News and Announcements

As reported in previous announcements, the RIPE NCC will go to court in the Netherlands on 29 November 2012 to seek clarification on the procedure taken by the Dutch police on 8 November 2011 when it presented the RIPE NCC with a police order to "lock" registrations in the RIPE Database.

The RIPE NCC has published a new version of the procedural document “Independent Internet Number Resources – Contractual Relationship Changes Between Sponsoring LIR and End User”.This document replaces RIPE Document ripe-516. The procedural document describes the modifications that could be made to

The State submitted a statement of defence on 20 June 2012, where it defended the right of the police and the prosecutor to issue orders based on Article 2 of the Police Act at their discretion and it doubted the jurisdiction of the civil court to judge them in this case.

The RIPE NCC procedural document, "Due Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data", has been published. The RIPE NCC has a mandate from the RIPE community to keep an up-to-date and correct Internet number resource registry. In order to comply with this mandate, the RIPE NCC perfor

The RIPE NCC has created a draft procedural document, “Transfer of Internet Number Resource Records and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name”.

In response to feedback from RIPE NCC members and the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Task Force, the RIPE NCC Executive Board has developed a proposal for a new Charging Scheme model. In very broad terms, this model creates a simplified fee structure where the majority of members pay the same fee. The inc

On 20 June 2012, Kees Neggers, who served on the RIPE NCC Executive Board from 1999 to 2008, was made an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (Orde van Oranje Nassau).

On 21 June 2012, 18 months after the RIPE NCC launched its Resource Certification (RPKI) service, the 1,000th LIR has requested a digital certificate for their Internet number resources.

Following our announcement last Friday regarding the reverse DNS outage, our initial summary of the incident is now available on RIPE Labs: Timeline of Reverse DNS Events A more detailed analysis of the incident will be posted in due course.

FINAL UPDATE: 13:30UTC Final update on the RIPE NCC rDNS event starting Wednesday 13 June 2012. As of Friday, 15 June 2012 at 7:30 UTC, we are fully back to normal reverse DNS operations. A full account of all relevant facts in this incident will be available, after thorough investigation, within