News and Announcements

Many of the Internet community organisations that enable the processes for the development and administration of the Internet will host the ‘Internet Pavilion’ (stand 1323) at the ‘ICT 4 all’ exhibition at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, 15-19 November 2005.

Following discussions in the Database Working Group, we have made changes to the whois server software. These are the proposed changes: Add a new object poetic-form that will contain the supported poem types [1]. Add a new object poem that will hold the poem

26 April 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with Etisalat (Emirates Telecommunications Corporation) has deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server at Emirates Internet Exchange (EMIX) in Abu Dha

The RIPE NCC has implemented the proposed changes to the Whois server software. We will put the new software into production on Wednesday, 27 April 2005. These changes alter the default output of the Whois server. If you need the old output, you can ge

The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) has deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server in Tokyo, Japan. This mirror server is the first global node outside Europe and should help stabilise the Internet infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.

Submitted by the Number Resource Organization http://www.nro.net Name of the paper: Cluster one B3 Assessment Report Number Resource Organization Comments We appreciate the efforts that have been put into the production of this draft document. It is reassuring to see the draft documents ar

April 2005, Geoff Huston - APNIC Introduction The purpose of this document is to examine the ITU-T's proposal for introducing competition into the allocation of IP addresses through the proposed establishment of national IPv6 address registries. This document will examine some of the assumptions abo

Number Resource Organization Comments We appreciate the efforts that have been put into the production of this draft document. It is reassuring to see the draft documents are improving in quality and in accuracy, and we commend the authors for their continued efforts. Whil

Summary: The purpose of this proposal is to change the RIPE Database schema to make abuse contact information more visible, available and useful to users. The main changes we propose are: To hide attributes that contain e-mail addresses in the default

22 February 2005 - The RIPE NCC DNS Monitoring Service (DNSMON) provides a comprehensive, objective and up-to-date overview of the quality of the service offered by high-level Domain Name System (DNS) servers. It is an active measurement service. It uses our Test Traffic Measurements (TTM) network t