Dear colleagues, As you may know, RIPE meetings and all our other events are now taking place online. This is why you have not seen any call for applications for RACI (the initiative funding academics to come and present) - there is at the moment no financial obstacle to do so. This is why I want to encourage you to submit any talks you might have directly to the general call for presentations of the meeting. Please do so by 19 March: https://ripe82.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp Any proposals you submit via the link above will be considered for the plenary. In addition to this we have a number of Working Groups (DNS, Measurement and Analysis, Anti-Abuse etc), which cover specific topics in more detail. Check out the meeting plan to see all of them: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan If you would like to submit a talk to a working group, you can: - either email them directly (type RIPE NCC + your chosen working group + chairs and a page would appear with the generic addresses of the chairs) or - email me and I will forward your proposal RIPE Meetings are a great way to reach practitioners and get their feedback and opinions on the research you are doing. I hope we can have a similar representation of great academic talks like previous years. For any questions, feel free to write back. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC