News and Announcements

In accordance with developments in personal data privacy issues and the discussions during the RIPE Database Working Group during the RIPE 39 meeting in Bologna, the RIPE NCC will be carrying out a removal of certain specific records of personal contact information from the RIPE Database.

22 June 2006 - On Monday, 26 June 2006, we will replace the existing [email protected] and the [email protected] membership announcement lists with one new list: [email protected]. The new list will carry RIPE NCC announcements intended for our membership. The purpose of this cha

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is contemplating changes to the way the RFC Editor function is implemented. A draft proposal is available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klensin-rfc-independent-02 The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has created a public mailing list to facilitat

3 June 2006 - Since its inception in 1992 the RIPE NCC has provided free of charge secondary DNS name service to any Top-Level Domain (TLD) that requests it. The membership of the RIPE NCC provides funding for this service because the stability of the DNS is important for

On 1 June 2006, the reverse delegations in the ip6.int DNS tree corresponding to IPv6 address space allocated by the RIPE NCC were deleted as planned. This means that these reverse delegations will no longer be supported. The corresponding domain objects were also deleted from the RIPE Database. T

We are pleased to announce the publication of an updated RIPE Whois Database User Manual: Getting Started The content has been revised and updated and we have improved the wording to make it clearer. We have also added extra information abo

12 January 2006 - On 12 January 2006, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN) switched on a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server in Novosibirsk, Russia. The

4 January 2006 - The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the Routing Information Service (RIS) Project's first Remote Route Collector (RRC) in South America, RRC15, is online at Sao Paulo Internet Exchange Point and is now ready to peer with PTTMetro-SP members. RRC15 has been operational since

We have been informed of changes to Russian telephone area codes. One of our Russian members has asked the RIPE NCC to perform a bulk update on the whois data to reflect these changes. The area codes change on 1 December 2005. If we receive no objections, we plan to make this update two weeks late

The RIPE NCC Executive Board has reappointed Wilfried Woeber to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council as a representative of the RIPE NCC region. Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between ICANN and the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in October