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RIPE 34 Meeting in Amsterdam - Reminder
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Dear Colleagues, [ Apologies for duplicate mails ] We would like to remind you that the registration for RIPE 34 in Amsterdam: 21 - 24 September 1999, has been opened. On-site registration will open on Tuesday 21st September. Please note: - To avoid wait queues at the registration desk on-site we encourage pre-payment by credit card. The registration fee for this meeting is EUR 170.00 (this includes refreshments and lunches) and the dinner fee is EUR 55.00. However, if payment is received before 10th September 1999 pre-payment cut-off date, you will receive a pre-registration discount of EUR 50.00. Therefore, the fee for attendees paying before the cut-off date is EUR 120.00 for the meeting and 55.00 EUR for the RIPE dinner event. Please note that due to organisational difficulties the IPv6 tutorial of Tuesday 21st will no longer take place. This training will be rescheduled for RIPE 35 in February 2000. Confirmation of Registration: For your convenience we have prepared a fax form for sending your credit card number. This form is attached to the acknowledgement of your registration and we encourage you to use it when possible. Alternatively you can register using our secure website at: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/form34.html (encrypted form) http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/nsform34.html (non-encrypted form) If you wish to register for this meeting but have no access to the World Wide Web, please contact us and we will send you a registration form by e-mail. You will receive a second acknowledgement by e-mail as soon your payment has been processed. In addition, you will find the receipt for your payment in your conference envelope. For more details please see: "RIPE Meeting Fees and Refunds" at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/meeting-int.html Participants requiring a visa to enter the Netherlands are advised to begin the required procedures as soon as possible. The RIPE Meeting organisers are pleased to provide letters of invitation to those attendees requiring them. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE Meeting Registrations

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RIPE Region Hostcount for July 1999
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 05 Aug '99

05 Aug '99

Dear All, below is the hostcount for July 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of around 670,000 (or 7,9%) to a total of almost 9,150,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The it domain shows the highest increase for July with approximately 350,000 hosts more than in June. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large increase in the it domain was due in part to the addition of several 'huge' domains which were previously blocked. The large increase in fi was due to a major provider allowing zone transfers from one of their secondary nameservers which had been accidentally blocked last month. - 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 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 Administrator 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 : Tue Jul 13 1999 This Count : Wed Aug 4 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 320 1072 454 618 + 1 ae 550 17910 489 17421 - 232 al 20 226 14 212 + 2 am 266 1358 315 1043 - 198 at 42517 267422 77342 190080 + 3732 az 109 607 65 542 + 166 ba 116 2190 135 2055 + 644 be 18839 342859 33383 309476 - 2484 bf 15 392 83 309 + 7 bg 820 17036 1667 15369 + 199 bh 32 1694 179 1515 + 99 bj 14 128 11 117 - 1 by 197 1459 312 1147 + 12 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 69772 353013 90940 262073 - 6633 ci 106 343 63 280 + 43 cm 7 227 3 224 - 14 cv 13 39 34 5 - 13 cy 810 5581 349 5232 + 47 cz 35731 131211 25925 105286 + 3100 de 464296 2802512 1276247 1526265 + 51741 dj 6 44 6 38 - 1 dk 82955 409800 92094 317706 + 8552 dz 13 64 6 58 - 121 ee 3239 29149 2257 26892 - 262 eg 869 2877 398 2479 - 92 er 1 2 0 2 0 es 15544 393005 23859 369146 + 7211 fi 13014 511217 36546 474671 + 63237 fo 258 913 46 867 + 10 fr 44386 702557 83705 618852 + 11897 ga 15 48 25 23 - 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 76 1010 49 961 + 16 gg 222 270 168 102 + 7 gh 18 339 37 302 + 296 gi 161 958 601 357 + 1 gl 285 2768 541 2227 + 14 gn 2 33 0 33 + 23 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 9343 74529 7849 66680 + 3481 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2724 18112 4458 13654 + 134 hu 9835 126435 17771 108664 + 3200 ie 8275 73760 8547 65213 + 4405 il 10850 169598 35218 134380 + 3204 im 196 237 99 138 + 17 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 91 1081 107 974 - 72 is 2380 29078 1995 27083 + 1415 it 68236 641784 88563 553221 +355662 je 213 216 96 120 + 5 jo 492 1421 463 958 + 15 ke 372 3457 963 2494 + 14 kg 89 1275 170 1105 + 29 kz 528 3928 760 3168 + 500 lb 1118 4123 1315 2808 + 58 li 1269 2432 1147 1285 - 459 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 2053 13236 1129 12107 + 227 lu 2703 10812 1862 8950 + 314 lv 1427 20279 4250 16029 + 49 ma 529 3461 814 2647 + 398 mc 217 625 230 395 - 133 mk 543 1825 248 1577 + 16 ml 17 200 9 191 + 42 mt 396 5978 552 5426 - 6 ne 13 85 4 81 - 47 ng 246 829 576 253 + 22 nl 82462 862957 116648 746309 + 21453 no 27619 373281 24569 348712 + 2114 om 27 2895 25 2870 + 16 pl 27096 223216 57339 165877 + 23826 pt 9161 78348 11565 66783 + 298 qa 33 1075 10 1065 + 1 ro 3258 37219 5262 31957 + 3428 ru 24577 257938 56051 201887 + 309 sa 665 4380 900 3480 + 34 se 34836 541664 39022 502642 + 4315 si 4444 26363 3437 22926 + 81 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 9346 34415 8567 25848 - 244 sl 7 74 0 74 + 74 sm 99 363 23 340 + 5 sn 129 1094 267 827 + 91 su 1656 27520 1788 25732 - 478 sy 4 1 0 1 0 tj 182 1145 775 370 + 40 tm 1633 2951 1658 1293 + 45 tn 1 76 48 28 + 1 tr 9234 99809 14109 85700 + 347 ua 3401 41598 15638 25960 + 1523 ug 29 165 20 145 + 11 uk 235251 2000633 406127 1594506 + 98271 uz 236 621 333 288 - 71 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 33 47 20 27 - 1 yu 2786 10420 1444 8976 + 586 ============================================================== 98 1397990 11841471 2693195 9148276 +669570

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RIPE 34 Meeting Announcement
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

Dear Colleagues, [ Apologies for duplicate mails ] It is our pleasure to open registration for the 34th RIPE meeting, which will be held from 21 - 24 September 1999 at: Krasnapolsky Hotel, Damsquare, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On-site registration will open on Tuesday 21st September. Please note: - To avoid wait queues at the registration desk on-site we encourage pre-payment by credit card. The registration fee for this meeting is EUR 170.00 (this includes refreshments and lunches) and the dinner fee is EUR 55.00. However, if payment is received before 10th September 1999 pre-payment cut-off date, you will receive a pre-registration discount of EUR 50.00. Therefore, the fee for attendees paying before the cut-off date is EUR 120.00 for the meeting and 55.00 EUR for the RIPE dinner event. Confirmation of Registration: For your convenience we have prepared a fax form for sending your credit card number. This form is attached to the acknowledgement of your registration and we encourage you to use it when possible. Alternatively you can register using our secure website at: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/form34.html (encrypted form) http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/nsform34.html (non-encrypted form) You will receive a second acknowledgement by e-mail as soon your payment has been processed. In addition, you will find the receipt for your payment in your conference envelope. For more details please see: "RIPE Meeting Fees and Refunds" at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/meeting-int.html Participants requiring a visa to enter the Netherlands are advised to begin the required procedures as soon as possible. The RIPE Meeting organisers are pleased to provide letters of invitation to those attendees requiring them. Should you have any further 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: https://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/form34.html http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/nsform34.html %START Do not change the following field %MTG [ ripe34 ] 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 only. e.g. John , Mary B. %NAME [ ] Please enter your surname next e.g. Doe %SURNAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) Your Organizations Complete Postal Address e.g. Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands %ORGADDR [ ] 4) The NCC Reg-id of your Organisation %REGID [ ] (Only if you represent a Local Internet Registry) 5) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 6) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] 7) Do you want to attend the Newcomers Orientation Talk ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %INTRO-MTG [ no / yes ] 8) Do you want to attend the EOF Tutorial ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %EOF-TUTOR [ no / yes ] 9) Do you want to attend the IPv6 Tutorial ? (please delete one option so your choice is in the form) %IPV6-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 ] ( *NB: please note aforementioned reduction when paying in advance *) 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 incl. reduction; EUR 120 / RIPE Meeting only excl. reduction; EUR 170 / RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner incl. reduction; EUR 175 / RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner excl. reduction; EUR 225] Payment details sent online cannot be processed after September 10th, 1999 with this form. You are welcome to send in your personal data with this form to register, but the actual payment can then only be made at the meeting itself on September 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th 1999. ( again: please choose reduction ONLY when paying in advance ) %END

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RIPE NCC office closed on Wednesday 21st July 1999
by RIPE NCC Staff 20 Jul '99

20 Jul '99

Dear Colleagues, Please note that the RIPE NCC office will be closed on: Wednesday 21st July 1999. 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. The office will be open again on Thursday 22nd July 1999. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC

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IMPORTANT: ICANN ASO, Your Expicit Support Required.
by Daniel Karrenberg 18 Jul '99

18 Jul '99

=====> your explicit support is needed, see further below <======= Dear Colleagues, We have recently published the draft proposal for the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO). The proposal is the result of numerous discussions within the RIPE community and the collective effort of all the Regional Internet Registries: APNIC, ARIN and the RIPE NCC. The proposal reflects the input we have received from the community. In particular it builds on the existing regional structures and proposes to continue using the well established processes we have been using to develop address space related policies over the years. This eliminates the need for you to participate in another, global, process of IP addressing policy development in order to be represented and defend your interests. The Regional Internet Registries plan to collectively submit the ASO proposal to ICANN later this month. This will allow ICANN to consider the proposal at the ICANN meeting to be held on 24-26 August 1999 in Santiago, Chile. The cover letter and draft proposal for a MoU-based ASO document can be found under the current issues section at: http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html If you have any comments or discussion points please use the mailing list <aso-discuss(a)ripe.net>. If you can support the draft as is, please register your explicit support on that list too. Since there is at least one other proposal (also referenced from the URL above) it is extremely important that our proposal collects as much explicit support from ISPs as possible. Without this support being explicit, ICANN will not be able to decide on the establishment of the ASO in an expeditious fashion. It will be very useful if your supporting message would include - Organisation Name - RIPE NCC registry ID (if a LIR and if known) - Function (get someone with an impressive job title to send it ;-) Thank you for your support Rob Blokzijl Chairman of RIPE Keith Mitchell Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board Daniel Karrenberg General Manager of the RIPE NCC

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RIPE Region Hostcount for June 1999
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 13 Jul '99

13 Jul '99

Dear All, below is the hostcount for June 1999. I once again apologise for the lateness of this report. The 'host' tool needed to be adjusted to handle the large size which is now being reached by some zones, and one of the TLDs had to be rerun as a result. The table shows a *decrease* since last month of over 250,000 (or 2.9%) to a total of around 8,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fr domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately 44,000 hosts more than in May. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large drop in the number of zones and hosts counted this month is explained by the following: - the collecting machine for de (and the IP address) was changed, resulting in blocked zone transfers for many zones which had previously been accessible. - a major provider for fi accidentally tightened zone transfer restrictions on their main nameservers, resulting in rejection of requests from the RIPE NCC. - large zones in several other TLDs (e.g. it, uk) became restricted as regards zone transfers. Zone transfer restrictions now have an obvious major (detrimental) effect on the hostcount. The RIPE NCC will undertake action over the next weeks to attempt to rectify this situation. The numbers in the hostcount will only ever be useable as a mimimum estimate, but we wouldn't like to see the accuracy continue to decline so severely. - 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 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 Maintainer 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 : Wed Jun 9 1999 This Count : Tue Jul 13 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 309 1051 434 617 0 ae 452 18131 478 17653 - 15 al 18 225 15 210 + 9 am 245 1519 278 1241 + 72 at 40197 262694 76346 186348 + 4175 az 115 442 66 376 - 30 ba 109 1572 161 1411 + 488 be 17966 343931 31971 311960 + 2136 bf 12 379 77 302 + 1 bg 807 16502 1332 15170 + 257 bh 27 1556 140 1416 + 10 bj 14 131 13 118 + 35 by 185 1435 300 1135 - 56 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 66631 355805 87099 268706 + 15658 ci 100 299 62 237 + 17 cm 7 241 3 238 0 cv 11 64 46 18 - 5 cy 791 5536 351 5185 + 151 cz 33312 125881 23695 102186 - 275 de 419820 2606584 1132060 1474524 -135471 dj 6 44 5 39 0 dk 79628 397278 88124 309154 - 8866 dz 24 194 15 179 + 35 ee 3158 29528 2374 27154 + 67 eg 1062 3017 446 2571 - 33 er 1 2 0 2 + 1 es 15046 384881 22946 361935 + 4827 fi 11247 434488 23054 411434 - 81079 fo 243 903 46 857 + 263 fr 42258 689639 82684 606955 + 44197 ga 17 53 29 24 + 4 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 70 989 44 945 + 179 gg 204 263 168 95 + 10 gh 8 8 2 6 - 263 gi 155 678 322 356 + 2 gl 268 2738 525 2213 + 43 gn 2 10 0 10 + 7 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 8734 70607 7408 63199 + 1688 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2706 17926 4406 13520 + 664 hu 9504 122710 17246 105464 + 17569 ie 8016 68875 8067 60808 - 360 il 10360 159513 28337 131176 + 1921 im 174 211 90 121 + 6 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 89 1178 132 1046 + 146 is 2279 27550 1882 25668 - 293 it 34459 234490 36931 197559 - 93156 je 201 202 87 115 - 10 jo 468 1400 457 943 + 3 ke 349 3172 692 2480 + 2059 kg 79 1224 148 1076 - 429 kz 486 3299 631 2668 + 277 lb 1117 4004 1254 2750 - 157 li 1170 2778 1034 1744 - 85 lr 6 0 0 0 0 lt 1965 13009 1129 11880 + 162 lu 2562 10149 1513 8636 + 222 lv 1354 20099 4119 15980 + 231 ma 463 2992 743 2249 + 72 mc 286 763 235 528 + 11 mk 523 1810 249 1561 + 149 ml 15 158 9 149 + 74 mt 393 5974 542 5432 + 4 ne 16 134 6 128 + 29 ng 220 744 513 231 + 14 nl 76351 834842 109986 724856 - 13803 no 26978 370493 23895 346598 + 5843 om 27 2877 23 2854 - 12 pl 25004 192840 50789 142051 - 20386 pt 8811 77828 11343 66485 + 822 qa 34 1072 8 1064 + 7 ro 3027 33418 4889 28529 - 1575 ru 23483 253883 52305 201578 + 10215 sa 594 4223 777 3446 + 433 se 34650 537856 39529 498327 + 11798 si 4365 26234 3389 22845 + 339 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8477 34140 8048 26092 - 176 sl 1 0 0 0 - 74 sm 95 357 22 335 + 6 sn 97 959 223 736 + 144 su 1657 28054 1844 26210 - 1553 sy 4 1 0 1 0 tj 170 1037 707 330 + 82 tm 1463 2907 1659 1248 + 64 tn 1 72 45 27 0 tr 9094 99276 13923 85353 + 19294 ua 3185 39386 14949 24437 + 917 ug 21 142 8 134 - 4 uk 213490 1872631 376396 1496235 - 45697 uz 233 705 346 359 - 6 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 34 49 21 28 + 1 yu 2711 9773 1383 8390 - 624 ============================================================== 98 1266591 10888791 2410085 8478706 -256583

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Regional Internet Registries Announce Proposal for an ICANN ASO
by RIPE NCC 08 Jul '99

08 Jul '99

Regional Internet Registries Announce Proposal for an ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- 8 July 1999 -- The Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) have published today a collectively developed policy draft describing the Address Supporting Organisation (ASO). The proposal will be submitted to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) later this month. At this stage, the RIPE NCC has distributed the proposal to its membership, the RIPE community and the general public for comment. The current Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) ensure that IP address space is managed in a globally consistent, fair and responsible manner. The primary activity of the RIRs is the allocation of Internet resources required for the stable and reliable operation of the Internet. In addition, the RIRs play a key role in Internet administration directly in keeping with the interests of their membership and the Internet community. The RIPE NCC has carried out these activities in Europe and surrounding areas since 1992. Policies governing these activities are developed in an open process accessible to all interested parties. Global policies have long been established in a bottom-up method whereby the Internet community develops policies that are co-ordinated among the RIRs and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that were ultimately approved by IANA. These structures are currently established in all regions. The regional processes are open and transparent and have existed for several years in the RIPE NCC service region through RIPE, a collaborative organisation open to all parties. The main purpose of RIPE is to discuss technical and policy issues affecting the Internet Service Providers in the RIPE NCC service region. The ASO is part of the ICANN structure established to formalise activities previously carried out by IANA. The ICANN bylaws call for an ASO to co-ordinate Internet address policy development. As the activities of IANA related to IP address administration will be formally transferred to ICANN, the RIRs are defining the structure of the ASO building on the existing and well established processes. The collective proposal reflects the desire of the Internet community to be represented through the successful regional structures and not be compelled to participate in another global process to defend their interests. Similar to the set-up of the Protocol Supporting Organisation and the Domain Name System Supporting Organisation, the ASO proposal is based on the formation of a Memorandum of Understanding among ICANN and the Regional Internet Registries. The cover letter and draft proposal for a MOU-based ASO document can be found under the current issues section at: http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html - About RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) Established in 1992 and located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is one of three Regional Internet Registries providing resources necessary to support the operation of the Internet. The RIPE NCC is a membership based association and is open to anyone using the RIPE NCC services, primarily Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The services provided to its members ensure the fair and impartial distribution of global Internet resources in the RIPE NCC service region. These resources include IP address space and Autonomous System (AS) numbers. The organisation currently provides services for members in over 80 countries. The activities and services are defined, performed, discussed and evaluated in an open manner. In all of its activities, the RIPE NCC observes strict neutrality and impartiality with respect to individual members. For further information please see: http://www.ripe.net/ - About American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) http://www.arin.net/ - About Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) http://www.apnic.net - About Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) http://www.icann.org 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 May 1999
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 09 Jun '99

09 Jun '99

Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 1999. My apologies for the extreme lateness of this report. The table shows an increase since last month of over 400,000 (or 4.8%) to a total of almost 8,750,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 280,000 hosts more than in April. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large drop in hosts for uk last month was found to be due to a major provider refusing zone transfers for their domains. They have kindly allowed us to scan their domains this month, leading to the unusually large increase in the overall numbers and especially those for uk this month. Operational problems with ch meant that last month's data had to be used again this month. md and td had to be omitted from the count this month due to zone transfer blocking by their nameservers, I will attempt to contact the operators to rectify this. - 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 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 tr Hostcount Maintainer 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 : Thu May 6 1999 This Count : Wed Jun 9 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 295 1025 408 617 + 6 ae 432 18130 462 17668 + 55 al 18 216 15 201 + 7 am 217 1424 255 1169 - 15 at 37902 255050 72877 182173 - 9548 az 101 462 56 406 + 9 ba 102 1023 100 923 + 108 be 17247 341099 31275 309824 + 6660 bf 12 377 76 301 + 114 bg 780 16234 1321 14913 + 904 bh 27 1539 133 1406 - 2 bj 11 95 12 83 + 10 by 196 1490 299 1191 + 229 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 59821 331413 78365 253048 0 ci 69 281 61 220 - 472 cm 7 238 0 238 + 1 cv 11 55 32 23 + 6 cy 772 5372 338 5034 + 13 cz 31854 124754 22293 102461 + 2207 de 368563 2535039 925044 1609995 + 4544 dj 5 43 4 39 0 dk 76227 403375 85355 318020 + 5805 dz 25 162 18 144 + 30 ee 3064 29362 2275 27087 + 469 eg 1046 3031 427 2604 - 26 er 1 1 0 1 0 es 14528 378966 21858 357108 + 31453 fi 11965 511036 18523 492513 + 38583 fo 230 646 52 594 - 2 fr 40374 606464 43706 562758 - 17759 ga 13 41 21 20 - 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 64 807 41 766 - 30 gg 206 257 172 85 - 9 gh 13 302 33 269 - 24 gi 144 949 595 354 - 134 gl 258 2327 157 2170 + 6 gn 1 3 0 3 - 7 gq 6 12 7 5 0 gr 8023 68572 7061 61511 + 2269 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2585 17116 4260 12856 - 447 hu 8901 103730 15835 87895 - 9702 ie 7807 69060 7892 61168 - 462 il 10046 157537 28282 129255 + 5040 im 170 201 86 115 + 5 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 82 990 90 900 + 137 is 2190 27714 1753 25961 + 830 it 33255 326633 35918 290715 + 23547 je 207 223 98 125 + 7 jo 455 1382 442 940 + 26 ke 201 487 66 421 - 1468 kg 70 1668 163 1505 + 172 kz 435 2982 591 2391 - 231 lb 1077 3863 956 2907 + 190 li 1099 2844 1015 1829 + 31 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1903 12769 1051 11718 + 304 lu 2436 9868 1454 8414 + 66 lv 1322 19832 4083 15749 + 298 ma 435 2877 700 2177 + 47 mc 276 748 231 517 + 23 mk 489 1646 234 1412 + 57 ml 15 76 1 75 - 111 mt 384 5952 524 5428 + 32 ne 11 101 2 99 - 4 ng 209 717 500 217 + 11 nl 69862 826003 87344 738659 + 11881 no 25745 362998 22243 340755 + 1895 om 26 2889 23 2866 - 23 pl 24873 238409 75972 162437 + 8812 pt 8502 76748 11085 65663 + 1384 qa 31 1065 8 1057 + 201 ro 2929 34895 4791 30104 + 6162 ru 21513 237975 46612 191363 + 4677 sa 497 3768 755 3013 + 57 se 34558 524955 38426 486529 - 2823 si 4183 25713 3207 22506 + 11 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8505 33883 7615 26268 + 226 sl 7 74 0 74 0 sm 89 350 21 329 + 2 sn 96 811 219 592 - 108 su 1441 29697 1934 27763 - 258 sy 4 1 0 1 + 1 tj 151 878 630 248 + 6 tm 1472 2832 1648 1184 + 30 tn 1 70 43 27 + 1 tr 9045 76458 10399 66059 + 5292 ua 2987 37294 13774 23520 + 1591 ug 15 148 10 138 - 2 uk 203784 1941546 399614 1541932 +278634 uz 223 708 343 365 + 33 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 34 48 21 27 - 2 yu 2589 10398 1384 9014 + 792 ============================================================== 98 1173867 10883365 2148076 8735289 +402329 ============================================================== - 1431* ======= +400898 * 2 TLD's were in the count last month but not this month: md and td. Their total contribution to the count last month was 1431 real hosts, thus the actual change since last month is +400,898 real hosts.

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RIPE NCC Annual Report 1998
by Daniel Karrenberg 27 May '99

27 May '99

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is pleased to present its first formal Annual Report since we are established as an independent association. In previous years the formal reporting was part of the TERENA association's Annual Report. Of course we are continuously reporting about our activities on the network and at RIPE meetings. Our web site provides a wealth of information that is impossible to include in a formal Annual Report. Yet I hope that you will find the report useful because of its short and comprehensive format. http://www.ripe.net/annual-report/98ar.html I also hope that this report will be a useful tool for you to spread the word about the RIPE NCC both inside and outside your organisation. It is important that all those involved in discussions about the administrative structures of the Internet know what RIPE and the RIPE NCC are and how they operate. For myself, personally, this report represents the last full year that the RIPE NCC has been functioning under my responsibility. As you may know, I have decided to take a step back professionally in order to have more time and energy to devote to my family. I am very happy that I can do this at a point in time where the RIPE NCC has come of age in many ways and is the stable and professional organisation described in the report. The RIPE NCC Annual Report 1998 can be found on the RIPE NCC Web site at: All RIPE NCC members will receive a hard copy version of this report by postal mail. We will be happy to provide additional copies upon request. Kind Regards, Daniel Karrenberg General Manager RIPE NCC

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Programme of Lund conference available!
by Peter Heijmens Visser 25 May '99

25 May '99

The programme of the TERENA-NORDUnet Conference 1999 is now available at http://www.terena.nl/tnnc The Conference will be held in Lund, Sweden, from the 7th to the 10th of June this year. The web site has been updated and now contains the full details of all the lectures, not only by distinguished speakers such as Esther Dyson, Van Jacobson, Vsten Frenberg, and Doug Van Houweling, but also a wealth of papers that will be presented by University and industry researchers from many different countries and on many topics that are relevant to "the Challenge of Gigabit Networking". Check it out for yourself! Registration for this Conference is still open, even though space at the Conference centre is limited. Registration is possible on-line via http://tnnc.lundaforum.se or via a plain-text form at http://www.terena.nl/tnnc/registration_form.html Looking forward to seeing you in Lund, Bert van Pinxteren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bert van Pinxteren TERENA Chief Administrative Officer Singel 468 1017 AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. (direct): +31-20-530 4491; fax: +31-20-530 4499 E-mail: <pinxteren(a)terena.nl>; http://www.terena.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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