RIPE NCC Annual Report 1993


                         Daniel Karrenberg

                          RIPE NCC Manager





The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all Internet service
providers in Europe.  The NCC is funded by the European Internet
service providers.  RARE provides the formal framework for the NCC.

The main activities center around European Internet coordination.
The following graph shows the number of individual European Internet
hosts registered in the domain name system for 1992 and 1993.  The
European Internet roughly doubles in size every year.


                    RIPE NCC Hostcount 1992-1993


    600000++---------------------------------------------------+
           |                                                   |
    550000++                                                oA |
           |                                              oA   |
    500000++                                            oA     |
           |                                          oA       |
    450000++                                        oA         |
           |                                      oA           |
    400000++                                   oAo             |
           |                                 oA                |
    350000++                              AoA                  |
           |                             o                     |
           |                         oAoA                      |
    300000++                       oA                          |
           |                     oA                            |
    250000++                 oAoA                              |
           |             oAoA                                  |
    200000++          oAo                                      |
           |  oAoAoAoA                                         |
    150000++ A                                                 |
           |                                                   |
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The most visible activity of the NCC is the regional Internet
registry whose task is the assignment of Internet network layer
address space to European enterprises.  For this purpose a
distributed system has been set up.  83 local registries operated by
Internet service providers assign address space locally.  The NCC as
regional registry delegates address space to the local registries,
supports them and ensures that address space assignment occurs in a
fair and regular manner.  The NCC also deals with requests for large
amounts of address space and requests from enterprises for which no
appropriate local registry exists.  The European Internet registries
have assigned 16871 network numbers during 1993.


The RIPE NCC maintains the RIPE network management database
containing information about IP networks, DNS domains, Routing
Policies and the appropriate contact persons.  The number of entries
in this database is shown in the graph below.  It has been
increasing faster since the European Internet registry system has
become fully operational in September 1992.


               Entries in the RIPE Database 1992-1993


  50000++-------------------------------------------------------------------+
        |                                                                   |
  45000++                                                             A     |
        |                                                           oo      |
        |                                                         oo        |
  40000++                                                       oo          |
        |                                                     oA