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European Commission: consultation on 'The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure’
by Bastiaan Goslings 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, Those following the European Union regulatory landscape might already know, as well as subscribers to the RIPE Cooperation WG mailinglist, but we’d like to draw the broader community's attention to a public consultation published by the European Commission on 'The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure’. The deadline of which is the 19th of May. Section 4 of the consultation, 'Fair contribution by all digital players’, states in its introduction: ‘Some electronic communications operators, notably the incumbents, call for the need to establish rules to oblige those content and application providers (“CAPs”) or digital players in general who generate enormous volumes of traffic to contribute to the electronic communications network deployment costs. In their view, such contribution would be “fair” as those CAPs and digital players would take advantage of the high-quality networks but would not bear the cost of their roll-out. Conversely, CAPs and other digital players argue that any payments for accessing networks to deliver content or for the amount of traffic transmitted would not only be unjustified, as the traffic is requested by end-users and costs are not necessarily traffic sensitive (notably in fixed networks), but would also endanger the way the internet works and likely breach net neutrality rules.’ (Et cetera) https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/future-electronic-co… Following the announcement that this consultation was going to be held, the RIPE Cooperation WG chairs called for volunteers to form a small task team and work on a draft submission and position paper on behalf of the community. The list of those who signed up was published on the 25th of February: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/cooperation-wg/2023-February/001648… The small task team members have held weekly calls since and started collating arguments, sources and data to formulate a draft response. As stated in the above mentioned email to the Cooperation WG, the team plans 'to share our draft response prior to its submission and we hope to have time allocated at the RIPE86 meeting Coop WG to discuss it further.’ Details on how to provide input for and feedback on the draft response will be announced later. According to the European Commission the consultation is ‘exploratory’ in nature. However, depending on the outcome, combined with strong lobbying efforts from amongst others the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO), it could lead to a future EU legislative initiative to intervene because of a perceived imbalance that could negatively impact Europe’s ambitions and the necessary investments in Internet infrastructure to achieve these. As the outcome of this debate is of concern to all operators operating within the European Union, we urge community members to inform themselves about this important topic and engage, if possible, by submitting their own responses to the questionnaire, in particular section 4. Thank you, and with kind regards, -- Bastiaan Goslings Public Policy & Internet Governance RIPE NCC https://www.ripe.net <https://www.ripe.net/>

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Updated NRO NC Election Process - Please review
by Mirjam Kuehne 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, As promised, we reviewed and updated the processes related to the election of representatives from the RIPE community to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Numbering Council (NC). The draft document is now available online for your review: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/nro-n… If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, please send them to this list or to me directly before 19 May 2023. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair

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"Fair share" consultation (make your voice heard!) and the Cyber Resilience Act
by Suzanne Taylor 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, I try to regularly update the community on EU regulatory developments with the potential to impact either the RIPE NCC’s operations, the RIPE NCC membership or the RIPE community. In the past, I’ve generally shared these updates with the RIPE Cooperation Working Group list; however, there is currently an open consultation taking place that others may be interested in contributing to, around the “fair share” debate and the future of digital infrastructure in the EU. The deadline to contribute to that consultation is 19 May, and I encourage everyone who has an opinion on the topic to make sure their voice is heard. This could have a huge impact on the technical community within Europe, and it’s our understanding that the European Commission is quite keen to push some sort of regulatory proposal on this before the end of the year. You can learn more about this and other regulatory developments - and get the link to the consultation - in the latest update on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/cyber-resilience-fair-sh… Cyber Resilience, "Fair Share", and Sanctions - Our Regulation Update April 2023 labs.ripe.net In addition, the RIPE NCC recently sent a letter to the MEPs responsible for the Cyber Resilience Act, in which we restated our concerns and those we heard from the community about the potential impact of this proposal on the open-source community within Europe. We hope this will have some influence as the European Parliament defines its position on the act before beginning negotiations with the Council and Commission. If you’re interested, you can find the letter (along with all our previous contributions to various consultations) on our website: https://www.ripe.net/participate/internet-governance/multi-stakeholder-enga… RIPE NCC Contributions to External Consultations ripe.net If you find these kinds of topics interesting, please let us know and we’ll make sure to keep you informed going forward. (And if not, you can let us know that, too!) Best regards, Suzanne ________________ Suzanne Taylor Public Policy & Internet Governance RIPE NCC www.ripe.net <http://www.ripe.net/>

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LAST CALL: Principles for Remuneration of the RIPE Chairs
by Niall O'Reilly 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

Dear friends, On 15 Mar 2023, at 11:47, I wrote: > Please let us know if you think this draft requires material changes. > If not, I expect to declare a last call on this document after taking advice > from the RIPE NCC's Director of HR and Administration. I have received the following comments from Carolien Vos, the RIPE NCC's Director of HR: > I reviewed it and I believe that the described principles are clear and at the same time provide enough flexibility in the implementation of the best suitable approach. I attach the current version of the document. Since the version of 14 March, I have added some extra references to the RIPE-list archive, and made some formatting changes. I believe that the current version is ready for adoption and publication as a RIPE Document. This is therefore a LAST CALL for comment, to expire at 04:00 UTC (06:00 Amsterdam time) on Monday, 17 April. I look forward to declaring consensus and arranging publication shortly after that. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly RIPE Vice-Chair

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Call for Topics for RIPE 85 Community Plenary
by Mirjam Kuehne 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, The call for proposals for RIPE 85 has been opened. The RIPE community plenary will take place on Thursday, 27 October, in the afternoon. If there are any specific topics you would like to discuss during this session, please let us know before 5 September. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair

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New on RIPE Labs: SAV - Why Is Source Address Validation Still a Problem?
by Qasim Lone 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, We have been closely examining the topic of source address validation (SAV), specifically the various methods for identifying non-compliant networks and the incentives required to encourage widespread deployment of SAV. We invite you to read our latest article on RIPE Labs, which provides a refresher on SAV and proposes measures for incentivizing its use among network operators. https://labs.ripe.net/author/qasim-lone/sav-why-is-source-address-validatio… Best regards, Qasim

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Decommissioning RIPE Networking App and RIPE Mailing List Forum
by Fergal Cunningham 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Dear all, By the end of April, we will decommission the RIPE Networking App and also the RIPE Mailing List Forum. In short, these are two services that have not developed in the way we envisioned when we launched them and our research shows they are not widely used. We do not wish to devote development time and maintenance to them when instead we can allow our developers to focus on the services that bring most value to users. More details on the reasons for decommissioning these services are provided below. RIPE Networking App The RIPE Networking App was launched in 2017 and for the next five RIPE Meetings it was widely used by attendees to chat and meet each other virtually. However, this function was largely taken over by the Meetecho platform. The initial reasoning for the RIPE NCC to build our own app rather than using an off-the-shelf product was for RIPE NCC Access integration. The app, as expected, had less usage during the online-only meetings, but our data shows there was no return to normal figures post-pandemic at RIPE 84 and RIPE 85, and even less so at other RIPE NCC-organised events where the app was used. There are also a number of feature requests from attendees and event organisers that would require a complete rewrite of the app needing considerable specialist resources if we were to provide them: - Multi-language support (important for regional events) - Right-to-left (RTL) display - Ability to send images - Phone calendar integration - Displaying both onsite and online attendance status We believe that with the introduction of Meetecho, which has many of the same features of the Networking App, and a possible off-the-shelf solution that supports multi-language and RTL display for smaller RIPE NCC-organised events in Eurasia and the Middle East, we will be able to meet the demands that the Networking App was intended to meet. The RIPE Mailing List Forum Created in 2016, the idea of the forum was to extend the mailing list discussions with an additional interface. However, shortly after implementing the forum, we noticed that spam was being sent to some of the mailing lists via the forum. This was because it was possible to subscribe to the mailing lists using a RIPE NCC Access account and there wasn't very much we could do to combat that. This resulted in us making the forum read-only, which contradicted the reason we created the forum in the first place. We are currently busy with the migration of all RIPE community mailing lists from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3. Mailman 3 will allow better interaction with the mailing lists from a browser than the RIPE Forum does. Decommissioning this will also declutter our website which will help as we continue to redevelop and redesign www.ripe.net. And we will then avoid confusion with the recently-launched RIPE NCC Forum, which we hope you will join: https://forum.ripe.net/ If you have questions or comments on the decommissioning plans, or you have ideas on how we can help with making connections at events or facilitating good online discussions, please let me know. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC

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Reminder: ASO Call for Nominations to 2024 ICANN NomCom
by Ulka Athale 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

This message is sent on behalf of the Number Resource Organization. ----------------------------- The complete announcement is available at: https://www.nro.net/reminder-aso-call-for-nominations-to-2024-icann-nomcom/ ----------------------------- Reminder: ASO Call for Nominations to 2024 ICANN NomCom ----------------------------- On 1 March 2023, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) issued a call for nominations for candidates from the Internet Numbers Community to run for an open seat on the ICANN NomCom 2024 as a delegate of the ASO. The elected delegate will serve a one-year term starting at the Annual General Meeting at ICANN 78 in October 2023. Nominations should be sent to <secretariat(a)aso.icann.org> by Tuesday, 25 April 2023 at 23:59 UTC in order to be considered. Regards, The ASO Secretariat ----------------------------- Kind regards, Ulka Athale Senior Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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The RIPE Chair Team Reports - April 2023
by Mirjam Kuehne 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, Here is the latest report from the RIPE Chair Team. In this update, we take a look at the work happening this month across the RIPE Working Groups, ongoing developments in RIPE governance, recent industry events, and more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-april… Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair

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Call for volunteers for RIPE Code of Conduct Team
by Mirjam Kuehne 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, We are looking for volunteers to serve on the RIPE Code of Conduct Team. This team will be responsible for handling any reports that someone has breached the RIPE Code of Conduct. It therefore plays an important part in keeping RIPE an open and inclusive community that encourages participation. If you would like to volunteer, please carefully read the information on this web page: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/code-of-conduct/code-of-conduct-team-… The page links to a short form where we ask you for a motivation statement. You can nominate yourself or someone else. In order to have a team set up and trained in time for the RIPE 86 meeting in May, please send in your nominations before 24 April 2023. You can find more information on the Code of Conduct Team and its responsibilities here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/draft… Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair

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