Hi RIPE NCC member, Welcome to your monthly Member Update. This month we have an important opportunity for all RIPE NCC members. Every three years, we reach out and collect your feedback, which helps shape our plans to support the Internet community. Have you taken 10 minutes to complete the survey? Make sure you do before 30 June. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing For You --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC Survey Closing 30 June 2019 -- Become One of the First RIPE NCC Certified Professionals --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RPKI Webtest -- RIPEstat New UI Concept Update -- RIPE Atlas Software Probe Questionnaire -- New RIPEstat Data API Extension -- RIPE NCC Receives /12 IPv6 Allocation From IANA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE Database Questionnaire -- RACI: Call for Applications -- EuroDIG 2019 Liveblog -- The Microphone is the Devil Some Know -- Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated -- Inter-RIR Collaboration Produces New Product Prototype -- The Tale of Website Popularity Rankings: An Extensive Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us For These Meetings and Events --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 82 Call for Host -- RIPE 79: Rotterdam -- RIPE 78 Archives -- RIPE NCC Member Lunches --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing For You --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 22,663 (+193) LIRs with IPv6: 14,970 (-2) Policy transfers in May: 552,960 IPv4 addresses (-343,552) -- RIPE NCC Survey Closing 30 June 2019 Tell us what you need. This is your chance to be part of our plans to support the Internet community. It only takes around 10 minutes to contribute to change. Complete our survey and you could also win an iPad! https://www.ripe.net/survey -- Become One of the First RIPE NCC Certified Professionals Would you like to be one of the very first RIPE NCC Certified Professionals? We are now calling for applications to participate in our pilot testing for the RIPE Database exam. If selected, you could earn our first digital badge! Find out more here: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals Sandra Brás shares more details on how this project is being developed in a recent RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sandra_bras/ripe-ncc-certified-professionals-o... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RPKI Webtest Want to know if a network is dropping invalid Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) BGP announcements? Job Snijders and our colleagues Nathalie Trenaman, Emile Aben and Jasper den Hertog have launched an RPKI test web page so you can find out: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/nathalie_nathalie/rpki-webtest -- RIPEstat New UI Concept Update We continue to explore concepts related to the new UI, and we have released several new versions (including the latest on 13 June) for the community to play around with and provide feedback. Recent versions have included performance enhancements, improved search suggestions, and more. There are many more features and refinements to come. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_suess_1/ripestat-next-generation-ui -- RIPE Atlas Software Probe Questionnaire We're working on making the RIPE Atlas measurement software available as an installable package so you can run RIPE Atlas probes entirely in software without any need for a dedicated physical device. To let us know what you think about RIPE Atlas software probes, or whether you’d be willing to help package the software for various operating systems and platforms, please answer our questionnaire: https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/atlas-probes/ -- New RIPEstat Data API Extension A new data call provides meta information on collector nodes (RRCs) of the RIS network. The feature was requested on RIPEstat's public feature tracker, https://ripestat.featureupvote.com. https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#rrc-info -- RIPE NCC Receives /12 IPv6 Allocation From IANA We are the first Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to receive a second /12 IPv6 allocation. Find out how we distributed our first /12 allocation in this article by Riccardo Stagni: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/riccardo_stagni/we-re-running-out-of-ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE Database Questionnaire We need your support to make our RIPE Database exam as relevant to the workplace as possible. If you use the RIPE Database frequently, please take a couple of minutes to answer this questionnaire: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals/ripe-database-questionn... -- RACI: Call for Applications For the academics and researchers among you, don't forget, apply for RACI! You could receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation for RIPE 79 in Rotterdam or the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in Kyiv: https://www.ripe.net/raci Subscribe to the RACI mailing list and stay up-to-date with academic related news: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list - EuroDIG 2019 Liveblog Are you attending EuroDIG 2019? Our colleagues Chris Buckridge, Suzanne Taylor, Marco Hogewoning, Maria Stafyla, Richard Leaning and Gergana Petrova are there and will keep us updated via a live blog on RIPE Labs. You can read the article and catch up on the event and the discussion topics at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/eurodig-2019-liveblog -- The Microphone is the Devil Some Know How can we make RIPE Meetings more inclusive and diverse? Find out one of the ways the RIPE Diversity Task Force is addressing this concern in an article by Amanda Gowland: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/the-microphone-is-the-devil-some-know... -- Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated One of our RACI applicants, Carolina Are, shares her research about online hate speech and outlines how her research supports regulation: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/carolina_are/indicators-of-online-hate-speech -- Inter-RIR Collaboration Produces New Product Prototype We joined forces with the APNIC product team to provide you with a comprehensive statistical analysis. Sofía Silva Berenguer, a Data Scientist at APNIC, tells us more in this RIPE Labs Article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sofia_silva_berenguer/inter-rir-collaboration-... -- The Tale of Website Popularity Rankings: An Extensive Analysis In this RIPE Labs article, Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob analyses four ranking lists and discovered the impact they have on research results, uncovering how easily they can be manipulated: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/samaneh_tajalizadehkhoob_1/the-tale-of-website... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us For These Meetings and Events --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 82 Call for Host Do you love your city? Would you like to host industry professionals from across the globe? Support the Internet community and become a RIPE Meeting host. The meeting will be held on 17-21 May 2021. You have until June 30 to apply: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/call-for-host -- RIPE 79: Rotterdam Registration will open soon! Keep an eye on our social media handles for live updates as well as the ripe-list and website. Join us in Rotterdam on 14-18 October. https://ripe79.ripe.net -- RIPE 78 Archives Would you like to reminisce or catch up on what happened at RIPE 78? You can download or watch the presentations at: https://ripe78.ripe.net/archives/#mon -- RIPE NCC Member Lunches The next member lunch will be held in Slovenia! It’s an opportunity for you to meet with us and offer feedback over an informal lunch. Join us for the next one near you: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches For now, you’re updated! As you know, our industry moves quickly, so stay in touch via our mailing lists and social media: https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/social-networking My best, Elena Elena Signorelli Sales and Marketing Officer RIPE NCC