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[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update: March 2020/Services During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Boris Duval
bduval at ripe.net
Mon Mar 23 15:57:05 CET 2020
Hello RIPE NCC member, This month, we have a lot of important information to share with you as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak severely disrupted our 2020 schedule. Due to the pandemic, we were forced to postpone and cancel many of our events and training courses. Please read this update carefully so you are fully informed about the current situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. RIPE NCC Services, Events and COVID-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Training Courses -- Meetings Postponed -- RIPE 80 Will Be a Virtual Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. What We’re Doing for You ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats -- Hans Petter Holen Appointed as the RIPE NCC's Managing Director -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 13-15 May 2020 -- The RIPE NCC Academy -- TRA Oman Host Capacity-building Workshop in Oman ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Your Technical Update ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPEstat -- What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses? ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. What’s Happening in Our Community? ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hackathons in the Time of Corona -- Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion -- Focus on: the Anti-Abuse Working Group ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. RIPE NCC Services, Events and COVID-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The COVID-19 pandemic is a severe situation, and we will continue to carry out our services to ensure people stay connected at this worrying time. Our staff are now fully working from home with a very small number coming to the Amsterdam office for essential functions once a week. If you experience a delay in service from our end, we ask you to bear with us while we adapt to this new situation. As of now, all our services are operational, we will keep you informed if the situation changes via email and on our website at: https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements Also, if you need to send us documents related to an administrative request (e.g. transfer, merger, additional LIR account), please upload them digitally via the LIR Portal as we are excepting a one-week delay for all documents sent via post. -- Training Courses All face-to-face Training Courses and Workshops have been suspended until further notice. However, Webinars will continue as scheduled and we are planning to organise more remote Training Courses. See Training Courses schedule: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training See Webinars schedule: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars Head of Learning and Development, Rumy Spratley-Kanis, shared more information on how we plan to deliver remote learning in the coming weeks in her RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rumy_spratley_kanis/ripe-ncc-learning-development-changes-in-service-delivery -- Meetings Postponed So far, the following meetings have been postponed due to COVID-19: • MENOG 20 • SEE 9 • RIPE NCC Day Tashkent • ENOG 17 We hope to announce new dates in the future. In the meantime, you can check the status of all our events at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/coronavirus-update -- RIPE 80 Will Be a Virtual Meeting The RIPE 80 Meeting that was scheduled to be held in Berlin from 11-15 May will be a virtual meeting with a reduced programme due to the situation with COVID-19. Anyone who has already paid for a ticket will be refunded and we will keep you informed about how and when the meeting will take place via email and the RIPE 80 website: https://ripe80.ripe.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. What We’re Doing for You ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Your LIR Stats LIR STATISTICS Number of LIRs: 25,365 (+62) LIRs with IPv6: 16,475 (+61) Policy transfers in February: 630,528 IPv4 addresses (+137,728) -- Hans Petter Holen Appointed as the RIPE NCC's Managing Director On 11 March 2020, after a thorough interview process, Hans Petter Holen became our new Managing Director. We are thrilled to have him on board and are looking forward to working together to shape the future of the Internet. Welcome Hans Petter! https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/hans-petter-holen-appointed-as-the-ripe-nccs-managing-director -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 13-15 May 2020 The General Meeting will be facilitated remotely and will take place as scheduled on 13 May and stay open until 15 May for the voting results announcement. You will soon receive more information on how to participate and vote remotely. Members will vote on next year’s Charging Scheme and elect three members of the RIPE NCC Executive Board among other updates. You can register at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/registration As of now, there is one confirmed candidate for the RIPE NCC Executive Board: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/confirmed-candidates There are three seats available, and you can nominate candidates at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/nominations-support -- The RIPE NCC Academy We're back up and running at the RIPE NCC Academy. Take a look at our improved platform at: https://academy.ripe.net -- TRA Oman Host Capacity-building Workshop in Oman From 2-4 March 2020, we joined forces with the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) in Oman to host a three-day training workshop as part of our collaboration on capacity development. Read about the workshop at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/the-ripe-ncc-and-tra-oman-host-capacity-building-workshop-in-oman ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Your Technical Update ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RIPEstat New Transfer History Widgets for RIPE NCC and AFRINIC Resources The new transfer tab now combines transfer information from AFRINIC, APNIC and the RIPE NCC: https://stat.ripe.net/216.236.176.0#tabId=transfers Changes for Geo-IP Information Due to licensing changes, we disabled all Maxmind-related data calls and widgets until further notice. We are reviewing the provisioning of Maxmind data and will follow up soon. As an alternative, we provide geo-ip information based on RIR Stats: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#rir-geo (data call), https://stat.ripe.net/widget/rir-geo-by-ip#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3A%2F48 (widget) New RIPEstat UI Since the last update we’ve worked on new navigation, new and improved search controls, new widgets and an updated look and feel: https://beta-ui.stat.ripe.net -- What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses? Our colleague, Philip Homburg, looked into how IPv6 link-local addresses can impact RIPE Atlas measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/whats-the-deal-with-ipv6-link-local-addresses ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. What’s Happening in Our Community? ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hackathons in the Time of Corona Our hacker and colleague, Vesna Manojlovic, is inviting you to participate to an open-ended online hackathon analysing the health of the Internet during the COVID-19 crisis: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/hackathons-in-the-time-of-corona -- Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion Vesna also recently shared her highlights from the 2020 #36c3 event organised by the Chaos Communication Club: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/reporting-back-from-36c3-resource-exhaustion -- Focus on: the Anti-Abuse Working Group The Anti-Abuse Working Group is developing solutions to better tackle abuse within our service region. Their mission is three-fold: creating best practices for ISPs (e.g. ripe-409), providing advice and guidance to all stakeholders, and disseminating information on technical and non-technical methods of preventing or reducing network abuse. Interested? Get involved at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/anti-abuse Thanks for reading and stay healthy! Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2624 bytes Desc: not available URL: </ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/attachments/20200323/c916cdd3/attachment.p7s>
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