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Announcement: RIPE NCC Training Courses
by Training Mailbox 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC invites you to register for one of our upcoming training courses: - The LIR Training Course This course teaches LIRs how to request Internet number resources and interact with the RIPE NCC. A course outline is available at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/courses/lir/outline/ - The Routing Registry Training Course This course teaches LIRs how to use the RIPE Database for routing. A course outline is available at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/courses/rr/ - The IPv6 Training Course This course teaches LIRs about the need for IPv6 and includes basic information on how to plan your deployment. A course outline is available at: http://www.ripe.net/training/ipv6/outline.html To see the location of upcoming courses and to register, please use the LIR Portal or complete the registration form on our website at: RIPE NCC Upcoming Courses List& Registration https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <training(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager RIPE NCC

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New RIPE Document "RIPE Routing Working Group Recommendations, on IPv6 Route Aggregation"
by Alix Guillard 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE Document, ripe-532, "RIPE Routing Working Group Recommendations on IPv6 Route Aggregation", has been published. You can find the new document at: http://ripe.net/ripe/docs/routing-recommendations-ipv6 During RIPE 63, the Routing Working Group decided to add specific IPv6 recommendations to its existing document about route aggregation, ripe-399 "RIPE Routing Working Group Recommendations on Route Aggregation". This new guideline document is intended to supplement ripe-399. Best regards, -- Alix Guillard RIPE NCC Webmaster - http://ripe.net/

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RIPE NCC Membership and Stakeholder Survey 2011 - Results
by Axel Pawlik 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, The results of the Membership and Stakeholder Survey 2011 were presented at the RIPE 63 Meeting, which took place in Vienna, Austria from 31 October-4 November 2011. The full report is available at: https://www.ripe.net/survey2011 These large-scale surveys are used by the RIPE NCC to assess its current service offering and to shape its strategy for the years ahead. The RIPE NCC carries out these every three years. They are extremely important in finding out the views of RIPE NCC members and other stakeholders on the direction the RIPE NCC should be taking as an organisation. An independent third party, the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), conducted the analysis of the survey data. Any information that might identify the respondent was removed by the OII and was not made available to the RIPE NCC or published in the report. If you have any questions or comments relating to the survey, please email <surveys(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE 63: Report and Thanks
by RIPE NCC Meeting Coordinator 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Dear Colleagues, RIPE 63 took place last week from 31 October - 4 November 2011 in Vienna, Austria. 465 people attended, making it the the most well-attended RIPE Meeting to date. RIPE 63 Meeting Report ---------------------- The full RIPE 63 Meeting Report is now available at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/ Sessions Archive ----------------- Presentations from the week can be found at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/presentations/ Webcasts and stenography transcripts can be found at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/archives/ Thanks ------ We would like to thank everyone who participated at RIPE 63 - onsite and remotely - who helped to make this such a successful meeting. We would also like to thank the RIPE 63 sponsors: A1, Arbor Networks, Google, Netnod, next layer, Nokia Siemens Networks and 6connect. And special thanks goes to the local hosts of this meeting: ACOnet, nic.at, University of Vienna and the Vienna Internet Exchange. Next Meeting ------------ RIPE 64 will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 16 – 20 April 2012. We hope to see you there! Your Opinion ------------ As always we appreciate your feedback. You can either send an email to <meeting(a)ripe.net> or fill in the anonymous feedback form at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/feedback/ Best regards, The RIPE Meeting Team

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Wilfried Woeber Appointed to NRO NC for Three-Year Term
by Axel Pawlik 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that Wilfried Woeber was appointed by the RIPE NCC Executive Board to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). He will serve a three-year term that runs from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014. The RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman, Nigel Titley, made the announcement during the Closing Plenary on Friday, 4 November 2011, at the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna. More information about the NRO NC and the selection process can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/nronc2011 Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE 63: Daily Meeting Report - Friday
by RIPE Meeting 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, A short summary of Friday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations, webcasts and further information, can be found at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/thursday/ Friday Plenary Friday morning's Plenary began with updates from the other four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC, also gave an update on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Executive Council (EC) activities and Andrea Cima, Registration Services Manager, RIPE NCC, presented a global overview of allocation and assignment statistics. Filiz Yilmaz, Senior Director of Participation and Engagement, gave the IANA Update. Closing Plenary The Closing Plenary began with Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC, giving an entertaining and informative presentation on IPv4 exhaustion. Next on the agenda were three IPv6-related lightning talks and one on "RPKI Validation Performance". The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) held elections for the revolving vacant seat. The audience thanked Rob Evans, who is standing down from the PC. Filiz Yilmaz was elected by the attendees in the room by show of hands. It was also announced that Joao Damas, IRC, was standing down from the PC. He received a standing ovation for his efforts in coordinating the RIPE Meeting plenary content over the last several years. Brian Nisbet was welcomed as his replacement. Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, asked the Plenary if it agreed that the RIPE NCC could continue to use an address block for RIS activities. The attendees present agreed by show of hands. Marco Hogewoning, RIPE NCC, announced that the resource request for business operations he had presented on earlier in the week has been revoked. Nigel Titley, Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board, announced that Wilfried Woeber had been selected as the RIPE NCC Executive Board appointee to the NRO Number Council (NC). Erik Romijn, RIPE NCC, gave the RIPE 63 Technical Report. A report from the Secret Working Group followed and Rob Blokzijl closed the RIPE 63 Meeting with a short overview of meeting statistics, thanked the meeting hosts, the organisation team and the attendees and encouraged everyone to take part in the RIPE 64 Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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RIPE 63: Daily Meeting Report - Thursday
by RIPE Meeting 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, A short summary of Thursday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations, webcasts and further information, can be found at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/thursday/ Address Policy Working Group The third AP WG session started on Thursday with discussion on the IPv6 PI/PA unification proposal made by Gert Doering, AP Working Group co-Chair. There was an analysis of special cases, the costs and the "multiple blocks per LIR" scenario that would result from the unification. The RIPE NCC was tasked to look into possible reasons why LIRs would like to be able to request multiple prefixes. More feedback was encouraged on the mailing list. During the Open Policy Hour, the recent RFC 6382, published by the IETF, was presented. Some possible interpretation issues with the ripe-525 policy, "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policy" were highlighted. The attendees present reached the conclusion that a policy proposal should not be submitted. DNS Working Group The first session of the DNS Session WG had a very diverse set of presentations, ranging from an update by the RIPE NCC, an update on the DANE work in IETF, to DNS configuration management and two different implementations of an authoritative DNS server. The second DNS session started with an interesting presentation about the excessive increased query load on the root name servers that occurred for a brief time this summer, followed by a presentation on "DNSSEC Trigger". There was also an update on the "IDN Variant Issues Project" and an update on the status of the DNSEASY and SSR Meetings. The session ended with a very engaging panel discussion, ranging from the technical to the political implications of blocking or rewriting DNS query results at the registry or ISP level and how that affects operators throughout the world. EIX Working Group The first presentation of the session was an introduction to the local peering scene in Austria, given by Christian Panigl, VIX. There was then an update on EIX activities, which included the new IPv4 policy and switch wishlist. Remco van Mook, Equinix, and Martin Pels, AMS-IX, offered to help with the document. The session continued with a presentation on "Monitoring Platforms for Internet Exchange Points" and "Jumbo Frames in AMS-IX", which prompted many in the audience to voice their opinions. The second EIX WG session began with a presentation on "Extended Communities for Route-Servers and ASN32", followed by "How to Resolve Edge Redundancy for Peering". Next up was Joao Damas, ISC, who talked about the Open Source Routing project he was working on. There were two presentations on problems experienced with Proxy-ARP and discussion focused on why this happened. A Cisco representative said he would bring this feedback back to Cisco. The session ended with on open mic session of lightning updates. RIPE Database Working Group The RIPE NCC shared the latest RIPE Database developments. RIPE NCC staff members, Kaveh Ranjbar and Denis Walker, presented on the action points from the RIPE 62 Meeting, all of which have been completed. The main discussion of the session was about the geolocation service. The RIPE NCC showed a prototype of the service and the WG Chair will present the proposed way forward on the RIPE Database mailing list. The RIPE NCC was also requested to investigate how internationalisation could be made possible and what would need to be done if it is decided to fully serve the data in utf-8. As reported in the Anti-Abuse WG earlier this week, a requirement of an abuse contact i in the RIPE Database will start the PDP in the coming weeks.. This is the result of the Abuse Contact Task Force. An other issue raised was that objects sponsored by an LIR are not shown in the RIPE Database. The mailing list will be used to analyse how to move forward. Cooperation Working Group The RIPE Cooperation Working Group met in the final session of the day, and included a remote presentation from European Commission representative Andrea Glorioso, who emphasised the need for more synchronisation between the RIPE community and the Commission. Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC, gave an update on the Internet Governance Forum 2011, while Nurani Nimpuno, Netnod, spoke about the work of the United Nations CSTD Working Group on "Improvements to the IGF". MAT Working Group The session started with NIC Brazil reporting on how RIPE TTM data is being used in real time in Brazil. Next there was a presentation on Google's "Measurement Lab (M-Lab)" . After the talk, a number of people asked if Google was considering integrating or sponsoring RIPE Atlas. Wolfgang Nagele, RIPE NCC, then presented on "PCAP Analysis with HADOOP". The session concluded with two presentations by the RIPE NCC, one of which updated the audience on the recent developments in the RIPE NCC's measurements activities. The other announced the introduction of user defined measurements for RIPE Atlas. David Freedman, Claranet, then asked the audience how the reachability of a prefix could be measured so that people can build filters properly and proposed an experiment. Interest was expressed and he said he would formulate a more solid proposal. IPv6 Privacy BoF An IPv6 Privacy BoF was held in the Park Congress I room following the last working group sessions of the day. The German NGO Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung’s (Working Group on Data Retention) position on how user privacy should be supported by ISPs and software/hardware vendors was discussed as well as how privacy concerns will influence ISPs’ IPv6 assignment practices.

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RIPE NCC General Meeting November 2011
by Axel Pawlik 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Dear members, The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) was held 2-3 November 2011 adjacent to the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna. There were 117 attendees, excluding RIPE NCC staff and observers from the other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). There were six resolutions to be voted on at the GM. The full text of all resolutions is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/agenda The presentations given at the GM are available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/presentations The GM was broadcast for members via webcast. The archive is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/webstream The results of the voting on the GM resolutions were as follows: a) Certification: Option A No 161 Yes 83 Abstain 17 a) Certification: Option B No 120 Yes 114 Abstain 26 b) The General Meeting adopts the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2012. No 148 Yes 102 Abstain 11 c) The General Meeting, in accordance with Article 21 of the Articles of Association, adopts the amendments to the Articles of Association as proposed and announced by the Executive Board on 5 October 2011. Yes 193 Abstain 41 No 27 d) The General Meeting adopts the proposed new RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement, makes obsolete the old RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement and the RIPE NCC Standard Terms and Conditions, and instructs the RIPE NCC Executive Board and management of the RIPE NCC to implement the necessary changes. Yes 200 No 38 Abstain 23 e) The General Meeting approves the addition of David Freedman to the RIPE NCC Arbiters Panel. Yes 203 No 31 Abstain 27 The RIPE NCC would like to thank its membership for the input and support given at the General Meeting. Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC General Meeting: Webcast and Presentations
by Axel Pawlik 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Dear members, The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) began today, 2 November, and will conclude at 16:00 (UTC +1) tomorrow, 3 November, when the results of the voting on the GM resolutions will be announced. The electronic voting period for those who registered will remain open until 14:00 (UTC +1) on 3 November. The archive of the webcast from tonight's section of the GM is available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/webstream The results of the voting will be broadcast via webcast on the same page tomorrow from 15:40 (UTC +1). The presentations from tonight are available at: https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm/november-2011/presentations/ Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE 63 Daily Meeting Report - Wednesday
by RIPE Meeting 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, A short summary of Wednesday's events at RIPE 63 can be found below. The full Daily Meeting Report, including photos, links to presentations, webcasts and further information, can be found at: http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/report/wednesday/ Address Policy Working Group Emilio Madaio, RIPE NCC Policy Development Officer, gave on overview of "Current Policy Topics" and the "Policy Development Office Activities". Alex le Heux, RIPE NCC, continued with "Feedback from RIPE NCC Registration Services", showing how the implementation can take from days to years. The APWG co-Chairs announced their intention to declare consensus on proposal 2011-02, "Removal of multihomed requirement for IPv6 PI". 2011-04, "Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation" and 2011-05, "Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space" were presented and discussed. Dave Wilson, HEAnet, gave an overview "On Inter-RIR Transfers" and asked for discussion on whether we need an inter-RIR transfer policy. The RIPE NCC was requested to evaluate the current transfer policy. Rob Blokzijl then introduced his initiative for the "IPv4 Maintenance Policy" document. Shane Kerr, ISC, explained the conclusions from yesterday's IPv6 WG session about IPv6 renumbering. The last item on the agenda was a review of the withdrawn policy 2008-08, "Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region". ENUM Working Group The ENUM WG started with Wolfgang Nagele, RIPE NCC, giving an update of the RIPE NCC's ENUM service. Patrik Faltstrom, Cisco, gave a short presentation about User ENUM in Sweden. The third presenter, Lino Santos, reported about the progress made with ENUM in Portugal. Most of the WG session was covered by an interesting panel discussion with ENUM experts from various countries and a speaker from from TERENA. The discussion focused around why ENUM is not so successful and if ENUM itself is a service or if it is an underlying technology on which services can be based. An action was assigned to contact all ENUM operators between now and RIPE 64. Routing Working Group Geoff Huston, APNIC, presented the mystery of "The Flat World of BGP" and Thomas Mangin, EXA Networks Ltd., presented on exaBGP and asked for feedback. Randy Bush, IIJ, presented the "Impact of the Tohoku Earthquake on Japanese ISPs" and concluded this was a boring event; the Internet worked around failures. He also presented on the CPU load of BGPSEC. Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC, asked for input on the usefulness of RIS routing beacons. The responses were that they were useful. There was an action on the RIPE NCC to publish the IPv6 Routing Recommendations document. RIPE NCC Services Working Group The RIPE NCC Services Working Group was the final session of the day. Following an introduction to the newly composed Senior Management team by Axel Pawlik, RIPE NCC Managing Director, there was an update from the RIPE NCC Senior Managers on the organisation's various activities, priorities and developments and the results of the RIPE NCC Membership and Stakeholder Survey 2011. There were presentations on the RIPE NCC's preparation for the distribution of the last remaining IPv4 address space, and on the progress of the RIPE NCC's project on Contractual Relationship Requirements for End Users. Finally, Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC Chief Scientist, reported on the development and future plans for RIPE Atlas. PGP Key-Signing Party The PGP Key-Signing Party has been a regular feature at the last few RIPE Meetings, and RIPE 63 was no exception. While cryptography ensures the secrecy of communication, it is important to establish a “web of trust” so that the authenticity of the involved parties is also known with a high degree of confidence. The RIPE Meeting presents an ideal opportunity for attendees to meet, exchange, verify and sign each others' public keys. Yesterday’s Key-Signing Party was attended by 10-15 people and will be continued at future RIPE meetings.

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