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New Draft Document: RIPE NCC Staff Participation in the RIPE Community (Please review)
by Mirjam Kuehne 10 May '23

10 May '23

Dear colleagues, In its final report [1], the 2020 RIPE Nominating Committee recommended to document a consensus on the relationship between RIPE and the RIPE NCC and, in particular, how RIPE NCC staff can participate in RIPE. In this new draft document, we focus on the second part of this recommendation: how RIPE NCC staff can and should participate in the RIPE community and how the RIPE community welcomes participation by RIPE NCC staff: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-… Please review this document. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, please send them to this list or to me directly before 31 May 2023. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair [1] RIPE Nominating Committee 2020 https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-762

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Re: [ripe-list] New Draft Document: RIPE NCC Staff Participation in the RIPE Community (Please review)
by denis walker 10 May '23

10 May '23

Hi Mirjam I also think one of the key points here is "RIPE NCC staff are part of the community and may participate in RIPE activities on the same terms as anyone else." I would specifically like this to cover RIPE NCC staff being full and active members of a Task Force. Recently staff have been left sitting on the sidelines as 'advisors' or doing 'administrative duties'. cheers denis co-chair DB-WG On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 12:00, <ripe-list-request(a)ripe.net> wrote: > From: Mirjam Kuehne <mir(a)zu-hause.nl> > To: RIPE List <ripe-list(a)ripe.net> > Cc: Mirjam Kuehne <chair(a)ripe.net> > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 12:59:17 +0000 > Subject: [ripe-list] New Draft Document: RIPE NCC Staff Participation in the RIPE Community (Please review) > Dear colleagues, > > In its final report [1], the 2020 RIPE Nominating Committee recommended > to document a consensus on the relationship between RIPE and the RIPE > NCC and, in particular, how RIPE NCC staff can participate in RIPE. > > In this new draft document, we focus on the second part of this > recommendation: how RIPE NCC staff can and should participate in the > RIPE community and how the RIPE community welcomes participation by RIPE > NCC staff: > > https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-… > > Please review this document. If you have any comments, questions, > suggestions, please send them to this list or to me directly before 31 > May 2023. > > Kind regards, > Mirjam Kühne > RIPE Chair > > [1] RIPE Nominating Committee 2020 > https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-762 > >

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Reminder - RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Apply now.
by projectsfund＠ripe.net 09 May '23

09 May '23

Dear colleagues, I hope you are keeping well. For the seventh year in a row, the RIPE NCC is committed to supporting activities and projects for 'the good of the Internet'. We are pleased to invite applications for funding from the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Through this initiative, the RIPE NCC distributes up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Please don’t forget the deadline for this year's call for applications is Wednesday, 31 May 23:59 (UTC) https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/call-for-applications Kind Regards, Alastair Strachan RIPE NCC

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Principles for Remuneration of the RIPE Chair and Vice-Chair now published as RIPE Document
by Mirjam Kuehne 04 May '23

04 May '23

Dear colleagues, The document "Principles for Remuneration of the RIPE Chair and Vice-Chair" has now been published as ripe-797: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-797/ Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair

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Rob Blokzijl Foundation: Call for Award Committee 2023
by Fbornstaedt＠benocs.com 02 May '23

02 May '23

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Re: [ripe-list] Updated NRO NC Election Process - Please review
by Mirjam Kuehne 02 May '23

02 May '23

Hi, On 28/04/2023 09:14, Mirjam Kuehne wrote: > 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. > I realised I could have provided some more context here: The current process was developed over 20 years ago and is fairly high-level and leaves a lot of room for interpretation: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/address-council-election-procedure This was recognised and discussed by the community, and the RIPE Chair Team together with the RIPE NCC took on the task to review this procedure. In this new draft document we describe a more detailed process, including candidate and voter eligibility, term limits and the election process itself. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne

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New on RIPE Labs: Pushing the Needle Forward - A Community Engagement Quarterly Report
by Alun Davies 01 May '23

01 May '23

Dear colleagues, Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer at the RIPE NCC, shares the first of a series of articles on how the RIPE NCC’s community engagement activities are making a measurable difference for the Internet: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hisham_ibrahim/pushing-the-needle-forward-a-co… Kind regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC

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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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