RIPE NCC Member Update: February 2017 Contents: - LIR Statistics - RIPE NCC Membership Pages - LIR Contact Migration - RIPE NCC Member Lunches - DNS Measurements Hackathon - RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting - Policy Development Summaries - Training Courses and Webinars - RIPE 74 Budapest - RIPE Fellowship Programme - ENOG 13 St. Petersburg - MENOG 17 Muscat - RIPE Accountability Taskforce - Law Enforcement Agency Requests - RIPE Atlas Probe Uptimes - IPv6 RIPEness in 2017 - Ethics in Network Measurements - RIPE Labs - RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) - Email Tagging - Social Media LIR STATISTICS (change since last update) Number of LIRs: 15,334 (+212) LIRs with IPv6: 11,485 (+127) IPv4 addresses transferred in January: 274,944 (-446,976) https://labs.ripe.net/statistics RIPE NCC MEMBERSHIP PAGES We updated our Membership Information pages to make it easier for you to get all the information you need in one place, including a new LIR Basics for Members section that is very useful for newer members of the RIPE NCC: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support We also updated our list of services to make it easier to find what you're looking for: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/what-we-do/list-of-ripe-ncc-services LIR CONTACT MIGRATION Are you an LIR account administrator? Please use the contact migration wizard in the LIR Portal by 1 April 2017 to ensure we have one list of authorised users for each LIR. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2017-January/001125.htm... RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES Registration is open for upcoming member lunches in Dublin, Amman, Kazan, Lvov and Vladivostok. Space is limited at these events, so please register soon and come meet the RIPE NCC's staff in your home city: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/ DNS MEASUREMENTS HACKATHON 2017 The RIPE NCC's fifth hackathon will take place in Amsterdam from 20-21 April, and this time it's focusing on DNS measurements. If you are interested in taking part, we provide funding for up to six people to travel to the event. The deadline to apply is 26 February! https://labs.ripe.net/hackathons RIPE NCC ROUNDTABLE MEETING On 24 January, the RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators in Brussels. Find out about what happened and check out the presentations from the meeting: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-hold... POLICY DEVELOPMENT SUMMARIES The RIPE NCC sends a monthly update on the status of policy proposals in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). We've collected them all on one page to make it easier for you to keep track of what's going on in the PDP: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/policy-updates TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS In March, we'll give training courses in Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Slovenia and Norway. We'll also have webinars on IPv6 Addressing Plans, the RIPE Database and one for new LIRs. You can register for any of these at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses RIPE 74 BUDAPEST RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary from 8-12 May. Registration is open and there is a call for presentation proposals. The RIPE 74 website has also been optimised for mobile after recent feedback from attendees. The new design will allow us to further improve the RIPE Meeting website for future meetings. https://ripe74.ripe.net/ RIPE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME The new RIPE Fellowship will fund up to five attendees from the RIPE NCC service region to participate in a RIPE Meeting: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/apply-now-for-new-ripe-fellowship-pro... ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from 23-24 May. Registration is open and the Call for Presentations deadline is 3 April. https://www.enog.org/enog-13/ MENOG 17 MUSCAT The MENOG 17 Meeting takes place in Muscat from 19-20 April, and it's preceded by IPv6 and DNS workshops. http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/ RIPE ACCOUNTABILITY TASK FORCE The RIPE Accountability Task Force is undertaking a review of the RIPE community's accountability by examining its current procedures, documentation and structures. A webpage for the task force has been published along with a draft scope and a link to the task force mailing list archives: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/ripe-accountability-task-force/ LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY REQUESTS A new RIPE Document outlines the requests that the RIPE NCC received from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in 2016: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-678 RIPE ATLAS PROBE UPTIMES Rene Wilhelm provides an update on the status of RIPE Atlas probe connections: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/update-on-atlas-probe-lifetimes IPv6 RIPENESS IN 2017 Rene also provides an update on our IPv6 RIPEness project, including an analysis of IPv6 RIPEness for new LIRs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/ipv6-ripeness-update ETHICS IN NETWORK MEASUREMENTS Our Community Builder gave an interview at the Free and Open Software event FOSDEM on the moral obligations of engineers, scientists and hackers, based on the example of RIPE Atlas: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ethics-in-network-measurements RIPE LABS Thirteen new RIPE Labs articles were posted since the last Member Update, including one from Anant Shah on using RIPE Atlas to validate international routing detours. Check them out and let us know if you have interesting research or ideas you'd like to share with the community. https://labs.ripe.net/ RIPE ACADEMIC COOPERATION INITIATIVE (RACI) If you are an academic there is still time to apply for RACI. Successful applicants receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation to the meetings and the opportunity to present their research. RIPE 74 (8-12 May, Budapest): apply by 5 March 2017 SEE 6 (12-13 June, Budva): apply by 9 April 2017 https://www.ripe.net/raci 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 February Member Update, please let me know. Best regards, Fergal Cunningham Membership Communications Officer RIPE NCC