News and Announcements

MENOG 20 planned to take place over 15-19 March has been postponed.

An initiative to support IPv6 migration efforts in Lebanon.

The RIPE Atlas probes are now available as software, offering future hosts a new way to help build the RIPE Atlas network.

Special workshops and training sessions held to help build IPv6 capacity in Jordan

On 6 February, 2020, the RIPE NCC joined a partnership with the Council of Europe to develop recommendations for its member states on the development, use and regulation of digital technologies. The Council of Europe’s mission is to promote human rights, democracy and the rule of law online.

On Monday, 27 January 2020, the RIPE NCC held a Roundtable Meeting for government representatives and regulators in Brussels, Belgium.

With the RIPE NCC having become the first RIR to receive an additional /12 IPv6 allocation (2a10::/12) from IANA a few months ago, we will soon begin to delegate space from this IPv6 block to LIRs. In preparation for this, in order to improve routability and minimise the risk of filtering, the RIPE

On 27 December 2019, the Number Resource Organization (NRO), acting as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), submitted correspondence to ICANN regarding the Internet Society’s proposed transfer of ownership of PIR, the .org registry, to Ethos Capital. The full correspondence is available on the

On 11 December 2019, we sponsored and participated to the annual e-AGE international conference organised by the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) in Abu Dhabi.

We have published our 2020 Activity Plan and Budget.