From menog at ripe.net Tue Aug 10 12:22:09 2010 From: menog at ripe.net (Paul Rendek) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:22:09 +0200 Subject: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] MENOG 7/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting - Registration Open Message-ID: <4C612851.6050505@ripe.net> [Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, Register now for the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) 7/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 21-29 October 2010. This is the first time a MENOG/RIPE NCC Regional Meeting will be held in Turkey. We would like to thank the hosts Terremark and Turk Telekom for supporting this event. MENOG meetings are excellent opportunities to share ideas and experiences with other network operators and network engineers from across the Middle East, to develop cross-regional cooperation and to meet with key players in the local and global Internet industry. The MENOG 6 Meeting, held in Riyadh in April 2010, attracted over 130 attendees from 19 countries, and we expect the MENOG 7 Meeting to build on the success of that event. Registration will close when maximum capacity is reached, so please register soon to ensure your attendance. For all information and for registration details, please visit: http://menog.net/meetings/menog7 Regards, The MENOG Coordination Team Kais Al-Essa, Osama Al-Dosary, Sultan AlShamsi, Sandra Gijzen, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Paul Rendek, Philip Smith From trudy at ripe.net Tue Aug 31 10:39:02 2010 From: trudy at ripe.net (Trudy Prins) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:39:02 +0200 Subject: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] LIR Portal Upgrade Message-ID: <4C7CBFA6.8020701@ripe.net> Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC is currently upgrading the LIR Portal to a newer software version, increasing the flexibility, quality and reliability, and including a single sign-on system. To help ensure a smooth deployment, the upgrade is rolled out in stages. The first stage of deployment, upgrading the Billing section of the site, was carried out on 14 April 2010. The Training section and the Resource Lists were upgraded as well. The second stage, which includes all resource request forms and wizards, will be deployed today, 31 August. Downtime of the portal should be less than one minute. The deployment of the new portal software including the sign-in system does not yet include the entire LIR Portal. Users may find that they are asked to sign in more than once as they move between different sections of the site. This will continue until the single sign-on system has been fully deployed throughout the LIR Portal. The remaining old LIR Portal sections will be replaced in the final upgrade, scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2010. After this final deployment, all functionality of the LIR Portal will be available under the single sign-on system. The migration to newer software might result in some small changes, but the overall look and feel should not be affected in a very noticeable way. If you have any questions or comments regarding this upgrade, please email . Best regards, Trudy Prins Manager Business Applications RIPE NCC From bohara at ripe.net Tue Aug 31 12:01:54 2010 From: bohara at ripe.net (Ben O'Hara) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:54 +0200 Subject: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] Network Maintenance: 31/08/2010 16:00-18:00UTC Message-ID: <2C33C51A-3F4A-4872-AAE2-2D06214EE872@ripe.net> [Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday 31 August 2010 between 16:00 and 18:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on our core network infrastructure in our NIKHEF Datacentre. Although we expect any outage to be minimal, there is a possibility of intermittent access to all services hosted by the RIPE NCC during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions please contact: ops at ripe.net Regards Ben -- Ben O'Hara RIPE Network Coordination Center Systems Engineer Singel 258, Amsterdam, NL http://www.ripe.net +31 20 535 4444 PGP Fingerprint: 080A 52FF BF0A A7FB F176 E7DB 513D 9A3D E968 7DBC From andrei at ripe.net Tue Aug 31 14:58:13 2010 From: andrei at ripe.net (Andrei Robachevsky) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:58:13 +0200 Subject: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE Labs article on the Duke/RIPE NCC BGP experiment Message-ID: <128F4B5F-DCED-47C1-AFC8-0AFD45C42A8B@ripe.net> Dear Colleagues, On Friday, 27 August, at 08:41 (UTC), RIPE NCC staff involved in the Routing Information Service (RIS) project conducted an Internet routing experiment in conjunction with a research group from Duke University in the United States. The goal of this experiment was to further global understanding of Internet routing behaviour, specifically the use of optional attributes in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The experiment ended as scheduled at 09:08 (UTC). Shortly after this, we discovered that the experiment had caused an unexpected and unintended negative impact on Internet operations, lasting for approximately 30 minutes. An article has now been published that provides more information on the experiment and its effect on the network: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/erik/ripe-ncc-and-duke-university-bgp-experiment/ If you have any questions or comments regarding this incident, please contact . Regards, Andrei Robachevsky Chief Technical Officer, RIPE NCC