News and Announcements

The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) was held 2-3 November 2011 adjacent to the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna. There were 117 attendees, excluding RIPE NCC staff and observers from the other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The RIPE NCC would like to thank its membership for the input and support give

The RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) began today, 2 November, and will conclude at 16:00 (UTC +1) tomorrow, 3 November, when the results of the voting on the GM resolutions will be announced.The electronic voting period for those who registered will remain open until 14:00 (UTC +1) on 3 November.The ar

ITEMS International (Paris) is conducting an independent review of the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO). It is very important for reviewers to gather the views and opinions of the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) communities, particularly concerning Global Policies. The RIPE community is

The 10th live RIPEstat demo will take place during the RIPE 63 Meeting on Monday, 31 October from 17:45 - 18:15 local time in Vienna (16:45 - 17:15 UTC). If you are not attending RIPE 63, you can participate remotely. We're looking forward to your input, feedback and suggestions. Please note that t

RIPE NCC Member Update, October 2011

The RIPE NCC has completed a thorough security investigation following an email we received concerning Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on some of our web services and a possible compromise on one of our servers. The email reporting the XSS

We are in the process of rolling out RIPE NCC Access. This will enable you to access various RIPE NCC services using just one password instead of having to sign in to each tool or service separately.

As described in section 5.5 of RIPE policy, ripe-524 "Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region", RIPE NCC members are able to transfer Internet number resources to another member after RIPE NCC approval and based on demonstrated need.

To improve the usability of our services, we are deploying a new user account system called RIPE NCC Access. It will allow you to use a single set of credentials to access most of our services. This means that all users of our various services will be asked to migrate or update their current login credentials to a new scheme, using your email address and a password of your choice.

The RIPE NCC ROA Repository holds all of the Route Origin Authorisation objects created by the network operators using our Resource Certification service. ROAs state which Autonomous Systems are authorised to originate the prefixes an LIR holds. The repository currently contains over 350 ROAs covering more than 220,000 IPv4 /24 prefixes, which is almost 10% of the IPv4 address space registered in the RIPE region.