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Plenary Minutes RIPE 30
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 21 Jul '98

21 Jul '98

30th RIPE Meeting Plenary Minutes - DRAFT RIPE 30 Stockholm, 18 - 20 May 1998 Plenary Session Chair: Rob Blokzijl Scribe: Mirjam Kuehne - 1. - Opening Rob Blokzijl opened the plenary session of the 30th RIPE meeting. - 2. - Adoption of the agenda The agenda was approved as advertised. These minutes follow the agenda. - 3. - Minutes RIPE 29 The minutes of RIPE 29 were approved as they had been circulated before the meeting. No comments/additions. - 4. - From the chair The Chair reported on the status of the investigation into setting up a new Regional Registry, in addition to RIPE NCC, ARIN and APNIC. The new registry should cover the Russian Federation and a number of neighbouring countries. See RIPE-167 for the details. The Chair repeated that the guiding principles as laid down in RIPE 167 were: + broad concensus in the communities concerned + a reasonable geographical coverage (i.e. more than one country) + an open process, involving the RIPE NCC community at large. The Chair concluded that none of these requirements have been met. Therefore, the creation of a 4th Regional IP Registry, as described in RIPE 167 is no longer foreseen. The historical special relationship between the RIPE NCC and RosNIIROS will be revisited. - 5. - Ed Kern: Multihoming with NATs http://www.academ.com/nanog/feb1998/nat/index.html - 6. - Yakhov Rekther: IPv4 now, IPv6 when ready Summary of this presentation will be added to these minutes shortly. - 7. - Randy Bush: BGP AS Origin Authentication with DNS http://psg.com/~randy/980519.ripe/ draft-bates-bgp4-nlri-orig-verif-00.txt - 8. - Bob Hinden: Ipng Overview and Status Summary of this presentation will be added to these minutes shortly. Questions: Sean Doran: Who decides who is a transit provider? Bob: the Regional Internet Registries DFK pointed out that the RIR's don't know how to do this at the moment. Bob: easier to determine who is not a transit ISP. Bob explained that it is very important that all assignments are publicly registered in a DB. And that the RIR's can ask the TLA holders for more information. The proposed procedure is very similar to the slow start procedure currently in place for Ipv4 allocations. You initially only get a small piece. After 9 months the ISP has to prove that the address space has been used effectively. 90% Must be used before additional address space can be requested. Status: address format and specifications are almost draft standard. Work on the router specs is in progress. There are many implementations being worked on for both, hosts and routers. Even MS has released a prototype for Windows NT together with source code. The Ipv6 backbone 6bone is deployed well. Deployment timetable ( Bob's perspective) 1997-1998: product deployment continues, protocols refined based on experiences 1998-1999: Ipv6 appears in user systems as part of SW upgrades, users try out Ipv6 1999-2000: organisations start converting to Ipv6, translate to Ipv4 at organisational boundaries More info: http://playground.sun.com/ipng http://www.6bone.net - 9. - Carl Malamud: The Internet Atlas See also: http://not.invisible.net/talks/RIPE30/ (Caution: the HTML was put together for a talk from local disk and makes agressive bandwidth assumptions. But, so does the Atlas. :) The Internet Atlas BOF consisted of a 80 minute presentation on cartography and the Internet by Carl Malamud, followed by 45 minutes of general discussion on the topic. The BOF looked at several hundred maps from the Internet and from sources as diverse as Marshall Island stick maps and ancient petroglyphs. A three-year strategy was outlined for construction of an Internet Atlas and a variety of short-term efforts were proposed. Questions: Frode Greisen: The net is changing so quickly, how can you map it? Carl: it is mainly expanding. But yes, it has a dynamic aspect, and the maps will be on the net and be dynamically generated. - 10. - Reports from the RIPE WG's MBONE-WG -------- Chair: Thomas Telkamp replaced Kurt Kayser who couldn't make it to this meeting Scribe: Felix Kugler Attendees: 41 The following items were discussed: - status EU MBONE - DANTE migration to align with TEN-34 - Pruning: start action to detect non-pruners - MPEG-LB audio coding (Martin Sieler) -impressive quality at 64 kbps - AMSIX multicast experiments -ongoing, separate VLAN now -how to exchange multicast traffic? -MBGP Routing-WG ---------- Chair: Joachim Schmitz Scribe: Ambrose Magee Attendees: 74 Topics: - RPSL implementation - Merit & RIPE NCC in phase II according to transition plan - 'Progress Report on Transition to RPSL' by David Kessens - Tutorial & Information at RIPE 31 - Routing Registry Security - PGP secured submission method (details to be worked on) - Internet draft 'RPS security' (David Kessens reported) - Internet Routing Tools + Analysis - 'Interdomain Routing Statistic' by Craig Labovitz - BGP AS Origin Authentication with DNS - Internet draft presented by Randy Bush (draft-bates-bgp4-nlri-orig-verif-00.txt) ACTIONS: RIPE29.R1 on Gerald Winters, Joachim Schmitz and RIPE NCC to provide definition of Internet Routing Registry (IRR) and AUP RIPE29.R3 on RIPE NCC (Joao Damas) to implement PGP in the RIPE DB RIPE30.R1 on the RIPE NCC (Joao Damas) to implement aut-num authentication RIPE30.R2 on RIPE NCC, Joachim Schmitz and Wilfried Woeber to organise RPSL tutorials for RIPE 31 DB Security Task Force ---------------------- Chair: Joachim Schmitz This is not a RIPE WG, just a small task force. It has been set up one year ago and has met several times. There has been good progress, a set of requirements were identified. Topics: - Implementation of PGP It has been decided not to copy Merits 'PGP-FROM' attribute. The task force also does not want to copy the 'PGP-KEY' object from the RPS authentication draft. They propose to specify a 'PGP-ID' object along the lines of this draft. - The RPS security drafts have been discussed (draft-ietf-rps-auth-01) (the rps-dist draft is currently being worked on, not yet released) ACTIONS: RIPE30.DBSTF1: draft a specification for PGP implementation within 2 weeks RIPE30.DBSTF2: to give feedback to RPS security draft Next meetings are planned in conjunction with NANOG, IETF, RIPE DB-WG ----- Chair: Wilfried Woeber Scribe: Eamonn McGuinness Attendees: 61 Reports on: - RIPE DB general update and status - RIPE DB consistency efforts - RPSL capable whoisd - RPSL transition of Merit and RIPE NCC to phase II of transition plan Please read rps-dist and rps-auth drafts: - draft-ietf-rps-auth-01 - (the rps-dist draft is currently being worked on, not yet released) There was a proposal from SURFnet to allow to be referenced in admin-c attributes. No consensus was found (please see actions and please give input). ACTIONS: R30.DB1 on Ronald van der Pol to summarise their proposal to allow role objects in admin-c attributes R30.DB2 on the RIPE NCC to clearly document the use of contact information in the RIPE dB R30.DB3 on David Kessens to circulate proposal about DNS style tagging of nic-hdl's R30.DB4 on Ambrose Magee to publish URL for consistency report on the DB-WG mailing list for a sneak preview before it will be published to a broader community PGP-* authentication proposal: send to DB, Routing and LIR-WG mailing lists. See if consensus can be reached and have the proposal implemented by RIPE31 in alpha version to be commented on by community. DNS-WG ------ Chair: Ruediger Volk Randy Bush reported from the IETF on interoperability tasks (notify, dynamic updates). WG gave recommendations and suggestions on the draft from Hans Niklassen. Ruediger mentioned that there were a few new versions of BIND. TLD-WG & RIPE CENTR ------------------- Chair: Marcel Schneider replaced Niall O'Reilly who couldn't attend this meeting Scribe: Vittore Casarosa Minutes from last WG meeting were not available yet; this will be discussed at next meeting. Fay Howard gave a report on the RIPE CENTR activities. Marcel Schneider made a proposal on a new whois distribution: He feels that the data in the domain registries must be protected more than other sets of data (inetnum routing). When the data is misused the domain registry is usually not concerned; the owner of the data is the one who should take necessary steps. AUP or contracts are needed for use of domain related data.These contracts should be given to all parties that get the data, so that they all know the AUP. Marcel suggested three possible options to proceed: - CENTR to set up a draft contract (CENTR had unfortunately no time yet to discuss this.) - RIPE NCC to provide the data from the RIPE DB - do some further study first, the contracts need to be set up in the individual registries, some of them had to remove entire set of data they are responsible from the RIPE DB to prevent misuse Comments and Questions: Randy Bush articulated his concerns. The proposal sounds like making selling and misusing the data official. What is now misuse will then be officially be given to third parties. The data should be private, should not be given to search engines etc. There seems to be some misunderstanding about what data is actually concerned, because various sets of data are stored in the RIPE DB and other types of archives at the RIPE NCC. Daniel Karrenberg clarified that all data sent to the RIPE NCC in relation with IP address space or AS number requests (addressing plans etc.) are totally confidential and will not be published on any public database. Only data registered in the RIPE database, which is a publicly available DB, is public! Ipv6-WG ------- Chair: Thomas Trede Scribe: Gert Doering Attendees: 43 Minutes from last meeting are still missing. Reports: - David Kessens reported on the 6bone registry deployment - Bob Hinden gave a summary of the status of the IETF Ipng-WG and the Ipv6 specifications. He also summarised the 'allocation-rules' draft (see presentation in plenary session) - no further input from the audience on new manufacturers implementations (see list of current implementations in Bob Hindens presentation) Mirjam Kuene reported on the current point of view from the RIPE NCC on the Ipv6 developments. The RIPE NCC has not received any questions or requirements from the membership for Ipv6 address space. The RIPE NCC is also in close contact about the allocation rules with the other regional registries, IANA and the authors of the draft. No input from other WG's was received. EOF Tutorial ------------ Chair: (Peter Lothberg) Henk Smit from Cisco Europe gave a full-day tutorial about ISIS. The audience was very satisfied with getting some in-depth view on the protocol. The EOF-WG wants to continue, mainly by giving more technical seminars and tutorials in conjunction with the RIPE Meeting. Input on the form and content is welcome LIR-WG ------ Chair: Mike Norris Scribe: Pepa Tejedor Attenders: 100 RIPE NCC - growth (more than 6 Million hosts in European hostcount) - staffing (new internal structure at RIPE NCC, Paula Caslav now manager of Registration Services, Mirjam Kuehne head of external services) - workload (1-2 days response time) - training (2 LIR courses per month, more courses planned, professional trainer will be hired) - plans (one hostmaster staff will be dedicated to inaddr and DNS issues) ARIN - structure staff (Executive Board with 7 members, Advisory Board with 15 members, new staff members) - migrating DB (from Ingres to Oracle) - 340 clients APNIC - structure, staff - migrating DB - ticketing system - will take over inaddr service (has been done by Telstra so far) Address Space allocations - large LIRs experience problems with current policy (/16 maximum allocation, 90% usage before next allocation) wrt. to internal route aggregation - options: allocate more than a /16, revise 90% usage rule, take growth rate of LIRs into account? - proposal for RIPE31 Consistency & Auditing (Paula Caslav, see presentation in WG) - ripe-170 - audit samples (10% didn't respond - keep in mind that LIRs with little contact where audited first) - results (will be published) - problems & solutions (new and old LIR have a completely different set of problems, training and education activity will be stepped up) Ipv6 Allocations - docs close soon - preliminary rules for allocation Registry Hierarchy - consequence of classless assignment (make classless assignments and aggregate inetnum objects if possible) - Sub-LIR's - normal chain of accountability Future - new chair - review tasks (proposal has been sent to LIR-WG mailing list) - statistics (hosts/domain ration much lower than a few years ago ANTI-SPAM-BoF Chair: John Martin ------------- - No formal meeting took place - A new charter was presented to form a new WG - not so much technical issues, because they are been taken care off somewhere else - work items: - code of conduct to which ISP's might agree - set up a Center for European Network Abuse Resolution (CENAR) - RIPE NCC might be involved in providing admin services, not clear yet - James Aldridge was proposed as chairman The WG was approved with these two work items and the chairmanship of James Aldridge. http://www.staff.EU.net/jhma/anti-spam/charter.html Netnews-WG ---------- Chair: Felix Kugler Scribe: John Crain Attendees: 33 1. Review of actions: A27.N1 Tool support for News servers - ongoing A29.N1 Update charter on WG WWW server - done A29.N2 Update Newsbone document and related WWW pages - open A29.N3 group sync: information about maintainers and reference servers - moved to A30.N5 A29.N4 group sync: collect data and edit info page - moved to A30.N5 A29.N5 "News admins guide" - dead 2. Newsbone status report Web page presented with News servers offering online monitoring. Seven of the servers are fully compliant with Newsbone. 3. Overview of monitoring tools 5 types of news server software observed on backbone. A table was presented showing known monitoring/statistical tools. inflow and diablo-stats now have "surf-support". Volunteers for work on inflow: A30.N1 Felix Kugler to update inflow package with funcionality to limit output to a subset of feeds A30.N2 Kai Siering to update inflow package with outflow-plot script 4. News flowmaps Kai Siering is now working on this project. Current software to collect data is resource-intensive and needs a rewrite. Consensus that using "inpaths"-data from Freenix would be most favourable. Results will be presented as flowmaps with underlying geographical maps in GIF format. Missing server coordinates are a big problem. LOC-records in DNS are the ideal solution, but not widely deployed currently. A30.N3 Kai Siering to proceed with work on collect software and processing of flowmaps A30.N4 Felix Kugler to work on the coordinate problem 5. Group list maintenance Gerhard Winkler presented his prototype script. Lack of distinction between moderated/unmoderated groups which is considered very important. Synchronization should be based on checkgroup-type group lists wherever possible. Better contacts to people maintaining fundamental Usenet resources are urgently needed. A30.N5 Jonas Luster to improve prototype and to care for better access to Usenet resources. 6. QOS improvements A 1'000'000 byte article size limit on the backbone was accepted. No consensus on a proposed limit to 10 crossposts on the backbone. A30.N6 Felix Kugler to study effects of various crosspost limits 7. Jonas Luster gave an ad-hoc summary about the forthcoming Usenet format draft, the so-called "RFC 1036 grandson". -11.- Report from the RIPE NCC (Daniel Karrenberg) For the presentation slides, see: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-30/pres/nccrep/ Questions: Q: Are you planning to publish the results of the auditing on a public web site? A: Yes, but only the statistics, not results of particular audits Q: (Mike Norris) Do we check if domain names registered in the RIPE DB actually exist? A: Daniel answered that we are seeing the TLD administrators sending their data to the RIPE DB. Therefore we assume the domains exist. Q: (Christian Panigl) Is the TT project aware of the ToS (type of services) discussion or any ways of trying to be not honest with the data? A: We addressed the possible cheating. There are various ways to prevent this (one way would do to put a test traffic box at the customer site to double check). - 12. - Next Meetings: RIPE 31: September 32-25 1998, Edinburgh RIPE 32: January 27-29 1999, Amsterdam RIPE 33: May 26-28 1999, TBA Two offers to host a RIPE Meeting: one in Faro, Portugal and one in Berlin, Germany. - 13. - A.O.B. More than 240 people registered for this meeting. We all thank KTH for their hospitality and especially Lars-Johan Liman and his colleagues for providing these excellent facilities!!!! - 14. - Close

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RIPE 31 Meeting Announcement
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 20 Jul '98

20 Jul '98

Dear Colleagues, [ Apologies for duplicate mails ] We herewith open registration to the 31st RIPE meeting, which will be held at: the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland and is hosted by the London Internet Exchange (LINX). The RIPE meeting will take place on the following days: Wednesday 23rd, Thursday 24th and Friday 25th September 1998. However, several other meetings shall be taking place in the days prior to the meeting, incl.: o an EOF tutorial on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning o a RPSL course on Tuesday afternoon o a Newcomers orientation talk on Tuesday afternoon More information about the(se) meeting(s) and the registration form, can be found on this page: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html The registration fee of 100 ECU includes refreshments and lunch but doesn't include the RIPE dinner. The admission charge including the RIPE dinner event is 150 ECU. Pre-payment facilities will close on September 11th. Registration forms will be accepted after this date, however in that case payment will not be processed and has to take place on site. Please note that there appears to be a shortage of available hotels in Edinburgh in September. We would like to advise you to start looking for accommodation as soon as possible. For those of you who wish to attend the RIPE meeting and need a visa we would also like to advise you to begin these procedures as soon as possible. We will send invitations on request to those requiring them. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE Meeting Registrations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is also possible and easier online at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/form.html %START Do not change the following field %MTG [ ripe31 ] Please add a value in the 'box' area marked between the square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]" s). If values are already supplied between the brackets, please delete all values except one. PART 1 - Registration Note this is what will be used for your badge and for the attendee list, so please take care to fill it in correctly. 1) Your name Please enter your first name. First name first, surname last. e.g. John , Mary B. %NAME [ ] Please enter your surname next e.g. Doe %SURNAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) The NCC Reg-id of your Organisation %REGID [ ] (Only if you represent a Local Internet Registry) 4) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 5) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] 6) Do you want to attend the Newcomers Orientation Talk ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %INTRO-MTG [ no / yes ] 7) Do you want to attend the EOF Tutorial ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %EOF-TUTOR [ no / yes ] 8) Do you want to attend the RPSL course ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %RPSL-COURSE [ no / yes ] PART 2 - Payment of Registration Fees WARNING!! - Note that sending your credit card information via e-mail is in principle not secure. The payment information will be transmitted in clear via e-mail. If you do not want to do this, please leave your credit card details blank in this form, and send them to us by fax. Please do not forget to mention your name and organisation on the fax, so there will be no risk in us getting confused. Our fax number is: +31 20 535 44 45 1) Method of payment. Payment in advance is greatly preferred. (please delete all choices except one) %PMETH [in advance; credit card at meeting; credit card at meeting; cash ] 2) Type of credit card (please delete all choices except one) %CTYPE [ VISA / American Express / Mastercard ] 3) Card number %CCNUM [ ] 4) Expiry date %CCDATE [ ] 5) Card holders name %CCNAME [ ] 6) Card holders address %CCADDR [ ] 7) Amount to be paid %AMT [RIPE Meeting only; ECU 100 RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner; ECU 150 ] Your payment cannot be processed after September 11th, 1998 with this form. You are welcome to send in your personal data with this form to register, but the payment can only be made at the meeting itself on September 21st, 22nd and 23rd 1998 %END

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Re: RIPE NCC office closed on Tuesday 7th July 1998
by Roger Gottsponer 07 Jul '98

07 Jul '98

>Please note that the RIPE NCC office will be closed on: > >Tuesday 7th July 1998. > >On this day the RIPE NCC staff will go on their annual staff outing. >This means that there will be no one in the office to reply to your >e-mails and phonecalls. Bad luck. It seems that whois.ripe.net contains no more data. Whatever I ask, I get the 'No entries found for the selected source(s).' :-( Roger Gottsponer gottsponer(a)switch.ch SWITCHlan +41 1 268'15'34

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Re: RIPE NCC office closed on Tuesday 7th July 1998
by Christian Panigl, ACOnet/UniVie 07 Jul '98

07 Jul '98

>From: zsako(a)banknet.net (Janos Zsako) >Date: Tue, 7 Jul 98 09:13:45 +0200 >> >> Bad luck. It seems that whois.ripe.net contains no more data. Whatever >> I ask, I get the 'No entries found for the selected source(s).' > >Try one of the mirrors (preferably the closest one to you). We could offer our's for today (queries only, no updates of course): whois.ACO.net And, please, Murphy, stay away ! CP

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Re: RIPE NCC office closed on Tuesday 7th July 1998
by Mike Norris 07 Jul '98

07 Jul '98

That's very kind, Christian - many thanks. Mike ---------- > From: Christian Panigl, ACOnet/UniVie <panigl(a)cc.univie.ac.at> > To: ripe-list(a)ripe.net; local-ir(a)ripe.net > Cc: panigl(a)cc.univie.ac.at > Subject: Re: RIPE NCC office closed on Tuesday 7th July 1998 > Date: 07 July 1998 10:49 > > >From: zsako(a)banknet.net (Janos Zsako) > >Date: Tue, 7 Jul 98 09:13:45 +0200 > >> > >> Bad luck. It seems that whois.ripe.net contains no more data. Whatever > >> I ask, I get the 'No entries found for the selected source(s).' > > > >Try one of the mirrors (preferably the closest one to you). > > We could offer our's for today (queries only, no updates of course): > > whois.ACO.net > > And, please, Murphy, stay away ! > > CP

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Re: RIPE NCC office closed on Tuesday 7th July 1998
by zsako＠banknet.net 07 Jul '98

07 Jul '98

> From owner-ripe-list(a)ripe.net Tue Jul 7 09:09:53 1998 > >Please note that the RIPE NCC office will be closed on: > > > >Tuesday 7th July 1998. > > > >On this day the RIPE NCC staff will go on their annual staff outing. > >This means that there will be no one in the office to reply to your > >e-mails and phonecalls. > > Bad luck. It seems that whois.ripe.net contains no more data. Whatever > I ask, I get the 'No entries found for the selected source(s).' Try one of the mirrors (preferably the closest one to you). Janos

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Re: European Hostcount for June 1998
by Mike Norris 06 Jul '98

06 Jul '98

> The table shows an increase since last month of over 140,000 > (or 2.2%) to a total of almost 6,800,000 hosts in the DNS in > Europe and surrounding areas. Perhaps as significant is the increase in the number of SOAs (domains). This has gone from 577,106 to 607,174, or an increase of 5.2%. Regards. Mike

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European Hostcount for June 1998
by Lee Wilmot 04 Jul '98

04 Jul '98

Dear All, below is the hostcount for June 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 140,000 (or 2.2%) to a total of almost 6,800,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The de domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately 30,000 hosts more than in May. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services has hosted the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler(a)univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech(a)dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider(a)switch.ch> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis(a)forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)heanet.ie> il Shuki Kenan <shuki(a)netvision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli(a)cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi(a)cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider(a)switch.ch> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek(a)nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando(a)rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)ripn.net> sk Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli(a)cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi(a)cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Robert Stone <robert(a)nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Jun 3 1998 This Count : Sat Jul 4 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 9 144 6 138 + 4 am 116 963 145 818 + 60 at 21118 170748 35733 135015 + 1579 az 44 405 18 387 + 31 ba 24 463 24 439 - 45 be 10543 201085 18455 182630 + 2708 bg 522 9820 745 9075 + 69 by 84 1117 157 960 + 150 ch 34935 258652 38270 220382 + 7170 cy 568 4955 115 4840 + 105 cz 13549 79315 9202 70113 + 3431 de 126297 1539604 251963 1287641 + 31150 dk 50388 229577 30195 199382 + 3421 dz 4 9 0 9 - 43 ee 1808 21912 1318 20594 + 694 eg 610 3055 192 2863 + 96 es 10365 258659 10300 248359 + 7681 fi 7045 449773 13533 436240 + 3516 fo 119 554 23 531 - 40 fr 23450 468003 32217 435786 + 7173 gb 2 26 0 26 - 11 ge 42 633 37 596 + 11 gr 4692 41262 3292 37970 + 2684 hr 1608 12026 1845 10181 + 2220 hu 5433 97793 8492 89301 + 21453 ie 5438 50803 4552 46251 + 1227 il 6243 128393 20745 107648 + 2761 is 1207 22577 803 21774 + 851 it 35771 380226 47872 332354 + 9863 li 562 1786 597 1189 + 2 lt 857 7844 442 7402 + 1734 lu 1216 7843 1049 6794 + 149 lv 723 11514 1892 9622 + 434 ma 185 1921 319 1602 + 187 md 55 479 92 387 + 61 mk 217 881 100 781 + 73 mt 232 1663 237 1426 - 69 nl 37227 549847 61851 487996 + 827 no 19108 314312 14450 299862 - 5873 pl 14125 129921 20294 109627 + 1794 pt 5995 54708 6895 47813 + 2938 ro 1338 20480 1968 18512 + 643 ru 12872 162193 20629 141564 + 6348 se 28347 405171 25338 379833 + 2084 si 2665 22718 2444 20274 - 890 sk 4631 22310 3968 18342 + 207 sm 42 246 4 242 + 6 su 1036 45996 1773 44223 + 930 tn 14 201 98 103 + 7 tr 6018 41751 4424 37327 + 2339 ua 1263 27141 7750 19391 + 1673 uk 104949 1457959 225221 1232738 + 17000 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 1461 7058 531 6527 + 631 ============================================================== 607174 7728500 932615 6795885 +143204

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Looking Glass on www.ripe.net
by John LeRoy Crain 03 Jul '98

03 Jul '98

Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC has installed a looking glass on it's router at the AMS-IX. The looking glass is provided as a tool for network operators to troubleshoot network problems. The looking glass can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/looking-glass See http://www.ripe.net/misc/lg-support.html for details on support. John Crain RIPE NCC

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RIPE 31 Meeting
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 02 Jul '98

02 Jul '98

Dear Colleagues, [ Apologies for duplicate mails ] It is our pleasure to announce the 31st RIPE meeting, which will take place at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland and is hosted by the London Internet Exchange (LINX). The meeting will take place on the following days: Wednesday 23rd, Thursday 24th and Friday 25th September 1998. Please note that there appears to be a shortage of availabe hotels in Edinburgh in September. We would like to advise you to start looking for accommodation as soon as possible. For those of you who wish to attend the RIPE meeting and need a visa we also like would advise that you begin these procedures as soon as possible. We will send invitations on request to those requiring them. Registration for the meeting will open mid-July. For more information please look at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC Meeting Registrations

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