RIPE 93.
Main hall. 26th October 2016.
Newcomers:
MIRJAM KUHNE: Hello everybody. Ah, I hear the bell so I expect some more people to come in, this is the newcomers tutorial, the newcomers session for RIPE 93, welcome everybody.
Let's just wait one more minute to see if other people want to join.
It's really hard to see you in the room because I have to this bright shining light in my eyes but I will do my best.
Could you please close the doors when you leave, thank you.
Or you can stay, please close the door, it's a bit noisy so...
Right, welcome. Great to see so many newcomers in the room and a few not so newcomers it's, it's good always to to get a refresher. Maybe as a first stale a little task for you, we are using this tool during the week called Meetecho and you can use that on yours phone, laptop or iPad, whatever, and you got a mail with morning with a personalised link with subject line RIPE 93, your Meetecho link, if you go to that email and click on the link, the app will open and you are going to use that during the session so you can maybe practice a little bit also for the rest of the week. It's a good way to to communicate with each other and ask questions and follow the sessions from the outside or your room if you feel like being on your own for a little while. So you can maybe do that right now. And I will explain a little bit of the features you will see there.
So it will ask you for audio video permissions and you are going to click through it and you have to choose the main room and you will see the presentation here and you will see a number of features in there, a looks a bit different on the mobile app than the desktop app, there are a number of features like one is the you had video requests, you can request especially for those of you online request to participate in the session by clicking on the button and the session chair will grant you access to video and audio, there's a Q&A button you can put questions there. Questions or feedback. You can use that feature. There's also a chat which is really useful, it has a background for the participants to chat during the sessions or maybe if you have some logistical questions, there's always somebody there to help you out, there's stenography here available is Meetecho and you can also access that through the tool.
So, in addition to that tool, when you go to the microphone in the room, state your name and affiliation, it's a good way to get to know each other, especially if you are new and you are here, the other in the community will get you to know you as well. Everything is record and the minutes of all the sessions and presentations will be archived later so you can always go back and look that up if you know some sessions are parallel, if you can to the attend to one you want to attend, you can always look that up later.
And maybe one other tip is the attendees list, some people on leave their contact details on the attendees list, you can find them there if you are looking for a specific person, if you log in with your credentials, then you can access that information.
Maybe it's a first exercise if you will in Meetecho, you can put in where you are based, I won't see it right now, it will be interesting for you all to know where everybody is coming from and this is the map of the RIR regions, Hans Petter Holen will explain that but ignore it for now, the country you are based so we know where you are from and you will be able to hopefully see that.
OK. Do you see anything? Popping up chat in the, you can put that in chat, nobody is participating, yes people are starting to put something in, great.
So again yeah welcome to this your first RIPE meetings, the first RIPE meeting for all of us took place in 1989 in Amsterdam, kind of travelling to different places, Sofia is the first time we have a RIPE meeting in Sofia. And in 1989 the RIPE community started as an open community, I get to that to some more detail in a little bit, the our motto, connecting people and networks since 1989, it's our logo and Reseaux IP Europeans that's what RIPE stands for, the European IP Network.
Staying in the past, I don't know if you can see it, not really but just to give you an impression, it's the Reseaux IP Europeans from 1989, 1990, and there was a working group at the time, the connectivity working group that kept track of the developments of that, of the layout and topology of the internet in Europe and whenever a new country was add or a large network, these maps were updated and you can still find them on the RIPE website, they are published as RIPE documents. If you zoom in a little closer, you can't really see here but most of them you can see at the time most of the networks were academic networks and it started growing and at some point the network was growing so big that it was not feasible any more to publish these maps unfortunately so there are other tools nowadays that can show you the overview of the internet.
But I always find it fascinate you how it all started. Now, coming back to us here in the room, I just want to introduce myself, my name is Mirjam Kuhne, I am the Chair of the RIPE community, I am originally from Berlin, I studied computer science at the technical university in Berlin many moons ago around the time the RIPE community has started and I have been selected and appointed as RIPE Chair for the second term, I am really pleased and proud that the community wanted me to run for another term, it's a position that goes through a nominating committee and the selection process through the community and I have worked also in my day job, I used to work at the RIPE NCC for a long time, also the Internet Society and my first RIPE meeting was actually RIPE 19 in Lisbon, you can look that up when that was.
And then the one that's basically the job description description of the RIPE chair team, make sure everything works properly, facilitate everything and make sure you can do your work, if there's anything that you want to do or you have some ideas or you want something different, don't hesitate to talk to me or to the Vice Chair, Anna Wilson, who can also introduce herself.
ANNA WILSON: Anna Wilson, RIPE Vice Chair, that is how we ask people to introduce themselves at the microphone, thank you very much, and yeah, I am Miriam's vice chair, I work for the Irish national research network. Thank you.
MIRJAM KUHNE: Thank you and Anna started a bit later at RIPE 31 in he had borough, there's also email addresses on the slides here and mine, you can reach us by email or come talk to us.
RIPE is open to anybody, you can come participate, either on site or online, and of course also in our mailing lists and other discussions that we have, there's no membership required to that, anyone can participate in the discussions.
And so because I mentioned membership and this was a bit of confusion between RIPE and the RIPE NCC, I would be really curious to find out how many of you know the difference. Not so quick, we have a poll in Meetecho that you can use. So Ulka will open the poll so you will see how that works, we might have it more often during the week. It's up now, there will be a question, if you click on virtual poll in your Meetecho app, it also you do you know the difference between RIPE and RIPE NCC? Yes or no. And it will be open for a few more seconds. You can still put in your answers. And to do we have answers?
ULKA ATHELE: The majority seem to know the difference but there are some people in the room who don't, I think it was 22, yes, and a few more no. Thank you.
MIRJAM KUHNE: Impressed, I will explain it for those who don't know the difference, we will go into more delater and Hans Petter is another speaker. On the left‑hand side you can see the overview and principles of the RIPE community and the Reseaux IP Europeans open community, started in 89, very informal, no legal entity, it was initially founded really as, that's also in the name, to promote IP networks in Europe. And to come together and co‑ordinate certain technical aspects of the networks that had to be coordinated, otherwise the networks couldn't connect like who is using what prefix and what protocols are you using, all these technical aspects, and that's still very much part of our tasks as a RIPE community. There's also a lot of information exchange, expertise in our knowledge sharing and part of that is also, part of the co‑ordination aspect is policy development and you will hear a bit more about this later on. The RIPE community actually has one task to determine how the resources like the IP addresses, AS numbers are distributed and what needs to be, what documentation needs to be provided, what needs to be registered in the database and all that, it's determined by us, by the open community, the RIPE community.
On the other hand you have the RIPE NCC, the network co‑ordination centre for the RIPE community, which was started later in 1992 and initiated by the RIPE community at the time because they were running the meetings and the mailing lists and database and all that on a volunteer basis. So the some point the RIPE community felt it would be really handy to have some paid stuff to help out with the meetings and moderating the mailing lists and maintaining that, setting up the RIPE database in a more professional way so the NCC was created as a membership association primarily as is a secretariat for the RIPE community.
It has staff, a lot of them are here this week, it's a good opportunity to meet the RIPE NCC staff and if you are a member of the RIPE NCC, they are here also to help you out with your tickets or requests and there's a board, the Board is elected by the members and, as I said, they provide services to the community and of course to the membership of the RIPE NCC who are the paying members of the NCC, where the budget comes from.
There is of course a lot of overlap between the members and this community but they are kind of a distinct entities and the NCC is a level entity, the RIPE community isn't and the NCC's task is to implement the policies just described, other ones take the output and basically implement them. So Hans Petter will talk more about the NCC later on.
Coming back to RIPE and we have a number of working groups, you have probably seen that online on the website or in the Meeting Plan, I am not going to go through all of they, you can find information about all of the working groups on the website and also they are meeting this week and you can look up their goals and their description online. All of them have a mailing list, we work with mailing lists in this community, it feels a bit old fashioned but it's the one tool, he with couldn't come up with a better tool that's easy to access, across platforms, easy to archive, you know, record, finding decisions back over time, so we are still relying very much on mailing lists archives and participation in the mailing lists and as I said, it's an easy way to share ideas and discuss and make decisions even in our consensus calls so the working groups chairs are the ones who moderate the lists for their respective working group.
If you are not quite sure which working group you want to follow, a good start is the RIPE discussion list which is the kind of overarching list, you might have seen that, we sent out mails about this meeting to the RIPE list and other general announcements and discussions. How many of you here are already subscribed to any of the mailing lists, the RIPE mailing lists?
I see a number of people who don't have their hands up, it's a good start, maybe go to the website and have a look at the RIPE discussion list, there will be important information also shared here during the week about this meeting.
Why participate in RIPE? You are already here, you have obviously some motivation to be here. But maybe there's some aspects that you hadn't thought of, for instance I always find fascinating that you all meet here a lot of people who you could say kind of started this whole thing, the whole network and RIPE community and really a lot of experts in all kinds of topics related to networking, DNS, IPv4, IPv6, routing, security and they are really happy to share their knowledge and information with you so don't hesitate to know, if you always wanted to talk to some expert in this topic. You will be able to find them here. It will help you define what you want to do in your career, your professional life, that's maybe another aspect and just generally become part of this important technical community who is shaping the future of the internet by coordinating and collaborating all these topics that I mentioned earlier.
So it's great to have you here. I hope you will find it useful. And just kind of zooming in a little bit into the RIPE 93 meeting, you see on the website and also on the back of your badge there's a QR code you can scan, you will see that Meeting Plan that shows you how the week is organised and then you can click on each of the sessions and you will find a more detailed agenda of each of those sessions on the website. Some things might change a little bit, it says this is still a draft, it might change but at this point it's actually pretty final so you can find information there. I will highlight a few things of the Meeting Plan, so these are the people that organise the plenary or we view the submissions and make a decision about the topics presented in the, you can could say, the technical plenary that's taking place today, tomorrow and a little bit on Friday; that's our Programme Committee.
There's always seats available so they have terms and they are rotating and so at this time we also have elections again, if you are thinking maybe in the future you want to be part of this team and it's a great way to see what's coming in for the RIPE meetings and evaluate the talks, I encourage you to maybe tomorrow talk to them of them during the week and find out a bit more of the task and what's involved.
Also important every agenda ‑‑ no, every presentation you can rate them, each one of them on the website you can see on the agenda there's a click on rate this talk and then you can provide some feedback and that's really important also for the Programme Committee for future meetings, see what you like, what you didn't like, what you can do better, what other topics you might be interested in so please use that chance.
Before I go into that, maybe also just highlight there are ‑‑ on Tuesday, Wednesday, you can't really see it, you can see it on your own device, there's working groups, so there is plenaries and working groups mostly Wednesday Thursday, a little bit on Tuesday evening, they are all on the specific topics that I mentioned earlier and they have a set of working group chairs, they are also frequently looking for new candidates there so if you are interested maybe in the specific topic or you want to maybe have a more active role in the community later on, I encourage you to talk to the chairs there and actively participate in these working groups. Fast forward again, we have these things called BoFs, birds of a feather, an informal meeting of people talking about a subject they are interested, it's not part of the official agenda, it changes every time, there are four of them, two on Monday and two on Thursday and so today there are, they are both at 6 o'clock in parallel. One is organised by some members of the internet engineering task force, those are the people who build the standards and protocols and the operators who are here basically using those protocols so they come and talk about that and hopefully get some participation from the RIPE members, RIPE participants as well
In parallel to that is another different topic, layer 3 internet exchanges. They have quite a number of speakers lined up and that's going to be really interesting.
On Thursday also two talks, one is a way to connect research and operations and we had a few activities around that topic here at the RIPE meeting with poster sessions, we still have those, you can see some research topics there presented, and at this time we have a BoF session where researchers and operators can come together and discuss possible topics that researchers could maybe work on.
In parallel, last time we had a BoF on AI, mostly people were sharing information about how they used LLMs and new tools for network configurations and software development and this time it's the second part of that.
Another session that I always find super inspiring is the diversity in tech or diversity equity and inclusion, that's taking place on Tuesday this time, it focuses on the eye of the eye, the last two sessions we had diversity and equality, you can look that back online, it was really ‑‑ there was some really great talks there. It's open to anybody and it's not one specific, it used to be called 'Women in Tech', but we have kind of moved past that, it's really about all kinds of topics that through diversity in our community.
And then on Thursday we have something called the community plenary, it's not so much the technical plenary, it's more a broader scope for the wider web community, that's chaired by the RIPE chair team and not the Programme Committee and we'll have an update about RIR, governance of the RIR system, Hans Petter can talk a bit more about this and then also a presentation about the new fellowship programme that you are organising and probably a number of fellows here in the room that maybe you can provide us some feedback there as well.
Right! And then of course it's not just about work, there's also a lot of social engagement, it's all about getting to know each other, we have pretty much every time something lined up you can participate in, please note on Thursday the RIPE dinner requires an additional ticket but the other nights are open to participate but please wear your badge so we know you are part of the community. You can find all the information I think also there's a link here, yes, on the back of your badge or online.
If you need any help during the week, if you need any support, first of all I don't think that's on the slide deck, technical support outside, if there's anything wrong with your laptop, wi‑fi, something you need help with, there's some technical staff out that can help you. I think it says 'Tech Desk' on their banner. Apart from that, there's other groups that can help with any aspects of the meeting, we have a RIPE code of conduct that you can find online and you should also have ticked the box when you registered and it's basically we want to make sure you all feel safe and respected. If there's anything that you want to report or something you don't feel comfortable with or observe or something you want to get off your chest, it doesn't need to lead to a full report, these are the wonderful members code of conduct team, some of them are in the room, I see Sebastian there, most of them are here, Rob, I think most of them are here on site, and you can also see on the posters you can see how to find them, there's a link how to contact them.
And finally there's also you probably seen some people running around in red t‑shirts or hoodies, they are the Meet&Greet team. And then you can ask them anything about logistics and meeting plan, where the bathrooms are, they will help out, it's a mix of NCC staff and community members that are helping out which I think is a great collaboration.
And that brings me to the next speaker, Angela Dall'arra will go into detail about the policy process, maybe just by way of introduction, it's probably the one, the most formal process we have in in community, everything else is pretty much open and informal and everybody can participate, everybody can also participate in the policy process but it's a bit more structured formal process and so it's important to understand how this works and Angela can tell you all about that.
ANGELA DALL'ARRA: Thank you, Mirjam and good morning everyone, it's always nice to see newcomers joining the family and also to see the old comers again.
So we understand that policy are a big part of what we do especially what the RIPE community decides to do and what the RIPE NCC CC is supposed to implement. So I am a bit the link between the community and the organisation, so I am happy to help the community in developing policy but not in the content, just as Miriam said the process might be a bit complicated, so to guide the new proposals, in submitting their ideas in working groups because of course you saw that the community started long ago, RIPE NCC started long ago. Technology has changed, the market has changed, everything has changed, so all the policies might not be so relevant nowadays, or they might need modification or there is something that is missing.
So if you have an idea, you are more than welcome to submit it to the working group chairs of the working group of your interest, even to me if you don't know exactly where your idea might fit.
And what is a policy? A policy in our ecosystem is something that is saying what we want to achieve and who is going to do what to achieve it. But the how is a part of the procedure that is going to be decided by the RIPE NCC, looking at the means that we have, at the resources that we have and make an estimate about how long it might take, and if there are costs and this kind of thing. So we'll see that during the policy development process, there will be a moment in which the RIPE NCC makes an impact analysis saying to the community in case this policy is accepted, we foresee this impact for our organisation.
So if you have any questions, if you have any doubt, if a proposal was already submitted, if there was an old policy in the past that is changed, how are the policies nowadays implemented, please come to me, I am here at the meeting and I am very happy to answer your questions.
Interestingly enough, at this meeting we have three policy proposals, one is in the security working group on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock and is submitting an idea, a new framework to handle abuse.
It's also giving a definition of abuse. And you might want to read the policy proposals, we have a dedicated page and you can make up your idea to see if you agree, if you have questions, if you want to discuss something on the mailing list about this proposal.
And then we have two policy proposals in the Address Policy working group, one is simplifying the address, sorry the assignment of the first AS number and one is giving some clarification for the IPv6 policy.
So I suggest you participate in these working groups. Again, if you have questions, you are more than welcome to ask. I wish you a very nice meeting and I hope to see more discussion and more participation about policy proposals because these are your policies and you have to take care of them.
And I give it back.
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MIRJAM KUHNE: Thank you Angela, and then as the next speaker we have Hans Petter Holen, the managing director of the RIPE NCC who will talk to you a little bit more about the other organisation, the RIPE NCC side of things, so, it starts there.
HANS PETTER HOLEN: So thank you for that, Mirjam.
You said your first RIPE meeting was RIPE 19, I think you beat me by three meetings or something like that, I have also been here for a long time, my first RIPE meeting was put to work at the first meeting as a scribe of the database working group, volunteering and taking part in the community, you have no idea where that will bring you in the end.
So, as Mirjam said, RIPE NCC formed in 1989 while in 1992, it was clear that the community needed a secretariat, so setting up a secretariat I think somewhere assessed to make sure there is lunch during the meeting and later on figuring out that oh, but we want to be a regional internet registry and that that in Europe because dealing with the US in a different time zone is complicated.
Some years later this was set up as a membership organisation, the first couple of years it was a project within the academic network organisation in Europe and it has grown to this organisation which is almost two hundred staff and it's overseen by an executive board elected by the members. And the RIPE NCC does not only provide lunch during the RIPE meetings any more, but we also provide services to members. So running the registry having a database of who is using which internet resources, so that anybody on the internet with an interest in figuring out who is at the other end to co‑ordinate the operational issues, that's part of the core of our mission.
But the people, the founders that set up the RIPE NCC also figured out in order to attract good talent and maintain a stable organisation, it's important to also do other interesting project.
So we have a lot of other services to date like measurement service and I will talk about those later and that was part was design from the beginning, we are not only a registry, we are a network co‑ordination centre.
So our vision is to together let's shape the future of the internet. So that's not a destination, you can't really tick off we are there, it's about doing this together, it's about the journey to shaping the internet of the future.
We have just approved in May or in July the board approved a new five year strategy, we presented it in May at the RIPE meeting then, where the strategic focus areas is registry accuracy and then internet resilience, scaleability and routing security, such as RPKI and IPv6 to scale the internet, data and insight, we collect a lot of data, we have data in the registry, we have data from the measurement service, how do we take that raw data and turn it into inside into reports.
Community partnership and trust. The reason we are a trustworthy organisation and that people want to listen to us is because of you, because of the community, because of the members. So we are here acting on your behalf and we need your input through policies and through open discussions so that we can inform decision makers around the world whether they are governmental organisations or others based on facts and based on the reality on the ground.
We also need a solid governance. So the board being elected by the members, having solid framework for policies and for procedures and so on and if you are a member, there is a general meeting this week and we are posing change to the articles of association and if you have questions about that, we have two people from the legal team here, Athina, the chief legal officer, so you can ask her if you have questions about that.
And then none of this will happen without staff so we also need engage the staff and agile execution culture because as with any large IT organisation, things like time.
So Mirjam mentioned a bit that we are not alone here. We have a sister organisation. So RIPE NCC was the first one that was formed and then APNIC originally in Japan but later moved to Brisbane in Australia was set up approximately the same time and then ARIN was formed after that and like 20, 25 years ago, LACNIC and later AfriNIC was formed and before they were set up, the RIPE NCC handled the northern part of Africa as well and ARIN handled LACNIC, so this has grown into five RIRs because that's what the community in these areas wanted.
So the registry: Already mentioned, we registered numbers to the IPv4 numbers and IPv6 numbers for the future and the scalable internet and the autonomous systems which each network needs in order to declare their own routing policy, we provide a RIPE database where we publish the allocations, we do to members but then also members can register their assignment to their customers. So we allocate and manage internet number resources through the LIR portal, it's a self service and we are working a lot on automating and providing more self service. We investigate hijacks and policy violations, we support and facilitate the policy development process as Angela just told you and about, we have a service to ensure secure routing so that you can sign a statement saying this address space can only be announced by this AS number.
I mentioned internet measurement. We collect measurements through a measurement network called RIPE Atlas which has 13,000 probes around the world. We collect BGP routes through RIS and you can look at this both through RIPE Stat and also through RIPE IP Map and new tools, which you can see the visualisaiton of here, AS paths and so on.
DNS, usually I say I only do numbers and not names but that's not quite true because early on when the connectivity across the Atlantic wasn't that great, it was decided we need a route name service on this side of the Atantic as well
K‑root, named after the founder Karrenberg, is one of the ‑‑ you didn't know that? No, that's some news for you as well.
And the Japanese is named after the one who was the lead of the project there. So the other ones aren't that obvious but there is some fun in the naming.
But the route if you don't know, the DNS when you look up a domain name to find.com or.BG or whatever, your RIS queries the root zone to look at that. The RIPE NCC operates what used to be one server but today is more than two hundred instances and you can see the dots here, if you are in a part of the world where you think that resilience of the network could increase by having root server, please feel free to reach out to our team to get a hosted root server instance there and there are 12 other operators, so you know it's not only dependent on the RIPE NCC, it's a vastly robust network with over 2,000 in total instances around the world.
Right database, I talked about that already, you can probably show accurate registration and information on number resources, so you can publish the administrative contact point, the technical content point and abuse point of contact, your street address and so on for your headquarters if and also for your customers if you delegate to them.
You can publish your routing policy there in the routing database which is part of the database, also this is more and more being replaced by RPKI as the digitally assigned framework for this.
This database facilitates co‑ordination between network operators, in my previous job I had an attack on my systems from on IP address, I can look up there and see that oh this was actually university in Tromso in Norway and I could call their responsible person there and ask hey, what's going on on, right, and that alerted him there was somebody broke into his system so he was eager to fix that, that's the whole purpose of this.
We also provide a very niche service called reverse domain name name services, if you have an IP dress and you wonder by domain name it's associated with, you look it up in reverse DNS, you type the addresses in the opposite order and then you may get in the domain name route of this, this was very important in the early days, doing remote log ins, the server would disconnect you unless you had it in place, today 99% of the internet is web, sorry it's probable me not quite that bad but almost, it may not be quite that important yet but it's for some services really important service.
And this database also enables research into network operations and topology, you can combine this data set with measurements and other things, LIR portal, I mentioned that, you can log in and update information yourself, make requests, open tickets to member services, you can view your billing and membership information. So yeah, we are sending out the invoices in January, February, so it's actually time to check that emails and contacts there is up to date before the end of the year.
Security routing with PQC and the new ASPA which not only tells you who can announce the addresses but also which parts parts it can take out side.
And you can access other RIPE NCC services and if you are a member, you can register for the general meeting and register to vote through that portal.
We do events like this, we organise RIPE meetings, two big meetings a year, the biggest ones are typically in western Europe, where we may have six to eight hundred people showing up. Then we try to spread across our whole region so southern Europe, Eastern Europe, there is usually not quite that many that shows up. And we contribute to public policy and internet governance discussions, I was at an ICANN meeting last week, we have been presence at internet governance forums and EuroDig and so on, we run a RIPE fellowship programme as Mirjam mentioned, we have a programme for researchers and mentoring programmes. So we are really trying to make sure that the average age of the community doesn't increase with one year per year, right, because we really want to keep that stable or some of us have a lot of grey hair and we are only getting older so we need somebody to replace us when we retire.
RIPE academy, training has since the beginning been an important part of the RIPE NCC as well. How to use our services, well our services should be easy to explain that you shouldn't have to have training courses in them but how to then use the RIPE database, how to do IPv6, how to use the measurements and tools and even internet governance if you want to look beyond the technical parts we talk about here, we have a training course on that so you can get a broader perspective on this.
RIPE Labs, if you want to contribute to the community and have something you want to share, you can probably share articles on RIPE Labs, it's not an academic journal that you will get credits for but it's, you know, a journal where you will reach like minded engineers across the service region and you can share your thoughts or research there if you want to. RIPE NCC staff, of course, publish a lot of things there, but it's really a platform for you guys to contribute.
As Mirjam introduced me, I am the managing director of the RIPE NCC, I was hired by the RIPE NCC board but I have an executive team that leads the organisation with me so I don't know how many are in the room, you can stand up and wave, got a board who is still in transit, Eleonara taking care of security, she's back home not really for the PHP that we had last week, that disturbed our work a bit. Hisham is over there, Athina, Sjoerd Wolthers, our chief technology officer, be nice to him, it's his first RIPE meeting, Simon looking after our money, chief financial officer and Daniella trying to look after and keep track on me, and Caroline is also back in Amsterdam looking after the RIPE NCC and staff while we are here if you have any questions feel free to approach me or of staff, the Chair is chair, Ondrej Philip and the sec, Peter Strzyweski and Raymond Jetten and Maria Hall, Sander Steffan and Randy Bush and Lars‑Johan, they are all here, Friel free to talk to them. General meeting on Wednesday only for members, you need to register and get the sticker on your badge in order to be let in.
And if you are on site collect your GM sticker on Tuesday and Wednesday from the GM help desk
There is a vote on changes to articles and so on and election of arbiters, this is done online so while the GM is on Wednesday, it continues all the time until Friday morning so people that are remote can have full two days to vote on and then the results are announced on Friday.
And if you have questions, you can send them to Agm@ripe.net for this. They have a support desk where we can help you with any of the things around your membership, we are also doing some user testing on the my resources page in the LIR portal to make it easier for you to use, pet transit our senior programme manager for the registry services is here. Antonella, our UX designer and Ed our database specialist is here and Ling An is learning experience designer is also doing testing on the RIPE academy, so if you have are interested in improving that, feel free to sign up for any of these one to one sessions in testing new ideas.
You can also do your certifications, after the training courses you can do your certification and get the certificate so that you can use that to your manager to, you know, improve your worth when you are discussing the salary adjustments next time. Or simply put on your BGP profile and LinkedIn profile, or simply have something, your linked profile, your BGP profile? That would be good, these courses are on three levels, you can start on the basic and go to advanced, the really top tier with three stars here. There's a newcomers lunch, look for tables labeled 'Newcomers Lunch' in the DaVinci Hall. And that was the end, are there any questions to me?
You can run to the microphone or you can ask them in the Q&A or maybe if ‑‑ if it's also clear you don't want to ask questions, that's OK. Thank you.
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MIRJAM KUHNE: Thank you. If you don't have any questions, we have questions for you and it's time for those of you who are used to this, we usually to do this, the voice from the off but this time we are doing it live on stage by Alistair who is going to run a Kahoot quiz with you to go through some of the things that we have just told you, so please, the stage is yours.
(Kahoot quiz) (Technical difficulties)
There you go everybody, we are all done. Joanna, you win. Oh wait, wait, wait!
(Kahoot quiz continues)
No one move!
(APPLAUSE.)
MIRJAM KUHNE: I have nothing to add, thank you so much, thanks to the speakers and I wish you a wonderful week and as Al said, there's a special lunch area with signs that says newcomers so you can sit there and mingle with each other or of course also with other RIPE meeting participants so yeah, enjoy, have a good week.
(APPLAUSE.)
Coffee break.