[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Welcomes 15,000th LIR

Dear colleagues,

Today we welcome our 15,000th Local Internet Registry (LIR) to join the 
RIPE NCC. This comes after several years of intense growth across our 
service region — it was less than three years ago that we reached 10,000 
LIRs. Coincidentally, this latest milestone comes as we are completing 
the move to our new office location in Amsterdam.

Our membership is changing as it grows. LIRs are increasingly being 
created by “non-traditional” industrial, financial and manufacturing 
entities that are showing greater interest in managing their own 
technical infrastructure. We are pleased to welcome these new LIRs on 
board and recognise that additional outreach efforts may be needed to 
explain the bottom-up process and encourage their participation within 
the RIPE community. This is reflected in our recently-published Activity 
Plan and Budget 2017, where we have placed an emphasis on member 
outreach in the coming year. Another focus will be ensuring that these 
new LIRs are aware of the range of tools and services we provide to 
support them in their work, something that was identified as an area for 
improvement in the RIPE NCC Survey 2016 results.

For more on our membership, this article on RIPE Labs takes a look at 
its growth over time and examines the effect this will have on our 
remaining IPv4 pool:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/15-000-local-internet-registries

Kind regards

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC