Hello RIPE NCC member, Here’s an overview of everything you need to know this month about our services and what’s happening in the RIPE community: 1. What We’re Doing for You -- Your LIR Stats -- End of the Payment Period Extension -- IPv4 Transfer Listing Service -- Sanctions and the RIPE NCC: Status Update -- RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6-only -- IPv6 Job Task Analysis -- Learn Online 2. Your Technical Update -- Locked Person Objects Cleanup -- From Zero to RPKI Hero -- New Beta RIPEstat UI 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- EuroDIG 2020 Live Blog -- COVID-19: Changing the Internet Governance Landscape -- IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics -- RIPE 80: How We Built a Zoom Alternative with AWS -- Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon -- Focus on: the Cooperation Working Group 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- ENOG 17 -- RIPE 81 -- SEE 9 1. What We’re Doing for You -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,322 (-6) LIRs with IPv6: 16,674 (+62) Policy transfers in May: 604,160 IPv4 addresses (-23,040) -- End of the Payment Period Extension After a three-month extension, the payment period for the 2020 invoice is now ending. We are pleased to see that most members have already paid, and we thank you all for that. For those who haven’t paid yet, we will send reminders to do so on 1 July 2020. We will also include a questionnaire that will help us determine if there are issues preventing members from paying their bills. If you have any questions about a billing issue, don’t hesitate to contact us at: https://www.ripe.net/contact-form?topic=billing -- IPv4 Transfer Listing Service After receiving strong feedback in favour of the IPv4 Transfer Listing Service, we’ve decided to keep the service on our website until we find a more permanent solution: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-June/001426.html -- Sanctions and the RIPE NCC: Status Update Christian Kaufmann, Chairman of the Executive Board, gives an update on the latest developments concerning the sanctions that are affecting some of our members: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-June/001427.html -- RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6-only On 8 June 2020, we organised the RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6-only, a full day of discussions about all things IPv6. During the event our staff and other IPv6 experts looked at IPv6-only in data centres, ISPs, enterprises and more. Session recordings are available at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/ripe-ncc-educa/ripe-ncc-educa-ipv6-202... -- IPv6 Job Task Analysis Get ready to earn our next badge! We’re about to launch our second digital badge ‘IPv6 Fundamentals - Analyst’ in the coming weeks. Before we do that, we try to ensure that exam questions are aligned with the tasks professionals like you carry out as part of your jobs. You can help us by filling out this short five-minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W7J296H -- Learn Online We offer a wide range of e-learning options so that you can keep on learning while staying at home. Webinars: One-hour interactive sessions. Remote Learning Sessions: Two-hour long sessions adapted from our regular training courses. We will announce new dates for Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions next week at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses Online Courses: The RIPE NCC Academy offers three online courses that are free and open to all. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online Does your CV show your RIPE Database expertise? You can make sure that your experience and knowledge is accurately reflected on your CV by earning the RIPE Database Associate badge. Your LIR has three vouchers that are valid until 31 December 2020. Read more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals 2. Your Technical Update -- Locked Person Objects Cleanup On 3 June 2020, we cleaned up locked person objects in the RIPE Database. Affected LIRs and resource maintainers were notified by email. You can learn more about the cleanup at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ed_shryane/cleaning-up-locked-person-objects-i... -- From Zero to RPKI Hero We recently participated in a live demo showing how to create ROAs, using two different validators - the RIPE NCC Validator and the NLnet Labs Routinator - and how to configure routers from four different companies (Nokia, Cisco, Juniper and Arista). The session recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBBz-IcEl4 -- New Beta RIPEstat UI We’ve made significant changes since the last beta update including: • New use cases and new info cards • Speed and stability improvements • Updated look and feel More features coming soon! You can see what it looks like at: https://beta-ui.stat.ripe.net/ 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? -- EuroDIG 2020 Live Blog The 12th edition of EuroDIG, the pan-European Internet governance event, took place from 10-12 June 2020. The RIPE NCC covered the event live on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/eurodig-2020-liveblog -- COVID-19: Changing the Internet Governance Landscape Chris Buckridge looks at what COVID-19 means for the future of Internet Governance: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/covid-19-changing-the-internet-governan... -- IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics Rene Wilhelm analyses IPv6 adoption statistics data from five different sources (Akamai, APNIC, Cisco, Facebook and Google) and explores interesting differences in their measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/ipv6-adoption-statistics-a-comparison-... -- RIPE 80: How We Built a Zoom Alternative with AWS Not all attendees were able to use Zoom to attend RIPE 80, so we set up an alternative video feed. Oliver Payne explains how it was done: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/oliver_payne/ripe-80-setting-up-a-zoom-alterna... -- Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon While working from home, we organised our first virtual hackathon to measure and visualise the health of the Internet. Vesna Manojlovic shares the results: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/report-from-the-first-virtual-ripe-ncc-h... -- Focus on: the Cooperation Working Group The Cooperation Working Group is a forum for discussion focusing on cooperation between the private and public sectors on Internet matters. Interested? Get involved at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/coop 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events -- ENOG 17 ENOG 17 will take place as a virtual meeting from 9-13 November 2020. We will keep you informed about the programme, registration and logistics via email and the ENOG website: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/ -- RIPE 81 RIPE 81 will be a virtual meeting and will take place on 27-30 October 2020. More details will be announced in the coming weeks. -- SEE 9 SEE 9 was postponed to next year and will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 28-29 June 2021. More information about the event is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-9 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