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

RIPE NCC Member Update: January 2017

Contents:
- LIR Statistics
- Redistribution of 2016 Surplus
- Annual Statement/Invoicing 2017
- RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model Discussion
- Member Lunches in 2017
- RIPE Database - Reverse DNS Wizard
- LIR Contact Migration
- Processing New Member Applications
- Moving Forward with ALLOCATED PI/ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED
- RIPE Atlas Video
- RIPEstat Routing History Widget
- Training Courses And Webinars
- RIPE NCC Academy - LIR Training Course
- RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI)
- New on RIPE Labs
- MENOG 17 In Muscat
- Email Tagging
- Social Media

LIR STATISTICS (change since last update)
Number of LIRs: 15,122 (+173)
LIRs with IPv6: 11,358 (+109)
IPv4 addresses transferred in December: 721,920 (-41,984)
https://labs.ripe.net/statistics

REDISTRIBUTION OF 2016 SURPLUS
All members who were active on 31 December 2016 will receive a
redistribution following approval of the redistribution of the 2016
surplus at the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October. For a member with
one LIR who has no PI space, the redistribution will be EUR 279. Full
details are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/info/billing/redistribution-of-2016-surplus

ANNUAL STATEMENT/INVOICING 2017
LIRs can now view their annual statement for 2017 in the LIR Portal,
which is an informative statement that includes a detailed specification
of the fee to be paid in 2017. Invoices can also be viewed and paid via
the LIR Portal, and they will be sent to members on 19 January.
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/annual-statement-2017-redistribution-of-2016-surplus

RIPE NCC CHARGING SCHEME MODEL DISCUSSION
RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman Nigel Titley made a statement to
members regarding the discussion on the charging scheme model used by
the RIPE NCC.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/2017-January/002615.html

MEMBER LUNCHES IN 2017
RIPE NCC Member Lunches allow you to meet with RIPE NCC staff in your
country to give your feedback and input on how we can help you with your
operations. Registration is already open for the lunches in Beirut and
Amsterdam. See where we'll be going in 2017 and hopefully we'll see you
for lunch.
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches

RIPE DATABASE - REVERSE DNS WIZARD
The Reverse DNS Wizard in the RIPE Database now does even more real-time
checks to help users with their configuration. We now offer validation
on syntax, TCP and UDP pings on port 53, as well as Start of Authority
verification.
https://twitter.com/alexander_band/status/811953377059938304

LIR CONTACT MIGRATION
Are you an LIR account administrator? Please use the contact migration
wizard in the LIR Portal by 1 April 2017 to ensure we have one list of
authorised users for each LIR.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-announce/2017-January/001125.html

This migration simplifies user management in the LIR Portal while making
members' communication with the RIPE NCC more secure.

PROCESSING NEW MEMBER APPLICATIONS
The RIPE NCC management applied Resolution 3 of the May 2016 General
Meeting by extending the procedures to deal with such cases to include
new membership applications from related legal entities (with the same
contact person, directors, owners, applicant, etc.) The RIPE NCC
Executive Board therefore declares that new membership applications from
related legal entities should be processed according to the additional
LIR account procedure; one application should be processed at a time.

MOVING FORWARD WITH ALLOCATED PI/ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED
Based on feedback from the Address Policy Working Group, we are now
preparing to contact all LIRs that have resources in the RIPE Database
with the status ALLOCATED PI or ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED. We will follow a
case-by-case basis to resolve this issue. The aim is to bring clarity in
regard to PI assignments made by these LIRs for both the resource
holders and the LIRs, and to consistently apply RIPE policies to all
ASSIGNED PI address space in the RIPE Database.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2016-August/011661.html

RIPE ATLAS VIDEO
Check out our new video highlighting how you can use RIPE Atlas to
troubleshoot connectivity issues in your network:
https://youtu.be/Z3SW2vO8qW0

RIPEstat ROUTING HISTORY WIDGET
The Routing History Widget provides you with a historical view of the
visibility and originators of a prefix.
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=2001:67c:2e8::/48

All RIPEstat widgets are listed at:
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/list

TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS
Is there a RIPE NCC Training Course coming to your country? In February,
there will be courses in Russia, Lebanon and Latvia. There will also be
webinars on IPv6, the RIPE Database, RIPE Atlas and one for new LIRs.
There are still places available at all these courses.
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

RIPE NCC ACADEMY - LIR TRAINING COURSE
Refresh your knowledge and learn all about the LIR Portal, the RIPE
Database and other RIPE NCC services. Take the LIR Training Course in
the RIPE NCC Academy – the course takes about four hours to complete:
https://academy.ripe.net/

RIPE ACADEMIC COOPERATION INITIATIVE (RACI)
There is a call for applications for RACI - academics with interesting
research for the RIPE community can receive funding to attend and
present at MENOG 17, RIPE 74, ENOG 13 and SEE 6.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2016-November/001095.html

Is there research you would like the RACI academics to carry out and
present on at RIPE NCC-organised events? If so, please email
<raci at ripe.net> with your suggestion. We publish these suggestions at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci/research-topics

NEW ON RIPE LABS
Content on RIPE Labs is about to become richer as contributors can now
embed RIPEstat widgets in their articles.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripestat-widgets-in-ripe-labs-articles

On 28 December 2016, the RIPE NCC reached 15,000 LIRs. Rene Wilhelm uses
this milestone to examine trends in the membership in the past few years:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/15-000-local-internet-registries

Stephen Strowes from the RIPE NCC looks at the impact of the 2016 leap
second:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/reviewing-the-2016-leap-second

Emile Aben talks about DNS root server transparency:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/dns-root-server-transparency

MENOG 17 IN MUSCAT
MENOG 17 takes place in Muscat, Oman from 19-20 April. If you would like
to present at MENOG, submit your proposal by 19 March. All the details
are available at:
http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/

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

Finally, we'd like to extend best wishes to our members for 2017. We
hope to see you, in person or online, during the year.

Best regards,

Fergal Cunningham
Membership Communications Officer
RIPE NCC