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RIPE Working Groups

The RIPE community has formed a number of working groups to deal with issues and topics affecting the Internet community. The RIPE Working Groups meet twice a year in dedicated sessions at RIPE Meetings. Each working group also has its own mailing list to facilitate discussion.

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Active RIPE Working Groups
Address Policy Working Group	Develops policies relating to the management and registration of Internet addresses and routing identifiers (IPv4, IPv6 and Autonomous System (AS) Numbers).
Anti-Abuse Working Group	Fighting the problem of network abuse.
Cooperation Working Group	The cooperation Working Group is a forum for discussion focusing on cooperation between the private and public sectors on Internet matters.
Database Working Group	Discussion about the RIPE Database.
DNS Working Group	Discussion on current DNS related issues in technology and operations.
EIX Working Group	Primarily for ISPs to discuss the activities of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).
ENUM Working Group	The ENUM Working Group discusses developments relating to Internet resource mapping using E.164 telephone numbers as identifiers, commonly known as ENUM.
IPv6 Working Group	Following the progress of specification and implementation of IPv6.
RIPE NCC Services Working Group	Discussion about new and existing RIPE NCC services and evaluating the RIPE NCC's yearly Activity Plan.
Routing Working Group	Discussion and information exchange about Routing Registries.
Test Traffic Working Group	Following the progress of the RIPE NCC Test Traffic Measurement (TTM) Service and discussion of data and methods of collection.

Non Active Working Groups
EOF Working Group	EOF Working Group. Replaced by the The European Operators Forum.
DNR Working Group	Domain Name Registration questions and issues. Replaced by the DNR Forum. The DNR Forum has been integrated into the DNS WG.
LIR Working Group	As decided by the RIPE community at RIPE 45, the LIR Working Group has been split into two new working groups, RIPE NCC Services Working Group and Address Policy Working Group.
MBone Working Group	Multi-cast backbone related issues.
Netnews Working Group	NetNews related topics.
Technical-Security Working Group	Discuss the technical aspects of Internet security technology.This group is also referred to as: Techsec.
TLD Working Group	Discussion of all TLD related matters. Replaced by the DNR Forum. The DNR Forum has been integrated into the DNS WG.
Tools Working Group	As decided by the RIPE community at RIPE 45, the Tools Working Group has been integrated into the new RIPE NCC Services Working Group.

Global Working Groups
RFC 2050 Working Group	The RFC 2050 Working Group was formed in 2001 to address the issues relating to relevance of RFC 2050 to the needs of today's Internet registry system.


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