RIPE NCC

16/01/2025

takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria from 7-8 April. If you'd like to present at the meeting, submit your presentation proposal by 23 January: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-13/call-for-presentations/

15/01/2025

Dear RIPE NCC members in , join our upcoming training courses to enhance your skills on !

👉IPv6 Fundamentals Training Course
📅 29 Jan
📍 Ankara

👉Advanced IPv6 Training Course
📅 30-31 Jan
📍 Ankara

This training is hosted by Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu - BTK.

For more details and to register, visit:
https://learning.ripe.net/w/upcoming/

15/01/2025

🚀 2025 is officially the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology ( ), a UN initiative to spotlight quantum breakthroughs shaping our future.

Quantum computing holds the promise of revolutionising the world. But with great power comes great responsibility—and great risk.

🎧 On a past episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, we explored the coming wave of post-quantum 🔐. Why does this matter now? Listen to the episode to understand the stakes and solutions.
https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/andre-grilo-ready-or-not-rethinking-cybersecurity-for-a-post-quantum-world/

14/01/2025

The registration for the 13th South East Europe Meeting is now open!

🗓️ The meeting takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria from 7-8 April at the Grand Hotel Millennium.

💡Join us for two days of networking, learning, and innovation.
Register now at: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/regional-meetings/see/see-13/

13/01/2025

With 307 sessions packed into 5 days, the Internet Governance Forum covers a dizzying range of topics. The RIPE NCC team has put together some takeaways from the sessions they followed at the 19th IGF in Riyadh in December 2024:

The RIPE NCC team was at the 19th Internet Governance Forum held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Here are some of our key takeaways from the last Internet event of 2024!

10/01/2025

🎓 We've published our training schedule for the coming weeks - join us online for a webinar, or for a training course in person in Kuwait, Ankara, Hamburg, Stockholm and Sofia to learn about , IPv6 security, the , Fundamentals and more. Webinars take place almost every week on a range of topics.

View our upcoming courses and webinars at:
https://learning.ripe.net/w/upcoming/

📍Kuwait: 20-22 Jan
IPv6 Fundamentals and Advanced IPv6 training courses

📍Ankara, Türkiye: 29-31 Jan
IPv6 Fundamentals and Advanced IPv6 training courses

📍Hamburg, Germany: 26-28 Feb
LIR Training Course, IPv6 Fundamenals and RIPE Database

📍Stockholm, Sweden: 20-21 March
IPv6 Fundamentals and BGP Routing Security

📍Sofia, Bulgaria: 9-11 April
LIR Training Course and Advanced IPv6

09/01/2025

The invoicing process for 2025 is under way. We are conscious that some members might need payment extensions. Members can request a payment extension if they are in areas of distress in our service region that are experiencing war or natural disasters.

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Information about the 2025 RIPE NCC invoice and member payment extensions.

09/01/2025

To understand and counteract DDoS attacks, you have to observe DDoS attacks. A new study, carried out through collaboration between researchers from several institutions, helps bring DDoS into perspective. Read more on :

Gaining a clear view of the DDoS landscape is vital for developing effective countermeasures against this prolific form of attack. A new study, carried out through collaboration between researchers from several institutions, helps bring DDoS into perspective.

08/01/2025

We invite our members in and near Kuwait to register for our upcoming in-person training courses taking place there over 20-22 January. These courses are free for members. Make sure to register soon, we have limited places available.

🌐 IPv6 Fundamentals Training Course: Monday, 20 January
The IPv6 Fundamentals Training Course is a one-day course that tackles what IPv6 is and why it's needed in today’s networks. It also includes basic information on how to plan your deployment and addressing plans.
🔗 https://learning.ripe.net/w/courses/3-ipv6-fundamentals-training-course/312

⚡️Advanced IPv6 Training Course: Tuesday and Wednesday, 21-22 January
The Advanced IPv6 training course is a two-day course that covers IPv6 topics relevant to a network infrastructure. Topics include implementing IPv6 in routing protocols like OSPF or BGP, content delivery over IPv6, mobile networks, transition mechanisms or host configuration scenarios. Hands-on labs are also provided.
🔗 https://learning.ripe.net/w/courses/5-advanced-ipv6-training-course/313

07/01/2025

We share our plans for the year ahead in our Activity Plan and Budget. Our overall plan for 2025 is to make the RIPE NCC resilient and ensure our organisation is fit for purpose as we prepare for the next phase of our strategy cycle.

Some of our activities for 2025 include:
👉 Working to meet international compliance standards like the ISO 27001 series and ISAE 3000 audits
👉 Improving the security of our tooling and services
👉 Implementing data warehousing to improve our decision-making capabilities, automate certain Registry processes and improve the UI and user experience of our services
👉 Conducting ARCs and other Registry accuracy investigations with extended due diligence, and refining our metrics to measure the accuracy of our Registry data
👉 Participating in consultations on upcoming legislation, and contributing to the WSIS+20 review
👉 Continuing to support our members and the Internet technical community with training, capacity building, and by sharing data and insights

You can read about our planned activities and the associated budgets in detail at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-835/

06/01/2025

Is deploying one of your New Year's resolutions for 2025? We'll help you get started with the intro to IPv6 ! In just two webinars, you will learn:
✅ The basics of IPv6 address notation
✅ How to correctly write IPv6 addresses using the IPv6 address notation recommendations
✅ How to request IPv6 address space from the RIPE NCC
✅ How IPv6 addresses are distributed
✅ How IPv6 allocation and assignment policies work
✅ How to register IPv6-related data in the RIPE Database (assignments, reverse DNS and route6 objects)

🗓️ Intro to IPv6: Tuesday, 14 January at 09:00 UTC
✏️ https://learning.ripe.net/w/courses/20-introduction-to-ipv6-webinar/310

🗓️ IPv6 in the RIPE Database: Thursday, 16 January at 09:00 UTC
✏️ https://learning.ripe.net/w/courses/14-ipv6-in-the-ripe-database-webinar/311

View all our upcoming training courses and webinars at:
https://learning.ripe.net/w/

06/01/2025

Roughtime is a draft protocol aimed at providing a secure way for any device to obtain time and to prove if a server has provided false time to that device. Read about the outcomes from the hackathon held at Netnod

A Roughtime Hackathon at IETF 121 led by Netnod’s Technical Consultant, Marcus Dansarie, brought together developers and researchers to refine the protocol and its implementations. In this article, we summarise some of the outcomes from the hackathon.

31/12/2024

Can we hack the past, act in the present, and build greener tech for the future?

At the Green Tech Hackathon, hosted by the RIPE community a few weeks ago, 42 creative minds came together for two intense days, completing 10 inspiring projects focused on ecological sustainability and innovation in tech.

«For me personally, the Green Tech Hackathon was a culmination of my work on four overlapping aspects over the last 11 years: my personal interest in ecological topics (since 2013), organising hackathons (since 2014) as as part of my Community Building work, increasing diversity (since 2016), and focusing on RIPE NCC’s efforts towards being an authority in sustainable technologies within Internet Governance organisations (since 2019),» writes Vesna Manojlovic, Community Builder at the RIPE NCC.

Dive into the full article and explore the projects developed by the diverse group of participants—developers, activists, researchers, and more—who came together to push the boundaries of sustainable tech:

Hacking the past, acting together in the present and building the greener tech for the future - these were the high-level goals of the Green Tech Hackathon. In this event review you will find a recap of the projects along with many links and photos. We hope to inspire your imagination and invite yo....

30/12/2024

🎉Happy New Year from the RIPE NCC! 🎉

Please note that our offices in Amsterdam and Dubai will be closed on Wednesday, 1 January 2025. We’ll resume regular office hours from Thursday, 2 January 2025 onwards. Wishing you all a joyful start to the new year!

30/12/2024

⚡ Modern cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure have evolved with the convergence of OT systems with IT. In the latest episode of the RIPE Labs , Daniel Kapellmann from Google Threat Intelligence (Mandiant) shares about for OT systems.
🎧Listen to the RIPE Labs Podcast on all your favourite podcast platforms!
https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/daniel-kapellmann-detecting-cyber-threats-to-critical-systems/

27/12/2024

It's not too late - you can still in 2024! RIPE NCC members get three exam vouchers in a year to take an exam and earn a digital badge. Schedule an exam before 31 December 2024 and take the exam upto the end of March 2025.
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/news/use-your-exam-vouchers-by-31-december/

23/12/2024

The 24th edition of the Middle East Network Operators' Group (MENOG) and Peering Forum was held in Muscat, Oman, as the region continues to enhance its digital presence through better peering, stronger security and more effective regulations.
Read the recap of the event on RIPE Labs:

The 24th edition of the Middle East Network Operators' Group (MENOG) and Peering Forum was held in Muscat, Oman, as the region continues to enhance its digital presence through better peering, stronger security and more effective regulations.

20/12/2024

With last month’s cuts in two major Baltic Sea Internet cables now successfully repaired, and another cut having occurred in the meantime, we analyse these events and delve deeper into the question of how exactly the has remained .

With last month’s cuts in two major Baltic Sea Internet cables now successfully repaired, and another cut having occurred in the meantime, we analyse these events and delve deeper into the question of how exactly the Internet has remained resilient.