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News from the Singel…

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Exciting Changes at the RIPE NCC

• Have re-organised- Focussing on precise & non-competing goals

- Re-aligning departments

• New key staff- Andrew de la Haye, COO

- Gregg Stephenson, Customer Services

- Flor Paredes, Registration Services

- Mark Dranse, Information Services

- External Relations Officer (just hired)

• Internal focus shifting outwards again

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Certification

• RIPE NCC Activity Plan driven

• Need explicit community input- Adoption likely?

- Interaction with business processes?

• Rising interest from other stakeholders

• Member Taskforce set up- Prototype installation & integration

- First meeting 14 February

- Second meeting during RIPE 54

• “Core tech looks good, but where are the applications?”

- Reports at RIPE 54 & 55

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Membership & Regional Outreach

• RIPE NCC Regional Meetings- Moscow, Russia, 18/19 September 2006

- Manama, Bahrain, 14/15 November 2006

- Moscow, Russia, 2/3 October 2007

- Muscat, Oman, November 2007

• Membership Survey- It’s that time again…

• MENOG 1- 3-5 April 2007, Bahrain

- Organisationally supported by RIPE NCC

- 83 attendees from 15 countries

- MENOG 2 planned November adjacent to RIPE NCC Regional Meeting

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Governments & “Enhanced Cooperation” • Roundtable for Governments & Regulators

- February • Good timing re rootserver DDOS and IPv4 countdown proposal

- Another Roundtable planned for 17 September

- Governments meet the RIPE Community• Monday afternoon @ RIPE 54

• Call for BoF on “Enhanced Cooperation”

• ITU Study Group 2- ENUM report, IPv6 and 32 bit ASN issues

- Meeting new director of ITU TSB

• External Relations Group staffed- Stakeholder analysis

- PR activities targeted towards governments

• IGF Rio

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RIPE 54 - Tallinn

• Well attended meeting

• Network / Estonia DDOSed, but workable

• Corporate Governance / RIPE NCC GM

- Financial Report Adopted / Annual Report 2006

- Board members re-elected (Janos Zsako, Nigel Titley)…

• Need more time for Address Policy

• Too many nightclubs in hotel… :-)

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RIPE 55 - 57

Amsterdam, 22-26 October 2007

Cologne, May 2007

Dubai, November 2008

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