Internet Governance News

Experts from industry, government and regulators will discuss effective management of IP address space, networking and building cooperation across the Middle East

4 October 2006 - Dave Wilson of HEAnet has been nominated from the RIPE NCC service region to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The election came ahead of the end of a term served by Sabine Jaume, who was elected in January 2004. Voting took pl

22 September 2006 - Sabine Jaume Rajaonia and Dave Wilson have accepted their nominations for the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) from the RIPE NCC service region. Sabine currently holds the seat and has done so since previous NRO NC elections in Janu

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

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

18 November 2005 - In a press conference today at the WSIS in Tunis, the Number Resource Organization(NRO) released a statement regarding the Tunis Commitment found at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2266|0 The Number Resource Organization (NRO) is satisfied with the resu

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

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

The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has published its common position on the future of IPv6 management.