[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update: December 2016

RIPE NCC Member Update: December 2016

Contents:
- Rob Blokzijl Foundation
- New Invoicing Process for 2017
- New LIR Portal Billing Features
- RIPE Atlas Probe Deployment Widget
- RIPE Accountability Task Force
- New on RIPE Labs
- Simplifying Contact Management in the LIR Portal
- Office Move
- RIPE Database
- Internet Governance Forum 2016
- Europol MoU
- Social Media

Number of LIRs: 14,949
LIRs with IPv6: 11,249
IPv4 addresses transferred in November: 679,936

ROB BLOKZIJL FOUNDATION
We’re proud to announce the creation of the Rob Blokzijl Foundation as 
part of the RIPE NCC’s Good of the Internet Initiative. See the Rob 
Blokzijl Foundation webpage for more information:
http://rob-blokzijl-foundation.org.

NEW INVOICING PROCESS FOR 2017
We are currently preparing the invoicing process for 2017 and we expect 
to send the first invoice in the second half of January. The billing 
procedure and fee schedule 2017 are already online:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/info/billing/billing-procedure-and-fee-schedule-2017/billing-procedure-and-fee-schedule-2017

NEW LIR PORTAL BILLING FEATURES
In early December, we deployed a new feature that offers a specification 
of the independent Internet number resource assignments and legacy 
Internet resource registrations that are charged for 2017. These details 
are available through the LIR Portal and will be made available to the 
billing contacts of the LIR. LIRs will be able to copy the list to the 
clipboard or download it as a csv.

RIPE ATLAS PROBE DEPLOYMENT WIDGET
We developed a new widget in RIPEstat that allows you to follow the RIPE 
Atlas probe distribution in a country over time. Select a country or 
country code on stat.ripe.net, then choose "Activity" on the left hand 
side, and you will find this new widget at the bottom of the page. 
Here’s an example for Germany:
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/atlas-probe-deployment#w.resource=DE

RIPE ACCOUNTABILITY TASK FORCE
At RIPE 73 there was support for a review of the RIPE community's 
accountability, by looking at its current procedures, documentation and 
structures. A RIPE Accountability Task Force has now been established to 
carry out this work. A mailing list will be created for the Task Force’s 
discussions and the archives will be publicly available:
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2016-November/001104.html

NEW ON RIPE LABS
– Impact of IPv4 Transfers on Routing Table Fragmentation
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/impact-of-ipv4-transfers-on-routing-table-fragmentation 


– RIPE Atlas: Countering Hardware Issues with Better Firmware
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ripe-atlas-countering-hardware-issues-with-better-firmware

– Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/internet-access-disruption-in-the-gambia-2016

SIMPLIFYING CONTACT MANAGEMENT IN THE LIR PORTAL
If you haven’t yet migrated your LIR contacts to user accounts, do it 
today. It simplifies user management and makes communication with the 
RIPE NCC more secure. Use the wizard in the LIR Portal:
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2016-September/001093.html 


OFFICE MOVE
The RIPE NCC will move to a new office in Amsterdam Central Station next 
week. We’re doing everything we can to keep things running smoothly 
during the move, and a service announcement has been released providing 
details of certain unavoidable interruptions due to take place:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/temporary-unavailability-during-ripe-ncc-office-move
The current office will be closed as of 20 December at 17:00 UTC+1, and 
the new office opens on 23 December at 09:00 UTC+1.

RIPE DATABASE
We recently completed a new wizard for setting up Reverse DNS in the 
RIPE Database. Take a look at how it works here:
https://youtu.be/7JzapYkca-Y

We also made the real-time tests for the Reverse DNS name servers a lot 
more comprehensive:
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/configuring-reverse-dns

INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM 2016
The 11th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place from 5-9 
December in Guadalajara, Mexico. The forum focused on this year’s theme 
of enabling inclusive and sustainable growth. The RIPE NCC participated 
in two sessions:

“The Network of Networked Things: Finding the Internet in IoT”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRLwOtPQ7Bo

“Can law enforcement catch bad actors online anymore?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6b8CRJ5Spg

EUROPOL MoU
The RIPE NCC is pleased to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding 
(MoU) with Europol, with the aim of fostering continued cooperation 
between the two in the areas of cybercrime and Internet security:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/europol-mou

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 feedback about the contents of this mail, please reply and 
let me know. If there is information about particular services or 
activities you would like to see included, we can add it to future issues.

Kind regards,

Nick Hyrka
Communications Manager
RIPE NCC