[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update February 2017

RIPE NCC Member Update: February 2017

Contents:
- LIR Statistics
- RIPE NCC Membership Pages
- LIR Contact Migration
- RIPE NCC Member Lunches
- DNS Measurements Hackathon
- RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting
- Policy Development Summaries
- Training Courses and Webinars
- RIPE 74 Budapest
- RIPE Fellowship Programme
- ENOG 13 St. Petersburg
- MENOG 17 Muscat
- RIPE Accountability Taskforce
- Law Enforcement Agency Requests
- RIPE Atlas Probe Uptimes
- IPv6 RIPEness in 2017
- Ethics in Network Measurements
- RIPE Labs
- RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI)
- Email Tagging
- Social Media

LIR STATISTICS (change since last update)
Number of LIRs: 15,334 (+212)
LIRs with IPv6: 11,485 (+127)
IPv4 addresses transferred in January: 274,944 (-446,976)
https://labs.ripe.net/statistics

RIPE NCC MEMBERSHIP PAGES
We updated our Membership Information pages to make it easier for you to
get all the information you need in one place, including a new LIR
Basics for Members section that is very useful for newer members of the
RIPE NCC:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support

We also updated our list of services to make it easier to find what
you're looking for:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/what-we-do/list-of-ripe-ncc-services

LIR CONTACT MIGRATION
Are you an LIR account administrator? Please use the contact migration
wizard in the LIR Portal by 1 April 2017 to ensure we have one list of
authorised users for each LIR.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2017-January/001125.html

RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES
Registration is open for upcoming member lunches in Dublin, Amman,
Kazan, Lvov and Vladivostok. Space is limited at these events, so please
register soon and come meet the RIPE NCC's staff in your home city:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/

DNS MEASUREMENTS HACKATHON 2017
The RIPE NCC's fifth hackathon will take place in Amsterdam from 20-21
April, and this time it's focusing on DNS measurements. If you are
interested in taking part, we provide funding for up to six people to
travel to the event. The deadline to apply is 26 February!
https://labs.ripe.net/hackathons

RIPE NCC ROUNDTABLE MEETING
On 24 January, the RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for Governments
and Regulators in Brussels. Find out about what happened and check out
the presentations from the meeting:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-holds-meeting-for-governments-and-regulators

POLICY DEVELOPMENT SUMMARIES
The RIPE NCC sends a monthly update on the status of policy proposals in
the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). We've collected them all on
one page to make it easier for you to keep track of what's going on in
the PDP:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/policy-updates

TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS
In March, we'll give training courses in Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Slovenia
and Norway. We'll also have webinars on IPv6 Addressing Plans, the RIPE
Database and one for new LIRs. You can register for any of these at:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

RIPE 74 BUDAPEST
RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary from 8-12 May. Registration is
open and there is a call for presentation proposals. The RIPE 74 website
has also been optimised for mobile after recent feedback from attendees.
The new design will allow us to further improve the RIPE Meeting website
for future meetings.
https://ripe74.ripe.net/

RIPE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME
The new RIPE Fellowship will fund up to five attendees from the RIPE NCC
service region to participate in a RIPE Meeting:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/apply-now-for-new-ripe-fellowship-programme

ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG
The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from
23-24 May. Registration is open and the Call for Presentations deadline
is 3 April.
https://www.enog.org/enog-13/

MENOG 17 MUSCAT
The MENOG 17 Meeting takes place in Muscat from 19-20 April, and it's
preceded by IPv6 and DNS workshops.
http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/

RIPE ACCOUNTABILITY TASK FORCE
The RIPE Accountability Task Force is undertaking a review of the RIPE
community's accountability by examining its current procedures,
documentation and structures. A webpage for the task force has been
published along with a draft scope and a link to the task force mailing
list archives:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/ripe-accountability-task-force/

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY REQUESTS
A new RIPE Document outlines the requests that the RIPE NCC received
from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in 2016:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-678

RIPE ATLAS PROBE UPTIMES
Rene Wilhelm provides an update on the status of RIPE Atlas probe
connections:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/update-on-atlas-probe-lifetimes

IPv6 RIPENESS IN 2017
Rene also provides an update on our IPv6 RIPEness project, including an
analysis of IPv6 RIPEness for new LIRs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/ipv6-ripeness-update

ETHICS IN NETWORK MEASUREMENTS
Our Community Builder gave an interview at the Free and Open Software
event FOSDEM on the moral obligations of engineers, scientists and
hackers, based on the example of RIPE Atlas:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ethics-in-network-measurements

RIPE LABS
Thirteen new RIPE Labs articles were posted since the last Member
Update, including one from Anant Shah on using RIPE Atlas to validate
international routing detours. Check them out and let us know if you
have interesting research or ideas you'd like to share with the community.
https://labs.ripe.net/

RIPE ACADEMIC COOPERATION INITIATIVE (RACI)
If you are an academic there is still time to apply for RACI. Successful
applicants receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation to
the meetings and the opportunity to present their research.

RIPE 74 (8-12 May, Budapest): apply by 5 March 2017
SEE 6 (12-13 June, Budva): apply by 9 April 2017

https://www.ripe.net/raci

EMAIL TAGGING
We use tags so you can filter RIPE NCC emails in your own mail client
depending on the topics you’re interested in: [meetings], [news], [GM],
[service] and [training].

SOCIAL MEDIA
Get updates, see the latest RIPE Labs articles and start conversations
with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn:
https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/social-networking

If you have any questions or comments on the February Member Update,
please let me know.

Best regards,

Fergal Cunningham
Membership Communications Officer
RIPE NCC