News and Announcements

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.

The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund opened its call for applications in June 2020. The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee is happy to announce the following eight projects have been selected as the 2020 recipients of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund.

We are pleased to announce that Hervé Clément was re-appointed to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) at a Plenary session of the RIPE 81 Meeting in October 2020.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting was held from 28-30 October 2020.