News and Announcements

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

4 May 2004 - The Inter-Domain Routing Workshop took place at the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam 1 - 2 May 2004, the weekend before RIPE 48, also held in Amsterdam. The goal of the workshop was to bring together a focused group of operators, vendors, and researchers to discuss impor

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of the IPv4, IPv6 and AS Number request forms. This update has been necessary in order to accommodate the organisation object and "mnt-domains:" attribute. Following feedback from our members we have made other adjustments to the r

Amsterdam, May 11, 2004 – The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), the IPv6 Task Forces and the IPv6 Forum are working in co-operation to support global IPv6 deployment. The four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC, are responsible for the management of global I

The RIPE NCC has implemented a number of changes in the policy and procedures for requesting reverse delegation. This follows the effort to streamline reverse DNS operations [1] and make it easier for network administrators to manipulate related domain objects. You shou

27 April 2004 - A new mirror instance of the RIPE NCC operated K-root server went live in Athens, Greece on 26 April 2004. This node has been sponsored by the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) and is located at the Athens Internet Exchange. The K-root

As announced at RIPE 47 and on the Database Working Group Mailing List the "NONE authentication scheme" has been deprecated as of 26 April 2004. mntner objects which only had the NONE authentication scheme have been updated to use the MD5-PW scheme and the passwords emailed to the mntner c

[25 march 2004] We have recently installed an updated version of the Whois software and Database update software. As well as some bug fixes there are three new features in the Database software. X.509 This is now fully implemented. You are able to create the new X.509 KEY-CERT objects and refer

After 24 March, acknowledgments will be sent to all incoming mails sent to [email protected]. This feature was requested by the RIPE community during a recent RIPE Meeting.

Internet Systems Consortium, NLnet Labs and RIPE NCC begin interoperability work