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RNA Executive Board Nominations / Election
by vietsch＠terena.nl 01 Sep '97

01 Sep '97

Dear RIPE NCC Contributors, As you are aware we are well under way preparing for the establishment of the new legal organisation for RIPE NCC which is currently dubbed RNA (RIPE NCC Association). RNA has been discussed for the last few months and is described in ripe-161. An important body within this organisation is the Executive Board (EB). The EB governs the RIPE NCC and is responsible to the members. It consists of 3-5 people. Anyone can serve on the EB except employees of RNA. We are now at a stage where we need to find the constituting EB. Normally the EB will be elected by the RNA members. Since there are no RNA members yet, the appropriate group to bootstrap this process is the RIPE NCC Contributors Committee. Therefore members for the constituting EB will be elected at the upcoming meeting of the Contributors Committee on September 23rd. There remains the problem to find a number of high quality candidates for the EB. *YOU* are one of those who have to help with this. Given that time is short the "three man group" who is tasked to help establishing RNA will drive this process. They are: Paul Ridley <Paul.Ridley(a)ripe.net> Karel Vietsch <Vietsch(a)terena.nl> Wim Vink <Wim.Vink(a)eu.net> The task of these people is to *collect* nominations and it is *not* to *select* them. They will publish all nominations received. If you would like to suggest or nominate someone suitable to serve on the EB, please send your nomination to <eb-nominations(a)ripe.net>. You may also direct any questions you may have to this address. Besides Paul Ridley, Karel Vietsch and Wim Vink also the following three persons are available to act as contact points for anyone with questions related to the EB elections: Rob Blokzijl <Rob.Blokzijl(a)nikhef.nl> Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg(a)ripe.net> Kees Neggers <Kees.Neggers(a)surfnet.nl>. On Mondays 8th, 15th and 22nd of September the committee will publish on the Contributors Committee mailing list a complete list of nominations received so far. We hope that the list will then be used for discussion such that the meeting will be well prepared for the election and the opinions of those not able to attend the meeting itself can have an influence. We stress that while this is going on, e-mail discussion within the Contributors Committee is encouraged. Anyone not comfortable with the procedure above is completely free to use the list itself to nominate people. The purpose of the procedure is to ensure that the contributors committee can select from a sufficient number of high quality nominations on September 23rd, three weeks from now. Please help us with this Paul Ridley Karel Vietsch Wim Vink ---- In order for the contributors committee to have comparable information about nominees we suggest to provide information in a format similar to the one below: > Name: N.E.T. Worker > Affiliation: WIE (Worker Internet Enterprises) > Function: Owner and Technical Director > > History of involvement with European Internet and RIPE NCC: > > Founded ISP (WIE) in 1995 serving worktown and vicinity. Member of > contributors committee since 1996 when WIE became a local IR. Active in > RIPE database working group since 1996. > > Position and goals w.r.t. the RIPE NCC: > > The RIPE NCC should maintain its neutral position as an organisation > providing high quality services and credible industry self regulation. > It should not get involved in activities that do not require neutrality. > ....

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RIPE NCC staff outing on 21.08.97
by RIPE NCC Staff 18 Aug '97

18 Aug '97

Dear All, On Thursday 21 August 1997 the RIPE NCC staff will go on their annual staff outing. There will be noone available that day to answer incoming phonecalls and e-mails. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC

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Re: RIPE 28 Meeting details
by Paul Ridley 13 Aug '97

13 Aug '97

Dear all, There seems to be a degree of ambiguity regarding our request for sponsors for RIPE 28 as is shown in a received mail below. Obviously I should choose my words more carefully :-). * > -Sponsers are urgently seeked to sponser lunch(s) and/or refreshments. * * I'd prefer Grolsch or Amstel over CocaCola, and a good A'dam based * Indonesian restaurant over McPlastics ;-) * To clarify matters we are *not* looking for donations of actual food and drink or sponsorship from companies such as CocaCola etc. We are looking for sponsorship from organisations preferably within our own RIPE community, or who have links with the RIPE community. The sponsership should take the form of financial donation which would be used to pay for particular catering needs. These catering details would be organised by the NCC. Thank you once again for your anticipated support and I hope that this clears up any degree of ambiguity. Regards Paul

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RIPE 28 hotel and VISA information
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 12 Aug '97

12 Aug '97

Dear All, As announced earlier, the 28th RIPE meeting will be held in Amsterdam from 24 untill 26 September 1997 at the Park Plaza in Amsterdam, the Netherlands . Included below is some info on hotels and obtaining VISA. HOTELS ------ We would like to inform you that the hotels in Amsterdam usually get booked quite fast in September, so you should be quick to make a reservation. More information on finding hotels in Amsterdam and Amsterdam in general can be found at: http://www.bookings.nl/cgi-bin/homepage.pl http://www.xxlink.nl/cities/amsterdam http://channels.nl/index2.html http://www.agenda.nl/medialink/amsterdam/hotelguide.html http://www.nbt.nl/NBT-amst-index.html http://city.net/countries/netherlands/amsterdam/ VISA: ----- Getting visa generally takes more time then one expects, we would therefore like to suggest you apply for a visa as fast as possible. On request, we can send you an invitation. If you want us to send an invitation, please tell us how many days and which days you are planning to stay. If, after the RIPE meeting, you want to stay some additional days we can invite you for some 'technical meetings' after the RIPE meeting ;-). Furthermore, please also give us your full name, birth date and passport number. If we mention these data in our invitation to you, it could facilitate getting the visa. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC Meeting Registrations

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RIPE 28 Meeting details
by Paul Ridley 11 Aug '97

11 Aug '97

Dear all, On 9 Jul it was annouced that the 28th RIPE meeting would take place in Amsterdam from 24-26 September inclusive. This mail aims to confirm and add some more detail to that announcement. The meeting will be held in the 'Park Plaza' which is a building in the centre of Amsterdam. More details of the building, its exact address and directions of how to get there can be found on our web site <http://www.ripe.net/meetings/rip e/mtg.html>. RIPE meetings have traditionaly been held in academic accomodation whereby a subsidized level of location hire has been available. Unfortunately due to a combination of fuly booked university space and the growing size of the RIPE meeting itself, a commercial alternative has had to be found. This alternative being the 'Park Plaza'. The cost of holding a RIPE meeting in a commercial location is significant and these costs have to be recouped. To that end the admission charge to the RIPE meeting from now on will be 100 ECU (price including refreshments and lunch on all 3 days, but excluding the RIPE dinner). This charge will cover the location hire costs but will not cover the catering costs. Therefore we are urgently seeking sponsers who are willing to sponser a lunch(s) and/or refreshments. Potential sponsers are requested to get in contact with myself (Paul Ridley) in order to receive more information as to what would be desired and what the sponser could get in return. So to summarise: -RIPE 28 is being held at the 'Park Plaza' in Amsterdam from 24-26 September inclusive. -The admission charge (including refreshments and lunch, but excluding the RIPE dinner) is 100 ECU. -Sponsers are urgently seeked to sponser lunch(s) and/or refreshments. For more details and to register look at the following web site: <http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html> Regards Paul Ridley

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DE not the highest hostcount in July
by Mirjam Kuehne 11 Aug '97

11 Aug '97

Dear all, As someone pointed out correctly Germany did not show the highest increase in July as I said in my previous mail. Finland shows slightly higher numbers: CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ de 54681 1013784 79934 933850 +29980 fi 5437 405786 9434 396352 +30077 Because the race is usually between the UK and Germany, I missed that. Sorry about this. Kind Regards, Mirjam

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New Document available: RIPE-161
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 08 Aug '97

08 Aug '97

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-161 Title: A New Structure for the RIPE NCC: De-facto Organisational Rules (Revised) Author: P. Ridley, K. Vietsch Date: 08 August 1997 Format: PS=208247 TXT=39660 Obsoletes: ripe-156 Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: See also: Short content description ------------------------- This document describes the de-facto organisational rules for the new RIPE NCC organisation. This is a revision of ripe-156 and has been updated to include the consensus of opinion indicated by the NCC contributors, via both electronic and verbal means. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE document store via the World Wide Web , at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-161.html The RIPE document store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The full filenames of the new documents on the FTP-server are: ripe/docs/ripe-161.ps for the PostScript version ripe/docs/ripe-161.txt for the plain text version Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to <mail-server(a)ripe.net> with "send HELP" in the body text.

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Hostcount for July 1997
by Mirjam Kuehne 08 Aug '97

08 Aug '97

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for July 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 100,000 (or 2.2%) to a total of over 4,800,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. DE shows the highest increase for July with almost 30,000 hosts more than in June. The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are intersted in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler(a)cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons(a)CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster(a)nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis(a)forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg(a)sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek(a)nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Jun 30 1997 This Count : Thu Jul 31 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 6 107 0 107 0 am 35 346 21 325 + 2 at 8814 118186 16353 101833 + 9036 az 6 81 1 80 + 2 ba 12 58 2 56 0 be 5900 96250 5982 90268 + 1512 bg 288 5814 268 5546 + 1517 by 27 476 30 446 + 67 ch 14682 169883 14504 155379 + 8315 cy 322 2106 52 2054 + 99 cz 4050 46258 2051 44207 - 5404 de 54681 1013784 79934 933850 +29980 dk 27121 150508 13013 137495 + 3516 dz 2 34 1 33 0 ee 932 12954 588 12366 + 381 eg 269 2283 61 2222 + 98 es 5647 176672 4493 172179 + 2645 fi 5437 405786 9434 396352 +30077 fo 47 242 5 237 + 77 fr 10439 328950 16965 311985 + 7957 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 18 315 6 309 - 5 gr 1361 23094 1109 21985 + 1407 hr 806 7963 1112 6851 + 344 hu 1968 47643 4087 43556 + 1806 ie 2866 35480 2197 33283 + 263 il 3375 69902 6005 63897 + 2670 is 565 14476 281 14195 + 327 it 16926 278997 28547 250450 + 7875 li 174 655 164 491 + 88 lt 371 2934 203 2731 + 67 lu 672 4393 522 3871 + 189 lv 323 7757 432 7325 + 425 ma 59 998 97 901 + 97 md 22 205 26 179 + 32 mk 35 451 28 423 + 24 mt 107 926 117 809 + 34 nl 18917 365800 21093 344707 + 1862 no 10030 222190 12290 209900 - 194 pl 4882 81731 7296 74435 + 790 pt 2349 38517 1977 36540 + 1854 ro 626 8614 640 7974 + 1076 ru 4657 73629 6536 67093 - 8248 se 18661 310387 15626 294761 + 5002 si 1289 19079 1959 17120 + 84 sk 1667 13767 2492 11275 + 262 sm 18 742 9 733 + 94 su 771 20119 792 19327 -18159 tn 2 46 6 40 0 tr 2555 25848 2642 23206 - 1390 ua 574 14955 3500 11455 + 1180 uk 60808 1038399 138501 899898 +12707 va 2 10 0 10 0 yu 548 3610 152 3458 - 272 ============================================================ 296723 5264450 424202 4840248 +102168

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Request for participation: Internet measurement tool at ISI
by davidk＠isi.edu 29 Jul '97

29 Jul '97

Hi all, I got a request from a colleague of mine if I knew sites in the working area of RIPE (note: not just Europe) that might be willing to participate in research regarding Internet measurements that ISI is conducting. Please contact Grig Gheorghiu <grig(a)ISI.EDU> directly if you are willing/interested to participate by running their Internet measurement tool as described below. Also, feel free to forward this mail to people that you know that might have an interest in this, David K. --- Grig Gheorghiu writes: > To: davidk > Cc: katia(a)isi.edu > Subject: Internet measurement tool > From: Grig Gheorghiu <grig(a)ISI.EDU> > > Hi, David > > This is a short desciption of what the tool, called > topologyd, does: > > The tool, which runs as a daemon, estimates available network > bandwidth and delay among participating sites. Based on these > estimates, the tool computes a logical topology connecting the > participating sites. Logical link costs are currently set to be the > ratio between estimated bandwidth and delay. The tool has an interface > that allows the estimates, topology, etc. to be displayed using a web > browser, such as Netscape. The initial motivation for the tool was to > propagate updates among replicated sites efficiently and in a > network-friendly way. > Software requirements are SunOS and perl. No special privileges > are required for the account. > > We already have a group of machines across USA running this tools. > The "master" of the group can be found at http://excalibur.usc.edu:9000. > It would be very interesting to have some machines in Europe, too. > Currently there is only one machine in Europe, in Greece (Crete actually). > > Thank you very much, > Grig Gheorghiu > > P.S. The leader of this project is Dr. Katia Obraczka here at ISI. ---

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New Document available: RIPE-159
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 29 Jul '97

29 Jul '97

Appologies if you receive this announcement multiple times, but we have decided to send it to several lists to make sure everyone receives it. New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-159 Title: European Internet Registry Policies and Procedures Author: RIPE Local Internet Registry Working Group Date: 29 July, 1997 Format: PS=986609 TXT=223669 Obsoletes: ripe-104, ripe-105, ripe-136, ripe-140 Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: See also: Short content description ------------------------- At the last RIPE Meeting (RIPE 27), the Local IR Working Group requested several changes/additions to be made to the ripe-140 document. Ripe-159 is the revised version of this document. The requested changes were: 1) Adding a few sentences to section 7 about returning AS numbers. 2) Adding a reference in section 3.5 to rfc2008 recommendations for the time allowed for renumbering. 3) Changing the wording in section 6.3 about confidentality to make it stronger. 4. Updating section 6.2 about the local-ir and lir-wg mailing lists, because local-ir is now moderated. Aside from these requested changes, we have also made some minor improvements here and there- to clarify the wording, or add a better example, or update some information that has changed. For example, section 6 previously said that <billing(a)ripe.net> does new registry set-up, however that is now done by <ncc(a)ripe.net>. Also, the RIPE NCC is now using an improved reverse delegation robot, so section 5 had to be updated in some places. Paula Caslav RIPE NCC Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE document store via the World Wide Web; RIPE-159 is now available from the WWW at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-159.html The RIPE document store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The full filenames of the new documents on the FTP-server are: ripe/docs/ripe-159.ps for the PostScript version ripe/docs/ripe-159.txt for the plain text version Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to <mail-server(a)ripe.net> with "send HELP" in the body text.

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