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RIPE NCC Update

                                                                   

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Executive Board

Who Is WhoAn Organisational Update

Managing Director

CTO

Chief Scientist

CFO Head Member Services

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Policy Update

• IANA -> RIR IPv4 allocation draft policy– Community review period closed

• IPv4 draft policy text– Community review

• Charging by LIRs policy– Community editorial group

• PI Task Force– No change to PI policy agreed yet– Support for smaller minimum allocation

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Registration Services (1)

• New, simpler, shorter request forms– Can be securely submitted via LIR Portal

• IP & AS Requests– Response time stable– Completion time fast

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k Root Developments

• AMS-IX instance of k.root-servers.net online– Proof of concept complete– Marks the beginning of k root anycast service

• Preparing next phase– Deployment of more instances– Not only within RIPE NCC Service Region

• Middle East• South America

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RIR Co-ordination

• AfriNIC (presented by Adiel)• Staff Exchange

– Routine…– Cathy Clements (ARIN)– George Michaelson (APNIC) expected

• World Summit on Information Society– Shared attendance by RIRs– Closing ranks with similar interests

• Business community (ICC)• ISOC• CENTR• ICANN

• NRO & ICANN ASO MoU

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Association News• Membership developments surpassing expectations

– Double the expected influx of new members

• Increased number of Billing Categories– XS, S, M, L, XL

• Articles of Association– changes proposed and accepted– To increase flexibility– Voting rights

• General Meeting was held adjacent to RIPE 46– Increased participation (from ~15 in 2003 to ~75)

• Budget 2004– Stable– FTE stable at ~ 93, less than budgeted for 2003,

increasing services / service levels

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Membership Liaison

• Membership Liaison Officer responsibilities:– Liaison activities and regional support for RIPE NCC members– Developing communication channels for member feedback– Improving interaction between RIPE NCC and members

• Projects:– RIPE NCC regional meeting in the Middle East

• Dubai, UAE, 7-9 December 2003

• http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/regional-meetings/dubai-2003/

– Actively seek input from members• <contact@ripe.net>

– Support for RIPE NCC Services WG & RIPE Meetings– Collaboration with RIRs on membership issues

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Information Services

• RIPE NCC has been collecting data since its inception– Hostcount, TTM, RIS, …

• 10 years, time to revisit and adjust direction• Strategy paper: RIPE 271, “RIPE NCC Hostcount

in the 21st century”:– Measurements are necessary for long and short term

operations– RIPE NCC is ideally suited to do them– Results should be made public– Results should be easy to use in daily operations

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Information Services The Coming Months

• Central entry point for all statistics maintained by the RIPE NCC– Uniform data formats– Consistent

• TTM will become an open service• DNS monitoring added• Incident response procedure and team• Integration with Communications Department

– Hiring Technical Writer with politics experience

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RIPE 47

• Amsterdam, 26-30 January 2004