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Title: Size of smallest allocations in CIDR blocks allocated by the RIPE NCC.
Author: Joao Luis Silva Damas
Date: 26 July, 2000
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GSM ASSOCIATION & THE RIPE NCC, THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL INTERNET REGISTRY
CLARIFY IP ADDRESSING FOR GPRS INFRASTRUCTURE
The GSM Association and the RIPE NCC (R�seaux IP Europ�ens Network
Coordination Centre), the European Regional Internet Registry have jointly
agreed to the process to enable GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) roaming
services to be supported by operators globally.
The GSM Association entered into discussions with the RIPE NCC earlier this
year initiated by a proposal for infrastructure addresses to support GPRS
roaming. The proposal was initially greeted with uncertainty within the RIPE
community due to concerns over the amount of addresses requested - although as
a result of subsequent meetings and clarification of existing address policies
the GSM Association's proposal was modified and issues of concern have been
addressed and resolved.
A key result of the discussion is that a task force - the GPRS Infrastructure
IP Addressing Working Party - was formed with expertise from the IP/ISP
community, the GSM/GPRS community and the RIPE NCC and already a constructive
meeting of task force members has taken place.
At this meeting the GSM Association's members clarified their needs, ISPs
raised their concerns and the RIPE NCC clarified its existing IP address
allocation policies and procedures. The results of the task force meeting were
presented to the overall RIPE community during its recent meeting and the
principal results were as follows:
� Public IPv4 address space can be used in parts of the GPRS network
infrastructure
� Existing IP address allocation policies and procedures apply
� Requests from mobile network operators can be sent directly to the RIPE NCC
or their data network backbone providers
These processes will be communicated to the global addressing community by the
RIPE NCC for review by the other Regional Internet Registries and their
respective constituencies. The GSM Association's IREG (International Roaming
Experts Group) has initiated discussions with the RIPE NCC to clarify the
existing process for obtaining these IP addresses. The RIPE NCC has already
received IP address requests from GPRS operators as a result.
Address requirements for mobile devices are still not finalised and work
continues on determining the needs of GPRS terminals and third generation
mobile systems.
The results of the GPRS Task Force meeting can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/lir/gprs/
For more information, please contact:
Mark Smith Paul Rendek
Director of Communications Communications Manager
The GSM Association RIPE NCC
Tel: +44 207 659 0430 Tel: +31 20 535 4444
Fax: +44 207 659 0431 Fax +31 20 535 4445
Email: msmith(a)gsm.org Email: rendek(a)ripe.net
VISIT THE HOME OF GSM ON THE WEB - HTTP://WWW.GSMWORLD.COM
Notes for Editors:
About the GSM Association:
The GSM Association is the world's leading wireless industry representative
body, consisting of more than 450 second and third Generation network
operators, satellite operators, key manufacturers & suppliers to the GSM
industry, regulators and administrative bodies. Membership of the Association
spans 150 countries and areas of the world.
The GSM Association is responsible for the development, deployment and
evolution of the GSM system for digital wireless communications and for the
promotion of the GSM platform. The Association's members provide digital GSM
wireless services to more than 330 million* customers (end-June 2000) across
five continents of the world. The GSM system accounts for approximately 55
percent of the world's wireless market, and 66 percent of the total digital
wireless market.
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the RIPE NCC services. Visit: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/
About RIPE (R�seaux IP Europ�ens):
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organisations and individuals, operating wide area IP networks in Europe and
beyond. The objective of RIPE is to ensure the administrative and technical
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a uniform IP service on his or her desktop irrespective of the particular
network his or her workstation is attached to. In November 1999, nearly
10,000,000 hosts were reachable via networks co-ordinated by RIPE.
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> at this rate we'll have as many SOAs as hosts in Europe
> this time next year; in other words, we'll have reached
> the milestone of an average of one host per domain.
> I'd call it a shame rather than a milestone.
How about "tombstone"?
Mike
Dear All,
below is the hostcount for June 2000.
The table shows a very slight decrease to a total of around 11,390,000
hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas.
The at domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately
90,000 hosts more than in May.
Background information and more statistics are
available at
http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/
- Brief Notes on this Hostcount -
- the January data had to be reused for uk due to problems
in the last months with co.uk.
- bj had to be removed from the count this month, due to
all top level servers denying zone transfers to the collecting
machine.
- Credits -
I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount
every month by running a local count:
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 IL NOC
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 Joao Pagaime
ro Eugenie Staicut
ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov
sk Lubos Elias
sm Maurizio Martinelli
Daniele Vannozzi
tr tr Hostcount Staff
uk Robert Stone
Kevin Hoadley
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Lee Wilmot
RIPE NCC
RIPE DNS Hostcount
Previous Count : Fri Jun 16 2000
This Count : Thu Jul 13 2000
CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE
==============================================================
ad 501 1888 739 1149 - 4
ae 1630 29852 1385 28467 - 222
al 53 244 21 223 0
am 491 2944 594 2350 + 83
at 97127 552405 148514 403891 + 89532
az 259 857 171 686 + 27
ba 197 2654 305 2349 + 55
be 20748 342195 39041 303154 + 4990
bg 983 20274 1864 18410 + 2050
bh 57 1856 326 1530 + 4
by 144 2683 365 2318 + 94
ch 120836 426498 176769 249729 + 9875
ci 197 654 240 414 + 2
cm 27 290 25 265 0
cv 13 102 81 21 + 4
cy 695 7549 527 7022 + 40
cz 63070 207071 63366 143705 + 1444
de 1461467 6193900 4371938 1821962 + 36190
dj 16 55 15 40 0
dk 146014 490539 184981 305558 - 47014
dz 39 299 18 281 - 12
ee 5204 41269 7989 33280 + 4798
eg 1348 3049 863 2186 - 53
er 1 4 0 4 0
es 19586 417378 29494 387884 - 79382
fi 17663 503650 42420 461230 - 61604
fo 413 1103 81 1022 - 2
fr 72037 1435909 94037 1341872 + 2772
ga 22 57 30 27 0
gb 2 24 0 24 0
ge 183 1480 153 1327 + 49
gg 579 1624 396 1228 + 168
gh 33 359 55 304 + 246
gi 304 2010 669 1341 + 43
gl 507 2687 266 2421 + 8
gn 3 325 134 191 - 30
gr 14070 101052 13555 87497 - 14683
gw 2 21 1 20 0
hr 2680 20450 6099 14351 + 1012
hu 28507 160050 40951 119099 - 1599
ie 12809 128249 18253 109996 + 2076
il 18024 157922 26499 131423 + 2526
im 341 1560 192 1368 + 290
ir 136 1429 307 1122 - 233
is 4248 38479 4341 34138 + 693
it 84194 552267 91272 460995 + 44240
je 578 1561 268 1293 + 179
ke 761 5416 633 4783 + 1245
kg 250 3168 449 2719 - 903
kz 1192 7564 1149 6415 + 76
lb 894 3936 832 3104 - 225
li 3274 7429 3931 3498 - 63
lr 6 0 0 0 0
lt 4647 18758 2493 16265 + 699
lv 2800 26812 7088 19724 + 247
ma 890 2999 1331 1668 + 3
mc 300 767 327 440 + 47
mk 726 2408 480 1928 + 577
ml 30 285 17 268 + 189
mt 707 7730 1209 6521 + 259
ng 245 994 835 159 - 4
nl 272828 1693084 419283 1273801 + 42481
no 36264 484969 33711 451258 - 4376
om 51 5772 2892 2880 + 1
pl 57096 315087 86370 228717 - 24068
pt 6786 95796 15115 80681 - 6645
qa 26 104 47 57 - 1258
ro 6150 44442 8143 36299 - 5737
ru 56102 387075 124484 262591 - 5900
sa 1474 6012 1754 4258 - 195
se 46199 666246 60463 605783 - 8346
si 4028 25637 4175 21462 - 221
sj 1 0 0 0 0
sk 16071 43758 14674 29084 - 3506
sl 7 203 0 203 + 1
sm 203 636 122 514 + 14
sn 221 1731 283 1448 + 10
su 1462 25239 1731 23508 - 232
sy 3 16 9 7 - 1
tj 312 1737 1098 639 + 131
tm 534 1440 654 786 + 26
tn 1 75 51 24 + 1
tr 12506 96374 11527 84847 + 14212
ua 10002 70525 37651 32874 + 1043
ug 128 812 86 726 - 24
uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0
va 2 9 0 9 0
yu 5321 17741 3478 14263 - 66
==============================================================
88 3227382 18434561 7043237 11391324 - 1856
-1 - 117
=======
- 1973
* The TLD 'bj' was included in the count last month
but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the
top level. It's total contribution to the number of real
hosts was 117.
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