News and Announcements

18 October 2004 - On Thursday 14, October 2004, The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with ISNIC deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server at the Reykjavik Internet Exchange (RIX), Iceland. The K-root se

In preparation of a new release of the Whois software we have fixed several bugs and implemented some of the simple features asked for over the last few months for the update program, dbupdate. A brief description follows of the features implemented. 1) Change to the overall result of a mail upd

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the new representative selected from the RIPE NCC service region to serve on the ICANN ASO Address Council. The selection took place at the RIPE 49 Meeting held from 20 - 24 September 2004 in Manchester, UK and follows an open Call for Nominations published on 22

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the nominations for the representatives to the ASO Address Council - RIPE NCC Region. The selection takes place at the RIPE 49 Meeting, 20 - 24 September 2004 in Manchester, the United Kingdom and follows an open call for nominations pub

12 August 2004 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) S.r.L. has reached an agreement for the hosting of a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server in Milan. The K-root serv

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the RIS Project's twelth* Remote Route Collector, RRC12, is now ready to peer with members at the German Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).

22 June 2004 - Qtel, in partnership with the Amsterdam based Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) has deployed a mirror instance of the K-root servers in Doha, Qatar. This deployment should boost Internet performance across the Middle East region as

This is a short announcement to inform you that the "auth:" attribute of mntner and irt objects are now inverse keys, allowing users to search for objects with a specific "auth:" attribute. The schemata of mntner and irt objects are as follows: mntner: [mandatory] [single] [primary/l

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that as of 17, April 2004, a new type of object, the ORGANISATION object, is available in the RIPE Database. You can find more information about the ORGANISATION object at: http://www.ripe.net/db/support/organisation.html As part of the transition process, the R

On Friday 14 May 2004, Hans Petter Holen, Address Policy Working Group Chair, confirmed the consensus on the proposal to change the minimum IPv4 allocation size to /22 in the African countries in the RIPE NCC service region. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/a