht…>

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[Service] RIPE NCC Services Outage
by Razvan Oprea 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Dear RIPE NCC members, At 11:30 (UTC+2) this morning, there were various RIPE NCC service outages. Some public facing services were affected. This included the rsync RPKI Repository and RIPE Database, our website www.ripe.net and other RIPE NCC websites such as the RIPE Meeting site, RIPE Labs and RIPEstat. There were also intermittent failures sending notification emails for Whois updates. Services were restored by 12:00 (UTC+2). Based on the information gathered so far, the outages were caused by a recent upgrade to our configuration management system, which in turn caused a race condition that affected the configuration of a number of servers. Kind regards, Razvan Oprea Senior System Engineer RIPE NCC

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[news] 145th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meetings - Summary Notes
by Hans Petter Holen 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 145th Meeting on 21-22 June. The minutes from the meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2021/minutes-145th-ex… The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent for the membership that it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes. ----------------------- Resolutions Adopted ----------------------- - The minutes of the 142nd, 143rd and 144th Board meetings were approved. - The Board approved the proposed amendments to the “RIPE NCC Certification Terms and Conditions”. - Falk von Bornstaedt was appointed to the Board of the Rob Blokzijl Foundation, provided that the Rob Blokzijl Foundation amends the Articles of Association so that the board member appointed by the RIPE NCC Executive Board does not have to be a member of the RIPE NCC Executive Board. ----------------------- Key Discussions ----------------------- - RIPE NCC staff carried out an analysis and reported on factors likely to impact the RIPE NCC in the coming years. - A potential way forward for engaging with members on the development of the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme was presented. - The structure of the RIPE NCC was discussed, with a focus on a workforce that reflects the diversity of the members. - The RIPE NCC management reported on various internal projects and updates including the cloud strategy, TF-CSIRT, and learning and development. - The draft Registry Strategy for 2022 was presented and the Board gave its input. - The RIPE Chair spoke about developments in RIPE, chiefly an update on the Code of Conduct, the scope and future of regional meetings, and the RIPE NCC’s cloud strategy. The Chair also highlighted work on a new document about roles and participation of RIPE NCC staff in the RIPE community. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director RIPE NCC

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