Dear colleagues, At the 183rd RIPE NCC Executive Board meeting on 21st March 2025, the following changes to the RIPE Database Acceptable Use Policy were approved: * Clarified that the RIPE NCC accounts by prefix, the size of which is determined by the RIPE NCC. This better reflects the reality of how we implemented the feature. * Clarified that the RIPE NCC may lift a permanent block of a user from querying the RIPE database on request, at our sole discretion and on a case-by-case basis. * Use the term "RIPE NCC Access" rather than "SSO". The minutes from the 183rd Executive Board meeting are available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2025/183rd-executive-b... The updated Acceptable Use Policy is available on the RIPE NCC website : https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/ripe-datab... A diff of the changes is visible in the DB documentation repository : https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-database-documentation/blame/main/docs/25.R... Previous discussion: https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/db-wg@ripe.net/thread/VNZW422LST24X6I... Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC