Just a +1 the awesome efforts by RIPE-NCC in the region. Thank you for this super regional update ;)
And, a thank you to Fahd as a great partner as well! On 6/8/16, 10:30 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Send Menog mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.menog.org/mailman/listinfo/menog >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Menog digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: RIPE NCC Dubai Regional Office in Operation - Second year > recap (Fahd Batayneh) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:30:24 +0000 >From: Fahd Batayneh <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [menog] RIPE NCC Dubai Regional Office in Operation - > Second year recap >To: "Hisham Ibrahim ([email protected])" <[email protected]> >Cc: MENOG <[email protected]> >Message-ID: > <d8359c91b72a450d999c3efef1169...@pmbx112-w1-ca-1.pexch112.icann.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Dear Hisham, > > > >Thank you for this detailed recap. > > > >Having worked closely with you and Chafic on some of our regional projects, >and having served (and continue to serve) on the MENOG PC and SC, I know how >much efforts you and the RIPE NCC colleagues have injected into the region >since the Dubai office was inaugurated, and I applaud you all for that. > > > >I look forward to continuing our successful partnerships for a better >Internet ecosystem in our region. > > > >Thank you, > > > >Fahd > > > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Hisham Ibrahim >Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 2:31 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [menog] RIPE NCC Dubai Regional Office in Operation - Second year >recap > > > >Dear friends and colleagues, > >First allow me to wish you a blessed Ramadan full of peace and harmony to >you and all your loved ones. > >On behalf of the RIPE NCC Dubai office, I would like to recap our second >year of operations with you now as we expect things to slow down from now >until the end of July. > >In 2016, we continued to put a lot of effort into our engagement strategy on >a national level by visiting as many Middle Eastern countries as we could. >Our aim was to strengthen our relationship with our members and work with >them on enhancing our services and meeting their needs. > > > >* Community Engagement > > > >Member Lunches > >Member lunches have been a big part of our member engagement strategy. We >noticed that our membership has shifted from the traditional telecom and >operator base to a broader base that includes different sectors like >banking, academic and enterprise. We wanted to make sure we understood the >needs of each sector to help us better meet their needs. > >We organised seven member lunches so far and plan to host two more before >the end of the year. > >2014: Yemen > >2015: Iran, Saudi Arabia > >Q1/Q2 2016: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Syria (the SY member lunch was held >during the RIPE NCC Levant Regional Meeting) > >Planned for 2016: Jordan and Oman > > > >Academic Engagement > >We received feedback from the academic community that they wanted the RIPE >NCC to get more involved in helping the students and researchers better >understand how the Internet works. > >We organised a half-day session with the students of the American University >in Beirut to discuss how the Internet works and the organisations that >support it. The session was well received and the RIPE NCC has been invited >to conduct similar sessions later this year in Saudi Arabia (Dammam, Riyadh >and Jeddah), UAE as well as a second session in Beirut with all the Lebanese >universities. > >RACI [1] (the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative) provided students and >researchers with a chance to travel to the MENOG meeting and present to the >technical community their work. > > > >Banks > >We noticed an increase in membership from the banking sector. The RIPE NCC >organised meetings with banks in Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to >understand how the RIPE NCC can help them. The RIPE NCC and the MENOG >technical community is in a position to help with a number of issues raised >by the banks we met with and we plan to start working with them this year in >Bahrain and Qatar. > > > >National IPv6 Working Groups > >IPv6 deployment in the region varies drastically to say the least. We are >helping set up national taskforces and awareness meetings in Lebanon, Qatar >and the UAE. We are also seeing others like the Saudi Arabian IPv6 task >force that feel that they have serviced their propose after eight years of >raising awareness within the local community and see it is time to move on >to discuss other topics. > >Over the past two years we organised or participated in national IPv6 >efforts including: > >2015: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen > >2016: Saudi Arabia and UAE > >Planned for 2016: Qatar > > > >** Capacity Building > > > >IPv6 Roadshows [2] > >The IPv6 Roadshow launched in 2011 as a joint initiative of the RIPE NCC and >the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG). Since then, 36 IPv6 >Roadshow events have been held in ten countries across the Arab region, >providing instruction to roughly a thousand participants. > >2014: Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Al-Khobar) and UAE > >2015: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE (twice) and Yemen (held in Jordan) > >2016: Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE > >Planned for 2016: Jordan, Kuwait and Oman. > > > >Train the Trainer > >In 2015, the IPv6 Roadshow launched the "Train the Trainer" (TTT) programme. >This spin-off programme is aimed at building a diverse pool of >highly-skilled Middle Eastern instructors capable of delivering future IPv6 >Roadshows, ensuring that the project can continue to evolve and scale to >meet the growing demand for this kind of training. We have had three TTT >participants co-train six of the IPv6 Roadshows since the launch of the >programme. > > > >***Regional Meetings > > > >Levant Regional Meeting in Lebanon [3] > >The RIPE NCC Levant Regional Meeting was held in Beirut, Lebanon. A total of >140 people from five countries (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq) >attended the meeting. The community raised key regional issues and Oregro, >the Lebanese incumbent, pledged to deploy IPv6 before the end of the year. > > > >MENOG > >MENOG 15 [4] took place in Dubai, UAE in April 2015. The main themes of the >plenary covered peering the in Middle East region, domain name operations >and securing online banking. 195 participants attended the meeting from >thirty-two different countries. > >MENOG 16 [5] took place in Istanbul, Turkey in March 2016. Despite the >unfortunate circumstances that happened during the meeting week in both >Istanbul and Brussels, the meeting was still a success with 150 attendees >from fifteen different countries participating. The main themes of the >plenary revolved heavily around security and Internet Exchange Points. > > > >We are excited to continue working with the technical community and the >other stakeholders in the region. We feel all the hard work we have put into >the region over the past two years has helped us figure out a formula that >works well with the needs and expectations of the region and we expect to >yield huge, tangible results in the near future. > >We thank you all for your support and ask you to continue guiding us to >better support our region. > >Kind Regards > >Hisham Ibrahim > >Regional Programme Manager > >RIPE NCC > > ------------- > >Useful links: > >[1] RACI: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci > >[2] IPv6 Roadshows: http://www.menog.org/ipv6-roadshow/ > > [3] Levant Regional Meeting: >https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/regional-meetings/ripe-ncc-levant- >regional-meeting/meeting-report > >[4] MENOG 15: <http://www.menog.org/meetings/previous/menog-15/> >http://www.menog.org/meetings/previous/menog-15/ > >[5] MENOG 16: <http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-16/> >http://www.menog.org/meetings/menog-16/ > >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >http://lists.menog.org/pipermail/menog/attachments/20160608/ae6d7519/attachment.html > >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: smime.p7s >Type: application/pkcs7-signature >Size: 5543 bytes >Desc: not available >Url : >http://lists.menog.org/pipermail/menog/attachments/20160608/ae6d7519/attachment.bin > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Menog mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.menog.org/mailman/listinfo/menog > > >End of Menog Digest, Vol 96, Issue 3 >************************************ _______________________________________________ Menog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.menog.org/mailman/listinfo/menog
