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About The Visualization of the Internet Topology
by Andrea Carmignani 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Hi my name is Andrea Carmignani, I belong to the network research group of the university of Roma3. We developed a tool, known as Hermes, able to explore the Internet topology. Its based mainly on the information coming from the databases belonging to some Internet Resource Record like RIPE, RADB, VERIO, CABLE & WIRE, ARIN and BELL in addiction to the BGP routing information coming from the Route Projects of the Oregon University. Hermes is able to dynamically explore the Internet Topology, providing a Map representing the As and their interconnections. For any AS present on the map, it can also provide several information like: AS name, Maintainers, Routing Policies, list of the known border Router, list of the routes originated by the AS and the As macro which the AS belongs. We will be grateful if you could give us some feedback on the real utility of this tool and hopefully some suggestion able to improving it. Please visit the URL: http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~hermes here you will find a more detailed paper, some screenshot galleries, a screencam of the tool working and you will able to use Hermes through the Applet provided. I think this is the right mailing list where to post this news if not I apologize otherwise

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ROUTING
by Okan Cimen 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

HI CAN ANYONE GIVE ME DETAILED ROUTING INFORMATION OF A PI INDEPENDENT FIRM ? OKAN

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RIPE Region Hostcount for August 2000
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 19 Sep '00

19 Sep '00

Dear All, below is the hostcount for August 2000. The table shows an *decrease* since last month of around 150,000 (or 1.3%) to a total of approximately 11,625,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The .it domain shows the highest increase for August with approximately 88,000 hosts more than in July. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ Especially, please see http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/stats/hostcount/faq.html#axfr for information about why the hostcount statistics are subject to large fluctuations. For those using any of the hostcount datafiles on the RIPE NCC FTP site: they are now compressed using the bzip2 format. The suffix is now '.bz2'. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - lu was reincluded this month, after being absent for a couple of months due to AXFR problems. - fo was not included this month due to AXFR restrictions at the top level. - the January data had to be reused for uk due to problems in switching to a new version of the 'host' tool, and there being no new data since that time. We hope to be able to produce a uk hostcount next month with the help of this new version. - the July data had to be resused for dk due to an unknown problem at the local collector. - 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 Edgar D Danielyan 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 Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Netvision NOC 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 uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Aug 14 2000 This Count : Fri Sep 15 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 504 1853 720 1133 - 18 ae 1737 41133 995 40138 + 3874 al 55 183 24 159 - 69 am 664 3386 948 2438 - 9 at 108373 598854 168676 430178 + 11458 az 352 1991 308 1683 + 1005 ba 250 2905 446 2459 + 42 be 21605 341029 39974 301055 + 4483 bg 1046 20603 1973 18630 + 448 bh 58 1698 406 1292 - 244 by 158 2475 287 2188 - 56 ch 136876 418672 189596 229076 - 21544 ci 196 654 195 459 + 35 cm 28 195 23 172 - 96 cv 14 108 85 23 + 1 cy 682 7978 822 7156 + 13 cz 69853 206494 58038 148456 + 4210 de 1738608 6977516 5091118 1886398 + 19530 dj 17 56 16 40 0 dk 148765 495889 190459 305430 0 dz 44 605 32 573 + 363 ee 5621 39972 5560 34412 + 230 eg 1643 3244 1030 2214 + 63 er 1 4 0 4 0 es 15962 377766 21854 355912 -141019 fi 18546 581113 48232 532881 + 11434 fr 77754 1504465 129384 1375081 + 12331 ga 22 58 29 29 + 1 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 291 1724 390 1334 + 54 gg 673 1743 491 1252 + 7 gh 34 388 56 332 - 3 gi 387 2054 688 1366 + 338 gl 573 2730 284 2446 - 3 gn 8 333 135 198 + 7 gr 15227 105526 15239 90287 + 4400 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2963 21796 7343 14453 - 70 hu 30282 194218 73443 120775 + 3187 ie 13688 127890 19202 108688 - 454 il 13601 133761 33901 99860 - 33384 im 393 1865 299 1566 + 38 ir 140 1740 314 1426 + 84 is 4416 37029 4609 32420 + 1272 it 165867 711219 184925 526294 + 87797 je 665 1632 339 1293 - 17 ke 811 5389 625 4764 + 13 kg 281 4044 516 3528 - 19 kz 1347 7865 1261 6604 + 14 lb 887 2933 826 2107 + 123 li 3630 8067 4380 3687 + 20 lr 9 0 0 0 0 lt 5101 17276 2698 14578 - 1990 lu + 4525 10494 3129 7365 + 7365 lv 3362 22792 5187 17605 - 2127 ma 1007 3449 1733 1716 - 8 mc 302 778 337 441 - 6 mk 558 1816 373 1443 + 69 ml 34 302 21 281 + 12 mt 743 7912 1355 6557 - 49 ng 255 1343 965 378 - 293 nl 299487 1855529 492514 1363015 - 6096 no 37496 498818 35187 463631 + 6652 om 59 5792 2911 2881 + 2 pl 66793 380129 97165 282964 + 17987 pt 7105 104145 16027 88118 + 22666 qa 15 48 18 30 + 4 ro 6696 45900 9107 36793 - 177 ru 31156 198065 63789 134276 -138343 sa 1378 3775 1301 2474 + 317 se 48056 697469 62344 635125 + 1592 si 3646 25670 4471 21199 + 1760 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 18621 50421 16000 34421 + 1457 sl 7 203 0 203 0 sm 227 838 139 699 + 182 sn 272 1856 353 1503 + 15 su 1480 26062 1811 24251 + 1009 sy 3 16 8 8 0 tj 363 1726 1098 628 + 6 tm 509 1998 653 1345 + 4 tn 1 77 53 24 - 1 tr 13278 65215 11643 53572 - 29159 ua 11945 74098 42622 31476 - 566 ug 175 866 129 737 + 28 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 5860 18164 3925 14239 - 262 ============================================================== 88 3654973 19630939 8004615 11626324 -148080 -1 - 1026* ======= -149106 * 'fo' was included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. It's total contribution to the number of real hosts was 1026.

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RIPE NCC Activities, Expenditure and Charging Scheme 2001 - RIPE-213
by RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

[apologies for the duplicate mails] New RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Title: RIPE NCC Activities, Expenditure and Charging Scheme 2001 (RIPE-213) Short content description ------------------------- This document contains the planned activities for the RIPE NCC and the associated expenditures for the year 2001 as well as the charging scheme to ensure the necessary revenues. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- The RIPE document store is available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-213.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-213.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-213.html Kind Regards, Paul Rendek Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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None
by NCC Role Account 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

Reply to: ncc(a)ripe.net From: RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service <ncc(a)ripe.net> Subject: RIPE NCC Activities, Expenditure and Charging Scheme 2001 (RIPE-213) X-Phone: +31 20 535 4444 X-Fax: +31 20 535 4445 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:10:22 +0200 Sender: ncc(a)ripe.net New RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Title: RIPE NCC Activities, Expenditure and Charging Scheme 2001 (RIPE-213) Short content description ------------------------- This document contains the planned activities for the RIPE NCC and the associated expenditures for the year 2001 as well as the charging scheme to ensure the necessary revenues. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- The RIPE document store is available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-213.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-213.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-213.html Paul Rendek Communications Manager RIPE NCC

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Topics for todays ICANN ASO workshop at 1700
by Hans Petter Holen 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

Dear friends of RIPE; I have asked for a timeslot on this RIPE meeting to have a more informal Worksop style of environment were it is possible for those of you with particular interest in the work going on in the ICANN ASO and in the Address Council in particular. We will of course have a report from the AC in the lir-wg (as usual) and maybe even at the RIPE plenary at the RIPE chairs discretion. My thoughts behind this particular format at this particular meeting is to allow for the possibility of even more preparatory discussions in even more details than we usually have time for. Ideally I would have liked the meeting to happen later in the week, but not even the magic of the RIPE NCC meeting staff was enough for that to happen (we simply have to many competing for the same slots). The following rather broad topics lies on the Address Councils table, and will be discussed by the AC, ICANN and the RIRs at a physical AC meeting in Brisbane just after the APNIC meeting in October. This effort is thus an attempt to seek advice from the community before these discussions to satisfy the basic requirements for openness and transparency. 1) What is global policy ? There are several dimensions to this discussion: - replace RFC 2050 with a ICANN Address policy document - what is the distinction between regional and global policy - do we understand and appreciate the differences between the regional policies ? - differences between v4 and v6 with respect to the last item - what's the role/work mode of the AC ? to make the definite address policy, or to work on issues as they show up - were is the border between a service level contract and policy issues. - are there other operating guidelines for the ICANN - IANA than the global addressing policy ? 2) Revising the MOU In the widest sense: are there things in the present MOU that needs more work and needs to be changed ? 3) Addressing the essence of the ad Hoc committee, i.e. discussing how to best address new addressing needs emerging for 4) How to promote ipv6 ? 5) Emerging RIRs How to enable and support the emerging RIRs to establish regional policy processes ? The discussions in just above an hour needs not be limited to these topics. So, if you have a particular interest in influencing your AC members thinking on these or other matters, be there ! Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen Address Council Chair

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Call for Nominations - ASO Address Council
by RIPE NCC Staff 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

Call for Nominations for Representatives to the ASO Address Council - RIPE NCC Region Dear colleagues, This is a call for nominations of individuals from the RIPE NCC region to serve on the ASO Address Council. During November 2000, one RIPE NCC Region Address Council seat will become vacant and will be filled for the next three years by an individual nominated through this open call. This document describes the functions of the ASO and the Address Council, as well as the nomination and selection processes. If you are interested in nominating an individual, or if you are interested in being nominated as a member of the Address Council, please read this document carefully. 1. The Address Supporting Organisation - -------------------------------------- The ASO was formed in August 1999 as a consensus-based advisory body within the ICANN framework, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the current Regional Internet Registries and ICANN. The ICANN Bylaws (http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI-A) assign to the ASO the responsibility for the development of global policies relating to the distribution and registration of Internet address space, inter-domain routing identifiers and that part of the DNS name space that is used to name these addresses and identifiers. More information about the ASO is available at: http://www.aso.icann.org 2. The Address Council - ---------------------- The ASO Address Council co-ordinates the process of policy development in areas within the responsibility of the ASO, according to procedures defined within the MoU and by the Address Council itself. Specifically, these include the hosting of an annual open General Assembly meeting (the first of which was held in Budapest in May 2000) and attending regular meetings either by teleconference or face-to-face, at which policy issues and submissions may be considered. The other major responsibility of the Address Council is the appointment of individuals to fill ASO seats on the ICANN Board of Directors, according to procedures defined within the MoU. More information on the Address Council is available at: http://www.aso.icann.org/ac/ 3. The Role of Members of the Address Council - --------------------------------------------- Each member of the Address Council is expected to serve for a period of 3 years. The terms of appointment of the current initial AC members were staggered terms of 1, 2 and 3 years to allow one third of the Address Council to be replaced in each subsequent year. No member of the Address Council is entitled to any compensation from the ASO. No member of the Address Council can be indemnified by the ASO, nor can the ASO obtain insurance coverage relating to the liability of the actions of members of the Address Council. AC members do not represent any RIR, nor do they act as representatives of any other body. They are appointed in their individual capacity, and their membership cannot be proxied by any other individual or organisation. 4. Address Council Nominations Process - -------------------------------------- The term of Sabine Jaume who has served as an initial AC member for the past year has expired. One individual from the RIPE NCC Region will be selected to serve on the Address Council for a term of three years. The selection will be made through an open election process, from the set of individuals who have been nominated within this process. Any individual may be nominated, with the exception of any staff member of any Regional Internet Registry. Self-nominations are permitted. Nominations should be sent by email to <nominations(a)ripe.net>, by midnight CET on 30 September 2000. The information included with the nomination is to be in English, and should include: Name of Nominee: Country of residence: Organisation: Email Address: Postal Address: Biographical information: Motivation for nomination: Name of nominating individual: Organisation: Email Address: All nominees will be contacted via email to confirm their willingness to serve on the Address Council. If a nominee cannot be contacted via email, or does not respond, then their nomination will not be confirmed and they will not be eligible for election to the Address Council. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC web site after they are confirmed. All nominees will have the opportunity to submit a written statement in support of their nomination for publication on the web site. In addition, others may express support for nominated individuals simply by completing and submitting the nomination form provided above. 5. Address Council Selection Process - ------------------------------------ The process for selection of the nominee to serve on the Address Council will involve an open election. Due to the 90 day lead time needed for a call for nominations prior to a RIPE NCC region policy meeting, the selection process will not be held at the RIPE 37 meeting, 12-15 September 2000, in Amsterdam. Two selection processes have been proposed. The first follows the voting process outlined in the MoU. The selection procedure would take place at the RIPE 38 meeting in January 2001 in Amsterdam. The second process currently being discussed involves implementing an electronic voting procedure as it would allow for more participation in the selection process and could bring the process forward. This procedure would be discussed prior to the RIPE 37 meeting and announced in the LIR-WG meeting. Hans Petter Holen, LIR-WG Chair, will initiate discussions about this procedure on the lir-wg mailing list. Important Dates: 30 September 2000 - deadline for Address Council nominations Regards, Hans Petter Holen

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Hostmaster Center at RIPE 37!
by Nurani Nimpuno 02 Sep '00

02 Sep '00

Dear all, For all LIRs attending the coming RIPE meeting in Amsterdam, (12-15/09/00), the RIPE NCC is proud of offering a new service! At the week of the RIPE meeting, there will be a Hostmaster Center in the meeting area with two hostmasters constantly available to the LIRs! You will be able to drop by at any time during the meeting and you can also set appointments with hostmasters. The purpose of the Hostmaster Center is to make it possible for you to discuss an on-going request, policies and procedures or any other issues pertinent to the Registration Services, with a hostmaster. Furthermore, two workstations with connectivity will be in place, enabling the hostmasters to look at your particular request if necessary. The RIPE meetings have always been used as an opportunity for our members to meet up with the hostmasters handling their requests and we wish to further facilitate this by making ourselves more available to our members. We hope you find this service useful and we look forward to seeing you at RIPE37! Kind regards, Nurani Nimpuno Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC

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ANNONCEMENT: LIR Tutorial at RIPE37
by Nurani Nimpuno 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

Dear all, We are happy to announce that the RIPE NCC will be holding an IP Request Tutorial at the coming RIPE Meeting. The tutorial is scheduled for Friday the 15th of September at 14.00-17.00. This tutorial contains selected parts from the LIR courses we provide to our members throughout the RIPE NCC service region and contains the following concentrated sections: - How to Request Address Space - Completing the Request Form - Evaluation - Specific Assignment cases - New Allocation It is not necessary to register and you are all more than welcome to attend this tutorial which is open for anyone attending the RIPE meeting! Kind regards, -- Nurani Nimpuno Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC

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Final RIPE 37 Meeting Reminder
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Dear Colleagues, [ Apologies for duplicate mails ] We would like to remind you that in order to benefit from the 50 EUR discount, we need to receive your registration with credit card details before or on Friday 1 September. The preregistration for RIPE 37 in Amsterdam will close on Wednesday, 6 September 2000. On-site registration will open on Tuesday, 12 September 2000. For RIPE 37 Meeting information, the schedule and hotel information, please visit the following web site: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/current/ripe-37/index.html We hope to see you all in Amsterdam. Kind regards, Sylvana Wenderhold RIPE Meeting Registration ----------- Confirmation of Registration: For your convenience you can register using our secure website at: https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg (encrypted form) http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg (non-encrypted form) If you still prefer not to send your credit card number using an 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. Participants requiring a visa to enter the Netherlands are advised to begin the required procedures as soon as possible. The RIPE Meeting organisers are pleased to provide letters of invitation to those attendees requiring them. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is also possible and easier online at: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/mtgreg %START Do not change the following field %MTG [ ripe37 ] Please add a value in the 'box' area marked between the square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]" s). If values are already supplied between the brackets, please delete all values except one. PART 1 - Registration Note this is what will be used for your badge and for the attendee list, so please take care to fill it in correctly. 1) Your name Please enter your first name only. e.g. John , Mary B. %NAME [ ] Please enter your last name next e.g. Doe %SURNAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) Your Organisation's Complete Postal Address e.g. Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands %ORGADDR [ ] 4) Your Organisation type e.g. Commercial (com), Government (gov), Association (aso), Educational (edu), Other (oth) (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %ORGTYPE [ com / gov / aso / edu / oth ] 5) The NCC Reg-id of your Organisation %REGID [ ] (Only if you represent a Local Internet Registry) 6) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 7) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] 8) Do you want to attend the Newcomers Orientation Talk ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %INTRO-MTG [ no / yes ] 9) Do you want to attend the EOF? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %EOF [ no / yes ] 10) Do you want to attend the Multicast Routing Workshop? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %MULTI [ no / yes ] 11) Do you want to attend the DNS-sec Workshop? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %DNS [ no / yes ] PART 2 - Payment of Registration Fees WARNING!! - Note that sending your credit card information via e-mail is in principle not secure. The payment information will be transmitted in clear via e-mail. If you do not want to do this, please leave your credit card details blank in this form, and send them to us by fax. Please do not forget to mention your name and organisation on the fax, so there will be no risk in us getting confused. Our fax number is: +31 20 535 44 45 1) Method of payment. Payment in advance is greatly preferred. (please delete all choices except one) %PMETH [in advance; credit card / at meeting; credit card / at meeting; cash ] ( *NB: please note aforementioned reduction when paying in advance *) 2) Type of credit card (please delete all choices except one) %CTYPE [ VISA / American Express / Mastercard / Eurocard ] 3) Amount to be paid %AMT [RIPE Meeting only incl. reduction; EUR 230 / RIPE Meeting only excl. reduction; EUR 280 / RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner incl. reduction; EUR 295 / RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner excl. reduction; EUR 345 ] Payment details sent online cannot be processed after, September 1, 2000 with this form. You are welcome to send in your personal data with this form to register, but the actual payment can then only be made at the meeting itself on September 12, 13, and 14, 2000. ( again: please choose reduction ONLY when paying in advance ) 4) If you are coming to the RIPE dinner, indicate if you want a vegetarian meal. (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %VEGGIE [ no / yes ] %END

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