News and Announcements

1 August 2007 - The RIPE NCC has been awarded Special Consultative Status by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. With this consultative status, the RIPE NCC can designate official representatives to help advise the United Nations on issues related to Internet number resourc

15 July 2007 - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ray Pelletier as its first IETF Administrative Director (IAD). This appointment marks a key step in the IETF's progress in building a coordinated administrative platform that supports the collective

22 June 2007 - There was an IPv6 Deployment Panel discussion at the ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, 24 June between 15:00 and 16:30 (UTC -4). The session focused on the issues associated with deploying IPv6 on a network designed for IPv4. As well as webcasting the session, remote p

Announcement | Amsterdam, 22 June 2007 On 19 June 2007, the RIPE NCC was joined by its 5,000th member, marking a milestone in the history of the Amsterdam based, not-for-profit organisation. As the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, the R

21 June 2007 - In response to recent articles in the press regarding the RIPE IPv6 address allocation policy, the RIPE NCC would like to clarify the RIPE policy making procedure. The RIPE NCC itself does not accept or reject any policies. All policies that govern how Internet number resources

13 June 2007 - During the RIPE 54 Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia on 7 -11 May, the RIPE DNS Working Group agreed that a formal request should be made to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for it to sign the DNS root as soon as possible. The working group formulated a

5 May 2007 - The Address Supporting Organization (ASO) is pleased to announce that the ASO Address Council (AC) has selected Raimundo Beca to serve a new term on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board. Mr Beca's appointment follows a lengthy selection process,  includi

28 March 2007 - On 31 March 2007, the Verio routing registry database was renamed NTTCOM. This change of name has been incorporated in the RIPE Database server which mirrors a number of public databases including the NTTCOM routing registry. More information about the NTTCOM routing registry is a

27 March 2007 - The Comcast interoperability workshop on the DHCPv6 server software recently released by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) was held at the RIPE NCC offices in Amsterdam on Friday, 16 March. The workshop was attended by engineers from various organisations who developed DHCPv6 sof

17 March 2007 - The months of October and November 2007 saw an increase in the number of IPv6 allocations made in a single month by the RIPE NCC. There were 24 allocations made to RIPE NCC members in October, a record immediately broken by the 31 allocations made in November. The previous peak w