News and Announcements

18 September 2009 - As part of the implementation of "Contractual Requirements for Provider Independent (PI) Resource Holders in the RIPE NCC Service Region", Local Internet Registries (LIRs) were asked to inform the RIPE NCC, via the LIR Portal, about which independent resources should stay with th

Representatives from governments and regulators from Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia will gather at the RIPE NCC's eighth Roundtable Meeting to identify potential strategies for Internet development. IPv6 deployment, IPv4 address distribution policy and Internet governance among issues to be discussed.

The RIPE NCC has been working closely with the European Commission (EC) on an IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey.

20 August 2009 - The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that we have deployed a new K-root local node at the Tanzania Internet Exchange (TIX) in Dar es Salaam. This node is sponsored by AfriNIC and the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA), with transit provided by Simbanet and Afric

22 June 2009 - Dr. Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN, has posted an open letter to Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE NCC, noting ICANN's appreciation of the role RIPE NCC plays as operator of k.root-servers.net, or simply K-root, one of the 13 Internet root name servers. The letter was sent in resp

19 June 2009 - The RIPE NCC (AS25152) upgraded the k.root-servers.net instance in Frankfurt, Germany to a global node on 18 June 2009. This means that we are now announcing the prefix without the BGP no- export attribute. If you have been operating a peering session with us at DE-CIX, you will now

18 June 2009 - As announced at RIPE 58, TNO and GNKS Consult are working with the RIPE NCC to conduct a survey, sponsored by the European Commission, on the current and future use of IPv6 throughout the RIPE NCC service region. The IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey is now online, and we encourage al

28 May 2009 - We are pleased to announce that the RIPE NCC has implemented the second phase of "Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC". In this phase the RIPE NCC will contact all LIRs to request information regarding existing direct resources requested through that LIR

The IPv6 Act Now website is designed to appeal to everyone with an interest in IPv6, from network engineers to company directors, from law enforcement agencies to government representatives and civil society.

13 May 2009 - 442 people took part in RIPE 58 when it took place in Amsterdam at the start of May 2009. The week kicked off with a focus on industry cooperation with government, law enforcement and the public sector. The first session of the day, the RIPE Cooperation Working Group, was centred aroun