News and Announcements

5 June 2008 - Over recent months, the RIPE NCC has deployed IPv6 service at five additional k.root-servers.net locations. These are: BIX (Budapest) MIX (Milan) FICIX (Helsinki) CIXP (Geneva) AIX (Athens) This brings the total number of K-root instances available over IPv6 to seven, including the t

11 April 2008 - On the morning of 30 January 2008, two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged near Alexandria, Egypt. The media reported significant disruptions of Internet and phone traffic in the Middle East and South Asia. About two days later, a third cable was cut, this time in

With almost 85% of IPV4 addresses already allocated or reserved, RIPE NCC, the network co-ordination centre for Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia, warns that IPv6 uptake is a must if we are to avoid 'arrested development' of Internet growth and innovation.

17 March 2008 - An IPv6 deployment panel discussion was held at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon on Sunday 25 March between 13:00 and 15:00 (UTC+1). The session focused on IPv6 deployment in the root DNS and ISP environments as well as the policy support needed for this. The panel consisted of Gert

On Sunday, 24 February 2008, Pakistan Telecom (AS17557) started an unauthorised announcement of the prefix 208.65.153.0/24. One of Pakistan Telecom's upstream providers, PCCW Global (AS3491) forwarded this announcement to the rest of the Internet, which resulted in the hijacking of YouTube traffic on a global scale.

5 February 2008 - On 4 February 2008, at around 17:00 (UTC), IANA introduced AAAA records for six of the root servers in the root server system. One of these servers is the K-root, k.root-servers.net (2001:7fd::1), which is managed by the RIPE NCC. This change allows the root zone to be queried o

The RIPE NCC has been invited by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to participate in studies conducted by their Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP). These studies, which will be used to help governments understand the future of

11 December 2007 - The months of October and November 2007 set new records for the number of IPv6 allocations made in a single month by the RIPE NCC. 24 allocations were made to RIPE NCC members in October, a record immediately broken by the 31 allocations made in November. The previous peak was 19

20 November 2007 - As previously announced to the DNS and ENUM Working Groups at RIPE 55, the RIPE NCC will sign the e164.arpa (ENUM) zone on 26 November 2007 and support for secure delegations will be provided on 25 March 2008. This improvement to the operation of the domain was developed and conc

26 October 2007 - During the RIPE 55 meeting in  Amsterdam, the RIPE community agreed to issue the following statement on IPv4 depletion and the deployment of IPv6."Growth and innovation on the Internet depends on the continued availability of IP address space. The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4