Internet Governance News

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

25 October 2007 - We are pleased to announce that Hans Petter Holen has been selected by the RIPE community to take the vacant seat on the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council (AC). He will serve a three-year term. Selection took place during the Plenary session on Wednesday, 2

15 July 2007 - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ray Pelletier as its first IETF Administrative Director (IAD). This appointment marks a key step in the IETF's progress in building a coordinated administrative platform that supports the collective

22 June 2007 - There was an IPv6 Deployment Panel discussion at the ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, 24 June between 15:00 and 16:30 (UTC -4). The session focused on the issues associated with deploying IPv6 on a network designed for IPv4. As well as webcasting the session, remote p

21 June 2007 - In response to recent articles in the press regarding the RIPE IPv6 address allocation policy, the RIPE NCC would like to clarify the RIPE policy making procedure. The RIPE NCC itself does not accept or reject any policies. All policies that govern how Internet number resources

5 May 2007 - The Address Supporting Organization (ASO) is pleased to announce that the ASO Address Council (AC) has selected Raimundo Beca to serve a new term on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board. Mr Beca's appointment follows a lengthy selection process,  includi

Overnight attempts to disrupt global computer traffic were foiled in part thanks to the RIPE NCC managed K-root server.

Hong Kong: 5 December 2006 - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced on Tuesday that the Internet community organisations that enable the processes for Internet development and administration will partner at ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong at the Internet Pav

Experts from industry, government and regulators will discuss effective management of IP address space, networking and building cooperation across the Middle East