News and Announcements

[21 December 2004] From Wednesday 29 December 2004, the RIPE Database will support RPSLng. RPSLng extends the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) allowing description of IPv6 and multicast routing policies. It includes a new object type, ROUT

17 December 2004 - On 26 November 2004, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with ISZT (Council of Hungarian Internet Providers) deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server at BIX (Budapest Internet Excha

24 November 2004 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with CERN and PSNC (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) has recently deployed two new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server. One in Geneva, Switzerl

28 October 2004 The RIPE NCC has updated the policy document, "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region". This update documents the recent changes to the policy for allocation sizes as follows: Minimum first all

28 October 2004 - On Thursday 28, October 2004, The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server at the Finnish Internet Exchange (FICIX ry) in Helsinki, Finland. FICIX has also

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