News and Announcements

30 October 2008 - Wilfried Woeber has been selected by the RIPE NCC Executive Board to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) for the RIPE NCC service region. The term of Mr. Woeber's appointment is from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011. The selection w

29 October 29 2008 -  The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) October 2008 was held Tuesday, 28 October 2008, adjacent to the RIPE 57 Meeting, at the JW Marriott Hotel in Dubai. There were 52 attendees excluding RIPE NCC staff and observers from the other Regional Internet Registries. The RIPE NCC membe

8 October 2009 - The The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) October 2009 took place on Wednesday, 7 October 2009, adjacent to the RIPE 59 Meeting, at the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon. There were 82 attendees, excluding RIPE NCC staff and observers from the other Regional Internet Registries. RIPE NCC member

The first RIPE Meeting held in the Middle East is RIPE 57, taking place 26-30 October 2008 in Dubai.

24 September 2008 - A key goal of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) at the OECD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul was raising awareness of IPv4 depletion and IPv6 deployment issues. As well as discussing the existing IP address distribution system, of which the RIRs are a key part, the event was an

18 September 2008 - The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), in cooperation with the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), is conducting a new survey to gather data regarding current and future use of IPv6. All organisations in the AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RI

The RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, is to hold a roundtable meeting for governments and regulators on Monday, 29 September 2008 at the Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel.

Announced in September 2008, the Cooperation Working Group is an important forum in which to discuss cooperation between the many stakeholders in the Internet community, including business, government, regulators and civil society.

Manufacturers urged to upgrade routers and network management software to support the use of four-byte Autonomous System numbers by 1 January 2009.

19 February 2008 Introduction On 4 February 2008 the IANA added IPv6 glue to the DNS root zone. This is a first quick look at measurement data for K-root, k.root-servers.net. It is based on data taken with the DNS Statistics Collector (DSC) tool, which we highly recommend. K-root Service Provis