May 2012 - ncc-announce - mailman.ripe.net

New Online Payment Options
by RIPE NCC Billing Department 30 May '12

30 May '12

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear member, Following feedback received in the Membership and Stakeholder Survey 2011, the RIPE NCC has introduced new online payment options that members can use to settle their invoices. In addition to the credit card and bank transfer methods, Paypal and debit cards have been enabled as online payment options. You will be able to select your payment option when you click the secure payment transaction link in your invoice. If you have any questions regarding your billing, please contact <billing(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Billing Department RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Returns Legacy Address Space to IANA
by Axel Pawlik 23 May '12

23 May '12

Dear colleagues, On 6 May 2012, the ICANN Board ratified GPP-IPv4-2011, "Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms" by IANA. This global policy enables IANA to redistribute any recovered IPv4 address space equally amongst the RIRs. Following the ratification of this global policy, on 22 May 2012 the RIPE NCC returned to IANA the 1,368,576 legacy IPv4 addresses that have been returned to the RIPE NCC and plans to return any other legacy IPv4 address space that is returned to the organisation in the future. For more information about this, please see: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/returned-legac… The ICANN Board Resolution is available at: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-06may12-en.htm The full text of Global Policy GPP-IPv4-2011 is available at: https://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-po… Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC office closed on 17 May and 28 May 2012
by Saskia Oostdijck-van Gorp 14 May '12

14 May '12

Dear Colleagues, Our office is closed on Thursday 17 May 2012 (Ascension Day) and Monday 28 May 2012 (Whit Monday). Normal office hours will resume respectively on Friday 18 May 2012 and Tuesday 29 May 2012. The office closes on all Dutch public holidays listed at: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/contact/opening-hours Regards, Saskia Oostdijck-van Gorp RIPE NCC

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Scheduled Maintenance on RIPE Database Update Server - 10 May, at 14:00 UTC
by Denis Walker 08 May '12

08 May '12

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, On Thursday, 10 May at 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST), we will migrate the update service to a new server as part of our RIPE Database infrastructure upgrade. We expect the migration to take up to four hours. Part of this migration requires us to reload both the live and test database contents onto the new server. ----------------------------------- No changes during migration window ----------------------------------- No changes can be made to the RIPE Database or TEST Database during the migration. This includes the use of Syncupdates, Webupdates, RESTful API and the use of object editors provided through the LIR Portal. ----------------------------------- Hold off on sending email updates ----------------------------------- We also kindly request that you hold off on sending updates to the email update service (<auto-dbm(a)ripe.net>, <test-dbm(a)ripe.net>) during the migration window to allow us to make a clean restart of the new server and perform significant testing before processing any live updates. If any updates are sent to the email update service, they will be queued and run following the migration. If you do submit email updates during this time we recommend that you check the results later. ---------------------------------- RIPE Database queries unaffected ---------------------------------- Querying the RIPE Database will not be affected as this service is completely separated from the update service. However it will not be possible to query the TEST Database. We appreciate your cooperation and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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