The first quarterly report of the RIPE NCC is available now. It contains details about NCC activities during the second quarter of this year. The management summary section is attached below. The document is available from the RIPE document store in both PostScript and ASCII form. The document name is ripe-ncc-02. The FTP filenames are: ASCII: ~ftp/ripe/docs/lpr/ripe-ncc-02.lpr PostScript: ~ftp/ripe/docs/ps/ripe-ncc-02.ps Note that the PostScript version is not only much nicer looking but also contains graphics not representable in the ASCII version. Hardcopies of the report will be sent to all organisations contributing to the funding of the NCC. We welcome any comments you might have about the contents or the format of this report. Regards Daniel Karrenberg NCC Manager ------------------------- Management Summary A good and quick start The RIPE NCC formally started operations in April 1992 with the NCC man- ager. He was joined in May by the network engineer and the network administrator. During March, even before the official start of activities, the office space was organised and the computing equipment was installed. This enabled the NCC to provide core services from day one. The first two months of operation with the full staff com- plement were used to quickly establish a comprehensive set of services, as specified in the NCC activity plan. Some of these were a continuation of services that hitherto had been provided elsewhere. An orderly and timely transition to the NCC of these services was carried out with help of all those who had been involved with their provision. Recently, the NCC has established a number of new services. Detailed information about all the activities can be found in "Activities". As expected general set-up and training activities also con- sumed resources during this phase. Since these activities are operational overheads, they will not be detailed below. Priorities During this start-up phase, priority was given to establish- ing those activities which can be both quickly initiated and produce results. Activities needing a longer set-up time and/or those which need considerable guidance from RIPE have been postponed until a basic service level is achieved and recognised by the community. Important Topics The section on "Important Topics" highlights issues around future charging models for NCC services and the mapping activity. Outlook The NCC will use the next three months to consolidate the current achievements and to stimulate consensus building in RIPE about priorities for the longer term activities. These will then be started in the third quarter of NCC operations following the next RIPE meeting.