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

RIPE NCC Member Update: March 2017

Contents:
- LIR Statistics
- LIR Contact Migration
- RIPE NCC General Meeting MaY 2017
- RIPE NCC Executive Board Election
- Historical Data Clean-Up
- 2015-04, RIPE Resource Transfer Policies
- RIPE NCC Billing, Payment and Fees
- RIPE NCC Member Lunches
- Country Focus on RIPE Labs
- RIPE Atlas Probes
- RIPE Atlas Anchors
- RIPEstat Looking Glass Widget
- RIPE Labs
- IPv6 Best Practices
- Training Courses and Webinars
- RACI Deadlines Approaching
- SEE 6 Montenegro CfP
- RIPE 74 Budapest
- ENOG 13 St. Petersburg
- MENOG 17 Muscat
- RIPE NCC Website Tips
- Email Tagging
- Social Media

LIR STATISTICS (change since last update)
Number of LIRs: 15,539 (+205)
LIRs with IPv6: 11,617 (+132)
IPv4 addresses transferred in February: 452,864 (+177,920)
https://labs.ripe.net/statistics

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://my.ripe.net/#/contacts

RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING MAY 2017
The GM will take place from 10-12 May and will feature votes on the RIPE
NCC Charging Scheme and the Executive Board election. All the
information, including the registration link and a table listing
registrations per country, is available from:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017

Please note that all RIPE NCC members can participate remotely in the GM
via webcast and electronic voting.

RIPE NCC EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION
There will be an election to fill three seats at the upcoming GM. Four
people have already been nominated - you can nominate your own candidate
or support one of the current nominees. Find out how at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2017/call-for-nominations

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/

2015-04, RIPE RESOURCE TRANSFER POLICIES
Consensus has been reached on this policy, which creates a single policy
document with all relevant information on the transfer of Internet
number resources, replacing text in several RIPE Policies. The policy
change also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and
16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership. The RIPE NCC will work on
implementation and keep you up to date on progress. See the original
announcement for more information:
https://www.ripe.net/s/2015-04

RIPE NCC BILLING, PAYMENT AND FEES
In our continuing efforts to improve www.ripe.net and provide a more
intuitive experience for our members, we have updated the RIPE NCC
billing, costs and fees webpage to make it easier to find all the
information you need:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/billing

RIPE NCC MEMBER LUNCHES
Registration is open for upcoming member lunches in Dublin, Amman,
Kazan, Lvov and Vladivostok. Space is limited at these events, so please
register soon and come meet the RIPE NCC's staff in your home country:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches/

COUNTRY FOCUS ON RIPE LABS
We provide information sheets for attendees ahead of the member lunches.
This week we started to publish these on RIPE Labs - the first one
focuses on Uzbekistan to coincide with the member lunch that took place
this week:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/focus-on-uzbekistan-ripe-ncc-statistics-and-data

RIPE ATLAS PROBES
Having launched an email campaign aimed at helping RIPE Atlas probe
hosts resolve disconnection issues, and with the release of a new
firmware upgrade to help improve probe connectivity, we’ve seen a steady
rise in the number of connected probes. We’ve now hit an all-time high
of 9,500 connected probes.
https://atlas.ripe.net/

Two new DNS measurements, both designed to assess the impact of issues
with one or more root name servers, have been added to every RIPE Atlas
probe.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/new-ripe-atlas-root-zone-dns-measurements

A new set of system tags have been created to identify RIPE Atlas probes
with a proven record of delivering successful measurement results.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chris_amin/new-ripe-atlas-probe-stability-system-tags

RIPE ATLAS ANCHORS
The campaign to sponsor 15 RIPE Atlas anchors has been well received. A
healthy number of applications have already been submitted and we've
selected the first five anchor hosts who'll receive sponsored anchor
probes. More news on this coming up on RIPE Labs soon. The original RIPE
Labs article is at:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/campaign-to-sponsor-15-ripe-atlas-anchors

RIPESTAT LOOKING GLASS WIDGET
Check the routing status of your network from various locations around
the world in real time.
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/looking-glass#w.resource=2001%3A67c%3A2e8%3A%3A%2F48

It's also accessible via the RIPEstat Data API:
https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#LookingGlass

RIPE LABS
Former RACI fellow Uta Meier-Hahn presents the first in a series of
articles looking at how network operators collaboratively manufacture
Internet connectivity in a competitive environment. In this article, she
looks at the role of uncertainty:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/uncertainty-is-key

We are always looking for interesting 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.

IPV6 BEST PRACTICES
An IPv6 Best Practices document was published for the Internet
Governance Forum 2016 by Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir and Wim
Degezelle. A RIPE Labs article based on that document is available at:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/commercial-incentives-of-ipv6-deployment

TRAINING COURSES AND WEBINARS
On 21 March, there will be a webinar on IPv6 in the RIPE Database. In
April, we'll give training courses in Luxembourg, Ukraine and the UK.
You can register for these at:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

RACI DEADLINES APPROACHING
The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) connects members of the
academic community with the RIPE community by inviting students and
researchers to present their Internet-related research at RIPE Meetings,
ENOG, MENOG and SEE meetings. There are approaching deadlines for the
upcoming ENOG and SEE meetings:

- ENOG 13: 23-24 May, St Petersburg. Apply by 19 March 2017
- SEE 6: 12-13 June, Budva. Apply by 9 April 2017

SEE 6 MONTENEGRO CFP
The South East Europe (SEE) 6 Meeting takes place in Budva, Montenegro
from 12-13 June. There is still space on the agenda if you have an
interesting presentation proposal - the deadline to submit is this
coming Monday, 20 March. All details on the meeting are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-6

RIPE 74 BUDAPEST
RIPE 74 takes place in Budapest, Hungary from 8-12 May. Check out the
details at:
https://ripe74.ripe.net/

ENOG 13 ST. PETERSBURG
The ENOG 13/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting takes place in St. Petersburg from
23-24 May. Registration is open and the Call for Presentations deadline
is 3 April.
https://www.enog.org/enog-13/

MENOG 17 MUSCAT
The MENOG 17 Meeting takes place in Muscat from 19-20 April, and it's
preceded by IPv6 and DNS workshops.
http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-17/

RIPE NCC WEBSITE TIPS
The RIPE NCC website contains a glossary to help you navigate all the
terminology you encounter on our pages. If you hover over words
underscored with dotted lines on a page, a definition or explanation
will appear. Several examples are available on the page at:
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6

You can can easily get to every RIPE Forum discussion from each RIPE
Mailing list overview. Just expand the working group and click the RIPE
Forum button:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/mail/ripe-mailing-lists

For proposals making their way through the RIPE Policy Development
Process (PDP), you can easily view the changes that were made to each
version of the proposal. Just click the document icon in the All
Versions section to the right of a proposal.
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04

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