Hello RIPE NCC member, We’re gearing up for RIPE 81 and 371 people have already registered for the meeting. We hope that you will join us for our second fully virtual RIPE Meeting! In the meantime, here’s what you need to know this month about the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community: 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats -- Register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 -- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force Report -- Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 -- Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions October-December 2020 -- Certify your IPv6 skills! 2. Your Technical Update -- Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- NRO NC Call for Nominations -- The new RIPE Chair team -- Code of Conduct Task Force -- Thank you for attending MENOG 20 -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Central Asia -- SEEDIG 2020 Takeaways -- The Internet is for the Empowerment of End Users 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE 81 -- ENOG 17 -- RIPE NCC Open House: Get Certified! -- RIPE NCC Open House: Central Asia Internet Country Report 1. What We're Doing For You -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,172 (-80) LIRs with IPv6: 16,612 (-92) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in August: 645,120 (-1,472,000) -- Register for the RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2020 The next General Meeting (GM) will take place from 28-30 October 2020 online. The GM gives members an opportunity to discuss the operations and activities of the RIPE NCC. Registration for electronic voting will remain open until 16:00 local time (UTC+1) on the day of the GM, 28 October 2020. You can register to participate and vote at: https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020 <https://www.ripe.net/s/gm-registration-oct-2020> The draft agenda is published and can be viewed here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/agenda> -- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force Report The RIPE NCC Executive Board Election Task Force assembled in July and recently delivered their evaluation of our Executive Board nomination and election process. The Executive Board supported all of the recommendations made by the task force: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2020-September/00423... <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2020-September/004230.html> The task force report is available on the RIPE NCC website as a supporting document for the next GM: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/supportin... <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/supporting-documents> -- Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 The Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 is now available for your review: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/draft-rip... <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2020/draft-ripe-ncc-activity-plan-and-budget-2021.pdf> This document is the clearest way you can learn about our plans for next year and shape the direction we take as an organisation. We ask that you read it and share any feedback on <members-discuss at ripe.net <http://ripe.net/>>. -- Webinars and Remote Learning Sessions October-December 2020 You can attend our (one hour) webinars or (two hour) Remote Learning Sessions, which are online versions of our face-to-face training courses. Register for our sessions in October, November and December here: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses <https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses> More information on these sessions is available here: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online <https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online> You can also learn online using the RIPE NCC Academy: https://academy.ripe.net <https://academy.ripe.net/> -- Certify your IPv6 skills! Your LIR’s vouchers are valid until 31 December 2020. Use your vouchers to schedule a RIPE NCC Certified Professionals exam and get certified for your IPv6 or RIPE Database skills. Read more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals <https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals> 2. Your Technical Update -- Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas Our colleagues from the RIPE Atlas team take a closer look at the recent Belarus outage and explore tools and ideas to gain a better understanding of connectivity issues: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/looking-inside-outages-with-ripe-a... <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/looking-inside-outages-with-ripe-atlas> -- Service Announcements --- Recent Ticketing System Outage (9 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ticketing-system-outage <https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ticketing-system-outage> Network Outage across RIPE NCC Services (14 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/network-outage-across-rip... <https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/network-outage-across-ripe-ncc-services> Planned Network Maintenance (27 September 2020): https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/planned-network-maintenan... <https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/planned-network-maintenance-1> 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- NRO NC Call for Nominations There is one vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). Any individual residing within the RIPE NCC service region is eligible for nomination, except Regional Internet Registry staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. The deadline for nominations is 21 October 2020. The selected candidate will serve a three-year term on the NRO NC beginning 1 January 2021. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/nro/nro-nc/nominations2020/process <https://www.ripe.net/nro/nro-nc/nominations2020/process> -- The new RIPE Chair team Mirjam Kühne and Niall O'Reilly officially started their role as RIPE Chair and RIPE co-chair on 1 September 2020: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2020-August/001951.html <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2020-August/001951.html> -- Code of Conduct Task Force In order to finalise the new RIPE Code of Conduct, the RIPE Chair called for a task force to drive this process forward. The task force has now been formed and you can find the charter, timeline and members here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/code-of-conduct-task-force <https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/code-of-conduct-task-force> -- Thank you for attending MENOG 20 378 people from 48 different countries tuned in for MENOG 20. Thanks to all panelists and attendees for the interesting discussions. For those who missed it, the recording is available at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALIYuWVTdYs&feature=emb_title <https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALIYuWVTdYs&feature=emb_title> -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Central Asia We’ve recently published a new RIPE NCC Internet report focusing this time on Central Asia. In the report, we look at five individual countries within the region - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and examine how they connect with one another as well as to the global Internet: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-countr... <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-country-report-central-asia> -- SEEDIG 2020 Takeaways The 6th edition of SEEDIG, the Internet governance event for South East Europe, took place from 21 to 25 September 2020 online: https://2020.seedig.net <https://2020.seedig.net/> Sessions covered governance challenges of the decentralised Internet, privacy and data protection, cybercrime and security of critical infrastructure, the interplay between digitisation and depopulation, post-COVID digital transformation and more. Read some of our impressions on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/seedig-2020-liveblog <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/seedig-2020-liveblog> -- The Internet is for the Empowerment of End Users Vesna Manojlovic takes a look at the recently published RFC8890 and talks about why she's an advocate for technical communities working together with End Users on mutual empowerment: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-internet-is-for-empowerment-of-end-u... <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-internet-is-for-empowerment-of-end-users> 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE 81, 27-30 October 2020 Registrations are now open for RIPE 81! Join us online from 27-30 October 2020. Register now for free at: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/ <https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/register/> -- ENOG 17, 9-13 November 2020 Do you want to present at the next ENOG meeting? You have until *11 October 2020* to submit your presentation: https://www.enog.org/enog-17/cfp/ <https://www.enog.org/enog-17/cfp/> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Get Certified! Co-hosted by RIPE NCC Certified Professionals and PSI, 7 October 2020 Planning to get certified by the RIPE NCC? The RIPE NCC Certified Professionals team shares how you can leverage the power of a digital badge and answers your questions. Representatives from our exam platform provider PSI will also give a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how the exams are run. Register for this event at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/get-certified-co-hosted... <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/get-certified-co-hosted-by-ripe-ncc-certified-professionals-and-psi> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Central Asia Internet Country Report, 14 October 2020 We will be discussing our newly published Central Asia Internet Country Report during a special 90-minute online session (held in Russian) on Wednesday, 14 October from 08:00-09:30 UTC. You can register for the event at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-cen... <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-central-asia-internet-country-report> Thank you for reading till the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC