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RIPE 46 Registration
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Dear Colleague, RIPE 46 will take place from 1 September - 5 September at hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam. For more information on RIPE Meetings please visit our website <http://www.ripe.net>. - Where can I find the information on RIPE 46? Information on the RIPE 46 Meeting, including the updated Meeting Plan, can be found at <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/index.html>. - How to participate? Our online registration form is now available for those interested in attending the conference. If you plan to attend, please fill out the form <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/registration.html>. - Where to stay? To reserve a room at the Krasnapolsky Hotel (meeting venue), please use our reservation form <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/booking.doc>. If you require hotel accommodation in another price category please use the Amsterdam Reservation Center <http://www.amsterdambusinesshotels.nl>. The RIPE 46 Registration Desk will be open on: Monday 08:00 to 18:00 Tuesday-Thursday 08:00 to 17:30 Friday 08:00 to 15:00 ... and stay tuned for further information... With kind regards, Asha Raghoebarsing Meeting Coordinator email: meeting(a)ripe.net tel : +31 (0) 20 535 4444 fax: +31 (0) 20 535 4445

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Version 2.0 RIR Comparative Policy Overview
by leo vegoda 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that the version 2.0 of the "RIR Comparative Policy Overview" is now available and can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/rir-comp-matrix-rev.h… This version has been substantially revised and now includes policy information for LACNIC. Regards, -- leo vegoda RIPE NCC Registration Services Manager

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RIPE Region Hostcount for June 2003
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Dear All, below is the hostcount for June 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of over 190,000 (or 1,0%) to a total of approximately 20,400,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The 'it' domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately 70,000 hosts more than in May. 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. - the May, 2003 data was used for ru due to problems with the remote collection. - sj was removed from the count. We were informed by the administrator that there are no hosts registered in the TLD. - 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 DK Hostmaster es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster(a)nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis 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 : Mon Jun 23 2003 This Count : Tue Jul 15 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 175 3043 236 2807 1 ae 10988 79011 23158 55853 58 al 196 278 100 178 2 am 326 717 277 440 -1879 at 197706 832955 308534 524421 1504 az 1532 2406 1266 1140 15 ba 1656 10021 3888 6133 15 be 94646 368317 169560 198757 -1757 bg 2138 49289 9516 39773 -1382 bj 49 601 47 554 0 by 1304 7539 3209 4330 19 ch 195978 907188 355136 552052 2162 ci 624 4232 475 3757 11 cm 83 586 123 463 3 cv 113 365 313 52 -1 cy 1505 6325 1617 4708 86 cz 130072 461721 190733 270988 18410 de 4014719 14612181 11951914 2660267 -4102 dj 900 1998 1429 569 10 dk 71854 1121201 318223 802978 0 dz 153 1188 340 848 9 ee 12512 80279 16487 63792 110 eg 2413 5332 2137 3195 14 er 66 1248 143 1105 -1 es 38578 774485 62569 711916 5281 fi 36809 1284067 78308 1205759 -8863 fr 109724 2133617 503441 1630176 6971 ga 78 161 71 90 2 gb 2 3 0 3 0 ge 1451 6982 3850 3132 0 gg 2059 3706 2107 1599 2 gh 109 443 90 353 5 gi 177 721 143 578 1 gl 1425 4193 1266 2927 3 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 52 402 155 247 0 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 54854 309484 131979 177505 1781 gw 1 2 0 2 -1 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 77271 413724 149825 263899 502 ie 23724 199414 50562 148852 351 il 35888 331542 156160 175382 1696 im 584 1879 789 1090 7 ir 1123 6279 2222 4057 29 is 9217 1365132 1271196 93936 1486 it 467037 1448064 585701 862363 69427 je 2145 3417 1716 1701 -4 jo 1057 5531 2496 3035 -1146 ke 1565 4082 1121 2961 261 kg 776 15305 2971 12334 19 kz 3514 531353 513049 18304 201 lb 1454 9385 1981 7404 -30 li 5622 12202 8526 3676 -265 lr 17 18 5 13 0 lt 12283 62356 10657 51699 -10646 lu 3939 7124 4184 2940 249 lv 8283 106847 69701 37146 150 ma 2561 8237 4870 3367 487 mc 678 1365 880 485 0 mk 2562 4632 1241 3391 43 mt 1652 10505 3006 7499 11 ng 394 2186 1135 1051 7 nl 720734 5913187 2561683 3351504 1942 no 117591 579687 141657 438030 11271 pl 149773 1059095 312289 746806 3932 pt 17428 222397 32710 189687 22946 qa 107 616 395 221 0 ro 17752 77448 32496 44952 -975 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 0 sa 3769 16761 3751 13010 71 se 85847 1187295 254295 933000 32766 si 12117 56814 17120 39694 814 sk 60677 241873 150829 91044 210 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1071 3087 1470 1617 4 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 2019 358015 329562 28453 -41 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 70 22 10 12 1 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 258 820 291 529 11 tn 1199 1304 955 349 2 tr 28952 274530 50897 223633 -46 ua 50387 256587 179777 76810 1159 ug 781 2954 608 2346 11 uk 1876699 6975503 3861147 3114356 37072 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 175 304 171 133 0 yu 15709 38109 18948 19161 1067 ============================================================== 90 9041776 46277860 25874972 20402888 193541

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EOF, Amsterdam, September - Call for Presentations
by Daniel Karrenberg 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

[apologies for duplicates, hint: they have the same message-id] Hi Network Operations Folk, the holiday period is starting! A good time to consider preparing a presentation at the European Operators Forum (EOF) to be held during the 46th RIPE meeting in Amsterdam on September 1st and 2nd. We would like to have as many practical, hands-on presentations as possible this time. Remember: They do not have to be long. We prefer an stand-up interesting 10 minute presentation over a well prepared 90 minutes explanation of something not so interesting to operators. Find some information about presenting below and think about all those experiences this year that might be interesting to other operators. For the EOF "Coordination Group". Daniel Karrenberg -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The EOF The European Operators Forum (EOF) exists for the exchange of Internet operations experience. It has evolved from the "information exchange" part of the early RIPE meetings to provide an open forum outside of the work programme of the working groups and the RIPE plenary. The EOF aims to attract presentations relevant to network operators, practical "hands-on" reports, outlines of future developments and small tutorials. Product marketing presentations are not appropriate, user experience reports are. The EOF programme is assembled by an informal coordination group that is always looking for new people who are able to help by attracting interesting presentations and supporting presenters. Contact: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg(a)ripe.net> Presenting at the EOF The EOF wants to attract practical hands-on experience reports. We aim to make turning interesting experience into a presentation as easy as possible. Consider the following: - presentations do not have to be long Something interesting can be said in as little as 10 minutes. This limits the time spent to prepare material and often is a good way to start for first-timers. - support is available We will do our best to support you in preparing your presentation. If you want, we can help structuring your material, help to polish language and arrange for a test-run of your presentation. We can also try to arrange for someone from the same country or region to support you if that is helpful. We can also help you find someone else to present your material in case you cannot make it to the meeting. In short: If you have something intersting to say, we will help you do it! Contact Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg(a)ripe.net> for more information. - no product marketing presentations The EOF is *not* an appropriate forum for product marketing presentations. User experience reports which are presented by users are definitely relevant. In-depth technical presentations or tutorials are also possible. We expect to finalise the program in early August. We will get back to you then with scheduling details. In the meantime please provide the information below. We place special emphasis on the abstract which should contain references to related material already available if possible. Please send this to eof-coord at-sign ripe.net. - Author(s) - Speaker - (Working) Title - Abstract - Draft Presentation (if available) - Relation to other known work and/or presentations if known - Time Requested It would be helpful if the abstract was written such that potential attenders will learn what to expect from the presentation, i.e. "The presentation will describe our experiences with the Red Packet Washer (http://www.netdet.net/RPW/) We have been using the device for half a year now. It helps us deliver more hygienic datagrams to our customers and peers. We will discuss problems with packet discolouring as well as increased throughput to our upstreams due to decreased clogging by dirty micrograms. We will compare performance with the hand-scrubbing of packets which we used previously. Currently we are optimising device management and getting bugs resolved. We will strive to include the latest experiences in our report." is much better than "The presentation will describe the Red Packet Washer made by Network Detergents." More information about the meeting can be found at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/index.html Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail at any time. During July and August my response time may be slightly longer than usual due to the holiday period. Thanks Daniel

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working group changes
by Rob Blokzijl 02 Jul '03

02 Jul '03

G'day all, as discussed and decided at the last RIPE Meeting in Barcelona we have a couple of changes in the RIPE Working Groups. These changes consist of the following: - the LIR WG has been reformed into 2 new working groups: o the RIPE NCC Services WG o the RIPE Address Policy WG - the Tools WG has been merged into the RIPE NCC Services WG The RIPE website and mailing lists now reflect these changes. The web pages of the relevant WGs have been changed/updated/created. As for the mailing lists, new mailing lists for the new WGs have been created. All subscribers to the (old) LIR WG list have been subscribed to the 2 new lists. The subscribers to the Tools WG list have been subscribed to the new RIPE NCC Services list. Care has been taken to identify and remove duplicates. It is of course up to individual subscribers to unsubscribe where appropriate. The (old) LIR WG list will remain active till the end of July, but you are all encouraged to start using the new lists as soon as possible. Greetings to you all, Rob Blokzijl

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Announcement RIPE 46: 1-5 September 2003
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to open registration for the RIPE 46 Meeting, to be held from 1 September - 5 September 2003 at the hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Please visit our website for further information on this meeting and accommodations: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/index.html. RIPE 46 Meeting fee: The registration fee for this meeting is EUR 400.00 (this includes refreshments and lunches) and the dinner fee is EUR 65.00. However, if payment is received before 30 August 2003, 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 350.00 for the meeting and 65.00 EUR for the RIPE dinner event. We do encourage pre-payment by credit card. Confirmation of Registration: For your convenience you can register using our secure website at: https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg. If you still prefer not to send your credit card number using the 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. Visa for the Netherlands: Participants requiring a visa to enter the Netherlands are advised to begin the required procedures as soon as possible. The RIPE Meeting Coordinator is pleased to provide letters of invitation to those attendees requiring them. Please send an email to <meeting(a)ripe.net>. 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 tel: +31 20 5354444 fax: +31 20 5354445 email: meeting(a)ripe.net

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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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Correction of previous Notice
by Paul Rendek 30 May '03

30 May '03

CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS NOTICE Call for Nominations: RIPE Representative to the ASO Address Council Dear Colleagues, On 30 May 2003, an announcement from our office regarding the ASO Address Council elections incorrectly stated that the deadline for nominations was 3 June 2003. Please note that the deadline for nominations is 2 August 2003. * Deadline for nominations: 2 August 2003 * Election scheduled for: 4 September 2003 The selection process will involve an open election to be held during the RIPE 46 Meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, being held from 1 - 5 September 2003. For full details on the position and how to make a nomination, please refer to: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/regional/aso2003/ and http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/lir/adress_council-election.html We appreciate your understanding and apologise for any confusion caused by the previous notice. Best regards, Paul Rendek RIPE NCC

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