RIPE NCC Member Update: November 2016 Contents: - LIR Training Course - Simplifying Contact Management in the LIR Portal - New Online Payment System - Invoicing Process 2017 - RIPE Database - IXP Tools Hackathon Results - RIPE Meetings - RIPE Chair Election Procedure and Function Description - NRO NC Election Result - RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) Outcome - Charging Scheme for Legacy Internet Resource Holders - Good of the Internet Initiative - External Engagement - IoT Mailing List - New on RIPE Labs - LISP EID Number of LIRs: 14,753 LIRs with IPv6: 11,119 IPv4 addresses transferred in October: 1,651,968 LIR TRAINING COURSE People are completing the new LIR Training Course at the rate of one per day! Will you be tomorrow’s graduate? Take the course for free online: https://academy.ripe.net/ SIMPLIFYING CONTACT MANAGEMENT IN THE LIR PORTAL Migrate your LIR contacts to user accounts - it simplifies user management and makes communication with the RIPE NCC more secure. Use the wizard today: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2016-September/001093.h... NEW ONLINE PAYMENT SYSTEM Based on feedback from the RIPE NCC Survey 2016, we introduced a new system for online payment of membership invoices. This system, provided by Adyen, is customer friendly and offers a range of payment methods. Payments are processed in real time so members can immediately see whether a payment has been successful. INVOICING PROCESS 2017 During the RIPE NCC GM on 26 October 2016, the RIPE NCC membership approved the redistribution of the 2016 surplus. The redistribution will be marked as a discount on the invoice for 2017. We will also make the invoicing process more transparent by providing specific details on the fees to be paid. We expect to send invoices for 2017 in January 2017. RIPE DATABASE Soon we will be launching a wizard to help people set up Reverse DNS. We invite you to test it by creating a domain object in the RIPE Database Release Candidate: https://www.ripe.net/s/dbrc Please give us feedback! IXP TOOLS HACKATHON RESULTS During the weekend before RIPE 73, operators from 11 IXPs, together with FLOSS developers, created prototype tools to improve peering configuration and to make life easier for network operators. Read more on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ixp-tools-hackathon-results RIPE MEETINGS RIPE 73 ran from 24-28 October 2016 at the Meliá Castilla hotel in Madrid. 630 people checked-in, 173 of them newcomers. 63 countries were represented in the audience. RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest from 8-12 May 2017: ripe74.ripe.net RIPE CHAIR ELECTION PROCEDURE AND FUNCTION DESCRIPTION Hans Petter Holen, RIPE Chair, asks the RIPE NCC membership to discuss the proposed RIPE Chair election procedure and function description on the ripe-chair-discuss mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-chair-discuss/2016-October/0000... The function description can be found here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/draft-ripe-chair-function-description NRO NC ELECTION RESULT Filiz Yilmaz was re-elected to a seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The election was held during RIPE 73. More information is available online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/internet-governance/internet-technical-comm... RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) OUTCOME The GM was held on 26-28 October 2016, adjacent to RIPE 73. Three resolutions were voted on. All three passed. Details are available online: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2016 CHARGING SCHEME FOR LEGACY INTERNET RESOURCE HOLDERS At the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2016, members voted to adopt the amendments to the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2016 and RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2017. From now on, legacy Internet resource holders who request additional Internet number resources after becoming a RIPE NCC member will be charged the sign-up fee of EUR 2,000. The original request for discussion on this topic was posted to the ncc-announce mailing list in September: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2016-September/001086.h... GOOD OF THE INTERNET INITIATIVE At RIPE 73, RIPE NCC Executive Board member Salam Yamout announced the organisation’s Good of the Internet Initiative. This umbrella term encompasses four areas in which the RIPE NCC will contribute financial support and awards to selected projects. More information will be provided in the coming months. Salam’s presentation is hosted here: https://ripe73.ripe.net/archives/video/1479/ EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT The RIPE NCC and the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Euro-IX Forum in Krakow on 7 November 2016: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-and-... This MoU is the latest formalised agreement for greater cooperation between the RIPE NCC and one of the many external organisations we work with. Learn more about our external engagement efforts on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/building-and-documenting-stronger-relat... IOT MAILING LIST During the Internet of Things BoF at RIPE 73 in Madrid, several participants commented on the need to strengthen the information exchange on this topic. We have set up a dedicated “IoT Discussion” mailing list and we encourage anyone with an interest in IoT to participate: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/iot-discussion NEW ON RIPE LABS - Large BGP Communities - Largely Accepted Now? https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/large-bgp-communities-largely-accept... - Building and Documenting Stronger Relationships with External Organisations https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/building-and-documenting-stronger-relat... - Ethics of RIPE Atlas Measurements https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ethics-of-ripe-atlas-measurements LISP EID The RIPE NCC has received a block of IPv6 Endpoint ID (EID) prefixes for Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) implementation. If you wish to be assigned address space over which to experiment with LISP EID, you can request this space from the RIPE NCC. Details are online: https://www.ripe.net/lisp 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