<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello RIPE NCC members, Here’s everything you need to know about our services and what’s happening in the RIPE community this month: 1. What We're Doing For You -- LIR Stats -- RIPE NCC General Meeting -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Gulf Region now available in Arabic -- Training Courses in April -- Join the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee 2. Your Technical Update -- RIS -- RIPEstat -- Service Announcements 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- The RIPE Chair Team Reports - February 2021 -- Data Feminism: From Data Ethics to Data Justice -- RIPE Community Resilience -- HR from Home: Adapting in a Year of COVID -- Updated Draft RIPE Code of Conduct Published for Community Review -- NRO Updates 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in the Baltic Region -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Bulgaria -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Hungary -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Spain -- RIPE 82 -- RIPE NCC General Meeting -- ENOG 18 1. What We're Doing For You -- LIR Stats Number of LIRs: 23,722 (+15) LIRs with IPv6: 16,140 (+11) IPv4 Addresses Transferred in February: 858,368 (+553,472) -- RIPE NCC General Meeting --- Call for Nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board There will be an election for two vacant seats at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) on 19-21 May 2021, each of which is for a three-year term. The elections are to fill the seats currently held by Falk von Bornstaedt and Piotr Strzyżewski, whose terms expire in May 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021</a> --- General Meeting Changes The May General Meeting (GM) is fast approaching, and with it a few changes to our GM governance and processes this year. We're highlighting some of these changes to show how we're safeguarding the forum for members to exercise their voting rights: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/general-meeting-changes-in-2021" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/general-meeting-changes-in-2021</a> -- RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Gulf Region now available in Arabic Already available in English, the RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Gulf Region has now been translated into Arabic: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-country-report-gulf-region" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-country-report-gulf-region</a> The report gives a detailed outlook on the market development, infrastructure, and Internet routing within the region as well as the available Internet address resources in the following countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. -- Training Courses in April Our webinars for the month of April are open for registrations: <a href="https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses" class="">https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses</a> Here's the schedule: Webinar for new LIRs Thursday, April 8 2021 (08:00-09:00 UTC) RIPE Database Applications Tuesday, April 13 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) IPv6 Associated Protocols Security Wednesday, April 14 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) LIRs and the Internet Ecosystem Tuesday, April 20 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) RIPE Database Basics Wednesday, April 21 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) IPv6 Security Myths, Filtering and Tips Thursday, April 29 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC) For more information regarding our webinars please visit the following page: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars" class="">https://www.ripe.net/support/training/webinars</a> Interested in something that you can't find on our upcoming course page? Let us know any topics you would like to see in future webinars: <a href="https://forms.gle/rhyExMhb7BTCCXyU8" class="">https://forms.gle/rhyExMhb7BTCCXyU8</a> -- Join the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee There are two open slots on the selection committee. Do you have a keen eye for emerging talents and innovative ideas? Would you like to encourage the development of new projects that help the technical community? If this sounds like you, nominate yourself before 31 March 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/ripe-ncc-community-projects-fund-selection-committ/" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/ripe-ncc-community-projects-fund-selection-committ/</a> 2. Your Technical Update -- RIS We've added a new multihop route collector in Amsterdam to connect peers from places in our service region where we don't have route collectors they can connect to directly. Our aim is to increase the diversity of routing information available via RIS. -- RIPEstat With the approaching production release of the new RIPEstat UI, we are posting a series of tweets to highlight the most notable #RIPEstatWidgets. -- Service Announcements --- Recent Intermittent Availability of RIPE Database Query and Update Services (9 March 2021): <a href="https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/intermittent-availability-of-ripe-database-query-and-update-services" class="">https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/intermittent-availability-of-ripe-database-query-and-update-services</a> Event and General Meeting Registration Maintenance (22 March 2021): <a href="https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/event-and-general-meeting-registration-maintenance" class="">https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/event-and-general-meeting-registration-maintenance</a> 3. What's Happening in Our Community? -- The RIPE Chair Team Reports - February 2021 The RIPE Chair and Vice Chair shares an overview of what happened in the RIPE community in February: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-february-2021" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-february-2021</a> -- Data Feminism: From Data Ethics to Data Justice To celebrate International Women’s Day, Vesna Manojlovic reflects on data justice from an intersectional feminism perspective: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/data-feminism-from-data-ethics-to-data-justice" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/data-feminism-from-data-ethics-to-data-justice</a> -- RIPE Community Resilience The continued resilience of the RIPE community during the COVID-19 pandemic has helped the Internet keep running. In her article series, Vesna Manojlovic looks at how, now more than ever, taking care of the Internet means taking care of universal human needs. Part 1: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/you-are-not-alone-ripe-community-resilience" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/you-are-not-alone-ripe-community-resilience</a> Part 2: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-community-resilience-physical-layer" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-community-resilience-physical-layer</a> -- HR from Home: Adapting in a Year of COVID One year ago, the RIPE NCC moved from a vibrant office in the centre of Amsterdam to fully remote working in almost a split second. Carolien Vos talks about how the organisation adapted in order to keep functioning during a global pandemic: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/carolien_vos/hr-from-home-adapting-in-a-year-of-covid-19" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/carolien_vos/hr-from-home-adapting-in-a-year-of-covid-19</a> -- Updated Draft RIPE Code of Conduct Published for Community Review The RIPE Code of Conduct task force published a new draft. This document covers all participation within RIPE and applies to interactions over the Internet, mailing lists, as well as in-person at RIPE Meetings. You have until Friday, 2 April 2021 to send your feedback to the task force: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-code-of-conduct/" class="">https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-code-of-conduct/</a> -- NRO Updates --- NRO NC Call for Nominations There is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill Filiz Yilmaz’s seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The election for this NRO NC seat will take place during the RIPE 82 meeting that will be held virtually from 17-21 May 2021. More information on the nomination process is available: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/nro-nc-nominations-process-may-2021" class="">https://www.ripe.net/nro-nc-nominations-process-may-2021</a> 4. Join Us for These Virtual Events -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in the Baltic Region, 7 April 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-the-baltic-region" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-the-baltic-region</a> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Bulgaria, Wednesday, 21 April 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-bulgaria" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-bulgaria</a> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Hungary, 9 June 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-hungary" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-hungary</a> -- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Spain, 23 June 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-spain" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-spain</a> -- RIPE 82, 17-21 May 2021 The meeting plan is available at: <a href="https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/" class="">https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/</a> -- RIPE NCC General Meeting, 19-21 May 2021: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/next-general-meeting" class="">https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/next-general-meeting</a> -- ENOG 18, 7-8 June 2021: <a href="https://www.enog.org/enog-18/" class="">https://www.enog.org/enog-18/</a> --- Call for Hosts of Remote Broadcast Hubs at ENOG 18: ENOG 18 will take place as a virtual meeting from 7-8 June 2021. In an effort to ensure that the ENOG community can benefit from the local network, even if the meeting is virtual, the RIPE NCC is keen to partner with local organisations across the region to host Remote Broadcast Hubs in the ENOG region. Interested? Learn more on ENOG’s website: <a href="https://www.enog.org/enog-18/remote-hub/" class="">https://www.enog.org/enog-18/remote-hub/</a> Thank you for reading to the end. We’ll be back next month with more news! Best regards, Boris Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC</body></html>