tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154129062024-03-05T06:14:01.312+01:00-hph — my personal blogIn addition to my day job at Visma - I spend time on following the global Internet Policy process on IP addressing in ICANN and the regional processes in RIPE.
I also have an interest in new technologies and open source solutions in particular.
This blog however - is purely personalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-20483124057353297022016-05-23T17:10:00.002+02:002016-05-23T17:10:12.738+02:00Thoughts on RIPE Chair Election<div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;">
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This note has been posted on RIPE Labs:<br />
<a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/draft-ripe-chair-election-procedure" target="_blank">Draft RIPE Chair Election Procedure</a><br />
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When Rob Blokzijl stepped down, he handed over the role as Chair of RIPE to me in the closing plenary of RIPE 68 in Prague, 16 May 2014. Rob had been the RIPE Chair for 25 years since 1989 and there has not been any procedure for selecting the Chair. Rob tasked me to put in place a procedure to elect my successor.</div>
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It has also come up during the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/surveys/ripe-ncc-consultations-report-2015/RIPENCCConsultationReport2015.pdf" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="">RIPE NCC Consultation Report</a>: </div>
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"In terms of transparency, respondents asked why there was no election to choose the new RIPE Chair. Respondents noted that they were very supportive of the new RIPE Chair but that they would have liked to have been involved in the process by which he was selected."</div>
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Looking back, the RIPE community have a couple election procedures already. The first one put in place was the procedure to elect the RIPE NCC Executive Board when RIPE NCC separated from TERENA and to become a separate legal entity. See the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-514" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="">RIPE NCC Articles of Association</a>, Article 9.1 Executive Board: Appointment, Suspension and Dismissal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />We are always careful to state that the RIPE community is bigger than the RIPE NCC membership - but the principles of the process has been established by the community - so we are not completely strangers to elections and voting. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Since then, we have also introduced voting to select the NRO NC members (serving as ICANN ASO Address Council). First time in 1999 when I was elected to the first Address Council - done by paper ballot for those present in the room at the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/ap/address-council-election-procedure" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="">RIPE Meeting at the time of the election</a>.</div>
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With the introduction of the Programme Committee, elections are done electronically, which draws more votes than the paper ballot in a room at the meeting. The introduction of electronic voting at the RIPE NCC General Assembly has also increased the number of votes significantly. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The essence of the RIPE NCC Executive Board election procedure is that there is an open call for nominations for no less than six weeks and closes three weeks before the election, and you need written support by five others in order to be nominated. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The remaining piece in the puzzle is to define “the RIPE community” in order to determine who can vote. As we are somewhat related to the IETF, we can go to their procedures and look at <a class="external-link" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3777" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a6496; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title=""><span class="external-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RFC 3777</span></a> which sets their criteria for being elected to their NOMCOM to participating in three out of the five last IETF meetings. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is however possible to participate in the RIPE community without being present at meetings. We may want to consider adding a criteria to include those participating on mailing lists. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In order to make the process well known in the community, I will suggest that we use the same process for both selecting the RIPE Chair and the NRO NC members. This has the advantage of reducing the number of different procedures to understand but it also gives us an opportunity to beta test the mechanics of the procedure before it is used for the RIPE Chair election. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, putting the pieces together, we get the following high level procedure:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 700px; padding: 0px;">Open call for nominations</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 700px; padding: 0px;">Electronic vote open to the RIPE community</li>
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I have discussed this with the RIPE NCC staff involved in the other elections and they have been kind to write a more detailed proposal.</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For the timeline, I propose the following:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 700px; padding: 0px;">Present the draft procedure at RIPE 72 in Copenhagen on 26 May 2016 </li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 700px; padding: 0px;">Use the process for selecting the NRO NC member at RIPE 73 in Madrid, October 2016</li>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Copenhagen, Denmark55.6760968 12.56833710000000855.532822800000005 12.245613600000008 55.8193708 12.891060600000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-74804436949167541362016-05-23T12:59:00.005+02:002016-05-24T17:26:22.043+02:00RIPE Chair Report May 2016<div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;">
The RIPE 72 meeting in Copenhagen is starting in one hour and I wanted to share some of my experiences since the last RIPE meeting in Bucharest in November 2015.<br />
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Shortly after the RIPE Meeting, I got the sad message that <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/rob-blokzijl-obituary">Rob Blokzijl had passed away</a>.
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My thoughts go back to the first RIPE Meeting I attended at NIKHEF. Rob quickly put me to work as scribe in one of the working groups, and from then I was drawn into the community. I will miss his concise interventions when discussions go off track, and cheerful chats in the corridors and at the social events.<br />
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"What would Rob have done" is a question I have found myself asking, and I could always get an answer from Rob.<br />
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But not any more.<br />
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Rob, you will be greatly missed in our community - but also remembered for a long time to come.
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The Internet in our part of the world would not have been the same without you.
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Internet New Year</h3>
After New Year's, I was invited to take part in the Chairpersons’ debate at the <a href="https://newyear.isoc.nl/"> Internet New Year Event in Amsterdam</a>.
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After others pointed to the IANA stewardship transition and technological developments, my take on this was that the ruling by <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf" target="_blank">The Court of Justice declaring that the Commission’s US Safe Harbor Decision was invalid </a><br />
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is the event that will have the biggest impact on the Internet for Europeans.
This ruling puts a limitation on the use of the open Internet across borders. This may present an opportunity for EU business to step up the competition against the US Cloud industry, and it may also bring back a more distributed computing model as a good alternative to the “Mainframe” style centralisation of the Cloud vendors.</div>
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Looking ahead, it is also interesting to look at the governments two faces. On one side, they want to protect us and our personal data. On the other side, they want to have full access to all our data through surveillance programmes.
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Later in January, the RIPE NCC invited me to a <a href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-roundtable-meeting-gathers-regulators-and-law-enforcement-in-brussels" target="_blank">Roundtable Meeting in Brussels</a>.
The topics covered included the evolving RIPE NCC membership, regulatory challenges surrounding the Internet of Things, the IANA stewardship transition, RIPE NCC coordination with law enforcement and government participation in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP).
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NIX</h3>
In February, the <a href="http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/nett/fastnett/nix/nix-mote-februar-2016/" target="_blank">Norwegian Internet Exchange held a meeting</a> in Oslo
where we heard about the lack of success with the regional Internet
exchanges in Norway as an attempt to generate more interest for regional
peering.
There was also an interesting presentation from the <a href="http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/nett/fastnett/nix/nix-mote-februar-2016/nix-meeting-feb-2016-public-sector-requirements.pdf" target="_blank">Norwegian Government, DIFI, making IPv6 mandatory in the public sector</a>.</div>
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My participation in the meeting was to facilitate a discussion to re establish a network operators group (NOG) in Norway. Jan Zorz gave an extensive presentation on his experiences in Slovenia. After a slow start on the following discussion, perhaps overwhelmed by the Slovenian NOG, it was clear that everybody was happy if NIX would put together two meetings a year, and in the end a couple of people volunteered to be part of the programme committee.<br />
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Mirjam Kühne from the RIPE NCC also gave a presentation on the <a href="http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/nett/fastnett/nix/nix-mote-februar-2016/nix-meeting-160204-ripe-ncc.pdf" target="_blank">RIPE NCC,Internet measurements and IXPs</a>.</div>
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ICANN 55</h3>
In March, I participated in ICANN 55 in Marrakech, Morocco as Chair Elect of the <a href="https://www.icann.org/nomcom2016" target="_blank">ICANN 2016 Nominating Committe</a>e.
As Chair Elect appointed by the ICANN Board, I get to assist the Chair and learn how to manage the process in preparation for chairing the committee next year.
If you are interested, you can follow the work through the “<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2016-report-cards-2015-11-12-en" target="_blank">Report Cards</a>”.
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MENOG 16</h3>
<a href="http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-16/" target="_blank">MENOG 16</a> took place in Istanbul, Turkey at the end of March. It was a good meeting with interesting presentations focusing on security topics
such as DDOS protection and mitigation. Elvis Velea presented on IP transfers and made an interesting reference to a presentation at the last APNIC meeting, indicating that needs-based IPv4 policies do not prevent transfers that cannot satisfy the needs criteria when the transfer contract is made. The contracts are simply formulated as a future option contract.<br />
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This is important for the community to take into account when making policies.
This is also the case with the ongoing discussion of the last /8 policy and the number of LIRs per member. It seems that no matter how we formulate the policy or membership rules, there will be ways to set up new legal entities to achieve the end result. While this will be against the intent of the current policy, it will be extremely difficult to prevent. There are policy proposals under discussion in the RIPE Address Policy Working Group, and the membership elements will be discussed in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group and in the RIPE NCC General Assembly.
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SEE5</h3>
I was unfortunately not able to go to the <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see-5" target="_blank">South East Europe (SEE) 5</a> in
Tirana, Albania due to work commitments.
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LACNIC 25</h3>
At the end of April, I went to <a href="http://www.lacnic.net/en/web/eventos/lacnic25-agenda" target="_blank">LACNIC 25</a> in Havana, Cuba. It was interesting to observe the different meeting style with close cooperation between the RIR, TLDs and Internet exchanges. It brought back memories from RIPE Meetings before CENTR and EURO-IX were established. This meeting also had a strong focus on security-related issues. Hard to follow in Spanish, but the translation was excellent.
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IANA Transition</h3>
Looking at the political landscape, it is worth mentioning that the
<a href="https://www.nro.net/news/updated-5-1-and-signature-version-of-the-sla-for-the-iana-numbering-services" target="_blank">SLA for the IANA numbering services</a> has been completed and is ready for signing. At the ICANN meeting the ICANN Board Chair Steve Crocker sent the
<a href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship" target="_blank">IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal and Enhancing ICANN AccountabilityRecommendations</a>
to the NTIA. The next steps of the process are now in hands of the US Government, but
there is also more work to be done in ICANN to prepare the implementation of the proposed strengthening of their accountability mechanisms.</div>
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ICANN CEO</h3>
It is also worth mentioning that Fadi Chehadé stepped down as ICANN
President and CEO and that his successor is <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2016-02-08-en" target="_blank">Göran Marby from Sweden</a>.
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in the end</h3>
I have also been invited to the RIPE NCC Executive Board meetings and have met with RIPE NCC staff at the events and in their office. On top of this, I have taken some trips in my day job at Visma to Sweden,Lithuania, Romania and Bergen and Trondheim (Norway), so I am beginning to know my way around the airport in Oslo during the construction works to extend the airport. Now I am looking forward to a successful RIPE Meeting here in Copenhagen.<br />
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<i>Hans Petter Holen</i></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Copenhagen, Denmark55.6760968 12.56833710000000855.532822800000005 12.245613600000008 55.8193708 12.891060600000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-45714338740904409712015-06-16T23:08:00.000+02:002016-05-23T00:02:42.191+02:00Norwegian Internet Exchange - NIX 3<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 14px;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kjetil Otter Olsen ved Universitetets Senter for Informasjonsteknologi ved Universitetet i Oslo inviterte til et møte for alle knyttet til de norske samtrafikkpunktene - Norwegian Internet Exchange (NIX) <a href="http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/nett/fastnett/nix/">http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/nett/fastnett/nix/</a>. Jeg var invitert som RIPE Chair og mangeårig deltager i Internet fora i Norge og resten av verden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kjetil ønsket velkommen til det 3. møtet siden NIX ble etablert en gang i 1993. Etter å ha beskrevet eksisterende akritektur med to samtrafiikkpuntker i Oslo, et i Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, og Tromsø, stilte han en del spørsmål til aktørene på NIX om hvordan sammtrafikkpunktet og tjenestene rundt dette skal utvikles videre.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">NIX bør tilby tilknytning på datasentrene isteden for dagens løsning der alle aktørene må leie egen fiber til NIX</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Etablere en referansegruppe der aktørene velger representanter som kan gi innspill til driften av NIX</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Regelmessige møter med aktørene 1-2 ganger i året. Etter modell fra NETNOD, gjerne i samarbeid med en nettverksopperatør gruppe</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">NIX bør styres mest mulig åpent og transparent, i første omgang ved å publisere regnskap for drift av NIX senere bør det vurderes ved å etablere en styringsstruktur som ikke avhenger av Universitetet i Oslo</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Et samarbeide med Netnod kan være en fornuftig vei å gå.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kurtis Lindkivst fra Netnod <a href="http://www.netnod.se/">http://www.netnod.se/</a> presenterte, på Ålandska, først Netnod og samarbeidet som er inngått med NIX. Netnod har samtrafikkpunkt i Stockholm, Malmø+København, Göteborg, Sundsvall og Luleå. Dagens arkitektur er en sentral switch i PTS sin fjellhall og Netnods eget DWDM nett på topp av leiet mørk fiber - der NetNod står som leietager.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Netnod vurderer å distribuere switchene til datasenterene - noe som vil være mer kostnadeseffektivt enn dagens akritektur.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kurtis fortsatte deretter med en presentasjon av Euro-IX</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tore Andersson fra Linpro fortalte om forskjellige teknikker for å implementer IPv6 og fordeler og ulemper med disse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her kom det spørsmål fra salen om holdinger til aktører som ikke tilbyr IPv6 og bruker NAT, samt synspunkter på kjøp og salg av IPv4 adresser. Det ble poengtert at det ikke var noe “gråmakred” men at kjøp og salg skjer i henhold til gjeldende policy og registreres hos RIPE NCC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Elise Lindeberg fra Norsk Kommunikasjonsmyndighet - Nkom nkom.no - tidligere Post og Teletilsynet fortalte om prosessen med overføring av styring av IANA funksjonen hos ICANN fra amerikanske myndigheter til en “Multistakeholder” modell der myndigheter ikke er enerådende. Elise har deltatt i "Cross Community Working Group (CWG) on Naming Relating Functions”, som har utarbeidet en rapport på over 200 sider og nå sist fredag publiserte sitt forslag. Den foreslåtte modellen er å skille ut IANA i et eget selskap som styres separat fra ICANN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Undertegnede la til at IANA har 3 funksjonsområder, Protokollparametre for IETF, Nummer for Regionale Internett Registere, slik som RIPE NCC og topp-nivå domenenavn som har vært fokus for Elises arbeide i CWG.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Merte Asak, leder i styret i Internet Society Norge satte fokus på sårbarhet og spurte aktørene om hvor mange som visste hva som kom til å skje i deres nett dersom NIXene sluttet å fungere. Hun påpekte at det er færre aktører på NIX 2 slik at denne ikke ville fungere som alternativ vei for annet enn de 7(?) aktørene som er tilknyttet både NIX1 og NIX2. Hennes forslag var å kartlegge dette sammen, og gjennomføre en øvelse. (Netnod deltar i beredskapsøvelser i Sverige, men så vidt jeg forstod Kurtis har de ikke gjennomført faktiske tester, annet enn når de har oppgradert infrastrukturen)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Frode Storvik fra Uninett presenterte forskningsnettet i Norge. UNINETTs arkitektur er etter bruddet på begge forbindelser nor for Saltfjellet i 2007 3 alternative fiberveier til hver region. Til Nord-Norge er den ene av de alternative veiene igjennom Sverige. Denne forbindelsen var det bruk for senest for et par uker siden - riktignok kun i noen få minutter. Til alle institusjonene er det to uavhengige tilknytninger. Forbindelse mellom Oslo og Trondheim var verdens første 100Gb forbindelse når denne ble etablert. I disse dager oppgraderes forbindelsene til Nordunet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Johan Foldøy Nkom fortalte om infrastrukturen til Nettfart, treder og åpne APIer. Nkoms fremtidige planer innen målinger i Internett for å tilfredsstille europeiske krav om målinger. De har i den forbindelse vurdert RIPE Atlas, men den dekker ikke kravene pr idag.</span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0St. Olavs plass 5, 0165 Oslo, Norway59.9176879 10.73955509999996143.231559399999995 -30.569038900000038 76.6038164 52.048149099999961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-78429366781295967242015-06-04T22:51:00.000+02:002015-11-10T22:55:48.863+01:00EuroDIG 15<br />
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<span class="s1">I was invited to <a href="http://www.eurodig.org/archives/eurodig15/" target="_blank">EuroDIG 15</a> in Sofia, Bulgaria, to participate in the opening panel on a Common digital market in Europe, representing the technical community. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The other panelists represented the Bulgarian Government, the EU commission, End Users and, I was representing the technical community. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Building a common digital market has some interesting technical aspects. First of all we want new players to be able to enter the market in the future. Both suppliers and consumers will need IP addresses to connect to the network. In the current IPv4 Internet this is getting increasingly difficult as there are very few IP addresses available for new players. This is solved by letting users share IP addresses. For both suppliers and consumers this will increase the cost and limit the services that can be provided. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">In government circles there is focus on broadband incentives, for instance for building fibre infrastructure. It is important that governments on all levels makes IPv6 a requirement for receiving governments funds. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">One of the questions from the audience was how we could trust services provided from other countries. This must largely be solved by common regulations and consumer protection mechanisms, but again there are technical solutions that can help increase trust and reduce fraud. One such technology is DNSSec. A solution where responses to name queries are signed to reduce the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">One of the challenges in introducing new technology like IPv6 or DNSSec is to communicate the advantages in a way that the users understand and request the service from their service providers. In some countries like Sweden the country code registry has promoted the use of DNSSec in order to speed up deployment. </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Sofia, Bulgaria42.6977082 23.32186750000005342.3239182 22.676420500000052 43.0714982 23.967314500000054tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-30736477607994998312015-05-07T20:18:00.000+02:002015-05-08T15:53:18.337+02:00RIPE Chair Report May 2015<h3>
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RIPE 70 is just around the corner and I am writing this summary of my activities from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia where I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Communications and Information Technology Commission - CITC which were organising the IPv6 forum here in Saudi Arabia.
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I was invited as one of the keynote speakers and talked about how communities in the RIPE region drive the global IPv6 deployment. By writing IPv6 best practices, bringing people together and sharing knowledge and experience. The slides can be found at <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/HansPetterHolen/high-level-strategies-to-sucessful-i-pv6-success-stories" target="_blank">High Level Strategies to IPv6 success stories</a>.</div>
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I was also presenting at the SEE4 in Belgrade on the topic of <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/HansPetterHolen/see4-ripe-vs-ripe-ncc-from-the-beginning-to-after-the-ntia-transition" target="_blank"> RIPE vs RIPE NCC from the beginning to after the NTIA transition</a>. </div>
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Walking trough the history of RIPE and RIPE NCC, the CRISP proposal and how the values of RIPE, bottom-up, open and inclusive, are reflected in the proposal. Simply speaking we move from a structure where the IANA operator operates under a contract with the US Governments to a structure where the IANA Numbering Services operator would operate under a contract with the RIRs as mandated by, and under oversight of, their members and communities.
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Imprinting the bottom-up structure is in my opinion very important for the future success of the Internet.
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The CRISP team, with Nurani Nimpuno, Andrei Robachevsky and Paul Rendek has <a href="https://www.nro.net/news/final-proposal-crisp" target="_blank">completed its proposal</a> that has been submitted to the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group
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and a team of legal experts from the RIRs have prepared a <a href="https://www.nro.net/news/call-for-comments-for-a-draft-sla-for-the-iana-numbering-services" target="_blank">SLA which is posted for comments.</a></div>
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There will be an opportunity to discuss this on <a href="https://ripe70.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/#tue4" target="_blank">Tuesday evening</a> after Chris Buckridge´s presentation on Next steps for the RIPE community. </div>
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IETF Helpdesk
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In the CRISP process it has become quite clear that we have a lot in common with the IETF community and that it to some extent overlaps with the RIPE community. At RIPE 70 we will do an experiment with an IETF Helpdesk so RIPE community members have a chance of meeting IETF participants and learn more about the IETF process. Please let us know trough the meeting survey if you think this was useful or not.
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Working-group Chairs </h3>
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As usual we have planned a lunch for the chairs on Thursday with the following <a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/cc/agenda/draft-ripe-70-working-group-chair-meeting-agenda" target="_blank">draft agenda</a>: </div>
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I. Welcome/Intro</div>
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VI. RIPE 71 Meeting Plan</div>
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Being Chair for the RIPE community brings me to different events in the region. I am unfortunately not able to attend all the events. After RIPE 69 in London I have been participating in the following events:</div>
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<li><a href="https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2014/minutes-97th-executive-board-meeting" target="_blank">Executive board meeting</a> & RIPE NCC Christmas party</li>
<li>Internet New Years event, Amsterdam</li>
<li><a href="http://singapore52.icann.org/en/" target="_blank">ICANN 52</a>, Singapore</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2015/minutes-98th-executive-board-meeting" target="_blank">Executive Board meeting</a> & local community meeting, Beirut</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2015/minutes-99th-executive-board-meeting" target="_blank">Executive Board meeting</a> & <a href="http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-15/" target="_blank">MENOG15, Dubai</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/see-4" target="_blank"><span id="goog_1638898034"></span>SEE4<span id="goog_1638898035"></span>, Belgrade</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ipv6.sa/" target="_blank">IPv6 National Forum Saudi Arabia</a>, Riyadh</li>
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In addition to the selection of an ICANN board member by the NRO NC acting as the ASO AC the numbering community has some influence on the board members selected by the ICANN 2015 NOMCOM. The ASO AC appoints a member of this committee that selects board members, ccNSO, At-Large and GNSO members. The deadline for nominations was 15. March and the 2015. NOMCOM members are busy evaluating the nominations. More details on the current status can be found in the latest <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-card-04apr15-en.pdf" target="_blank">NOMCOM report.</a></div>
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Two of the other RIRs have appointed new CEOs:
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<li>LACNIC appointed<a href="https://www.nro.net/news/oscar-robles-appointed-lacnics-new-executive-director" target="_blank"> Oscar Robles as Executive Director</a></li>
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After Raul Echeberria joined <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-announces-ra%C3%BAl-echeberr%C3%ADa-vice-president-global-engagement" target="_blank">ISOC as Vice President for Global engagement</a> last year and Adiel Akplogan joined <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-04-en" target="_blank">ICANN as VP of technical engagement</a></div>
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An observation from all the meetings is that our region is still quite diverse and that the communities are at very different maturity levels. In some parts of the region we are more than happy to, and have the ability to travel to the RIPE meetings, but in other parts there are barriers to this.</div>
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We need to recognise our cultural differences and continue to work together to build a strong Internet not only in our region but also on the global level. </div>
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We should keep in mind that our core mission is technical coordination, but we also need to interact with other Internet Governance initiatives to teach them what we are doing and learn from them what they are doing.</div>
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Thank you RIPE NCC</h3>
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Last but not least, I would not have been able to participate in all these events without the excellent support from the RIPE NCC staff. Travel support, presentation material, briefing and not to forget the organization of the meetings all together. Without their hard and dedicated work the RIPE community would not have achieved what we have today.
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Riyadh Saudi Arabia24.633333 46.71666700000002923.710293 45.425773500000027 25.556373 48.007560500000032tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-31584295329895977532015-03-01T11:43:00.000+01:002015-03-01T21:38:55.354+01:00Looking back at 2014<div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2014 was an active and interesting year with regular <a href="https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-developments/ripe-ncc-report-on-igf-2014" target="_blank">IGF</a>, ICANN and RIR meetings. In Busan ITU organized their <a href="https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-developments/itu-plenipotentiary-2014-ripe-ncc-report" target="_blank">Plenipotentiary conference</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, which only happens every 4 years. A completely new initiative, the <a href="http://netmundial.br/" target="_blank">NETMundial</a>, was created, by among others the Brazilian Government. While NETMundial demonstrated an alternative to the traditional multilateral way to International policies, it also left <a href="http://www.russiaun.ru/en/news/rus_nigm" target="_blank">Russia in particular expressing concern</a> with the outcome. China on the other hand have engaged in ICANN and even organized the first <a href="http://blog.apnic.net/2014/11/26/event-wrap-world-internet-conference/" target="_blank">World Internet Conference in Wuzhen</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the numbering community we have seen a growth in the <a href="https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/listing/listing-services-page" target="_blank">address-transfer</a> market - a natural development in a market with scarcity, but a big change from the collaborative spirit of the early years of the internet, when addresses resources was a common which we shared based on documented need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The biggest surprise of all was <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions" target="_blank">the announcement of the NTIA</a> to finally step out of <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/iana-functions-purchase-order" target="_blank">the contract with ICANN</a>. It is worth looking back at what happened before ICANN was established: the <a href="http://www.iana.org/" target="_blank">IANA function</a> was run by ISI at USC in California funded by the US Government. When there were uncertainties of the funding, the Numbering community contributed money to keep the IANA running. This was instrumental to get ICANN started. At the same time the Clinton administration was looking for ways to make investments in Internet services more attractive to investors in order to boost the US Economy, and ICANN was created as an “Industry self-regulation" body. It was a clear understanding that the US Government, at some point, would step out of its role. Now 15 years later we were all taken by surprise, not that it would happen, but that it happened right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As a result of this we have spent the year discussing "what now?". What do we propose as an alternative to the NTIA contract with ICANN, for the operation of the IANA function? We formed a team: <a href="https://www.nro.net/news/iana-stewardship-consolidated-rir-iana-stewardship-proposal-team" target="_blank">Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal Team - CRISP</a> to produce a proposal based on the principles discussed and agreed in the regions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After creating the proposal trough an open process at the <a href="https://www.nro.net/pipermail/ianaxfer/" target="_blank">ianaxfer mailing list</a> and open phone-calls. The proposal was reviewed by the community before it was finalized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is in principle very similar to the proposal submitted by the IETF developed by the <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ianaplan/charter/" target="_blank">ianaplan working group</a>. The name community, seems to have much harder job putting together their proposal. The <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ianaplan/charter/" target="_blank">Cross Community Working Group (CWG= to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions</a> is still working.</span></div>
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The Norwegian Regulator - “Post og Teletilsynet” invited to a national Internet Governance Forum on December 9th in Oslo. On the agenda there were reports from the Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul by Ørnulf Storm from the regulator, the ITU Plenipotentiary in Busan by Knut Aksel Wadet from the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the IANA transition, both on the names side by Elise K. Lindeberg from the regulator, and the numbers side by me in my role as RIPE Chair, and a talk on Internet Governance in the perspective of International politics by Bjørn Svenungsen form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the end there were a panel debate on “Who should control the Internet”.</div>
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The meeting was opened by Reynir Johannesson, political adviser from the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications. He gave a brief overview of the key areas in Internet governance for this governments: Network Neutrality, Openness and Security. He also drew lines between transportation and telecommunications politics; as increased ability for remote work and collaboration can reduce the pressure on public transportation. Internet Governance also touches on defence areas and foreign policy. The Government is also working on a revised eKom plan.</div>
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<li>MAG will focus on how the results from IGF, NETMundial and ITU-PP can contribute to the preparations for the 2015 IGF</li>
<li>Extension of IGF and WISIS-10 review is under discussion in UN in New York in connection with resolution on ICT for development and the preparation for WISIS+10 Review High Level Conference in December 2015</li>
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For more details he referred to<br />
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<li><a href="http://intgovforum.org/cms/documents/igf-meeting/igf-2014-istanbul/308-igf-2014-chairs-summary-final/file" target="_blank">the Chair´s summary</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/mag-chair-s-blog" target="_blank">Chair blog</a> </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h3>
ITU Plenipotentiary</h3>
<div>
Knut Aksel Wadet then took us trough the key areas of internet governance issues from the International Telecommunication Unions Plenipotentiary meeting in Busan. After an overview of the ITU and the Plenipot, and the elections, he took us trough the work in the committees:</div>
<ul>
<li>New headquarters</li>
<li>Budget and strategy for 2016-2019</li>
<li>Revision of constitution and convention - in particular the work on a stable constitution</li>
<li>Public access to ITU-documents</li>
<li>Reforming the work on the Radio regulations board RRB</li>
<li>IMAC (Independent Management Advisory Committee)</li>
<li>Global flight tracking</li>
</ul>
<div>
to give an impression of the Non-Internet related discussions at the conference.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
He then went on to discuss the Internet related resolutions:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Resolution 101: Internet Protocol-based networks:</b></div>
<div>
Proposal to give ITU a role in IP address allocations and Internet Exchange Points and that members states to prevent illegal surveillance of the Internet. In the end it was agreed that ITU will not duplicate the work done by the RIRs or the organisations already supporting IXPs</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b></div>
<div>
<b>Resolution 102: The ITU's role with regard to international public policy issues pertaining to the Internet and the management of Internet resources, including domain names and addresses:</b></div>
<div>
The proposal was that all “public policy” issues in related to Internet Governance should be within ITU and the jurisdiction of the member states. The European proposal was that this should be done in open and transparent, with increased cooperation with other relevant bodies.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b>Resolution 133: Role of administrations of Member States in the management of internationalized (multilingual) domain names:</b></div>
<div>
The proposal for the ITU to take a leading role in developing domain-names in other languages than English. Several states would not recognise the work done by ICANN because it had not been done by the ITU. The European position was to increase cooperation with other organisations to strengthen the multi-stakeholder model.</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b></div>
<div>
<b>Resolution 180: Facilitating the transition from IPv4 to IPv6:</b><br />
The proposal was that ITU should have a leading role in the development of Internet standards and make sure that all new user equipment are IPv6 compatible. There was also a proposal to conduct studies to establish ITU as a RIR ad that ITU should develop deadlines and principles to ease the transition to IPv6. In the end the resolution was changed so it was clear that developing countries still needs assistance to complete the transition to IPv6, and that ITU shall acknowledge the work already done. Member states are encouraged to increase focus on IPv6</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
In the end the results turned out pretty well.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h3>
Who should control the Internet? - IANA Stewardship transition</h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Elise Lideberg has been participating in ICANN Government Advisory committee, and is now active in the Cross-Community Working-group to Develop and IANA Stewardship Proposal on Naming Related Functions (CWG). After an overview of the current situation with a contract between the United States Government (USG) and ICANN, and USGs announcement to consider transitioning out of this contract she gave an overview of the CWG.</div>
<ul>
<li>stability of the IANA naming functions</li>
<li>part of the bigger picture of ICANN accountability</li>
<li>broad representation for the Internet community (within ICANN)</li>
<li>CWG has 19 members, but 119 participants following the work</li>
<li>Clear mandate, tight deadlines, final proposal by January 31st 2015</li>
<li>Accountability is key focus</li>
<li>the Multistakeholder model is built on trust - fragile mechanism.</li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The draft proposal has been built on </div>
<ul>
<li>IANA customers are satisfied with todays services from IANA - no significant changes in the daily operations are needed</li>
<li>Keeping current terms and conditions for the ccTLDs</li>
<li>Lightweight structure has been a goal, using existing functions from </li>
<li>Important to keep and strengthen separation between policy development and the pure technical operations of the IANA function</li>
<li>Importan to keep a mechanism for sanctions if ICANN/IANA does not deliver the services according to policies</li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The proposal outlines</div>
<ul>
<li>Customer Standing Committee (CSC) consisting of direct customer of the IANA function including ccTLD and gTLD registries. Monitor the IANA service delivery.</li>
<li>Multistakeholder Review Team (MRT) - representation from the Multistakeholder community. Overall evaluation of the ICANN/IANA. May initiate termination or changes to the contract.</li>
<li>Contract Co - be the contracting party.</li>
<li>Independent Appeals Panel (IAP) - all ICANN/IANA desicions regarding the root-zone or the Whois database can be appealed to an independent dispute-resolution mechanism outside ICANN for binding decisions. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #00365f;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/HansPetterHolen/igf-norway-2014-1209" target="_blank">IANA Stewardship Transition</a></span></span></span></h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
In my presentation on IANA Stewardship from the Number community side I took the audience trough a brief history lesson explaining the difference between RIPE - the open policy forum, and RIPE NCC - as the secretariat, network coordination centre - and also Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The RIPE Policy development process is anon process where anybody can suggest new policy and policy changes. The policy is the discussed in the relevant working-group, before the wg-chair declares consensus after a last call. The RIPE NCC Executive board does NOT approve policy - there is a clear separation between policy making and policy implementation.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
RIPE NCC, and the other RIRs, have a Governance and accountability framework in place. This can be found at <a href="https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/rir-accountability">https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/rir-accountability</a> In simple terms the Managing Director is accountable to the board, which in term is accountable to the members. trough the General Meeting. For conflicts between members and the RIPE NCC there is an arbitration process in place. For policy development we have the Bottom-UP, Open and Inclusive RIPE.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
IANA handles a small global registry of IPv6, IPv4 and ASNs - to keep track of which RIR handles different parts of the number-space according to 4 Global addressing policies. These policies has been developed trough a Global Policy development process which in essence is taking the same proposal trough all the regional policy processes. In the end the Address Supporting Organisation Address Council - ASO AC checks that the process has been followed and forwards to the ICANN board for ratification. The ICANN board cannot change the policy - only send it back - so the role of the ICANN board is very different from the name policies.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The discussion on the transition is taking place in all five regions. A Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) Team has been set up to consiolidate the five RIR community outputs into a single proposal. The team consists of 15 members, 3 form each region - 2 from the community and one staff from each RIR. The CRISP team will work transparently trough a public mailing list. The CRISP team will forward the common proposal to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG). The ICG - 30 members from various stakeholder groups - is responsible for consolidating all inputs into a single proposal. The timeline for the process is tight,, the CRISP proposal will be forwarded to the ICG in January and to NTIA in June 2015.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
From the last RIPE meeting the following key principles will be the foundation of the proposal</div>
<ul>
<li>RIR communities are the ultimate stewards of number policy and registration.</li>
<li style="display: inline; list-style: none;"><ul>
<li>A working model already in place</li>
<li>Bottom-up, open and inclusive</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>No new structures; build on existing structures and relationships</li>
<li style="display: inline; list-style: none;"><ul>
<li>Operational and policy relationships already clearly defined</li>
<li>Minimal operational change</li>
<li>ICANN has provided excellent service as IANA operator</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The information of the transition has been presented at the RIPE and RIPE NCC Regional meetings. A summary</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Please participate in the process!</div>
<div>
<a href="https://www.ripe.net/iana-discussions">https://www.ripe.net/iana-discussions</a><br />
<br />
My slides can be found at <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/HansPetterHolen/igf-norway-2014-1209" target="_blank">SlideShare</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h3>
<span style="color: #00365f; font-family: Arial;">Internet Governance as foreign policy</span></h3>
<div>
<div>
Bjørn Svennungsen took us trough how the Internet of things bringing the Internet to everybody’s attention, Obama and Xi initiate talks to tackle cybersecurity, and further to the Russian statement on Internet Governance:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<i>I do not understand, why an intergovernmental organisation – the International Telecommunication Union, deals with the distribution of radio frequencies, but internet domains are distributed by a Californian corporation controlled by the United States Department of Commerce.</i></div>
<div>
<i>Sergey Lavrov, 5. desember 2013</i></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The Norwegian Government point of view is that</div>
<ul>
<li>Cyberpolicy and Internet governance should not be decided by United Nations</li>
<li>International law also applies to the cyber-space</li>
<li>There is currently no need for separate conventions for cyber-space</li>
</ul>
<div>
He also touched upon the democratic dilemmas in in Internet Governance and foreign policy in general.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The current trends in foreign policy in cyber-space is that it is under development, there are many arenas, multilateral vs multi-stakeholder, US dominance and China, private sector entering the foreign policy arena, and technology turing into policy.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The meeting ended with a panel of all the presenters giving us opportunity to discuss some of the key issues that had been presented during the day.</div>
</div>
<div>
<br />
<div>
<b>Summary</b></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
All in all it was a well spent day, with interesting perspectives and some good discussions. As internet Governance is increasingly important to society as a whole, and more and more business depend on the Internet, events like the National Internet Governance forum in Norway should really have a much larger participation. A friendly suggestion to the organisers wold be to see how participation can be significantly increased, perhaps by joining forces with some of the industry organisations and creating a “Multistakeholder Advisory Group” like the Internet Governance Forum.</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Oslo, Norway59.9138688 10.75224539999999359.658993300000006 10.106798399999992 60.1687443 11.397692399999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-10120379644681467242014-10-31T22:28:00.004+01:002014-11-02T16:02:45.245+01:00RIPE Chair report October 2014<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like to share with you what I have been doing as RIPE Chair
since the last RIPE meeting in Warsaw in may now that the RIPE 69 meeting in
London is just some days away.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The agenda for the RIPE meeting as been published at <a href="https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/"><span style="color: #042eee;">https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Program committee has done a very good job in putting together a
program for the week, all working-groups have published their agendas, and most
working-groups have started working on wg-chair procedures as agreed at the
last wg-chairs meeting.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The working-group chairs will meet as usual for lunch on Thursday. The
agenda for this meeting can be found at</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #042eee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/agenda/ripe-69-working-group-chair-meeting-agenda"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/agenda/ripe-69-working-group-chair-meeting-agenda</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As RIPE Chair I am invited as an observer to the RIPE NCC exec board
meetings in order to coordinate activities between RIPE and the RIPE NCC. There
have been board meetings in June and September and minutes of the meetings are
posted at <a href="http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2014"><span style="color: #042eee;">http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2014</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The theme of my first half-year as Chair, and before that as Deputy
Chair, has been to get to know the community better, trough participating in
regional meetings.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MENOG 14 in Dubai, UAE<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SEE 3 in Sofia, Bulgaria <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ENOG 7, Moscow, Russia<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ENOG 8, Baku, Azerbaijan</span></li>
</ul>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These meetings have given me a better view of the
current issues in our region. While we in Western and Northern Europe have a multitude
of Internet exchanges to improve regional and national connectivity, there are
challenges in the Middle East and further east. International connectivity is
also a challenge - limited by available international fiber, and with higher
cost than in areas with more competition between fiber providers. Privacy
issues were high on the agenda at ENOG. There was a lively discussion on how to
deal with government request. It is great to see the participation of these
meetings, both in numbers and in content. The technical discussions in the
meeting and the corridors, to exchange ideas and solve problems.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The RIPE NCC also does outreach to governments in our region. I
participated at the High-level meeting in Brussels the RIPE NCC arranged in
close cooperation with CENTR, as well as a Law enforcement meeting earlier this
year in London.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During the summer I went to Toronto Canada for IETF 90, my primary
interest was the discussions on the IANA transition. In addition I attended
most of the Operational track.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The NRO Number Council appointed me to the ICANN NomCom for 2014 and we
completed our work and appointed ICANN board members as well as ALAC, GNSO and
ccNSO council members.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The report from the 2014 NomCom can be found at <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-16oct14-en.pdf"><span style="color: #042eee;">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-16oct14-en.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the was also an urgent appointment of a board member to replace <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-10-15-en" target="_blank">Olga Madruga-Forti who stepped down unexpectedly</a> during the ICANN week. I was not able to participate
in this appointment due to less than 24 hours notice for the meeting.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The NomCom also conducted a peer review of our contributions to the
committee. The report from this has been published</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #042eee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/360-review-members-15oct14-en.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/360-review-members-15oct14-en.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Number Council was kind enough to reappoint me to the 2014 Non-com,
which started its work with a two day meeting following the ICANN meeting in
Los Angeles. The call for nominations will be out shortly. This year the NomCom
will be appointing 3 board members. Looking at the board composition there is
particular need for board members from the African region and the Latin
American region, but good candidates from Europe are also welcome.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The NRO NC will in addition to the NomCom appointments, appoint one
board member, see the announcement at <a href="https://www.nro.net/news/aso-ac-call-for-nominations-for-seat-9-on-the-icannboard"><span style="color: #042eee;">https://www.nro.net/news/aso-ac-call-for-nominations-for-seat-9-on-the-icannboard</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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broader sense I have participated in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EuroDig, Berlin Germany<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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of the IANA function. ICANN had a strong presence at IGF and there were several
good discussions on how ICANN accountability can be improved. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 in Busan, Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Communication invited me to participate on the Norwegian delegation at the ITU
Plenipotentiary 2014 conference in Busan, with the trip funded by the RIPE
NCC. The RIPE NCC is a sector member of the ITU-D and participating with its
own delegation with Chris, Maxim and Chadic.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are excellent reports from the meeting by Samantha Dickinson at <a href="http://linguasynaptica.com/"><span style="color: #042eee;">http://linguasynaptica.com/</span></a> as
well as live twitter updates, see #Plenipot14</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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the RIPE Chair has been doing since the last meeting.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-28623342499891399432014-10-24T08:00:00.000+02:002014-10-31T22:26:52.923+01:00RIPE WG Chair procedures <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the topics that had been discussed among the RIPE Working-group chairs for a while when I joined as Deputy Chair, was procedures for electing and replacing chairs. There was a draft text, but had not been an agreement before the RIPE 67. Some still thought more detail should be added, some think it was to descriptive. The wg-chairs decided to form a task force, with Brian Nisbet as coordinator and Ondrej Filip, Nick Hillard and me as members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The minutes from<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"> </span><a class="internal-link" href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/summaries/ripe-67-working-group-chair-meeting-summary" style="color: #5a7ccf; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="">Working Group Chairs Meeting at RIPE 67</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"> specifies the objective of the group as:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"<i>- The task force should look at the final document, give it some editing as needed, and have the RIPE Chair publish it on the ripe-list with an explanation and a deadline of one month.</i>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The proposal by the task force was circulated to the RIPE Working Group Chairs Mailing List, but there was no consensus to suggest this as a common proposal for all the working groups.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">The matter was further discussed at the</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"> </span><a class="internal-link" href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/summaries/ripe-68-working-group-chair-meeting-summary" style="color: #5a7ccf; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="">Working Group Chairs meeting at RIPE 68</a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">, and while there was no consensus on the proposed text, there was consensus that we should have written procedures for this. Hence the following conclusion referred in the minutes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"<i>- The Collective agreed to work with their respective WGs to establish a procedure for replacing WG Chairs.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>- The minimum requirements are that each WG should have its own procedures, that these should be written down, that this should be done by the next RIPE Meeting and executed at the end of that meeting.</i>"</span><br />
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This is also more in line with the "bottom-up" principle of RIPE, each working-group agrees on their own procedures. If the procedures turn out to be similar we can later reopen the discussion on<br />
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<a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/summaries/task-force-proposal-on-procedures-to-deal-with-the-tenure-of-ripe-working-group-chairs" target="_blank">The proposal from the Task Force</a> has since then been published.<br />
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-42599231670505051132014-06-10T11:36:00.000+02:002014-08-29T11:59:08.192+02:00PT forum - annual norwegian regulators forum<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.npt.no/" target="_blank">The Norwegian regulator</a> invites to <a href="http://www.npt.no/aktuelt/kalender/pt-forum--11870" target="_blank">a yearly forum for the telecom industry in Norway</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The regulator was relocated to the small city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillesand" target="_blank">Lillesand</a> some years back, and hour by plane from Oslo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">There were some 100 participants in the forum - limited by the venue - making the event rather exclusive with CEOs and key management from the larger telecom players in Norway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The minister of <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/sd.html?id=791" target="_blank">telecom and transportation</a> Ketil Solvik Olsen, with his political advisor, as well as staff from the ministry participated the whole day - not only trough the welcoming speech. Without any political bias I think it is a good sign from the new minister that he takes time to learn from the industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The keynote was from professor <a href="http://www.nhh.no/en/research-faculty/department-of-economics/sam/cv/norman--victor-d.aspx" target="_blank">Victor D. Normann, NHH</a>. He was trying to find how mobile communications influences the national economy. He took us trough the history of tele-communications from telegraph until present and made a good point that the biggest leaps was probably in the past, moving from the pony-express to telegraph, making it possible to communicate faster than the train, and saving double track on the line. The more recent leaps did not have similar impacts, but have made electronic communication a commodity which have caused an explosion in the volume of the communication, but also a reduction in the value of individual messages. In his analysis he looked at different impact on the national economy and tried to quantify these, but was surprisingly enough not able to find a direct impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Moving the the presentation from the industry played, the first presentation was from <a href="https://www.ice.no/" target="_blank">ICE.net </a>and their owners Access Industries, who to everybodys suprise won part of the 4G spectrum in the recent auction. ICE.net has been providing a data only service in the 450Mhz stated their plan to launch LTE across the different frequencies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The main topic of the event was clearly 4G and frequencies. Several of the providers present graphs on growth showing that 4G LTE had, or would soon, pass 2G & 3G in volume. In one of the network </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Two of the providers, <a href="http://www.lyse.no/" target="_blank">Lyse</a> and <a href="http://www.telenor.com/" target="_blank">Telenor</a> talked a bit about fibre. For Lyse - a fibre only provider set up by an electricity company, the focus now is to introduce more services in their network (besides Internet, TV and Telephony) a Smart house product Smartly will be launched this autumn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">From Telenor the most interesting part of the presentation was on the redundancy and resiliency in their Network. Berit Svendsen, managing director of Telenor Norway, showed and spoke passionately about the double and triple redundancy in the national backbone and the regional rings. The challenge is the access network were serious incidents like fire, flooding av avalanches have caused whole communities to be without connection for days. I guess we have our geography to thank for the challenges in this area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">In his closing speech Torstein Olsen, director of the NPT addressed the changing times the regulator is going trough. This is the only time the importance of numbers (phone numbers) and IP addresses was mentioned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">So my key takeaway from this event is that the Technical coordination work done by RIPE and the RIPE NCC is done so well that is it not on the radar of major Internet and telecommunication managers in Norway.</span>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Lillesand, Norway58.248970500000013 8.377625500000021958.215551500000011 8.2969445000000217 58.282389500000015 8.4583065000000222tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-43483141456626046042014-05-16T12:00:00.000+02:002014-08-29T22:58:23.081+02:00RIPE Chair - Rob handing over "the Internet"<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The handover from RIPE Chair trough 25 years, Rob Blokzijl took place at the end of the closing plenary on Friday 16. May 2014 at RIPE 68 in Warsaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The chairman of RIPE never had a gavel or any other symbolic tools to conduct this duties. The ceremony was instead inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg" target="_blank">the IT Crowd, to hand over “the Internet” </a>(and the legacy space).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The event can be enjoyed in full <a href="https://ripe68.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/plenary/#fri1" target="_blank">at the RIPE 68 meeting archives</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">In the <a href="https://ripe68.ripe.net/archives/video/260/" target="_blank">video</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">starting at around 19 minutes into the recording.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">As a reminder for the future I have made a transcript of my first speech as RIPE Chair.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Thank you very much for this Rob.</span></i>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Its a great challenge, - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Its indeed big shoes to fill, - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I realize that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I have been here for some 20 years I think. At first setting up two of the first LIRs in Norway in the beginning of the 1990s. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Getting IP addresses then, was just as important as it is now to run our Network.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">But I sincerely think that this community is about much more than the addresses and the registry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Its a great venue and great place to meet and exchange ideas, and to cooperate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I think that is one of the very important things that I will work, to contribute to, to make sure that we keep it like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">It is not just about keeping the phonebook of IP addresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">We are a community that are here to make things happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I am a strong proponent of the openness, and the inclusiveness and bottom up processes that we have had in this region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I really think it is important to make sure that not only we as this community, but that also the Internet stays open as a vehicle for communication for everybody.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">That has been an important pa and driver for me in my work. At university with the UUCP node, getting a connection to Russia in the days when the Soviet Union was falling a part. That is some of the things that sort of triggered me to stay in this community, to help make sure we have an Internet for people to communicate, even in politically unstable times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">So, what about the next 25 years?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Well, since the term of chairman ship here is 25 years, I should probably have a 25 year plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Well, Rob already challenged me that there should be a procedure to replace me. I do not think I will work on that the first three months. But during the next couple years that is something that we need to get in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">We are working on a procedure to select and replace working group chairs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Thats been delegated to the working groups, to go trough a bottom up process. And I think, that is really also for all you to think about. I am your chair, to serve you, and I am accountable to you, so you need to tell me what you expect from me. I think that is important rather than me telling you what to do. That is part of this community´s spirit .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Other than that I think that we have an interesting challenge ahead of us: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">How to migrate to IPv6?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">How do we do that collectively?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">How do we make sure that the network stays open and transparent for end to end communication for the coming years?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">We are running out of IP addresses, so IP address distribution policy for IPv4 is less and less important, but registering who has which addresses is going to be more important, and certification as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I think we are going to change our focus as a community a bit, from addresses this type, that type. “All addresses are equal" as it has been said here. We need to figure out how to keep a strong and good registry so we know who has the right to use, or is using, which addresses. So we are not subject to highjacking and other things like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Other than that, I look forward to hearing from you, what you expect from me for the coming years, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I will try to go to most of the regional meetings in this region and of course all the RIPE meetings, so I really look forward to seeing you again there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Warsaw, Poland52.2296756 21.01222870000003751.9184766 20.366781700000036 52.5408746 21.657675700000038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-79393249171420099442013-10-05T18:00:00.000+02:002014-08-29T22:58:58.403+02:00Deputy RIPE Chair - preparing for the futureDear Collegues,<br />
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I am quite humble when looking at the challenge ahead of me as Chair of the RIPE Community. Rob has done a tremendous job since the formation of RIPE 25 years ago. I see it as a great challenge to live up to the expectations from the RIPE community. We as a community are in an excellent position to further excel our role of technical internet coordination in our region. RIPE has been for 25 years been working with the fundamental principles of openness, bottom-up processes and inclusiveness, and I will do my very best to make sure it stays this way in the future.<br />
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Following the RIPE 67meeting in Athens last October, I have spent some time with Rob, Axel and Nigel discussing the matters at hand for the community.<br />
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As the Ripe chair Is invited to the RIPE NCC executive board as an observer, I was in my capacity as deputy chair invited to the meetings in December and April.<br />
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In November I attended the ICANN 48 meeting in Buenos Aires, to serve on the 2014 Nominating committee, appointed by the Address Supporting Organization.<br />
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in March, the eCrime congress, the ICANN 49 in Singapore and the MENOG 14 in Dubai on the way back home. In the week of easter in april I visited the SEE 3 in Sofia, Bulgaria.<br />
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My intention this first year is to attend all the RIPE NCC regional meetings in addition to the RIPE meetings. IN addition to this I believe it is important to follow the NTIA transition process at ICANN and also to visit the IETF and the other RIR meetings over the next two years. As I still have a day job in Visma, I do not intend to visit all the RIR meetings.<br />
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One of the first things to explain outside the RIPE community is the distinction between RIPE - Reseaux IP Europenes - or European IP networks in English and RIPE NCC the Network Coordination Centre.<br />
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RIPE, the open community discussing matters of common interest to all parties interested in Internet in the RIPE Region.<br />
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RIPE NCC as "the secretariat" for RIPE. RIPE NCC association beeing the legal entity set up for RIPE NCC, governed by the members receiving services from the RIPE NCC trough the general Assembly and the elected Executive Board who again hires the Managing Director and approves the budget and activity plan.<br />
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To guide the RIPE NCC and the board we even have the RIPE NCC services Workinggroup, open to anyone. The services wg reviews the RIPE NCC activity plan and discusses new services for the RIPE NCC.<br />
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My first goal as ripe chair is going to be to provide the RIPE community with some insight into what I am doing as chair, and I will attempt to do this trough this blog.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0Strømmen, Norway59.9457645 11.00726329999997734.423730000000006 -30.301330700000022 85.467799 52.315857299999976tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-46486667927449543452013-06-21T19:23:00.000+02:002014-08-29T23:01:38.751+02:00Internet Society Norway Chapter - FINALLY!16 years after I was elected to the <a href="http://www.isoc.no/" target="_blank">Internet Society Norway Chapter</a> I was finally able to step down from the board. For various reasons the former board was not able to get much work done, not even to call for a new annual meeting. As deputy chair of the board i have to take my fair share of the blame for this. But now, after establishing an interim board in November 2012 I am happy to pass on ISOC Chapter Norway to the newly elected board at the <a href="http://www.isoc.no/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/20130620_ISOC_Norge_Minutes_Annual_signed.pdf" target="_blank">first annual meeting</a> 20 Jun 2013.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-85851946013189406672012-11-06T21:42:00.000+01:002014-08-23T19:12:15.107+02:00ISOC Norway Chapter RejuvenationISOC Norway Chapter Rejuvenation
Due to lack of activity, Internet Society (ISOC) have put the Norwegian chapter into rejuvenation.<br />
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Some members have taken the first step to restart the Norwegian chapter and hereby invite you to a formal meeting on November 28 2012 at 17:00.<br />
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The meeting will take place in the Visma office building in Bjørvika, address Dronning Eufemiasgate 16 - enterance from Trelastgata (along the platform on Oslo S.) Car park in Oslo S Phus nearby Hotell Opera (See <a href="https://maps.google.com/mapsq=Vismabygget%2C%20Dronning%20Eufemiasgate%2016%2C%200191%20Oslo%C2%A0" target="_blank">Google Maps</a>)<br />
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The ISOC-NO members that have taken this initiative are:
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<li>Hans Petter Holen, last vice-chair of ISOC-NO </li>
<li>Torgeir Waterhouse, Director Internet & New Media at IKT-Norge </li>
<li>Alf Hansen, Uninett </li>
<li>Steinar Grøtterød </li>
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These members are willing to take part in an interim board with the primary objective to establish a permanent Board and create activity according to ISOC bylaws.
The meeting is open for all, current ISOC members and non-members interested in becoming a member of the Norwegian chapter.<br />
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ISOC requires a minimum of 25 members to form a chapter<br />
Please sign up at: <a href="https://cnedformation.doodle.com/59853t2zcxipzkbk" target="_blank">https://cnedformation.doodle.com/59853t2zcxipzkbk </a><br />
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Gjennopptakelse av ISOC-NO<br />
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Den norske avdelingen av Internet Society (ISOC) er i samsvar med ISOC bestemmelser midlertidig lagt ned grunnet mangel på aktivitet.<br />
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Noen medlemmer ønsker å starte ISOC-NO på nytt og inviterer til et oppstartsmøte 28. november 2012 kl. 17:00 i Vismas lokaler, adresse Dronning Eufemiasgate 16 - Inngang Trelastgata (langs plattformen på Oslo S)<br />
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Nærmeste parkeringshus er Oslo S P-hus. (See <a href="https://maps.google.com/mapsq=Vismabygget%2C%20Dronning%20Eufemiasgate%2016%2C%200191%20Oslo%C2%A0" target="_blank">Google Maps</a>)<br />
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Disse medlemmene er:<br />
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<li>Hans Petter Holen, siste nest-leder av ISOC-NO </li>
<li>Torgeir Waterhouse, Direktør internett og nye medier, IKT-Norge </li>
<li>Alf Hansen, Uninett </li>
<li>Steinar Grøtterød </li>
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Møtet er åpent for alle, både eksiterende medlemmer av ISOC og de som ønsker å bli medlem av ISOC-NO.
ISOC krever minimum 25 medlemmer for å etablere en avdeling.<br />
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Meld deg på på: <a href="https://cnedformation.doodle.com/59853t2zcxipzkbk">https://cnedformation.doodle.com/59853t2zcxipzkbk</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-64946374617971287772011-12-21T23:33:00.000+01:002011-12-21T23:54:56.124+01:00ISOC Norway Chapter ClosureToday I received the following message from Dr Jacek Gajewski, Chapter Development Manager (Europe)
Reviewing my previous posts - I see that my attempt to rejuvenate the chapter <a href="http://blog.hph.oslo.net/2008/09/isoc-norge-etablering-av-interimstyre.html#links">back in 2008</a> was not successful.
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I am still willing to help re-establishing the ISOC Norway Chapter - but I think it is good that the matter is now out of my hands and that ISOC will offer its assistance to establish a new chapter with new management.
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Dear Rolf and Hans Petter,
Looking at the Chapter situation in Norway and reviewing the information we got from you, we classify the Chapter as inactive since a period of time. With this email,we want to inform you that we took the decision to put ISOC Norway Chapter into a process of rejuvenation and about our next steps in this regard. Together with current and former members of ISOC Norway Chapter as well as our global members in your country we would like to see a strong and vibrant presence for the Internet Society in Norway. Having noticed that Hans Petter, as an only remaining officer, has probably a contact with your current and former members, we would be grateful to pointing us to those members, who are likely to be willing to take active part in rejuvenation process and/or alumni of Next Generation Leaders from your country.
As you have been involved with the Chapter for a very long time we would like you to invite you to be involved in the rejuvenation of the Chapter as we believe that you (and other former officers) have much expertise to pass on to the “next generation” of leaders.
The steps for rejuvenation currently work like this:
1) We send a formal closure letter to all previous officers.
2) we email all the current and former members of the chapter that are in our database, telling them that we would like to rejuvenate the Chapter and ask them to get in contact with us if they are interested to help. We also email all ISOC members in Norway and notify them of this step.
3) ISOC then creates a discussion mailing list and let those interested discuss the role and scope of the new Chapter, possible projects etc.
4) Usually an interim leadership / rejuvenation committee is established until real elections can be held at a membership meeting (once the chapter is approved).
5) Once the discussion is completed, and everyone has a clear idea of what the Chapter will do (projects), what community it will serve and its’ purpose, a set of Bylaws are prepared, and a new application for a Chapter is filed with ISOC.
6) ISOC reviews the application and once the Chapter is approved, a formal membership meeting is held and elections are conducted following the requirements set forth in the Chapter’s Bylaws.
One of ISOC’s core strategic priorities is to help foster the Next Generation of Chapter leaders. We have a programme running at: http://www.isoc.org/leaders/. As a result we are working hard through Chapters to ensure that we promote the Next Generation of Leaders.
We would really appreciate any help you can give to the rejuvenation of the Chapter and the Next Generation of Leaders, as we believe you have much experience to offer. We look forward to creating a strong and active presence for the Internet Society in Norway.
With best wishes,
Dr Jacek Gajewski
Chapter Development Manager (Europe)
</pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-8184090887906468742010-05-27T09:06:00.005+02:002010-05-27T09:11:37.463+02:00Jazz meets symphony!Det blir en spennende atmosfære når symfoniorkesterklangen blandes med jazzens rytmer og harmonikk.<br /><br />Universitetets symfoniorkester slår seg sammen med fire jazzmusikere i toppsjiktet i fremføringen av flere verk for symfoniorkester og jazzensemble.<br /><ul><br /><li>Markus Stockhausen, trompet<br /><li>Tara Bouman, klarinett<br /><li>Arild Andersen, bass<br /><li>Patrice Héral, slagverk<br /></ul><br /><b>Jon Terje Svendsen</b>, dirigent.<br />Verk av <b>Markus Stockhausen</b> og <b>Arild Andersen</b>.<br /><br />Konserten støttes av Goethe-Institut, Norwegen<br /><br /><b>Søndag 6. juni, kl. 19.30, Chateau Neuf (Storsalen)</b><br /><br />Billetter 200/100 (Studenter/Honnør/UiO-ansatte)<br />www.uso.noUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-79953872655546864112010-01-21T23:26:00.000+01:002014-08-23T19:06:49.096+02:00IANA IPv4 Address Pool Dips Below 10%<div style="font: 10.5px Consolas; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
We have now passwd the 90% mark on the IPv4 address pool.</div>
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While the internet will still continue to work as before - it has implications on future growth.</div>
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Maybe we need to start to think seriously about IPv6 ?</div>
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Dear Colleagues,</div>
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With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.</div>
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“This is a key milestone in the growth and development of the global Internet,” noted Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO. “With less than ten percent of the entire IPv4 address range still available for allocation to RIRs, it is vital that the Internet community take considered and determined action to ensure the global adoption of IPv6. The limited IPv4 addresses will not allow us enough resources to achieve the ambitions we all hold for global Internet access. The deployment of IPv6 is a key infrastructure development that will enable the network to support the billions of people and devices that will connect in the coming years.”</div>
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You can view the NRO press release in its entirety at:</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html">http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html</a></span></div>
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Please contact <<a href="mailto:ncc@ripe.net"><span style="color: #3d00fd; text-decoration: underline;">ncc@ripe.net</span></a>> if you have any questions or comments.</div>
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Regards,</div>
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Paul Rendek</div>
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Head of External Relations and Communications RIPE NCC</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-61541846288872211722010-01-20T20:00:00.000+01:002014-08-23T19:30:05.400+02:00Run IT as a business -- why that's a train wreck waiting to happen<div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-4406315865061345462009-06-02T15:04:00.000+02:002014-08-23T19:10:09.167+02:00Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address SpaceAs we are approaching the end of the free pool of IPv4 Addresses - <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm">a policy describing what to do with the last address block has been approved</a> by the ICANN bord in March this year..<br />
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There are currently 32 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s. 27 are in the IANA free pool and five are reserved under the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-46118098000872747282008-12-31T01:02:00.001+01:002008-12-31T01:02:16.705+01:00LSO Masterclass - Viola<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/kQyLvY5-CYA' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/kQyLvY5-CYA'/></object></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-29189150405967384562008-09-24T22:13:00.002+02:002011-12-21T23:55:27.851+01:00ISOC Norge - etablering av interimstyre - og plan for oppstartUndertegnede er et av de siste aktive styremedlemmer i ISOC Norge, valgt i 1997-1998 og jeg er også valgt inn i NOPOL som representant for NORID. Jeg er også aktiv deltager i IP addresserings policy arbeid i RIPE og en av 3 europeiske representanter og nestleder i ICANN Address Council - et rådgivende organ til styret i ICANN i adresseringsspørsmål. <br /><br />Da det er under oppseiling en viktig sak - der min personlige mening er underordnet - mens det norske internett samfunnets mening og behov er viktig å få frem.se:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.norid.no/regelverk/forslag/privatpersoner-2008/">http://www.norid.no/regelverk/forslag/privatpersoner-2008/</a></li></ul><p>Forslag til plan for oppstart av foreningen:</p><p>1) 3 til 5 frivillge slår følge med undertegnede for å etablere et interimstyre som har som formål å kalle inn til årsmøte og velge et nytt styre i ISOC Norge.</p><p>Interimstyret vil arbeide pr epost og møtes pr telefon en gang pr måned fram til årsmøte er avholdt.Agenda og referat fra møtene publiseres på foreningens web sider.</p><p>2) Interimstyret avholder 3-5 medlemsmøter i løpet av høsten der agendaen er 1) Diskusjon av forslaget 2) Er det grunnlag for reetablering av en norsk avdeling av ISOC</p><p>Møtene bør avholdes i Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, og andre steder der en ildsjel kan stille et rom til rådighet.Foreningen har pr idag ingen økonomi så vi er avhengig av frivillig innsats og lån av lokaler.</p><p>3) Det innkalles til og avholdes årsmøte i desember der nytt styre velges.Dato og innkalling utarbeides før 1. november </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.isoc-no.no/admin/vedtekter.html">http://www.isoc-no.no/admin/vedtekter.html</a></li></ul><p>Jeg har ved et par anledninger møtt med Ann Lord og Sabrina Wilmot - ISOC ansatte med ansvar for Individual members and chapers, og vil ta kontakt med disse for bistand til oppstarten.</p><p>Siden jeg stikker hodet frem kan jeg også stille som kandidat til formannsvervet.</p><p>Er det noen som brenner for å etablere et forum for Internet i Norge ? </p><p>The Internet Society is an independent international nonprofit organisation founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy around the world</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-65717285035481519822008-08-26T21:22:00.000+02:002014-08-23T19:08:13.447+02:00Implementing the AS Number PolicyOne might think that this simple change in global policy for AS numbers should be fairly easy to implement. But as this involves one of the key elements in the BGP routing protocol it realy has some impact on all routers on the internet.<br />
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This article from the RIPE NCC website highlights this challenge:<br />
<a href="http://www.ripe.net/news/asn-32-pr2008.html">http://www.ripe.net/news/asn-32-pr2008.html</a><br />
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Make sure you push your vendor to implement the latest version of the Internet Protocols.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-34009198094083415632008-08-19T20:56:00.000+02:002014-08-23T19:09:36.435+02:00New Global Policy for Autonomous System NumbersAutonomous System Numbers are used in the routing system in the Internet.<br />
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A simple description of an AS number is a number every ISP needs to refere to its own routes in the global routing table.<br />
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As not only ISPs needs AS numbers but every network with a separate routing policy, the original 2 byte AS nubers were not enough and the routing protocols has been updated to allow for 4 byte numbers.<br />
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The new global policy describes how ICANN/IANA will allocate blocks of 2 byte and 4 byte AS Numbers to the RIRs.<br />
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The ICANN board ratified this policy on July 31 2008: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-aug08.htm#15">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-aug08.htm#15</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-48949561517092951802007-12-27T00:07:00.000+01:002015-06-06T11:53:06.636+02:00"Alle gode ting er tre" - from zero to three blogs ?Going from zero to 3 blogs may seem a bit too ambitious - but the idea behind the split into 3 blogs is to stay focused.<br />
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I have created<br />
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<li>-hph on Internet Addressing Policy as the place were I will post reports and thoughts about IP adddressing policy development in the ICANN and RIPE regions</li>
<li>-hph on Internet Technology as the place were I collect experiences with toys and other interesting Internet technologies</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.hph.oslo.net/">-hph </a>as the personal blog for all other posts</li>
</ul>
In the first one I will try to committ to regular posts - while the rest are purely hobby based....<br />
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-hph<br />
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(and in 2014 I merged the blogs and started using labels)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15412906.post-58134443663061390192007-12-26T23:43:00.000+01:002014-08-23T18:32:18.106+02:00New NAS - DLINK DNS 313Backing up data is always a challenge.<br /><br />I have a couple <a href="http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Main/HomePage">NLSU2</a> devices with a 250Gb USB disk - but the performance is not great - and I newer got around to change the frimware to unslung or simmilar. So after reading up on the latest and greatest on NAS devices for home use I figured out I would really like a device with RAID 10 - and 4 disks - striping for performance and size and mirroring for redundancy. My track record with disks seem to be that they break either at once - or after 3-4 years. But the price tag on theese devices were a bit to high for now.<br /><br />I would also like to have media-server capabilities - preferably iTunes compatible - as there are several iPods in the house allready.<br /><br />Now - adding affordability as a main criteria I ended up with a <a href="ftp://ftp.dlink.se/Data%20sheets/DNS-313_Datasheet.pdf">D-Link DNS-313 1 bay NAS </a>with a -Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA216MB 7200RPM. Main reason for this selection was <a href="http://www.dinside.no/php/art.php?id=362476">a test in "ITavisen"</a> testing performance on NAS devices and the great performance the larger DNS-323.<br /><br />Experience so far is<br /><ul><li>excellent performance - gigabit Ethernet gives better troughput than the NSLU2</li><li>iTunes server worked great at first - but after adding my complete library it stopped working. - I guess its time to have a look at the possibilities to <a href="http://wiki.dns323.info/">upgrade the applications </a>on the DNS</li><li>Noice - the fans make more noice than the fan-less NLSUs</li></ul><p> </p><p>I'll have to play a bit more with the DNS :-) and figure out how to create a good backup scheeme between the computers and the different devices.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0