News and Announcements

The power of the Resource Certification system lies within the fact that you can always be sure that a valid Route Origin Authorisation (ROA), stating which Autonomous System (AS) is authorised to originate a certain prefix, can only be created by the legitimate holder of the address space. In addition, our aim to make the data set as complete and well maintained as possible.

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the launch of five new RIPE Database videos as part of our E-Learning service. The videos cover the following topics: The New Organisation Startup Form: Create your organisation's first person and maintainer objects Create an additional person object using webup

The RIPE NCC Resource Certification (RPKI) Service was launched on 1 January 2011. Since then, over 570 LIRs have generated a digital certificate in the LIR Portal, listing their Internet number resources. In addition, most LIRs have used it to specify their routing policy through Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs), indicating which Autonomous Systems are authorised to originate the prefixes they hold.

The Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey 2011 is now online. This survey has been designed by GNKS Consult in collaboration with TNO and the RIPE NCC to further understand where the community stands on IPv6 and what needs be done to ensure the Internet community is ready for the widespread adop

World IPv6 Day is a global event in which organisations around the world will offer their content over IPv6. As all of the RIPE NCC's services and content have already been available over IPv6 for some time, we'll be participating by extensively measuring World IPv6 Day. For more information, ple

This survey will be used by the RIPE NCC to assess its current service offering and shape its strategy for the years ahead. The RIPE NCC carries out these large-scale surveys every three years. They are extremely important in finding out the views of RIPE NCC members on the direction the RIPE NCC should be taking as an organisation.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting was held Wednesday, 4 May 2011, adjacent to the RIPE 62 Meeting at the Krasnapolsky Hotel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

On Wednesday 27 April, 2011, German certification institute TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH(TÜViT) awarded the world's first five-star software product certificate to the RIPE NCC.The star-rating levels of the SIG/TÜViT quality model are based on the relative position of software systems in a benchmar

Today, 15 April 2011, APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, announced that it has distributed the final IPv4 address space from its reserves of IPv4.

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the latest edition of the RIPE NCC Member Update is now available.