New Statistics Format Released

Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE NCC has been working with the other Regional Internet
Registries (RIRs) - APNIC, ARIN, and LACNIC - to provide Internet
number resource statistics in a common format and location.  The RIR
Statistic files summarise the current state of Internet number
resources, and are intended to provide a snapshot of their status
without transactional or historical details.

The following changes will be made to the existing statistics
files:

- Addition of IPv6 allocations
- Addition of Early Registry Transfer (ERX) IPv4 networks
- Addition of Provider Independent (PI) assignments
- MD5 checksum provided for verification
- New directory
- Minor changes in format

The statistics in the new format are available at:

   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/new/

And the statistics in the current format are available at:

   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/

The RIPE NCC will continue to produce the statistics in the current
and new format until 5 January 2004.  On this date, the statistics
will be in the new format at:

   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/

Statistics previously generated will be available at:

   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/old/

Documentation of the format of these files may be found at:
   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/new/RIR-Statistics-Exchange-Format.txt

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Shane Kerr
Software Engineering Department Manager
RIPE NCC