[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update: November 2017

RIPE NCC Member Update: November 2017

Contents
- LIR Statistics
- RIPE 75
- RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) Outcomes
- IoT Working Group
- Contacting the RIPE NCC
- RIPE Database Abuse Contacts (NWI-7)
- Purchase Order Number on 2018 Invoice?
- DMARC and the RIPE NCC
- RIPEstat Country Reports
- IXP Country Jedi
- Geolocation Tools
- RIPE Atlas Probes as IoT Devices
- RIPE Atlas Measurement Timestamps
- New Vendor for RIPE Atlas v3 Anchors
- The Future of DNSSEC at the RIPE NCC
- Anycasting AS197000 More Widely
- Upcoming Training Courses
- RIPE NCC::Educa Report
- Community Projects Fund - Deadline Approaching
- RIPE Diversity Efforts
- Community Input on RIPE Labs
- RACI Applications for 2018
- RIPE Forum
- RSS News Feeds from the RIPE NCC
- Email Tagging
- Monthly Policy Updates
- Social Media
- RIPE NCC Presentations at RIPE 75

LIR STATISTICS (change since last update)
Number of LIRs: 17,355 (+277)
LIRs with IPv6: 12,584 (+151)
IPv4 addresses transferred in August: 4,143,360 (+3,464,960)

All of our published statistics are available on our A to Z stats page:
https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?az=true

RIPE 75
The RIPE 75 Meeting took place in Dubai from 22 October and saw many
great presentations from both RIPE NCC staff and the RIPE community. All
of the presentations are downloadable and the videos are available to
watch from the RIPE 75 website:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/ [Open URL]

A selection of the presentations given by RIPE NCC staff is available at
the bottom of this mail.

RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) OUTCOMES
The GM took place from 24-26 October and RIPE NCC members voted to
approve three resolutions, including the redistribution of the 2017
surplus to members as a rebate in 2018. Over 1,000 members cast their
votes, and we thank them for their participation. Full details on the GM
results, including the voting report, are available from:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2017

IoT WORKING GROUP
At RIPE 75, the RIPE community reached consensus on the creation of a
new working group focused on the Internet of Things (IoT). You can find
video archives and slides from the IoT Session at RIPE 75 at:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/iot/

You can find more information on the new working group at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/iot-wg

Note: subscribers to the earlier <iot-discussion at ripe.net> mailing list
have been automatically moved to the new <iot-wg at ripe.net> mailing list.

CONTACTING THE RIPE NCC
The RIPE NCC has a new and improved contact form that you can use to get
in touch with us. The new contact form combines the old contact and
report form functionalities. The new form also presents suggested
content to users that can help to provide them with useful information.

Submissions made through the form will be ticketised and all
documentation will be stored separately and securely in the RIPE NCC's
Document Management System. The form is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/contact-form

RIPE DATABASE ABUSE CONTACTS (NWI-7)
Your ORGANISATION object has an “abuse-c:” attribute that references a
ROLE object with your abuse contact email in its “abuse-mailbox:”
attribute. By default this contact is applicable to all of your resource
objects (INET(6)NUM and AUT-NUM). However, you can now have an optional
“abuse-c:” attribute on these object types if you wish to override this
default. This attribute then needs to reference another ROLE object with
a different abuse contact email in its “abuse-mailbox:” attribute.

PURCHASE ORDER NUMBER ON 2018 INVOICE?
Add your purchase order number to the invoice reference field before the
end of the year via:
https://my.ripe.net/#/billing

You can find out more about the charges for 2018 at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/payment

DMARC AND THE RIPE NCC
Find out what the RIPE NCC is doing to provide the best solution for
users and the RIPE community in relation to the DMARC email standard:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/dmarc-and-the-ripe-ncc

RIPEstat COUNTRY REPORTS
Get insights into the status and development of the Internet in
countries or regions with this prototype tool. In this first beta
release, the RIPEstat Country Reports features the topics "IPv4", "IPv6"
and "LIRs", with more topics, datasets and ideas to be added soon.
https://stat.ripe.net/country-report

Watch Christian's presentation on the official release at RIPE75:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/142

And help to steer further development by providing feedback via:
https://stat.ripe.net/feedback

IXP COUNTRY JEDI
The IXP Country Jedi is a prototype tool that provides visualisations of
Internet traffic paths (traceroutes) between RIPE Atlas probes located
in the same country to see if target paths take out-of-country detours
and whether we see IXPs in the paths. Check it out at:
https://www.ripe.net/ixp-country-jedi

GEOLOCATION TOOLS
A new range of geolocation tools developed by the RIPE NCC were
presented in the MAT WG session at RIPE 75. These include a set of
geolocation APIs that provide a best estimate of the location of a
target IP, and the OpenIPMap UI, which enables users to visualise
traceroutes on a map. See the presentation at:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/121/

RIPE ATLAS PROBES AS IoT DEVICES
Robert Kisteleki from the RIPE NCC looks at RIPE Atlas probes from the
perspective of IoT:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ripe-atlas-probes-as-iot-devices

RIPE ATLAS MEASUREMENT TIMESTAMPS
New timestamps have been introduced for RIPE Atlas measurements. Whereas
before, users could see the time at which a measurement took place, they
can now also see the time at which those measurements were received in
the RIPE Atlas data repository. This allows users of historical data to
exclude measurement results that arrived late.

NEW VENDOR FOR RIPE ATLAS v3 ANCHORS
Meconet, the latest addition to our list of vendors for RIPE Atlas v3
anchors, is offering the new anchor hardware fully assembled with 3
years' warranty. No other vendor is currently able to offer the devices
fully assembled. The RIPE Atlas anchor from Meconet comes in a 19”
chassis with integrated power supply.
https://shop.meconet.de/a/117330?language=en

THE FUTURE OF DNSSEC AT THE RIPE NCC
Anand Buddhdev from the RIPE NCC talks about how the RIPE NCC is
exploring ways of improving its DNSSEC activities:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/the-future-of-dnssec-at-the-ripe-ncc

ANYCASTING AS197000 MORE WIDELY
Anand also presents an experiment that investigates whether it's
possible to increase the capacity and resiliency of the RIPE NCC's
authoritative DNS service (AS197000):
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/anycasting-as-197000-more-widely

UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES
Up to the end of 2017, there will be RIPE NCC Training Courses in
Dusseldorf, Krasnodar, Palermo, Lyon and Athens. There are also a number
of webinars upcoming on the RIPE Database and IPv6. Courses and webinars
are free for members to attend - you just need to register at:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

RIPE NCC::EDUCA REPORT
There is a report on RIPE Labs on the RIPE NCC's first RIPE NCC::Educa
day of online courses on RIPE Atlas. Find out all about it at:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/sandra_bras/report-from-first-ripe-ncc-educa-event

COMMUNITY PROJECTS FUND - DEADLINE APPROACHING
Through the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC will provide
up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation
and resilience of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services that
benefit the technical community in Europe, the Middle East and Central
Asia. The call for applications is open until 24 November 2017.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alastair_strachan/ripe-ncc-community-projects-fund-call-for-applications-is-open

RIPE DIVERSITY EFFORTS
Amanda Gowland from the RIPE NCC reports on the efforts around improving
RIPE diversity at RIPE 75:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/gaining-momentum-with-ripe-diversity-efforts

COMMUNITY INPUT ON RIPE LABS
Since the last Member Update, we have published a wide range of useful
and interesting articles on RIPE Labs. A selection of these articles are
provided below. Please contact <labs at ripe.net> if you would like to
publish research or anything else that might be interesting for the RIPE
community.

Ollivier Robert has released a tool that provides access to the RIPE
Atlas API on the Go programming language:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ollivier_robert/ripe-atlas-on-the-go

Wouter de Vries and colleagues have developed a new, open-source anycast
catchment mapping technique, Verfploeter, which uses active Internet
Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo (ping) probing from within the
anycast service to an IPv4 ‘hit-list’ of active hosts on the Internet.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wouter_de_vries/verfploeter-broad-and-load-aware-anycast-mapping

Staff from the RIPE NCC attended the Internet Measurement Conference
2017 and they present highlights from the content presented that RIPE
community members might find interesting:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/impressions-from-the-internet-measurement-conference-2017

Ross McFarland gives insights into solutions that mid-size organisations
need to deploy on the DNS and BGP level:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ross_mcfarland_1/transit-and-peering-how-your-requests-reach-github

Kathleen Moriarty looks at a path forward for TLS security and data
centre monitoring:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/tls-security-and-data-centre-monitoring-searching-for-a-path-forward

RACI APPLICATIONS FOR 2018
The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) is opening a call for
applicants for the upcoming meetings in spring 2018. RACI covers the
cost of flights, accommodation and meeting tickets for the selected
academics to present their research. Please help spread the word to
academics who could benefit from this programme!
https://www.ripe.net/raci

Application deadlines:
MENOG 18, 14-15 March, TBC: 28 January 2018
RIPE 76, 14-18 May, Marseille: 11 March 2018
ENOG 15, 4-5 June, Moscow: 1 April 2018
SEE 7, 18-19 June, Timisoara: 15 April 2018

RIPE FORUM
We'd like to remind you that you can participate in RIPE community
mailing list discussions using a web-based interface rather than an
email client. RIPE Forum posts are sent to the mailing lists and
everything from the mailing lists are visible in the forum:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/forum/

RSS NEWS FEEDS FROM THE RIPE NCC
News feeds allow you to see when we add new content on a particular
subject in a section of the website that you're interested in. You can
get the latest headlines as soon as we publish them.
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/feeds

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].

MONTHLY POLICY UPDATES
The RIPE NCC sends a monthly update on the status of policy proposals in
the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). You can find all the updates at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/policy-updates

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

RIPE NCC PRESENTATIONS AT RIPE 75
Marco Schmidt presents current policy topics at the Address Policy
Working Group:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/113/

Andrea Cima gives feedback from RIPE NCC Registration Services:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/116/

Chris Amin gives an update on our Research and Development activities:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/119/

Massimo Candela talks about multi-approach infrastructure geolocation:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/121/

And Massimo also presents on crowdsourcing your infrastructure location
with OpenIPMap:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/203/

Chief Operations Officer Andrew de la Haye gives the RIPE NCC
Operational Update:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/139/

Tim Bruynzeels gives the operational update on the RIPE Database:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/172/

Anand Buddhdev gives the RIPE NCC DNS update:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/173/

Rumy Spratley-Kanis talks about developments with our Training Services:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/140/

Ingrid Wijte presents the Number Resource Organization (NRO) statistics:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/193/

And our Managing Director Axel Pawlik gives the RIPE NCC outlook for
2017-2018:
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/138/


You can find all the previous RIPE NCC Member Updates containing an
overview of what the RIPE NCC is doing at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/member-update

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

Best regards,

Fergal Cunningham
Membership Communications Officer
RIPE NCC