News and Announcements

The following supporting documents for the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) September 2012 are published: Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2013 Options for RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2013 RIPE NCC members have been sent invitations to cast their votes electronically on the GM Charging Scheme res

The RIPE NCC operates one of three authoritative DNS name servers for Syria’s SY domain.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) September 2012 takes place on Wednesday, 26 September 2012. It will be held adjacent to the RIPE 65 Meeting, which takes place from 24-28 September 2012.

As reported in previous announcements, the RIPE NCC will go to court in the Netherlands on 29 November 2012 to seek clarification on the procedure taken by the Dutch police on 8 November 2011 when it presented the RIPE NCC with a police order to "lock" registrations in the RIPE Database.

The RIPE NCC has published a new version of the procedural document “Independent Internet Number Resources – Contractual Relationship Changes Between Sponsoring LIR and End User”.This document replaces RIPE Document ripe-516. The procedural document describes the modifications that could be made to

The State submitted a statement of defence on 20 June 2012, where it defended the right of the police and the prosecutor to issue orders based on Article 2 of the Police Act at their discretion and it doubted the jurisdiction of the civil court to judge them in this case.

The RIPE NCC procedural document, "Due Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data", has been published. The RIPE NCC has a mandate from the RIPE community to keep an up-to-date and correct Internet number resource registry. In order to comply with this mandate, the RIPE NCC perfor

The RIPE NCC has created a draft procedural document, “Transfer of Internet Number Resource Records and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name”.

In response to feedback from RIPE NCC members and the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Task Force, the RIPE NCC Executive Board has developed a proposal for a new Charging Scheme model. In very broad terms, this model creates a simplified fee structure where the majority of members pay the same fee. The inc

On 20 June 2012, Kees Neggers, who served on the RIPE NCC Executive Board from 1999 to 2008, was made an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (Orde van Oranje Nassau).