News and Announcements

The RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 is now available. This definitive document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from our membership. It outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year and the associated costs for each activity.

The EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade was released today and includes a strategy to reinforce the security of the DNS root system. The strategy refers to plans for the European Commission to work with ENISA, Member States, the two root server operators based in the EU (the RIPE NCC

The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), in collaboration with the Communications and Information Technology Authority in Kuwait (CITRA), successfully organised the 4th edition of the RIPE NCC Government Roundtable dedicated to Arab ICT Ministries and regulators in the Middle East region on Tuesday 15 December, which was held virtually under the theme, “Cooperation for better connectivity”.

Our Gulf Internet Country report is taking a deep dive into understanding the state of Internet in eight different countries.

On Monday, 7 December 2020, the RIPE NCC together with ICANN, held an online meeting for governments representatives and regulators from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund opened its call for applications in June 2020. The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee is happy to announce the following eight projects have been selected as the 2020 recipients of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund.

We are pleased to announce that Hervé Clément was re-appointed to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) at a Plenary session of the RIPE 81 Meeting in October 2020.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting was held from 28-30 October 2020.

The 20th edition of the Middle East Network Operator Group Meeting and Peering Forum (MENOG) was held as a virtual event recently. The meeting took place as a 90-minute panel discussion and was broadcasted live on MENOG’s website.

RIPE NCC has published a report on the state of the Internet in five different countries in Central Asia. This is the fifth in a series of country reports we’re producing to share RIPE NCC data with members of the technical community and decision makers, in order to inform discussions about Internet development throughout our service region.