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Mark Your Calendar: RIPE NCC Regional Meeting/Eurasia Network Operators' Group (ENOG)
by Paul Rendek 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC Regional Meeting/Eurasia Network Operators' Group (ENOG) will take place in Moscow from 6-8 June 2011. This will be the first ever combined RIPE NCC Regional Meeting/ENOG Meeting. We are also happy to announce that a second meeting is to be scheduled for later this year. At the Moscow RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in September 2010, attendees decided to further their cooperation by proposing the creation of a regional forum in which the region’s Internet experts could collaborate on issues unique to the Russian Federation, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eastern Europe and other interested parties. This forum is now established as ENOG, and the RIPE NCC is dedicated to actively support and facilitate this newly formed operators' group. The RIPE NCC Regional Meeting/ENOG is a forum for open dialogue, and it's available for all interested parties to attend. This is where network operators can meet their peers and learn from international and local Internet experts. Operational content will be a central part of the agenda. Topics will cover challenges, tools, experiences and best practices in areas such as DNS, peering, routing, IPv6 and more. For the first time at a RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, a day will be dedicated to RIPE activities, where RIPE Policies will be presented and openly discussed. We're already looking forward to an exciting and productive meeting. We're very much looking forward to welcoming you to participate at the meeting in Moscow in June, together making this another successful event. Regards, Paul Rendek Head of External Relations and Communications RIPE NCC on behalf of the RIPE NCC Regional Meeting/ENOG Organising Committee

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RIPE NCC Resource Certification Service Launch
by Alex Band 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is proud to announce the production launch of the RIPE NCC resource certification service. With the support of the RIPE community, we have worked very hard to create a service that will help to make our registry more robust and provide a vital element in making Internet routing more secure. Now, more than ever, it is important to be sure who is the legitimate holder of a block of IP addresses. As a first step, the RIPE NCC (in coordination with the other four RIRs) has created a hosted platform. This means that all LIRs will be able to generate a certificate of holdership that will be held in a repository maintained by the RIPE NCC. The feature set is, as it stands, very limited: the certificate will only cover Provider Aggregatable address space, and it is not yet possible to run your own Certificate Authority or generate "child" certificates to create a chain of trust. All of these capabilities will be rolled out over the course of 2011, based on the wishes and input of the RIPE community. This brings me to an important point. While the technology is now in place, the policy describing the details of the certification system has not yet passed the RIPE Policy Development Process. We have decided, however, to launch the system with the most limited feature set possible, so that the membership can try it out. Our hope is that this will make resource certification more tangible, and assist the community in making an informed decision about what the system should offer, now and in the future. I invite and encourage you to discuss this on the RIPE NCC Services Working Group mailing list: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/ncc-services/index.html Ongoing development of the RIPE NCC certification service will, of course, be planned in accordance with the certification policy that is agreed on by the RIPE community. For more information, please visit: http://ripe.net/certification If you have any questions or comments, please email <certification(a)ripe.net >. Best regards, Alex Band Product Manager, RIPE NCC

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Reduction in IPv4 Allocation/Assignment Time Period
by xavier＠ripe.net 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Dear Colleagues, As of Monday, 3 January 2011, the RIPE NCC will allocate enough IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) requesting space to meet their needs for a period of up to six months. End-Users that request space from an LIR or the RIPE NCC will also be assigned enough address space to meet their needs for a period of up to six months. This is a change from the current policy which states that address space is allocated or assigned to meet needs for up to nine months. The change is in accordance with RIPE Policy Proposal 2009-03, "Run Out Fairly", which was accepted by the RIPE Community in December 2009. The proposal can be found at: http://ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-03.html The following RIPE Documents have been updated to reflect the implementation of this policy: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-488.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-489.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-490.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-491.html If you have any questions about this, please send an email to <lir-help(a)ripe.net> Regards, Xavier Le Bris RIPE NCC Registration Services Department

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New RIPE NCC PGP Key
by Andrea Cima 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 5 January 2011 we will start using our 2011 key to sign e-mail from our ticketing system. The new key has been signed by the old key as described in the key-management policy on our web site: https://www.ripe.net/rs/pgp/index.html The old key remains valid until Thursday, 3 February 2011. If you have any questions about this, please contact <ncc(a)ripe.net>. Kind Regards, Andrea Cima RIPE NCC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAk0YtfEACgkQXOgsmPkFrjOY9wCgtImM+qFN1KAqyVniORJ8jbf8 P9UAoKn11gqoeDn1QCx+S4A0YkBqeHgR =fHuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RIPE NCC closed on Friday 24 December 2010
by Saskia van Gorp 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Dear Colleagues, Our offices will be closed on Friday 24 December 2010 due to Christmas Eve. Normal office hours will resume on Monday, 27 December 2010. The RIPE NCC wishes you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2011. Regards, Saskia van Gorp Facilities, Administration and Reception Manager RIPE NCC

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LIR Portal service outage (resolved)
by Paolo Milani 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Dear Colleagues, Today LIR Portal has been temporarily unavailable until 21:30 UTC. The outage took place during the programmed maintenance window, but also extended 1h30m past the limit. We performed software and configuration upgrades but we had an operational issue with one of our servers. After the upgrades, the server did not complete correctly booting the software services needed. We have fixed the problem, and LIR Portal is available again. Apologies for any problem caused. Paolo Milani - LIR Portal Service Manager Senior Software Engineer RIPE NCC

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Network Maintenance: 14/12/2010 17:00-20:00UTC
by Menno Schepers 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday, 14 December 2010 between 17:00 and 20:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on its core network infrastructure in its office datacentre. Although we expect any outage to be minimal, it is possible that there will be intermittent access to all services hosted by the RIPE NCC during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact: ops(a)ripe.net. Regards, Menno Schepers RIPE NCC

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Network Maintenance: 08/12/2010 17:00-19:00UTC
by Menno Schepers 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 8 December 2010 between 17:00 and 19:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on its core network infrastructure in its office datacentre. Although we expect any outage to be minimal, it is possible that there will be intermittent access to all services hosted by the RIPE NCC during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact: ops(a)ripe.net. Regards, Menno Schepers RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Resource Certification System: Initial Deployment 1 January 2011
by Alex Band 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Dear colleagues, With just seven IPv4 address blocks available in the IANA pool, we are hurtling towards the end of an era. With this prospect, the registry function of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) is going to be crucial to the Internet community. More than ever, it is important to know who is the legitimate holder of a block of IP addresses. With this as a primary driver, the RIPE NCC (in coordination with the other four RIRs) is planning to deploy a system that attaches digital certificates to Internet number resources (IP address blocks and Autonomous System (AS) Numbers). A more complete description of the benefits of resource certification can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/certification/ The RIPE NCC has had a beta platform for certification up and running for several months now. More than 100 RIPE NCC members have enabled certification under this pilot program, providing the RIPE NCC with valuable feedback. On 1 January 2011, the RIPE NCC will launch a hosted production system, which will allow all LIRs to generate a certificate of holdership, which will be held in a repository maintained by the RIPE NCC. Network operators will also be able to start making routing decisions based on the system as of this date. Further iterations of this system will be deployed over the coming 12 months, including the option for LIRs to host their own Certificate Authority and generate certificates for their own customers. Digital certificates have helped make business on the Internet more secure. Now we are using resource certificates to make the Internet itself more secure. For more information, please visit: http://ripe.net/certification If you have any questions or comments, please email <ncc(a)ripe.net>. Best regards, Alex Band Product Manager, RIPE NCC

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Four /8s Allocated to RIRs; 2.73% Remains
by Axel Pawlik 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Dear colleagues, Today, 30 November 2010, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributed four of the remaining eleven /8s to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs): 5/8 and 37/8 to the RIPE NCC and 23/8 and 100/8 to ARIN. The IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses now stands at seven /8s, or 2.73% of the total IPv4 address pool. When only five /8s remain, the IANA will simultaneously distribute these equally among five RIRs, in accordance with global policy: http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm There are now only two IPv4 blocks available under the normal distribution method. If you have not already adopted the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, I strongly urge you to act now. For more information on IPv6 adoption, visit: http://www.ipv6actnow.org/ If you have any questions or comments, please email <ncc(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director, RIPE NCC

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