Dear MANRS Participants, We’re pleased to share with you the latest MANRS Quarterly Update - a quick look at our recent progress, activities, and what’s coming next. *Voting is Open Until July 22 for the MANRS Charter Review* Using the MANRS Development Process (MDP) <https://manrs.org/manrs-development-process/>, we are reviewing and updating the *MANRS Community Charter* to align it with today’s reality of the initiative, its stakeholders, and the roles we all play in shaping the future of MANRS (the current version of the Charter dates back to 2021). The process began on June 2, 2025, with a *proposal <https://manrs.org/proposals/21811/>* that outlines those changes. After closing the Call for Comments on July 8, the Steering Committee moved the proposal to *Last Call* on July 9. This final stage will be open until *July 22 at 23:59 UTC*. *Now It’s Time to Vote* The Last Call is, in reality, *a voting process*. Here is what you need to know about it: - The third-party voting system chosen for this process is Election Runner <https://electionrunner.com> - If you are the *primary contact of a MANRS participant*, as listed in the MANRS Observatory, you are entitled to vote, and you should have already received an individual ballot via email - The ballot was sent to all those contacts on *July 9 at 12:00 UTC by email*; if you cannot find it, check the following header details: - *From: Global Cyber Alliance <noreply@electionrunner.com <noreply@electionrunner.com>>* - *Subject: Your Invitation to Vote in the Election: MANRS Last Call* - The message contains a link to the vote, with 3 options: - I am in favour of the proposed changes to the Charter - I am against the proposed changes to the Charter - I abstain - Voting will be open for the entire period of the Last Call - until *July 22, 23:59 UTC* - Eligible contacts will be able to cast their vote only once - For further information, check the following resources: - Shaping the Future of MANRS: Defining Roles and Responsibilities in Today’s MANRS Ecosystem <https://manrs.org/2025/05/future-of-manrs/> - Next Steps in the MANRS Charter Review Process <https://manrs.org/2025/06/next-steps-in-the-manrs-charter-review-process/> - Webinar on the MANRS Charter Review Process <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4da_QOry8> *If you're eligible to vote, don't miss the chance to have your say on the proposed changes. *If you believe you’re eligible to vote, but haven’t received the email, please contact us. *Community Growth* - *26 new participants* joined the initiative this quarter - 23 network operators and 3 IXPs. Together, they represent 13 countries from all five RIR regions. Welcome! - Our *current total* is now 1,256 participants - 1,068 network operators, 150 IXPs, 32 CDN and cloud providers, and 6 equipment vendors. *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!* *Research* This quarter, we were honored to have an award-winning paper <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/khwaja-zubair-sediqi-3ba38526_tma25-bestpaper...> featured in our blog: - Unpacking the Bottlenecks in Relying Party Software Synchronization Delays <https://manrs.org/2025/06/unpacking-the-bottlenecks-in-relying-party-softwar...> Congratulations to all the co-authors! @Khwaja Zubair Sediqi <https://www.linkedin.com/in/khwaja-zubair-sediqi-3ba38526/>, @Romain Fontugne <https://www.linkedin.com/in/romainfontugne/>, @Amreesh Phokeer, PhD <https://www.linkedin.com/in/amreeshphokeer/>, @Massimiliano Stucchi <https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimocandela/>, @Massimo Candela <https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimocandela/>, and @Anja Feldmann <https://www.linkedin.com/in/anja-feldmann-9b19b65/>. *MANRS in the Community* - On *April 3*, Andrei Robachevsky (GCA) and Nick Hilliard (INEX), member of the MANRS Secretariat and Steering Committee, respectively, offered a session on routing security to the Experts Club of EU CyberNet <https://www.eucybernet.eu/>, a network of European cybersecurity experts supported by the European Commission and headquartered in Estonia. - On *April 28*, in Charlotte (United States), Leslie Daigle (GCA) offered a keynote address at the ARIN 55 event in which she mentioned MANRS in the wider context of GCA’s work with the infrastructures of the Internet. A summary of that keynote and a direct link to it can be found here <https://www.arin.net/blog/2025/05/15/arin-55-keynote-shared-responsibility/> . - In São Paulo (Brazil), during the LACNIC 43 conference (*May 5-9*), MANRS was featured again, this time by Erika Vega Valenzuela (MANRS Steering Committee) and Guillermo Cicileo (LACNIC), who offered a tutorial on BGP security, available here <https://lacnic43.lacnic.net/es/programa/presentaciones-y-videos> (in Spanish). - From *May 12-16*, a delegation of GCA representatives participated at the RIPE 90 conference in Lisbon (Portugal). Andrei Robachevsky offered an update on the MDP <https://ripe90.ripe.net/archives/video/1567> to the RIPE community, and Leslie Daigle demonstrated the importance of MANRS <https://ripe90.ripe.net/archives/video/1575> for GCA’s Internet Integrity work. MANRS and routing security were also presented at other sessions of the conference, including this one by the European Commission <https://ripe90.ripe.net/archives/video/1666/>, in which the MANRS Community was invited to join the Commission’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Internet Standards Deployment. - On *May 21*, the MANRS Community gathered for its first virtual meeting of the year, which ran in two sessions as is customary. The sessions were lively, with two very different blocks of community updates. We encourage you to watch the recordings: Session East <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1pcIxAFgs> / Session West <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF-wIYJH3w8>. - From *May 17-June 7*, the Internet Society, in collaboration with Internet Exchange Services Yucatán <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ixpyuc/> and LAC Digital Academy <https://www.linkedin.com/company/lac-digitalacademy>, offered a training course on MANRS at the Universidad Técnica Metropolitana de Mérida, in Mérida (Mexico). A summary of it is available here <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lac-digitalacademy_ixsy-internet-asn-activity...> . - From *June 9-11*, Leslie Daigle participated at the NANOG 94 conference in Denver (United States) and represented the initiative before the NANOG community. - On *June 20*, Pablo López-Aguilar (GCA) traveled virtually to South Africa to offer an update on MANRS at a session organized by ISPA South Africa and the Internet Society. - On *June 26*, in Copenhagen (Denmark), Andrei Robachevsky offered a presentation on MANRS+ and supply chain protection <https://www.first.org/conference/2025/program#pRouting-Security-for-Enterpri...> at the 37th Annual FIRST Conference. - Also on *June 26*, Andrei offered a Webinar on the MANRS Community Charter Review Process <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4da_QOry8> to the entire community. *You can also find us in the following upcoming events:* - IETF 123 <https://www.ietf.org/meeting/123/> (July 19-25, Madrid, Spain) - APNIC 60 <https://conference.apnic.net/60/> (September 4-11, Da Nang, Vietnam) More events are getting confirmed, so stay alert to our news <https://manrs.org/blog/>. 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 <https://manrs.org/about/contact>. *Upcoming MANRS Community Meeting* Registration is not open yet, but we are sure you will want to save the date for our next MANRS Community Meeting of the year, on *November 12*. We are working on the agenda, so please do not hesitate to send any presentation proposals you may have! *Can We Help?* We always welcome feedback. To do so, simply email us at contact@manrs.org or submit feedback via the website <https://manrs.org/>. 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 <https://manrs.org/join>! *Can You Help?* 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 https://elists.manrs.org/postorius/lists/manrs-community.elists.manrs.org/ and/or start following our newsletter on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/manrs-quarterly-newsletter-704919158930...>. 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. 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