August 2010 - ncc-services-wg

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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LIR Portal Upgrade
by Trudy Prins 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC is currently upgrading the LIR Portal to a newer software version, increasing the flexibility, quality and reliability, and including a single sign-on system. To help ensure a smooth deployment, the upgrade is rolled out in stages. The first stage of deployment, upgrading the Billing section of the site, was carried out on 14 April 2010. The Training section and the Resource Lists were upgraded as well. The second stage, which includes all resource request forms and wizards, will be deployed today, 31 August. Downtime of the portal should be less than one minute. The deployment of the new portal software including the sign-in system does not yet include the entire LIR Portal. Users may find that they are asked to sign in more than once as they move between different sections of the site. This will continue until the single sign-on system has been fully deployed throughout the LIR Portal. The remaining old LIR Portal sections will be replaced in the final upgrade, scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2010. After this final deployment, all functionality of the LIR Portal will be available under the single sign-on system. The migration to newer software might result in some small changes, but the overall look and feel should not be affected in a very noticeable way. If you have any questions or comments regarding this upgrade, please email <sw-bugs(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Trudy Prins Manager Business Applications RIPE NCC

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2007-01 Policy Implementation - Phase 3 draft procedures available
by Arne Kiessling 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, As announced during the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session at RIPE 60, the RIPE NCC will provide the RIPE community with a draft procedure for Phase 3 of the policy implementation for "Contractual Requirements for Provider Independent Resource Holders in the RIPE NCC Service Region". The draft document is available at: http://www.ripe.net/news/2007-01-phase3.html Please note that the draft document describes an internal RIPE NCC procedure and is provided for informational purposes. If you have any feedback for the RIPE NCC regarding the procedure for Phase 3 of the policy implementation, please send an email to <enduser-contract(a)ripe.net>. -- Kind Regards Arne Kiessling IP Resource Analyst RIPE Network Coordination Centre

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IPv6 RIPEness - Criteria for a Potential Fifth Star Rating - RIPE Labs
by Amanda Gowland 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, Earlier this year, RIPE Labs posted an article about IPv6 "RIPEness", a 4-star rating system of LIR IPv6 deployment. In that article, we asked for feedback on what criteria we could use to determine the potential addition of a 5th star to the rating system. We received some great feedback on how we could determine a 5-star RIPEness rating, you can read about it on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ipv6-ripeness-5th-star-criteria As always, any comments or suggestions are welcome. You can send us email or post in the article's comment section. Kind Regards, Amanda Gowland RIPE NCC

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