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RIPE NCC Service Interruption on 29 September
by Ruud de Kooter 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Dear Colleagues, As we announced on 29 September, there was an unexpected disruption to our whois and web services between 05:10 and 06:00 UTC. Our investigations have shown that the problem was caused by an increasing traffic load and a growing number of peers on one of our routers. We made some configuration changes to improve load balancing between our border routers. This should prevent any similar problems from occurring in the future. We apologise for any disruption or delay this may have caused. If you have any further questions about this matter, please send an e-mail to <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards Ruud de Kooter RIPE NCC

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RIPE 51: Reminder
by RIPE NCC meeting coordinator 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

<Apologies for duplicate mails> Dear Colleagues, RIPE 51 will be held 10 - 14 October 2005 at the NH Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. MEETING PLAN The RIPE 51 Meeting plan is now available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/meeting-plan.html REGISTRATION To register for RIPE 51, please go to the registration page at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/meeting/registration/meeting.html?id=26 MEETING FEE The registration fee of EUR 400 covers the full RIPE Meeting week. You receive a EUR 50 discount if your payment is received before 12:00 CET on Friday 7 October 2005. DAY TICKETS Day tickets are available and cost EUR 125 per day. TRAVEL VISA FOR THE NETHERLANDS If you require a visa to enter the Netherlands, please request one as soon as possible. We will be pleased to provide you with an invitation letter upon request after you have completed the meeting registration. WEBCAST AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION The RIPE NCC will be broadcasting content live from the sessions. Archives of these sessions will be available on our web site. Remote participation through IRC or Jabber will be available to those participants watching the webcast who are unable to attend RIPE 51. RIPE 51 INFORMATION For further information on RIPE 51, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/ If you have any further questions, please contact us at: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Camilla Meidell Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Service Interruption
by RIPE NCC Operations 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

[apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, >From 07:00 until 08:00 GMT, the RIPE NCC experienced an unexpected disruption to services. Although this may have caused delays to updates to the RIPE Whois Database, these updates have been processed normally. The disruption may have also affected some of these RIPE NCC services: - whois.ripe.net - www.ripe.net - lirportal.ripe.net - ns*.ripe.net - ftp.ripe.net - www.aso.icann.org - www.nro.net - k.root-servers.org (Global node at the AMS-IX) - AS112.ripe.net We apologise for any interruption or delay to services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this issue, please contact <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards, RIPE NCC Operations

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RIPE 51 - Reminder
by RIPE NCC Meeting Coordinator 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

<Apologies for duplicate mails> Dear Colleagues, RIPE 51 will be held 10 - 14 October, 2005 at the NH Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. MEETING PLAN The RIPE 51 Meeting plan is now available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/meeting-plan.html Suggestions and proposals for plenary presentations are welcome, and can be sent to the relevant RIPE Working Group mailing lists or to: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. REGISTRATION To register for RIPE 51, please go to the registration page at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/meeting/registration/meeting.html?id=26 MEETING FEE The registration fee of EUR 400 covers the full RIPE Meeting week. You receive an early-bird discount of EUR 50 if your payment is received before 1 October 2005. Day tickets are also available.You can register for a day ticket online or at the Registration Desk during the meeting. Day tickets are valid for one day only and cost EUR 125 per day. Pre-payment of the meeting fee is possible by bank transfer or online payment by credit card. All online credit card payments are secure. TRAVEL VISA FOR THE NETHERLANDS If you require a visa to enter the Netherlands, please request one as soon as possible. We will be pleased to provide you with an invitation letter upon request after you have completed the meeting registration. RIPE 51 SPONSORSHIP Are you interested in sponsoring a RIPE Meeting social event? For more information contact: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. RIPE 51 INFORMATION For further information on RIPE 51, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/ If you have any further questions, please contact us at: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Camilla Meidell Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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RIPE Policy Development Process
by Paul Rendek 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, has published a new RIPE Document, "Policy Development Process in RIPE", (ripe-350). This document formally describes the policy development process. The updated process is operational from today, 1 September 2005. A new RIPE web page describes all the active policy proposals and their status. Each proposal has a page showing its history, status and all supporting documentation. This page can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/index.html A new mailing list <policy-announce(a)ripe.net> has been created for announcing policy proposals and tracking them through the policy development process. This is not a discussion list; discussions will continue to take place on relevant RIPE Working Group lists and at RIPE Meetings. You can subscribe to the policy-announce list at: http://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/policy-announce List archives are available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/policy-announce/ Kind regards Paul Rendek Head of Member Services and Communications RIPE NCC

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RIPE 51: Meeting Plan Now Available
by RIPE NCC meeting coordinator 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

<Apologies for duplicate mails> Dear Colleagues, RIPE 51 will be held 10 - 14 October 2005 at the NH Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. MEETING PLAN The RIPE 51 Meeting plan is now available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/meeting-plan.html Suggestions and proposals for presentations are welcome, and can be sent to the relevant RIPE Working Group mailing lists or to: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. REGISTRATION To register for RIPE 51, please go to the registration page at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/meeting/registration/meeting.html?id=26 MEETING FEE The registration fee of EUR 400 covers the full RIPE Meeting week. You receive an early bird discount of EUR 50 if your payment is received before 1 October 2005. Day tickets will also be available.You can register for a day ticket online or at the Registration Desk during the meeting. Day tickets are valid for one day only and cost EUR 125 per day. Pre-payment of the meeting fee is possible by bank transfer or online payment by credit card. All online credit card payments are secured. TRAVEL VISA FOR THE NETHERLANDS If you require a visa to enter the Netherlands, please request one as soon as possible. We are pleased to provide you with an invitation letter upon request, after you have completed the meeting registration. RIPE 51 SPONSORSHIP Are you interested in sponsoring a RIPE Meeting social event? For more information contact: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. RIPE 51 INFORMATION For further information on RIPE 51, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/ Should you have any further questions, please contact me at: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Camilla Meidell Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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RIPE 51: Registration Now Open
by RIPE NCC meeting coordinator 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

+++++++++++ <Apologies for duplicate mails> Dear Colleagues, Registration for the RIPE 51 Meeting is now open. RIPE 51 will be held 10 - 14 October 2005 at the NH Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. REGISTRATION To register for RIPE 51, please go to the registration page at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/meeting/registration/meeting.html?id=26 MEETING FEE The registration fee of EUR 400 covers the full RIPE Meeting week. You receive an early bird discount of EUR 50 if your payment is received before 1 October 2005. Day tickets will also be available. Day tickets are valid for one day only. Register for a day ticket online or onsite at the Registration Desk. Day tickets cost EUR 125 per day. Prepayment of the meeting fee is possible by bank transfer or online payment by credit card. All online credit card payments are secured. MEETING PLAN A new meeting plan was successfully launched at the last RIPE Meeting and will be continued at RIPE 51. This means that presentations that were previously held in the EOF and the various RIPE Working Group sessions now be combined into one stream of presentations during the first three days of RIPE 51. The last two days will be dedicated to work performed in the Working Group sessions. The programme will be published on the website in the near future. Suggestions and proposals for presentations are welcome, and can be sent to the relevant RIPE Working Group mailing lists or to <meeting(a)ripe.net>. TRAVEL VISA FOR THE NETHERLANDS If you require a visa to enter the Netherlands, please request one as soon as possible. We are pleased to provide you with an invitation letter upon request, after you have completed the meeting registration. RIPE 51 SPONSORSHIP Are you interested in sponsoring a RIPE social event? For more information contact <meeting(a)ripe.net>. RIPE 51 INFORMATION For further information on RIPE 51, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/ Should you have any further questions, please contact us at: <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Camilla Meidell Conference Coordinator RIPE NCC

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EOF/Plenary RIPE 51
by Joao Damas 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Dear all, During RIPE 50 we had a very good and fully-packed agenda for the EOF/ Plenary sessions during the first half of the week. This was possible thanks to the work of a lot of people who delivered presentations, proposed them or helped contacting speakers, and of course the attendees. My wish is that we can repeat this success for RIPE 51. This will again require the participation of all the RIPE community. We already have a few initial subjects lined up, including: - Deployment of Wireless Broadband. Experiences in Korea. - talks on backbone design by a couple of ISPs - security subjects such as attack prevention - an introduction to the potential roles of certificates in authentication of address space advertising, with or without modifying routing protocols. - Reports from RIR activities We are looking for more quality presentations, particularly if they can share experiences, good or not so good, of ISPs in their daily business. If you or one of you colleagues would like to contribute, or if you just want to suggest a subject or a speaker, contact us at the From address of this mail or at meeting(a)ripe.net. RIPE is the work of everyone involved and I would like this message to be an invitation to all the RIPE community for participation. Every bit counts and is welcome. See you at RIPE 51 Joao Damas

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RIPE 50 Report
by Nick Hyrka 25 May '05

25 May '05

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] RIPE 50 Report Dear Colleagues, The RIPE 50 Meeting took place from 2 - 6 May 2005 at the Clarion Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. There were over 375 participants at the meeting. Attendees also included government representatives and representatives from AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and ICANN. HIGHLIGHTS Highlights of RIPE 50 included: - The successful implementation of the new RIPE Meeting format into three days on operational and technical content followed by two days on policy related issues. - An update on the ICANN ASO Address Council. This presentation is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/presentations/ripe50-plenary-fri-… - A commentary on the ITU-T Proposal for National Address Registries for IPv6 by Geoff Huston, APNIC. This presentation is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/presentations/ripe50-plenary-wed-… - Final discussion on the RIPE Policy Development Process. More information about this will appear on www.ripe.net shortly. Afilias, Arbor Networks, Cisco Systems, Force10 Networks, Netnod, NIKHEF, Nokia, TeliaSonera and the RIPE NCC are thanked for the support they provided to the meeting. TeliaSonera are thanked for the provision of the meeting Internet connectivity. PRESENTATIONS All the Plenary and Working Group presentations from RIPE 50 can be viewed at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/presentations/index.html SUMMARY ADDRESS POLICY WORKING GROUP - It was agreed that the Address Policy Working Group Chairs will make a formal proposal that global policies should go through the RIPE Policy Development Process. - There was discussion on the TLD anycast allocation policy proposal, the IPv6 proposal to remove the 200 customers requirement, the proposal for removal of the Africa Special Policy, the proposal to add regional boundaries to policy documents and the IPv4-HD-Ratio proposal. ANTI-SPAM WORKING GROUP - There was discussion on whether ripe-206 should be revised to reflect the updates to the LINX BCP document that was used as the base for the original ripe-206. - There was discussion about anti-spammers sometimes behaving worse than spammers, and action placed on the Working Group Chair to start work on a document for best practise for spam complaints. DATABASE WORKING GROUP - It was agreed that a proposal on the "country:" attribute should be prepared. This will be done by the RIPE NCC. - It was noted that changes to the RIPE Database for abuse are now in production. DNS WORKING GROUP - It was agreed that the DNS Working Group Chair will produce a proposal to solve the problem that changes to reverse DNS nameservers cannot have multiple names. - There was discussion on whether the DNS Working Group should take over the work to produce a RIPE Document on AAAA resolution issues. - It was agreed that the RIPE NCC will produce statistics on anycast placement for K-root and the RIPE region Hostcount in time for RIPE 51. - It was noted that DNSSEC RFCs have been published, and that DNSSEC is being tested in Sweden in the .se domain. EIX WORKING GROUP - It was noted that the Switching Wish-List Version 3.0 will be published soon by Mike Hughes, and that version 3.1 will be published after RIPE 51. - There was discussion about public versus private peering. ENUM WORKING GROUP - It was agreed that Niall O'Reilly and Carsten Schiefner will be the new ENUM Working Group Chairs. - It was noted that the IETF is continuing work on ENUM standards. - It was agreed that the ENUM Working Group will continue to work as it has in the past, with an emphasis on the exchange of operational experience. IPV6 WORKING GROUP - It was decided that the RIPE Whois Database will continue to include more services that run in native IPv6. - It was agreed that the community needs to produce a revised Internet draft before RIPE 51 to formally address the demands of RFC3177, particularly the /48 recommendation. - It was noted that the IPv6 Working Group needs to decide where it wishes to house the new, operational IPv6 mailing list. RIPE NCC SERVICES WORKING GROUP - There was discussion on the value of the Hostcount. It was agreed that the RIPE NCC should continue working on this, and that the RIPE NCC should write and put a new Hostcount into service. ROUTING WORKING GROUP - There was discussion on route flap damping and de-aggregation practices raised by Philip Smith in the RIPE 50 Plenary. - Lorenzo Colliti (RIPE NCC) presented the research work of Roma Tre University on active BGP probing to discover AS level topology of the Internet. TEST TRAFFIC WORKING GROUP - It was agreed that the community should provide a proposal on how TTM infrastructure could be used to certify the quality of service provided by ISPs and to verify Service Level Agreements. - Henk Uijterwaal gave an update on the status of the TTM project - Thomas Wana presented work done to improve the accuracy of TTM time measurements and a proposal to create even greater accuracy by using DAG cards for measurement. - There was discussion on the future directions for the TTM project and it was agreed that the TTM infrastructure and measurements could be leveraged to certify the quality of service provided by ISPs. The Working Group agreed that the RIPE NCC, as a trusted third party, could perform the measurements and publish the results. CO-LOCATED PEERING BoF Netnod, LINX and AMS-IX hosted a peering BoF co-located at RIPE 50 on Sunday, 1 May, where peering policies were presented. CO-LOCATED LOBSTER TUTORIAL A tutorial entitled "Passive Network Traffic Monitoring" was organised on Friday, 6 May, by the consortium of LOBSTER, a European IST Project on Large-Scale Monitoring of Broadband Internet Infrastructures. RIPE 50 WEBCASTING AND ARCHIVES During RIPE 50, the RIPE NCC collected feedback from participants watching the webcast and listening to the audiocasts. The mediums used for this were IRC and Jabber. Archives of presentations, webcasts and IRC/Jabber feedback from RIPE 50 are available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/sessions-archive.html HOSTMASTER CONSULTATION CENTRE (HCC) The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Consultation Centre was open at RIPE 50, allowing RIPE NCC Members to discuss issues relating to their business directly with RIPE NCC Hostmasters. "MEET & GREET" The RIPE NCC's "Meet & Greet" was available for first-time RIPE Meeting attendees at RIPE 50. "Meet & Greet" introduces newcomers to the meetings, to key attendees from the RIPE community and to social events throughout the week. More information can be obtained by contacting <meet-greet(a)ripe.net>. RIPE 50 REFERENCE PAGE A complete list of RIPE 50 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50 RIPE 51 RIPE 51 will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 10 - 14 October 2005. Information on RIPE 51 is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51 If you have any questions about RIPE Meetings, please contact <meeting(a)ripe.net>.

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Policy Development Process - last call
by Rob Blokzijl 11 May '05

11 May '05

Dear colleagues, please find attached the latest version of the Policy Development Process document. This is a last call - final remarks either to this mailing list, or at the RIPE meeting next week. Closing date: May 10. Regards, Rob

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