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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: October 2020
by Boris Duval 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello RIPE NCC member, RIPE 81 is kicking off tomorrow and we’re just in time for another Member Update! Here’s what you need to know this month about the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community: 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC Survey 2019 - Key Findings and Proposed Actions -- Register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 -- A First for the RIPE NCC: Seizure of the “Right to Registration of IPv4 Addresses” for the Recovery of Money 2. Your Technical Update -- Lifecycle of the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator -- Route Collection at the RIPE NCC - Where are we and where should we go? -- Our Plan to Fix Country Codes -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- Interviews with the RIPE Chairs -- RIPE Chair Team One Month In -- RIPE 81 BoFs and Parallel Events -- Looking Forward to RIPE 81 -- RIPE 81 New Conference Platform: Meetecho -- RIPE Programme Committee Elections -- RIPE WG Chair Collective - Definition and Tasks 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE 81 -- RIPE NCC General Meeting -- ENOG 17 -- RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon -- RIPE NCC Open House: 10 Years of RIPE Atlas 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats Number of LIRS: 24,865 (-307) LIRs with IPv6: 16,451 (-161) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in September: 596,736 (-48,384) -- RIPE NCC Survey 2019 - Key Findings and Proposed Actions We developed 36 findings based on our 2019 survey and we are tracking our actions to address them: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/surveys/ripe-ncc-survey-201… -- A First for the RIPE NCC: Seizure of the “Right to Registration of IPv4 Addresses” for the Recovery of Money We recently processed our first IPv4 transfer on the basis of a Dutch court order. In this article, we provide an overview of this case and briefly explain how things will work moving forwards: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ciaran_byrne/seizure-of-the-right-to-registra… 2. Your Technical Update -- Lifecycle of the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator Nathalie Trenaman looks at the past, the present and (most importantly) the future of the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/life-cycle-of-the-ripe-ncc-… -- Route Collection at the RIPE NCC - Where are we and where should we go? Emile Aben takes stock on our Routing Information Service (RIS) and shares some thoughts on our strategy: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/route-collection-at-the-ripe-ncc-wh… -- Our Plan to Fix Country Codes We are busy with the implementation of NWI-10, which deals with clarifying the meaning of the “country:” attribute in the RIPE Database and the Extended Delegated Statistics: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stefania_fokaeos/our-plan-to-fix-country-codes -- Service Announcements --- Recent Ticket System Outage (8 October 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ticketing-system-unavail… LIR Portal Outage (9 October 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/lir-portal-temporarily-u… RIPE Database Website Unavailable (1 October 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ripe-database-website-un… Delay in RIPEstat Routing Data (29 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/delay-in-ripestat-routin… 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- Interviews with the RIPE Chairs We recently asked Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly, the new RIPE Chair and RIPE Vice Chair, about their backgrounds and their vision for the RIPE community. Mirjam’s interview: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/meet-the-new-ripe-chair-an-inte… Niall’s interview: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/catching-up-with-the-ripe-vice-… -- RIPE Chair Team One Month In Mirjam and Niall also gave an update on their first month in their new roles: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam_kuhne/ripe-chair-one-month-in -- Looking Forward to RIPE 81 In this article, Mirjam gives an overview of what’s happening and what’s new at RIPE 81: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam_kuhne/looking-forward-to-ripe-81 -- RIPE 81 New Conference Platform: Meetecho We are using a new conference platform for the RIPE meeting: Meetecho. Learn more about Meetecho and the reasons behind our choice at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/martina_de_mas/ripe-81-new-conference-platfor… -- RIPE 81 BoFs and Parallel Events There are three BoFs organised prior to RIPE 81 on Monday, 26 October 2020. Learn more about the BoFs at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/#mon11 In addition to the BoFs, there are also parallel events organised before and during RIPE 81: https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/ -- RIPE Programme Committee Elections There are currently two seats up for election to the RIPE Programme Committee. If you’re interested, send your nominations, with a biography, statement of interest and photograph, to <pc(a)ripe.net> before Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 15:30 (UTC+1). More information is available at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/ripe-pc/become-a-member/ -- RIPE WG Chair Collective - Definition and Tasks The RIPE Chair asked for feedback on a draft document that describes their tasks and responsibilities of the RIPE Working Group Chair Collective. There will be an opportunity to discuss the document during the RIPE 81 Community Plenary. You can view the document at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2020-October/001966.html 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE 81, 27-30 October 2020 If you haven’t done it yet, you can still register for the RIPE Meeting at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/ The meeting plan is available at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 28-30 October 2020 The next General Meeting (GM) will take place this week from 28-30 October 2020 online. You can register to vote online until 16:00 (UTC+1) on the day of the GM (28 October 2020): https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020 The GM agenda can be viewed here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda Supporting documents are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/supporti… -- ENOG 17, 9-13 November 2020 You can register for ENOG 17 at: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/ ENOG 17 will take place virtually from 9-13 November. Registration is free of charge and open to everyone. -- RIPE NCC Open House: 10 Years of RIPE Atlas, 18 November 2020 In this Open House session, we're celebrating 10 years of RIPE Atlas! The team behind RIPE Atlas and members from the community come together to discuss RIPE Atlas in this Open House session. You can register at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-10… -- RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon, 25 November 2020. Join us on 25 November 2020 to help us celebrate 10 years of RIPE Atlas again by adding 10x10 software probes over 10 hours. More information is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/lets-deploy-together-ripe-atlas-softwar… Thank you for reading till the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[GM] RIPE NCC General Meeting: One Week to Register
by Alun Davies 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, There is one week left to register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM), which takes place from Wednesday, 28 October at 18:00 UTC+1. *Registration for the GM closes at 16:00 UTC+1 on Wednesday, 28 October 2020.* You can register now at: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020 Over 1,200 members have registered to vote, and we hope to see this number increase before the GM opens. Members who register for the GM will receive links to participate and vote remotely on 28 October. Please note that if there are questions you would like the Executive Board to answer at the General Meeting, you can email them to agm(a)ripe.net by 12:00 UTC+1 on 26 October 2020. We will collate them and present them at the General Meeting in addition to the questions asked during the GM. At this GM, you can vote on four resolutions: - The General Meeting approves that the RIPE NCC 2020 financial surplus will be redistributed to the membership in 2021. - The General Meeting, in accordance with Article 21 of the Articles of Association, adopts the amendments to Article 1 of the Articles of Association as proposed and announced by the Executive Board on 28 October 2020. - The General Meeting, in accordance with Article 21 of the Articles of Association, adopts the amendments to Article 9.1 and Article 18 of the Articles of Association as proposed and announced by the Executive Board on 28 October 2020. - The General Meeting, in accordance with Article 21 of the Articles of Association, adopts the amendments to Article 10.4 of the Articles of Association as proposed and announced by the Executive Board on 28 October 2020. All resolutions are contained in the agenda for the meeting: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda Relevant presentations for the GM also take place in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session at RIPE 81. You can watch the livestream of this session on the RIPE 81 website, or you can register for RIPE 81 to have full discussion rights on the meeting platform. The full RIPE 81 programme contains many sessions and presentations that should also be of wider interest to our members. You can watch the livestream on the RIPE 81 website: http://ripe81.ripe.net In order to participate in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session, please register for RIPE 81 at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/ All information on the GM, including links to the supporting documents, can be found on the GM homepage: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020 We look forward to your participation in this important meeting for the RIPE NCC and its members. Best regards, General Meeting Organisation Team RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Survey 2019 - Key Findings and Actions
by Fergal Cunningham 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, Early this year, we published the key findings from the RIPE NCC Survey 2019. Now, we've published actions that the RIPE NCC has taken to address those findings. The list of findings and actions is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/surveys/ripe-ncc-survey-201… All work is marked as "ongoing" until the next survey process starts, as we continue to look at ways to improve in line with the feedback we receive from our members. If you have questions about any of the key findings or actions taken, please let us know at <survey(a)ripe.net>. I also note that the RIPE 81 Meeting and RIPE NCC General Meeting will take place shortly. Staff from across the RIPE NCC who worked to address the findings of the survey will be available if you want to discuss action areas in more detail, so I encourage you to register for both meetings: RIPE 81: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/ RIPE NCC General Meeting: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/registra… Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Acting Chief Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[service] LIR Portal / Document Management Issue Resolved
by Theodoros Polychniatis 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, The problem with our document management system has been fixed and we have already started processing requests that were delayed. While we have solved the issue and repaired the affected documents, we are planning further work to strengthen the system as a result of this. This will take place as part of our ongoing maintenance and any downtime will be announced in advance. Best regards, Theo -- Theodoros Polychniatis Asst. Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC

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[service] LIR Portal Back Online
by Theodoros Polychniatis 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, The LIR Portal is back online but the problem is not completely fixed. If you create ticket requests involving documents they will be received, but they could take longer to be processed. We are continuing to work on the issue and might need to put LIR Portal back into maintenance mode again to fully resolve the issue. We will inform you if this is the case. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards, Theo -- Theodoros Polychniatis Assistant Manager SW Engineering Dept. RIPE NCC

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[service] LIR Portal Temporarily Unavailable
by Theodoros Polychniatis 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, We have temporarily blocked access to the LIR Portal so we can fix an issue with our document management system. This is related to the outage with our ticketing system yesterday, which was caused by a configuration error involving the integration of our document management system with the LIR Portal. The maintenance we are now performing aims to resolve this issue. Some requests could take longer to be processed until the issue is fully resolved. Best regards, Theo -- Theodoros Polychniatis Assistant Manager SW Engineering Dept. RIPE NCC

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[GM] Draft Agenda and Supporting Documents for General Meeting October 2020
by General Meeting Organisation Team 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Dear RIPE NCC Members, The supporting documents for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) October 2020 are now finalised and published at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/supporti… The documents include: - The Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 - RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force Report - Proposed Amendments to the RIPE NCC Articles of Association The draft agenda containing all the resolutions to be voted on is also available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda The GM will take place from 28-30 October adjacent to RIPE 81. Full remote participation will be available to all members, including livestream, live chat and electronic voting. You can register for the GM via this link: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020 Registration for electronic voting will remain open until 16:00 local time (UTC+1) on the day of the GM, 28 October 2020. The deadline for submitting proxy voting forms is 14 October. All information on how to participate, including the proxy voting form, is available from: https://www.ripe.net/gm/oct-2020 If you have questions about the GM, please email us at <agm(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, General Meeting Organisation Team RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: September 2020
by Boris Duval 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Hello RIPE NCC member, We’re gearing up for RIPE 81 and 371 people have already registered for the meeting. We hope that you will join us for our second fully virtual RIPE Meeting! In the meantime, here’s what you need to know this month about the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community: 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats -- Register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 -- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force Report -- Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 -- Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions October-December 2020 -- Certify your IPv6 skills! 2. Your Technical Update -- Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- NRO NC Call for Nominations -- The new RIPE Chair team -- Code of Conduct Task Force -- Thank you for attending MENOG 20 -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Central Asia -- SEEDIG 2020 Takeaways -- The Internet is for the Empowerment of End Users 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE 81 -- ENOG 17 -- RIPE NCC Open House: Get Certified! -- RIPE NCC Open House: Central Asia Internet Country Report 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,172 (-80) LIRs with IPv6: 16,612 (-92) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in August: 645,120 (-1,472,000) -- Register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 The next General Meeting (GM) will take place from 28-30 October 2020 online. The GM gives members an opportunity to discuss the operations and activities of the RIPE NCC. Registration for electronic voting will remain open until 16:00 local time (UTC+1) on the day of the GM, 28 October 2020. You can register to participate and vote at: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020 <https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020> The draft agenda is published and can be viewed here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda> -- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force Report The RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force assembled in July and recently delivered their evaluation of our Executive Board nomination and election process. The Executive Board supported all of the recommendations made by the task force: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2020-September/0042… <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2020-September/0042…> The task force report is available on the RIPE NCC website as a supporting document for the next GM: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/supporti… <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/supporti…> -- Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 The Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 is now available for your review: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/draft-ri… <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/draft-ri…> This document is the clearest way you can learn about our plans for next year and shape the direction we take as an organisation. We ask that you read it and share any feedback on <members-discuss at ripe.net <http://ripe.net/>>. -- Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions October-December 2020 You can attend our (one hour) webinars or (two hour) Remote Learning Sessions, which are online versions of our face-to-face training courses. Register for our sessions in October, November and December here: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses <https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses> More information on these sessions is available here: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online <https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online> You can also learn online using the RIPE NCC Academy: https://academy.ripe.net <https://academy.ripe.net/> -- Certify your IPv6 skills! Your LIR’s vouchers are valid until 31 December 2020. Use your vouchers to schedule a RIPE NCC Certified Professionals exam and get certified for your IPv6 or RIPE Database skills. Read more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals <https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals> 2. Your Technical Update -- Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas Our colleagues from the RIPE Atlas team take a closer look at the recent Belarus outage and explore tools and ideas to gain a better understanding of connectivity issues: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/looking-inside-outages-with-ripe-… <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/looking-inside-outages-with-ripe-…> -- Service Announcements --- Recent Ticketing System Outage (9 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ticketing-system-outage <https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ticketing-system-outage> Network Outage across RIPE NCC Services (14 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/network-outage-across-ri… <https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/network-outage-across-ri…> Planned Network Maintenance (27 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/planned-network-maintena… <https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/planned-network-maintena…> 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- NRO NC Call for Nominations There is one vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). Any individual residing within the RIPE NCC service region is eligible for nomination, except Regional Internet Registry staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. The deadline for nominations is 21 October 2020. The selected candidate will serve a three-year term on the NRO NC beginning 1 January 2021. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/nro/nro-nc/nominations2020/process <https://www.ripe.net/nro/nro-nc/nominations2020/process> -- The new RIPE Chair team Mirjam Kühne and Niall O'Reilly officially started their role as RIPE Chair and RIPE co-chair on 1 September 2020: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2020-August/001951.html <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2020-August/001951.html> -- Code of Conduct Task Force In order to finalise the new RIPE Code of Conduct, the RIPE Chair called for a task force to drive this process forward. The task force has now been formed and you can find the charter, timeline and members here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/code-of-conduct-task-force <https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/code-of-conduct-task-force> -- Thank you for attending MENOG 20 378 people from 48 different countries tuned in for MENOG 20. Thanks to all panelists and attendees for the interesting discussions. For those who missed it, the recording is available at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALIYuWVTdYs&feature=emb_title <https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALIYuWVTdYs&feature=emb_title> -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Central Asia We’ve recently published a new RIPE NCC Internet report focusing this time on Central Asia. In the report, we look at five individual countries within the region - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and examine how they connect with one another as well as to the global Internet: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-count… <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-count…> -- SEEDIG 2020 Takeaways The 6th edition of SEEDIG, the Internet governance event for South East Europe, took place from 21 to 25 September 2020 online: https://2020.seedig.net <https://2020.seedig.net/> Sessions covered governance challenges of the decentralised Internet, privacy and data protection, cybercrime and security of critical infrastructure, the interplay between digitisation and depopulation, post-COVID digital transformation and more. Read some of our impressions on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/seedig-2020-liveblog <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/seedig-2020-liveblog> -- The Internet is for the Empowerment of End Users Vesna Manojlovic takes a look at the recently published RFC8890 and talks about why she's an advocate for technical communities working together with End Users on mutual empowerment: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-internet-is-for-empowerment-of-end-… <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-internet-is-for-empowerment-of-end-…> 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE 81, 27-30 October 2020 Registrations are now open for RIPE 81! Join us online from 27-30 October 2020. Register now for free at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/ <https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/> -- ENOG 17, 9-13 November 2020 Do you want to present at the next ENOG meeting? You have until *11 October 2020* to submit your presentation: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/cfp/ <https://www.enog.org/enog-17/cfp/> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Get Certified! Co-hosted by RIPE NCC Certified Professionals and PSI, 7 October 2020 Planning to get certified by the RIPE NCC? The RIPE NCC Certified Professionals team shares how you can leverage the power of a digital badge and answers your questions. Representatives from our exam platform provider PSI will also give a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how the exams are run. Register for this event at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/get-certified-co-hoste… <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/get-certified-co-hoste…> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Central Asia Internet Country Report, 14 October 2020 We will be discussing our newly published Central Asia Internet Country Report during a special 90-minute online session (held in Russian) on Wednesday, 14 October from 08:00-09:30 UTC. You can register for the event at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-ce… <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-ce…> Thank you for reading till the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] 138th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes
by Hans Petter Holen 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 138th Meeting via teleconference on 8 September 2020. The draft minutes of the meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020/minutes-138th-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. - The Board approved amendments to the procedural document “Due Diligence for the Quality of RIPE NCC Registration Data”: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-748 - The Board approved the publication of the Draft Agenda for the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2020. - The Board approved the publication of the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 with the proposed amendments of adding a section on sanctions and FTEs per activity: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/draft-ri… - The Board adopted the recommendations of the RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force and instructed the Managing Director to implement the recommendations that are not subject to an amendment of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association. The Board also approved proposed amendments to the RIPE NCC Articles of Association and instructed the Managing Director to prepare a relevant resolution(s) for the adoption of the proposed amendment by the next General Meeting. - The Board instructed the RIPE NCC to publish the report of the Executive Board Election Task Force for the membership: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/ripe-ncc-executive-board-elect… - The Board decided to increase the number of the Executive Board members that acting jointly have the authority to represent the Association from two to four. The RIPE NCC Executive Board approved the relevant proposed amendment to Article 10.4 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association and instructed the Managing Director to prepare a relevant resolution for the adoption of the proposed amendment by the next General Meeting. - The Board also received an update from the new RIPE Chair, Mirjam Kühne. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen RIPE NCC Managing Director

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[meetings] Register Now for RIPE 81
by RIPE NCC Event Team 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, RIPE 81 will be held as a virtual meeting and will take place from 27-30 October 2020. You can now register for free at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/ ------------- RIPE 81 Conference Platform ------------- We are pleased to inform you that the RIPE 81 Meeting will use Meetecho as its conference platform. In addition to Meetecho, you will be able to watch the presentations live on the RIPE 81 website. Please note that this time we won’t provide a separate IRC channel. If you want to participate in the discussion, you will have to register for the meeting and join Meetecho. More information on how to participate to the meeting is available on the RIPE 81 website. ------------- Programme ------------- The RIPE Meeting agenda includes plenary sessions and RIPE Working Group (WG) sessions. -- Plenary Sessions You have until *27 September 2020* to submit your presentation for the plenary sessions, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) and lightning talks. The Programme Committee will get in touch with you after this date. More information about the submission process is available at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ -- WG Sessions Each working group has a dedicated session in the RIPE Meeting agenda for presentations on topics relevant to the working group’s agenda. If you want to present in one of the WGs, get in touch with the relevant WG chairs via email: https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/ripe-wg-chairs/ If you are not sure whether you should contact the RIPE Programme Committee or a RIPE Working Group, you can compare both types of sessions: https://ripe81.ripe.net/submit-topic/plenary-or-wg/ ------------- RIPE Meeting Mentoring ------------- Experienced RIPE Meeting attendees can help newcomers make the most of their meeting by volunteering to be a mentor. We match mentors with mentees based on interests and areas of expertise. You can sign yourself up to be a mentor or mentee when you register for the meeting. Learn more at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/mentoring-programme/ ------------- Call for Sponsors ------------- Supporting a RIPE Meeting through sponsorship gives your organisation fantastic exposure in the global Internet community. Get in touch with the RIPE Meeting team if you are interested to sponsor RIPE 81: https://ripe81.ripe.net/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ ---- More information on RIPE 81 can be found at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/ For the latest updates, you can follow us on Twitter at @ripemeeting and by using the hashtag #RIPE81. Best regards, RIPE Meetings Team

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