[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Member Update: January 2021

Happy new year, RIPE NCC members!

Here’s everything you need to know about our services and what’s happening in the RIPE community this month:

1. What We're Doing For You
-- LIR Stats
-- RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021
-- Training Courses in February
-- Contracts Now Sent via Email
-- Join the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee

2. Your Technical Update
-- Address Assignment Practices in IPv4 and IPv6
-- Impact of NWI-10 on Country Codes in Delegated Statistics
-- Service Announcements

3. What's Happening in Our Community?
-- Our First Glance at the Uganda Internet Shutdown

4. Join Us for These Virtual Events
-- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Iceland
-- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Turkey
-- RIPE 82
-- ENOG 18



1. What We're Doing For You
-- LIR Stats
Number of LIRs: 23,624 (-170)
LIRs with IPv6: 16,044 (-18)
IPv4 Addresses Transferred in December: 1,047,296 (+56,576)


-- RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021
This definitive document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from our membership. The Activity Plan and Budget outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year and the associated costs for each activity:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-750/


-- Training Courses in February
Our webinars for the month of February are open for registrations:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses

Here’s the schedule:
IPv6 Associated Protocols Security
4 February 2021 (09:00-11:00 UTC )

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Webinar
9 February 2021 (09:00-10:00 UTC)

Using RIPE Atlas
11 February 2021 (09:00-11:00 UTC)

IPv6 Security Myths, Filtering and Tips
18 February 2021 (09:00-11:00 UTC)

LIRs and the Internet Ecosystems
23 February 2021 (09:00-11:00 UTC)

IPv6 in the RIPE Database
25 February 2021 (09:00-10:00 UTC)

Interested in something that you can't find on our course overview page? Let us know any topics you would like to see in future webinars:
https://forms.gle/rhyExMhb7BTCCXyU8


-- Contracts Now Sent via Email
We now send all contracts via email instead of postal mail. This is good news for new membership applications and members that need to re-sign their SSA/LAA due to a change in business structure.


-- Join the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee
There are two open slots on the selection committee.
Do you have a keen eye for emerging talents and innovative ideas? Would you like to encourage the development of new projects that help the technical community?

If that sounds like you, be sure to nominate yourself before 31 March 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/ripe-ncc-community-projects-fund-selection-committ/



2. Your Technical Update
-- Address Assignment Practices in IPv4 and IPv6
In this article, Stephen Strowes and his co-authors share some observations on current IPv4 and IPv6 assignment practices:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/address-assignment-practices-in-ipv4-and-ipv6


-- Impact of NWI-10 on Country Codes in Delegated Statistics
Rene Wilhelm and Stefania Fokaeos quantify the changes to the Extended Delegated Statistics after the RIPE NCC implemented phase 1 of Numbered Work Item 10 (NWI-10):
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/impact-of-nwi-10-on-country-codes-in-delegated-statistics


-- Service Announcements
--- Recent
Invalid RPKI Certificate Published (7 January 2021):
https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/rpki-planned-downtime-3

RIPE Atlas Data Backend Partial Outage (4 January 2021):
https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ripe-atlas-data-backend-partial-outage



3. What's Happening in Our Community?
-- Our First Glance at the Uganda Internet Shutdown
We’ve looked at Uganda recent Internet shutdown based on data available from our Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/our-first-glance-at-the-uganda-internet-shutdown



4. Join Us for These Virtual Events
-- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Iceland, 10 February 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-iceland


-- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Turkey, 24 February 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-turkey


-- RIPE 82, 17-21 May 2021:
https://ripe82.ripe.net/


-- ENOG 18, 7-8 June 2021:
https://www.enog.org/enog-18/



Thank you for reading till the end. We’ll be back next month with more news!

Best regards,
Boris

Boris Duval
Communications Officer
RIPE NCC
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