July 2010 - ncc-services-wg - mailman.ripe.net

New RIPE NCC Procedural Document Available
by Andrea Cima 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC has published a new RIPE NCC procedural document: ripe-475, "Independent Internet Number Resources – Contractual Relationship Changes between sponsoring LIR and End User" This document describes the steps to be taken when there are changes in the contractual relationship between the End User of independent Internet number resources and the sponsoring Local Internet Registry (LIR). It also describes the scenarios in which the RIPE NCC may de-register independent Internet number resources and what happens to those resources once they are de-registered. The new document is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-475.html Kind regards, Andrea Cima RIPE NCC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpfPukACgkQXOgsmPkFrjNlEwCcDtE364DhQCU0USBoK3kJhord yBgAoMbRsLFCStkXfvEaV6Mtm5b2sfxW =fKC3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RIPE NCC Membership Statistics published on RIPE Labs
by Mirjam Kuehne 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, With the year 2009 behind us, we looked at RIPE NCC membership growth and demographics over time. You can find some interesting statistics on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/content/ripe-ncc-membership-growth Next we will look at the distribution of number resources among the membership. Stay tuned! Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne

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Independent Resource procedure and implementation
by Daniel Suchy 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hello, I would like to open discussion related to "Action Required: Contractual Relationship for Independent Resource Assignments" emails, that almost all LIRs received from RIPE NCC in the past. I have some notes from perspective of small LIR (or from perspective of person helping running multiple small LIRs). My first note points to system in general. Although RIPE NCC has many required informations in own existing databases already, it requires additional action from LIR in general. Typical small LIR has one or more PA allocations and exactly _one_ autonomous system registered. In RIPE database, there are records matching allocated PA prefix and ASN (route objects with proper origin AS and related inetnum objects, many ASNs has paired LIRs org: in aut-num object). In addition, RIS service (with history!) can be used for verification of these informations obtained automatically from database. For incomprehensible reason, RIPE NCC doesn't use these informations at all and instead of this abuses ALL LIRs with submiting simple form with exactly one record within it. I thing RIPE RCC has enough resources (financial and human) to do that automatically. My second note points to implementation of this new tool. I discovered, that I'm not able to "new" tool used for confirmation. I'm using PKI login feature and I have one identity paired with more LIRs. Although I'm able login to the LIR portal and modify everything I need with my certificate, I'm _NOT_ able to update informations on "Independent Resources" page. The main reason is, that RIPE NCC created new and separated (!) tool instead of simple integration of new feature/functionality to existing LIR portal. So, instead of reusing existing code used for LIR portal authentication, new outside code was developed for this new tool. And this new code doesn't implement all authentication features from LIR portal. In my point of view, this is quite unprofessional approach of modern application development. Aplications should be multi-layer, allowing easy new feature implementation. I reported this issue to RIPE NCC on friday last week, but first "answer" I received yesterday from RIPE NCC was initiation of audit in one LIR. Just fortuitous event? I don't believe. I have no problems with audit itself, I have all records, but this takes some additional time (and of course, money). Just because I claimed some problems to RIPE NCC staff due to problematic internal _implementation_ of new policy. Ok, I would like to open public discussions about this problem. There are some questions to answer and discuss: * why RIPE NCC just doesn't use informations from RIPE database in case of their availability and verifiability, why abuses small LIRs instead * why aren't RIS data used for automatic obtaining of requested informations, where this can be applicable * why RIPE NCC didn't integrate "confirmation" tool to existing LIR portal and why new outside application with _limited_ functionality was developed instead of reusing of existing code and functionality * what architecture is used for LIR portal in general, can be there easily implemented new features Of course, I understand, that there are large LIRs and some historic mess, where this action may be required due to lack of records in existing databases. But, I think this is NOT a case of LIRs started in past couple of years, where all required data should be available. With regards, Daniel

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Data Repository on RIPE Labs
by Mirjam Kuehne 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, We launched a new project on RIPE Labs: the RIPE Data Repository. You can read the announcement here: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripe-data-repository On the projects pages you will find a more detailed description of the project, a list of data sets and the terms and conditions for using those data sets: https://labs.ripe.net/datarepository If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to leave a comment on RIPE Labs or send mail to labs(a)ripe.net. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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Outage report for RIPE Database updates
by Denis Walker 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, Between 22:06 and 23:37 (UTC) on Tuesday, 20 July 2010, there was an interruption to the update service for the RIPE Database. All update processes were affected. If you did not receive any acknowledgement, you might need to check any objects you were updating in the RIPE Database to see if the update was successful. If you received an acknowledgement, you need to check the messages in that acknowledgement to see if any errors occurred. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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Splitted PI billing
by Max Tulyev 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi All! Recently RIPE NCC has assigned a PI network for my client. It is 1536 IPs (/22+/23), and it was assigned as two completely different inetnums (with one same netname). I have asked how it will be billed, and got an answer - as two separate objects. I understand, in future it will be harder and harder to get a non-splitted networks, and splitted networks will be more frequent. But how I can predict it in my agreements with customers? I don't know how much pieces will be splitted the next network to. When I said it will be twice more expensive than expected, customer was unhappy and said there is an agreement already signed, with the exact price in it. I think, one request shold be billed as one object, isn't it? -- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)

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RIPE Labs 2.0 now live
by Mirjam Kuehne 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

[apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, RIPE Labs 2.0 is now live: http://labs.ripe.net In the year since its launch, RIPE Labs has grown into a dynamic resource that allows the RIPE community to present and discuss new Internet-related tools and ideas. To accommodate the increasing content load on the site, and based on feedback from users, we've made some improvements to ensure a better experience for our users. To promote discussion and sharing of ideas: - It's now easier to comment on each article or tool - You no longer need to register to make comments or join discussions - Registration is only required for contributors of articles or tools To make it easier to navigate RIPE Labs: - The search functionality has been upgraded - A tag cloud shows the most popular topics - Long-term projects now have dedicated pages with detailed descriptions and regular updates Your participation is vital for the continued success of RIPE Labs. If you have any comments or questions about RIPE Labs, or you'd like to contribute to the platform, please don't hesitate to contact us at: labs(a)ripe.net Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Labs Community Builder

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C0902070 - SFINX: Peering with RIPE, AS 12654: down
by NCC 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Dear all, we see the peering to your side down. Our AS: 6805 Your AS: 12654 IP: 194.68.129.38 Do you have some maintenance on your side? Please give us some feedback. best regards, Arkadiusz Baclawski

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