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RIPE Chairs Selected
by Daniel Karrenberg 05 Jul '20

05 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, The RIPE 2020 NomCom has selected Mirjam Kühne as RIPE Chair and Niall O'Reilly as RIPE Vice Chair. After interviewing all nominees, hearing substantial input from the community and a thorough discussion during three selection meetings all voting members voted to select Mirjam as Chair and eight out of ten voting members voted to select Niall as Vice Chair. The selection was subsequently supported unanimously by all members of the committee. We closely followed the process spelled out in ripe-727 and ripe-728. We regularly paused to confirm that the whole committee was comfortable with the process and its progress. We were able to choose from a set of nominees who are all very capable and well respected in the community. We expect that the community would support any of them as their Chair. Our selection is in no way a negative statement about the nominees we did not select. We selected Mirjam because the input from the community clearly favoured her. She is very widely regarded as someone who listens carefully to everyone and who helps the community to find consensus and move forward. We selected Niall because of the positive input we received about his track record with the community. Mirjam and Niall convinced us that they would work well as a team and complement each other. The RIPE NCC board has confirmed the candidates in accordance with the process set out in ripe-727. The original time line called for a transition from Hans Petter to Mirjam and Niall during RIPE 81 in October. Hans Petter has since resigned as RIPE Chair because he accepted to be the new managing director of the RIPE NCC; he is currently also serving as RIPE Chair ad-interim. In this situation it makes little sense to stick to the original time line. Therefore we suggest that the outgoing and incoming Chairs arrange the transition among themselves as soon as practicable. We plan to publish the NomCom report about this first run of the selection process in September before our term ends at RIPE 81. We expect to make suggestions for improving the process and look forward to the community discussing and deciding the process for the next iteration. We thank everyone who supported the NomCom, especially all nominees and the many members of the community who made time to give us their input. Finally we call on the whole community to welcome and support Mirjam and Niall in their new roles! Daniel Karrenberg - Chair - RIPE 2020 Nomcom

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Online discussion: What Does the Digital Services Act Mean for You?
by Suzanne Taylor 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, The European Commission has announced plans for a new Digital Services Act with the potential to affect many different actors in the Internet industry, covering liability standards for Internet intermediaries, a European system (and regulator) for notice-and-takedown procedures, and the role of online platforms in trading harmful products, among other topics. The European Commission is currently holding an open consultation on the act, which runs until 8 September, in order to solicit feedback from all stakeholders. We’re hosting an online dialogue next Wednesday, 8 July from 14:00-15:00 CEST to discuss the details of this newly proposed legislation and its potential impact on the technical community: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/what-does-the-new-digi… <https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/what-does-the-new-digi…> We’ll be joined by Eva Jordan Vankova from the European Commission, Sebastian Schwemer from the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) at the University of Copenhagen, and Athina Fragkouli, who will share the RIPE NCC’s perspective on the Digital Services Act. We hope you can join this interactive discussion, when you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share your views. Best regards, Suzanne ________________ Suzanne Taylor External Relations RIPE NCC

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Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Chairs Selected
by Alex de Joode 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

On Thu, 02-07-2020 13h 21min, Niall O'Reilly <niall.oreilly(a)ucd.ie> wrote:> > Dear colleagues, > > We both are delighted and honoured to have been chosen as the new RIPE > Chair and Vice-Chair. > Congratulations, both! Excellent choice. > We have been carefully following the discussion about the relationship > between the RIPE NCC and RIPE and the rôle which RIPE NCC staff can and > should play within the RIPE community; one of our early priorities will > be to start a review of these relationships. > One of the 'issues' raised during this procedure was the 'right of return' for Mirjam back to RIPE NCC and the possible effect this could have on the (perceived) independence of the job. It would be very much appreciated if you could be transparent about the 'right of return' agreement made (if any) and highlight possible future conflict of interest when and if they do occur. > -- IDGARA | Alex de Joode | alex(a)idgara.nl | +31651108221 | Skype:adejoode

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New on RIPE Labs: To Green the Internet, We Need RIPE
by Mirjam Kuehne 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, What can you do - as a network operator and as a user - to work towards a sustainable Internet? Read Michael Oghia's RIPE Labs article on why support from the RIPE community is essential for a vision of a greener ICT ecosystem to succeed: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/michael_oghia/to-green-the-internet-we-need-r… Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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Webinar Invitation: "Let's Go Virtual!"
by Chris Buckridge 26 Jun '20

26 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, The COVID-19 era has seen many major Internet community events move fully online (including RIPE 80, many regional and national NOGs, and RIPE 81 later this year). What does that shift means for how Internet communities work and interact, particularly if circumstances require that we continue with this approach beyond the short-term? The RIPE NCC and LINX are co-hosting a webinar next Tuesday 30 June at 15:00 (CEST) entitled "Let’s Go Virtual!”. Nurani Nimpuno and I will moderate the hour-long session, with speakers including Edward McNair, Executive Director of NANOG, Adam Peake, ICANN Global Stakeholder Engagement, and Fergal Cunningham, who’ll speak a bit about the experience of taking RIPE community events fully online. But the hope is that we’ll have an active discussion with input from across the community. If you’re able to join, please register here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/lets-go-virtual Best regards, Chris —— Chris Buckridge Head of External Relations RIPE NCC

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RIPE Working Group Chair Financial Support call for consensus by 15 June 2020
by Hans Petter Holen 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

To follow up on the proposal the community plenary at RIPE 80, to provide financial support Working Group (WG) Chairs if needed, I would like community input. The presentation can be seen at 7:45 into the video at https://ripe80.ripe.net/archives/video/383/ In principle, all RIPE Meeting attendees, including RIPE WG Chairs, Programme Committee members and presenters are expected to cover the costs of participating in a RIPE Meeting. However, in exceptional cases, for instance, if a WG would end up with no Chair during a meeting, a WG Chair can ask the RIPE Chair to request financial assistance from the RIPE NCC. This has mostly been limited to waiving the meeting fee, not for travel and accommodation. The matter was discussed at RIPE NCC Executive Board meeting December 2018 after it was brought to the attention of the RIPE NCC Executive Board through one of its members. The board was positive to provide support also for travel and accommodation if needed, and tasked the RIPE Chair trough EB402 tasked to make a draft procedure. The proposal is modelled after the RIPE Fellowship program and can be found at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/cc/ripe-working-group-chair-financ… If there is consensus from the community on this I will do a formal request to the RIPE NCC for such support. Hans Petter Holen ad-interim RIPE Chair

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New on RIPE Labs: COVID-19: Changing the Internet Governance Landscape
by Mirjam Kuehne 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, In this new article on RIPE Labs, my colleague Chris Buckridge is discussing possible impacts COVID-19 might have on Internet governance-related issues: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/covid-19-changing-the-internet-governa… Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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NomCom has Started Candidate Selection
by Daniel Karrenberg 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

[See https://blog.ripe-nomcom.org/nomcom-starts-candidate-selection/ for a version of this message with convenient links.] Before and during RIPE 80 there were calls for the NomCom to halt the process and calls to re-open the call for nominations. See the archives of the ripe-chair-discuss and ripe mailing lists. The NomCom has listened carefully to these discussions and decided in its 5th meeting to postpone candidate selection and seek community support for continuing the process before proceeding. After further consultation within the NomCom I have published this request via this mailing list on 25 May. The NomCom pondered the whole community discussion again in its 6th meeting and decided unanimously to continue with candidate selection at the next meeting. Last Friday the NomCom has re-affirmed this decision at its 7th meeting and started with candidate selection. The NomCom stresses that it has carefully addressed all suggestions made during the discussions and that it has not taken its decisions lightly or without regard to what has been said. We considered *all* input as well as the current circumstances and concluded that there is no consensus in the community to deviate pragmatically from the agreed process as it is codified in ripe-727 and ripe-728. Now that we have made the decision according to our mandate and the process agreed by the community before, we ask the community to unite and support us in our effort. Daniel Karrenberg Chair RIPE 2020 NomCom

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RIPE 81 will be a Virtual Meeting, 27-30 October 2020.
by Hans Petter Holen 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, Following the success of RIPE 80, and with the ongoing risks posed by large gatherings still very much in mind, I have decided together with the RIPE NCC Meeting staff and the RIPE NCC MD, that RIPE 81 will take place as a virtual meeting. We have the support from the RIPE Programme Committee and the RIPE Working Group Chairs in making this decision. This means we are no longer bound by the availability of the venue when setting the date of the event, so after careful consideration, we have decided to change the date of the event. RIPE 81 will now take place from 27-30 October 2020. This change will not only help to ensure that the timing of RIPE 81 is better aligned with other industry events, but it also gives the RIPE Programme Committee, RIPE Working Group Chairs and RIPE NCC staff an extra month to prepare for the meeting, and so to explore options on how to improve the overall virtual experience for all our attendees. We are making this decision now rather than later in the hopes that this will give everyone plenty of time to make plans and come take part in RIPE 81. Best regards, Hans Petter Holen ad-interim RIPE Chair

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Post-RIPE 80 Working Group Chair Meeting Summary
by Antony Gollan 05 Jun '20

05 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, The RIPE Working Group Chairs form a collective that meets at every RIPE Meeting. Summaries from these meetings are published on ripe.net. You can find the summary from the collective's post-RIPE 80 meeting here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/cc/summaries/post-ripe-80-working-… Kind regards Antony Gollan Senior Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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