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Gender politics at RIPE
by Malcolm Hutty 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

I'm writing to follow up on the Lightning Talk analysing the sex of participants at RIPE meetings, and in particular the call for ideas for actions for the Programme Committee to take to "improve" the distribution (by which the speaker meant, to increase female participation). First, I will say that I was heartened that the speaker's analysis showed that participation at RIPE broadly matches the industry from which it is drawn. I would have been very disappointed if the predominantly male participation had acted to discourage women in our industry from attending RIPE meetings, and I am happy to see that there is no evidence of that. I do take issue with the speaker's personal claim that we should aim to "be better than our industry" and that we should measure success by whether female participation more closely matched 50% than matched female participation in our industry. And I'm worried by his call for the programme committee to act to move us in that direction. I think we all know where this is going; we've all seen this kind of gender politics in other spheres. Here is my credo. I believe that one of the positive characteristics of the RIPE community is that it is open to, and welcoming of, all participants. Our community has a wholly admirable tradition of robust discussion of ideas, exclusively on the basis of the ideas themselves, where contributions are weighed solely according to their own merits and not according to irrelevant characteristics of the speaker such as race, sex, nationality, or even employer or job title. That is something of which I think we should be proud, and we should jealously guard it against ideological attempts to introduce changes that would undermine it. If we go down a path that asks first for an assessment of the speaker's "diversity" (meaning their sex, race, and so forth), that would be a step backwards. To the female speaker who said she would feel more welcome if there were more female participants, I say this: I hope you feel welcome already. You are very welcome, as is everyone. And I hope nobody would judge how welcome they are as a zero-sum game in competition with some other group or tribe. I hope the Programme Committee does not start to say that contributions from men are less interesting or that presentations by men are less welcome because "we've got enough of you already", as is the clear if unspoken message of any attempt to artificially skew participation. Kind Regards, Malcolm. -- Malcolm Hutty | tel: +44 20 7645 3523 Head of Public Affairs | Read the LINX Public Affairs blog London Internet Exchange | http://publicaffairs.linx.net/ London Internet Exchange Ltd Monument Place, 24 Monument Street London EC3R 8AJ Company Registered in England No. 3137929 Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA

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RIPE 73 - Monday Highlights
by Martina De Mas 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

¡Hola! RIPE 73 kicked off in Madrid yesterday. At the end of the day there were 491 attendees checked in and 663 registered. Highlights included: - An analysis of IPv6 deployment survey results, carrier-grade NAT (using BitTorrent data) and gender metrics at RIPE Meetings - A look at the accountability of the RIPE community - A presentation from a RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) attendee on the evolving IPv4 transfer market - A request from Geoff Huston to consider deploying elliptic curve cryptograph to improve security on Internet transactions The full Daily Meeting Report from Monday is online here: https://ripe73.ripe.net/programme/report/monday/ Today's plenary sessions are underway in the Main Room. You can find the day's agenda here: https://ripe73.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/ And if you can't join us here in Madrid, you can watch us online: https://ripe73.ripe.net/live/main/ Kind regards, Martina de Mas RIPE Meeting Coordinator

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Fwd: [apops] APRICOT 2017 Call for Presentations
by Mark Tinka 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

FYI. Mark. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [apops] APRICOT 2017 Call for Presentations Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:34:19 +0600 From: Philip Smith <pfsinoz(a)gmail.com> To: apops(a)apops.net Hi everyone, Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) 27th February - 2nd March 2017, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam https://2017.apricot.net CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The APRICOT 2017 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2017 Conference. We are looking for presenters who would: - Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic; - Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker; - Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics. Please submit on-line at: http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=48 CONFERENCE MILESTONES --------------------- Call for Papers Opens: Now Draft Program Published: As Papers Confirmed Final Deadline for Submissions: 30 January 2016 Final Program Published: 6 February 2017 Final Slides Received: 13 February 2017 *NOTE THAT REGARDLESS OF DEADLINES SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS* PROGRAMME MATERIAL ------------------ The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being the Peering Forum, Tutorials, and Conference Tracks. Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies: - IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and operations - IPv6 deployment and transition technologies - Internet backbone operations - ISP and Carrier services - IXPs and Peering - Research on Internet Operations and Deployment - Software Defined Networking / Network Function Virtualisaton - Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware) - DNS / DNSSEC - Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management, Addressing, etc) - Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, 3G/LTE, wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, MPLS - Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video, "telepresence", Gaming) and Cloud Computing CfP SUBMISSION -------------- Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will be unable to review the submission. For avoidance of doubt this means that submissions which do not include slides will be rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current information available at time of submission is acceptable. All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only. Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the APRICOT website. Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may, at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely, important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material into the PC sooner rather than later. Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme Committee by e-mail at: pc-chairs at apricot.net We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals. Mark Tinka & Philip Smith Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2017 Programme Committee -- _______________________________________________ apops mailing list apops(a)apops.net https://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apops Website: www.apops.net .

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RIPE 73 Opens Today
by Martina De Mas 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Buenos días! RIPE Chair Hans Petter Holen will open the RIPE 73 Meeting in Madrid today at 15:00 local time (UTC +2). If you cannot be at RIPE 73 in person, you can follow the meeting and participate remotely by viewing the live webcast and using the chat facilities here: https://ripe73.ripe.net/attend/about-remote-participation To stay up-to-date with all RIPE Meeting updates, follow us on Twitter: @ripemeeting, #ripe73 Kind regards, Martina -- Martina de Mas Conference Coordinator RIPE Network Coordination Centre Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 535 4444 www.ripe.net

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[news] RIPE Policy Proposals - October Update
by Marco Schmidt 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, Here is our monthly overview of open policy proposals and their stage in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). This is the first update since June, as there were no significant PDP developments in recent months. If you wish to join the discussion about a particular proposal, please do so on the relevant working group mailing list. The RIPE Forum provides an easy access to all working group mailing lists https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum/ Proposals Open for Discussion: 2015-04, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies" 2016-03, "Locking Down the Final /8 Policy" Proposal Withdrawn: 2016-01, "Include Legacy Internet Resource Holders in the Abuse-c Policy" 2016-02, "Resource Authentication Key ( RAK ) code for third party authentication" Proposal Overviews: PROPOSAL: 2015-04, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies" OVERVIEW: Aims to create a single transfer policy with all relevant information on the transfer of Internet number resources, replacing text in several RIPE Policies. The proposal also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and 16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership. RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Describes how the 24-month holding period for scarce resources will be applied. STATUS: Review Phase DEADLINE: 26 October 2016 FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04 PROPOSAL: 2016-03, "Locking Down the Final /8 Policy" OVERVIEW: The third version aims to ban transfers of allocations made under the final /8 policy. The proposal also defines which IPv4 resources will be added to the RIPE NCC’s available IPv4 pool. STATUS: Review Phase RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Describes how the transfer restrictions will be applied. WHERE TO COMMENT: Address Policy Working Group: address-policy-wg(a)ripe.net DEADLINE: 17 November 2016 FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2016-03 ===== The following proposals have been withdrawn. PROPOSAL: 2016-01, "Include Legacy Internet Resource Holders in the Abuse-c Policy" OVERVIEW: Aimed for a mandatory abuse contact for Legacy Internet Resource Holders in the RIPE Database. STATUS: Withdrawn. The proposers decided to withdraw the proposal due to the inability to find an acceptable agreement which satisfied all parties. FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2016-01 PROPOSAL: 2016-02, "Resource Authentication Key ( RAK ) code for third party authentication" OVERVIEW: Aims to allow all number resources, in exacts and more specifics, to be authenticated via an API-key that expires on a certain date. STATUS: Withdrawn. The proposer didn't see enough community support, especially from the external database holders who would have needed to perform their own development work. FULL PROPOSAL: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2016-02 The RIPE NCC provides an overview of current RIPE Policy Proposals here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/current-proposals/current-policy-… During the upcoming RIPE Meeting, the Address Policy Working Group will hold two sessions where ongoing and possible future policy proposals will be discussed. If you can’t attend the RIPE Meeting in person, we invite you to join remotely. A live webcast and IRC chat facility will be available for remote participation. The two sessions will begin on 26 October at 8:00 and 10:00 (UTC). Remote participation will be available at: https://ripe73.ripe.net/ We look forward to your involvement in the PDP. Kind regards, Marco Schmidt RIPE Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC Sent via RIPE Forum -- https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum

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RIPE73 Programme Committee Nominations - Reminder!
by Brian Nisbet 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear Friends and Colleagues, *Please note that some of the times have changed from my original mail due to the slightly later starting time of all of our sessions in Madrid.* The RIPE Programme Committee is responsible for recruiting and selecting presentations for the RIPE Meeting Plenary sessions. As the term of two RIPE PC members end, we are looking for new members in Autumn 2016 who will be elected by the RIPE community at RIPE 73 in Madrid. There are currently two seats up for election to the RIPE PC. Please send nominations, with a biography, statement of interest and photograph, to pc(a)ripe.net. The Charter of the RIPE Programme Committee (https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-pc-charter) provides more information about the composition and roles of the RIPE PC. Nominations for the RIPE 73 PC elections can be sent in from today until Tuesday October 25th, 15:30 CEST. We will announce the PC elections at the RIPE meeting opening sessions, but interested parties can nominate themselves from now. We will close candidate nominations on Tuesday at 15:30 CEST, and publish the biographies on the RIPE Meeting web site. Candidates (or their stand-ins) can present themselves at the start of the Tuesday 17:00 CEST session. The RIPE PC online voting system will be open from Tuesday October 25th, 16:00 CEST until Thursday October 27th, 17:30 CEST, for the community members to cast their votes. The total voting numbers may be public. The official announcement of the elected RIPE PC members will be on Friday morning, the 28th October, at the start of the 12:00 CEST closing plenary session. Questions about the RIPE PC can be sent to pc(a)ripe.net. Regards, Brian On Behalf of the RIPE PC -- Brian Nisbet, Network Operations Manager HEAnet Limited, Ireland's Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1 Registered in Ireland, no 275301 tel: +35316609040 fax: +35316603666 web: http://www.heanet.ie/

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Mailing list for discussion of RIPE Chair selection
by Hans Petter Holen 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, When Rob Blokzijl stepped down as RIPE Chair, he asked that I put the wheels in motion to establish a selection procedure for future RIPE Chairs. At the last meeting I presented a proposal for how this could happen to start the discussion. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/draft-ripe-chair-election-p… The RIPE Chair represents you, the RIPE community. This community has been, and always will be, driven bottom up and by consensus. Your ideas and input form the foundation of what this selection procedure will look like. Key questions for a procedure are: * Who can be selected as RIPE Chair * Who will select the RIPE Chair * How will the selection happen? Should we have an election? Decided by a show of hands at a RIPE Meeting? Evoting? A selection panel? A vetting process by the RIPE Working Group Chairs? Should there be a RIPE Vice Chair? Your involvement and consensus on the selection procedure is crucial. We've established a dedicated mailing list for this discussion: ripe-chair-discuss(a)ripe.net To subscribe to the list, please visit https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-chair-discuss/ -- Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen RIPE Chair

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IANA Stewardship Transition Completed
by Axel Pawlik 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, On 1 October 2016, the IANA functions contract that the United States Government had with ICANN was allowed to expire. This represents the final step in the community-led IANA stewardship transition process that began in 2014. Oversight of IANA is now the responsibility of the Names, Numbers and Protocol Parameters communities that rely on its services. The five Regional Internet Registries have a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in place with IANA that defines our expectations moving forward. A community-selected IANA Numbering Services Review Committee will assist the NRO Executive Council when it conducts periodic reviews of IANA's services. Aside from this, our work with IANA will be unchanged and members will not see any operational difference. We would like to thank everyone from the RIPE community who participated in this process — whether by sharing their views at RIPE Meetings or on the various mailing lists, or participating more directly within the CRISP, CCWG-Accountability and ICG groups. The ability of the five RIR communities to organise and contribute effectively to this global effort was a demonstration of the strength of our open, transparent and bottom-up approach. Since 2014, the RIPE NCC has maintained an archive of key documents and announcements relating to the IANA stewardship transition. You can find this on our website here: https://www.ripe.net/iana-stewardship-transition Kind regards Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE73 Programme Committee Nominations!
by Brian Nisbet 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The RIPE Programme Committee is responsible for recruiting and selecting presentations for the RIPE Meeting Plenary sessions. As the term of two RIPE PC members end, we are looking for new members in Autumn 2016 who will be elected by the RIPE community at RIPE 73 in Madrid. There are currently two seats up for election to the RIPE PC. Please send nominations, with a biography, statement of interest and photograph, to pc(a)ripe.net. The Charter of the RIPE Programme Committee (https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-pc-charter) provides more information about the composition and roles of the RIPE PC. Nominations for the RIPE 73 PC elections can be sent in from today until Tuesday October 25th, 15:30 CEST. We will announce the PC elections at the RIPE meeting opening sessions, but interested parties can nominate themselves from now. We will close candidate nominations on Tuesday at 15:30 CEST, and publish the biographies on the RIPE Meeting web site. Candidates (or their stand-ins) can present themselves at the start of the Tuesday 16:00 CEST session. The RIPE PC online voting system will be open from Tuesday October 25th, 16:00 CEST until Thursday October 27th, 17:30 CEST, for the community members to cast their votes. The total voting numbers may be public. The official announcement of the elected RIPE PC members will be on Friday morning, the 28th October, at the start of the 11:00 CEST closing plenary session. Questions about the RIPE PC can be sent to pc(a)ripe.net. Regards, Brian On Behalf of the RIPE PC -- Brian Nisbet, Network Operations Manager HEAnet Limited, Ireland's Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1 Registered in Ireland, no 275301 tel: +35316609040 fax: +35316603666 web: http://www.heanet.ie/

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Countdown to RIPE 73
by Martina De Mas 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Dear colleagues, RIPE 73 will take place at the Meliá Castilla hotel in Madrid from 24-28 October 2016. Register now at: https://ripe73.ripe.net/attend/register/ Week ticket: EUR 350 Day ticket: EUR 125 Student (week) ticket: EUR 50 All new RIPE NCC members are eligible for two free week tickets. More information about ticket options is online: https://ripe73.ripe.net/attend ------------------------------- Call for Presentations and Draft Programme ------------------------------- We’re seeking content proposals for: - Plenary sessions - Panels - Workshops - Lightning talks Got a story or an idea to share? Submit your proposal before 25 September 2016: https://ripe73.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/ A list of accepted RIPE 73 presentations is now published at: https://ripe73.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/draft-programme/ ------------ Meeting Plan ----------- The draft meeting plan is now online: https://ripe73.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ Please note: RIPE 73 will start one hour later each day than normal, embracing local business and social custom. The meeting will open at 10:00 each day and social events will start an hour later than usual. -------------------- IXP Tools Hackathon -------------------- A special hackathon focused on developing tools for IXPs will take place the weekend before RIPE 73 in Madrid, from 22-23 October. Register at: https://atlas.ripe.net/hackathon/ixp-tools/#!application-form The application deadline is 15 September 2016. -------------------- RIPE NCC Training --------------------- On Sunday, 23 October 2016, the RIPE NCC Training Department will organise a full-day Basic IPv6 Training Course. The course is free and will also take place at the Meliá Castilla hotel in Madrid. RIPE NCC members can register via the following link: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/register/courseCode/IPX20160029 If you are not a RIPE NCC member, please email <training(a)ripe.net> to register and include your name, the course name and whether or not you want the vegetarian meal option. ------------ Social Media ------------ Follow @ripemeeting and #RIPE73 on Twitter. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ripemeetings -------------- There’s lots more information about RIPE 73 online: https://ripe73.ripe.net/ See you in Madrid! Best regards, Martina de Mas Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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