RIPE NCC Member Update: October 2016 Contents: - IANA Stewardship Transition Completed - LIR Training Course now on RIPE NCC Academy - RIPE Chair Election Procedure and Function Description - Simplifying Contact Management in the LIR Portal - How to Spend Your RIPE Atlas Credits - RIPEstat Speedchecker Bandwidth Measurements - RIPE 73 - RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) - NRO NC Election During RIPE 73 - New on RIPE Labs Number of LIRs: 14,544 LIRs with IPv6: 10,972 IPv4 addresses transferred in September: 552,704 IANA STEWARDSHIP TRANSITION COMPLETED On 1 October 2016, the IANA functions contract that the United States Government had with ICANN was allowed to expire. This represents the final step in the community-led IANA stewardship transition process that began in 2014. Oversight of IANA is now the responsibility of the Names, Numbers and Protocol Parameters communities that rely on its services. Thank you to everyone who participated! https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/stewardship-transition-... LIR TRAINING COURSE NOW ON RIPE NCC ACADEMY The Local Internet Registry (LIR) Training Course is now available on the RIPE NCC Academy. This online course is designed for both new and old members and covers how to interact with the RIPE NCC, request resources, and use the RIPE Database, LIR Portal and other RIPE NCC tools. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2016-October/001097.htm... RIPE CHAIR ELECTION PROCEDURE AND FUNCTION DESCRIPTION Hans Petter Holen, RIPE Chair, published a proposed election procedure for how the community will select future RIPE Chairs. Also posted is a draft function description for discussion. Please read these proposals and share your feedback on the dedicated mailing list for this discussion: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-chair-discuss/2016-October/0000... https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/draft-ripe-chair-function-description SIMPLIFYING CONTACT MANAGEMENT IN THE LIR PORTAL To simplify user management in the LIR Portal while making communication with the RIPE NCC more secure for our members, we are merging the separate LIR Contacts list with the authorised LIR Portal user list into a single set of LIR Portal user accounts. We have created a wizard to guide a user with administrator privileges through the migration process. https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2016-September/001093.h... HOW TO SPEND YOUR RIPE ATLAS CREDITS Members get one million RIPE Atlas credits each month. Find out how you can spend credits to check your services' connectivity and troubleshoot potential issues: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/what-can-you-do-with-one-million-ripe-at... RIPEstat SPEEDCHECKER BANDWIDTH MEASUREMENTS A new addition to the RIPEstat datasets is Speedchecker Bandwidth Measurements. This allows you to see bandwidth measurements collected by Speedchecker. More applications are currently being developed on top of this data: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#SpeedcheckerBandwidthMeasurements https://stat.ripe.net/widget/speedchecker-bandwidth-measurements RIPE 73 RIPE 73 will take place in Madrid from 24-28 October 2016. Register now at: https://ripe73.ripe.net/attend/register/ Remote participation options will also be available via the RIPE 73 website for those who can’t attend in person. RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) Registration is open for the GM, which takes place alongside RIPE 73 from 26-28 October: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2016 The final agenda is published online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2016/agenda-ge... All details on the GM, including the topics for discussion and those to be voted on, are available on the GM webpages: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2016 NRO NC ELECTION DURING RIPE 73 During RIPE 73 there will be an election to fill one vacant seat on the Number Resource Council Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The voting for this election will be conducted electronically for the first time. Confirmed candidates are listed online: https://www.ripe.net/s/nro-nc-2016-candidates Further information on the voting process is available here: https://www.ripe.net/s/nro-nc-2016-voting NEW ON RIPE LABS Looking at the policy proposal that introduced additional criteria for initial IPv6 allocations – how has this worked out since it was implemented? https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_schmidt/supporting-ipv6-deployment-throu... For some the Internet of Things is just an opportunity to make money. But what if it's also an opportunity to share our expertise - and in the process, make the world a better place? https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_hogewoning/for-the-good-of-the-internet-... Geoff Huston asks if the elliptical curve cryptographic algorithm (ECDSA) is a viable crypto algorithm for use in DNSSEC today: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/dnssec-and-ecdsa 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 feedback about the contents of this mail, please reply and let me know. If there is information about particular services or activities you would like to see included, we can add it to future issues. Kind regards Nick Hyrka Communications Manager RIPE NCC