January 2007 - ncc-services-wg

RIPE NCC Announces New Membership Discussion List
by Paul Rendek 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, In response to requests from the membership, the RIPE NCC has created a members-only opt-in list where RIPE NCC members can discuss membership related issues. The new RIPE NCC Membership Discussion List (members-discuss(a)ripe.net) provides a useful, publicly archived way for members to discuss important membership issues. The RIPE NCC Membership Discussion List is one of several mailing lists for RIPE NCC members. For more information about these lists, including a description of the topics they cover and subscription details, go to: http://www.ripe.net/membership/lists.html RIPE NCC members can subscribe to this list through the RIPE NCC LIR Portal. Please note that an LIR login will be required. More information about setting up an LIR Portal account is available at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/getting_started.html Regards, Paul Rendek Head of Communications RIPE NCC

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by Mark Guz 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday 6 February, between 21:00 and 23:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out planned maintenance work on our core network infrastructure. RIPE NCC services will be temporarily unavailable during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. This work is due to BGP load balancing issues between our NikHef and Telecity peering points. If you have any questions about this, please send an e-mail to: <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards -- Mark Guz Senior Engineer RIPE NCC Singel 258 Amsterdam 1016 AB Tel: +31 (0) 20 535 4444 Fax: +31 (0) 20 535 4445 http://www.ripe.net

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RIPE NCC Planned Maintenance, February 2007
by RIPE NCC 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC will perform planned maintenance work that will affect a number of servers. The maintenance work will take place on: Thursday, 1 February 2007 between 21:00 and 23:00 UTC Wednesday, 7 February 2007 between 21:00 and 23:00 UTC During this maintenance, individual servers may experience short outages. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you have any questions about this, please send an e-mail to: ops(a)ripe.net

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LIR Portal Outage: 23 January 2007
by Mark Guz 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday, 23 January, between 21:00 and 22:00 (UTC), the RIPE NCC will carry out urgent maintenance work that will cause outages to the RIPE NCC LIR Portal. We recommend that you avoid using the RIPE NCC LIR Portal until this maintenance work has been completed. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you have any questions about this, please send an e-mail to: <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards -- Mark Guz Senior Engineer RIPE NCC Singel 258 Amsterdam 1016 AB Tel: +31 (0) 20 535 4444 Fax: +31 (0) 20 535 4445 http://www.ripe.net

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ASN32 deployment
by Denis Walker 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear colleagues, This morning, between 07:00 and 09:00 (UTC), we deployed new software for the RIPE Database. Three changes were made: 1. The new software allows the creation of 32-bit (4-byte) Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). There is more information about this in the references at the end of this e-mail. 2. The ORGANISATION object type NON-REGISTRY has been changed to OTHER. The RIPE NCC modified all existing organisation objects which had the old type. There is more information about this at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2006/msg00245.html 3. We reversed changes made to the status of ERX objects. While implementing the ASSIGNED ANYCAST status, other changes were made. This prevented more specific assignments from being created within EARLY REGISTRATION ranges. These changes have been rolled back. If you have any questions about any of these changes, send an e-mail to <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards Denis Walker Database Group RIPE NCC -------- References: The new 32-bit ASN format is described in these documents: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representatio… http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-uijterwaal-rpsl-4byteas-ext-01.txt Sites using the RIPE Database software will probably have to upgrade their systems. See: http://www.ripe.net/news/asn-db-update.html Our test database (e-mail to <test-dbm(a)ripe.net> or access through webupdates) also now handles the new AS number format.

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