News and Announcements

We have been informed of changes to Russian telephone area codes. One of our Russian members has asked the RIPE NCC to perform a bulk update on the whois data to reflect these changes. The area codes change on 1 December 2005. If we receive no objections, we plan to make this update two weeks late

The RIPE NCC Executive Board has reappointed Wilfried Woeber to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council as a representative of the RIPE NCC region. Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between ICANN and the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in October

18 November 2005 - In a press conference today at the WSIS in Tunis, the Number Resource Organization(NRO) released a statement regarding the Tunis Commitment found at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2266|0 The Number Resource Organization (NRO) is satisfied with the resu

As described in the 'Proposal for Periodic Clean-up for the TEST RIPE Database', the test database has been reset to a default set of objects.

This page provides information about the now defunct IRIS project.

1 September 2005 - We are pleased to announce that Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, has published a new RIPE Document, "Policy Development Process in RIPE", (ripe-350). This document formally describes the policy development process. The updated process is operational from today. A new RIPE web page descri

26 August 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) in cooperation with APNIC have deployed a new global node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at the National Internet eXchange of India (NIXI) in Noida, Delhi, India. The K-root

29 July 2005 - The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) has deployed a new global node instance of the K-root Internet root name server at Terremark's NAP of the Americas in Miami, Florida, USA. The K-root server is one of the 13 Internet root name

This is a proposal about changes to how the whois database software checks PGP and X.509 signatures on incoming updates. Currently the software checks that the PGP signature is valid by using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It verifies X.509 signatures

You may have seen our recently announced plans to deploy DNSSEC on the reverse tree. You can read more about this at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2005/msg00156.html This plan contains a proposal for the new "ds-rdata:" attribute. This att