Internet Governance News

On Monday, 27 January 2020, the RIPE NCC held a Roundtable Meeting for government representatives and regulators in Brussels, Belgium.

On Tuesday, 29 January 2019, the RIPE NCC held a Roundtable Meeting for government representatives and regulators in Brussels, Belgium.

The IPv6 Working Group recently evaluated a draft Recommendation from an ITU Study Group on IPv6 addressing for the Internet of Things.

On Monday, 22 January 2018, the RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators in Brussels.

The RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for government representatives in ICT in Manama, Bahrain, on 26 September.

The RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for government and regulators in Minsk, Belarus on 19 April.

On Tuesday, 24 January 2017, the RIPE NCC hosted a Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators in Brussels.

Following a liaison statement that the RIPE NCC received on behalf of Study Group 20 of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), we recently supplied our feedback to the group. The Study Group is set to study the "IoT and its applications, including smart cities and communities (SC&C)". The RIPE NCC was invited to participate because the group is working to develop recommendations that relate to IPv6. A similar liaison statement was received by our colleagues at the other RIRs. As a Sector Member of the ITU, the RIPE NCC has attended the previous meetings of Study Group 20 and will continue to follow the development of these recommendations closely.

On 1 October 2016, the IANA functions contract that the United States Government had with ICANN was allowed to expire. This represents the final step in the community-led IANA stewardship transition process that began in 2014. Oversight of IANA is now the responsibility of the Names, Numbers and Protocol Parameters communities that rely on its services.

The transition of stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community has reached a significant milestone. On 9 June 2016, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued its assessment report on the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal. The proposal was submitted to the NTIA in March 2016 following the ICANN 55 Meeting.