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

Hello 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 General Meeting Results
-- What Happened at RIPE 82?
-- Information for Members with Outstanding Invoices
-- Microlearning: New in the RIPE NCC Academy
-- Training Courses in June
-- RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Support - What to Do if It Happens to You
-- RACI Project Funding

2. Your Technical Update
-- RIPEstat
-- RIS
-- New Look for the RIPE Database and LIR Portal
-- Improvements to the RIPE Atlas Datasets on Google BigQuery
-- Now There's an Idea - Research Pitches from Our R&D Team
-- RPKI Repositories and the RIPE Database in the Cloud
-- Service Announcements

3. What's Happening in Our Community?
-- DBTF: BoF Feedback and Next Steps
-- Caught in the Middle - Regulatory Impact and our Mission as the RIPE NCC
-- RIPE Community Resilience
-- NRO Updates

4. Join Us for These Virtual Events
-- RIPE NCC Open House: Organising Network Operator Groups
-- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Hungary
-- RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Spain
-- ENOG 18



1. What We're Doing For You
-- LIR Stats
Number of LIRs: 23,635 (-69)
LIRs with IPv6: 16,127 (-19)
IPv4 Addresses Transferred in April: 1,155,968 (-990,336)


-- RIPE NCC General Meeting Results
Congratulations to Job Snijders and Piotr Strzyżewski for being elected to the RIPE NCC Executive Board.

A full voting report detailing the voting numbers is available:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021/voting-report

The membership adopted three resolutions during the meeting including the RIPE NCC Financial Report 2020, Charging Scheme 2022 and discharged the Executive Board with regard to its actions as they appear from the Annual Report 2020 and Financial Report 2020.


-- What Happened at RIPE 82?
RIPE 82 took place from 17-21 May 2021 and saw 1,172 people registered, of whom 274 were newcomers, and had an average of 550 viewers per day. You can catch up on the meeting highlights by reading our daily meeting report:
https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/report/


-- Information for Members with Outstanding Invoices
The Standard Service Agreement (SSA) and/or LIR Account Agreements (LAA) of members who have an outstanding invoice issued in February 2021 will be automatically terminated on 15 June 2021. On this date, we will also start the de-registration process for the Internet resources held by these LIR accounts. If you would like to check the payment status for your LIR account(s), you can do so in the LIR Portal or by using the payment link on your invoice. You will soon receive a separate email on this topic.


-- Microlearning: New in the RIPE NCC Academy
The RIPE NCC Academy now offers you short, bite-sized lessons that you can complete in under 15 minutes. Our first tiny tutorials are on the ping and traceroute commands:
https://academy.ripe.net


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

Here's the schedule:
IPv6 Host Configuration
Wednesday, 2 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

Basic IPv6 Protocol Security
Wednesday, 9 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

Introduction to IPv6
Thursday, 17 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

Introduction to RPKI
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

IPv6 in the RIPE Database
Wednesday, 23 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

Internet Routing Registry
Tuesday, 29 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

LIRs: Managing IP Addresses and ASNs
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 (08:00-10:00 UTC)

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


-- RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Support - What to Do if It Happens to You
At the RIPE NCC, we get lots of requests for assistance from people dealing with online abuse. In this article, we clarify how you can use our tools to help resolve abuse issues, but also what you can do when further steps need to be taken:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/angela_dallara/ripe-ncc-anti-abuse-support-what-to-do-if-it-happens-to-you/


-- RACI Project Funding
We invite academic and research institutes in the RIPE NCC service region to apply for funding to work on projects in these areas:
- Apply machine learning and big data analytics to the collected routing data to identify and predict trends
- Apply and customise big data visualisation frameworks to the collected routing data to better display the data to users

If you are interested, please send us a proposal by 31 May 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/raci-funding



2. Your Technical Update
-- RIPEstat
--- 10 Years of RIPEstat
The celebration for 10 Years of RIPEstat took place at RIPE 82 - watch the anniversary presentation:
https://ripe82.ripe.net/archives/video/574/

--- New RIPEstat UI Launched
The new RIPEstat UI brings big changes to the look and feel of RIPEstat. It's an updated, clean, responsive design built on a modern framework and equipped with a whole host of new features:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/stephen_suess_1/a-tour-of-the-new-ripestat-ui/

--- #RIPEstatWidgets
As a tribute to the good old widgets, Christian Teuschel (@christian_toysh) featured 51 of the most outstanding widgets on Twitter. Our next plan is to open source the code base.


-- RIS
Emile Aben presented an update on RIS at RIPE 82:
https://ripe82.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/79-RIS-update-ripe82.pdf


-- New Look for the RIPE Database and LIR Portal
We deployed a new look for the RIPE Database and LIR Portal to match the UX/UI guidelines of the RIPE NCC applications. There was no change in functionality:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/theodoros_polychniatis/new-look-for-the-ripe-database-and-lir-portal/


-- Improvements to the RIPE Atlas Datasets on Google BigQuery
We've been publishing RIPE Atlas measurement results publicly on Google BigQuery since late last year. Now, with a little more experience under our belts, we're improving the ways we expose public data on the platform:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/stephen_strowes/improvements-to-the-ripe-atlas-datasets-on-google-bigquery/


-- Now There's an Idea - Research Pitches from Our R&D Team
In this new article on RIPE Labs, Robert Kisteleki kicks off an experiment to expose some ideas for research topics and tools that can be of good use to the community:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/kistel/now-theres-an-idea-research-pitches-from-our-rd-team/


-- RPKI Repositories and the RIPE Database in the Cloud
The mission critical services the RIPE NCC provides to the Internet community require a solid technical foundation. Felipe Silveira looks at plans to use cloud infrastructure as a means to that end:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/rpki-repositories-and-the-ripe-database-in-the-cloud/


-- Service Announcements
--- Recent
RIPEstat and RIS Data Issues (11 May 2021):
https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ripestat-and-ris-data-issues

RIPE Atlas Issues (11 May 2021):
https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/ripe-atlas-issues



3. What's Happening in Our Community?
-- DBTF: BoF Feedback and Next Steps
The minutes and recording of the third RIPE Database Requirements Task Force (DBTF) BoF are available online:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/bof/dbtf-bof-5-may-2021

Following this BoF, the task force decided to postpone the publication of their final draft originally scheduled for publication ahead of RIPE 82:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/rdb-requirements-tf


-- Caught in the Middle - Regulatory Impact and our Mission as the RIPE NCC
How are policy-making institutions reacting to challenges posed by AI? Read about the Council of Europe's initiative to examine the feasibility of a legal framework covering developments in AI, in the first of a new series of articles:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/athina/caught-in-the-middle-regulatory-impact-and-our-mission-as-the-ripe-ncc/


-- RIPE Community Resilience:
All layers of the pyramid of needs are important for physical and mental health just as all layers of the Internet stack are important for the resilient Internet. In these articles, Vesna Manojlovic goes to the fifth and sixth layers:

--- RIPE Community Resilience: Nature is Healing
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-nature-is-healing/

--- RIPE Community Resilience: Embracing Neurodiversity
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-embracing-neurodiversity/


-- NRO Updates
--- May 2021 NRO NC Election Results
James Kennedy has been elected to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC), following Filiz Yilmaz's decision to step down from her seat as of 31 May 2021.

James will begin his term on 1 June 2021 and his term will end on 31 December 2022.

Details on the election process and the NRO NC are available online:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/internet-governance/internet-technical-community/nro/nro-nc/nro-nc-nominations-may-2021



4. Join Us for These Virtual Events
RIPE NCC Open House: Organising Network Operator Groups, 2 June 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-organising-network-operator-groups

RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Hungary, 9 June 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-hungary

RIPE NCC Open House: Internet in Spain, 23 June 2021:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-open-house-internet-in-spain

-- ENOG 18, 7-8 June 2021:
The ENOG Programme Committee (PC) is seeking content proposals for the plenary sessions, tutorials, lightning talks and BoFs. You can submit your presentation proposals online:
https://www.enog.org/enog-18/cfp/

Registration is free of charge:
https://www.enog.org/enog-18/register/



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

Best regards,
Boris

Boris Duval
Communications Officer
RIPE NCC

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