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Regional Internet Registries Announce Proposal for an ICANN ASO
by RIPE NCC 08 Jul '99

08 Jul '99

Regional Internet Registries Announce Proposal for an ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- 8 July 1999 -- The Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) have published today a collectively developed policy draft describing the Address Supporting Organisation (ASO). The proposal will be submitted to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) later this month. At this stage, the RIPE NCC has distributed the proposal to its membership, the RIPE community and the general public for comment. The current Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) ensure that IP address space is managed in a globally consistent, fair and responsible manner. The primary activity of the RIRs is the allocation of Internet resources required for the stable and reliable operation of the Internet. In addition, the RIRs play a key role in Internet administration directly in keeping with the interests of their membership and the Internet community. The RIPE NCC has carried out these activities in Europe and surrounding areas since 1992. Policies governing these activities are developed in an open process accessible to all interested parties. Global policies have long been established in a bottom-up method whereby the Internet community develops policies that are co-ordinated among the RIRs and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that were ultimately approved by IANA. These structures are currently established in all regions. The regional processes are open and transparent and have existed for several years in the RIPE NCC service region through RIPE, a collaborative organisation open to all parties. The main purpose of RIPE is to discuss technical and policy issues affecting the Internet Service Providers in the RIPE NCC service region. The ASO is part of the ICANN structure established to formalise activities previously carried out by IANA. The ICANN bylaws call for an ASO to co-ordinate Internet address policy development. As the activities of IANA related to IP address administration will be formally transferred to ICANN, the RIRs are defining the structure of the ASO building on the existing and well established processes. The collective proposal reflects the desire of the Internet community to be represented through the successful regional structures and not be compelled to participate in another global process to defend their interests. Similar to the set-up of the Protocol Supporting Organisation and the Domain Name System Supporting Organisation, the ASO proposal is based on the formation of a Memorandum of Understanding among ICANN and the Regional Internet Registries. The cover letter and draft proposal for a MOU-based ASO document can be found under the current issues section at: http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html - About RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) Established in 1992 and located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is one of three Regional Internet Registries providing resources necessary to support the operation of the Internet. The RIPE NCC is a membership based association and is open to anyone using the RIPE NCC services, primarily Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The services provided to its members ensure the fair and impartial distribution of global Internet resources in the RIPE NCC service region. These resources include IP address space and Autonomous System (AS) numbers. The organisation currently provides services for members in over 80 countries. The activities and services are defined, performed, discussed and evaluated in an open manner. In all of its activities, the RIPE NCC observes strict neutrality and impartiality with respect to individual members. For further information please see: http://www.ripe.net/ - About American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) http://www.arin.net/ - About Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) http://www.apnic.net - About Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) http://www.icann.org Press Contact: RIPE NCC Tel: +31 20 535 4444 / Fax +31 20 535 4445 rendek(a)ripe.net

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RIPE Region Hostcount for May 1999
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 09 Jun '99

09 Jun '99

Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 1999. My apologies for the extreme lateness of this report. The table shows an increase since last month of over 400,000 (or 4.8%) to a total of almost 8,750,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 280,000 hosts more than in April. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large drop in hosts for uk last month was found to be due to a major provider refusing zone transfers for their domains. They have kindly allowed us to scan their domains this month, leading to the unusually large increase in the overall numbers and especially those for uk this month. Operational problems with ch meant that last month's data had to be used again this month. md and td had to be omitted from the count this month due to zone transfer blocking by their nameservers, I will attempt to contact the operators to rectify this. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: 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 Network Operator es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Shuki Kenan is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr tr Hostcount Maintainer 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 : Thu May 6 1999 This Count : Wed Jun 9 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 295 1025 408 617 + 6 ae 432 18130 462 17668 + 55 al 18 216 15 201 + 7 am 217 1424 255 1169 - 15 at 37902 255050 72877 182173 - 9548 az 101 462 56 406 + 9 ba 102 1023 100 923 + 108 be 17247 341099 31275 309824 + 6660 bf 12 377 76 301 + 114 bg 780 16234 1321 14913 + 904 bh 27 1539 133 1406 - 2 bj 11 95 12 83 + 10 by 196 1490 299 1191 + 229 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 59821 331413 78365 253048 0 ci 69 281 61 220 - 472 cm 7 238 0 238 + 1 cv 11 55 32 23 + 6 cy 772 5372 338 5034 + 13 cz 31854 124754 22293 102461 + 2207 de 368563 2535039 925044 1609995 + 4544 dj 5 43 4 39 0 dk 76227 403375 85355 318020 + 5805 dz 25 162 18 144 + 30 ee 3064 29362 2275 27087 + 469 eg 1046 3031 427 2604 - 26 er 1 1 0 1 0 es 14528 378966 21858 357108 + 31453 fi 11965 511036 18523 492513 + 38583 fo 230 646 52 594 - 2 fr 40374 606464 43706 562758 - 17759 ga 13 41 21 20 - 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 64 807 41 766 - 30 gg 206 257 172 85 - 9 gh 13 302 33 269 - 24 gi 144 949 595 354 - 134 gl 258 2327 157 2170 + 6 gn 1 3 0 3 - 7 gq 6 12 7 5 0 gr 8023 68572 7061 61511 + 2269 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2585 17116 4260 12856 - 447 hu 8901 103730 15835 87895 - 9702 ie 7807 69060 7892 61168 - 462 il 10046 157537 28282 129255 + 5040 im 170 201 86 115 + 5 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 82 990 90 900 + 137 is 2190 27714 1753 25961 + 830 it 33255 326633 35918 290715 + 23547 je 207 223 98 125 + 7 jo 455 1382 442 940 + 26 ke 201 487 66 421 - 1468 kg 70 1668 163 1505 + 172 kz 435 2982 591 2391 - 231 lb 1077 3863 956 2907 + 190 li 1099 2844 1015 1829 + 31 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1903 12769 1051 11718 + 304 lu 2436 9868 1454 8414 + 66 lv 1322 19832 4083 15749 + 298 ma 435 2877 700 2177 + 47 mc 276 748 231 517 + 23 mk 489 1646 234 1412 + 57 ml 15 76 1 75 - 111 mt 384 5952 524 5428 + 32 ne 11 101 2 99 - 4 ng 209 717 500 217 + 11 nl 69862 826003 87344 738659 + 11881 no 25745 362998 22243 340755 + 1895 om 26 2889 23 2866 - 23 pl 24873 238409 75972 162437 + 8812 pt 8502 76748 11085 65663 + 1384 qa 31 1065 8 1057 + 201 ro 2929 34895 4791 30104 + 6162 ru 21513 237975 46612 191363 + 4677 sa 497 3768 755 3013 + 57 se 34558 524955 38426 486529 - 2823 si 4183 25713 3207 22506 + 11 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8505 33883 7615 26268 + 226 sl 7 74 0 74 0 sm 89 350 21 329 + 2 sn 96 811 219 592 - 108 su 1441 29697 1934 27763 - 258 sy 4 1 0 1 + 1 tj 151 878 630 248 + 6 tm 1472 2832 1648 1184 + 30 tn 1 70 43 27 + 1 tr 9045 76458 10399 66059 + 5292 ua 2987 37294 13774 23520 + 1591 ug 15 148 10 138 - 2 uk 203784 1941546 399614 1541932 +278634 uz 223 708 343 365 + 33 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 34 48 21 27 - 2 yu 2589 10398 1384 9014 + 792 ============================================================== 98 1173867 10883365 2148076 8735289 +402329 ============================================================== - 1431* ======= +400898 * 2 TLD's were in the count last month but not this month: md and td. Their total contribution to the count last month was 1431 real hosts, thus the actual change since last month is +400,898 real hosts.

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RIPE NCC Annual Report 1998
by Daniel Karrenberg 27 May '99

27 May '99

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is pleased to present its first formal Annual Report since we are established as an independent association. In previous years the formal reporting was part of the TERENA association's Annual Report. Of course we are continuously reporting about our activities on the network and at RIPE meetings. Our web site provides a wealth of information that is impossible to include in a formal Annual Report. Yet I hope that you will find the report useful because of its short and comprehensive format. http://www.ripe.net/annual-report/98ar.html I also hope that this report will be a useful tool for you to spread the word about the RIPE NCC both inside and outside your organisation. It is important that all those involved in discussions about the administrative structures of the Internet know what RIPE and the RIPE NCC are and how they operate. For myself, personally, this report represents the last full year that the RIPE NCC has been functioning under my responsibility. As you may know, I have decided to take a step back professionally in order to have more time and energy to devote to my family. I am very happy that I can do this at a point in time where the RIPE NCC has come of age in many ways and is the stable and professional organisation described in the report. The RIPE NCC Annual Report 1998 can be found on the RIPE NCC Web site at: All RIPE NCC members will receive a hard copy version of this report by postal mail. We will be happy to provide additional copies upon request. Kind Regards, Daniel Karrenberg General Manager RIPE NCC

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Programme of Lund conference available!
by Peter Heijmens Visser 25 May '99

25 May '99

The programme of the TERENA-NORDUnet Conference 1999 is now available at http://www.terena.nl/tnnc The Conference will be held in Lund, Sweden, from the 7th to the 10th of June this year. The web site has been updated and now contains the full details of all the lectures, not only by distinguished speakers such as Esther Dyson, Van Jacobson, Vsten Frenberg, and Doug Van Houweling, but also a wealth of papers that will be presented by University and industry researchers from many different countries and on many topics that are relevant to "the Challenge of Gigabit Networking". Check it out for yourself! Registration for this Conference is still open, even though space at the Conference centre is limited. Registration is possible on-line via http://tnnc.lundaforum.se or via a plain-text form at http://www.terena.nl/tnnc/registration_form.html Looking forward to seeing you in Lund, Bert van Pinxteren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bert van Pinxteren TERENA Chief Administrative Officer Singel 468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. (direct): +31-20-530 4491; fax: +31-20-530 4499 E-mail: <pinxteren(a)terena.nl>; http://www.terena.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RIPE Region Hostcount for April 1999
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 07 May '99

07 May '99

Dear All, below is the hostcount for April 1999. The table shows a *decrease* since last month of around 95,000 (or 1.1%) to a total of almost 8,330,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The de domain shows the highest increase for April with approximately 72,000 hosts more than in March. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The somewhat surprising decrease in the overall number of hosts was largely caused by a decrease of around 1/4 million hosts in uk. There was not sufficient time between receiving the data file and publishing the hostcount to account for this, but we will certainly investigate and report back next month. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: ad Joan Marc Lauga at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Shuki Kenan is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr tr Hostcount Maintainer uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC -------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Count : Wed Apr 7 1999 This Count : Thu May 6 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 289 1011 400 611 + 4 ae 404 18077 464 17613 - 90 al 17 209 15 194 + 77 am 189 1369 185 1184 + 107 at 35616 261466 69745 191721 + 16382 az 86 438 41 397 + 5 ba 101 915 100 815 + 15 be 16357 337843 34679 303164 + 3850 bf 6 193 6 187 - 109 bg 725 15265 1256 14009 + 479 bh 28 1535 127 1408 - 2 bj 11 88 15 73 - 3 by 159 1163 201 962 - 87 cf 2 7 0 7 - 1 ch 59821 331413 78365 253048 - 5114 ci 158 781 89 692 + 68 cm 7 240 3 237 + 72 cv 10 33 16 17 0 cy 746 5345 324 5021 + 385 cz 30055 121170 20916 100254 + 7666 de 317347 2394443 788992 1605451 + 70315 dj 5 43 4 39 + 30 dk 71840 389480 77265 312215 + 143 dz 19 123 9 114 - 9 ee 2870 28679 2061 26618 + 913 eg 1003 3006 376 2630 + 137 er 1 1 0 1 + 1 es 13958 344723 19068 325655 + 8776 fi 11568 469647 15717 453930 - 13277 fo 219 649 53 596 - 261 fr 37626 656807 76290 580517 + 17603 ga 12 42 21 21 - 3 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 64 835 39 796 + 45 gg 193 267 173 94 + 9 gh 16 329 36 293 - 3 gi 136 1086 598 488 + 148 gl 262 2668 504 2164 + 111 gn 2 10 0 10 + 1 gq 6 12 7 5 0 gr 7741 65603 6361 59242 + 3003 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2530 17399 4096 13303 + 149 hu 8651 112622 15025 97597 - 2576 ie 7506 69268 7638 61630 + 512 il 9629 152333 28118 124215 + 2504 im 164 190 80 110 + 110 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 75 846 83 763 - 95 is 2092 26765 1634 25131 + 84 it 31625 295817 28649 267168 - 92219 je 193 213 95 118 + 12 jo 440 1344 430 914 + 215 ke 365 2559 670 1889 + 273 kg 63 1485 152 1333 - 319 kz 410 3187 565 2622 + 152 lb 1114 3668 951 2717 + 272 li 1034 2744 946 1798 + 504 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1827 12480 1066 11414 + 293 lu 2306 9780 1432 8348 + 85 lv 1262 19333 3882 15451 - 411 ma 395 2765 635 2130 + 76 mc 267 711 217 494 + 66 md 937 2014 587 1427 + 405 mk 472 1588 233 1355 - 27 ml 16 194 8 186 - 4 mt 379 5907 511 5396 + 27 ne 12 108 5 103 - 24 ng 190 648 442 206 - 6 nl 66287 808853 82075 726778 + 45307 no 25008 360300 21440 338860 + 8067 om 24 2901 12 2889 + 1 pl 23337 198047 44422 153625 + 1413 pt 8189 75014 10735 64279 + 2017 qa 28 863 7 856 + 2 ro 2610 27859 3917 23942 - 3494 ru 20358 226852 40166 186686 + 2305 sa 405 3609 653 2956 + 1841 se 28726 525604 36252 489352 + 68778 si 4042 25519 3024 22495 + 349 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8176 33339 7297 26042 + 1596 sl 7 74 0 74 + 1 sm 86 344 17 327 + 2 sn 81 917 217 700 + 6 su 1412 29791 1770 28021 + 74 sy 1 0 0 0 - 1 td 6 8 4 4 0 tj 145 838 596 242 + 6 tm 1507 2812 1658 1154 + 29 tn 1 69 43 26 + 2 tr 8480 70745 9978 60767 + 5555 ua 2731 34770 12841 21929 + 99 ug 17 150 10 140 + 14 uk 191640 1604974 341676 1263298 -248798 uz 218 534 202 332 - 56 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 33 46 17 29 + 3 yu 2423 9416 1194 8222 - 579 ============================================================== 100 1079620 10247286 1912895 8334391 - 94017

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Recruitment of a Managing Director for the RIPE NCC
by Angela MacLeod 05 May '99

05 May '99

Dear members of RIPE, We would like to inform you that the RIPE NCC is currently recruiting a new Managing Director. Details of this position and required qualifications and experience can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/info/employment/gen-manager.html Kind regards, Angela MacLeod Personnel Officer

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RIPE NCC office closed on Friday 30th April
by RIPE NCC Staff 29 Apr '99

29 Apr '99

Dear Colleagues, Please note that the RIPE NCC office will be closed on: Friday 30th April, due to a national holiday (Koninginnedag). This means that there will be no-one in the office on this day to reply to your e-mails and phonecalls. The office will be open again on Monday 3rd May 1999. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC

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RIPE33 - Agenda version 2
by k13＠nikhef.nl 23 Apr '99

23 Apr '99

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the second draft of the agenda for the pleary session of the upcoming RIE33 meeting. Additions and modifications are most welcome! NOTE: you can still register for the reduced attendance fee till coming Friday. See www.ripe.net for more details. See you all in Vienna! Regards, Rob Blokzijl Chairman RIPE RIPE 33 Pleanry Session Agenda ------------------------------ Thursday 6 May - start @ 14:00h ------------------------------- 1. Opening 2. Agenda 3. Minutes RIPE 32 4. From the Chair 5. Reports from the RIPE NCC (D Karrenberg et al.) 6. ICANN a - Current Status of ICANN (R.Blokzijl) b - Progress with the Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) + Report from the IETF/ASO meeting (D.Karrenberg) + Report from the ARIN/ASO meeting (M.Kuehne) + Report from the RIPE NCC Board (K Mitchel) c - Presentation on Guiding Principles (R.Blokzijl) see document by G.Houston: www.ripe.net/mail-archives/aso-discuss/19990311-19990401/msg00008.html d - Questions & Discussion e - Conclusions & Next Steps 7. Welcome by the City Council of Vienna Friday 7 May - start @ 09:30h ----------------------------- 8. Transatlantic Cables: from retail to wholesale (D Bovio) 9. Reports from the working groups 10. Next meetings: - RIPE 34 20-24 September 1999 Amsterdam - RIPE 35 21-25 February 2000 Amsterdam - RIPE 36 May 2000 Budapest - RIPE 37 11-15 September 2000 Amsterdam - RIPE 38 22-26 January 2001 Amsterdam - Ripe 39 May 2001 Invitations and suggestions welcomed! 11. AOB 12. Close

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Last reminder: RIPE 33 in Vienna
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 23 Apr '99

23 Apr '99

Dear Colleagues, [ Apologies for duplicate mails ] We would like to remind you that the registration for RIPE 33 in Vienna: 4 - 7 May 1999, is still open. Please note that pre-payment facilities end today. Please send in your registration/payment details as soon as possible if you wish to benefit from the discount. More information about the meeting and the registration form, can be found on this page: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE Meeting Registrations

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RIPE 33 - Draft Plenary Agenda - version 1
by k13＠nikhef.nl 21 Apr '99

21 Apr '99

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the first draft of the agenda for the pleary session of the upcoming RIE33 meeting. Additions and modifications are most welcome! NOTE: you can still register for the reduced attendance fee till coming Friday. See www.ripe.net for more details. See you all in Vienna! Regards, Rob Blokzijl Chairman RIPE RIPE 33 Pleanry Session Agenda ------------------------------ Thursday 6 May - start @ 14:00h 1. Opening 2. Agenda 3. Minutes RIPE 32 4. From the Chair 5. Reports from the RIPE NCC (D Karrenberg et al.) 6. ICANN a - Current Status of ICANN (R.Blokzijl) b - Progress with the Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) + Report from the IETF/ASO meeting (D.Karrenberg) + Report from the ARIN/ASO meeting (M.Kuehne) + Report from the RIPE NCC Board (K Mitchel) c - Presentation on Guiding Principles (R.Blokzijl) see document by G.Houston: www.ripe.net/mail-archives/aso-discuss/19990311-19990401/msg00008.html d - Questions & Discussion e - Conclusions & Next Steps Friday 7 May - start @ 09:30h 7. Reports from the working groups 8. Next meetings: - RIPE 34 September 1999 Amsterdam - RIPE 35 February 2000 Amsterdam - RIPE 36 May 2000 Budapest - RIPE 37 September 2000 Amsterdam - RIPE 38 January 2001 Amsterdam - Ripe 39 May 2001 Invitations and suggestions are welcomed! 9. AOB 10. Close

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