- ncc-announce - mailman.ripe.net

ASO Call for Comments on Nominees for ICANN Board Seat
by Axel Pawlik 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, Following a public nomination period that closed on 10 January 2010, the ASO Address Council (ASO AC) selected the final set of candidates to fill the ASO seat on the ICANN Board. This seat is currently held by Raimundo Beca, whose term expires in April 2010. The candidates are: - Raimundo Beca - Mark Ducadi - Nicola Garelli - Eric Ramage - Kuo Wei Wu The candidates listed above agree to serve in an ASO seat on the ICANN Board of Directors if selected by the ASO Address Council. In March 2010, the ASO AC will make its final selection to appoint one of these individuals to fill the ASO Board seat. To aid them in making their final selection, the ASO AC members request public comments and statements of support for the candidates. The public comment period will remain open until 23:59 (UTC) on 10 March 2010. You can provide your comments and statements of support for the candidates to the ASO AC Nominations Committee by sending an email to <nominations2010(a)aso.icann.org>. A digest of all comments sent will be published at: http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/ Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC On behalf of the ASO/NRO Secretariat

1 0

Reverse DNS Outage Announcement
by Sjoerd Oostdijck 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, At 13:50 on Thursday, 21 January, an error was introduced into the RIPE NCC's reverse DNS provisioning system. This caused reverse DNS delegations to stop working for allocations in the following range: 77.0.0.0 to 77.220.7.255 This error was triggered by an internal cleanup of our Early Registration Transfer (ERX) DNS delegations, which was being conducted as part of the RIPE NCC's Registration Data Quality (RDQ) project. The reverse DNS provisioning system was corrected again on 22 January at 09:50 (UTC). However, due to negative caching in DNS resolvers, the problem may have remained visible for a further two hours. The RIPE NCC is currently revising the reverse DNS provisioning system to prevent errors such as this occurring in future. If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to <ncc(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Sjoerd Oostdijck DNS Services Group, RIPE NCC

1 0

2009-03 "Run-out fairly" implemented
by Xavier Le Bris 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the policy described in proposal 2009-03,"Run Out Fairly", has been implemented. Requests for IPv4 address space received on or after Friday, 22 January will be evaluated by the RIPE NCC Registration Services Department under the new policy. Full text of the policy proposal can be found at: http://ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-03.html The following RIPE documents have been updated to reflect this policy implementation: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-488.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-489.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-490.html http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-491.html Regards, Xavier Le Bris Registration Services

1 0

IANA IPv4 Address Pool Dips Below 10%
by Paul Rendek 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. “This is a key milestone in the growth and development of the global Internet,” noted Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO. “With less than ten percent of the entire IPv4 address range still available for allocation to RIRs, it is vital that the Internet community take considered and determined action to ensure the global adoption of IPv6. The limited IPv4 addresses will not allow us enough resources to achieve the ambitions we all hold for global Internet access. The deployment of IPv6 is a key infrastructure development that will enable the network to support the billions of people and devices that will connect in the coming years.” You can view the NRO press release in its entirety at: http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unalloc… Please contact <ncc(a)ripe.net> if you have any questions or comments. Regards, Paul Rendek Head of External Relations and Communications RIPE NCC

1 0

RIPE NCC offices closed on 25 December 2009 and 1 January 2010
by Saskia van Gorp 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Dear Colleagues, Our offices will be closed on Friday 25 December (Christmas Day) and Friday 1 January (New Year's Day). Normal office hours will resume on respectively Monday 28 December 2009 and Monday 4 January 2010. The RIPE NCC wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Regards, Saskia van Gorp Front Office Manager RIPE NCC

1 0

New RIPE NCC PGP Key
by Laura Cobley 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 6 January 2010 we will start using our 2010 key to sign e-mail from our ticketing system. The new key has been signed by the old key as described in the key-management policy on our web site: https://www.ripe.net/rs/pgp/index.html The old key remains valid until Wednesday, 10 February 2010. If you have any questions about this, please contact <ncc(a)ripe.net>. Kind Regards, Laura Cobley RIPE NCC

1 0

RIPE NCC Confirms Commitment to DNSSEC Deployment in the Root Zone
by Andrei Robachevsky 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Dear Colleagues, On 1 December 2009, ICANN and VeriSign began to deploy DNSSEC across the root server system when they signed the root zone using DNSSEC. They noted that the signing would become public from January 2010, when the process of signing each of the 13 root servers in turn would begin. This process will continue until July 2010, when ICANN publishes the root zone trust anchor and root operators begin to serve the signed root zone with actual keys. On 15 December 2009, the root zone DNSSEC deployment team launched a website that provides information about DNSSEC for the root zone: http://www.root-dnssec.org/ The website is a repository for the documentation relating to the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone, and it includes information such as technical status updates and the full timetable for the deployment of DNSSEC. The RIPE NCC, operator of K-root, confirms its commitment to support the ICANN/VeriSign initiative and coordinate with the other root zone server operators in the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone. The RIPE NCC also provides data collection and measurements that allows monitoring of the effects the transition has on the overall performance of the root server system. This information is available on RIPE Labs at: http://labs.ripe.net/content/preparing-k-root-signed-root-zone Further details on the RIPE NCC's operation of K-root are available at: http://k.root-servers.org Best regards, Andrei Robachevsky Chief Technical Officer RIPE NCC

1 0

2009-08 Implementation: IPv6 PI Assignments for LIRs
by Nathalie Trenaman 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that RIPE Policy Proposal 2009-08,"IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) Assignments for LIRs", has been implemented. The RIPE NCC is now ready to accept requests for IPv6 address space under the new policy. This proposal can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-08.html The updated "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy" document is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-policies.html The following document has also been updated to reflect this policy implementation: http://ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-pi-support.html Regards, Nathalie Trenaman Registration Services RIPE NCC

1 0

Maintenance work on NCC services - 17/11/2009
by Ben O'Hara 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday, 17 November, between 18:00 and 21:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on our infrastructure. During this period you may experience outages when trying to use the following services: - www.ripe.net We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions please contact: ops(a)ripe.net Kind regards, -- Ben O'Hara RIPE Network Coordination Center Systems Engineer Singel 258, Amsterdam, NL http://www.ripe.net +31 20 535 4444 PGP Fingerprint: 080A 52FF BF0A A7FB F176 E7DB 513D 9A3D E968 7DBC

1 0

Maintenance work on NCC services - 12/11/2009
by Ben O'Hara 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, On Thursday, 12 November, between 18:00 and 21:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out maintenance work on our infrastructure. During this period you may experience outages when trying to use the following services: - ftp.ripe.net We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions please contact: ops(a)ripe.net Kind regards, -- Ben O'Hara RIPE Network Coordination Center Systems Engineer Singel 258, Amsterdam, NL http://www.ripe.net +31 20 535 4444 PGP Fingerprint: 080A 52FF BF0A A7FB F176 E7DB 513D 9A3D E968 7DBC

1 0