[ripe-list] 30 Years Ago Today

Thanks for sharing this wonderful pieces of history.

Cheers!

/Carlos

On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 7:43 AM Daniel Karrenberg <dfk at ripe.net> wrote:

> Dear RIPE colleagues and fellow RIPE NCC staff,
>
> 30 years ago today the RIPE NCC, the first of the RIRs, opened its virtual
> doors. Yes it was on April 2nd and not a day earlier as is often wrongly
> reported. This is a fact! I was there. The term 'post-factual' was just
> being invented.
>
> An NCC had already been proposed two years earlier:
> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-019 . Our purpose, our
> relationship with RIPE and many of our tasks today are already expressed
> clearly in that proposal.  The very first RIPE NCC Activity Plan was ready
> a year before the start: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-035
> . It took a year to collect the initial funds, a host organisation and
> office space.
>
> Some friends suggested strongly that I should lead the set-up of the RIPE
> NCC. I got the job and signed up for one year, fully expecting to return to
> an academic career in computer science. The rest is, as the saying goes,
> history.
>
> By the way, the history of the RIPE NCC is well documented in quarterly
> and annual reports and other RIPE documents:
> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs . We started with three people and
> five computers. I have described the first hours from a geeky perspective
> five years ago:
> https://labs.ripe.net/author/dfk/25-years-of-the-ripe-ncc-the-first-hours/
> . At the same time we published a short summary of the history with a
> photograph of the staff in 1996:
> https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/celebrating-25-years-of-the-ripe-ncc
> .
>
> Together we have come a long way. I am proud of all of you, past and
> present, who have made the RIPE NCC a success. I am  proud of the strong
> community we have built and nourished. Recently we have mastered the
> challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and we are coping with conflict and
> terrible wars in our region. I am confident that with our combined efforts
> both RIPE and the RIPE NCC will thrive for a long time to come.
>
> Thank you all, past and present staff, past and present board members, the
> RIPE community, the membership and all other supporters!
>
> Daniel
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