News and Announcements

We’re pleased to announce that Hisham Ibrahim will take on the role of Chief Community Officer, heading the RIPE NCC’s community and engagement activities. This includes community development activities, learning and development, public policy and Internet governance, and membership engagement. Hish

The RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Mediterranean Europe looks at the Internet landscape in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece.

On Thursday, 1 July 2021, we will stop supporting the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator. This will have no impact on any of our core activities around the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). We are still committed to strengthening the RPKI infrastructure and our main priority is to maintain a secure, stable and resilient RPKI Certificate Authority.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting was held from 19-21 May 2021.

The election to fill Filiz Yilmaz's seat on the NRO NC took place during RIPE 82 from 17-21 May 2021. Filiz will end her term on 31 May 2021. The term for this seat will end on 31 December 2022. Congratulations to James Kennedy on winning the election. Read more about the NRO NC here.

‘Microlearning’, a new section in the RIPE NCC Academy

Apply for RACI Project Funding.

On Monday, 19 April 2021, we will enable Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Route Origin Validation (ROV) on our own network, AS3333, and reject RPKI invalid Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements.

The RIPE NCC Annual Report 2020 and RIPE NCC Financial Report 2020 are now online.

This is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill Filiz Yilmaz’s seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). Filiz recently stepped down from her position and will end her term on 31 May 2021.