Update from the RIPE NCC, by Axel Pawlik. A presentation given at APNIC 38 during the Global Reports session.

1. RIPE NCC Update
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC | APNIC 38 - Brisbane | September 2014

2. A Lot Going On… 2
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• Membership continuing to increase
• Expanded regional presence
• IPv4 transfers increasing
• IPv6 gaining momentum
• Implementing actions from RIPE NCC Survey 2013
• Corporate governance improvements
• Policy developments
• LEA interaction, Internet governance, etc…
• And much more to come…

3. Increasing Membership 3
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• One fee per LIR of €1,600 for 2015 - Down €150 on
fee for 2014

4. Expanding Regionally RIPE NCC Update
• Have worked to expand regionally in Middle East
and CIS region
• Hired two Arabic-speaking employees to work from
Dubai and two Russian-speaking employees to
work from Moscow
• Improved contact and engagement with regional
members, communities and governments
• Increasing number of Regional Meetings
-Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran in 2014
-Armenia, Georgia and others planned for 2015
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5. IPv4 Status RIPE NCC Update
• We still have IPv4 addresses left - more than a /8 in the
available pool
- Every member can get 1,024 addresses (/22)
- Block reserved for Internet Exchange Points
• Number of transfers increasing
• “Post depletion adjustments” policy changes reduce
bureaucracy
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6. IPv6 Status RIPE NCC Update
• 70% of our members have IPv6 address space
• Providing technical, hands-on IPv6 training
• IPv6 Roadshows - 10 scheduled for 2015
• Improving our online training
and webinars for IPv6
• Appointed dedicated
IPv6 Program Manager
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4 stars
21%
2 stars
9%
3 stars
14%
1 star
26%
0 star
30%
0 star
1 star
2 stars
3 stars
4 stars

7. Protecting Against Hijacks RIPE NCC Update
• IPv4 addresses are becoming more valuable
• Hijackers try very sophisticated methods to obtain
control over (apparently) unused address blocks
- Faking registration and identity papers
- Faking entire websites and domains
• RIPE NCC has to do more thorough checks
- Finding the right balance between due diligence and being
overly bureaucratic
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8. Assisted Registry Check (ARC) RIPE NCC Update
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/matt_parker/assisted-registry-check-first-results
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• Need for current and accurate registry
• Previous audit activities considered “time-consuming
and disruptive” by members
- Provide a more efficient, less time-consuming experience for
the member

9. RPKI Update RIPE NCC Update 9
• 2,350 Members have requested a certificate (22%)
• Members created ROAs covering:
- 1,700 unique ASNs
- 7,800 IPv4 prefixes; more than six /8s of address space
- 1,200 IPv6 prefixes; more than 10,000 /32 blocks
• Functionality progress
- All address space (PI
and Legacy)
- RPKI software open-source
and standalone package
- Resiliency improvements
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10. Corporate Governance RIPE NCC Update
• Expansion of the Executive Board to six members
in May 2014, further expansion in May 2015
- Allows the Board to better deal with growing membership
and increasing complexity
- New members Maria Häll and Salam Yamout are first
female RIPE NCC Board members
• Currently working on Draft Activity Plan and Budget
for 2015
• Our Executive Board has joint meetings with the
APNIC Executive Council to identify areas for
collaboration
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11. Actions from RIPE NCC Survey 2013 RIPE NCC Update
• Over 3,600 responses to our survey in 2013
• Identified 48 key findings, took actions on these
and reported to the members and community:
• Considering non-English language support
• Improving the RIPE NCC website
• Reducing administrative bureaucracy
• Boosting engagement with academic community
• Making tools and measurements more useful/easy to find
• Increasing support for regional and local communities
• Defend the bottom-up model of Internet governance
• Provide more how-to docs and use cases for all services
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12. RIPE Policy - Current Proposals RIPE NCC Update
• 2014-02 “Allow PI Transfers”
- Align transfer policy for PI addresses with transfer policy
for PA addresses
• 2014-04 “Relaxing IPv6 Requirement for Receiving
Space from the final /8”
- Allow members to receive an IPv4 allocation from the final
pool if they have an IPv6 allocation from any of the RIRs
• 2014-05 “Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of Internet
Resources”
- Allow transfers to and from other RIR regions
- Transfers must comply with the policies in other regions
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13. RIPE Policy Implementation RIPE NCC Update
• Implementing ripe-605 - “RIPE NCC Services to
Legacy Internet Resource Holders”
• Legacy resource holders who are not already
members can now choose to:
• Become a RIPE NCC member
• Register their resources through a sponsoring LIR
• Have a direct contract with the RIPE NCC
• Stay as they are
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14. IANA Oversight Transition RIPE NCC Update
• Discussions taking place in the RIPE Cooperation
Working Group
- Mailing list and RIPE Meeting sessions
• Coordinating closely with other RIR communities
- Aiming for 1 December deadline for RIPE community
position
• More information
http://ripe.net/iana-oversight-transition
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15. Outreach RIPE NCC Update
• Contributing to global and regional Internet
governance discussions
- Internet Governance Forum the central focus
- Contributing to regional events: EuroDIG, Arab IGF,
Russian IGF
- Participating in regional and global ITU discussions,
including PP14
• Government Roundtable meetings (twice yearly)
• Working with Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) on
capacity building
- Interpol (Eurasia group), Europol, police in Arab states, Iran
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16. RIPE 69 - Come Visit Us! RIPE NCC Update 16
R PE69
London / UK 3 - 7 November 2014
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17. IPv4 and IPv6 Allocations RIPE NCC Update 17
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18. Allocations from the Last /8 RIPE NCC Update 18
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19. 32-bit and 16-bit ASNs RIPE NCC Update 19
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20. IPv4 Transfers RIPE NCC Update 20
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21. Questions?
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