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2022 MANRS Fellows Call for Applications is Open!
by Israel Rosas March 19, 2022

March 19, 2022

Dear MANRS Participants, This is just to inform you that, as scheduled, the 2022 MANRS Fellows Call for Applications opened this Monday, February 28. As in previous years, we’re looking for applicants in three categories -training, research, and policy- with a small twist on the research track. This time we’re suggesting the applicants to focus on one of three suggested research topics: ROA Historical Explorer, MANRS Conformance Checker, and Blackholing Stats. Applicants will have the opportunity to suggest additional topics by providing sufficient rationale. More background can be found at https://www.manrs.org/ambassadors-program/fellows/ The call for applications will remain open until 18 March, with selected Fellows being announced on April 8. Feel free to share this information with your communities of practice. I’ll be happy to follow-up on any comment. Cheers, Israel Rosas, Senior Regional Development Manager rosas(a)isoc.org<mailto:rosas@isoc.org> | Mobile: +52 55 3550 2363 | Pronouns: he/him/his internetsociety.org<http://internetsociety.org> | @internetsociety My work hours may not be your work hours. Please respond in your own time.

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Heads-up: 2022 MANRS Ambassadors Program
by Israel Rosas Feb. 17, 2022

Feb. 17, 2022

Dear MANRS Participants, I’m glad to share with you that we’re about to launch the 2022 MANRS Ambassadors and Fellows Program, starting with the Ambassadors selection. MANRS Ambassadors should be representatives from current MANRS participants. Starting from 2020, the MANRS Ambassadors have been supporting the MANRS Fellows to conduct over 150 activities for the routing security community. Since applications will be open from 7-18 February, I’ll be sharing with you more info next Monday, including the updated description of the Program and the link to apply. Feel free to reach out to me in case you need additional information. Best, Israel Rosas, Senior Regional Development Manager rosas(a)isoc.org<mailto:rosas@isoc.org> | Mobile: +52 55 3550 2363 | Pronouns: he/him/his internetsociety.org<http://internetsociety.org> | @internetsociety My work hours may not be your work hours. Please respond in your own time.

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Welcome to MANRS message
by Kevin Meynell Jan. 7, 2022

Jan. 7, 2022

Dear MANRS Participants, You may have received an unexpected ‘Welcome to MANRS’ message earlier today. Just to inform you that we have been migrating our MANRS Observatory backend to a new system that will enable MANRS participants to maintain their own network and contact details in future, amongst other new features. Unfortunately, it seems we didn’t suppress the welcome message intended for new joiners of the MANRS programme, so please ignore this if you received it. Our apologies for any confusion, and just a reminder you can check your MANRS participation status at https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/ Regards, Kevin Meynell MANRS Co-Manager

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Improving data quality in the MANRS Observatory - input needed!
by Andrei Robachevsky Nov. 15, 2021

Nov. 15, 2021

Dear MANRS participants, Following the presentation of data quality in the MANRS Observatory (MANRS readiness scores, attached) at the last Community meeting (October 20), please let me suggest some concrete steps and get your opinion. Background: MANRS readiness scores for individual networks are only accessible to MANRS participants. There have been several requests from network operators to make the scores public, instead of tick marks in the participants table (https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/) Even if done on opt-in basis this will greatly improve the transparency and credibility of the initiative. To achieve this goal we need to improve quality of data used to calculate some of the scores, and specifically, the routing incidents data for the Filtering readiness score. The data is currently sourced from BGPStream (https://bgpstream.com/) and GRIP (https://dev.hicube.caida.org/feeds/hijacks/events) Unfortunately, limited knowledge of operators’ intent and relationships between the networks does not allow to eliminate false positives. To further improve quality of these data, a feedback feature is implemented now in the Observatory: in a detailed report for an individual network the operator can classify detected suspicious events as incidents, valid routing changes, etc. This feature is described in a blogpost: https://www.manrs.org/2021/07/new-data-source-feedback-loop-enhance-manrs-o…. Unfortunately, since the introduction of this feature back in July, we have not got much of the feedback. Proposed solution: We propose that participants receive periodic (monthly) e-mail digests, containing their MANRS readiness scores for Filtering, Anti-Spoofing, Coordination and Global validation, number of incidents encountered and a link to the detailed report prompting them to validate/classify the detected events. Please share your thoughts and additional requirements or features you’d like to see in such service. We plan to implement this feature in January-February 2022. In the meantime, please use your own reminders to check your monthly reports and validate the events. Thank you for your support of MANRS and your cooperation, Regards, Andrei MANRS Secretariat

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MANRS Community Mailing List
by Kevin Meynell Nov. 11, 2021

Nov. 11, 2021

Dear MANRS Participants, You are receiving this mail as you are listed as the official contact of a Network Operator, IXP, CDN/Cloud Provider and/or Vendor that is participating in the MANRS initiative, and have opted into the MANRS Community mailing list. We are moving the MANRS lists under the ‘manrs.org’ domain, so the previous ‘manrs-members(a)isoc.xn--org-to0a list has now been transitioned to ‘manrs-community(a)elists.manrs.xn--org-to0a. This list should be used for all general MANRS-related discussion. Please note there is also a new ‘manrs-participants(a)elists.manrs.xn--org-to0a list to which all official contacts of MANRS Participants are subscribed. This will only be used for MANRS Steering Committee elections and where the MANRS Participants are being asked to vote on particular decisions. It should *not* be used for discussion. I’d also like to take this opportunity to ask all MANRS Participants to check that their MANRS contact information is valid as we had a few bounces when we ran the MANRS Steering Committee election recently. If you would like to subscribe additional colleagues to this list, they should send a subscription request to ‘manrs-community-join(a)elists.manrs <mailto:manrs-community-join@elists.manrs>.org’. Thank you for continuing to support the MANRS initiative. Regards, Kevin Meynell MANRS Co-Lead

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