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[aso-announce] Call comments on draft ASO documents
by Nick Hyrka 24 Jun '03

24 Jun '03

[apologies for any duplicate mails.] Dear Colleagues, The ASO Secretariat has announced the following call for comments: Greetings. The Address Supporting Organization (ASO) is pleased to call for public comments on the following draft documents: * Procedures for the election of AC Chair and Co-Chairs (draft) - This draft document defines the role of ASO Address Council (AC) Chairs and Co-Chairs describes the process of electing individuals to serve in these roles. - http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/chair-selection-draft20030510.html * ASO-AC ICANN Board Selection Procedures (draft) - This draft document describes the procedures and criteria the AC should adopt in selecting individuals to serve on the ICANN Board of Directors. - http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/bod-selection-draft20030424.html * ASO Roadmap 2003 (draft) - This draft document sets out the proposed work plan for the AC in 2003. - http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/roadmap-2003.html If you have any comments or questions on any of these documents, please direct them to the aso-policy mailing list. For subscription details, please refer to: http://www.aso.icann.org/lists/ Kind regards - ASO Secretariat -- * on-line archive: http://aso.icann.org/wilma-bin/wilma/aso-announce * -- Nick Hyrka RIPE NCC Communications Manager

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RIPE Region Hostcount for May 2003
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of over 460,000 (or 2.4%) to a total of just over 20,200,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fr domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 130,000 hosts more than in April. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The February, 2003 data was used for dk and hr due to their having a corrupted count this month. - 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 Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster(a)nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis 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, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue May 27 2003 This Count : Mon Jun 23 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 173 3041 235 2806 3 ae 10727 78724 22929 55795 83 al 194 274 98 176 1 am 1646 3983 1664 2319 217 at 187573 817076 294159 522917 3069 az 1501 2331 1206 1125 -5 ba 1628 9919 3801 6118 7 be 93880 368921 168407 200514 1591 bg 2112 50527 9372 41155 3133 bj 48 600 46 554 5 by 1282 7404 3093 4311 175 ch 201865 925343 375453 549890 796 ci 621 4231 485 3746 -44 cm 83 579 119 460 10 cv 112 364 311 53 0 cy 1436 6159 1537 4622 116 cz 126906 438461 185883 252578 0 de 4002939 14535080 11870711 2664369 28257 dj 883 1957 1398 559 30 dk 71854 1121201 318223 802978 0 dz 151 1172 333 839 87 ee 12360 79559 15877 63682 226 eg 2393 5276 2095 3181 -121 er 62 1245 139 1106 1 es 38146 768213 61578 706635 111769 fi 37073 1292168 77546 1214622 13010 fr 109400 2124820 501615 1623205 132123 ga 74 149 61 88 1 gb 2 3 0 3 -2 ge 1420 6891 3759 3132 0 gg 2047 3676 2079 1597 8 gh 107 435 87 348 -1 gi 176 720 143 577 -11 gl 1415 4178 1254 2924 -14 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 52 402 155 247 0 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 54018 306541 130817 175724 -35 gw 2 3 0 3 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 75542 409748 146351 263397 2097 ie 23458 198804 50303 148501 9292 il 35752 329228 155542 173686 -293 im 580 1860 777 1083 -1 ir 1060 6178 2150 4028 -11 is 9148 1363593 1271143 92450 -820 it 461521 1367557 574621 792936 2953 je 2143 3407 1702 1705 0 jo 1037 6775 2594 4181 23 ke 1372 3698 998 2700 -312 kg 768 15105 2790 12315 -86 kz 3460 350815 332712 18103 -788 lb 1449 9412 1978 7434 82 li 7251 15760 11819 3941 56 lr 17 18 5 13 0 lt 12061 76019 13674 62345 1051 lu 3742 6859 4168 2691 10 lv 8232 104609 67613 36996 1129 ma 2553 7572 4692 2880 46 mc 678 1365 880 485 1 mk 2525 4573 1225 3348 34 mt 1636 10462 2974 7488 6 ng 388 2174 1130 1044 1 nl 710738 5637949 2288387 3349562 12917 no 115813 566191 139432 426759 15073 pl 150027 1049222 306348 742874 13033 pt 7283 186279 19538 166741 53561 qa 107 616 395 221 18 ro 18083 79146 33219 45927 1487 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 10723 sa 3699 16636 3697 12939 -2770 se 85795 1147689 247455 900234 30422 si 11953 55809 16929 38880 1215 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 60173 239726 148892 90834 2096 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1084 3136 1523 1613 1 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1826 357825 329331 28494 -36 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 69 18 7 11 -1 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 222 784 266 518 2 tn 1199 1302 955 347 6 tr 27412 272659 48980 223679 1978 ua 48320 243446 167795 75651 1291 ug 779 2927 592 2335 9 uk 1858943 6903784 3826500 3077284 15559 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 175 304 171 133 15 yu 15490 36596 18502 18094 464 ============================================================== 91 8970213 45453847 25244500 20209347 466018

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RIPE 45 Meeting Report
by Nick Hyrka 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

(Apologies for any duplicate mails.) RIPE 45 Meeting Report Dear Colleagues: The RIPE 45 Meeting was held at the Hotel Fira Palace from 12 - 16 May 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total of 322 attendees comprised of the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community and government representatives. Attendees also included representatives from APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and ICANN. HIGHLIGHTS ========== Highlights of RIPE 45 included the open discussion during the Plenary on the services of the RIPE NCC; an ICANN update by Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN; the proposal to split and rename the LIR Working Group into the RIPE NCC Services Working Group and the Address Policy Working Group; the deactivation of the Tools and NetNews Working Groups; and the second phase of RIPE Meeting webcast trials. Paul Wilson, APNIC Director General, provided a presentation on RIPE 261 that proposes reorganising the distribution of IPv6 allocations "from the root" to LIRs. RIPE 261, "IPv6 Address Space Management", can be found at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-261.txt Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist, RIPE NCC, spoke on the measurement activities and statistics performed by the RIPE NCC, referencing RIPE 271, "RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st Century". He noted the benefits and necessity of these activities and requesting support from the community. RIPE 271 can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/hostcount.html "ROSIE", the RIPE On-site Information Exchange, was also launched at the meeting. ROSIE provided up-to-date meeting information and resources to RIPE Meeting attendees and will be featured again at RIPE 46. The RIPE NCC would like to thank RedIRIS, CESCA, SATEC, FocusPoint, MFN, SURFnet and NRN for the support they provided to the meeting. SUMMARY ========= LIR === - The LIR Working Group will split into two groups. The policy-making function will move to the new "Address Policy Working Group" and the RIPE NCC services reviewing function will be moved to the "RIPE NCC Services Working Group". Kurt Erik Lindqvist, Netnod CEO, has agreed to chair the new "RIPE NCC Services Working Group". The LIR WG mailing list will remain active during the transition phase. - The RIPE NCC presented its plans for improved secure communication (via X.509 PKI) with RIPE NCC members: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-lir-pki/ A discussion document has been published at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/pki-20030429.html DATABASE ========= - Wilfred Woeber, UniVie-ACOnet and DB WG Chair, requested feedback from the community on changes to the "status:" attribute and their impact on scripts. - The RIPE NCC will look into the possibility of dbupdate accepting updates with the usual indentation inserted by most mail clients. - The RIPE NCC will also review a request on allowing users more access to its code. - Wilfred Woeber proposed a discussion for the DB mailing list on revising the charter for the DB Working Group. IPv6 ==== - Gert Doering, SpaceNet AG, provided a global v6 routing update noting fewer undesired prefixes leaking into the global routing tables; a decline in 6bone prefixes being routed; and a corresponding increase in RIR v6 space being routed. - John Crain, ICANN, spoke on the RIR/ICANN discussion to replace the current /23 prefix delegation procedure to facilitate automatic filtering of addresses per RIR. (See RIPE 261.) - ICANN is testing implementation of "AAAA" records in the root server system to start this summer and will produce a document in co-operation with RSSAC. Production use is pending approval by the U.S. Department of Commerce. - It was noted that the cut off date for allocating 6bone pTLAs is 1/01/2004. The phase out date of 6bone address space is 6/06/2006. - The RIPE NCC was tasked to enable IPv6 for future RIPE Meeting webcasts. ROUTING ======== - Two approaches to secure BGP were presented and discussed. Stephen Kent, Chief Scientist - Information Security at BBN Technologies, provided a presentation on how RIRs put secure BGP implementation into production: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-routing-sbgp/ And David Cook, CISCO, provided a presentation on soBGP: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-routing-sobg… DNR FORUM =========== - After a proposal by Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, the RIPE Working Group Chairs agreed to combine future DNS WG and the DNR Forum sessions into the "DN*" Working Group, beginning at RIPE 46. DNS ==== - Presentations regarding lameness followed by a panel discussion on technical and policy issues were provided. It was noted that lameness checks, on the reverse tree in particular, might become a working group item. The discussion was moved to the DNS mailing list. TTM ==== - Daniel Karrenberg, Chief Scientist, RIPE NCC, spoke on re-focusing the measurement activities performed, and the statistics presented, by the RIPE NCC. Referencing RIPE 271, he noted the benefits of these activities and the importance for the community of access to unbiased and credible data about the overall operation of the Internet. He requested community support for this new approach to RIPE NCC measurement activities. RIPE 271 can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/hostcount.html - Florian Frotzler, RIPE NCC intern, presented his thesis on the effects of IPv6. This was of special interest to those attempting to build native v6 networks: http://www.ripe.net/ttm/Documents/Various/ffrotzler.pdf TECHSEC ======== - A discussion on draft-ietf-dnsop-interim-signed-root-01.txt was held. Comments are to be posted to the DNSEXT mailing list. - A status update on DISI (Deployment of Internet Security Infrastructures) was provided: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-techsec-disi/ ANTI-SPAM ========== - Unsolicited Broadcast E-mail (UBE) volume greatly increased in the last three months with ISPs expecting the UBE load to become a serious technical problem for them by the end of 2003. - The working group was tasked to develop a "best practice advice" on defensive measures against UBE. EIX === - It was noted that the EIX Working Group session at RIPE 46 will be in two parts: The first session will be orientated towards ISPs with a series of presentations from IXPs discussing recent trends and statistics in a regular format. The second session will focus on IXPs with presentations on technical, operational and commercial issues that affect IXPs in the RIPE community. EOF ==== - The European Operators Forum convened Monday and Tuesday at RIPE 45. Emphasis was on inter-domain routing and BGP security. A discussion on how to develop the EOF from its current state at future RIPE Meetings was also held. TUTORIALS ========= - The RIPE NCC staff presented the RIPE NCC IP Request Tutorial. It explained address space assignment and allocation procedures in the RIPE NCC region: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/tutorials/ip-tutorial/ - A tutorial on the "myAS" system, which allows users to devise a control/notification system for BGP route propagation in real-time, was provided at RIPE 45: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tt-myas/ RIPE MEETING WEBCASTING ======================= - The second phase of RIPE Meeting webcasting trials was held at RIPE 45. Recordings of sessions have been archived and can be accessed at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/webcast-archive.html HOSTMASTER CONSULTATION CENTRE (HCC) ==================================== - The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Centre was open during RIPE 45. The centre continues to be a useful facility for the meeting attendees and will be provided at RIPE 46. Later consultation hours were successfully introduced at RIPE 45 and will be repeated at RIPE 46. "MEET & GREET" ============== - The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" desk was available for first time RIPE Meeting attendees at RIPE 45. "Meet & Greet" was introduced at RIPE 44 and introduces newcomers to the meetings, to key attendees of the RIPE community and to social events throughout the week. RIPE 45 REFERENCE PAGE ====================== - A complete list of RIPE 45 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/index.html RIPE 46 ====== - RIPE 46 will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 1 to 5 September 2003. Information on RIPE 46 will be made available later this month at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/ RIPE NCC GENERAL MEETING ======================== - The RIPE NCC Executive Board has announced that the 2003 annual General Meeting will be held adjacent to the RIPE 46 Meeting in Amsterdam from 14.00 to 17.00 on Friday, 5 September 2003. For more information about RIPE NCC annual General Meetings, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/gm/ New Local Internet Registries (LIRs) please note: - LIRs who signed up in 2002 are entitled to two (2) free tickets to attend RIPE 46. The tickets cover registration only and do not apply to the RIPE dinner, your travel or hotel accommodations. More information on the new LIR tickets can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/new-lir.html Or contact <meeting(a)ripe.net>. END

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