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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: March 2017
by Fergal Cunningham 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

RIPE NCC Member Update: March 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - LIR Contact Migration - RIPE NCC General Meeting MaY 2017 - RIPE NCC Executive Board Election - Historical Data Clean-Up - 2015-04, RIPE Resource Transfer Policies - RIPE NCC Billing, Payment and Fees - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - Country Focus on RIPE Labs - RIPE Atlas Probes - RIPE Atlas Anchors - RIPEstat Looking Glass Widget - RIPE Labs - IPv6 Best Practices - Training Courses and Webinars - RACI Deadlines Approaching - SEE 6 Montenegro CfP - RIPE 74 Budapest - ENOG 13 St. Petersburg - MENOG 17 Muscat - RIPE NCC Website Tips - Email Tagging - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 15,539 (+205) LIRs with IPv6: 11,617 (+132) IPv4 addresses transferred in February: 452,864 (+177,920) https://labs.ripe.net/statistics LIR CONTACT MIGRATION Are you an LIR account administrator? Please use the contact migration wizard in the LIR Portal by 1 April 2017 to ensure we have one list of authorised users for each LIR. https://my.ripe.net/#/contacts RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING MAY 2017 The GM will take place from 10-12 May and will feature votes on the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme and the Executive Board election. All the information, including the registration link and a table listing registrations per country, is available from: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017 Please note that all RIPE NCC members can participate remotely in the GM via webcast and electronic voting. RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION There will be an election to fill three seats at the upcoming GM. Four people have already been nominated - you can nominate your own candidate or support one of the current nominees. Find out how at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/call-for-nom… HISTORICAL DATA CLEAN-UP We are working to clean up old data in the LIR Portal and will continue with this until 1 May 2017. If there is historical information you would like to retain, please visit the Resources section in the LIR Portal before the deadline to copy the data. https://lirportal.ripe.net/ 2015-04, RIPE RESOURCE TRANSFER POLICIES Consensus has been reached on this policy, which creates a single policy document with all relevant information on the transfer of Internet number resources, replacing text in several RIPE Policies. The policy change also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and 16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership. The RIPE NCC will work on implementation and keep you up to date on progress. See the original announcement for more information: https://www.ripe.net/s/2015-04 RIPE NCC BILLING, PAYMENT AND FEES In our continuing efforts to improve www.ripe.net and provide a more intuitive experience for our members, we have updated the RIPE NCC billing, costs and fees webpage to make it easier to find all the information you need: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/billing RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES Registration is open for upcoming member lunches in Dublin, Amman, Kazan, Lvov and Vladivostok. Space is limited at these events, so please register soon and come meet the RIPE NCC's staff in your home country: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/ COUNTRY FOCUS ON RIPE LABS We provide information sheets for attendees ahead of the member lunches. This week we started to publish these on RIPE Labs - the first one focuses on Uzbekistan to coincide with the member lunch that took place this week: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-uzbekistan-ripe-ncc-statisti… RIPE ATLAS PROBES Having launched an email campaign aimed at helping RIPE Atlas probe hosts resolve disconnection issues, and with the release of a new firmware upgrade to help improve probe connectivity, we’ve seen a steady rise in the number of connected probes. We’ve now hit an all-time high of 9,500 connected probes. https://atlas.ripe.net/ Two new DNS measurements, both designed to assess the impact of issues with one or more root name servers, have been added to every RIPE Atlas probe. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/new-ripe-atlas-root-zone-dns-measu… A new set of system tags have been created to identify RIPE Atlas probes with a proven record of delivering successful measurement results. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/new-ripe-atlas-probe-stability-sys… RIPE ATLAS ANCHORS The campaign to sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas anchors has been well received. A healthy number of applications have already been submitted and we've selected the first five anchor hosts who'll receive sponsored anchor probes. More news on this coming up on RIPE Labs soon. The original RIPE Labs article is at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/campaign-to-sponsor-15-ripe-atlas… RIPESTAT LOOKING GLASS WIDGET Check the routing status of your network from various locations around the world in real time. https://stat.ripe.net/widget/looking-glass#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3… It's also accessible via the RIPEstat Data API: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#LookingGlass RIPE LABS Former RACI fellow Uta Meier-Hahn presents the first in a series of articles looking at how network operators collaboratively manufacture Internet connectivity in a competitive environment. In this article, she looks at the role of uncertainty: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/uncertainty-is-key We are always looking for interesting content for RIPE Labs. If you have interesting Internet-related research or analysis to share with the RIPE community, please consider RIPE Labs as a way to get your work noticed. Just email <labs(a)ripe.net> and let us know. IPV6 BEST PRACTICES An IPv6 Best Practices document was published for the Internet Governance Forum 2016 by Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir and Wim Degezelle. A RIPE Labs article based on that document is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/commercial-incentives-of-ipv6-deployme… TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS On 21 March, there will be a webinar on IPv6 in the RIPE Database. In April, we'll give training courses in Luxembourg, Ukraine and the UK. You can register for these at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RACI DEADLINES APPROACHING The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) connects members of the academic community with the RIPE community by inviting students and researchers to present their Internet-related research at RIPE Meetings, ENOG, MENOG and SEE meetings. There are approaching deadlines for the upcoming ENOG and SEE meetings: - ENOG 13: 23-24 May, St Petersburg. Apply by 19 March 2017 - SEE 6: 12-13 June, Budva. Apply by 9 April 2017 SEE 6 MONTENEGRO CFP The South East Europe (SEE) 6 Meeting takes place in Budva, Montenegro from 12-13 June. There is still space on the agenda if you have an interesting presentation proposal - the deadline to submit is this coming Monday, 20 March. All details on the meeting are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-6 RIPE 74 BUDAPEST RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary from 8-12 May. Check out the details at: https://ripe74.ripe.net/ ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from 23-24 May. Registration is open and the Call for Presentations deadline is 3 April. https://www.enog.org/enog-13/ MENOG 17 MUSCAT The MENOG 17 Meeting takes place in Muscat from 19-20 April, and it's preceded by IPv6 and DNS workshops. http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/ RIPE NCC WEBSITE TIPS The RIPE NCC website contains a glossary to help you navigate all the terminology you encounter on our pages. If you hover over words underscored with dotted lines on a page, a definition or explanation will appear. Several examples are available on the page at: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6 You can can easily get to every RIPE Forum discussion from each RIPE Mailing list overview. Just expand the working group and click the RIPE Forum button: https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-lists For proposals making their way through the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), you can easily view the changes that were made to each version of the proposal. Just click the document icon in the All Versions section to the right of a proposal. https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04 EMAIL TAGGING We use tags so you can filter RIPE NCC emails in your own mail client depending on the topics you’re interested in: [meetings], [news], [GM], [service] and [training]. SOCIAL MEDIA Get updates, see the latest RIPE Labs articles and start conversations with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn: https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/social-networking If you have any questions or comments on the material in this Member Update, please let me know. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] IANA Review Committee 2nd Teleconference - 15 March 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC
by Nick Hyrka 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

This message is sent on behalf of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, This is an invitation to participate as observers of the next IANA Review Committee (IANA RC) teleconference to be held on Wednesday March 15th 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC. Webex information below. More Information about the IANA RC can be found at: https://www.nro.net/iana-numbering-services-review-committee/ Regards German Valdez NRO === Draft Agenda 0. Welcome 1. Roll Call 2. Review Open Actions 3. Agreement on Review Committee Scope 4. Internal Operational Procedures 5. IANA Performance Report 5.1 performance matrix presented by RC RIR staff members 5.2 Gap review of performance matrix 5.3 Discussion of metrics and measurement 5.4 Discussion of current IANA measurements 5.4 Gap review of current IANA performance measures 5.5 Contents of IANA performance review document 6. Review process 6.1 Review process internal to the RC 6.2 Process for community feed back for performance review report 6.3 Discussion of operating procedures changes for section 5 updates (if any) 7. Any other community engagement 8. Next Meeting 9. AOB 10. Adjourn 2nd IANA Review Committee Meeting Wednesday, 15 March 2017 10:00 am | UTC | 1 hr 45 mins Join WebEx meeting https://apnic.webex.com/apnic/j.php?MTID=m38f13c81ebf643af63bd961e341e054f Meeting number:578 906 568 Meeting password:ianarc Join by phone: https://apnic.webex.com/apnic/globalcallin.php

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[service] RESOLVED: Intermittent outages affecting some RIPE NCC services - 8 March 2017
by Brian Riddle 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, The problems that led to intermittent outages in some RIPE NCC services earlier today have now been resolved and all services are once again operating as usual. Again, we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. Kind regards, Brian Riddle IT Manager RIPE NCC

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[GM] RIPE NCC Executive Board - Call for Nominations
by Axel Pawlik 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is calling for nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board. There will be an election for three vacant seats at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) on 10-12 May 2017, each of which is for a three-year term. The seats are to fill the places currently held by Maria Häll, Christian Kaufmann and Salam Yamout, whose terms expire in May 2017. The document outlining the RIPE NCC Executive Board functions and expectations is available at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/ripe-ncc-executive-board-func… All those considering standing for election to the board are advised to read this information. Nominations A nomination for the appointment of a member of the Executive Board requires the support of at least five members. You must be a RIPE NCC member and a registered LIR contact to nominate a candidate or support a nomination. Nominations and support submissions should include the following information: Your full name Your email address Your organisation Your LIR RegID Name of the candidate you wish to nominate/support Email address of the candidate Reason for nominating/supporting the candidate Nominations and support submissions must be submitted by Wednesday, 19 April 2017 following the guidelines outlined in article 9 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association. To make a nomination or support a candidate, you can fill out the nomination form available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/agm-nominati… Excerpts from the Articles of Association are available at the end of this email. Voting RIPE NCC members will vote to fill three seats on the Executive Board at the upcoming GM. If you would like to vote but cannot attend the GM, there are two options that enable you to vote in the Executive Board elections: 1. Electronic Voting Registration to vote electronically at the GM will open on 8 March 2017. All RIPE NCC members who are registered contacts will be sent invitations by email to register to vote electronically. If you wish to vote electronically, you must register to do so by 10 May 2017 at 16:00 (local time UTC+2). Please ensure you are listed as a user for your organisation in the LIR Portal to ensure you receive the invitation to register. 2. Proxy Voting You can be represented by a third party who is not an authorised employee or director of your organisation. If you wish to do this, please fill out the proxy form and send it to us using the details on the form by 26 April 2017. Any proxy sent to us after this date will not be valid. The proxy voting form is online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/ripe-ncc-gen… Information on the GM is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017 Register for the GM via the LIR Portal: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-may-2017 If you have any questions about the GM, please email us at <agm(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important Dates 8 March - Call for nominations to RIPE NCC Executive Board 8 March - Open registration for GM 8 March - Open voting registration 29 March - Publish all GM documents, including RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2016 19 April - Close nominations for Executive Board elections 26 April - Deadline for proxy vote nominations 26 April - Deadline for members to propose resolutions 26 April - Deadline to publish final GM agenda 10 May - Close registration for electronic voting 10 May - GM begins with main meeting 12 May - GM closes with announcement of voting results Excerpts from the Articles of Association 8.2 The Executive Board of the Association shall consist of at least three and at most seven natural persons. They shall be members of the Board in a personal capacity and do not have to be Members of the Association. Employees of the Association cannot be appointed members of the Executive Board. 9.1 The members of the Executive Board shall be appointed by the General Meeting from a list of nominees to be drawn up by the Members. A nomination for the appointment of a member of the Executive Board shall need the written support of at least five Members and shall be submitted no later than three weeks before the General Meeting. If the number of nominees exceeds the number of vacancies, the General Meeting shall elect Executive Board members in accordance with Article 18.4.

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[GM] RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2017: Registration Open
by Axel Pawlik 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, On behalf of our Executive Board, I invite you to register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2017. The GM will take place from 10-12 May 2017 in the InterContinental Budapest hotel in Hungary, adjacent to the RIPE 74 Meeting. You can register now via the LIR Portal: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-may-2017 The GM is where RIPE NCC members can discuss the operations and activities of the RIPE NCC. At the upcoming GM, RIPE NCC members will discuss: - The RIPE NCC Financial Report 2016 (to be voted on) - The RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2018 (to be voted on) - Reports from the RIPE NCC Executive Board and RIPE NCC Management - Discharge of the RIPE NCC Executive Board with regard to its actions as they appear from the Annual Report 2016 (to be voted on) - Election to fill three seats on the RIPE NCC Executive Board All relevant documents will be posted and announced to the membership by 29 March 2017. All organisations that will have been members of the RIPE NCC for six months at the time of the GM will receive an invitation to vote electronically. Registration for electronic voting will remain open until 16:00 UTC+2 on the day of the GM, 10 May 2017. All information on how to participate, as well as the proxy voting form, is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017 If you have questions about the GM, please email us: <agm(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important Dates 8 March - Call for nominations to RIPE NCC Executive Board 8 March - Open registration for GM and voting 29 March - Publish all GM documents, including RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2016 19 April - Close nominations for Executive Board elections 26 April - Deadline for proxy vote nominations 26 April - Deadline for members to propose resolutions 26 April - Deadline to publish final GM agenda 10 May - Close registration for electronic voting (16:00 UTC+2) 10 May - GM begins with main meeting (18:00 UTC+2) 12 May - GM closes with vote results announcement (10:45 UTC+2)

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[service] Intermittent outages affecting some RIPE NCC services - 8 March 2017
by Brian Riddle 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, We are currently experiencing intermittent outages with some of our services. We are working hard to fix the issue. Updates will be posted at: https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements You can also keep an eye on our Twitter feed (@RIPE_NCC) for news. We apologise for any inconvenience. Kind regards, Brian Riddle IT Manager RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Receives /19 from IANA's Recovered Pool
by Andrea Cima 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, On 1 March 2017, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) were each allocated the equivalent of a /19 of IPv4 address space from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The RIPE NCC received the following IPv4 address ranges: 160.19.92.0/22 160.19.180.0/22 160.20.108.0/22 160.238.36.0/22 160.238.52.0/22 192.70.192.0/21 204.11.0.0/22. This returned address space will be added to the RIPE NCC’s free pool and distributed according to the current IPv4 policy. LIRs that have already received their final /22 are NOT eligible to receive any further allocations from the RIPE NCC. You can find the IPv4 policy here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-649 Following the exhaustion of IANA's free pool of IPv4 addresses in 2011, when the RIRs received their final /8s, a global policy caused IANA to create a recovered pool of leftover and returned IPv4 address blocks. This policy was ratified by all five RIR communities in 2012 and stated that IANA would begin making equal, periodic allocations from the recovered pool when the first RIR reached a /9 of remaining addresses. This point was reached by LACNIC, the RIR for Latin America and the Caribbean on 20 May 2014, triggering the global policy and the first post-exhaustion allocation from IANA. You can read the global policy here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion-2012-… It is important that network operators continue to deploy IPv6 on their networks to ensure the future growth of the Internet. The RIPE NCC's IPv6 Act Now website provides more information about IPv6 deployment: https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre Regards Andrea Cima Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Training Courses April-June 2017
by Training Services 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, Want to learn new technical skills or get help with the administration of Internet number resources? The RIPE NCC has a dedicated training team that offers support across our service region. In the coming months, we'll be visiting the following cities: Amman, Luxembourg, Kiev, Sheffield, Doha, Valencia, Tehran, St. Petersburg, Marseilles, Tbilisi, Budva, Denmark and Bratislava. All of our training courses are covered by the membership fee and there is no additional cost to attend. We deliver the following training courses: - LIR and RIPE Database Training Course - Basic IPv6 Training Course - DNSSEC Training Course - Measurements Tools Workshop - 2 days Advanced IPv6 Training Course - 2 days BGP Operations and Security Training Course To find out when we'll be in your city and to register for an upcoming training course, visit the following page: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses You can find more information on our training courses here: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/courses Can't make it to a training course? We also offer online webinars that you can attend from home or the office: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/webinars With kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager

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[meetings] Register now for SEE 6/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in Budva
by SEEurope 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, Join us for the sixth South East Europe (SEE 6)/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting on the stunning shores of the Adriatic. SEE 6 will be held at the Hotel Mediteran in Budva, Montenegro on 12 and 13 June 2017. The meeting is open to everyone and attendance is free of charge. Register for your place: http://www.ripe.net/see-6/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 Regional presentations on Internet related topics are welcome! Please submit your presentation proposals by 20 March here: https://www.ripe.net/see-6/call-for-presentations We invite academics researching Internet-related topics to apply for the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI). If your application is successful, we will cover your travel and accommodation expenses, and give you a chance to present your work. More information is online: https://www.ripe.net/raci Complete information about the meeting can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/see-6 I look forward to seeing you in Budva! Best regards, Martina -- Martina de Mas Conference Coordinator RIPE Network Coordination Centre

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[news] RIPE Policy Proposals - February Update
by Marco Schmidt 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

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: 2015-04, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies" 2016-05, “Synchronising the Initial and Subsequent IPv6 Allocation Policies” Proposals Awaiting Input: 2016-04, “IPv6 PI Sub-assignment Clarification” Proposal Overview: 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: Describes how the 24-month holding period for scarce resources will be applied. STATUS: Last Call WHERE TO COMMENT: Address Policy Working Group: address-policy-wg(a)ripe.net DEADLINE: 09 March 2017 FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04 PROPOSAL: 2016-05, “Synchronising the Initial and Subsequent IPv6 Allocation Policies” OVERVIEW: The goal of this proposal is to match the subsequent IPv6 allocation requirements with the initial allocation requirements. RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Explains the requirements to request a subsequent IPv6 allocation. STATUS: Last Call WHERE TO COMMENT: Address Policy Working Group: address-policy-wg(a)ripe.net DEADLINE: 28 March 2017 FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2016-05 ===== The following proposal is awaiting input before they can go any further in the PDP. PROPOSAL: 2016-04, “IPv6 PI Sub-assignment Clarification” OVERVIEW: The goal of this proposal is to define sub-assignments in IPv6 PI assignments as subnets of /64 and shorter. RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Explains feasibility and possible side effects. STATUS: Review Phase – Rewriting Proposal FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2016-04 ===== The RIPE NCC provides an overview of current RIPE Policy Proposals here: 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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