News and Announcements

Dr. Rob Blokzijl, founding member and Chair of RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens), was made an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (Orde van Oranje Nassau) in an official ceremony conducted by the acting Mayor of Amsterdam, Lodewijk Asscher, on 12 May 2010.

Nigel Titley and Remco van Mook were elected by the membership to take the available seats on the Executive Board.

K-root, one of the 13 root name servers, distributing the root zone signed with DNSSEC as part of a global deployment plan that will see all 13 root zone servers signed by 1 July 2010.

15 March 2010 - As outlined by Joe Abley, ICANN, on the RIPE DNS Working Group mailing list, the DNS root servers have switched to a signed .ARPA zone this week. As the operator of K-root, the RIPE NCC has rolled out this change during a maintenance window on 15 March 2010 between 09:00-13:00 UTC.

The RIPE NCC recently requested that it be allowed to assign an Autonomous System (AS) Number to itself for its DNS services.

Internet address management may be on the brink of change. The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) is studying the creation of an alternative International Internet Registry model to operate in parallel to the existing RIR model.

16 December 2009 - On 1 December 2009, ICANN and VeriSign began to deploy DNSSEC across the root server system when they signed the root zone using DNSSEC. They noted that the signing would become public from January 2010, when the process of signing each of the 13 root servers in turn would begi

26 November 2009 - Recent discussion on the NANOG mailing list has highlighted some issues with the Autonomous System Number (ASN) range AS1707-AS1726. ARIN and the RIPE NCC have worked together to produce the following analysis of what happened and a plan to resolve these issues moving forward. It

With just over 10% of IPv4 address space left, the RIPE NCC launches How to Act Now - a guide to making IPv6 deployment simple. The first ever resource of its kind, How to Act Now provides large and small business and government users with the information necessary to successfully deploy IPv6 in their networks.

12 November 2009 - The company handling our secure online payments has changed its name. Triple Deal is now known as docdata payments. Docdata payments handle all credit card payments (American Express, MasterCard and VISA) made to the RIPE NCC. They do not handle bank transfers. How to pay your inv