News and Announcements

29 July 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) has deployed a new global node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at Terremark's NAP of the Americas in Miami, Florida, USA. The K-root server is one of the 13 Internet root name

This is a proposal about changes to how the whois database software checks PGP and X.509 signatures on incoming updates. Currently the software checks that the PGP signature is valid by using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It verifies X.509 signatures

You may have seen our recently announced plans to deploy DNSSEC on the reverse tree. You can read more about this at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2005/msg00156.html This plan contains a proposal for the new "ds-rdata:" attribute. This att

29 June 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with APNIC (The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) has deployed a new local node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at PIPE Networks Exchange in Brisb

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

We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.3.0 of the RIPE Whois server. Major changes to the software include the following: People upgrading from 3.2.0 need to read the file UPDATE-DB-3.3.0. The source tree has heavily been modified; build syst

Many of the Internet community organisations that enable the processes for the development and administration of the Internet will host the ‘Internet Pavilion’ (stand 1323) at the ‘ICT 4 all’ exhibition at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, 15-19 November 2005.

Following discussions in the Database Working Group, we have made changes to the whois server software. These are the proposed changes: Add a new object poetic-form that will contain the supported poem types [1]. Add a new object poem that will hold the poem

26 April 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with Etisalat (Emirates Telecommunications Corporation) has deployed a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server at Emirates Internet Exchange (EMIX) in Abu Dha

The RIPE NCC has implemented the proposed changes to the Whois server software. We will put the new software into production on Wednesday, 27 April 2005. These changes alter the default output of the Whois server. If you need the old output, you can ge