Hello RIPE NCC member, We have passed another successful RIPE meeting and are already looking forward to RIPE 80 - see you in Berlin? This monthly update is full of interesting RIPE Labs articles from colleagues and other important community news. Without further ado, here is your November 2019 update: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- IPv4 Run-out -- RIS Live is Live -- Mail Filtering - Rethinking Our Reliance on RBLs -- Your EU Regulation Update: October 2019 Edition -- Register for Webinars -- December Deadline for Closure Updates -- What Happened at RIPE 79? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPEstat Updates -- RIPE Atlas Probes Have Been Dispatched ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Axel Pawlik Steps Down as RIPE NCC Managing Director -- RIPE NomCom Deadline Extended -- RACI Call for Applications -- 2019-08 Policy proposal: RPKI ROAs for Unallocated and Unassigned RIPE NCC Address Space -- Results of the First IoT Hackathon -- Live from the Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon -- Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- MENOG 20 and Peering Forum, 5-19 March 2020, Manama, Bahrain -- SEE 9, 7-8 April 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- RIPE NCC Day Tashkent, 29 April 2020, Tashkent, Uzbekistan -- RIPE 80, 11-15 May 2020, Berlin, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,363 (+246) LIRs with IPv6: 16,174 (+211) Policy transfers in October: 730 240 IPv4 addresses (+90 752) -- IPv4 Run-out We allocated the last contiguous /22 back in October and are expecting to run-out in the coming weeks. We are fully prepared for run-out and will start using the IPv4 Waiting List when the pool will be exhausted. Read more at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2019-October/001366.htm... -- RIS Live is Live After a successful trial phase, our Routing Information Service Live (RIS Live) was officially launched. Our colleague, Chris, shares more information in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/ris-live-is-live/ -- Mail Filtering - Rethinking Our Reliance on RBLs Are we fighting spam the right way? Read this RIPE Labs article where our colleague, Razvan, shares his reflections on using RPLs (Real-time Blackhole Lists): https://labs.ripe.net/Members/razvano/mail-filtering-rethinking-our-reliance... -- Your EU Regulation Update: October 2019 Edition If you have an interest in EU regulations and digital policies, this article will give you an overview of the current policies proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/your-eu-regulation-updat... -- Register for Webinars Your questions answered by our trainers! Sign up for our free, hour-long webinars to get up to speed on a range of topics including IPv6 addressing plans, the IPv4 transfer market, the RIPE Database and more. Register now: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars -- December Deadline for Closure Updates Do you need to make a request to close an LIR account? Or do you need to update us on any changes that will result in the closure of an LIR account? If you do, please provide us with all the information before 16 December 2019, or you might be invoiced for that account in 2020. -- What Happened at RIPE 79? RIPE 79 took place in Rotterdam on 14-18 October. You can catch-up on the meeting highlights by reading our daily meeting report: https://ripe79.ripe.net/programme/report ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPEstat Updates New UI We released a new beta version of our UI that includes a translation engine, and other new features. Learn more at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_suess_1/the-new-ripestat-in-other-word... New RPKI widget We released a beta version of the ‘RPKI by Country’ widget that enable users to compare RPKI uptake between countries for both IPv4 and IPv6. https://stat.ripe.net/widget/rpki-by-country#w.resource=NL New Widgets Developed by APNIC's NetOX Team In collaboration with APNIC three new widgets were developed. They are currently featured on NetOX (https://netox.apnic.net/) and will soon also be available on RIPEstat's result page. https://stat.ripe.net/widget/caida-as-relationships#w.resource=AS3333 https://stat.ripe.net/widget/apnic-irr-explorer#w.resource=AS3333 https://stat.ripe.net/widget/point-of-contact#w.resource=AS4608 -- RIPE Atlas Probes have been dispatched We recently sent out 3000 new RIPE Atlas probes across the world. Read the news announcement at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/3000-new-ripe-atlas-pro... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Axel Pawlik Steps Down as RIPE NCC Managing Director This week, Axel Pawlik will officially step down as the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. We are grateful for the 20 years he has given the organisation. You can read the news announcement at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/axel-pawlik-stepping-do... -- RIPE NomCom Deadline Extended Daniel Karrenberg, Chair of the 2019-2020 RIPE NomCom, announced that they will be extending the deadline for volunteers to 1 December 2019. Read the full announcement at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001706.html If you would like to volunteer to take part in the RIPE Nominating Committee, you can apply at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ripenomcom -- RACI Call for Applications RACI funds the meeting ticket, travel and accommodation to young academics to come and present their research at our meetings. Interested? Submit your abstract and draft slides by 19 January 2020 for our meetings in Manama and Ljubljana and by 9 February 2020 for our meetings in Tashkent, Berlin and Moscow. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/raci -- 2019-08 Policy proposal: RPKI ROAs for Unallocated and Unassigned RIPE NCC Address Space The proposal is now available for discussion. This proposal aims to instruct the RIPE NCC to create ROAs with origin AS0 for all Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-08 -- Results of the First IoT Hackathon We organised our first IoT Hackathon in Rotterdam right before RIPE 79. This article gives you a run-down of all teams, projects and ideas discussed at the event: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/results-of-the-first-iot-hackathon -- Live from the Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon We hosted a hackathon that ran simultaneously across six different locations in Europe! Teams from Delft, Dublin, Geneva, Padova, Paris, and Sarajevo joined forces to work on Quantum Internet projects during two intense and creative days. See what happened at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/live-from-the-pan-european-quant... -- Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2019 The 2019 Internet Measurement Conference took place in Amsterdam on 21-23 October. Our colleagues, Emile, Gergana and Stephen, reported back from the conference: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/impressions-from-the-internet-measur... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- MENOG 20 and Peering Forum, 5-19 March 2020, Manama, Bahrain Call for presentations is now open to experienced network operators! Submit your proposals for plenary sessions no later than 1 February 2020. https://www.menog.org/menog-20/call-for-presentations Join us in Manama, Bahrain and register at: https://www.menog.org/menog-20 -- SEE 9, 7-8 April 2020 (date change), Ljubljana, Slovenia Call for presentations is now open. The submission deadline is 17 February 2020, and you can learn more about what content the programme committee are looking for at: https://www.ripe.net/see-9/call-for-presentations -- RIPE NCC Day Tashkent, 29 April 2020, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Submit your content proposals for the plenary session presentations, panels and lightning talks no later than 28 February 2020. Learn more about the topics of interest and the event at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe-ncc-day-tashkent/call-for-presentations -- RIPE 80, 11-15 May 2020, Berlin, Germany Registration and Fellowship application will open in December. Keep an eye on the RIPE mailing list and website. That’s all you need to know this month. We will return next month with the last update of 2019. Best, Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC