RIPE NCC Member Update: August 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - Unified LIR Portal and RIPE Database User Experience - RIPE Atlas News - Validation of DNS Delegations - Updating the Registry - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - RIPE NCC General Meeting - NRO NC Nominations - ENOG 14 - RIPE 75 - ENOG 15 - RIPE 78 - RIPE Fellowship - RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - RACI - RIPE IoT Roundtable Meeting - RIPE NCC Training Courses - Full Day Online Learning Event - RIPE Diversity Task Force - RIPE Labs - The RIPE NCC is Hiring - RSS News Feeds from the RIPE NCC - Email Tagging - Monthly Policy Updates - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 16,586 (+245) LIRs with IPv6: 12,213 (+144) IPv4 addresses transferred in July: 450,560 (-797,952) All our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true UNIFIED LIR PORTAL AND RIPE DATABASE USER EXPERIENCE The integration is now complete and functionality has been extended in both applications. Please let us know your experience of this service. You can read more about our work on RIPE Labs: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/unifying-the-... RIPE ATLAS CLOSE TO 10,000 ACTIVE PROBES We thank everyone who has contributed to this project so far. If you’d like to get involved, you can find more information online: https://atlas.ripe.net/campaigns/8e287d80-5ba6-4b6a-a1fc-265b029d7eb1/ VALIDATION OF DNS DELEGATIONS Use the new DNS Check widget to check your DNS servers for configuration errors. The results are powered by Zonemaster: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/dns-check#w.resource=ripe.net TRANSFER OF RESOURCES DUE TO COMPANY ACQUISITION? If there has been a company acquisition since you became a member, please let us know. It will make your future interactions with us much simpler and quicker. https://my.ripe.net/#/update-registry RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES NEAR YOU Member lunches in September are scheduled in Krasnodar and Glasgow. In October, we’ll be in Stockholm and in November you can meet us in Bucharest. Register for a member lunch via the links online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING OCTOBER 2017 The GM will take place from 24-26 October and will feature votes on Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2018 and the redistribution of the RIPE NCC surplus/deficit to the membership. All information, including the registration link and a table listing registrations per country, is available online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2017 NOMINATIONS TO NRO NC There is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one vacant seat on the NRO NC. One candidate has been nominated so far. To make your nomination, please follow the process described online: https://www.ripe.net/s/nro-nc-nominations-2017 ENOG 14 IN MINSK The ENOG 14 Meeting takes place in Minsk, Belarus from 9-10 October 2017. See the meeting details at: https://www.enog.org/enog-14/ Got a presentation? The deadline for proposals is 20 August: https://www.enog.org/enog-14/cfp/ RIPE 75 IN DUBAI RIPE 75 takes place in Dubai from Sunday, 22 October to Thursday, 26 October. Registration is open now. All the meeting details are available at: https://ripe75.ripe.net/ Got a presentation? The deadline for proposals is 20 August: https://ripe75.ripe.net/cfp/ ENOG 15 CALL FOR HOST Do you want to host an ENOG Meeting? Let us know before 25 August 2017. More details are online: https://www.enog.org/meetings/call-for-host/ RIPE 78 CALL FOR HOST We’re looking for a reliable organisation to help us in hosting RIPE 78. The deadline for proposals is this Friday, 18 August 2017. More details are online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/call-for-host/ RIPE FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE APPROACHES The RIPE Fellowship programme covers travel, accommodation and a full-week meeting ticket for RIPE 75 in Dubai (22-26 October). The application deadline is Friday, 25 August: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-fellowship RIPE NCC COMMUNITY PROJECTS FUND - SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS WANTED The RIPE NCC is providing EUR 250,000 per year for projects supporting Internet resilience and operations. We are seeking three volunteers who will comprise the selection committee together with a RIPE NCC Executive Board Member. The deadline to apply is 16 September: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/call-for-ripe-ncc-commu... RACI DEADLINE 20 AUGUST RACI applications for RIPE 75 in Dubai and ENOG 14 in Minsk must be in by 20 August 2017. All details are online: https://www.ripe.net/raci RIPE IoT ROUNDTABLE MEETING IN LEEDS Join us to discuss the potential impact of the IoT on the RIPE community’s business interests and the services offered by the RIPE NCC. This meeting takes place on 21 September. Further details, including the draft agenda, are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/roundtable/september-2017 RIPE NCC TRAINING COURSES NEAR YOU: 30 August - 1 September in Amsterdam 7-8 September in Lisbon 13-15 September in Skopje 20-22 September in Sarajevo 27-29 September in Yerevan Get more info and subscribe online: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/courses FULL DAY ONLINE LEARNING EVENT RIPE NCC Educa features speakers from the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community on the subject of RIPE Atlas. This event takes place on 5 October and registration opens on 1 September. More details to come. RIPE DIVERSITY TASK FORCE The task force would love to hear from you! Join the discussion by subscribing to the mailing list at: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity LATEST ON RIPE LABS RIPE NCC Trainer Gerard Viviers on how the RIPE NCC can help in combatting cybercrime: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gviviers/when-it-comes-to-cybercrime-can-the-r... Vesna Manojlovic announces the next RIPE NCC Hackathon: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/join-the-ripe-ncc-hackathon-version-6 Uta Meier-Hahn spills the secrets of de-peering: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-secrets-of-de-peering Anant Shah and team explain a new method of detecting network outages using RIPE Atlas: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anant_shah/detecting-network-outages-with-ripe... Alireza Vaziri dicusses mitigation techniques against botnet-driven DDoS attacks: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alireza_vaziri/botnet RIPE Labs is always looking for interesting new content. Have you ever considered RIPE Labs as a way to get your work noticed? Email <labs@ripe.net> for information on publishing. THE RIPE NCC IS HIRING There are currently two open positions at the RIPE NCC - do you know someone who would be interested in working with us? Send them here: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/working-at-the-ripe-ncc RSS NEWS FEEDS FROM THE RIPE NCC News feeds allow you to see when we add new content on a particular subject in a section of the website that you're interested in. You can get the latest headlines as soon as we publish them. https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/feeds 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]. MONTHLY 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 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 You can find all the previous RIPE NCC Member Updates containing an overview of what the RIPE NCC is doing at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/member-update If you have any questions or comments on the material in the Member Update, please let me know. Best regards, Nick Hyrka Communications Manager RIPE NCC