From no-reply at ripe.net Wed Dec 1 11:23:10 2010 From: no-reply at ripe.net (Axel Pawlik) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:23:10 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] Four /8s Allocated to RIRs; 2.73% Remains Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Today, 30 November 2010, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributed four of the remaining eleven /8s to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs): 5/8 and 37/8 to the RIPE NCC and 23/8 and 100/8 to ARIN. The IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses now stands at seven /8s, or 2.73% of the total IPv4 address pool. When only five /8s remain, the IANA will simultaneously distribute these equally among five RIRs, in accordance with global policy: http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm There are now only two IPv4 blocks available under the normal distribution method. If you have not already adopted the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, I strongly urge you to act now. For more information on IPv6 adoption, visit: http://www.ipv6actnow.org/ If you have any questions or comments, please email . Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director, RIPE NCC From alexb at ripe.net Wed Dec 1 17:15:59 2010 From: alexb at ripe.net (Alex Band) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:15:59 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Resource Certification System: Initial Deployment 1 January 2011 Message-ID: <49C756F5-32D3-4DB6-A105-BBA4E145905E@ripe.net> Dear colleagues, With just seven IPv4 address blocks available in the IANA pool, we are hurtling towards the end of an era. With this prospect, the registry function of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) is going to be crucial to the Internet community. More than ever, it is important to know who is the legitimate holder of a block of IP addresses. With this as a primary driver, the RIPE NCC (in coordination with the other four RIRs) is planning to deploy a system that attaches digital certificates to Internet number resources (IP address blocks and Autonomous System (AS) Numbers). A more complete description of the benefits of resource certification can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/certification/ The RIPE NCC has had a beta platform for certification up and running for several months now. More than 100 RIPE NCC members have enabled certification under this pilot program, providing the RIPE NCC with valuable feedback. On 1 January 2011, the RIPE NCC will launch a hosted production system, which will allow all LIRs to generate a certificate of holdership, which will be held in a repository maintained by the RIPE NCC. Network operators will also be able to start making routing decisions based on the system as of this date. Further iterations of this system will be deployed over the coming 12 months, including the option for LIRs to host their own Certificate Authority and generate certificates for their own customers. Digital certificates have helped make business on the Internet more secure. Now we are using resource certificates to make the Internet itself more secure. For more information, please visit: http://ripe.net/certification If you have any questions or comments, please email . Best regards, Alex Band Product Manager, RIPE NCC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mschepers at ripe.net Fri Dec 3 16:48:17 2010 From: mschepers at ripe.net (Menno Schepers) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:48:17 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] Network Maintenance: 08/12/2010 17:00-19:00UTC Message-ID: <4CF91141.6000707@ripe.net> [Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 8 December 2010 between 17:00 and 19:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on its core network infrastructure in its office datacentre. Although we expect any outage to be minimal, it is possible that there will be intermittent access to all services hosted by the RIPE NCC during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact: ops at ripe.net. Regards, Menno Schepers RIPE NCC From mschepers at ripe.net Fri Dec 10 11:30:55 2010 From: mschepers at ripe.net (Menno Schepers) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:30:55 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] Network Maintenance: 14/12/2010 17:00-20:00UTC Message-ID: <4D02015F.5090309@ripe.net> [Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday, 14 December 2010 between 17:00 and 20:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on its core network infrastructure in its office datacentre. Although we expect any outage to be minimal, it is possible that there will be intermittent access to all services hosted by the RIPE NCC during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact: ops at ripe.net. Regards, Menno Schepers RIPE NCC From pmilani at ripe.net Tue Dec 14 22:51:58 2010 From: pmilani at ripe.net (Paolo Milani) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:51:58 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] LIR Portal service outage (resolved) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Today LIR Portal has been temporarily unavailable until 21:30 UTC. The outage took place during the programmed maintenance window, but also extended 1h30m past the limit. We performed software and configuration upgrades but we had an operational issue with one of our servers. After the upgrades, the server did not complete correctly booting the software services needed. We have fixed the problem, and LIR Portal is available again. Apologies for any problem caused. Paolo Milani - LIR Portal Service Manager Senior Software Engineer RIPE NCC From saskia at ripe.net Thu Dec 23 11:43:35 2010 From: saskia at ripe.net (Saskia van Gorp) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:43:35 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC closed on Friday 24 December 2010 Message-ID: <4D1327D7.7000604@ripe.net> Dear Colleagues, Our offices will be closed on Friday 24 December 2010 due to Christmas Eve. Normal office hours will resume on Monday, 27 December 2010. The RIPE NCC wishes you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2011. Regards, Saskia van Gorp Facilities, Administration and Reception Manager RIPE NCC From andrea at ripe.net Mon Dec 27 16:51:13 2010 From: andrea at ripe.net (Andrea Cima) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:51:13 +0100 Subject: [ncc-announce] New RIPE NCC PGP Key Message-ID: <4D18B5F1.4040107@ripe.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 5 January 2011 we will start using our 2011 key to sign e-mail from our ticketing system. The new key has been signed by the old key as described in the key-management policy on our web site: https://www.ripe.net/rs/pgp/index.html The old key remains valid until Thursday, 3 February 2011. If you have any questions about this, please contact . Kind Regards, Andrea Cima RIPE NCC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAk0YtfEACgkQXOgsmPkFrjOY9wCgtImM+qFN1KAqyVniORJ8jbf8 P9UAoKn11gqoeDn1QCx+S4A0YkBqeHgR =fHuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From xavier at ripe.net Wed Dec 29 15:45:13 2010 From: xavier at ripe.net (xavier at ripe.net) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:45:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [ncc-announce] Reduction in IPv4 Allocation/Assignment Time Period Message-ID: <51875.62.163.39.125.1293633913.squirrel@webmail.ripe.net> Dear Colleagues, As of Monday, 3 January 2011, the RIPE NCC will allocate enough IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) requesting space to meet their needs for a period of up to six months. End-Users that request space from an LIR or the RIPE NCC will also be assigned enough address space to meet their needs for a period of up to six months. This is a change from the current policy which states that address space is allocated or assigned to meet needs for up to nine months. The change is in accordance with RIPE Policy Proposal 2009-03, "Run Out Fairly", which was accepted by the RIPE Community in December 2009. The proposal can be found at: http://ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-03.html The following RIPE Documents have been updated to reflect the implementation of this policy: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-488.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-489.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-490.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-491.html If you have any questions about this, please send an email to Regards, Xavier Le Bris RIPE NCC Registration Services Department