News and Announcements

As described in the 'Proposal for Periodic Clean-up for the TEST RIPE Database', the test database has been reset to a default set of objects.

This page provides information about the now defunct IRIS project.

1 September 2005 - We are pleased to announce that Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, has published a new RIPE Document, "Policy Development Process in RIPE", (ripe-350). This document formally describes the policy development process. The updated process is operational from today. A new RIPE web page descri

26 August 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in cooperation with APNIC have deployed a new global node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at the National Internet eXchange of India (NIXI) in Noida, Delhi, India. The K-root

29 July 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) has deployed a new global node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at Terremark's NAP of the Americas in Miami, Florida, USA. The K-root server is one of the 13 Internet root name

This is a proposal about changes to how the whois database software checks PGP and X.509 signatures on incoming updates. Currently the software checks that the PGP signature is valid by using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It verifies X.509 signatures

You may have seen our recently announced plans to deploy DNSSEC on the reverse tree. You can read more about this at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2005/msg00156.html This plan contains a proposal for the new "ds-rdata:" attribute. This att

29 June 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with APNIC (The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) has deployed a new local node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at PIPE Networks Exchange in Brisb

27 June 2005 - We are pleased to announce that we have relocated the Routing Information Service (RIS) Project's second North American Remote Route Collector at PAIX, Palo Alto in California. We are now ready to peer with PAIX members. We would like to thank Paul Vixie and

We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.3.0 of the RIPE Whois server. Major changes to the software include the following: People upgrading from 3.2.0 need to read the file UPDATE-DB-3.3.0. The source tree has heavily been modified; build syst