RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2018 - LIR Statistics - RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2017 - RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2019 - RIPE NCC Executive Board Election - RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) - RIPE 76, Marseille - Upcoming RIPE Meetings - ENOG 15, Moscow - SEE 7, Timisoara - RIPE NCC Hackathon: Tools for Network Operators - RIPE Atlas Measurement Tagging - Historical Whois - Looking Glass 2.0 - Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - IETF 101 Liveblog - IPv6 in Lebanon - RIPE Labs Community Articles - RIPE NCC Training Services - RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - RIPE NCC Service Descriptions and Statuses - PDP Overview - Positions Available at the RIPE NCC - RSS News Feeds - Email Tagging - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 18,661 (+339) LIRs with IPv6: 13,274 (+168) IPv4 addresses transferred in March: 512 (-103,680) All of our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page: https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true RIPE NCC ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL REPORT 2017 Our Annual Report is now online: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-702 This RIPE Labs article explains how we took the Annual Report in a new direction this year: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/a_ripe_ncc_report_like_youve_never_se... The Financial Report 2017 is also online at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/supporting-do... RIPE NCC CHARGING SCHEME 2019 Members will vote on the charging scheme for next year at the General Meeting in May. The proposed scheme maintains the current fee levels This and all supporting documents are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/supporting-do... RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION At the GM, there will be an election to fill two seats on the Executive Board. There are currently four nominees and three confirmed candidates. You can nominate or support a candidate until 25 April. The call for nominations with all the details is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/call-for-nomi... RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) Registration is open to all members for the GM, taking place from 16-18 May 2018. All details, including a list of current candidates for the Board election and registration links, are available from the GM webpages: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/ RIPE 76, MARSEILLE - Registration is open: https://ripe76.ripe.net/register/ - The RIPE Networking App is available to schedule meetings between App users before, during and after RIPE 76: https://ripe76.ripe.net/on-site/ripe-networking-app/ - The RIPE NCC Training course on Measurements and Tools takes place on the Sunday before the meeting (13 May): https://ripe76.ripe.net/on-site/parallel-events/mat-training/ - New: On-Site Childcare: https://ripe76.ripe.net/on-site/on-site-childcare/ UPCOMING RIPE MEETINGS - RIPE 77: Amsterdam, 15-19 October 2018 - RIPE 78: Reykjavík, 20-24 May 2019 - RIPE 79: The Call for Hosts is out! Are you interested in hosting a RIPE Meeting in your city? Please apply by the 30 of April 2018: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/call-for-host/ ENOG 15, MOSCOW Moscow, 4-5 June 2018 - Registration is open: https://www.enog.org/enog-15/register/ - The Call for Presentations (deadline 6 May) is online: http://www.enog.org/enog-15/cfp/ - Apply for an ENOG fellowship by 20 April 2018: https://www.enog.org/about/fellowship/ - RIPE NCC Training Courses after ENOG 15: https://www.enog.org/enog-15/parallel-events/ SEE 7, TIMISOARA Timisoara, 18-19 June 2018 - Registration is open: http://www.ripe.net/see-7/register - The Call for Presentations (deadline 30 April) is online: https://www.ripe.net/see-7/call-for-presentations - RIPE NCC Training Courses after SEE 7: https://www.ripe.net/see-7/ripe-ncc-training-courses RIPE NCC HACKATHON: TOOLS FOR NETWORK OPERATORS The seventh RIPE NCC hackathon will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 23-24 June 2018 in Dublin, co-hosted by iNOG (Irish Network Operators Group), which is having its 16th meeting on Thursday, 21st June. The topic this time is: tools for network operators. Find out more in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/join-network-operators-tools-hackathon RIPE ATLAS MEASUREMENT TAGGING Measurements can now be tagged, detagged, tagged as they're created, or tagged later on. Tags can then be utilised to search, download, or stop sets of measurements en masse with ease. Read the article from Chris Amin on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/ripe-atlas-measurement-tagging HISTORICAL WHOIS Last week the Historical Whois widget was officially released and with it the feature to visually navigate through RIPE Database objects and see historical changes for objects where permitted. Read about it on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/cteusche/historical-whois Try it: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/historical-whois#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A... Data call documentation: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#HistoricalWhois LOOKING GLASS 2.0 The time has arrived and all RIS route collectors have been successfully transitioned to ExaBGP. You can see the benefits in the Looking Glass, now unifying 19 locations and more than 170 full-table peers: https://stat.ripe.net/widget/looking-glass#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3A... DOES THE INTERNET ROUTE AROUND DAMAGE? Emile Aben took the DE-CIX Frankfurt outage on 9 April as an opportunity to look at Internet robustness: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damag... IETF 101 LIVEBLOG Our staff attended the IETF 101 meeting in London last month, and we liveblogged the whole event to give you an overview of all the important discussions that took place: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/ietf-101-liveblog IPv6 IN LEBANON Chafic Chaya explains how we support IPv6 deployment with many different stakeholders in Lebanon: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chafic_chaya/creating-the-demand-for-ipv6-in-l... RIPE LABS COMMUNITY ARTICLES Rene Bakker talks about the adoption of DNSSEC and return on investment: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rene_bakker/bang-for-the-buck-the-adoption-of-... Richard Patterson explains how Sky UK connected 5 million users to IPv6: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/richard_patterson/connecting-5-million-users-t... Torbjorn Eklov looks at how they use persistent DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for Gavlenet's customers: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/teklov/static-dhcpv6-prefix-delegation RIPE NCC TRAINING SERVICES This video shows all the online and face-to-face learning options that RIPE NCC Training Services has to offer: https://www.ripe.net/support/training In the coming month, we'll be delivering training courses in Luxembourg, Russia, Iran, Kuwait, Cyprus, Albania and France. There are also webinars you can take remotely on IPv6 in the RIPE Database, IPv6 Addressing and the New LIRs webinar. All the dates and registration links are available at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING The RIPE NCCC Executive Board held its 116th meeting on 23 March 2018. The draft minutes from that meeting are available at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2018/minutes-116th-exe... RIPE NCC SERVICE DESCRIPTIONS AND STATUSES A full list of the RIPE NCC's services is available at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/what-we-do/list-of-ripe-ncc-services And you can stay up to date with the current status of our services at: https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements Or if you prefer to use the RSS feed, the link is: https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/service-announcements/cur... PDP OVERVIEW An overview of all current RIPE Policy Proposals, their status in the Policy Development Process and any key decisions or milestones are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/current-proposals/current-policy-p... POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE RIPE NCC We are hiring a Technical Trainer and a User Interface Engineer. If you know someone who might be interested in coming to work with us in Amsterdam, please send them this link: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/working-at-the-ripe-ncc RSS NEWS FEEDS 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]. 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 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, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC