News and Announcements

The sixth annual Russian Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held on 7 April 2015 in Moscow, Russia. The meeting attracted over 500 participants and focused on Internet governance and regulation, as well as the technical, political and economic aspects of ICT development.

The 98th and 99th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting minutes

The RIPE NCC Annual Report 2014, including the Financial Report 2014, is now available.

MENOG 15 took place from 1-2 April at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Dubai. The meeting was well attended, with 177 attendees from 30 countries. RIPE NCC reports included an update from Managing Director Axel Pawlik on the organisation's main activities and operations, including the growing momentum around

Meeting with Law Enforcement Agencies 2015

The RIPE NCC announces the launch of the new RIPE NCC Membership Application Form.

In 2014, the RIPE NCC received seven requests from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in four countries. Our transparency report details the nature of these requests and the actions that were taken as a result. The RIPE NCC publishes a report on LEA requests annually.

The RIPE NCC Executive Board has published a response to the Consultations Report 2015.

On 2 March 2015, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) each received the equivalent of a /13 of IPv4 address space from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The RIPE NCC was allocated the IPv4 address range 45.8.0.0/13, which will be added to our available pool.

The 52nd ICANN meeting was held in Singapore from 8-12 February, attracting around 1800 participants on-site, as well as numerous remote participants. The issues surrounding ICANN accountability and the transition of IANA stewardship were again at the top of the agenda, and RIPE community members and RIPE NCC staff contributed to these discussions.