Documentation for Resource Management

The Assisted Registry Check (ARC) provides support and tools to help our members strengthen the quality of their registry data.

With the increase in hijackings of Internet number resources in the RIPE NCC service region, it is important that resource holders are aware of this and take steps to protect their address space.

Information about "abuse-c:" and how to manage this contact information for your resources.

This document describes the information you will need to provide in order to complete a request form.

FAQs related to the abuse-c attribute

To ensure that RIPE Policies are applied equally and consistently, since 2007 we have widened the group of people responsible for approving large or rare requests of Internet number resources.

In the early days of the RIPE NCC, a small number of LIRs received allocations with the status "ALLOCATED PI" or "ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED". From these address blocks, LIRs could assign ranges with the status "ASSIGNED PI".