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How to Rule
the Internet
(together with
everybody else)
Vesna Manojlovic
BECHA@ripe.net
1Saturday, August 3, 2013
Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
What RIPE and Hackers Have in Common
• The community:
– People from ISPs, hosting & other Internet businesses
– Free-SW developers, security professionals, students,
researchers
• Decision making processes are consensus-based
– Bottom-up, open and transparent
• Abundance of TLAs
– ITU, IGF, WTPF, ISOC, IETF, IAB, IRTF...
– ICANN, IANA, RIR, LIR, NRO
• Desire to make the better Internet!
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The Internet Ecosystem
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3Saturday, August 3, 2013
Introduction to RIPE
and RIPE NCC
4Saturday, August 3, 2013
Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
The Internet Registry System
• Five RIRs worldwide
– Regional Internet Registries
– Not-for-profit organisations
– Funded by membership fees
– Policies decided by regional communities
– Neutral, impartial, open, transparent
• Some joint efforts conducted as the NRO
(Number Resource Organization):
http://nro.org
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The Five RIRs
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6Saturday, August 3, 2013
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IPv6 Address Space Distribution
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Allocation PA Assignment
/3
/32
/12
/56/60 /48 End User
LIR
RIR
IANA
PI Assignment
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RIPE and RIPE NCC
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• Réseaux IP Européens
• Started in 1989
• Not a legal entity
• An open community
• No official membership
• Makes polices
• Meets twice a year
• Work is done in Working Groups on
mailing lists
• RIPE Network Coordination Centre
• Started in 1992
• Not-for-profit organisation
• Located in Amsterdam
• Has members called Local Internet
Registries (LIRs)
• Implements policies
• Facilitates two RIPE Meetings each year
• Provides services to both members and
non-members
• Governed by an Executive Board elected
by membership
• Neutral, Impartial, Open, Transparent
8Saturday, August 3, 2013
Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
RIPE Policy Development Process
• Open
– Anyone can participate
– On mailing lists and at meetings
• Transparent
– List discussions archived publicly
– Meetings transcribed, webcast, minuted, archived
• Policies developed bottom-up
– Community members make proposals
– Community takes time and effort to work on them
– RIPE NCC implements
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9Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Who Makes Policies?
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AfriNIC RIPE NCC ARIN APNIC LACNIC
ARIN
community
proposalproposal proposal proposal proposal
RIPE
community
AfriNIC
community
APNIC
community
LACNIC
community
ICANN / IANA
(for global policies)
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Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
Topics That You Can Influence
• Cooperation Working Group
– Internet governance issues, law enforcement
• Routing Working Group (WG)
• Address Policy WG
• Anti-abuse WG
• DNS WG
• Measurements, Analysis and Tools WG
• Open Source WG -- new!!
• (etc.)
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11Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Increasing Involvement of Students: RACI
• https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fergalc/raci-2013-from-dublin-to-athens
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12Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Not Only an RIR: RIPE NCC Services
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Shameless Plug :)
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Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
RIPE NCC Research & Development
• Collecting data about Internet addressing, usage of
number resources and reverse DNS
– e.g. http://IPv6RIPEness.ripe.net
• Routing Information Service: Collecting BGP data
• RIPE Atlas: global active measurements
– ping, traceroute, DNS, SSL from 4000 probes
– https://atlas.ripe.net
• RIPEstat: entry point to & correlation of our data
– web interface, widgets, API, CLI, raw data, tools
– https://stat.ripe.net
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14Saturday, August 3, 2013
Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
Contribute! You Can Make a Difference
• Subscribe & post to the mailing lists
• Take part in the face-to-face meetings
– RIPE community meetings twice a year
– Regional meetings five times a year (free!)
• Learn from our training material & documentation
• As a member of RIPE NCC, you can
– attend free training courses and webinars
– suggest and give feedback on activities and services
– elect Executive Board
– vote for the “charging scheme” (fee amount & schedule)
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15Saturday, August 3, 2013
Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013
Take Active Part in Governing the Internet!
http://www.ripe.net
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/internet-governance
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/wg-lists
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings
http://ripe67.ripe.net/programme/raci
http://labs.ripe.net
Email: ncc@ripe.net
Twitter: @RIPE_NCC, @Ms_Measurements
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  • 10. Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013 Who Makes Policies? 10 AfriNIC RIPE NCC ARIN APNIC LACNIC ARIN community proposalproposal proposal proposal proposal RIPE community AfriNIC community APNIC community LACNIC community ICANN / IANA (for global policies) 10Saturday, August 3, 2013
  • 11. Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013 Topics That You Can Influence • Cooperation Working Group – Internet governance issues, law enforcement • Routing Working Group (WG) • Address Policy WG • Anti-abuse WG • DNS WG • Measurements, Analysis and Tools WG • Open Source WG -- new!! • (etc.) 11 11Saturday, August 3, 2013
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  • 13. Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013 Not Only an RIR: RIPE NCC Services 13 Shameless Plug :) 13Saturday, August 3, 2013
  • 14. Vesna Manojlovic, OHM2013 RIPE NCC Research & Development • Collecting data about Internet addressing, usage of number resources and reverse DNS – e.g. http://IPv6RIPEness.ripe.net • Routing Information Service: Collecting BGP data • RIPE Atlas: global active measurements – ping, traceroute, DNS, SSL from 4000 probes – https://atlas.ripe.net • RIPEstat: entry point to & correlation of our data – web interface, widgets, API, CLI, raw data, tools – https://stat.ripe.net 14 14Saturday, August 3, 2013
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