News and Announcements

9 October 2009 - The RIPE 59 Meeting took place at the Hotel Corinthia Lisbon, Portugal, from 5-9 October 2010. More than 330 people from 33 different nationalities attended. Read complete meeting report.

9 October 2009 - We are pleased to announce that Dave Wilson has been selected by the RIPE community to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). He will serve a three-year term that runs from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2013. Selection took place during t

6 October 2009 - Following today's announcement during the plenary session at RIPE 59, the RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the launch of RIPE Labs. RIPE Labs is a new platform designed by the RIPE NCC for network operators, developers and industry experts to expose, test and discuss innovative

2 October 2009 - Following the approval of RIPE Policy Proposal 2009-02, "Allocating/Assigning Resources to the RIPE NCC", the RIPE NCC requested that an IPv6 PI assignment be assigned to it for RIPE Meetings. The RIPE NCC pool of arbiters decided, based on RIPE Policy Document ripe-476, "Allocating

Representatives from regional network operators, telecommunications organisations, vendors, local government and the media gathered in Moscow for the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting. More than 200 attendees participated in the two-day event, which provided a unique opportunity to discuss the latest developments affecting the Internet in the Russian region.

18 September 2009 - As part of the implementation of "Contractual Requirements for Provider Independent (PI) Resource Holders in the RIPE NCC Service Region", Local Internet Registries (LIRs) were asked to inform the RIPE NCC, via the LIR Portal, about which independent resources should stay with th

Representatives from governments and regulators from Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia will gather at the RIPE NCC's eighth Roundtable Meeting to identify potential strategies for Internet development. IPv6 deployment, IPv4 address distribution policy and Internet governance among issues to be discussed.

The RIPE NCC has been working closely with the European Commission (EC) on an IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey.

20 August 2009 - The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that we have deployed a new K-root local node at the Tanzania Internet Exchange (TIX) in Dar es Salaam. This node is sponsored by AfriNIC and the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA), with transit provided by Simbanet and Afric

22 June 2009 - Dr. Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN, has posted an open letter to Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE NCC, noting ICANN's appreciation of the role RIPE NCC plays as operator of k.root-servers.net, or simply K-root, one of the 13 Internet root name servers. The letter was sent in resp