Hello RIPE NCC members, This is the last update of 2020, with everything you need to know about our services and what’s been happening in the RIPE community this month. 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats -- RIPE 82 will be Virtual -- RIPE 81 Meeting Statistics -- European Union Legislative and Strategic Proposals -- Roundtable Meetings for Governments and Regulators -- Webinars Page Redesign -- RIPE NCC Access has a new look 2. Your Technical Update -- Report from the RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon -- NWI-10: Phase 1 Implemented -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- Report from the RIPE Chair Team: 100 Days In -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Gulf Region 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: Future of RPKI -- RIPE 82 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats Number of LIRs: 23,794 (-585) LIRs with IPv6: 16,062 (-173) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in November: 990,720 (+326,528) -- RIPE 82 will be Virtual The RIPE Chair, Mirjam Kühne, announced that RIPE 82 will take place as a virtual meeting because the situation around COVID-19 is still too uncertain: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2020-December/001995.html -- RIPE 81 Meeting Statistics We’ve published a Tableau dashboard with some key stats from RIPE 81: https://ripe81.ripe.net/meeting-statistics/ -- European Union Legislative and Strategic Proposals The European Commission recently published a number of new proposals relating to the digital economy, which includes the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act and a revised directive on Network Information Security. While we will be making an assessment of what this all means for the RIPE NCC and our operations, we recommend that you look at these proposals to assess their impact on your own business. We will provide further updates to the RIPE Cooperation Working Group regarding our own assessment and further actions in the legislative process, such as consultations: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/cooperation-wg/2020-December/001433.... -- Roundtable Meetings for Governments and Regulators We recently organised two virtual Roundtable Meetings for governments and regulators in December: one in the Middle East and one in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. Presentations and related information are available here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/roundtable/previous-meetings Our next Roundtable Meeting will take place on 26 January 2021 and will focus on Europe: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/roundtable/26-january-2021 -- Webinars Page Redesign Our Webinars page got a new look and feel! You can now see in one quick glance all of the online trainings we offer on topics such as BGP, IPv6, Measurements and more: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars We will announce our January 2021 schedule soon, so keep an eye on this page. -- RIPE NCC Access has a new look We recently deployed a new version of RIPE NCC Access: https://access.ripe.net The new interface is leaner, and its performance has been improved. This is part of a greater effort to unify and improve user experience across all of our platforms. We hope you like it! 2. Your Technical Update -- Report from the RIPE Atlas Software Probes Deployathon Vesna Manojlovic shares the results from our most recent hackathon where we encouraged the wide deployment of RIPE Atlas software probes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/report-from-ripe-atlas-software-probes-d... -- NWI-10: Phase 1 Implemented In December, we implemented phase 1 of NWI-10: Definition of Country. ORGANISATION objects with "org-type:" 'LIR' have been updated to include a new "country:" attribute and the Extended Delegated Statistics has been updated when there was a mismatch between the file and this new attribute: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2020-December/006760.html -- Service Announcements --- Recent LIR Portal in Maintenance Mode (21 December 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/lir-portal-in-maintenance... RPKI ROAs Deleted for Some Legacy Resources (16 December 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/rpki-roas-deleted-for-som... Core Network Maintenance (13 December 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/core-network-maintenance Invalid RPKI Certificate Published (9 December 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/invalid-rpki-certificate-... LIR Portal Planned Downtime (8 December 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/lir-portal-planned-downti... DNSSEC Validation Problem with ripe.net (3 December 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/dnssec-validation-problem... 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- Report from the RIPE Chair Team: 100 Days In The RIPE Chair Team (Mirjam and Niall) reflect on their first 100 days supporting the RIPE community: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam_kuhne/report-from-the-ripe-chair-team-1... -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Gulf Region Our latest Internet Country Report provides a snapshot of the Internet landscape in eight countries across the Gulf region: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-countr... 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: Future of RPKI, 20 January 2021 Our next Open House event will focus on RPKI. A registration link and agenda will be available soon: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house -- RIPE 82, 17-21 May 2021 RIPE 82 will take place as a virtual meeting from 17-21 May 2021. Keep an eye on the RIPE 82 website for updates: https://ripe82.ripe.net/ Thank you for reading till the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC