October 1999 - ripe-list - mailman.ripe.net

Announcement: 3 new ICANN board members appointed
by hph＠a.sol.no 25 Oct '99

25 Oct '99

Dear friends of RIPE, The address council of the Address Supporting Organisation of ICANN has today performed its first important task. Following the regional open calls for nominations, three members for the ICANN board has been selected Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term The terms may be reconsidered at the upcoming meeting in Los Angeles, but for formal reasons we had to decide on the terms without having time to meet or consult with the candidates. It is worth noting that the Address Council has been under enormous pressure to come up with the candidates by today at latest. According to the ICANN bylaws, the current ICANN board has to be informed of the new board members 7 days before the new board members can take their seat. We were therefor facing two choices: rush the process as much as possible, an almost impossible task with members of the address council from Japan, China, Korea, Austria, France, Norway, USA and Chile in order to enable our board members to take seat before the Los Angeles board meeting. Or we could have waited, thus taken away our communities voices on the upcoming board meeting. We did however manage to select one candidate from each region regionally, and then had a phone meeting earlier on today to confirm the selections. We managed to establish a quorum (5 out of 9 present, and more than 2 out of 3 regions represented) and all votes were unanimous. Wish them good luck, As they may need it, to make sure ICANN becomes what it needs to be to ensure active development of the Internet. Sincerley Hans Petter Holen Local IR Working Group Chair / ICANN ASO Address council member -----Original Message----- From: Sabine Jaume [mailto:Sabine.Jaume@renater.fr] Sent: mandag, 25. oktober 1999 18:29 To: mclaughlin(a)pobox.com Cc: hph(a)sys.sol.no; arano(a)byd.ocn.ad.jp; cathy(a)excitehome.net; dmeyer(a)cisco.com; rbeca(a)ctc.cl; Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at; jianping(a)sea.net.edu.cn; hjpark(a)corp.thrunet.com; 'Mike Roberts'; 'Esther Dyson'; 'Paul Wilson'; 'Kim Hubbard'; 'Mirjam Kuehne'; arano(a)nic.ad.jp Subject: ASO Board members Andrew, As chair of today AC conference call , I am pleased to give you the names ofthe 3 board members for ASO. Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term Please note that terms may be reconsidered during the 1st November evening meeting in LA, after having met each of these three directors. Best Regards -- Sabine JAUME

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RIPE NCC Executive Board Announces Axel Pawlik as Managing Director
by RIPE NCC Staff 21 Oct '99

21 Oct '99

[apologies for duplicates.] Dear Colleagues, As you are aware, Daniel Karrenberg has stepped down from his position as General Manager of the RIPE NCC. Following his announcement the RIPE NCC Executive board has employed a great deal of effort to find a suitable replacement for this position. The RIPE NCC Executive Board is happy to announce Axel Pawlik as the new Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. Axel has been formally introduced to the participants at the recent AGM'99 meeting held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The RIPE NCC welcomes Axel and wishes him all the success in his new function. To help Axel get up to speed as quickly as possible, not only will he be assisted by the Executive Board, but also by Daniel and the staff. To provide you with some background information about Axel, please find below, the official news release announcing the appointment of Axel Pawlik as Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. Kind Regards, Paul Rendek Communications Officer ===== RIPE NCC Executive Board Announces Axel Pawlik as Managing Director Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- 19 October 1999 -- The RIPE NCC (Reseaux IP Europeens Network Co-ordination Centre) Executive Board today announced the appointment of Axel Pawlik as Managing Director of the RIPE NCC Association, effective 16 October 1999. Mr. Pawlik succeeds Daniel Karrenberg who served as General Manager since the establishment of the organisation in 1992. Employed at the University of Dortmund in Germany from 1985 to 1992, Axel Pawlik contributed to the establishment of UNIX networking as a publicly available service in Germany through the University of Dortmund. This institution introduced Internet access services to the business community and general public. During the period 1987-1991, Mr. Pawlik also served as a member of the board of the German Unix Users Group (GUUG). Understanding the demand for a commercial operation to provide Internet services, Mr. Pawlik founded EUnet Deutschland GmbH in 1992 and commercialised the operation. Under his leadership EUnet Deutschland GmbH became the market leader in Germany and one of the strongest EUnet networks in Europe. Mr. Pawlik was actively involved in the international operations of EUnet and the Internet community and held a series of executive positions within EUnet, initially as a member and eventually Vice-Chairman of the EUnet Executive Committee from 1988-1991. In his position as Vice-Chairman he lead the establishment of EUnet Ireland Ltd, which aimed to consolidate the host of national EUnet networks throughout Europe. Here he served as EUnet Ltd. Chairman of the Board from 1994 to 1995. Mr. Pawlik graduated from the University of Dortmund in 1983 with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Since 1997 he lived with his family in North-west Ireland enjoying the clean air and rural lifestyle. For further information please see: About RIPE NCC (RIPE Network Coordination Centre) http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/aboutncc.html Press Contact: RIPE NCC Tel: +31 20 535 4444 / Fax +31 20 535 4445 rendek(a)ripe.net

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RIPE Region Hostcount for September 1999
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 18 Oct '99

18 Oct '99

Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of over 380,000 (or 4.2%) to a total of over 9,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The it domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 130,000 hosts more than in August. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - We apologise for the (as usual, unavoidable) delay in publication of the hostcount this month, caused mainly by operational problems with the de zone. No data file could be acquired for the following TLD's: uk - collection problem be - transfer problem cf, ne - axfr block at top level Last month's data was used for uk and be so as to keep the overall figure somewhat consistent with previous months. Despite the problems described, the total hosts and zones counted rose quite sharply. This was not not due to the lateness of publication, since the majority of the data was collected at the usual time. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: ad Joan Marc Lauga am Edgar D Danielyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg Network Operator es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Shuki Kenan is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene lu Alain Frieden mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr Hostcount Admin uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley eu David Knight If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Sep 10 1999 This Count : Mon Oct 18 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 329 1087 450 637 + 1 ae 685 23072 337 22735 + 3756 al 29 235 15 220 + 5 am 315 1607 397 1210 + 33 at 45779 305375 96946 208429 + 7339 az 117 587 56 531 - 18 ba 110 2436 148 2288 + 83 be 19421 330566 34541 296025 0 bf 18 461 84 377 + 1 bg 848 17872 1875 15997 + 290 bh 37 1739 201 1538 + 9 bj 12 101 12 89 - 28 by 85 996 166 830 - 351 ch 77479 393233 99130 294103 + 10291 ci 121 406 136 270 + 5 cm 11 237 7 230 + 4 cv 15 44 38 6 + 1 cy 419 4843 246 4597 - 726 cz 41001 144315 31976 112339 + 4637 de 597486 3268688 1700762 1567926 + 39447 dj 6 44 6 38 0 dk 88158 418079 102316 315763 + 4444 dz 21 108 8 100 - 36 ee 3463 30719 2688 28031 + 531 eg 1117 2819 607 2212 + 109 er 1 3 0 3 + 1 es 17349 542171 28143 514028 + 52065 fi 12771 495999 24551 471448 + 1644 fo 290 945 48 897 + 6 fr 47376 737897 90731 647166 + 61556 ga 15 46 25 21 + 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 76 1007 47 960 + 9 gg 247 387 186 201 + 16 gh 21 389 35 354 + 55 gi 164 132 45 87 - 280 gl 318 2839 550 2289 + 27 gn 3 6 0 6 - 33 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 9956 81135 9081 72054 + 3282 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2627 18142 3834 14308 + 634 hu 10335 124727 23209 101518 - 9302 ie 8924 70595 8647 61948 - 5311 il 12280 176290 34706 141584 + 7229 im 203 348 141 207 + 3 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 92 1050 129 921 - 75 is 2555 29865 2373 27492 + 142 it 73364 648725 94627 554098 +133182 je 240 345 111 234 + 20 jo 529 1467 504 963 - 2 ke 429 4258 990 3268 + 504 kg 119 1706 267 1439 + 288 kz 664 5276 1052 4224 + 1091 lb 1273 4710 1501 3209 + 522 li 1546 3300 1381 1919 + 150 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 2274 14003 1299 12704 + 615 lu 2952 11823 2102 9721 + 605 lv 1591 21690 4769 16921 + 439 ma 287 2691 464 2227 + 1662 mc 173 551 189 362 - 34 mk 468 1682 251 1431 + 10 ml 19 229 14 215 + 24 mt 446 5922 594 5328 + 5 ng 205 766 480 286 + 14 nl 95878 958213 141490 816723 + 35280 no 27477 392841 25349 367492 + 2557 om 33 2924 49 2875 + 1 pl 28928 242130 71996 170134 + 2366 pt 7484 78559 12200 66359 + 318 qa 33 1081 11 1070 - 4 ro 3458 37399 5634 31765 - 36 ru 26137 271440 58266 213174 + 15670 sa 811 4863 990 3873 + 252 se 36430 565888 46246 519642 + 11204 si 3133 25073 3451 21622 - 832 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 10207 36749 10285 26464 - 12 sl 7 76 0 76 + 2 sm 112 386 31 355 + 11 sn 128 1080 220 860 + 32 su 1429 29551 1973 27578 + 1098 sy 7 15 9 6 + 5 tj 191 1193 794 399 + 25 tm 1590 2432 1588 844 - 412 tn 1 90 57 33 + 4 tr 8787 89229 11506 77723 - 7314 ua 3886 44361 17822 26539 - 290 ug 42 189 39 150 + 3 uk 249754 2061935 451129 1610806 0 uz 269 746 369 377 + 25 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 35 50 21 29 0 yu 3282 12214 1790 10424 + 75 ============================================================== 96 1598807 12823560 3273546 9550014 +380619 ============================================================== -2 - 95* ======= +380524 * The TLD's 'ne' and 'cf' were included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. Their total contibution to the number of real hosts was 95.

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ICANN Director nomination (fwd)
by Turchanyi Geza 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

Dear RIPE members, Well, after wondering a while, I am forwarding here my proposal for ICANN Director. I know that most of you could write a much better proposal even for the same person. Please do it. This time, we are still in time. Yes, Rob Blokzijl is The candidate of mine. I hope, not only mine. Rob is so modest and so unformal, that usually we forget his name when we speak about a formal duty. I would like to change this. As the world is getting "more formal", there is no other chance than asking "less formal" persons to take "formal responsibilities" in order to keep to world as free and "unformal" as it is possible. This is the main reason why I would like to see Rob as Director of ICANN. I know that my "nomination" is incomplete - please write a better one. Best regards, Geza ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:35:33 +0200 From: turchanyi.geza(a)ln.matav.hu To: nominations(a)ripe.net Subject: ICANN Director nomination TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I would like to nominate Rob Blokzijl for ICANN Director. Please find below his coordinates. person: Rob Blokzijl address: NIKHEF section H address: Science Park Watergraafsmeer (WCW) address: Kruislaan 409 address: NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam address: The Netherlands phone: +31 20 592 5102 fax-no: +31 20 592 5155 e-mail: k13(a)nikhef.nl nic-hdl: RB13 changed: dfk(a)cwi.nl 19900802 changed: ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net 19920622 changed: GeertJan.deGroot(a)ripe.net 19940215 source: RIPE Rob Blokzijl is a founding member of RIPE, the informal association of the European Internet Service Providers. He coordinated this association as a Chair since 1989. Later on he helped to add more formality where formalities become a must: this was the way as the RIPE NCC had been created and later on the RIPE NCC Association eshtablieshed as a non-profit legal body. He has very high reputation within the European Internauts, and very well known "Globally". His helpful, modest, personality could help to keep ICANN close to the community. Sincerely yours, G�za Turch�nyi Internet Designer MAT�V, Hungary turchanyi.geza(a)ln.matav.hu

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New Document available: RIPE-200
by RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-200 Title: RIPE NCC Routing Information Service Author: RIPE NCC/Antony Antony and Henk Uijterwaal Date: 14 Oct 1999 Format: PS=592 kbyte TXT=39 kbyte Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- This document discusses the Routing Information Service (RIS), a project proposed as a new activity of the RIPE NCC in the RIPE NCC activity plan for 1999 and 2000 [1, 2]. The document gives an overview of the project, discusses the implementation and mentions a couple of points that have to be addressed in future design documents. This document is intended to solicit input from interested parties. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- The RIPE document store is available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-200.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-200.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-200 is not available from the WWW at this moment, but will be soon, at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-200.html

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ICANN: Call for Nominations to ICANN Board of Directors
by RIPE NCC Staff 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a call for nominations to the ICANN Board of Directors (see below) In our effort to reach as many interested parties as possible you may receive multiple copies of this message. Please accept our apologies for this. The call for nominations for ICANN Board of Directors for the RIPE NCC Service Region can also be found under the ICANN and ASO current issues section of the RIPE NCC Web site at: http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html Regards, Paul Rendek Communications Officer, RIPE NCC ===== CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ICANN BOARD OF DIRECTORS - RIPE NCC Service Region Amsterdam, 4 October 1999 This is an open call for nominations of interested individuals to serve on the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), as a nominee of the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO). The ASO will have the responsibility for nominating three ICANN Directors. This responsibility will, in the normal course of events, be conducted through an open process as outlined in the draft Memorandum of understanding as published at the following URL. http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/mou-draft.html For the initial ASO nominations to the ICANN Board, the ASO Address Council will nominate three Directors to serve terms of 1, 2, and 3 years. This process has been initiated by the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) through this open call for nominations. The process of selecting the initial ICANN Directors from the ASO nominations will be defined and managed by the Address Council. ASO Process for Nominating ICANN Directors Any individual may be nominated within this process, with the exception of any official of a national government or a multinational entity established by treaty or other agreement between national governments (ICANN ByLaws Art. V., Sec 5.). Self-nominations are permitted. However, no member of staff of an RIR is eligible to be appointed to the ICANN Board, and no ASO-appointed Director may serve simultaneously on the Address Council. The Directors appointed by the ASO will not represent the ASO on the Board, but will function as full Directors of ICANN. Nominations are to be sent by email to: nominations(a)ripe.net The information included with the nomination is to be in English, and should include: Name of Nominee Organisation E-mail Address Postal Address Phone Number Motivation for Nomination Nominated by Organisation E-mail Address All nominations are to be emailed to the above address on or before Sunday, 17 October 1999. All nominees will be contacted via email and must explicitly confirm their nomination if they are interested in serving as an ICANN Director. If the nominee cannot be contacted via email then the nomination will not be confirmed. All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC Web site. Supporting Comments for individual nominees should be sent to: nominations(a)ripe.net The list of nominated individuals and supporting comments made on their behalf will be submitted to the Address Council on Friday, 22 October 1999. Important dates: 17 October 1999: deadline for ICANN Board of Directors Nominations 22 October 1999: list of nominations submitted to Address Council

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