News and Announcements

Members can now register to participate in and vote electronically at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) taking place over 19-21 May 2021.

The implementation of new processes for Executive Board elections for the RIPE NCC GM May 2021

Last weekend, RIPE NCC Access, our single sign-on (SSO) service was affected by what appears to be a deliberate ‘credential-stuffing’ attack, which caused some downtime. We mitigated the attack, and we are now taking steps to ensure that our services are better protected against such threats in the future.

We have updated the RIPE NCC Certification Practice Statement (CPS) for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). The CPS is an update to RIPE-549 and is published as RIPE-751. As a Certificate Authority in RPKI, we are required to publish a CPS. In this document, we describe: How certificates

On Tuesday, 26 January 2021, the RIPE NCC held a virtual Roundtable Meeting for government representatives and regulators in Europe.

The RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 is now available. This definitive document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from our membership. It outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year and the associated costs for each activity.

The EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade was released today and includes a strategy to reinforce the security of the DNS root system. The strategy refers to plans for the European Commission to work with ENISA, Member States, the two root server operators based in the EU (the RIPE NCC

The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), in collaboration with the Communications and Information Technology Authority in Kuwait (CITRA), successfully organised the 4th edition of the RIPE NCC Government Roundtable dedicated to Arab ICT Ministries and regulators in the Middle East region on Tuesday 15 December, which was held virtually under the theme, “Cooperation for better connectivity”.

Our Gulf Internet Country report is taking a deep dive into understanding the state of Internet in eight different countries.

On Monday, 7 December 2020, the RIPE NCC together with ICANN, held an online meeting for governments representatives and regulators from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.