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RIPE NCC Membership Statistics published on RIPE Labs
by Mirjam Kuehne 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Dear colleagues, With the year 2009 behind us, we looked at RIPE NCC membership growth and demographics over time. You can find some interesting statistics on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/content/ripe-ncc-membership-growth Next we will look at the distribution of number resources among the membership. Stay tuned! Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne

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ASO Call for Comments on Nominees for ICANN Board Seat
by Axel Pawlik 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, Following a public nomination period that closed on 10 January 2010, the ASO Address Council (ASO AC) selected the final set of candidates to fill the ASO seat on the ICANN Board. This seat is currently held by Raimundo Beca, whose term expires in April 2010. The candidates are: - Raimundo Beca - Mark Ducadi - Nicola Garelli - Eric Ramage - Kuo Wei Wu The candidates listed above agree to serve in an ASO seat on the ICANN Board of Directors if selected by the ASO Address Council. In March 2010, the ASO AC will make its final selection to appoint one of these individuals to fill the ASO Board seat. To aid them in making their final selection, the ASO AC members request public comments and statements of support for the candidates. The public comment period will remain open until 23:59 (UTC) on 10 March 2010. You can provide your comments and statements of support for the candidates to the ASO AC Nominations Committee by sending an email to <nominations2010(a)aso.icann.org <mailto:nominations2010@aso.icann.org>>. A digest of all comments sent will be published at: http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/ Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC On behalf of the ASO/NRO Secretariat

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IANA IPv4 Address Pool Dips Below 10%
by Paul Rendek 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. “This is a key milestone in the growth and development of the global Internet,” noted Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO. “With less than ten percent of the entire IPv4 address range still available for allocation to RIRs, it is vital that the Internet community take considered and determined action to ensure the global adoption of IPv6. The limited IPv4 addresses will not allow us enough resources to achieve the ambitions we all hold for global Internet access. The deployment of IPv6 is a key infrastructure development that will enable the network to support the billions of people and devices that will connect in the coming years.” You can view the NRO press release in its entirety at: http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unalloc… Please contact <ncc(a)ripe.net> if you have any questions or comments. Regards, Paul Rendek Head of External Relations and Communications RIPE NCC

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Web service
by Mangas, Evangelos 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Good afternoon, Is there any web service available within the official ripe site that geolocates a requested IP and returns the result in XML format? Thank you very much, Evan Mangas

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RIPE NCC offices closed on 25 December 2009 and 1 January 2010
by Saskia van Gorp 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Dear Colleagues, Our offices will be closed on Friday 25 December (Christmas Day) and Friday 1 January (New Year's Day). Normal office hours will resume on respectively Monday 28 December 2009 and Monday 4 January 2010. The RIPE NCC wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Regards, Saskia van Gorp Front Office Manager RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Confirms Commitment to DNSSEC Deployment in the Root Zone
by Andrei Robachevsky 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Dear Colleagues, On 1 December 2009, ICANN and VeriSign began to deploy DNSSEC across the root server system when they signed the root zone using DNSSEC. They noted that the signing would become public from January 2010, when the process of signing each of the 13 root servers in turn would begin. This process will continue until July 2010, when ICANN publishes the root zone trust anchor and root operators begin to serve the signed root zone with actual keys. On 15 December 2009, the root zone DNSSEC deployment team launched a website that provides information about DNSSEC for the root zone: http://www.root-dnssec.org/ The website is a repository for the documentation relating to the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone, and it includes information such as technical status updates and the full timetable for the deployment of DNSSEC. The RIPE NCC, operator of K-root, confirms its commitment to support the ICANN/VeriSign initiative and coordinate with the other root zone server operators in the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone. The RIPE NCC also provides data collection and measurements that allows monitoring of the effects the transition has on the overall performance of the root server system. This information is available on RIPE Labs at: http://labs.ripe.net/content/preparing-k-root-signed-root-zone Further details on the RIPE NCC's operation of K-root are available at: http://k.root-servers.org Best regards, Andrei Robachevsky Chief Technical Officer RIPE NCC

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OT Christopher Mettin representative to ARIN of Gymnasium Querfurt High School in Germany
by Joe Baptista 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dear RIPE community: I am writing this email to ask for anyones help in contacting a school in Germany called the Gymnasium Querfurt High School. I have made the attempt myself by phone and email without much success. The problem with phoning is the language barrier - I don't speak German and they don't speak English. The emails I have sent I think are being intercepted. To give you some backgrounder on this a person by the name of Christopher Mettin who claims to be a representative and the network administrator at the school joined the ARIN PPML mailing list and was trying to get free number resources for his school. I posted a "FRAUD ALERT" to the conference http://bit.ly/87Yjir and thats when everything went a little kooky. Mr. Mettin went ballistic and made all sorts of false accusations against me resulting in the violation of the ARIN AUP and calls from the members to have him removed. He also claims RIPE refuses to give his school any number resources and called RIPE a NAZI organization. He also claims that the province in Germany where the school is located is not a part of Germany but is in fact the 51st state of the United States. Those of you who wish to review the discussions should visit the ARIN PPML mailing list archives and follow the threads in late November recently past. Many ARIN member found the discussion humorous so your sure to have a giggle or two if you read up on this. Now Christopher is in fact a student at the school. I do not know if he has permission to represent the school. If he does have permission then my next question is "WHY is he not being properly supervised in his work by a school official" i.e. a responsible adult. The Gymnasium Querfurt is one of the top high schools in Germany. If the school was doing its job and properly supervising him I don't think Chris would of ever ended up involving himself and his school in a scandal. So if anyone here can pick up the phone - call the school - and ask them what is going on it would be much appreciated. I think at the very least the school should apologize to the list membership. The URL for the school is at: http://www.gymnasium-querfurt.de/ and their contact data is as follows: Gymnasium Querfurt Nemsdorfer Weg 8 06268 Querfurt Tel: 034771/22450 regards joe baptista p.s. If you get a hold of a responsible adult at the school I would also appreciate their contact information so I can follow up myself if they speak English.

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ASO AC Call for Nominations for Seat 10 on ICANN Board
by ASO Secretariat 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, In line with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) calls for nominations for Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on 10 January 2010. All candidates must sign a Letter of Certification detailing previous conduct and character. We will send this letter to each applicant along with instructions on what to do next. We are unable to consider candidates who fail to follow these instructions. If the ASO AC decides to conduct face-to-face interviews, candidates may need to travel (once) during March 2010. We expect all candidates to complete one or more questionnaires. Failure to do this by the advised deadlines may rule them out of the selection process. Submit nominations by email to nominations2010(a)aso.icann.org including the following information: - Full name of the person being nominated - Contact email address for the person being nominated - Contact telephone number (if available) of the person being nominated - Full name of the person making the nomination - Contact email address for the person making the nomination - Contact telephone number of the person making the nomination The full timeframe for the selection process is as follows: - Nomination Phase - 12 November 2009 to 10 January 2010 - Comment Phase - 11 January 2010 to 10 March 2010 - Interview Phase - 10 February 2010 to 10 March 2010 (The deadline for return of written questionnaires is 20 February 2010. Face-to-face interviews with selected candidates will take place adjacent to the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2010.) - Selection Phase - 10 March 2010 to 24 March 2010 All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified. Regards, The ASO Secretariat

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RIPE Labs update
by Mirjam Kuehne 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Dear Colleagues, Since the launch of RIPE Labs at RIPE 59 in Lisbon earlier this month, a lot of new and interesting content has appeared on the RIPE Labs site. With articles covering a wide range of subjects, there is probably something interesting for everyone! - Some of you might have seen the tool to measure lameness in DNS Shane Kerr presented at the RIPE Meeting. He has kindly published the tool here: http://labs.ripe.net/node/75 - Tom Vest has written an article comparing the work of the 2009 Nobel Prize winners with the IP address allocation structure, “The Challenge of IP Addressing and the 2009 Nobel Prize”: http://labs.ripe.net/node/81 - APNIC has been an active participant in the "Day In the Life" data collection activities organised by OARC and CAIDA. George Michaelson presented the results at RIPE 59, and has now also published them on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/node/78 - The Resource Explainer (REX) was launched at RIPE 59 as part of RIPE Labs. As a follow-up, Emile Aben, of the RIPE NCC Science Group, has looked into how REX can help to find data on the correlation between specific netblocks and spam activity: http://labs.ripe.net/node/85 - Last but not least, Rene Wilhelm has looked at the question of when a particular address block can be considered to have been routed globally: http://labs.ripe.net/node/47 There is more to come, so stay tuned! And we also encourage you to participate in the RIPE Labs forums - join in the community conversation, and let us know if we're heading in the right direction! Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne

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Dave Wilson Elected to RIPE seat on NRO NC
by Axel Pawlik 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that Dave Wilson has been selected by the RIPE community to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). He will serve a three-year term that runs from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2012. Selection took place during the Plenary session on Friday, 9 October 2009, at the RIPE 59 Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. More information about the NRO NC and the selection process can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/nro2009/ Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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