News and Announcements

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the latest Member Update is now available online. This issue includes an update from the RIPE NCC Managing Director, as well as articles on reaching the last /8, IPv4 transfers, the WTSA and WCIT conferences, and the previous General Meeting.

We are pleased to announce that the RIPE NCC's Activity Plan and Budget for 2013 is now available online. This definitive document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from the RIPE community, and outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year. Changes have been made

The seventh Internet Governance Forum took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 6-9 November 2012, bringing together more than 1,600 people from 128 countries. The RIPE NCC participated in the event, working with fellow Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and industry partners to develop the IGF program,

The RIPE NCC appeared in court on 29 November 2012 after it filed a summons against the state of the Netherlands following a police order it received on 8 November 2011 to temporarily "lock" registrations in the RIPE Database. The RIPE NCC filed the summons because it wants the Dutch court to clarify what the RIPE NCC's obligations are for such orders in the future.

Syria was disconnected from the Internet on Thursday, 29 December at 10:26 UTC (12:26 local time in Damascus) when a vast majority of the country's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes were withdrawn. We are closely monitoring the situation. At the time of publication, none of the RIPE NCC's 14 Syr

At this time, it only enables RIPE NCC members to list the IPv4 address space they hold and no longer need. Since the depletion of the available IPv4 address pool, there has been an increasing demand from the membership for a service that allows LIRs to request IPv4 address space for transfer. To fulfil this demand, we are currently building an addition to the Listing Service to provide this functionality.

The RIPE NCC is proud to announce the launch of the RIPE NCC Technical Emergency Hotline.

Starting on 1 November 2012, Merit, a non-profit research organisation, will temporarily use and announce 2a00:0000::/12 as part of its darknet experiment. The range was allocated to the RIPE NCC by the IANA. A similar experiment was also performed by Merit for IPv4. More information on t

The RIPE NCC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with APNIC, its counterpart for the Asia-Pacific region. The agreement formalises the already close working relationship between the two organisations which has seen them sharing resources in a number of key areas.

Recently, members of our community have been contacted by a commercial organisation that may have used personal contact details from the public RIPE Database for marketing and advertising purposes.