News and Announcements

Olaf Kolkman has stepped down from the RIPE NCC Arbiters Panel

The RIPE NCC Regional Meeting Almaty took place in Kazakhstan on 9 June 2014.

On 20 May 2014, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) each received the equivalent of a /11 of IPv4 address space from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The RIPE NCC was allocated the IPv4 address range 45.128.0.0/11, which will be added to our available pool.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) took place in Warsaw from 14-15 May 2014. There were 144 attendees at the GM, not including RIPE NCC staff. RIPE NCC Executive Board Elections An election took place to fill three seats on the RIPE NCC Executive Board. There were six candidates and the seats were ta

The RIPE NCC Member Update is a special edition focusing on the RIPE NCC General Meeting and the RIPE 68 Meeting.

The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 92nd meeting on 1 April 2014.

NETmundial, a two-day, multi-stakeholder meeting on Internet governance issues, concluded on Thursday, 24 April, in São Paulo, Brazil.

On 22 April 2014, the RIPE NCC handed over 5,376 returned legacy IPv4 addresses to IANA. This is the second time the RIPE NCC has returned legacy IPv4 addresses to IANA. For more information, please see the original news item and related documents.

The RIPE NCC is highly committed to protecting our IT infrastructure and safeguarding our members' data. Last week, a bug exploiting a serious security vulnerability in SSL encryption technology was discovered to have affected millions of websites.

The RIPE NCC has published a section on its website that provides background information on the IANA functions, the role of stewardship of IANA and the RIPE NCC’s relationship to IANA.