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

RIPE NCC Member Update: April 2017

Contents:
- LIR Statistics
- MENOG 17
- RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2017
- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election
- RIPE 74 Budapest and RIPE 75 Dubai
- Cleaning Up Unused AS Numbers
- Historical Data Clean-Up
- RIPEstat Geoloc History Widget
- RIPE Database Web Interface
- TraceMON: Network Debugging Made Easy
- Reverse DNS Outage for Out-of-Region Address Space
- IPv6 RIPEness Through the Years
- Country Focus – Russia, Oman, Iraq
- RIPE NCC Engagement With Middle East Universities
- RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting Minsk
- RIPE Labs
- Training Courses and Webinars
- RIPE NCC Annual Report 2016
- SEE 6 Montenegro
- ENOG 13 St. Petersburg
- Monthly Policy Updates
- Email Tagging
- Social Media

LIR STATISTICS (change since last update)
Number of LIRs: 15,789 (+250)
LIRs with IPv6: 11,764 (+147)
IPv4 addresses transferred in March: 667,904 (+215,040)

We are now publishing stats on LIRs who have received their last /22:
https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/lirs-with-last-22

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

MENOG 17
The MENOG 17 Meeting is taking place today and tomorrow in Muscat, Oman.
Among the presentations, Johan ter Beest from the RIPE NCC will look at
ways to identify missed peering opportunities in the Middle East using
RIPE Atlas and the Country IXP Jedi. You can follow the meeting via the
webcast at:
http://www.menog.org/live/

RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING (GM) MAY 2017
The GM will take place from 10-12 May in Budapest. We encourage all RIPE
NCC members to take advantage of remote participation options and vote
on the resolution and in the Executive Board elections:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017

This short video explains why the GM is important for the membership and
how to register so you can exercise your voting rights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LfPNpAN808

RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION
There will be an election to fill three seats at the upcoming GM. Today
is the deadline to nominate  or support a candidate. There are currently
five confirmed candidates for election and all nominees are listed at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/nominations-support

RIPE 74 BUDAPEST AND RIPE 75 DUBAI
RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary next month from 8-12 May. Have
you registered yet? All the meeting details, including the draft
programme, are at:
https://ripe74.ripe.net/

We can announce that the RIPE 75 Meeting will take place in Dubai, UAE
from Sunday, 22 October to Thursday, 26 October. Watch this space for
further details as the meeting approaches.

CLEANING UP UNUSED AS NUMBERS
There are currently around 6,600 Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) in our
service region that are not being advertised in the routing system. We
plan to email the LIR or sponsoring LIR for each unannounced ASN and ask
if the resource is still needed:
https://www.ripe.net/s/jto6

HISTORICAL DATA CLEAN-UP
We are working to clean up old data in the LIR Portal and will continue
with this until 1 May 2017. If there is historical information you would
like to retain, please visit the Resources section in the LIR Portal
before the deadline to copy the data.
https://lirportal.ripe.net/

RIPEstat GEOLOC HISTORY WIDGET
Ever wonder where IP space was used previously? The Geoloc History
widget provides you with a historical view on Maxmind's geo-IP data - a
handy tool for IPv4 transfer checks:
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/geoloc-history#w.resource=5.35.192.0/21

RIPE DATABASE WEB INTERFACE
In the coming weeks, we'll be rolling out usability improvements to the
web interface for the RIPE Database, including for multi-object updates
with Syncupdates. We'll be posting news items as we introduce the
changes to keep you up to date on the improvements.

TRACEMON: NETWORK DEBUGGING MADE EASY
The RIPE Atlas Team released TraceMON, a client-side tool for
visualising network topology generated by traceroutes reaching one or
more targets in a network. It provides one-click access to a set of
information useful during day-to-day operations:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/massimo_candela/tracemon-traceroute-visualisation-network-debugging-tool

REVERSE DNS OUTAGE FOR OUT-OF-REGION ADDRESS SPACE
Anand Buddhdev from the RIPE NCC looks at the events of 16 March 2017,
when a bug in a script caused an outage for some reverse DNS delegations
registered in the RIPE Database.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/reverse-dns-outage-for-out-of-region-address-space

IPv6 RIPEness THROUGH THE YEARS
Rene Wilhelm looks at the evolution of IPv6 RIPEness since its
introduction in 2010 to recognise LIRs that are deploying IPv6:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/ipv6-ripeness-through-the-years

COUNTRY FOCUS - RUSSIA, OMAN, IRAQ
Since the last Member Update, we've published three articles using our
statistics and data to provide a focus on the membership in countries in
our service region.
Russia:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-russia-ripe-ncc-statistics-and-data
Oman:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-oman-ripe-ncc-statistics-and-data
Iraq:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-iraq-ripe-ncc-statistics-and-data

RIPE NCC ENGAGEMENT WITH MIDDLE EAST UNIVERSITIES
Hisham Ibrahim gives an overview of the RIPE NCC's efforts to engage
with universities in the Middle East:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hisham_ibrahim/experiences-from-the-lecture-hall

RIPE NCC ROUNDTABLE MINSK
On 18 April, the RIPE NCC held a Roundtable Meeting for governments and
law enforcement in Minsk, Belarus. A report on the meeting will shortly
be published by the RIPE NCC. At the meeting, the RIPE NCC signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian government. Details
on the signing of the MoU are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-and-russian-government-sign-mou

RIPE LABS
We are always looking for content for RIPE Labs. If you have interesting
Internet-related research or analysis to share with the RIPE community,
please consider RIPE Labs as a way to get your work noticed. Just email
<labs at ripe.net> and let us know.

Last week, Réhan Noordally used RIPE Labs to publish an article on using
RIPE Atlas to measure latency to the  relatively isolated Reunion Island:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rehan_noordally/using-ripe-atlas-to-measure-latency-to-reunion-island

TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS
In May, there will be RIPE NCC Training Courses in Qatar, Spain,
Hungary, Iran, Russia and France. There will also be webinars for new
LIRs and on IPv6. You can register for any of these at:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

RIPE NCC ANNUAL REPORT 2016
The RIPE NCC Annual Report 2016 documents the activities of the RIPE NCC
throughout the year. The RIPE NCC Financial Report 2016 accounts for the
financial activities of the RIPE NCC during the same period.
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-annual-report-2016-and-financial-report-2016

SEE 6/RIPE NCC REGIONAL MEETING MONTENEGRO
The South East Europe (SEE) 6/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in
Budva, Montenegro from 12-13 June. All details on the meeting are
available at:
https://www.ripe.net/see6

ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG
The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from
23-24 May.
https://www.enog.org/enog-13/

MONTHY 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

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 material in this Member
Update, please let me know.

Best regards,

Fergal Cunningham
Membership Communications Officer
RIPE NCC