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Geolocation data prototype in the RIPE Database
by Denis Walker 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Dear colleagues, At the RIPE 62 Meeting in Amsterdam the RIPE NCC Database Group was asked to investigate handling geolocation data in the RIPE Database. We now have a proof of concept prototype for discussion by the community. Based on input from a number of community sources and the subsequent presentation at RIPE 62, this prototype has two new optional attributes for storing geolocation data and language details. We have written an article about the design approach on RIPE Labs https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/geolocation-prototype-for-ripe-database This prototype references a sand-boxed TEST Database and does not have any pre-loaded geolocation or language data. But you can create your own data to see how easy it is to manage this new, optional information. We also have a prototype Geolocation Finder tool to search for this data. Another article on RIPE Labs shows how to create the new optional attributes and use the Geolocation Finder tool to search for this data. No changes in this sand-boxed TEST Database will affect the production RIPE or TEST Database services. The article is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/example-usage-of-ripe-database-geolocat… We invite comments or feedback on this design and suggestions for how to move forward if it is seen as a useful addition to the RIPE Database by the community. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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2nd CfP: ICIW 2012 || May 27 - June 1, 2012 - Stuttgart, Germany
by Cristina Pascual 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICIW 2012. The submission deadline is set to January 5, 2012. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICIW 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICIW 2012, The Seventh International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services May 27 - June 1, 2012 - Stuttgart, Germany General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICIW12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICIW12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICIW12.html Submission deadline: January 5, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICIW 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) IWAS : Internet and Web-based Applications and Services Web technologies, frameworks, languages, mechanisms; Web applications design and development; Interaction with/from Web-based applications; Web-based applications� features; Management of Web-based applications; Evaluation of Web applications; Specialized Web applications; Aggregating multimedia documents; E-business, appliances, and services; IP Grid Management and Grid Services; IP-based convergent solutions and next generation networks; Standards, case studies and special groups on web-based applications; E-business system design, development, and management for SMEs WSSA : Web Services-based Systems and Applications Service Innovations; Service Architectures; Model-driven development of context-aware services; Context-aware service models, architectures and frameworks; Model-driven development of semantic Web services; Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages; Web services architecture and business continuity; Special Web services mechanisms; Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services; Web service applications ; Data Management aspects in Web Services; Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration; Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing; Web services based applications for e-Commerce; Multimedia applications using Web Services; Automatic computing for Web services; Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability; Enterprise Web services; Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management; Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies; Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits ENSYS: Entertainment Systems Developing entertainment systems and applications; Platforms for entertainment systems; Speech technology & its usability for entertainment systems; Networking requirements for entertainment systems; Traffic generated by entertainment applications; QoS/SLA on entertainment systems; Reliability and high availability of entertainment systems; Identify aspects in entertainment systems; Real-time access to entertainment systems; Customized access entertainment systems; Navigation and entertainment systems; Integration and interoperability aspects in entertainment systems; Entertainment systems and applications; Networking and system support for entertainment systems; Wireless and mobile technologies for entertainment; Wireless multimedia for entertainment; Systems for music and movie distribution; Games on mobile and resource-constrained devices; Mobile video entertainment systems; Car/flight/train entertainment systems; Ubiquitous entertainment systems; Interactive television; Technologies for sport and entertainment; WiFi wireless home entertainment systems; Wearable technologies for entertainment P2PSA: P2P Systems and Applications P2P architectures, techniques, paradigms; P2P programming and data handling; P2P security features; Data and compute intensive applications; P2P networks and protocols; P2P management; P2P Trust and reputation management; Fault tolerance in P2P, quality of availability, accounting in P2P; Self-adaptiveness in P2P overlay networks; Self-configurable P2P systems; Case studies, benchmarking; Copyright and intellectual property; Electronic marketplace, Digital asset management and trading systems; Platforms, environments, testbeds ONLINE: Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks Theory, frameworks, mechanisms, and tools for online communication; Methodologies and languages for on-line communications; Web services and XML use for online communications; Tools for assessing online work, distributed workload; Shared business processes; Collaborative groups and systems; Theory and formalisms of group interactions; Group synergy in cooperative networks; Online gambling, gaming, children groups; Identity features, risks, jurisdiction for online communications; Specifics emergency and e-coaching on online communications; B2B and B2E cooperation; Privacy, identify, security on online communications; Individual anonymity, group trust, and confidentiality on online groups; Conflict, delegation, group selection; Community costs in collaborative groups; Building online social networks with popularity contexts, persuasion, etc.; Technology support for collaborative systems; Techniques, mechanisms, and platforms for remote cooperation SERCOMP: Service computing Adaptive Architecture; Business process integration and management; Cloud Computing; Collective Intelligence for Service Computing; Computational Intelligence; Data Mining of Actual Services; Decision Science; Digital EcoSystems Infrastructure; Economic Clusters; Economics and Economic Experiments; Game Theory; Human Modeling in Services; Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; Intra- and Inter-enterprise services; Knowledge Discovery for Service Computing; Nature Inspired Computing Techniques for Service Computing; Optimization of Service Processes; Psychological Approaches to Services; Self Organizing Infrastructure; Sensing of Human Behaviors; Service-centric business models and their economics; Service discovery, repository and registry; Service Engineering; Service evaluation, measurements and delivery audit; Service interaction, service ontologies and service composition; Service Marketing; Service-Oriented Architecture; Service Oriented computing; Soft Computing; Society and business services (public, utility, business, healthcare, consulting, etc.); Sustainable Frameworks; Swarm Intelligence; Ubiquitous and pervasive services (technology, context, security); Value Creation in Services; Web-based basics on service modeling, deployment and maintenance SLAECE: Social and Legal Aspect of Internet Computing Principles, theories, and challenges of legal and social aspects; Strategies, modeling, and requirements engineering of legal and social aspects; Architectures, implementations, and deployment consideration of legal and social aspects; Cyber threats, emerging risks, systemic concerns, and emergency preparedness; Social computing and lifestyle computing; Service marketing and customer relationship management; Market structures and emerging business models; Emerging legal issues due to new computing environment; File / information sharing networks and user behavior; Knowledge modeling, management, and application; Negotiation and contracting as well as contract monitoring and enforcement; E-democracy, e-policy, and governance; Legal and social ontologies; Privacy and copyright in collaborative environments and social networks; Intellectual property rights; Trust, security, and privacy; Counterfeit forensic; Identity management and access control; Security and privacy in location-based services VEWAeL: Virtual Environments and Web Applications for eLearning E-Learning; Web Technologies and Tools for Educational Purposes; Services for E-Learning Platforms; Virtual Learning Environments (VLE); Course Management Systems; Web applications for Teaching; Social Implications of E-Learning; Lifelong E-learning; Teaching-Learning Experiences using the Internet for Educational Purposes; E-learning in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and other HE contexts; Web protocols for VLE; Security for VLE; QoS for VLE; Storage management in VLE ECC: Enterprise cloud computing Architectures for enterprise clouds; Principles, concepts and methodologies of enterprise cloud computing; Tools, technologies, methodologies and frameworks for enterprise cloud computing; Enterprise IS architectures such as application, information and technology architectures; Synergies between SOA, Grid Computing and Cloud Infrastructures; Quality of Service (QoS) models; 'Elastic' and on-demand allocation and management of resources to meet business needs; Benefits, issues and limitations of enterprise clouds; Security, data integrity, legal and governance issues for enterprise clouds; Management, monitoring an governance issues; Portability of architectures, applications and data between cloud providers; Reliability and maintenance of cloud-based business architectures; Architectures for Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service; Network architecture using Storage Clouds; Experience reports with designing, building and using Cloud infrastructure; Novel application architectures, best practices, case studies and surveys ------------------------------ Technical Program Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComICIW12.html ====================

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Improvements to RIPE Database webforms
by Denis Walker 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC Database Group is pleased to announce some improvements to the database webforms. There is now an expanding menu on the right hand side of each form containing quick links to get to every form. You no longer need to bookmark each form and you can navigate to any other form quickly and easily. The query search results now have buttons for each object shown in the results. These buttons can be seen when you move your mouse over the object. By clicking one of these buttons, that object is opened in a Webupdates Form enabling you to either update or delete the object. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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RFC 2317-style Reverse DNS Delegation in the RIPE Database
by Anand Buddhdev 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, In April 2011, Denis Walker sent a proposal to the DNS and Database Working Groups outlining some reverse DNS-related changes to the RIPE Database. You can see the full proposal here: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2011/msg00080.html I'm happy to report that this proposal has been fully implemented. This means that: - Dashes in the third octet of a DOMAIN object are no longer allowed - Dashes in the fourth octet are now allowed A dash in the fourth octet allows for RFC 2317-style reverse DNS delegation for Provider Independent (PI) address allocations which don't fall on octet boundaries. For this second change, we converted all existing delegations into appropriate DOMAIN objects in the RIPE Database. We will update the reverse DNS "how-to" on the RIPE NCC website over the next few days. If you have any questions, please send an email to <dns(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Anand Buddhdev DNS Services, RIPE NCC

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RESTful API for create, delete and update
by Christopher Fuselier 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Can someone please provide an update regarding RIPE's RESTful APIs for manipulating the RIPE database? The documentation <https://labs.ripe.net/ripe-database/database-api/api-documentation> points to <http://lab.db.ripe.net/whois> http://lab.db.ripe.net/whois as the URL for communicating with the RIPE and TEST databases. In my testing, transactions time out with that web service endpoint. Using a slightly different URL (http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois), queries succeed but updates do not. Could it be that the web service URL has changed? Or is the e-mail template approach still preferred? Thank you in advance... Cheers, Christopher Fuselier

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2nd CfP: MMEDIA 2012 || April 29 - May 4, 2012 - Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France
by Cristina Pascual 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to MMEDIA 2012. The submission deadline is set to December 5, 2011. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== MMEDIA 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS MMEDIA 2012: The Fourth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia April 29 - May 4, 2012 - Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/MMEDIA12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPMMEDIA12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: hhttp://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitMMEDIA12.html Submission deadline: December 5, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html MMEDIA 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Fundamentals in multimedia Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications; New multimedia platforms; Multimedia architectural specification languages; Theoretical aspects and algorithms for multimedia; Multimedia content delivery networks; Network support for multimedia data; Multimedia data storage; Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems; Multimedia signal coding and processing (audio, video, image); Multimedia applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, �); Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, �); Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, �); Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis; Multimedia networking; Wired and wireless multimedia systems; Distributed multimedia systems; Multisensor data integration and fusion; Multimedia and P2P; Multimedia standards Multimedia content and modeling Interfaces for multimedia creation; Multimedia streaming and services; Image modeling and editing; Audio modeling and transformation; Video modeling and transformation; Image recognition; Multimedia databases; Multimedia coding and encryption; Multimedia modeling for learning content; Multimedia description languages; Image clustering; Media fusion for communication and presentation Self-organizing multimedia architectures Self-organization in multimedia systems; Self-organization in multimedia communities; Self-organized multimedia networks; Multimedia content distribution and consumption; Adaptive multimedia interfaces; Multimedia retrieval Multimedia content-based retrieval and analysis Multimodal data analysis; Multimedia databases; Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation; Image/video/audio databases; Content-based image retrieval; Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content; Multimedia data modeling, indexing, and mining; Statistical modeling of multimedia data; Multimedia extraction and annotation; Content search/browsing/retrieval; Internet imaging and multimedia; Multimodal content analysis; Multimedia abstraction and summarization; Semantic analysis of multimedia data; Media assimilation and fusion Perception and cognition for multimedia users Quality of experience; Relevance feedback; Human-computer interaction; Multimodal interaction; Multimodal user interfaces; Mobile user-centered interfaces; Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming; Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,�); Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks; Visualization and virtual reality; Intelligent browsing and visualization; Perception and cognition; Perception and modeling of the environment; Multimedia collaboration; Social networking Multimedia ontology Multimedia semantics; Emergent semantics; Media ontology learning; Ontology for media web mining; Multimedia ontologies; Multimedia information management; Approaches using metadata standards; Conceptual clustering; Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility; Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems; Enabling platforms for mobile multimedia; Roaming and limited bandwidth; Intermittent connectivity; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile multimedia software architectures; Mobile multimedia applications and services; Communication and cooperation via mobile multimedia; Business models for mobile multimedia; Provisioning of mobile multimedia services; Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks; Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia; Social and regulatory aspects of mobile multimedia; Multimedia in the Extended Home; Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing Multimedia services Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services; Multimedia content distribution services; Real-time multimedia services; Audio-visual multimedia services; Multimedia signal processing and communications; Media representation and algorithms; Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; Multimedia database, content delivery and transport; Multimedia service protocols; Mobility of multimedia services; Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems; Media enabled eCommerce service; Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new multimedia services Multimedia applications Real-time interactive multimedia applications Adaptive and context-aware multimedia applications; Ambiance multimedia applications; Media applications on mobile devices; Multi-modal interaction; Virtual environments; Personalization; Collaboration, contextual metadata, collaborative tagging; Web applications; Multimedia authoring; Multimedia-enabled new applications (eLearning, entertainment,�..); Cooperative networks and applications; Mobile multimedia applications & services; Semantic metadata for mobile applications; Semantics enabled multimedia applications; Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications; Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications Industrial use-cases and applications Multimedia security and content protection Multimedia security (watermark, encryption,� ); Mobile multimedia systems and services; Security, privacy, and cryptographic protocols; Network security issues and protocols; Key management and authentication; Authentication and access control; Intrusion detection and prevention; Content protection and digital rights management; Trusted computing; Information hiding; Protection of user-generated content Multimedia control and management Wireless and mobile multimedia network management; Multimedia measurement, control, and management; Content management and delivery; IP multimedia system operations and management; Managing the quality of experience and quality of service; Measuring the quality of performance in multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization; Monitoring and managing mobile multimedia; Resource reservation for multimedia services; Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management; Management of service oriented architectures; Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComMMEDIA12.html ====================

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Re: [db-wg] New free text search for RIPE Database
by Hank Nussbacher 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

At 14:13 10/11/2010 +0100, Denis Walker wrote: Old thread: In the old system one could find all objects that had a specific person listed. In the new system, you state that you don't index role or person objects but you also don't index the strings tech-c or admin-c inside inetnum objects for example. This makes it then impossible to find what objects a person is listed on. Imagine someone retires and you want to change all his/her objects that list them - it used to be able to be done with the old free text search. The new one doesn't allow it. Regards, Hank >Dear Hank > >Currently this new search is only a prototype. But it works much more >effectively than the search you referenced below. It is more powerful, >has more features and can be more easily scaled and adapted to changing >underlying data. The current search, based on glimpse, is end of life. >If the prototype meets users needs then we will replace glimpse with >this new service. > >Regards >Denis Walker >Business Analyst >RIPE NCC Database Group > >Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > At 12:19 10/11/2010 +0100, Mirjam Kuehne wrote: > > > >> Dear colleagues, > >> > >> Our RIPE Database developers implemented a new free text search for > >> the RIPE Database. Read details on RIPE Labs: > >> > >> http://labs.ripe.net/Members/Paul_P_/full-text-search-in-the-ripe-database > >> > > > > Is this meant to replace?: > > http://www.ripe.net/db/whois-free.html > > > > Regards, > > Hank > > > >

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Call for agenda items, DB-WG Meeting during RIPE63, Vienna, AT
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear DB-WG folks, planning activities for the next RIPE Meeting - RIPE63 in Vienna, AT, October 31 - November 4, 2011, have already started - thus this call for agenda items. Please submit (to the WG list!) your item requests and|or suggest topics for discussion to be included in the draft agenda! (I plan to distribute the 1st version of the draft agenda by the end of CW37) Please note that the DataBase-WG meeting is *at the moment* scheduled for *Thursday* (starting at 16:00 local time). This is according to the *draft* meeting plan - which may still need to be changed as we get closer to the meeting date! The overall (draft) RIPE 63 meeting outline is already available at http://ripe63.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ Looking forward to a successful meeting and see you here in Vienna, Wilfried. PS: please note that Tuesday, November 1st is local holiday in Austria! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iQCVAwUBTm8fQd/RXX7wrLNpAQJpmAQAs+AkHFvqhgYiMw9Pkq8kb1+Es8NVSETH 3S8Q4Qs0RKM6EZ+Oh1r36v3/EYpU//QafnrgyphT/YIyd9wAWICS5j/yN70LzNUe TaMAysTxdYu6EWEFo3q/YHktfKtgfcLWIJMsVf96BG2S2i2OvWau+RBThQHFYEuW +yTT8I9RnwA= =yW8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RIPE Database Web Services Outage Report
by Denis Walker 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, Between approximately 12:30 and 13:30 (UTC) on 30 August 2011, we experienced an outage of the RIPE Database Web Services. During this period, it was not possible to access any of the web-based interfaces. This includes Webupdates, Query and Full Text Search. Core database services were not affected. This includes updates sent via Syncupdates or the email interface and queries made to port 43. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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Announcement: RIPE NCC Training Courses
by Training Mailbox 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC invites you to register for one of our upcoming training courses: - The LIR Training Course This course teaches LIRs how to request Internet number resources and interact with the RIPE NCC. A course outline is available at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/courses/lir/outline/ - The Routing Registry Training Course This course teaches LIRs how to use the RIPE Database for routing. A course outline is available at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/courses/rr/ - The IPv6 Training Course This course teaches LIRs about the need for IPv6 and includes basic information on how to plan your deployment. A course outline is available at: http://www.ripe.net/training/ipv6/outline.html To see the location of upcoming courses and to register, please use the LIR Portal or complete the registration form on our website at: RIPE NCC Upcoming Courses List & Registration https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/training/course-list.html If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <training(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager RIPE NCC

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Announcement: New E-Learning videos for the RIPE Database
by Sandra Bras 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the launch of five new RIPE Database videos as part of our E-Learning service. The videos cover the following topics: - The New Organisation Startup Form: Create your organisation's first PERSON and MAINTAINER objects - Create an additional PERSON object using webupdates - Create a MAINTAINER using webupdates - Add a MAINTAINER to an object using webupdates - Delete an object using webupdates These videos can be viewed at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/e-learning/ripe-database In the coming months, we will be releasing modules focused on the following topics: - RIPE Database - RIPE Policy development Process - DNSSEC (Module 3) RIPE NCC E-Learning modules are provided as a free service that is available to everyone. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: e-learning(a)ripe.net. Happy learning, Sandra Brás Trainer/E-Learning Coordinator RIPE NCC

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Authentication Methods Used in the RIPE Database
by Mirjam Kuehne 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Dear colleagues, As a follow-up to the recent discussion on this list, we published an article on RIPE Labs showing which authentication methods are used by how many MNTNER objects in the RIPE Database. As suggested, we also looked at how many resources are covered by MNTNER objects. Please read on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/authentication-methods-used-in-the-ri… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Deployment of New RIPE Database Web Forms
by matisov＠rascom.ru 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hello. Possible the new form is better then old and you did do it to give the some new features that were absent in the old. But Before I could copy/past the url of search result and in this string was my request and all keys. Now it's not possible. Before I saw all keys in one look on page. Now I must open your several bookmarks (4) and check I put or not the tick in some check-boxes. It's not very well. Sincerely, Ivan Matisov, Russia, S.-Peterburg, Rascom, +7(812)303-91-70, +7(964)342-36-61, +7(495)956-00-80, fax+7(812)303-91-71

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Deployment of New RIPE Database Web Forms
by Denis Walker 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Database Group are pleased to inform you that, after a successful trial period, the new and improved set of web forms for accessing the RIPE Database is now fully in production. The old Query CGI is no longer available. Details of the new services are contained in the recent announcement to the Database Working Group: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2011/msg00170.html Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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Questions about network routing
by Zygimantas Surgailis 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Hello, Hope someone can help me. For few months now I've noticed the increased responce time from some of my servers in German datacenters (Lithuania -> Germany) from one Internet provider (this problem doesnt occur when using other providers). Also, the problem occurs only with servers collocated in Hetzner DC. For example traffic to hetzner.de goes through Russia: Tracing route to hetzner.de [213.133.107.227] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1] 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms XXXXX.meganet.lt [XXXXXX] 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 88.223.0.254 4 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 88.223.0.157 5 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 80.232.131.233 6 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 87.110.223.237 7 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 195.122.0.133 8 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 195.122.0.121 9 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 92.50.199.29 10 98 ms 111 ms 98 ms xe-1-0-0.frkt-ar2.intl.ip.rostelecom.ru [87.226.133.110] 11 76 ms 76 ms 76 ms decix2-gw.hetzner.de [80.81.193.164] 12 83 ms 84 ms 84 ms hos-bb1.juniper2.fs.hetzner.de [213.239.240.243] 13 81 ms 82 ms 81 ms hos-tr3.ms-ex3k1.rz11.hetzner.de [213.239.236.99] 14 81 ms 80 ms 80 ms www.hetzner.de [213.133.107.227] Trace complete. But traffic to e-shelter.de goes directly to Germany: Tracing route to e-shelter.de [91.208.160.80] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1] 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms XXXXXXX.meganet.lt [XXXXX] 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 88.223.0.254 4 * 1 ms 1 ms 88.223.0.157 5 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 80.232.131.233 6 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 87.110.223.78 7 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms xe-0-2-0-301.stk30.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.66.133] 8 78 ms 44 ms 44 ms xe-0-0-0.fra60.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.185.105] 9 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms ge-0-1-0.pr1.k90.fra.de.eurotransit.net [213.200.86.50] 10 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms adacor.demarc.eurotransit.net [82.96.89.182] 11 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 91-208-160-80.static.ip.adacor.net [91.208.160.80] 12 45 ms 40 ms 39 ms 91-208-160-80.static.ip.adacor.net [91.208.160.80] Trace complete. I've contacted Latvian telecom ant here is their answer: "Path via Rpstelecom is shortest by AS-Path lenght. Router: az8-crs Command: show bgp 213.133.107.227 Mon Jul 25 09:06:29.824 EEST BGP routing table entry for 213.133.96.0/19 Versions: Process bRIB/RIB SendTblVer Speaker 132081071 132081071 Last Modified: Jul 5 00:42:25.785 for 2w6d Paths: (5 available, best #3) Advertised to update-groups (with more than one peer): 0.5 0.14 0.17 Advertised to peers (in unique update groups): 195.122.0.5 Path #1: Received by speaker 0 Not advertised to any peer 3216 13030 24940, (aggregated by 24940 213.133.96.7) 62.231.5.217 from 62.231.5.217 (194.67.0.95) Origin IGP, localpref 90, weight 40, valid, external, group-best Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0 Community: 12578:100 12578:3216 Path #2: Received by speaker 0 Not advertised to any peer 3257 13030 24940, (aggregated by 24940 213.133.96.7) 77.67.67.89 from 77.67.67.89 (213.200.87.15) Origin IGP, metric 170, localpref 100, weight 40, valid, external, group-best Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0 Community: 12578:100 12578:3257 Path #3: Received by speaker 0 Advertised to update-groups (with more than one peer): 0.5 0.14 0.17 Advertised to peers (in unique update groups): 195.122.0.5 12389 24940, (aggregated by 24940 213.133.96.10) 92.50.199.29 from 92.50.199.29 (87.226.134.132) Origin IGP, localpref 110, weight 40, valid, external, best, group-best Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 1, version 132081071 Community: 12578:300 12578:12389 24940:24940 Path #4: Received by speaker 0 Not advertised to any peer 3249 13030 24940, (aggregated by 24940 213.133.96.7) 195.250.170.49 from 195.250.170.49 (84.50.255.90) Origin IGP, localpref 100, weight 40, valid, external, group-best Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0 Community: 12578:100 12578:3249 Path #5: Received by speaker 0 Not advertised to any peer 3320 3320 3320 24940 24940, (aggregated by 24940 213.133.96.10) 217.243.219.117 from 217.243.219.117 (194.25.5.230) Origin IGP, localpref 100, weight 40, valid, external, group-best Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0 Community: 12578:100 12578:3320 My knowledge is limited, so I'm not sure what should I do next, whom should I contact? Thank You for any help in advance.

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Deployment of New RIPE Database Web Forms
by Denis Walker 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Dear Colleagues The Database Group is pleased to announce the deployment of a new and improved set of web forms for accessing the RIPE Database. These forms allow users to: - Query the RIPE and TEST Databases - Query a set of global Internet resource databases, excluding personal data - Perform a Full text search on the contents of the RIPE Database, excluding personal data - Find Abuse contacts for an Internet resource The new forms are available now at: https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/full-text.html https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/abuse-finder.html The current Query CGI and text search (using Glimpse) were some of the first tools the Database Group wrote for accessing Version 3 of the RIPE Database. These are now almost ten years old. The new forms use up-to-date technology and makes use of the RIPE Database API. The Query form queries the RIPE and TEST Databases providing the same usable features as the old advanced Query CGI. Alternatively it can be used to query the Global Resource Service databases (GRS). The Full text search allows searches over the plain text content of RIPE Database objects, without regard for any relationships. We re-index the text of RIPE Database objects every night. The indexed data is taken from the RIPE-GRS source database, and includes all the operational data but none of the personal data. The Abuse Finder accepts an Internet resource identifier and returns any abuse details found for that resource. This includes "abuse-mailbox:" email addresses, IRT objects and pointers to related objects that include a "remarks:" attribute that contains text that 'looks like' possible abuse contacts. The global Internet resource databases are a set of databases covering the operational resource data from the RIRs and some major routing registries. This Global Resource Service is currently in beta release. All these forms have been available for a while on RIPE Labs. They are now all available as production services. The RIPE Database Search form on the home page of the ripe.net website, will still be linked to the old Query CGI until Wednesday, 10 August. After this date all web queries will use the new form. If you have any issues or find any bugs in the new web forms, please report them to ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net. We will assess any reports quickly and report back with an estimate of time for fixing the problem or an explanation of why it works this way. Some issues may be added to a feature request list and processed after any urgent bug fixes. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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Website/Link in ERROR:201 whois output outdated?
by Sascha Lenz 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, i just realized that at least one of the URLs/links the RIPE-db software hands out seems to be outdated (since the RIPE website redesign?) Someone asked me about an error reply he received while trying to query the db and he found this in an ERROR:201 response : % Sorry, access from your host has been permanently % denied because of a repeated excessive querying. % Please see http://www.ripe.net/db/err201.html <---- % for more information. ...which is 404 Just a heads up. Probably there are more outdated links, we/the NCC might want to check that. I can't reproduce this since i have no blocked IP myself (that i know of), so there is a chance the other person is doing something wrong or got a weird whois client and this is not a problem in the database texts. . o O(and if i'm a total dork than those responses are hardcoded in the client) (P.S.: We're not sure why his IP(v6) address is blocked, but that's a different story) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE] Senior System- & Network Architect

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Re: [db-wg] Analysis of MNTNER Authentication
by Denis Walker 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi Peter We looked a little deeper into this. We noticed there are only 50 MNTNER objects in the database that do NOT have a password. They use a combination of PGP and/or X.509 only. So we looked at where these MNTNERs are used. There are probably many ways to look at this. The one we chose is how allocated address space is managed by LIRs. So we looked at the "mnt-lower:" on the allocation INETNUM objects. Some of these 50 MNTNERs are used in this way. The "mnt-lower:" allows assignments to be created. So this can be seen as a measure of control over the assigned address space. We calculated the cumulative size of the allocation blocks where one of these 50 MNTNERs is used as the "mnt-lower:" as a percentage of the total allocated address space. Cumulative total of allocations 4722688 using one of these 50 MNTNERS Total allocated address space 555648000 Percentage of address space 0.85% controlled by PGP/X.509 only (without any passwords) For the other 99.15% of address space, there may be a PGP or X.509 credential in the MNTNER object, but in addition to a password. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group On 21/06/11:26 7:14 PM, Peter Koch wrote: > Denis, > > thanks a lot for producing the numbers and information. > >> The next step was to look into the referenced MNTNER objects to see how >> many used password, PGP or X.509, and in what combination and numbers. >> >> MNTNER with one auth containing a password = 27,434 85% >> MNTNER with only password = 27,796 86% >> MNTNER with one auth containing a PGP = 952 3% >> MNTNER with only PGP = 1,507 5% >> MNTNER with one auth containing an X.509 = 16 <1% >> MNTNER with only X.509 = 21 <1% >> MNTNER with password plus either PGP or X.509 = 3,023 9% >> MNTNER with PGP plus X.509 (no password) = 50 <1% >> MNTNER with one password plus multiple PGP = 357 1% >> MNTNER with one PGP plus multiple password = 59 <1% > > in addition to what Shane suggested (which methods are actually _used_), I'd > be interested to learn how large of a percentage of the address space (as opposed to > the number of objects) is covered by "password" authentication. This is > to avoid artefacts by passwords being used for small chunks and PGP/X.509 > for the larger ones - or vice versa. > > Thanks, > Peter >

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New Syncupdates service
by Denis Walker 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Dear Colleagues, As part of the RIPE NCC Database Group's ongoing efforts to improve our infrastructure, we are pleased to announce the launch of a completely re-written Syncupdates service. This new Syncupdates is easier to maintain and improve than the old version, which was written almost ten years ago. The Syncupdates interface for users of the service is unchanged, so from a user viewpoint, nothing has changed. Any software or scripts written to access Syncupdates will continue to work without any need for modifications. A more detailed article will follow shortly on RIPE Labs with additional technical details about the new Webupdates and Syncupdates services. If you do have any problems with the new Syncupdates please contact <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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DOMAIN attributes review
by Denis Walker 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

[Apologies for duplicate emails.] Dear Colleagues, At the RIPE 62 Meeting we were asked to consider the attributes in DOMAIN objects. With the removal of any hierarchy in reverse delegations and the removal of forward domain data there is no longer any use case for the "mnt-lower:" attribute. Other attributes that are considered to be used only for forward domains are: - "refer:" - "sub-dom:" - "dom-net:" The statistics listed below show how many of the above attributes have been added to reverse delegations and ENUMs. The RIPE NCC would like to ask the community if anyone sees any justification for the use of these attributes in reverse delegations or ENUMs. If there is no justification, all four of these attributes can be removed from all DOMAIN objects when the last two TLD operators move their data out of the RIPE Database. This is anticipated to occur by the end of 2011. To keep any discussion focussed please send any comments or feedback to the DNS Working Group Mailing list. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group Statistics ---------- Number of each attribute used in reverse delegations or ENUMs and the number of unique maintainers who manage these objects. "refer:" = 6 unique maintainers = 1 "sub-dom:" = 271 unique maintainers = 23 "dom-net:" = 2219 unique maintainers = 140 "mnt-lower:" = 46485 unique maintainers = 4208

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RIPE Database Query API on RIPE Labs
by Paul Palse 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Dear colleagues, We implemented a RIPE Database Query API in form of a RESTful Web Service. See a detailed description on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/content/ripe-database-api We are curious to find out if this is useful and what additional features you would like to see in the future. Please put your comments in the forum set up for this discussion: http://labs.ripe.net/content/ripe-database-api-0 Regards, Paul Palse -- Database Group Manager at RIPE NCC http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/contact.html

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Call for agenda items, DB-WG Meeting during RIPE60, Prague, CZ
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear DB-WG folks, planning activities for the next RIPE Meeting - RIPE60 in Praha, CZ - have already started, thus this call for agenda items. Please submit (to the WG list!) your item requests and|or suggest topics for discussion to be included in the draft agenda! (I plan to distribute the 1st version of the draft agenda around the 28th of March.) Please note that the DataBase-WG meeting is scheduled for *Thursday* (in the morning, starting at 09:00). The overall RIPE 60 meeting outline is already available at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-60/meeting-plan.html Looking forward to a successful meeting and seeing you in Prague, Wilfried. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iQCVAwUBS6Xby9/RXX7wrLNpAQI3NQP/XBLWwyzLo5PfnLSaJk2gfb3YKW+zirb5 7UcNlFmWuxriLtk57YFIbvjl6mrbAA+9dtfm6l8Lt7cZWDdyljDBKL9o33+p+boQ kPyLpDSLoPRIcN6/5cQCxZbHhYd8HTmfvFu4MUGPmRTbQtLJQxvqTsxvxzeiwNI1 um7KUVrwNcA= =cyqz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Clean-up of backlog of unreferenced personal data completed
by Denis Walker 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC has now completed the clean-up of the backlog of unreferenced PERSON and ROLE objects in the RIPE Database. The results of this process can be seen on the RIPE Database inconsistency graph for Unreferenced Person/Role Objects: http://www.ripe.net/projects/dbconstat/cons-unrefpero.html Since this process began, almost half a million objects have been deleted. Our Customer Services Department received only a handful of tickets related to these object deletions. The clean-up script will continue to run and keep the RIPE Database clear of unreferenced PERSON and ROLE objects. For details of this process, see: http://www.ripe.net/db/support/unreferenced-personal-data-clean-up.html Users of the RIPE Database should only create these objects containing personal data when there is a need for them. They should not be created until there is an imminent need to reference them. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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Ripe DB mirroring
by mfaraji＠aut.ac.ir 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi I want to build a database like ripe. But I only want to store information about ip addresses of my country. I downloaded your software. How can I download objects which are related to ip addresses of my country? Thnaks,

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Clean-up of unreferenced personal data in RIPE Database
by Denis Walker 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC Database Group has restarted the clean-up of unreferenced personal data. This follows the process outlined in the document recently published at: http://www.ripe.net/db/support/unreferenced-personal-data-clean-up.html Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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