[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2018

RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2018

- LIR Statistics
- RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2017
- RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2019
- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election
- RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM)
- RIPE 76, Marseille
- Upcoming RIPE Meetings
- ENOG 15, Moscow
- SEE 7, Timisoara
- RIPE NCC Hackathon: Tools for Network Operators
- RIPE Atlas Measurement Tagging
- Historical Whois
- Looking Glass 2.0
- Does the Internet Route Around Damage?
- IETF 101 Liveblog
- IPv6 in Lebanon
- RIPE Labs Community Articles
- RIPE NCC Training Services
- RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting
- RIPE NCC Service Descriptions and Statuses
- PDP Overview
- Positions Available at the RIPE NCC
- RSS News Feeds
- Email Tagging
- Social Media

LIR STATISTICS (change since last update)
Number of LIRs: 18,661 (+339)
LIRs with IPv6: 13,274 (+168)
IPv4 addresses transferred in March: 512 (-103,680)

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

RIPE NCC ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL REPORT 2017
Our Annual Report is now online:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-702

This RIPE Labs article explains how we took the Annual Report in a new
direction this year:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/a_ripe_ncc_report_like_youve_never_seen

The Financial Report 2017 is also online at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/supporting-documents/financial-report-2017

RIPE NCC CHARGING SCHEME 2019
Members will vote on the charging scheme for next year at the General
Meeting in May. The proposed scheme maintains the current fee levels
This and all supporting documents are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/supporting-documents

RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION
At the GM, there will be an election to fill two seats on the Executive
Board. There are currently four nominees and three confirmed candidates.
You can nominate or support a candidate until 25 April. The call for
nominations with all the details is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/call-for-nominations

RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM)
Registration is open to all members for the GM, taking place from 16-18
May 2018. All details, including a list of current candidates for the
Board election and registration links, are available from the GM webpages:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2018/

RIPE 76, MARSEILLE
- Registration is open:
https://ripe76.ripe.net/register/
- The RIPE Networking App is available to schedule meetings between App
users before, during and after RIPE 76:
https://ripe76.ripe.net/on-site/ripe-networking-app/
- The RIPE NCC Training course on Measurements and Tools takes place on
the Sunday before the meeting (13 May):
https://ripe76.ripe.net/on-site/parallel-events/mat-training/
- New: On-Site Childcare:
https://ripe76.ripe.net/on-site/on-site-childcare/

UPCOMING RIPE MEETINGS
- RIPE 77: Amsterdam, 15-19 October 2018
- RIPE 78: Reykjavík, 20-24 May 2019
- RIPE 79: The Call for Hosts is out! Are you interested in hosting a
RIPE Meeting in your city? Please apply by the 30 of April 2018:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/call-for-host/

ENOG 15, MOSCOW
Moscow, 4-5 June 2018
- Registration is open:
https://www.enog.org/enog-15/register/
- The Call for Presentations (deadline 6 May) is online:
http://www.enog.org/enog-15/cfp/
- Apply for an ENOG fellowship by 20 April 2018:
https://www.enog.org/about/fellowship/
- RIPE NCC Training Courses after ENOG 15:
https://www.enog.org/enog-15/parallel-events/

SEE 7, TIMISOARA
Timisoara, 18-19 June 2018
- Registration is open:
http://www.ripe.net/see-7/register
- The Call for Presentations (deadline 30 April) is online:
https://www.ripe.net/see-7/call-for-presentations
- RIPE NCC Training Courses after SEE 7:
https://www.ripe.net/see-7/ripe-ncc-training-courses

RIPE NCC HACKATHON: TOOLS FOR NETWORK OPERATORS
The seventh RIPE NCC hackathon will take place on Saturday and Sunday,
23-24 June 2018 in Dublin, co-hosted by iNOG (Irish Network Operators
Group), which is having its 16th meeting on Thursday, 21st June. The
topic this time is: tools for network operators. Find out more in this
RIPE Labs article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/join-network-operators-tools-hackathon

RIPE ATLAS MEASUREMENT TAGGING
Measurements can now be tagged, detagged, tagged as they're created, or
tagged later on. Tags can then be utilised to search, download, or stop
sets of measurements en masse with ease. Read the article from Chris
Amin on RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/ripe-atlas-measurement-tagging

HISTORICAL WHOIS
Last week the Historical Whois widget was officially released and with
it the feature to visually navigate through RIPE Database objects and
see historical changes for objects where permitted. Read about it on
RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/cteusche/historical-whois

Try it:
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/historical-whois#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3A%2F48

Data call documentation:
https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#HistoricalWhois

LOOKING GLASS 2.0
The time has arrived and all RIS route collectors have been successfully
transitioned to ExaBGP. You can see the benefits in the Looking Glass,
now unifying 19 locations and more than 170 full-table peers:
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/looking-glass#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3A%2F48

DOES THE INTERNET ROUTE AROUND DAMAGE?
Emile Aben took the DE-CIX Frankfurt outage on 9 April as an opportunity
to look at Internet robustness:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damage-in-2018

IETF 101 LIVEBLOG
Our staff attended the IETF 101 meeting in London last month, and we
liveblogged the whole event to give you an overview of all the important
discussions that took place:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gergana_petrova/ietf-101-liveblog

IPv6 IN LEBANON
Chafic Chaya explains how we support IPv6 deployment with many different
stakeholders in Lebanon:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chafic_chaya/creating-the-demand-for-ipv6-in-lebanon

RIPE LABS COMMUNITY ARTICLES
Rene Bakker talks about the adoption of DNSSEC and return on investment:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rene_bakker/bang-for-the-buck-the-adoption-of-dnssec-and-return-on-investment

Richard Patterson explains how Sky UK connected 5 million users to IPv6:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/richard_patterson/connecting-5-million-users-to-ipv6

Torbjorn Eklov looks at how they use persistent DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation
for Gavlenet's customers:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/teklov/static-dhcpv6-prefix-delegation

RIPE NCC TRAINING SERVICES
This video shows all the online and face-to-face learning options that
RIPE NCC Training Services has to offer:
https://www.ripe.net/support/training

In the coming month, we'll be delivering training courses in Luxembourg,
Russia, Iran, Kuwait, Cyprus, Albania and France. There are also
webinars you can take remotely on IPv6 in the RIPE Database, IPv6
Addressing and the New LIRs webinar. All the dates and registration
links are available at:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
The RIPE NCCC Executive Board held its 116th meeting on 23 March 2018.
The draft minutes from that meeting are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2018/minutes-116th-executive-board-meeting

RIPE NCC SERVICE DESCRIPTIONS AND STATUSES
A full list of the RIPE NCC's services is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/what-we-do/list-of-ripe-ncc-services

And you can stay up to date with the current status of our services at:
https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements

Or if you prefer to use the RSS feed, the link is:
https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/service-announcements/current/RSS

PDP OVERVIEW
An overview of all current RIPE Policy Proposals, their status in the
Policy Development Process and any key decisions or milestones are
available at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/current-proposals/current-policy-proposals

POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE RIPE NCC
We are hiring a Technical Trainer and a User Interface Engineer. If you
know someone who might be interested in coming to work with us in
Amsterdam, please send them this link:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/staff/working-at-the-ripe-ncc

RSS NEWS FEEDS
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].

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

You can find all the previous 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