RIPE NCC Quarterly Report #5 Available

[sorry for the slight duplication]

Dear colleagues,

the 5th RIPE NCC Quarterly Report covering the second quarter of 1993 is
now available.  It has document-ID: ripe-90 and can be retrieved from
the ripe document store.  The files are:

	ftp.ripe.net:ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-90.ps (PostScript)
	ftp.ripe.net:ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-90.txt (ASCII)

Should you have difficulties retrieveing it, we will be happy to help you
with retrieval via the network or send you a hardcopy.  The management
summary part is attached below. 

Kind Regards

Daniel Karrenberg
RIPE NCC Manager


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Management Summary

The European Internet continues to grow steadily as the
number of hosts registered in the domain name system will be
in excess of 400,000 at the end of the reporting period.
All NCC activities have run smoothly during the reporting
period.

Delegated Registry

The number of local registries has increased to some 61.
Together with the NCC they have assigned 3511 class C and 14
class B network numbers during the reporting period.  Still
only about 10% of the assigned networks are routed on the
Internet while usage of the internet protocols and thus
demand for addresses continues to expand in all areas.
Since the European registry system runs smoothly, the
highest priority in this area remains automatic alignment of
regis try databases with the global Internet registry.

RIPE Database

There are now more that 30,000 objects in the RIPE database
and the NCC is still processing around 500 update requests
on an average working day.  A complete re-design of the
database software has been completed and implementation is
progressing.  Additional efforts to increase database
coverage and to provide pro-active maintenance are required.
This and the software implementation will be the highest
priorities during the next quarter.

Documentation

The document store is running reliably and is being used
worldwide.  In addition to a number of new RIPE documents a
leaflet describing registry services has been produced.

Joint Projects

The two running projects have almost completed and are
successful. While the projects have been very valuable to
the NCC and vice-versa they have required more resources
from permanent NCC staff than expected.  A follow up project
PRIDE (Policy-Based Routing Implementation and Deployment in
Europe) has been proposed with this experience in mind.
Funding for this project has been secured almost completely.


The NCC has started its second year of operation
successfully continuing a high level of service.  We are
looking forward to the results of the first-year review and
to the subsequent revision of the NCC activity plan.  Based
on the growing European Internet community and the
increasing demand for service and new activities, the NCC
will need additional resources in the medium term.