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[service] Mailing List Technical Issues
by Serge Radovcic 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, We recently discovered an issue affecting subscriptions to the <ncc-announce(a)ripe.net> mailing list. An error introduced into our automated processes was preventing subscription changes made via the LIR Portal from being reflected on this mailing list. This issue was in effect from 1 September 2015 and has now been resolved. The majority of you will not have been affected by this issue. However, during this time members were prevented from being subscribed and unsubscribed to the mailing list, and any changes that members may have made to their contact email used to receive messages from this list were not processed. These issues have now been resolved and no action is required on your part. A record of all emails sent to <ncc-announce(a)ripe.net> is available in the archives: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/ All members specifically affected by this issue will receive a separate email. The <members-discuss(a)ripe.net> mailing list was also affected and subscribers to that list have also been notified. No other mailing lists were affected. Timely communications with our members is very important to us, and we sincerely regret this error. We have introduced measures to ensure this doesn’t happen again, and we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. Kind regards, Serge Radovcic Chief Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts - Please Discuss
by Nigel Titley 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Executive Board would like to ask the membership to discuss the issue of RIPE NCC members opening additional LIR accounts. There were comments at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) in November 2015 that members having the ability to open additional LIR accounts, each of which can request a /22 of IPv4 address space, may run against the spirit of the last /8 policy. In light of this, the Board decided to temporarily suspend the ability of RIPE NCC members to open additional LIR accounts. The RIPE NCC began to allocate IPv4 address space from the last /8 policy on 14 September 2012. Since that time the RIPE NCC has allocated more than 8,600 /22s, yet there remains 0.94 of a /8 still in the pool. ACTION REQUIRED: The Board asks the membership to provide their opinion on and discuss the following points: 1. Is the activity of members opening additional LIR accounts a problem that must be prevented? 2. If this activity is a problem that must be prevented, what action should the RIPE NCC take to attempt its prevention? Statistics pertinent to this discussion are available in this article on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/laura_cobley/ripe-ncc-members-and-multiple-li… The Board asks that members discuss this issue on the Members Discuss mailing list <members-discuss(a)ripe.net>. The Board will monitor the discussion and will review it at the next Executive Board Meeting on 31 March 2016. Depending on the outcome of that meeting, the Board may propose a resolution for members to vote on at the RIPE NCC General Meeting in May 2016. Best regards, Nigel Titley RIPE NCC Executive Board

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[news] RIPE NCC to start publishing opaque organisation ID in RIR stats
by Tim Bruijnzeels 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, The format for the RIR Statistics file has been modified by the RIRs: opaque organisation IDs are added to the statistics. The RIPE NCC is now also modifying its statistics to be in line with this change. In order to avoid issues for scripts, the RIPE NCC is rolling out the modification in a phased approach: 9 December 2015: Introduce new format 3 February 2016: New format takes precedence 2 March 2016: Old format deleted The details of the new format and each of the above phases are documented here: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/RIR-Statistics-Exchange-Format.txt Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE Policy Proposals - February Update
by Marco Schmidt 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, Here is our monthly overview of open policy proposals and their stage in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). If you wish to join the discussion about a particular proposal, please do so on the relevant working group mailing list. Proposals Open for Discussion: NEW: 2016-01, "Include Legacy Internet Resource Holders in the Abuse-c Policy" 2015-04, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies" Proposals Awaiting Input: 2015-05, "Revision of Last /8 Allocation Criteria" ===== Proposal Overviews: NEW PROPOSAL: 2016-01, "Include Legacy Internet Resource Holders in the Abuse-c Policy" OVERVIEW: Aims for a mandatory abuse contact for Legacy Internet Resource holders in the RIPE Database. STATUS: Discussion Phase WHERE TO COMMENT: Anti-Abuse Working Group: anti-abuse-wg(a)ripe.net DEADLINE: 26 February 2016 FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2016-01 PROPOSAL: 2015-04, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies" OVERVIEW: Aims to create a single transfer policy with all relevant information on the transfer of Internet number resources, replacing text in several RIPE Policies. The proposal also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and 16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership. RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Details how the 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and 16-bit ASNs will be applied. STATUS: Review Phase WHERE TO COMMENT: Address Policy Working Group: address-policy-wg(a)ripe.net DEADLINE: 3 March 2016 FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04 ===== The following proposals are awaiting input before they can go any further in the PDP. PROPOSAL: 2015-05, "Revision of Last /8 Allocation Criteria" OVERVIEW: Aims to allow LIRs to request an additional /22 IPv4 allocation from the RIPE NCC every 18 months. This would only be possible if the LIR has not transferred any IPv4 address space before. STATUS: Discussion Phase – Awaiting decision from proposer FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-05 The RIPE NCC provides an overview of current RIPE Policy Proposals on www.ripe.net: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/current-proposals/current-policy-… We look forward to your involvement in the PDP. Kind regards, Marco Schmidt RIPE Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC

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[service] The "changed:" attribute will be deprecated from the RIPE Database release on Monday, 1 February 2016
by Tim Bruijnzeels 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, As requested by the RIPE Database Working Group, the RIPE NCC has been working on deprecating the “changed:” attribute in the RIPE Database. This attribute was used mostly to determine when database objects were last changed, but in practice the attribute was poorly maintained. We are now in the process of replacing the “changed:” attribute by the server-generated attributes “created:” and “last-modified”. We are conducting the replacement in three phases*: 1. (Completed) 28 April 2015 “created:” and “last-modified:” were introduced to all objects 2. (Completed) 13 July 2015 “changed:” became optional for all objects 3. 1 February 2016 “changed:” will be deprecated from all objects When phase 3 is deployed to production we will remove the “changed:” attribute from all objects in the RIPE Database. However, contrary to the earlier plan communicated on this, we will not reject object updates if they include the “changed:” attribute. Instead, we will remove the “changed:” attribute from the object and issue a warning, but accept the remaining object (provided it passed other validation rules). The reason for this is that we still see a large number of updates that include the “changed:” attribute. We expect this number to go down over time when the “changed:” attribute is removed from the object templates, and when the attribute is no longer present on objects that are being updated. We will monitor this carefully over the coming months before implementing stricter regulations concerning the attribute. However, users are still strongly advised to exclude the "changed:" attribute in updates, but rather to rely on "created:" and "last-modified:", or use "remarks:" instead. Phase 3 was deployed to the RIPE Database Release Candidate environment on 22 December, and an announcement was sent to the RIPE Database Working Group along with a request to test the changes and report issues to the RIPE NCC. No issues have been reported so far. If no issues are found over the coming two weeks, it is our intention to deploy this release to production on Monday, 1 February. With this email we also want to make sure that those who are not following the RIPE Database Working Group discussions are aware of this pending change and have an opportunity to run their own tests. Please let us know if you have any comments or concerns, Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC *: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/tim/deprecating-the-changed-attribute-in-the-…

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[meeting] Links correction RIPE 72 registration
by Martina De Mas 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, There were two links in the RIPE 72 registration announcement that were bringing people to the RIPE 71 website instead of RIPE 72. We apologise for any confusion. The correct links are: https://ripe72.ripe.net/attend https://ripe72.ripe.net/venue/hotels Kind regards, Martina -- Martina de Mas Conference Coordinator RIPE Network Coordination Centre Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 535 4444 www.ripe.net<http://www.ripe.net>

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[meeting] RIPE 72 Registration is Now Open!
by Martina De Mas 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, Registration for RIPE 72 is now open! You can register at: https://ripe72.ripe.net/register RIPE 72 will take place at the Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center from 23-27 May 2016. —————————————— Ticket Options —————————————— Week ticket: EUR 350 Day ticket: EUR 175 Student (week) ticket: EUR 50 All new RIPE NCC members are eligible for two free week tickets. You can find more information about ticket options at: https://ripe72.ripe.net/attend ———————————————————————————————————— Discount Room Rates at Meeting Venue ———————————————————————————————————— The Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center is offering RIPE 72 attendees a discounted room rate of DKK 1,225 (approximately EUR 164) per night including breakfast, WiFi, VAT and city tax. The discounted rate expires on 2 May 2016. You can find booking information and alternative hotel options near the meeting venue at: https://ripe72.ripe.net/venue/hotels ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— RIPE 72 Plenary Presentations Submission Deadline - 13 March ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is seeking presentation proposals from the RIPE community for the plenary sessions, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), workshops, tutorials, and lightning talks at RIPE 72. Find out how to submit a proposal: https://ripe72.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp <https://ripe72.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp> Proposals must be submitted using the meeting submission system and no later than 13 March 2016. Proposals submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available basis. ——————————————————————————————— RIPE 72 on Twitter and Facebook ——————————————————————————————— Follow @ripemeeting and #RIPE72 Join the Facebook RIPE Meetings page: https://www.facebook.com/ripemeetings ———— RACI ———— The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) will cover the meeting ticket, travel and accommodation of academics to present their research at RIPE 72. The deadline to apply is 28 March. Read about the initiative here: https://www.ripe.net/raci See you in Copenhagen in May! Kind regards, Martina -- Martina de Mas Conference Coordinator RIPE Network Coordination Centre Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 535 4444 www.ripe.net

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[meetings] SEE 5/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting: Registration Open!
by Gergana Petrova 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, Join us at the fifth South East Europe Meeting/ RIPE NCC Regional Meeting (SEE 5), taking place in Tirana at the Tirana International Hotel on 19-20 April 2016. The meeting is open to everyone and attendance is free of charge. You can register at: http://www.ripe.net/see-5/register This meeting builds on the great success of past RIPE NCC Regional Meetings and covers a wide range of topics, including: - IPv4 scarcity and IPv6 deployment - Commercial transactions of IPv4 addresses - Data centre technologies - Network, DNS and IXP operations - Internet governance and regulatory practices - and much more Regional presentations on Internet related topics are welcome! Please submit your presentation proposals by 8 February here: http://www.ripe.net/see-5/cfp Academics researching Internet-related topics should apply for the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative. Successful applicants are provided travel to the meeting and accommodation, as well as the chance to present their work. https://www.ripe.net/raci Complete information about the meeting can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/see-5 I look forward to seeing you in Tirana! Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE Network Coordination Centre Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 535 4444 www.ripe.net

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[service] Planned RIPE Database Hardware Upgrade: Monday 18 January, 17:00-18:00 UTC
by Tim Bruijnzeels 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is planning to upgrade the RIPE Database hardware this coming Monday, 18 January. With the new hardware we will start to use MariaDB instead of MySQL as the back-end to the RIPE Database. To support this change we will upgrade the RIPE Database software to version 1.84.1. This software has been running in the Release Candidate environment without issues since 9 December. Detailed release notes can be found here: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/release-notes/ripe-database-rel… Queries to the RIPE Database will be unaffected during the upgrade, but there will be a short outage in updates between 17:00 and 18:00 UTC. Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC Database Group

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[news] Calling all researchers - RACI applications open
by Gergana Petrova 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, We're looking for talented researchers in the field of Internet technology to share their research with the RIPE community as part of the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI). Successful applicants will receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation to meetings and the opportunity to present their work to some of the leading technical figures in the Internet world. https://www.ripe.net/raci/ ------------------ Application Deadlines ------------------ MENOG 16 (23-24 March 2016, Istanbul): 11 February SEE 5 (19-20 April 2016, Tirana): 23 February RIPE 72 (23-27 May 2016, Copenhagen): 28 March ENOG 11 (7-8 June 2016, Moscow): 12 April ---------------------- Examples of Relevant Topics ---------------------- - Network measurements and analyses - IPv6 deployment - BGP routing - Network security - Internet governance - Peering and interconnectivity ------------ Stay Informed ------------ Get the latest news on RACI and Internet research: - Subscribe to the RACI mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list - Follow us on Twitter: @RACI_RIPE - Join our group on LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/22ZsNVW Kind regards, Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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