Arbitration Process

As a result of the publication of the RIPE NCC Conflict Arbitration Procedure, a pool of arbiters has been appointed by the RIPE NCC Executive Committee.

To start the formal arbitration process, the party initiating the procedure should select an arbiter from the list below. To receive the contact details for an arbiter, please click the name of the relevant arbiter from the list below. The party initiating the procedure can then contact the arbiter directly to begin the arbitration process.

Arbiter list:

David Kessens, IPv6 WG Chair, Nokia
Kurt Kayser , Self employed
Wilfried Woeber, Database WG Chair, Vienna University
Keith Mitchell , former NCC Chair, UK Internet Forum

The nominees for the arbitration committee were approved by the Annual General Meeting 2001 participants.

Please consult the RIPE NCC Conflict Arbitration Procedure for more details about the procedures.

Biographies of arbiters

In early 1992, he joined Unipalm to become one of the founders of the UK's first commercial Internet provider, PIPEX.

From May 1996 until September 2000, Keith served in the full-time role of Executive Chairman of (LINX), the UK national Internet Exchange point. He is also a non-executive Director of NOMINET UK, and has served as Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board (1997-99).

From September 200 until December 2004 Keith founded and was Chief Technical Officer of XchangePoint, a pan-European operator of commercially-based Internet Exchange Points.

In 1991 he went to Siemens Corporate Network (scn.de) International, located in Fuerth, Germany and helped to build up the first worldwide Siemens-internal IP-based backbone. After 2 years in the USA he moved to a Siemens-affiliate Computer research Centre - called ECRC in Munich, Germany. In 1997 he became a backbone planning engineer with VIAG-Interkom, Munich.

In 1999 he moved back to Nuremberg and joined friends in a regional ISP, called noris network AG. In 2000 he joined the executive board of noris network for the area of new technologies and strategic alliances. With the start of a local peering facility in Nueremberg, called N-IX (www.n-ix.de) he started his own business in May 2001.

He joined numerous RIPE-meetings after 1995 (RIPE-22) on a regular basis, as well became the chairman of the RIPE Mbone-working group in 1997 (this working group is no longer operational). Contribution work for DNS-documents and Routing-stability tests, Multicast experience and applications testing, as well as content distribution motivation on Multicast.