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Call for Nominations for Representatives to the ASO Address Council - RIPE region
by Hans Petter Holen 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

Dear colleagues, This is a call for nominations of individuals from the RIPE region to serve on the ASO Address Council. During October 2001, one RIPE region Address Council seat will become vacant and will be filled for the next three years by an individual nominated through this open call. This document describes the functions of the ASO and the Address Council, as well as the nomination and selection processes. If you are interested in nominating an individual, or if you are interested in being nominated as a member of the Address Council, please read this document carefully. 1. The Address Supporting Organisation - -------------------------------------- The ASO was formed in August 1999 as a consensus-based advisory body within the ICANN Framework, though a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the current Regional Internet Registries and ICANN. The ICANN Bylaws (http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI-A) assign to the ASO the responsibility for the development of global policies relating to the distribution and registration of Internet address space, inter-domain routing identifiers and that part of the DNS name space that is used to name these addresses and identifiers. More information about the ASO is available at: http://www.aso.icann.org 2. The Address Council - ---------------------- The ASO Address Council co-ordinates the process of policy development in areas within the responsibility of the ASO, according to procedures defined within the MoU and by the AC itself. Specifically, these include the hosting of an annual open General Assembly meeting, and attending regular meetings by teleconference or in person at which policy issues and submissions may be considered. The other major responsibility of the Address Council is the appointment of individuals to fill ASO seats on the ICANN Board of Directors, according to procedures defined within the MoU. More information on the Address Council is available at: http://www.aso.icann.org/ac 3. The Role of Members of the Address Council - --------------------------------------------- Members of the Address Council do not represent any RIR, nor do they act as representatives of any other body. They are appointed in their individual capacity, and their membership cannot be proxied by any other individual or organisation. No member of the Address Council is entitled to any compensation from the ASO. No member can be indemnified by the ASO, nor can the ASO obtain insurance coverage relating to the liability of the actions of members of the Address Council. 4. Address Council Nominations Process - -------------------------------------- Through this nomination process, one individual from the RIPE region will be selected to serve on the Address Council for three years, replacing Hans Petter Holen who has served as an initial AC member for the past 2 years. The selection will be made though an open election from the set of individuals who have been nominated within this process. Any individual may be nominated, with the exception of any staff member of any Regional Internet Registry. Self-nominations are permitted. Nominations should be sent by email to <nominations(a)ripe.net>, by midnight UTC on 5 September 2001. The information included with the nomination is to be in English and should include: Name of Nominee: Country of residence: Organisation: Email Address: Postal Address: Biographical information: Motivation for nomination: Name of nominating individual: Organisation: Email Address: All nominees will be contacted via email to confirm their willingness to serve on the Address Council. If a nominee is not contactable via email, or does not respond, then their nomination will not be confirmed and they will not be eligible for election to the Address Council. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE web site after they are confirmed. All nominees will have the opportunity to submit a written statement in support of their nomination, for publication on the web site. In addition, others may express support for nominated individuals simply by completing and submitting the nomination form provided above. 5. Address Council Selection Process - ------------------------------------ The process for selection of the nominee to serve on the Address Council will involve an open election to be held during the plenary session of the RIPE 40 Meeting, in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5 October 2001. See the following URL for details about the selection procedure: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/lir/adress_council-election.html More information about RIPE 40 will be available shortly at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/current/ripe-40/ Important Dates: 5 September 2001 - deadline for Address Council nominations Regards, Hans Petter Holen Local IR WG chair

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RIPE Region Hostcount for June 2001
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Dear All, below is the hostcount for June 2001. The table shows an increase since last month of over 940,000 (or 6,6%) to a total of over 15,200,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The nl domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately 696,000 hosts more than in May. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - A number of domains that have been excluded for a while because AXFR's were not possible, have been counted again: bf, bj, cf, dj, dz, gm, gq, im, ne, so and td - Due to another filesystem problem, a small percentage of the following domains didn't get counted: gr, hr, il, kg, ro, se and uk - After a rather long time, we managed to get new data for uk, although not complete due to the point mentioned above. Nevertheless the new count of uk has caused a big increase in the global number of hosts counted. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by running a local count: ad Joan Marc Lauga am Hrant Dadivanyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es pac0san(a)nic.es fr Annie Renard hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene lu Alain Frieden mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Joao Pagaime ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr METU Hostcount Admin If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Jun 26 2001 This Count : Thu Jul 26 2001 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 591 2481 829 1652 4 ae 3078 42608 2735 39873 16 al 86 205 33 172 -1 am 1270 3461 1281 2180 571 at 149851 758284 238366 519918 -20554 az 740 1754 450 1304 1 ba 447 4185 1060 3125 8 be 55006 406550 69893 336657 -1290 bf 41 674 36 638 638 bg 1454 27498 3495 24003 37 bh 60 2152 538 1614 1 bj 24 513 9 504 504 by 424 3588 832 2756 2 cf 222 727 340 387 387 ch 178307 762171 271772 490399 227801 ci 360 3452 463 2989 0 cm 54 379 40 339 -8 cv 22 137 110 27 0 cy 797 8000 683 7317 -105 cz 103908 295548 110444 185104 8321 de 2740032 10399108 8104471 2294637 -103643 dj 31 40 31 9 9 dk 207619 737963 287299 450664 5211 dz 91 715 98 617 617 ee 7540 61174 16535 44639 18 eg 1520 3083 1048 2035 -321 er 42 263 24 239 1 es 18687 518534 31596 486938 36776 fi 29257 846647 66438 780209 3814 fr 96586 1078056 172229 905827 -255129 ga 38 73 23 50 3 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 577 3135 1394 1741 -185 gg 1701 2492 1051 1441 7 gh 37 496 32 464 0 gi 607 1396 176 1220 7 gl 886 3042 505 2537 8 gm 451 298 198 100 100 gn 18 343 136 207 0 gq 4 4 2 2 2 gr 24672 178687 25649 153038 12191 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 6653 41446 14697 26749 7059 hu 37882 202138 70584 131554 2024 ie 18161 141414 25144 116270 -6577 il 23746 197044 62316 134728 26134 im 550 939 389 550 550 ir 314 3094 690 2404 -174 is 6776 55398 8689 46709 98 it 468010 1563519 627417 936102 62717 je 1750 2685 1181 1504 4 jo 616 2724 929 1795 6 ke 1303 5993 866 5127 5 kg 1396 6450 2200 4250 448 kz 2427 11557 2807 8750 217 lb 1275 8035 1495 6540 -28 li 6000 11439 8095 3344 53 lr 14 13 3 10 1 lt 7571 35782 6940 28842 -249 lu 5444 17223 4824 12399 513 lv 6105 32231 9810 22421 -815 ma 1676 4697 2632 2065 14 mc 401 959 524 435 -2 mk 793 2555 569 1986 315 mt 1056 8560 1795 6765 -161 ne 17 111 9 102 102 ng 286 2753 1412 1341 1 nl 506508 3713046 1131592 2581454 695954 no 61698 539667 67762 471905 9489 om 107 5903 2983 2920 0 pl 90112 736867 211696 525171 9098 pt 15774 225549 33208 192341 -52768 qa 38 333 233 100 0 ro 9296 60189 17462 42727 -2204 ru 106768 641602 298164 343438 7316 sa 2201 13651 2399 11252 7 se 67067 661037 69090 591947 12955 si 7675 35704 7425 28279 194 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 31522 88893 35190 53703 377 sl 7 278 0 278 0 sm 365 1659 330 1329 21 so 1 10 6 4 4 su 1053 27417 2964 24453 -546 sy 4 18 9 9 0 td 1 6 5 1 1 tj 120 980 688 292 0 tm 1271 2975 1397 1578 -2 tn 28 335 152 183 0 tr 14463 110045 19866 90179 466 ua 28592 135158 87789 47369 1780 ug 223 431 185 246 1 uk 1223641 4563582 2630091 1933491 255545 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 8816 21587 6544 15043 -26 ============================================================== 95 6404718 30105651 14895592 15210059 +945736

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Opening registration RIPE 40, Prague 1-5 October 2001
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to open registration for the RIPE 40 meeting, to be held from 1 October - 5 October 2001 at the Prague Congress Center, Czech Republic. More information about this meeting and accommodations can be found on this page: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/current/ripe-40/ Online registration will open on 16 July and close on 21 September 2001. On-site registration will open on Monday 1 October 2001 at 8.00 a.m. Please note the following: To avoid waiting queues at the registration desk on-site we encourage pre-payment by credit card. The registration fee for this meeting is EUR 350.00 (this includes refreshments and lunches) and the dinner fee is EUR 65.00. However, if payment is received before 21 September 2001, the pre-payment cut-off date, you will receive a pre-registration discount of EUR 50.00. Therefore, the fee for attendees paying before the cut-off date is EUR 300.00 for the meeting and 65.00 EUR for the RIPE dinner event. Confirmation of Registration: For your convenience you can register using our secure website at: https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg (encrypted form) http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg (non-encrypted form) If you still prefer not to send your credit card number using an encrypted transfer method, we have prepared a fax form. This form is attached to the acknowledgement of your registration. You will receive a second acknowledgement by e-mail as soon your payment has been processed. In addition, you will find the receipt for your payment in your conference envelope. Participants requiring a visa to enter Czech Replublic are advised to begin the required procedures as soon as possible. The RIPE Meeting organisers are pleased to provide letters of invitation to those attendees requiring them. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Asha Raghoebarsing RIPE Meeting Coordinator meeting(a)ripe.net

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New Document available: RIPE-223
by RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

New RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-223 Title: RIPE Database Reference Manual Author: RIPE-NCC Date: 5 July 2001 Format: PS=263983 TXT=112854 Obsoletes: ripe-189, ripe-157 Short content description ------------------------- The "RIPE Database Reference Manual" describes the functionality of the new version of the RIPE Database software that now uses the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) to represent all database objects. RPSL defines an extended syntax for all database objects, mainly for the routing registry objects. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- The RIPE document store is available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-223.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-223.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. "The RIPE Database Reference Manual" is available from the WWW at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/databaseref-manual.html

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