Voting is now open for three (3) available seats on the MANRS Steering Committee. There are nine candidates standing for election this year, and each brings valuable experience, perspective, and commitment to strengthening our shared mission of improved routing security.
The primary account holder for your organization should have received a ballot by email from the voting platform, BigPulse. If you did not receive a ballot, please contact us as soon as possible.
Voting opened on 28 October 2025 at 00:01 UTC and will close on 30 October 2025 at 23:59 UTC – which means you still have time if you’re reading this newsletter right as it comes out!
In our interconnected ecosystem, growth is everybody’s business. Your MANRS participation won’t be fully effective until you have all your peers and clients on board too. So, send them over! Become our source of growth!
Last quarter, the MANRS community approved the new Charter with a large majority (77%) voting in favor. This quarter, we’re finishing the MANRS Steering Committee election for three new members.
But there’s been more than voting in the last three months:
On September 8, we published a call to action for Indian operators. This was based on the findings of research into GCA’s AIDE data platform conducted in advance of Leslie Daigle’s keynote address at the APNIC 60 meeting in Da Nang (Vietnam).
On September 15, SIDN Labs presented the MANRS+ Testbed, a new resource to assess the feasibility of routing security compliance tests in the framework of the MANRS+ Working Group. This project will be featured at the upcoming MANRS Community Meeting on November 12.
On October 16, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) presented the progress of its NRO RPKI Program with a new centralized resource to create Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) through each of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). This project will also be featured in the Community Meeting on November 12.
The third quarter of the year is, traditionally, the calmest in terms of traveling for most of us. Still, MANRS has been pretty busy in the past three months:
July 19–25, Madrid (Spain 🇪🇸): IETF 123
September 4–11, Da Nang (Vietnam 🇻🇳): APNIC 60, where MANRS played a central role in Leslie Daigle’s keynote speech at the opening ceremony
September 3, virtual 🌎: CyberTelco 2025, where Alejandro Fernández-Cernuda presented MANRS in the context of the work of cybersecurity nonprofits
September 8 – 12, Colombia 🇨🇴: MANRS Certification Marathon, offered by our Steering Committee Member Erika Vega Valenzuela together with NAP Colombia
September 18, The Hague (Netherlands 🇳🇱): Meeting of the Dutch Internet Standards Platform, in which Andrei Robachevsky offered an update on MANRS
September 29 – October 2, Accra (Ghana 🇬🇭): African Internet Summit, where Andrei Robachevsky joined a panel to offer an update on MANRS in the African context
And, of course, October (already Q4), is being as busy as usual. If you haven’t seen us here:
October 1 – 3, Asunción (Paraguay 🇵🇾): Internet Governance Forum Paraguay 2025
October 6 – 8, Bucharest (Romania 🇷🇴): Bucharest Cybersecurity Conference 2025
October 6 – 10, San Salvador (El Salvador 🇸🇻): LACNIC 44-LACNOG 2025
October 20 – 24, Bucharest (Romania 🇷🇴): RIPE 91
October 24, Mérida (Mexico 🇲🇽): Simposium de Sistemas y Computación 2025
October 27 – 29, Arlington (Texas, United States 🇺🇸): NANOG 95
You may bump into us next week at IETF 124 in Montreal (Canada 🇨🇦).
More events are getting confirmed, so stay alert to our news. Also, if you’d like to meet us in person or have ideas on MANRS Community events and other events to attend, please get in touch.
The second MANRS Community Meeting of 2025, happening on November 12, is around the corner, so if you haven’t registered to attend yet, it’s time to do it now!
Remember that, as customary, we will hold the meeting in two separate sessions:
East: November 12, 8:00 – 10:00 UTC > link to register
West: November 12, 19:00 – 21:00 UTC > link to register
The agenda of both sessions will be divided in two blocks, one with Updates from the Secretariat, with a shared agenda for both sessions:
Growth, uptake, and engagement
MANRS Charter Review: results
SC Election: results
Next MDP work: Action review
Plans for 2026: MANRS Enterprise Program / MANRS Ambassadors / Sustainability
And one with Updates from the Community, with a focus on the barriers to RPKI adoption, among other topics, and the following confirmed speakers (stay tuned for more updates on the agenda!):
Session East: Changqing An (CERNET) and Lisa Bruder & Moritz Müller (SIDN Labs)
Session West: Changqing An (CERNET), Taejoong Chung (Virginia Tech), Sofía Silva Berenguer (NRO), and Steve Wallace (Internet2)
Session East will be moderated by Arturo Servín (Google), whereas session West will be moderated by Tony Tauber (Comcast), both members of MANRS Steering Committee.
We would like to thank our speakers, moderators, and the rest of the members of the Steering Committee for their involvement in the planning and organization of this meeting.
We always welcome feedback. To do so, simply email us at contact@manrs.org or submit feedback via the website.
In the meantime, follow us on social media @RoutingMANRS for all the day-to-day updates. And if you know of another organization that should join us — including peers or clients of your own networks or services— send them here to join!
Yes, you can!
The newsletter is open to everyone interested in routing security, either a MANRS Participant or not. So, if routing security is your topic, simply make sure you’re subscribed to the manrs-community mailing list and/or start following our newsletter on LinkedIn. Feel free to contact us if you have any contributions, and help us spread the word.
Also, please help us reach further by bringing as many peers and clients as possible to the initiative. Good routing security can only be achieved collectively.
See you next quarter!
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