[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update March 2019

Dear RIPE NCC member,

We hope you enjoy the March Member Update. If you want to know what’s happening as it happens, remember that you can follow us on social media for updates:
https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/social-networking


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1. What We’re Doing For You
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-- Your LIR Stats
-- General Meeting (GM) and Call for Nominations to the Executive Board
-- Billing and Invoicing
-- Members Discuss and DMARC

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2. Your Technical Update
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-- RPKI: Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) Test Environment
-- RIPE Database Releases
-- New RIPE Atlas Version 4 Probes
-- Have You Updated Your Abuse-c Information?

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3. What’s Happening in Our Community?
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-- A New Policy Proposal to Tackle BGP Hijacks
-- RIPE Community Report 2018
-- The RPKI Deployathon in Brief
-- An API for Summarising Events in RIPE Atlas RTT Time Series
-- Recognising Women at the RIPE NCC
-- Sponsor a Diversity Ticket for RIPE 78

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4. Join Us For These Meetings and Events
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-- MENOG 19 Meeting and Peering Forum, Beirut, 3-4 April
-- RIPE NCC Day Moscow, 9 April
-- SEE 8/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, Sarajevo, 16-17 April
-- RIPE 78, Reykjavik, 20-24 May
-- ENOG 16, Tbilisi, 3-4 June
-- You're Invited to Our Member Lunches



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1. What We’re Doing For You
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-- Your LIR Stats
LIR STATISTICS
Number of LIRs: 21,597 (+340)
LIRs with IPv6:  14,619 (+158)
Policy transfers in February: 663,296 IPv4 addresses (-22,784)


-- General Meeting (GM) and Call for Nominations to the Executive Board
The call for nominations to the Executive Board is open. We have one confirmed candidate and three nominees in total - nominees need five expressions of support to be confirmed as a candidate for the upcoming elections. If you would like to nominate someone or support a candidate, please visit:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2019/call-for-nominations

You can register to participate in the GM at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2019/


-- Billing and Invoicing
This month we sent the last invoices for the year to our Russian members. All members can view and pay their bills via the LIR Portal.

We have now moved to annual billing only. We are currently processing all requests for the transitional credit plan and applicants will be notified in the coming weeks about their arrangements for this year.

Members who were active by 31 December and paid a 2018 fee have a reduction on the 2019 invoice fee following the approval of the redistribution of the 2018 surplus to members:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/payment/redistribution/redistribution-of-excess-contribution-2018/


-- Members Discuss and DMARC
We've been made aware that some of our members are having issues with the Members Discuss mailing list and DMARC. Therefore, on Monday, 25 March we will apply the same DMARC mailing list settings for members-discuss as we have done for all of the RIPE Mailing lists we maintain. You can read more on RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/ripe-mailing-lists-and-dmarc



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2. Your Technical Update
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-- RPKI: Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) Test Environment
We created a test environment in the LIR Portal where you can experiment with creating ROAs before publishing them into production – just click the Dashboard link in the Resource Certification section:


-- RIPE Database Releases
RIPE Database release 1.92.6.2 introduced a limit on the maximum number of concurrent full-text searches to prevent memory exhaustion.

RIPE Database release 1.93 mainly contains improvements in the validation rules, including email address validation, validation for bogon space in route(6) and validation for expired public keys when authenticating updates. You can find more information in the release notes:
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.93


-- New RIPE Atlas Version 4 Probes
Read about the advantages of the new v4 Probes and how we are improving our distribution methods so we can get probes to you faster:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/new-ripe-atlas-version-4-probes


-- Have You Updated Your Abuse-c Information?
We are busy validating abuse contacts referenced in LIR organisation objects since 20 February. We have already fixed and confirmed valid around 1,700 email addresses that failed the automated test.

Please take a moment to review your information and make sure it's up to date.

LIRs with abuse contacts that are maintained by third parties (e.g. End Users) are especially encouraged to think about reviewing this information sooner rather than later. You can find more information on RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/angela_dallara/how-we-will-be-following-up-with-invalid-abuse-contacts



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3. What’s Happening in Our Community?
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-- A New Policy Proposal to Tackle BGP Hijacks
This policy proposal aims to reduce BGP hijacks by considering them a RIPE policy violation. Confirmed hijackers with resources from the RIPE NCC could face consequences if this proposed policy reaches a consensus. Join the discussion in the Anti-Abuse Working Group <anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net> by 16 April 2019.

You can read the full proposal on our website:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-03


-- RIPE Community Report 2018
RIPE Chair Hans Petter Holen writes about 2018 and shares an overview of RIPE community activities throughout the year in this compelling RIPE Labs article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/ripe-community-report-2018


-- The RPKI Deployathon in Brief
The first RPKI Deployathon took place in Amsterdam on 7-8 March 2019. Network professionals from seven countries joined us to work on practical aspects of routing security. The top three things that happened at the event:
- We created Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) and tested all three Validators on an emulation platform
- We learnt “Do’s” and “Don’ts” from professionals who have already deployed RPKI
- Operators committed to dropping invalid ROAs in their networks within weeks

Keep an eye on social media for an announcement about a new RIPE Labs article with more details on the event. In the meantime, take a look at the event materials on GitHub:
https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib/tree/master/RPKI-deployathon-nl

-- An API for Summarising Events in RIPE Atlas RTT Time Series
Our intern Maxime Mouchet worked on an API to summarise RTT time series, and you can see the results of his work on RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/maxime_mouchet/api-for-summarising-events-in-ripe-atlas-rtt-time-series


-- Recognising Women at the RIPE NCC
8 March was International Women's Day so this month we put the spotlight on some of the women who do great work at the RIPE NCC:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/recognising-women-at-the-ripe-ncc-and-beyond-is-more-than-a-day


-- Pay it Forward by Sponsoring a Diversity Ticket for RIPE 78
Diversity Tickets aim to increase participation amongst underrepresented groups in the tech community and this is a cause we can get behind! You or your organisation can fund 1-3 tickets for RIPE 78 and be a trailblazing Diversity Sponsor:
https://ripe78.ripe.net/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/#diversity



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4. Join Us For These Meetings and Events
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-- MENOG 19 Meeting and Peering Forum, Beirut, 3-4 April
Are you joining us at the MENOG 19 Meeting and Peering Forum? Review the draft agenda and register now:
https://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-19/

This year, the MENOG team has made several changes to the event. Want to know why? Find out what has changed with the new name in this RIPE Labs article:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hisham_ibrahim/menog-what-has-changed-and-why


-- RIPE NCC Day Moscow, 9 April
We are co-hosting a RIPE NCC Day in Moscow and you can join us! View the agenda and register today:
https://www.ripe.net/ripe-ncc-day-moscow


-- SEE 8/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, Sarajevo, 16-17 April
We’re looking forward to seeing you at SEE 8 in Sarajevo! All meeting details, including links to the registration form, are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-8


-- RIPE 78, Reykjavik, 20-24 May
Join us for RIPE 78. Registration is open:
https://ripe78.ripe.net/register/


-- ENOG 16, Tbilisi, 3-4 June
Join us and register:
https://www.enog.org/enog-16/register

The PC is currently reviewing the first round of presentation submissions. The second call for presentations closes on 26 March:
https://www.enog.org/enog-16/cfp/

We are still accepting fellowship applications. So if you need support to attend the meeting, apply by 19 April:
https://www.enog.org/about/fellowship/

There is still time to become an ENOG 16 sponsor. Find out how the meeting can support your organisation:
https://www.enog.org/sponsor/

The final programme will be online on 8 May, so set your reminders and follow us on social media for updates.


-- You're Invited to Our Member Lunches
Would you like to meet the RIPE NCC staff and network with other RIPE NCC members? In April, we’ll be holding lunches in Tallinn and Riga. See the Member Lunch pages and meet us in the city closest to you!
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/member-lunches



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My best,

Elena Signorelli
Marketing and Communications Officer
RIPE NCC | Amsterdam