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RIPE 82
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Newcomers session
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Friday, 14 May 2021
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4 p.m. CET
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MIRJAM KUHNE: Hello everybody. I guess it's my turn to speak. And welcome to the Newcomers Session, maybe we'll wait like one more minute, see if more people want to join. I am Mirjam Kuhne, the RIPE Chair, I'll tell you a little bit more about it in a second.
What we'll do is, I'll be speaking and the lovely meeting team in the background will be managing the slide, so, I hope this won't be too awkward, but we'll make it through, I am sure.
Right. The number is going down instead of up, so I don't know what that means, but let's just get started because we have quite a lot to cover in the next hour or so.
So welcome all to the RIPE 82, we can move on please.
And I think this is for, at least for some of you will be your first RIPE meeting, so this is RIPE 82. The first RIPE meeting, RIPE 1, was in 1989, and I saw quite a number of newcomers on the attendees list, so not all of you are here but I think it's great that you are joining the RIPE community and I know how difficult it must be to be like vaguely remember how difficult it must be being a first timer in a new community and it must be even harder now in the virtual environment, because, you know, you can't really be introduced to each other, you are kind of isolated and you can't get face‑to‑face, run into people in the coffee breaks. So I hope we make it as easy as possible for you to join and to understand what this is all about, and also we have quite a number of social interaction tools available that hopefully make it easy for you to enter this community and to feel encouraged to participate and come back.
On the other hand, of course the advantage is we don't have to travel, we can do this all from home.
So, just ‑‑ please don't hesitate to contact any of the people that you will see during the presentation. There are quite a number of faces on the screen that you might recognise throughout the week, and on the screen again.
The first face that you will see is me. So I am Mirjam Kuhne, I am the RIPE Chair, I was selected last year in September as the RIPE Chair. I am originally from Berlin in Germany and I studied computer science and I worked for a number of, mostly not‑for‑profit companies, throughout my career. I have done a lot of community work in the Internet and operations area. And there is also Vice‑Chair, Niall O'Reilly in the next slide, you will see his face. He has also been selected in September last year, it's the first time we actually have a team of a Chair and Vice‑Chair, and I would just really wonderful, I don't know how I would do it without him. Niall is from Ireland originally, he used to run a network the University College in Dublin and he has been around at the RIPE community for quite a while and is also co‑chaired some of the earlier RIPE Working Groups. Also a good source for any questions that you might have about the history of RIPE.
Talking about the history of RIPE, or the history of the Internet on the the next slide is a bit of a blast from the past. I don't know if any of you have actually used the machine there on the left. I don't think I have. I had an Atari even before that I think, but on the right‑hand side, it's kind of interesting is the ‑‑ that's basically what the Internet in Europe looked like in 1990, and that's mostly a.m. Dick networks at the time. They were connected. That's how RIPE kind of started is to ‑‑ mostly NRENs and academic networks who connected and formed the Internet in Europe. So and so we would produce this map so each time a new network was added there was a new map and published, I think even as a RIPE document. So you can come back and look at how it all evolved. At some point of course, it didn't scale any more so we didn't draw these maps any more.
Right. To come back today, the next slide we actually started already ‑‑ to ask you some questions. There will be a poll popping up now and I think I have mentioned RIPE and I mentioned the RIPE NCC, and do you know the difference between the RIPE and the RIPE NCC? It's just an easy poll that should pop up with a yes and no. On the on the left hand under your name, there is a little red button with an exclamation mark. If you click on that you'll see the poll. Let me see if we have answers already?
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What do I see? Where do I see the results? I see the poll. I don't see the results yet.
It's pretty much half/half. Kind of 58% have said yes they do know the difference, and 41% have said no, they don't. So, don't worry about it, we'll actually go through this now and explain you a bit more what this means and what these two entities are and how they work together.
If you move on, you'll see on the next slide, you will see kind of in a nutshell these two entities, organisations or communities, so even two different logos as you see on the top. Let's start on the left with the RIPE community.
It's basically an open community ‑‑ RIPE, by the way, stands for Réseaux IP Européens. Like European IP network, that's what the community called its back in 1989 when about 12 or so participants, or community members started to meet. There were mostly from these academic networks that I mentioned earlier that you saw on the map and so their main tasks was to promote IT in Europe and to kind of coordinate the activities and to coordinate some of the tech account aspects that needed to ‑‑ kind of technical parameters that needed to be coordinated in order to connect all these networks and make it the Internet basically.
And so the RIPE also started a lot ‑‑ you know, information exchange, building trust amongst each other around the technical coordination that I mentioned. And then also at some point, developing policy. Mostly policy around address distribution or resource distribution, like who gets how many IP addresses, how is it registered in the database? And so the good thing about it is that these policies and decisions or guidelines, you know, they are made by the open community. So anybody can participate in RIPE. You don't have to be a member. You don't have to pay anything. You can participate on the mailing lists. I'll get to that in a second.
Now on the right‑hand you see the RIPE NCC, which stands for Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre. So it's basically the coordination centre, or the secretariat for the RIPE community. That's how it started in '92, when the community grew, the RIPE community grew a bit more and they said it had would be helpful to have tomorrow spade of at that, they would organise the meetings, run the database, the mailing lists, and so that's how the RIPE NCC still exists today. It's run by staff, and has an Executive Board, it has members, and the members select the Executive Board and decide about the activities and the budget of the RIPE NCC and the RIPE NCC provide services to the membership, but also to the RIPE community. So the members always have agreed that it's useful to have services and to be open to the community at large.
And the RIPE NCC is also the one who then implements the policies for its members that are developed by the open community. So, there is quite a lot of interaction and it sounds complicated but I think it's brilliant how it's been set up at the time and there is a lot of checks and balances into play and it's really important that the RIPE community can operate kind of openly and is open to anybody and then the RIPE NCC basically supports the community and works with the membership.
Let's move on.
So, if you move on to ‑‑ if you drill down a bit more into the RIPE community. There are a number of Working Groups and ‑‑ I'll go through in a second in a bit more detail, but most importantly, there are a lot of mailing lists that every Working Group has a mailing list, yes, also generic mailing list. I don't know if we have a slide on that. I'll get to that.
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That I recommend you to subscribe when you start the RIPE list. It's kind of the overall mailing list and every Working Group has its own separate mailing list and it's ‑‑ it's kind of important to understand or it's useful to know that all the decisions and the main discussions are happening on these lists, even though the Working Groups meet from time to time during RIPE meetings, or also in between, but the mailing lists are kind of key to this.
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If we move on.
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There it is. The RIPE list. I thought it was important to mention this for the real newcomers. If you just stumble in here I think this is a good place to start.
Am I still there? I get an error message.
SPEAKER: We still hear you, Mirjam. We can't see you.
MIRJAM KUHNE: My video is interrupted. I am not visible any more. That's weird. Well, let me just continue for now.
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So I think this is a good place to start to subscribe to the RIPE list and it's basically where all the kind of generic or general discussions are taking place. It's publicly archived, it's open to anybody and you can go there and to the list ‑‑ to that link and find the information how to subscribe.
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Now, if you move on, I just want to quickly go through the Working Groups that are there. So, in addition to the RIPE list, we have a number of specific kind of Working Groups, discussion groups that deal with specific topics. And they are kind of here, I think alphabetically, so at the Address Policy Working Group, you'll see some faces that you'll see throughout the week. All the Working Groups are meeting during the RIPE meeting this time next week.
So the Address Policy Working Group is one of the oldest, if you will, and deals with anything related to managing IP addresses, distributing IP addresses.
Anti‑abuse deals with online abuse and how to address that.
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And the next Working Groups, Cooperation Working Group. That's an interesting one. Also, if you are maybe not so technical, you don't have such a technical background, actually the Cooperation Working Group has been set up specifically to link the technical community with the, like the policy community, if you will, regulators, government representation, law enforcement, and to discuss issues that are relevant to both communities, like the technical and not so technical. And it's mostly dealing with public policies and issues that are relevant for network operations.
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Connect Working Group is dealing with anything in relation to inter‑connections, exchange points.
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Move on.
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The Database Working Group I think comes next, if my alphabet is correct. RIPE database is also good because it's important if you are interested in the functioning of the RIPE operations and the database, and that's basically the group, an open group again, that pretty much defines the functionality of the RIPE database, which then the RIPE NCC would take and implement and make happen.
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The next Working Group, there are a lot of experts in the group, you know, that know everything about the domain name systems, so if you are interested in that it's a good place to listen to for information sharing.
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Next is the IPv6 Working Group, and they are basically promoting IPv6. From time to time there are questions, should it be time to close that Working Group? Unfortunately we're not tight there yet. So we are still promoting IPv6 a lot and mostly through that Working Group.
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The next Working Group is MAT, it stands for Measurement Analysis and Tools, which also has a lot of researchers and a lot of interesting presentations about anything to do with network measurements, monitoring analysis.
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Move on.
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The Open Source Working Group promotes open source, software open source projects and tools within the RIPE community.
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The Internet of Things Working Group is a relatively new one that discusses anything relating to IoT devices and how they connect to the network and how that may affect the operations in the RIPE community.
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And next.
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I think that might be the last one. On the left, the RIPE NCC Services Working Group. That's also an interesting one, because that's basically the place where the RIPE community and the RIPE NCC comes really close together. Whereas the RIPE community gives input to the RIPE NCC about services and tools and functionality they would like to see and, on the other hand, the RIPE NCC goes to ‑‑ reports back to the community to ‑‑ on the services and the development and the stages of their services and tools.
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That usually takes place just before the members' meeting and during the RIPE meeting so that's kind of the public part of the members' meeting. That's very interesting if you are interested in the RIPE NCC operations.
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And on the right, last but not least, it the Routing Working Group. That obviously is just everything related to routing and also lately a lot of the routing security and RPKI.
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Right. If you move on...
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After this kind of rundown of the RIPE structure overall, if you will, let's drill down a bit more into RIPE 82 and how to make the most of it and how you get your ‑‑ get you best through the week.
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The next slide you had see the meeting plan and you probably already found that on the website. You see here, starting next week, all the sessions, so Monday is basically all Plenary, it's kind of a day with an Open Plenary and Plenary sessions, interesting presentations that are kind of generic to the RIPE community. Whereas then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are filled with these Working Groups I have just described to you.
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There are a number of social events also, you can find everything on the slide here, and the meeting time is also linked to more information. If you click on each session you can find more information. There is also on the website a list of, like, parallel events and parallel sessions that you can find some things that aren't in here. For instance, every afternoon there is a bit of a stretching and exercise session you can find for five minutes in the afternoon coffee break that might be interesting after you are sitting in front of the screen all day.
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Let's move on...
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That's the Programme Committee. It's basically responsible for the programme on Monday, for the Plenary sessions. So this set of volunteers was putting together a very interesting programme, this time only on Monday and a little bit on Friday, I believe. They are rotating and they are selected ‑‑ I mean, the seats are rotating, so they are selected by the community. This time, there are two seats up for elections, and you can still nominate somebody until Tuesday and then the voting happens during the week, opens on Tuesday and then will be announced ‑‑ the results will be announced in the Closing Plenary on Friday.
If you see any of these people, if you have any feedback about the agenda, these are the people to contact.
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Let's move on...
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There is also a RIPE Code of Conduct. We have a Code of Conduct and we are actually working on a new version of it but this one is ‑‑ this is Code of Conduct that we have been working on for many years now, and obviously, you know, tries to ensure ‑‑ makes sure that you can work in an open and respectful way and that you are treated with tolerance and respect no matter where you are from, what your background is, your interests are. So, there is also ‑‑ you should have seen this when you registered and it's on the website.
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But, should you experience anything that you don't like, on the next slide you can see how you can report this. Vesna, I don't know if you want to say a few words?
VESNA MANOJLIVIC: Yes, I can speak now. I am Vesna, I work for the RIPE NCC, and, together with Rob Evans, we are a team of the trusted contacts which means we have been trained to talk to you in a confident way so anything that you tell us is going to remain between us. And we can help you to deal with any problems if you encounter during these meetings, if you feel uncomfortable, or if you have been hurt ‑‑ or even mostly because of the interactions during the meeting, but in any case, if you have some personal issue that you would like to talk with someone, you can always talk to us. Here you see the e‑mail address on the slide and so if you contact us there, we can arrange for some other way that we can talk privately, we can open a private Zoom room, we can get the SpatialChat room only for us or have a phone call. So any way that is comfortable for you, please approach us, we are there for you throughout the whole week. Thanks.
MIRJAM KUHNE: Perfect. Thanks, Vesna, and I am ‑‑ yeah, I am back.
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So, let's move on. Thanks, Vesna, for introducing yourself and Rob. So how can you participate in this safe environment that we will hopefully provide for you? There are a number of ways you can participate more actively rather than just listening to presentations. We are on this Meetecho platform. I don't know how many of you had a training that was provided this morning, for instance, but it's also ‑‑ if you look at the platform, it's quite easy to use. You can use the audio and the video queue on the left‑hand side, you can request audio and video when you have a question. You can also use the Q&A and the chat, but there is also the question mark for the Q&A. You can ask questions with that and then the session Chair will read it out to you. Please always put in your affiliation before you ask a question. I think your name is automatically filled in. And the chat, of course, you can use to chat to others.
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Don't put questions ‑‑ I mean, you can put in questions in the chat, maybe somebody will respond, but it's not a guarantee that the session Chair will actually see this if the chat is very active. It's better to ask the questions in the question mark area there, so then the speaker can answer.
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Move on...
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There are a number of ways to network with each other. I mentioned, like, a couple of socials will ‑‑ we will provide a number of social tools or networking tools as well, there is the chat in Meetecho but there is also another social tool called SpatialChat, and there will be actually a social after this session where we can play around on SpatialChat a bit so you can see how it works. There is multiple rooms you can meet there and, you know, you can move around and meet other people. There is also a mobile app on ‑‑ networking app on your mobile phone device if you want to use that, and also an agenda and a way to connect to each other.
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And then also what's not on the slide here is the attendees list here. Obviously you can find everybody who is registered and if people can log in and check in and they can add contact details if they want to and you can find them there.
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Please make sure you are not using this for commercial purposes, but that's probably, I don't have to say that.
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One other way also to participate is, of course, to let us know how you like the presentations. You can rate each and every presentation in the Plenary, also in the Working Group sessions, and the session Chairs will ask you how to do this after each session and you can even win a prize when you do that.
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You have to have an account, but it's kind of easy to get one, and I think when you registered you were prompted to do that.
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If you feel lost or lonely, if you go to the next slide, you will see one of the friendly colleagues from the RIPE NCC, that's Nathalie, and some more of her colleagues will be available every morning during the coffee break on Meetecho or SpatialChat are ‑‑ on SpatialChat. And you can ask them any questions. In the real life face‑to‑face meetings, most questions from like where can I find this room or, you know, what's the agenda? But this ‑‑ this time, of course, it's different, and you might have questions about how to find a certain person or, you know, what certain acronym means and they can tell you everything there about that.
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Right...
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And there is more support. There is our lovely meeting support team on the slide, you can see Alexandra and Martina. They are basically running the show in the background. If you have any questions to them you can send the mail to meeting [at] ripe [dot] net. If you have any technical questions about the platform or some your devices or your browser doesn't work, you can also send mail to ops and tg [at] ripe [dot] net for the more operational support.
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And the slides, I believe, are already online, so you can find all the links and the all the e‑mail addresses and you can click on them.
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If you move on...
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Some fun activities during the week.
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We have organised a cybersecurity challenge. If you are into this, if you are security hacking, hacker type of person, you can find on the website some more information about this. If you go to the ripe82 [at] ripe [dot] net and then programme and then on the parallel events you can find all the information about this. It starts on Monday and runs through the week, and we'll be really curious at the end of the week how that pans out. So fun with that.
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If you move on I think there is more fun stuff.
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We have a RIPE dinner, a virtual RIPE dinner on Thursday afternoon or Thursday evening, and the colleagues from the RIPE NCC again have organised some fun activities there, so if you go to the website, you can participate and you can submit a video, because it's actually Eurovision week, I think, next week and it would have been in the Netherlands, but it is in the Netherlands but it is different to the real Eurovision in real life, but it would be a kind of bit of fun in that theme and you can submit some videos and become a RIPE star.
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If you move on... I think I am running out of time
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One other way to give feedback. You can tweet, you can also follow us on Twitter so you know what's going on and there is a feedback form that opens on Monday but runs throughout ‑‑ I mean, I recommend you fill it in at the end of your meeting week, depending on how long you participate, it would be really helpful if you tell us, especially because you are new to this, to tell us what your experiences are and what you liked and didn't like and if we could do better.
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Then next ‑‑ I missed one social ‑‑ there was one about the social after this, but anyway. Maybe that's in a different ‑‑ maybe that comes later.
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So then I at this stage I would like to hand over to Hans Petter Holen, who is the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC, and who can tell you all about that right‑hand side of the slide I showed you earlier with the logo of the RIPE NCC.
HANS PETTER HOLEN: Thank you very much for that, Mirjam. I hope you all can hear me.
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If you switch to my next slide... thank you.
I am Hans Petter Holen and I am the Managing Director of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre, and I have had this job for a year, and, just to confuse you, I used to be the RIPE Chair for some six years before joining the RIPE NCC as an employee, and I have been part of the RIPE community since about '95, served as Chair of the Address Policy Working Group and on the ICANN Address Council for Global Policies and ICANN NomCom. I have been here for quite some years, but this is my first year as Managing Director.
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As Mirjam told you, the RIPE NCC is a membership association. We have around 20,000 members, who pays the bills. It was formed in 1992. Today, we have around 170 staff members managed by me and my management team. We are over seen by the Executive Board, who is really not executive but it's a good name, it's a regular board not running the company, but doing oversight. It's elected by the members of the association.
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Our function, the Network Coordination Centre is both to be the secretariat of the RIPE community and be the regional Internet registry for central Asia, Middle East and Europe, together with four other Internet registration for the rest of the world. We provide services paid by the membership for the members and for the community at large. So, looking at our most notable services, we run the registry, which is closely linked to the local Internet registry portal, the LIR portal and the RIPE database and the RPKI resource public key infrastructure where the resources, IP addresses and ASNs can be assigned so that you can secure your BGP routing announcement.
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We also operate the routing information service, RIS, which collects routing information from BGP at multiple point around the world so you can analyse your routes across the whole Internet, or a large part of it anyway.
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We also have RIPE Atlas with more than 10,000 measurement probes where you can run your own measurements. And RIPE Stat, which is kind of a looking glass into all these data sources, so you can view them all in one view and analyse them together.
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In addition to the numbered orientated services, we also operate one of the route server instances in the DNS, the k.root, and we have some Alt DNS service for in‑addr.apra and secondary named services.
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So last but not least, we also do online training and in person when that once again will be possible, as well as professional certifications that we launched last year. As secretariat for the community we organised this meeting, the RIPE meeting, as well as regional meetings, ENOG, MENOG and SCE.
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Moving onto the next slide. If you have any questions about the RIPE NCC, you can contact us at the RIPE NCC Services desk, and that is just like it used to be on the conference venues but now it's in SpatialChat so you can meet us virtually there. Anything really, we mean it. Moving onto the RIPE NCC Executive Board on the next slide.
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Here, you can see the seven board members that have been elected by the members, and two of them are up for election at the General Meeting, which you can see on the next slide, which is on Wednesday next week.
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The Board acts on behalf of the members and there is also a mailing list 'Members Discuss' where announcements are shared and discussions between the members and the board happen. There is also a session on Monday evening where you can meet the board and ask them any questions you may have.
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When you look at the General Meeting on Wednesday, the main things there to remember is that if you are a member, you need to register separately for this meeting, and the most notable topics there is the financial report for 2020, revised charging scheme which is something we update every year for 2022, and election of two of the seven board members.
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And that was my short summary of the RIPE NCC and I will hand over the stage to or policy development officer, Angela. The floor is yours.
ANGELA DALL'ARA: Hello everybody, and, first of all, I would like, really, to welcome everybody at RIPE 82, and I hope you will enjoy this meeting no matter if it is the first time for you or if you are already an experienced participant.
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I am the policy officer at RIPE NCC and I am at my first RIPE meeting in this position because I worked for six years before as Internet analyst. So I am very excited to participate in my new role in this meeting.
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As you know probably already, everything we do at the RIPE NCC is defined by the policies accepted by the RIPE community, so by everybody actually that is participating in the discussion. And these policies regulate the way in which we distribute IP addresses and AS numbers and the services we provide and the information we maintain in the RIPE database.
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My role is to support the RIPE community in what is called the Policy Development Process ‑ PDP, and it is actually a structured way that the RIPE community has to transform ideas into implementations.
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I am sure that you understand that the participation in this process is one of the most important aspects for the process to work well, so that's why I warmly invite you to follow the discussions and to participate in the Working Group of your interest to give your contribution and your input into eventually the application of new policies.
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As you heard from Mirjam already, there are no particular requirements, only the subscription to the mailing list and an open mind to respect everybody in the discussion.
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If you are interested in what is happening in the RIPE NCC and in other regional registries, during the Address Policy Working Group session on Tuesday morning, I will be available for a question and answer moment about the pre‑recorded overview that is available online, and you can find it in the agenda clicking on the session slot.
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In the meantime, if you have questions about the RIPE policies, the PDP or anything that is related, you know, to the RIPE NCC in support of the RIPE community, don't be shy, just ask, and through all next week I will be available in the RIPE meeting web app or you can find me in some SpatialChat rooms. I am really looking forward to talking to you.
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Or ‑‑ sorry, my e‑mail address is pdo [at] ripe [dot] net, there you can always find me.
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Now I give the word back to Mirjam that I'm sure has some more information for you.
MIRJAM KUHNE: Thank you, Angela. Actually, this brings me to you, to the audience. Are there any questions so far? We have been rushing through this also because we wanted to leave some space for you to have ‑‑ to answer any questions either to Hans Petter about the RIPE NCC, or to me about RIPE and... yeah, let us know. Because there will be a quiz at the end, so you'd better get your information right.
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I see there was already some activity in the chat room, that's great. Some questions and people are answering them. I don't see any questions yet.
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Well, we can always come back at the end if we have time. Maybe I'll move on for now to the next slide. Maybe that's what you are waiting before because there is actually a social coming after this.
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It's not quite as, you know, it's shown on the picture; unfortunately, we can't really all meet and mingle together and introduce you to the RIPE participants and to everyone else, but there is room in SpatialChat and there is a link on the slide which is also on the RIPE website of course on the RIPE 82 website and you can find me there, for instance, and some other faces that you have seen on the slides, like some of the Working Group Chairs, the Programme Committee, the Meet and Greet Team, the meeting team also from the RIPE NCC, and you can play around a bit with the tool and see how it works, and then hopefully we'll see you more often during the week.
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Have you thought of any questions in the meantime? I can't let you go without having a question. No questions.
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Well, then, I guess you'll have to answer the quiz. Hopefully, you have listened well. And Gerardo Viviers is going to take over now from me and he is running you through a quiz which he will actually do on and off during the week as well, it's great fun, I am really looking forward to that part.
GERARDO VIVIERS: Let's party!!!
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So, it took some time, but here it is. The quiz of quizzes. The one that will test your knowledge of everything that has been said in the past half hour.
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Welcome everybody to the first RIPE 82 Kahoot quiz. Are you crazy? No? But you will have this quiz and this quiz is a special one for all you newcomers. My name is Gerardo Viviers and I am your quizmaster.
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Today's quiz is sponsored by IPv4 Global, by Hilco Streambank, and let me tell you how we are going to play the game!
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So first of all, you have to open a browser or get the app and go to kahoot.it. That is www.kahoot.it. You could also get the Kahoot app on your phone that that works actually sometimes better.
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It's going to ask for a pin, which you can see on the screen, that's 3782185. And then it will ask you for your name, of course.
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Best practice is to put your nickname, whatever you nick handle you want to use, and then of course your registration number, because we might want to contact you for a prize. I don't know if there is a secret prize here? No, I don't know. Anyways, we're here to have fun. Once we see enough people logged in, we're going to start.
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Let's see if some people join up first. I see 18 people ‑‑ I see 19 people, come on people! Join in for the fun. Just sign up, and if you don't know anything, you will learn something.
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It is a surprise. Well, it's not a surprise because we have been talking about everything we're going to ask about in the past half hour. I see 21 people, that seems to be a good number. What do you think Rover?
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Rover says let's start. I am going to start the quiz and here we go!!! Or not!!
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Take note of this:
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First question:
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So you need to become a member to join A, the Hells Angels; RIPE; the RIPE NCC; or the RIPE meeting? Which one of these four? If you don't know just press any random one, I will tell you in 3, 2, 1...
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The right answer is the RIPE NCC. That's the only one of these that you have to become a member to be able to join. For Hells Angels, what do you have to do? Nobody knows, because we don't have any Hells Angels' numbers.
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At the RIPE meeting all you have to do is sign up. You don't even have to be a member. Anybody can join the RIPE meeting.
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On to our next question, first check our score board. At the top we have Kurt etc...
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Next question:
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Who makes policies?
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This is not a difficult question. Is it RIPE? Is it the RIPE NCC? Is it the Blockchain or why should I care?
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The right answer is RIPE. RIPE makes the policies. Not the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC is the secretariat. The Blockchain, some delusional person thinks the Blockchain does something.
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And why should I care? Nobody said that because you should care.
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On to our next question, but first let's look up at the score board.
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Becha taking the lead...
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So, question number 3:
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Where can you find the RIPE NCC support desk?
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Is it on facial chat? Is it on SpatialChat? Is it on Facebook? Or is it on Snapchat. One of these four has access to the RIPE NCC support desk.
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And the right one is: SpatialChat. Anybody going on Facebook will find themselves with a beautiful post but no support desk.
And Becha still in the lead. She is burning it. Jobi is next and so on.
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Anyways, what does the RIPE PC do? Is it select the Working Group Chairs? Is it ensure that there are parties and celebrations at each RIPE meeting? Or choose the presentations for the Working Group sessions? Is it choose the presentations for the RIPE meeting Plenary sessions? What do they do?
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The right answer is choose the presentations for the RIPE meeting Plenary sessions. All those other three, no, that's not what they do.
Next one, and we have Becha still at the front. And so on...
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Question number 5:
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This is a true or false one.
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Working Group discusses policies on mailing lists?
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Working Groups discuss mailing lists on policies ‑‑ policies on mailing lists?
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And the right answer is not so difficult. We have a 50% chance of getting it right.
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So, correct answer is true. All the Working Groups discuss their policies on the mailing lists because then they are recorded, archived and you can look back into them. Any other way might be volatile.
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The front of the score board is Becha.
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Next question:
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Who is the RIPE Chair?
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Is it Hans Petter Holen? Is it the oldest person at the RIPE meeting? Is it the new person we choose every time we have a meeting or is it Mirjam Kuhne? Who of these is the RIPE Chair?
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Yeah, a difficult question ‑‑ you thought it was Hans Petter Holen. But that is old news. The new Chair is Mirjam Kuhne. Hans Petter used to be the Chair; he is now the CEO of the RIPE NCC.
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And we still have Becha at the top, etc.
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Let's see, guys, we still have a couple of questions to turn around these results.
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Which of these came first? The fall of the Berlin Wall? Voyager 2 closest to Neptune? RIPE 1 meeting? Or the first working worldwide web browser? That's almost like a tongue twister.
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And this one is an easy one, right: The first thing that came was the RIPE 1 meeting. Unbelievable, right.
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The others happened months later. Voyager 2 passed Neptune also a couple of months later and the first Working Group worldwide web browser wasn't invented until several months later, so the first thing that came was RIPE 1.
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And while we walk towards the score board, we can see that Becha is still at the top etc.
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We have still 3 more questions.
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Who implements policies? Is it everybody? Is it RIPE? Is it the RIPE NCC? Or is it an AI‑enhanced robot?
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I don't know, but we'll find out the answer to this question. And it is the RIPE NCC. So RIPE makes the policies and the RIPE NCC implements it meaning they make software, programme stuff, so that the policies can be carried out.
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And the score board is Becha still has the lead, and so on...
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Come on, people, break those fingers.
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Which of these is not a RIPE Working Group?
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Is it the DNS? Is it the big data? Is it the Open Source? Or is it the IoT? Which one of these four?
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So, is it the DNS? Is it the Open Source? Is it the IoT? Or is it the big data? And the right answer is: The big data is not a working group. That means that you were paying attention.
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On to the score board. Becha fell down one spot, Alexander is in first place now. You still all have a chance because this next question is the tricky one.
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Last one:
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Does RIPE have a Secret Working Group?
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Now the quizmaster has to die...
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If it's a secret, we would never tell.
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There are no credits.
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There is no such Working Group.
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What is a Working Group?
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The right one is, if it's a secret, we would never tell, because that's what's the definition of a 'secret'.
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So let's check now what is the final score.
Number 3 we have Jobi.
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Number 2, we have Becha.
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And number 1 we have Alexander!!!!
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Very well. Well done, people, all of you have participated. You have learned and you have reached the end.
Thank you to everybody for playing. We hope you have enjoyed it. Thank you to our support IPv4 Global, Hilco Streambank. We will be back again next week for the RIPE 82 meeting and get ready because we are going to test your knowledge up to the extreme events of the end. Enjoy the social coming up and have a great evening. Bye‑bye!!!!!
MIRJAM KUHNE: Thank you very much. That was great fun. I hope to see you all in a few minutes in the SpatialChat for a virtual drink and I hope to meet you there. And that's it. And, of course, next week, it will all really start.
LIVE CAPTIONING BY
MARY McKEON, RMR, CRR, CBC
DUBLIN, IRELAND.
