[menog] Menog Digest, Vol 96, Issue 3

Wed Jun 8 14:33:55 UTC 2016

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!

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>   1. Re: RIPE NCC Dubai Regional Office in Operation - Second year
>      recap (Fahd Batayneh)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:30:24 +0000
>From: Fahd Batayneh <fahd.batayneh at icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [menog] RIPE NCC Dubai Regional Office in Operation -
>	Second year recap
>To: "Hisham Ibrahim (hmi at ripe.net)" <hmi at ripe.net>
>Cc: MENOG <menog at menog.org>
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>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: menog-bounces at lists.menog.org [mailto:menog-bounces at lists.menog.org]
>On Behalf Of Hisham Ibrahim
>Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 2:31 PM
>To: menog at menog.org
>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/
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