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Draft Minutes for DB-WG RIPE 50
by Titley, Nigel 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Gentlefolk, Apologies for the lateness of these minutes. My only excuse is that I wasn't there, but I must emphasise that the scribe did actually pass on the minutes straight after the meeting. On the positive side, the only action that came out of the meeting was on Wilfried, so you can all breathe easily (apart from Wilfried). Best regards Nigel -- Nigel Titley Peering Coordinator, FLAG Telecom +44 20 8564 5812 ********************************************************************** This e-mail message is confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and contains information which is or may be confidential, non-public or legally privileged. Any dissemination or distribution of this message other than to its intended recipient is strictly prohibited. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose the contents to any other person. If you have received this message in error, please notify us by email to postmaster(a)flagtelecom.com immediately and delete the original message and all copies from all locations in your computer systems. This e-mail has been swept by Mailsweeper TM for viruses. However, FLAG Telecom cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses. ********************************************************************** This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl - www.mailcontrol.com

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RIPE51 DB-WG Draft Agenda V1
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Dear DB-WG folks, Chairs, Meeting! Here is the 1st draft of an agenda for the DB-WG next week at RIPE51 in Amsterdam. For time slot allocation please refer to the most up-to-date meeting plan at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/meeting-plan.html Comments and additional topic proposals requested. Pesentations which might be of particular interest for those actively contributing ideas and expertise to DB-development: Tue. 18. Certificates and IP Addresses. Fri. 25. DNSSEC Deployment. and a presentation on (a) new whois interface(s) t.b.c. For a complete list of plenary presentations please have a look at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/presentations/plenary-monday.html Looking forward to meet many of you next week in Amsterdam, Wilfried. PS: kudos to everyone involved in making the "Summary of Changes in Recent RIPE Documents" at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/updates.html available on the web. THANKS!! ________________________________________________________________________ A. Administrative Matters - scribe - list of participants - agenda - minutes - "remote participation" coordination (if needed) B. DB Update (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~15 min] C. Review of security mechanisms in the DB (Peter K., denic.de) [~15 min] . quality of CRYPT-PW, CRYPT-MD5, X.509 . level of vulnerabilty in current dataset D. state of whois services, developments? (WW144, N.N., RIPE NCC) [~15 min] X. Impact of "PDP" on how the DB-WG operates (WW144) [~15 min] . ref: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-350.html Y. Input from other WGs . DNS: secureDNS requirements for the DB Z. AOB

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RIPE NCC Service Interruption on 29 September
by Ruud de Kooter 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Dear Colleagues, As we announced on 29 September, there was an unexpected disruption to our whois and web services between 05:10 and 06:00 UTC. Our investigations have shown that the problem was caused by an increasing traffic load and a growing number of peers on one of our routers. We made some configuration changes to improve load balancing between our border routers. This should prevent any similar problems from occurring in the future. We apologise for any disruption or delay this may have caused. If you have any further questions about this matter, please send an e-mail to <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards Ruud de Kooter RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Service Interruption
by RIPE NCC Operations 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

[apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, >From 07:00 until 08:00 GMT, the RIPE NCC experienced an unexpected disruption to services. Although this may have caused delays to updates to the RIPE Whois Database, these updates have been processed normally. The disruption may have also affected some of these RIPE NCC services: - whois.ripe.net - www.ripe.net - lirportal.ripe.net - ns*.ripe.net - ftp.ripe.net - www.aso.icann.org - www.nro.net - k.root-servers.org (Global node at the AMS-IX) - AS112.ripe.net We apologise for any interruption or delay to services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this issue, please contact <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards, RIPE NCC Operations

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whois.ripe.net
by Ulisses 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hello anybody knows if this is the right place to talk about about the whois.ripe.net server's service? I'm not sure if it is only about the whois package or also the service, if not what is the right place? Thanks in advance Ulisses Debian GNU/Linux: a dream come true ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Computers are useless. They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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Prototype IRIS server deployed at the RIPE NCC
by Peter Banik 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, As part of a project to implement the IRIS protocol (also known as CRISP), the RIPE NCC has set up a prototype IRIS server for public testing. We announced this project during the RIPE 49 Meeting in Manchester: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-db-crisp-upd… We have set up the prototype server as a proxy in front of the RIPE Whois Database. It is based on the FlowerBed server implementation developed by VeriSign Labs: http://iris.verisignlabs.com/blojsom/blog/iris/flowerbed/ The server uses the AREG protocol, you can find more information about this at: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-12.txt We have developed a prototype Perl client that can be used to make queries to AREG servers. This is not a complete client implementation, but we have made it available as we feel it will be useful for those that want to test the service. A web interface for querying the prototype server is available at: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/test-iris/areg-query.pl You can find more details about this project at: http://www.ripe.net/db/iris-pilot/ Regards, Peter Banik RIPE NCC

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Updated syncupdates?
by Peter Schroeder 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello, I am a consultant working to develop software that will aid in keeping entries in the RIPE database up-to-date. I've been working to get a local version of the RIPE database running for our testing purposes. We're using the syncupdates interface to make changes in the database but it seems out-of-date because it is using command line switches in dbupdate that are no longer valid. Is there a newer version than 1.0.1? Thanks in advance, Peter Schroeder

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Proposed changes for object ordering
by hairy 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi, when will these changes be implemented? Will we know when the change occurs?

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DNSSEC deployment on the reverse tree.
by Henk Uijterwaal 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, In June, Olaf Kolkman wrote: >The RIPE NCC has been involved with the development of the DNSSEC >protocol. Now that the protocol has become available, we plan to >implement DNSSEC on our domains in the reverse DNS tree. The >deployment of DNSSEC is the second and last phase of the Reverse DNS >restructuring project. [...] >We welcome your feedback on this poposal before 1 August 2005. Please >send your comments to the DNS Working Group Mailing List. The comment period was extended to 1 September and some comments were posted to the list. These have all been incorporated and the new documents are at: >You can find the proposed policy at: > ><http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/draft-dnssec-policy.html>http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/draft-dnssec-policy.html. > "DNSSEC Key Maintenance Procedure" > ><http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/key-maintenance-procedure.html>http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/key-maintenance-procedure.html > "Procedure for Requesting DNSSEC Delegations" > ><http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/registry-procedure.html>http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/registry-procedure.html I'm going to suggest to the chairs of the WG to do a last call on these documents and have them published as RIPE documents. Kind regards, Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(at)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.amsterdamned.org/~henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Look here junior, don't you be so happy. And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad. (Tom Verlaine)

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RIPE Policy Development Process
by Paul Rendek 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, has published a new RIPE Document, "Policy Development Process in RIPE", (ripe-350). This document formally describes the policy development process. The updated process is operational from today, 1 September 2005. A new RIPE web page describes all the active policy proposals and their status. Each proposal has a page showing its history, status and all supporting documentation. This page can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/index.html A new mailing list <policy-announce(a)ripe.net> has been created for announcing policy proposals and tracking them through the policy development process. This is not a discussion list; discussions will continue to take place on relevant RIPE Working Group lists and at RIPE Meetings. You can subscribe to the policy-announce list at: http://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/policy-announce List archives are available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/policy-announce/ Kind regards Paul Rendek Head of Member Services and Communications RIPE NCC

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