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[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2020
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Boris Duval
bduval at ripe.net
Wed Apr 22 14:45:08 CEST 2020
Hello RIPE NCC member, While we are now working remotely, the Internet is still keeping us very busy and with RIPE 80 around the corner, we have a lot of updates to share with you. Happy reading! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 13-15 May 2020 -- RIPE NCC Executive Board Minutes -- Sanctions and the RIPE NCC -- Payment Period Extended due to COVID-19 -- RIPE NCC Certified Professionals is live! -- Learn Online -- Focus on: Membership Mailing Lists ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- New AS Number Blocks Allocated to the RIPE NCC -- Improving Security of the API Key Management in the LIR Portal -- RIPEstat Updates ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Southeast Europe Country Report -- COVID-19 and the Internet -- The RIPE NCC's Use of Zoom for Meetings -- Do We Need a New IP? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 80, 12-14 May 2020 -- RIPE 82 will take place in Berlin -- Virtual Member Lunches ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What We’re Doing for You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,358 (-7) LIRs with IPv6: 16,565 (+90) Policy transfers in March: 683,776 IPv4 addresses (+53,248) -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 13-15 May 2020 The General Meeting will take place from 13-15 May 2020 and full remote participation is available. You can vote remotely on resolutions and to elect three RIPE NCC Executive Board candidates. The deadline to nominate candidates is today, 22 April at 23:59 UTC. A nominee needs expressions of support from five members to become a confirmed candidate for the Executive Board: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/call-for-nominations The supporting documents for the General Meeting have been published, including the 2019 Annual Report and Financial Report and the 2021 Charging Scheme: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/supporting-documents -- RIPE NCC Executive Board Minutes The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 131st, 132nd and 133rd Meetings via teleconference on 18 March, 26 March and 8 April 2020. The draft minutes of these meetings are available at: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020 -- Sanctions and the RIPE NCC Last week we announced that we had frozen the LIR accounts of three members in Iran in Syria because they were on the EU sanctions list. In the meantime, we are urgently seeking a permanent exemption from relevant authorities for the services we provide. You can read more at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-April/001413.html -- Payment Period Extended due to COVID-19 In view of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to extend our payment period by three months. You now have until 1 July 2020 to pay your invoice. If you are able to pay your invoice easily within the original timeframe, we encourage you to do so. More information is available at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/payment-period-extended-due-to-covid-19 -- RIPE NCC Certified Professionals is live! We’ve recently launched our Certified Professional Programme and sent three exam vouchers to each LIR. You can use your vouchers to schedule the RIPE Database Associate exam and earn our first verifiable digital badge: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals -- Learn Online While we had to suspend training courses due to COVID-19, we’re working hard to ensure that you can continue to learn with us. Here’s how you can keep learning: Webinars: One-hour interactive sessions. Remote Learning Sessions: Two-hour long sessions adapted from our regular training courses. Online Courses: The RIPE NCC Academy offers three online courses that are free and open to all. Learn more at: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online -- Focus on: Membership Mailing Lists Did you know? There are three mailing lists that are especially valuable to RIPE NCC Members: members-discuss, ncc-announce and ncc-services-wg. All of them have different purposes and one of them is compulsory (ncc-announce). You can learn more on how to manage and make the most out of those mailing lists at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/membership-mailing-lists ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Your Technical Update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- New AS Number Blocks Allocated to the RIPE NCC On 1 April 2020, the RIPE NCC received the following AS Number blocks from IANA: 210332-211355 211356-212379 212380-213403 You may want to update your records accordingly. All allocations of AS Numbers made by IANA to the RIRs are listed here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xhtml -- Improving Security of the API Key Management in the LIR Portal We’ve recently improved the LIR Portal API Key Management security by hashing all the existing and newly-created API key values. If you are using our APIs, make sure to read this update: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2020-April/001411.html -- RIPEstat Updates Geo-IP Information: Maxmind is back on RIPEstat We’ve re-enabled all Maxmind-related data calls and widgets after solving bugs due to licensing changes. https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#maxmind-geo-lite https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#maxmind-geo-lite-announced-by-as Launch of the AIRRS AFINIC recently launched the Africa Internet Registry and Routing Statistics (AIRRS) portal. The portal was developed in collaboration with the RIPEstat team and retrieves information from many sources: https://afrinic.net/blog/515-airrs-launch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. What’s Happening in Our Community? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Southeast Europe Country Report Our latest country report is out, this time focusing on eight countries in Southeast Europe. We examine the region’s Internet development - including local markets and their growth potential, routing anomalies and access to the global Internet - using the RIPE NCC’s measurement tools. Our colleague, Suzanne Taylor, shares more in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-country-report-southeast-europe We’d also like to invite you to attend an online session in which we’ll go over the main highlights from the report and have an open discussion about relevant Internet governance issues in Southeast Europe, including IPv6 deployment, IXPs and cybersecurity. The session will take place on Tuesday, 28 April from 12:00-13:00 UTC. Please register here by Monday, 27 April at 12:00 UTC: www.ripe.net/s/see-discussion -- COVID-19 and the Internet As COVID-19 turned the world upside down, we’ve been analysing its impact on the Internet and sharing how we’ve been adapting to this new normal on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/covid19 Here are some highlights: The Ghost Office: our Transition to Remote Work during COVID-19: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/saskia_oostdijck_van_gorp/the-ghost-office Network Delays in Times of Corona: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/romain_fontugne/network-delays-in-times-of-corona Hackathons in the Time of Corona: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/hackathons-in-the-time-of-corona -- The RIPE NCC's Use of Zoom for Meetings In this article, the RIPE NCC’s Chief Information Officer, Kaveh Ranjbar, explains why we chose Zoom to host RIPE 80 and the RIPE NCC General Meeting and answers security concerns around the use of this platform: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/the-ripe-nccs-use-of-zoom-for-meetings -- Do We Need a New IP? Marco Hogewoning shares his thoughts on Huawei's “New IP” proposal and explains why the evolution of the Internet should be left to the IETF: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_hogewoning/do-we-need-a-new-ip ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Join Us for These Meetings and Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPE 80, 12-14 May 2020 RIPE 80 will take place online from 12-14 May 2020 and you can register for free at: https://ripe80.ripe.net/attend/register/ Browse the meeting plan at: https://ripe80.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ Do you want to sponsor the first virtual RIPE Meeting? We’ve put together a great online sponsorship package: https://ripe80.ripe.net/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ Interested? You have until 30 April 2020 to apply to become a RIPE 80 sponsor. -- RIPE 82 will take place in Berlin As we had to move RIPE 80 online, we postponed our trip to the German capital until next year. RIPE 82 will officially take place in Berlin from 17-21 May 2021. Save the date! -- Virtual Member Lunches Bring your own lunch! Like regular Member Lunches, you will have the chance to chat with each other and RIPE NCC staff in a more informal setting: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/virtual-member-lunches That’s it for April! We will be back next month with more news and we hope to see you all (virtually) in a couple of weeks at RIPE 80. In the meantime, stay safe and healthy. Best, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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