News and Announcements

12 August 2004 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in partnership with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) S.r.L. has reached an agreement for the hosting of a new mirror instance of the K-root Internet root name server in Milan. The K-root serv

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the RIS Project's twelth* Remote Route Collector, RRC12, is now ready to peer with members at the German Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).

22 June 2004 - Qtel, in partnership with the Amsterdam based Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) has deployed a mirror instance of the K-root servers in Doha, Qatar. This deployment should boost Internet performance across the Middle East region as

This is a short announcement to inform you that the "auth:" attribute of mntner and irt objects are now inverse keys, allowing users to search for objects with a specific "auth:" attribute. The schemata of mntner and irt objects are as follows: mntner: [mandatory] [single] [primary/l

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that as of 17, April 2004, a new type of object, the ORGANISATION object, is available in the RIPE Database. You can find more information about the ORGANISATION object at: http://www.ripe.net/db/support/organisation.html As part of the transition process, the R

On Friday 14 May 2004, Hans Petter Holen, Address Policy Working Group Chair, confirmed the consensus on the proposal to change the minimum IPv4 allocation size to /22 in the African countries in the RIPE NCC service region. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/a

4 May 2004 - The Inter-Domain Routing Workshop took place at the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam 1 - 2 May 2004, the weekend before RIPE 48, also held in Amsterdam. The goal of the workshop was to bring together a focused group of operators, vendors, and researchers to discuss impor

Amsterdam, May 11, 2004 – The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), the IPv6 Task Forces and the IPv6 Forum are working in co-operation to support global IPv6 deployment. The four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC, are responsible for the management of global I

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of the IPv4, IPv6 and AS Number request forms. This update has been necessary in order to accommodate the organisation object and "mnt-domains:" attribute. Following feedback from our members we have made other adjustments to the r

The RIPE NCC has implemented a number of changes in the policy and procedures for requesting reverse delegation. This follows the effort to streamline reverse DNS operations [1] and make it easier for network administrators to manipulate related domain objects. You shou