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NRO NC Call for Nominations
by Hans Petter Holen 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, This is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The three-year term of Hervé Clément ends on 31 December 2020. The RIPE NCC Executive Board will select one representative from the nominees to serve a three-year term on the NRO NC beginning 1 January 2021. The decision of the Executive Board will be announced at the RIPE 81 Meeting, which will be a virtual meeting taking place from 27-30 October 2020. The deadline for nominations is 21 October 2020. Any individual residing within the RIPE NCC service region is eligible for nomination, except Regional Internet Registry (RIR) staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. The nomination process is available at: https://www.ripe.net/nro/nro-nc/nominations2020/process Please send your nominations to <nominations(a)ripe.net> by 23:59 UTC+1 on 21 October 2020. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC website by 23 October 2020. All nominees may submit a written statement in support of their nomination for publication on the RIPE NCC website. Other people can express support for nominated individuals by sending an email to <nominations(a)ripe.net>. Expressions of support will also be published on the RIPE NCC website. To find out more about the NRO NC and the election process, please see: https://www.ripe.net/nro/nro-nc/nominations2020 Regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director RIPE NCC Important dates: 21 October 2020: Deadline for NRO NC nominations 23 October 2020: Deadline for all confirmed nominations to be posted on the RIPE NCC website 30 October 2020: Announce successful candidate at closing plenary of RIPE 81

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RIPE Code of Conduct - Call for volunteers
by Mirjam Kühne 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, The Diversity Task Force has put a lot of work into updating the current RIPE Code of Conduct. They put together a series of draft documents that were then reviewed by the community. The most recent version 3.0 can be found here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/ripe-meeting-code-o… During the RIPE 80 community plenary, Hans Petter Holen described what he views as the best way forward to finalize the updated RIPE Code of Conduct and we would like to follow the process he laid out during his presentation. The main idea is to split the current draft document into three individual documents and to review each of them separately: 1. The Code of Conduct 2. The selection of the Trusted Contacts or Code of Conduct team 3. Procedures for the team We are now looking for volunteers to finalize this set of documents. During RIPE 80 three community members already offered their help. If you are still interested, please let us know. This of course also applies to anyone who would like to help and has not yet put their name forward. Please contact us before 15 September 2020. ———— More Background and current status: The existing RIPE Code of Conduct and the Trusted Contacts: https://ripe81.ripe.net/attend/coc/ Draft 3.0 of the new RIPE Code of Conduct: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/ripe-meeting-code-o… During the last review round, the RIPE NCC conducted an impact analysis that can be found here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/impact-analysis-for… The relevant part of Hans Petter’s presentation at RIPE 80: https://ripe80.ripe.net/archives/video/384/ https://ripe80.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/58-RIPE-Code-of-Co… Kind regards, Mirjam & Niall =========== P.S.: I (Mirjam) used to be one of the trusted contacts together with Rob Evans and Vesna Manojlovic, but stepped down from this position when I started my new role as RIPE Chair.

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Second call for presentations RIPE 81
by Franziska Lichtblau 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, the first submission round for RIPE 81 is over and there are still plenary and lightning talk slots open. The RIPE Programme Committee will accept new proposals until *27th September 2020*. Lightning talk submission will be possible at least until a week before the meeting, but due to the condensed schedule in the online format we have less slots available than usually. Please note, that all the submissions we already received and did not explicitly accept or reject are still under consideration for the plenary at RIPE 81. Authors of accepted or rejected presentations have been contacted by the PC via the contact address they provided. You can find the CFP for RIPE 81 at https://ripe81.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/, for your proposals for plenary session presentations and lightning talks. We also have the possibility to schedule BoFs, but they will happen outside the general meeting plan due to timing constrains. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact the Programme Committee at pc(a)ripe.net . Kind regards, Franziska Lichtblau RIPE PC Chair https://ripe81.ripe.net/ripe-pc/

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Stepping down as RIPE Chair
by Hans Petter Holen 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

I am now stepping down as RIPE Chair and handing over the role to Mirjam Kühne from tomorrow 1 September 2020. Niall O’Reilly will at the same time take on the role as the Vice-chair. It has been a pleasure working for the community as RIPE Chair since I took over from Rob Blokzijl in 2014. But as you all know, I will not go far, but continue to work for the RIPE NCC members and RIPE community in my new role as Managing Director for the RIPE NCC. Rather than waiting for the next RIPE meeting and doing the formal handover there, we think it is better to do the handover now, so we have a clear separation of the RIPE NCC MD and RIPE Chair roles when planning the upcoming RIPE Meeting. This has taken a bit longer than expected because we wanted to put in place proper segregation between the RIPE NCC and RIPE Chair. As RIPE NCC Managing Director, I have signed an agreement with Mirjam terminating her current employment from the RIPE NCC effective from 1 September. At the same time, the RIPE NCC executive board represented by the chair, Cristian Kaufmann and Treasurer Ondrej Filip, with the assistance of RIPE NCC HR Director and external legal advisor, has negotiated and signed a new contract with Mirjam as RIPE Chair for the duration of her RIPE Chair appointment. The contract is compliant with Dutch labour law but also ensuring the independence of the RIPE Chair and referring to the community processes as the only grounds for termination of the position. I believe that this addresses the concern raised regarding the independence of the RIPE Chair. In my time I was dependent on my employer Visma in addition to the travel funding from the RIPE NCC. Rob Blokzijl before me, was dependent on his employer NIKEF until his retirement and after that on the RIPE NCC, both fr travel funding but also remuneration for work for the RIPE NCC. The latter was not known to me until recently and I apologise for making erroneous statements about this in the past. I wish Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly all the best in their new roles and will work closely with them to hand over the open actions. This will be documented in a blog post on RIPE Labs. Kind Regards, Hans Petter Holen RIPE Chair 2014-2020 On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 13:05, Hans Petter Holen <hph(a)oslo.net> wrote: > > I would like to congratulate Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly on their > selection as our new RIPE Chair and Vice-Chair. Both Mirjam and Niall have > a long history within RIPE; they are experienced chairs, they understand > consensus, and they share the community's expectations in terms of > transparency and openness. I am sure they will continue to serve the > community well in their new roles. > > After Rob Blokzijl passed the torch to me in 2014, this is the first time > we have selected our RIPE Chair (and now Vice-Chair) as a community. I want > to thank everyone who participated in this process - by standing as > nominees, volunteering to serve on the NomCom, providing feedback, or by > helping to establish the process itself. > > I do want to acknowledge that concerns were raised quite late in the > process about the potential for capture or influence by the RIPE NCC. > However, I hope you will agree that the NomCom has chosen some good people > here. It is worth remembering that we operate on “rough consensus”, which > means that not everyone will fully agree with everything. That being the > case, we have plenty of time to consider further improvements to the > process before it starts again ahead of RIPE 91. There is also an > opportunity to work on improving the process for selecting working group > chairs and the community’s code of conduct, so I would like to encourage > you to volunteer for these efforts under the guidance of our new leadership. > > So what happens next? I am eager to hand over my RIPE Chair > responsibilities. Mirjam and Niall will need time to fit their new RIPE > responsibilities alongside their existing ones. I don't expect this will > take too long, and I intend to exit the role pass onhand overam committed > to hand over the torch as soon as possible. > > I am happy that I no longer have to occupy both the RIPE Chair and RIPE > NCC Managing Director roles. As the Managing Director, I am fully committed > to giving the new leadership and the RIPE Community the support needed, > just as my predecessors have supported me and my predecessor Rob Blokzijl. > > In the meantime, I hope you will join me in wishing our new RIPE Chair and > Vice-Chair the very best... and with my RIPE NCC Managing Director's hat > on, I would also like to thank the outgoing RIPE Chair for his contribution > over the past six years. > > Kind regards > > Hans Petter Holen > > (Outgoing) RIPE Chair / RIPE NCC Managing Director > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 12:55, Daniel Karrenberg via ripe-list < > ripe-list(a)ripe.net> wrote: > >> 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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Re: [ripe-list] Stepping down as RIPE Chair
by Chloe Kung 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Thank you Hans Petter for you wonderful work. As a new member of this community, I am looking forward to Mirjam's and Niall's new chapter by taking the responsibilities as the new RIPE Chair and Vice Chair. The best is yet to come. Cordially, Chloe

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Re: [ripe-list] Stepping down as RIPE Chair
by Gaby Giner 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

All the best to you, Hans Petter, in your new position, and congratulations to Mirjam and Niall for your new roles. Can’t wait to see the good that will come from you leading and serving this community, which I am delighted to be a part of. Good luck! Regards, Gaby

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Stepping down as RIPE Chair
by Stefan Wahl 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Dear Hans Petter, Thank you for all the work as a RIPE Chair! I wish you all the best in your new role and Mirjam and Niall a good start as the new RIPE Chair and Co-Chair! Best Regards Stefan

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The new RIPE Chair Team
by Mirjam Kühne 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, We are both very pleased to let you know that the necessary preparations have been completed as Hans Petter Holen mentioned in his email and that we are ready to formally take up our responsibilities as the new RIPE Chair team from Tuesday, 1 September. We are eager to serve the RIPE community and ready to listen to what the community has to tell us. We are looking forward to working with the RIPE Programme Committee, the RIPE Working Groups and Task Forces, the RIPE NCC, and with individual members of the RIPE community, so that this community continues and develops as an interesting, relevant, and inclusive “forum for the exchange of technical information and the creation of expertise on IP networking”, as envisaged in the RIPE Terms of Reference (ripe-001). In particular, we look forward to working with Hans Petter both to complete the handover of the responsibilities of the RIPE Chair and in his new role as Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Hans Petter, both for ourselves and on behalf of the RIPE community, for his excellent leadership as RIPE Chair. His example and that of the founding RIPE Chair, Rob Blokzijl, will continue to be an inspiration to us. We would also like to thank everyone who sent their good wishes to either or both of us when the appointments were announced. We really appreciate your kind words of congratulation and encouragement. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly

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New on RIPE Labs: You’ve Got the Power: Sustainable Procurement and the RIPE Community
by Mirjam Kuehne 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, Buying equipment can have an impact on environmental sustainability. Michael Oghia writes about issues surrounding sustainable procurement and how the RIPE community has the potential to make a difference: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/michael_oghia/you-ve-got-the-power-sustainabl… Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Submit your application today!
by projectsfund＠ripe.net 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you that the call for applications for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund will close on 23 August, at 23:59 UTC. Through the Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC offers funding of €250,000 in total for projects that work to improve the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in our service region. If your project works for the ‘good of the Internet’, and you would like to apply for funding, please make sure to submit your application before the deadline. You can find detailed information about the Community Projects Fund here: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf <https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf> Best regards Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC

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