RIPE NCC Member Update: May 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - General Meeting and Executive Board Elections - RIPE 74 Meeting - ENOG 13 St. Petersburg - SEE 6/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting Montenegro - RIPE DATABASE Web User Interface Improvements - IPv6 for Governments - Celebrating 25 Years of the RIPE NCC - RIPE NCC Technical Update - RIPEstat Country Resource List Widget - RIPE NCC Webinars for Law Enforcement - Training and Webinars - RACI at RIPE 74 - RIPE Labs - Monthly Policy Updates - Email Tagging - Social Media - RIPE NCC Updates from RIPE 74 LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 16,009 (+220) LIRs with IPv6: 11,910 (+146) IPv4 addresses transferred in April: 382,020 (+285,884) All our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true GENERAL MEETING AND EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTIONS The RIPE NCC GM took place last week from 10-12 May. All three resolutions were approved by the membership. Maria Häll, Christian Kaufmann and Salam Yamout were re-elected to the RIPE NCC Executive Board. Full details on the GM, including a recording of the meeting, are available from: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017 A full voting report will also be published on the GM pages this week. RIPE 74 MEETING The RIPE community convened in Budapest last week for RIPE 74, and there were many great sessions and presentations that will be of interest to the membership. The archives for the meeting provide video recordings, presentations and transcripts: https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/ The Daily Meeting Reports are available from: https://ripe74.ripe.net/programme/report/ All the presentations given by RIPE NCC staff with links to the videos and PDFs of their presentations are listed at the bottom of this email. ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg next week from 23-24 May, and we hope you will join us for what promises to be a great meeting. Remote participation is available if you can’t be there in person. Full meeting details are available from: https://www.enog.org/enog-13/ SEE 6/RIPE NCC REGIONAL MEETING MONTENEGRO The South East Europe (SEE) 6/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in Budva, Montenegro from 12-13 June. All details on the meeting are available at: https://www.ripe.net/see6 RIPE DATABASE WEB USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS At RIPE 74, Tim Bruijnzeels gave a presentation on usability improvements in the RIPE Database web user interface. If you have comments or suggestions on these improvements, please let Tim know at <tim@ripe.net>: https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/146/ IPv6 FOR GOVERNMENTS As part of our efforts to support IPv6 adoption in our service region, the RIPE NCC is starting a new programme to offer help to governments with their IPv6 allocation requests. If you represent a government that is planning to make an IPv6 allocation request, please see the information at: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6/ipv6-for-governments CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF THE RIPE NCC The RIPE NCC is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2017, and through the year we'll be publishing articles that look back over a quarter century of the RIPE NCC: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/ripe-ncc-25 RIPE NCC TECHNICAL UPDATE The RIPE NCC’s Chief Information Officer, Kaveh Ranjbar, recently published three articles outlining the RIPE NCC’s plans for its technical services and tools. The articles cover RIPE Atlas, DNS, and tools and research. The first, with links to the other two articles, is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/ripe-ncc-technical-services-2017-part... RIPEstat COUNTRY RESOURCE LIST WIDGET This simple and useful widget shows the resources registered to a country: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/country-resource-list#w.resource=NL RIPE NCC WEBINARS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT On 15 May, over 400 cybercrime agents from all over Europe took part in the first of six webinars for Europol/CEPOL. After the series of webinars is complete, we will report on the initiative on RIPE Labs. More details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-webi... TRAINING AND WEBINARS In June, we will hold face-to-face training in France, Georgia, Montenegro, Denmark and Slovakia. There will also be webinars for new LIRs and on Internet governance, RIPE Atlas usage, IPv6 and the RIPE Database. You can sign up for these at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/ RACI AT RIPE 74 Eight academics and researchers came to RIPE 74 with the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) and gave presentations on topics ranging from RPKI and IPv6 to security and DNS Tor anonymity. All presentations are available in the RIPE 74 archives. There is currently a call for RACI applications for RIPE 75 in Dubai this summer. The deadline to apply is 20 August 2017. All the RACI details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci RIPE LABS Vesna Manojlovic presents the results of the RIPE NCC's DNS Measurements Hackathon, which took place in Amsterdam in April: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/results-dns-measurements-hackathon Giovane Moura shows how turning on Anycast for B-root was perceived by RIPE Atlas probes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/giovane_moura/anycast-on-b-root-and-ripe-atlas... Hisham Ibrahim from the RIPE NCC looks at what we've learned from ten years of the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG): https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hisham_ibrahim/ten-years-of-menog-what-have-we... MONTHY POLICY UPDATES The RIPE NCC sends a monthly update on the status of policy proposals in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). You can find all the updates at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/policy-updates 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 RIPE NCC UPDATES FROM RIPE 74 RIPE NCC staff gave several updates during the RIPE 74 Meeting in Budapest. The presentations and links to videos are listed below. Axel Pawlik: Report from the RIPE NCC https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/108 Paul Rendek: Engagement Efforts Throughout the RIPE NCC Service Region: https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/110 Kaveh Ranjbar: RIPE NCC Technical Update https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/111 Rumy Spratley-Kanis: Update on RIPE NCC Training Services https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/112 Marco Schmidt: Current Policy Topics https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/78 Marco Schmidt: Outdated References in Policy Documents https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/80 Andrea Cima: Feedback from RIPE NCC Registration Services https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/79 Vesna Manojlovic: IXP Tools Sprint and Eyeball Jedi https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/85 Massimo Candela: TraceMON: Network Debugging Made Easy https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/103 Richard Leaning: RIPE NCC LEA Interactions Update https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/133 Tim Bruijnzeels: Operational Update RIPE Database https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/143 Anand Buddhdev: RIPE NCC DNS Update https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/145 Vesna Manojlovic: RIPE NCC DNS Hackathon Report https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/153 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