RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - MENOG 17 - RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2017 - RIPE NCC Executive Board Election - RIPE 74 Budapest and RIPE 75 Dubai - Cleaning Up Unused AS Numbers - Historical Data Clean-Up - RIPEstat Geoloc History Widget - RIPE Database Web Interface - TraceMON: Network Debugging Made Easy - Reverse DNS Outage for Out-of-Region Address Space - IPv6 RIPEness Through the Years - Country Focus – Russia, Oman, Iraq - RIPE NCC Engagement With Middle East Universities - RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting Minsk - RIPE Labs - Training Courses and Webinars - RIPE NCC Annual Report 2016 - SEE 6 Montenegro - ENOG 13 St. Petersburg - Monthly Policy Updates - Email Tagging - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 15,789 (+250) LIRs with IPv6: 11,764 (+147) IPv4 addresses transferred in March: 667,904 (+215,040) We are now publishing stats on LIRs who have received their last /22: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/lirs-with-last-22 All our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true MENOG 17 The MENOG 17 Meeting is taking place today and tomorrow in Muscat, Oman. Among the presentations, Johan ter Beest from the RIPE NCC will look at ways to identify missed peering opportunities in the Middle East using RIPE Atlas and the Country IXP Jedi. You can follow the meeting via the webcast at: http://www.menog.org/live/ RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) MAY 2017 The GM will take place from 10-12 May in Budapest. We encourage all RIPE NCC members to take advantage of remote participation options and vote on the resolution and in the Executive Board elections: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017 This short video explains why the GM is important for the membership and how to register so you can exercise your voting rights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LfPNpAN808 RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION There will be an election to fill three seats at the upcoming GM. Today is the deadline to nominate or support a candidate. There are currently five confirmed candidates for election and all nominees are listed at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/nominations-s... RIPE 74 BUDAPEST AND RIPE 75 DUBAI RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary next month from 8-12 May. Have you registered yet? All the meeting details, including the draft programme, are at: https://ripe74.ripe.net/ We can announce that the RIPE 75 Meeting will take place in Dubai, UAE from Sunday, 22 October to Thursday, 26 October. Watch this space for further details as the meeting approaches. CLEANING UP UNUSED AS NUMBERS There are currently around 6,600 Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) in our service region that are not being advertised in the routing system. We plan to email the LIR or sponsoring LIR for each unannounced ASN and ask if the resource is still needed: https://www.ripe.net/s/jto6 HISTORICAL DATA CLEAN-UP We are working to clean up old data in the LIR Portal and will continue with this until 1 May 2017. If there is historical information you would like to retain, please visit the Resources section in the LIR Portal before the deadline to copy the data. https://lirportal.ripe.net/ RIPEstat GEOLOC HISTORY WIDGET Ever wonder where IP space was used previously? The Geoloc History widget provides you with a historical view on Maxmind's geo-IP data - a handy tool for IPv4 transfer checks: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/geoloc-history#w.resource=5.35.192.0/21 RIPE DATABASE WEB INTERFACE In the coming weeks, we'll be rolling out usability improvements to the web interface for the RIPE Database, including for multi-object updates with Syncupdates. We'll be posting news items as we introduce the changes to keep you up to date on the improvements. TRACEMON: NETWORK DEBUGGING MADE EASY The RIPE Atlas Team released TraceMON, a client-side tool for visualising network topology generated by traceroutes reaching one or more targets in a network. It provides one-click access to a set of information useful during day-to-day operations: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/massimo_candela/tracemon-traceroute-visualisat... REVERSE DNS OUTAGE FOR OUT-OF-REGION ADDRESS SPACE Anand Buddhdev from the RIPE NCC looks at the events of 16 March 2017, when a bug in a script caused an outage for some reverse DNS delegations registered in the RIPE Database. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/reverse-dns-outage-for-out-of-region-ad... IPv6 RIPEness THROUGH THE YEARS Rene Wilhelm looks at the evolution of IPv6 RIPEness since its introduction in 2010 to recognise LIRs that are deploying IPv6: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/ipv6-ripeness-through-the-years COUNTRY FOCUS - RUSSIA, OMAN, IRAQ Since the last Member Update, we've published three articles using our statistics and data to provide a focus on the membership in countries in our service region. Russia: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-russia-ripe-ncc-statistics-an... Oman: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-oman-ripe-ncc-statistics-and-... Iraq: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-iraq-ripe-ncc-statistics-and-... RIPE NCC ENGAGEMENT WITH MIDDLE EAST UNIVERSITIES Hisham Ibrahim gives an overview of the RIPE NCC's efforts to engage with universities in the Middle East: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hisham_ibrahim/experiences-from-the-lecture-ha... RIPE NCC ROUNDTABLE MINSK On 18 April, the RIPE NCC held a Roundtable Meeting for governments and law enforcement in Minsk, Belarus. A report on the meeting will shortly be published by the RIPE NCC. At the meeting, the RIPE NCC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian government. Details on the signing of the MoU are available at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-and-russian-go... RIPE LABS We are always looking for content for RIPE Labs. If you have interesting Internet-related research or analysis to share with the RIPE community, please consider RIPE Labs as a way to get your work noticed. Just email <labs@ripe.net> and let us know. Last week, Réhan Noordally used RIPE Labs to publish an article on using RIPE Atlas to measure latency to the relatively isolated Reunion Island: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rehan_noordally/using-ripe-atlas-to-measure-la... TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS In May, there will be RIPE NCC Training Courses in Qatar, Spain, Hungary, Iran, Russia and France. There will also be webinars for new LIRs and on IPv6. You can register for any of these at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RIPE NCC ANNUAL REPORT 2016 The RIPE NCC Annual Report 2016 documents the activities of the RIPE NCC throughout the year. The RIPE NCC Financial Report 2016 accounts for the financial activities of the RIPE NCC during the same period. https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-annual-report-... 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 ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from 23-24 May. https://www.enog.org/enog-13/ 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 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