News and Announcements

27 April 2004 - A new mirror instance of the RIPE NCC operated K-root server went live in Athens, Greece on 26 April 2004. This node has been sponsored by the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) and is located at the Athens Internet Exchange. The K-root

As announced at RIPE 47 and on the Database Working Group Mailing List the "NONE authentication scheme" has been deprecated as of 26 April 2004. mntner objects which only had the NONE authentication scheme have been updated to use the MD5-PW scheme and the passwords emailed to the mntner c

[25 march 2004] We have recently installed an updated version of the Whois software and Database update software. As well as some bug fixes there are three new features in the Database software. X.509 This is now fully implemented. You are able to create the new X.509 KEY-CERT objects and refer

After 24 March, acknowledgments will be sent to all incoming mails sent to [email protected]. This feature was requested by the RIPE community during a recent RIPE Meeting.

Internet Systems Consortium, NLnet Labs and RIPE NCC begin interoperability work

27 January 2004 - For the first time in Internet history the number of instances of DNS root servers outside the United States has overtaken the number within. The balance was tipped by the recent launch in Frankfurt of an anycast instance of the RIPE NCC operated K-root server (http://k.root-

The final date for comments on the proposal to change the minimum IPv4 allocation size to /21 ended on 22 December 2003. The RIPE NCC implemented this policy change on 1 January 2004. The policy change consists of two parts: The minimum initial IPv4 allocation size is reduced from /20 to /21. It i

From 8 December 2003, as part of the effort to streamline reverse DNS operations, domain updates that contain in-addr.arpa or ip6.arpa type entries sent to <[email protected]> will automatically be forwarded to <[email protected]> for processing. This will continue until the two processes

"cross-nfy:" and "cross-mnt:" attributes will be deprecated in the RIPE Whois Database by 1 February 2004. The RIPE Database previously had a cross notification mechanism. This mechanism used "cross-nfy:" and "cross-mnt:" attributes of route and aut-num objects to notify particular maintainers an

RIPE NCC working with ISC to protect the Internet's global Domain Name System (DNS)