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Vint Cerf: I REMEMBER IANA
by Daniel Karrenberg 18 Oct '98

18 Oct '98

I have received the obituary below and feel that it is of relevance to the RIPE community at large. ------- October 17, 1998 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place. Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B. Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer, confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from our midst. Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I cannot quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before in 1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had been our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we will remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles. Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in different classes and I really didn't know him then. Our real meeting came at UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working for Prof. Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project. Steve Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place. Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He was the FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of the Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute. Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but fully capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond all expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring contest, I think. Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his colleagues. For me, he personified the words 'selfless service.' For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return, indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the last Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an award generally reserved for Heads of State but I can think of no one more deserving of global recognition for his contributions. While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective consciousness. 'What would Jon have done?' we will think, as we wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed for so many years. There will almost surely be many memorials to Jon's monumental service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of the Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jon's name to recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, which is awarded to Jon posthumously as its first recipient. If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt that anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a measure of one man's astonishing contribution to a community he knew and loved.

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Mailing list for the test-traffic WG and project
by Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) 07 Oct '98

07 Oct '98

Dear All Apologies for any duplicate mails. We have created mailing list for the test-traffic project: tt-wg(a)ripe.net This is an open mailing list intended for all discussions related to the RIPE test-traffic WG established at RIPE31 or the test-traffic project at the RIPE-NCC. Subscription is open to anyone, for details on how to subscribe please look at: http://www.ripe.net/info/maillists.html The list will be archived at: http://www.ripe.net/mail-archives/tt-wg/index.html Kind regards, Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(a)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.535-4414, Fax -4445 1016 AB Amsterdam Home: +31.20.4195305 The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 NOTE NEW NUMBER! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %DCL-E-NOCFFE, unable to locate coffee - keyboard input suspended.

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European Hostcount for September 1998
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 06 Oct '98

06 Oct '98

Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 200,000 (or 2.8%) to a total of almost 7,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The nl domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 70,000 hosts more than in August. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - tr and hr showed an unusual decrease. This was due to difficulties with the remote data. The figures shown reflect the locally-collected data. The it domain shows a large decrease. A quick check of the error data showed quite a large increase in AXFR refusals by a frequently-referenced nameserver. - 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 Morten Christensen <morten(a)dk-hostmaster.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 : Sat Sep 5 1998 This Count : Tue Oct 6 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 10 146 7 139 + 4 am 133 1074 185 889 + 65 at 24898 196798 40803 155995 + 1209 az 49 415 29 386 + 12 ba 43 577 40 537 - 12 be 10895 207580 21666 185914 + 2020 bg 590 11819 1341 10478 + 415 by 96 1140 153 987 + 139 ch 41615 276468 46540 229928 + 14912 cy 637 5216 151 5065 + 46 cz 16202 83698 10891 72807 + 1678 de 163637 1747865 325176 1422689 + 59749 dk 57921 328407 41477 286930 + 12206 dz 5 18 1 17 - 3 ee 2113 22810 1512 21298 + 408 eg 690 3050 208 2842 + 101 es 11013 272608 11017 261591 + 2241 fi 9132 471748 15152 456596 + 7891 fo 146 587 31 556 + 22 fr 26139 494713 34805 459908 + 5812 gb 2 26 0 26 0 ge 52 759 54 705 + 24 gr 6299 47471 3708 43763 + 2949 hr 1062 10103 2013 8090 - 2181 hu 6163 98907 9438 89469 + 2437 ie 6140 54753 5017 49736 + 1695 il 6889 129156 24424 104732 + 2269 is 1436 23987 988 22999 + 473 it 40557 401156 51450 349706 - 48018 li 677 1686 647 1039 + 3 lt 1105 9642 626 9016 + 774 lu 1490 7958 1148 6810 + 73 lv 912 13999 2377 11622 + 536 ma 240 2182 280 1902 + 135 md 73 665 142 523 + 6 mk 265 1069 115 954 + 45 mt 267 2062 304 1758 + 43 nl 46146 641841 52709 589132 + 70168 no 21192 332779 17273 315506 + 5573 pl 17237 150603 31905 118698 + 1630 pt 6817 58759 8014 50745 + 368 ro 1643 22897 2152 20745 + 900 ru 14701 184798 35598 149200 + 986 se 29452 429093 26798 402295 + 6051 si 2929 24473 2514 21959 + 1068 sk 5500 25080 4810 20270 + 432 sm 48 243 2 241 + 6 su 1298 28326 1775 26551 + 154 tn 11 166 91 75 - 5 tr 7104 30922 4605 26317 - 12352 ua 1577 29883 8863 21020 + 777 uk 122850 1642474 235298 1407176 + 58723 va 2 14 0 14 + 6 yu 1689 7611 641 6970 - 81 ============================================================== 719789 8542280 1086964 7455316 +204582

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TERENA-NORDUnet Networking Conference 1999
by John Martin 06 Oct '98

06 Oct '98

TERENA-NORDUnet Networking Conference 1999 First Announcement and CALL FOR PAPERS Lund, Sweden 7-10 June 1999 "The Challenge of Gigabit Networking" The 1990s have seen the transition from networks connecting discrete communities of researchers, to networks connecting people from every sector of society. The fact that networking has become truly global should be welcomed, but at the same time, the exponential growth currently being experienced brings many challenges. The academic world has always been at the forefront of networking developments, and this remains the case today. Many exciting network applications were first developed in European academic and research institutions and we can expect this proud tradition to continue. Gigabit technology is now starting to become available and will be introduced on research networks first. At the same time, users are increasingly expecting certain standards of service and the problems of scalability, Quality of Service and billing need to be addressed. Furthermore, there are still many regulatory and policy issues that need to be resolved by governments or through self-regulation. Following on from the well established JENC and NORDUnet conferences, the "TERENA-NORDUnet Networking Conference 1999" will address these and related issues with particular reference to the education and research community. The presentations will take the form of panel debates and discussions as well as invited and reviewed papers, and short presentations on recent results. Topics covered will include Gigabit technologies, Quality of Service developments, network security with special emphasis on electronic commerce, advanced applications; and government policy and regulatory issues. Sessions will highlight new Internet initiatives in Europe, the Nordic area and North-America. The conference will be essential for technology innovators, policy and decision makers as well as Internet service providers and their users. The conference is jointly organised by TERENA, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, and NORDUnet, the Nordic networking association, and is hosted by the University of Lund with support from SUNET, the Swedish University Network. -------------------------------------- Subject areas for the conference include: * Gigabit technologies * Security, Electronic commerce * Quality of Service developments * Advanced applications * New forms of electronic content via high-bandwidth networks * Government policy and regulatory issues Information for Paper Submission: Full papers or extended abstracts (maximum of 4000 words) are to be submitted. The official language of the conference is English. All papers must be submitted in English. * Paper submissions must contain the following: paper title, full name of author(s), organisational affiliation(s), addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and subject area relating to your submission. If more than one author is listed please identify a single point of contact. Electronic submission of HTML documents submitted via FTP is highly recommended and should take place as follows: HTML or ASCII: HTML documents: Please use only elementary HTML commands and minimise the number of files (one main HTML file, plus essential figures in a general format such as GIF, referenced by relative URLs). Send by anonymous FTP to (ftp.terena.nl) into directory "pub/tnnc/submit". Please note that files deposited in this directory can only be written once and cannot be deleted afterwards. ASCII documents: ASCII submission via FTP or e-mail will also be accepted. E-mail submissions should be made to tnnc-submit(a)terena.nl. FTP submissions to (ftp.terena.nl) into directory "pub/tnnc/submit". Should electronic submission be impossible, please submit 4 copies of double-spaced full paper manuscript / extended abstract (maximum of 4000 words) with a separate abstract to the TERENA Secretariat at the address given below. * Accepted papers must be re-submitted in the format required for publication in the Proceedings. Submission instructions will be supplied to authors of accepted papers. Nearer the date of the conference, TERENA intends to publish a Call for Short Papers providing an opportunity to present late breaking news in sessions catering to recent results in research. These papers will not be published in the conference proceedings. Demonstrations There will be an opportunity for participants from academia and industry to present exciting applications of networking services, etc. in the form of a demonstration. Proposed demonstrations should be documented with a description not exceeding one page. Demonstration submissions should be sent to: tnnc-submit(a)terena.nl Tutorials A number of tutorials are planned in conjunction with the conference. Proposals for tutorials should be documented by a description not exceeding one page. Tutorial submissions should be sent to: tnnc-submit(a)terena.nl Exhibition Facilities An exhibition area will be available for international and national companies and institutions sponsoring the conference. Please contact the TERENA Secretariat for information on exhibition facilities or consult the conference Web site at: http://www.terena.nl/tnnc/ Publications Conference proceedings containing full papers will be published by TERENA. These papers will also be published on the TERENA Web server. TERENA Technical Meetings TERENA Task Forces and participants in TERENA Projects will hold meetings during the conference week to discuss the latest results of their activities. Most of these meetings will be open. Conference Venue Reputedly established in 990 by a Danish Viking king, Lund was formerly the religious, political, cultural and commercial centre for the whole of Scandinavia. The city is located just a short distance from Malmo, and is conveniently located for both Malmo and Copenhagen airports; and various ferry services. Amidst the city's enchanting tapestry of cobbled streets, picturesque buildings are proud remainders of Lund's prominence past and present. A centre for old architecture, folk culture, fine modern art and close to Scania's many attractive beaches. Lund University, founded in 1666, has eight faculties and a number of research centres and specialised institutes, and is one of the largest units for research and higher education in Scandinavia. The main part of the University is situated in Lund, but a number of departments for research and education are located in Malmö and Helsingborg. At present, nearly 37,000 students are enrolled at Lund University and altogether some 6,000 people are employed. IDEON, Sweden's first and Scandinavia's biggest research village, is also situated in Lund. The village will promote high-tech research and development work in Swedish industry in close co-operation with Lund University, the location for this conference. Important Dates 27 November 1998: Full Manuscript and Abstract due 27 November 1998: Proposals for demonstrations due 27 November 1998: Proposals for tutorials due 31 January 1999: Notification of acceptance to authors and proposers of tutorials and demonstrations 16 March 1999: Final papers due 30 April 1999: Cut-off date for early registration 7-10 June 1999: TERENA-NORDUnet Networking Conference 1999 Relevant Contacts: Programme Committee Chair Peter Villemoes <Peter.Villemoes(a)nordu.net> TERENA VP Conferences Michael Walsh <Michael.Walsh(a)ucd.ie> Local Organisation Arne Sundström <Arne.Sundstrom(a)au.lu.se> Conference Support Bert van Pinxteren <pinxteren(a)terena.nl> General Information: TERENA Secretariat Singel 468 1017 AW Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 530 4488 Fax: +31 20 530 4499 E-mail: tnnc-sec(a)terena.nl http://www.terena.nl/tnnc/

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RIPE statement on new IANA draft 4 bylaws
by k13＠nikhef.nl 28 Sep '98

28 Sep '98

RIPE Statement on the Draft Articles and Bylaws for the new IANA as published on September 17th 1998 Edinburgh, 25 September 1998 RIPE is the organisation which has provided the framework for Internet co-operation in Europe since 1989. At the 31st RIPE meeting, held in Edinburgh from 23 until 25 September 1998, 253 participants from the European Internet industry discussed the fourth draft of the Bylaws of the New IANA, published on 17 September by IANA, and decided unanimously to express the following concerns. - We find it inappropriate that provision is made in the Bylaws (Article IV, Section 1.d) which binds the new IANA to agreements to be made between third parties, whose terms are not yet announced. - We need to understand and consider the material consequences of Article IV, Section 1.e in order to determine whether we can accept this section. - We are concerned about the room for interpretation in Article V, Section 6 and would like to see a stronger requirement of diversity than to allow 50% of the board to be from one region. - We are concerned about the far-reaching repercussions of codifying, at this stage, aspects of a possible membership structure that previously were left for the Initial Board to define and implement. We do not understand the reason for the fact that the board members nominated by the supporting organisations have no say at all in how the membership structure is implemented (V.4.a.iv, V.9.c). - We need to understand the reasons for and the material consequences of the weakening of the language in Section VI.1.c which now speaks of recommendations by the supporting organisations to the board. - It appears that the change in wording of Article III.2 may now imply that minutes of supporting organisation bodies have to be approved by the Board of the new IANA. We find this inappropriate. - We are anxious about the possible consequences of the changes made to the requirements for supporting organisations, especially in Article VI, Sections 2 and 3.b. In the area of the address supporting organisation the participation of individuals and individual organisations currently happens at the local and regional levels. Many European ccTLD registries already operate similar processes; others have begun working along these lines. We need to understand whether the Bylaws allow for this practice to continue or if they constrain the supporting organisations sufficiently to require changes in these structures. We stress that we have no difficulty with the added openness requirements. We are willing to work to resolve the remaining issues with all parties concerned as soon as possible, and hope that this statement, expressing our concerns, will be received as a helpful contribution to the process. We urge all concerned not to proceed with the current proposal before our concerns are addressed. In the meantime the current IANA should continue to function and provide its services to us. Rob Blokzijl Chairman RIPE

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Change in Direction on the Internet Atlas Project
by Carl Malamud 23 Sep '98

23 Sep '98

Dear RIPE Colleagues: In January, 1998 I briefed the RIPE membership on a project proposal called "the Internet Atlas." This project's aim was to develop tools for producing visual representations of the Internet topology for use in navigation, resource location, and other user functions. The nonprofit research foundation that I chair, the Internet Multicasting Service, had finished its last big project, the world's fair, and we managed to put the last nail in the coffin in our ongoing struggle with the U.S. Patent Office earlier this year by resolving the question of online trademark and patent documents. My hope since mid-1996, when the fair's organizational work was winding down, was to revive the Internet Multicasting Service and have the new focus of the organization be this Atlas project. As part of that commitment to carry out the Atlas, I moved Internet Multicasting up to the MIT Media Lab where I spent a year as a visiting scientist. I then moved on to Japan's Keio University in 1997 and finally made a concerted effort throughout 1998 to make this project work in Amsterdam. After briefing the RIPE membership in January, I set to work trying to build a new institute in Amsterdam. We incorporated a Dutch foundation, rented office space, and spent a considerable amount of time trying to get enough momentum to get the project underway. The RIPE NCC was extremely helpful in this regard, assisting in procuring computers, getting health insurance, a work permit as a visiting scientist, and a myriad other details. The RIPE NCC was so supportive that the board pledged 100,000 ECU towards the Atlas project. I was hopeful that with such an initial commitment, I could drum up support from local government, local telecommunications companies, and others with an interest in seeing a fairly large-scale new Internet research effort based in Amsterdam. To show that we were serious, I went to many of my past sponsors and they indicated that they would be pleased to join up if the effort became solid. <flame on> Unfortunately, we just never got any local interest going. I was never able to get a dialogue started (indeed was not even received in many cases) with the city, the national government, or the EC. The concept of an "applied research effort" with a concrete, short-term goal seemed quite foreign to a group that I would charitably describe as Bangemann-challenged bureaucrats. The telcos were even worse. My experiences with the PTT were characterized by extremely high prices ($1600 per month for an E1 line is at least 500% higher than would qualify for the label expensive) and indifference (the lines I did get never did work properly). The brave new competition, characterized by cable companies such as A2000, all priced themselves at 90% of the PTT tariff, still an order of magnitude higher than what I would characterize as non-extortionate, particularly given the low ratio of clues to ego in these lifeless corporate bodies. <flame off> While I could go on at length over the overall climate for promoting major IT initiatives, I'll save this for my next book. The bottom line is we crashed and burned and I was unable to get the project going. We never touched the RIPE NCC's 100,000 ECU, since I had pledged that it would only be used if there was a reasonable chance that things would take off. I also made sure that the RIPE NCC was fully reimbursed for expenditures on items such as health insurance, Federal Express, and other essentials. I've not given up on the ideas behind the Atlas, but I've decided that the nonprofit institute is just not the right incubator for these ideas. While perhaps it could be done, it is clear after two years of trying that I'm certainly not going to be the one to do it. Rather than give up, we've come up with a plan B, a new for-profit corporation called Invisible Worlds, which will produce a mapping and visualization service for the Internet. Invisible Worlds is a spinoff from the Internet Multicasting Service, just as universities and other research institutes often help give birth to companies. As many of you know, the NLnet was formed in this way, as were several other significant groups on the net. Professional estimators are being used to determine the value of the previous development of the concept by the Internet Multicasting Service. The for-profit corporation will pay full market value for any such intellectual property, and the proceeds will be placed in a long-term trust for open-source community projects. We are being advised by the accounting firm of Ernst & Young and by the law firm of Baker & McKenzie to complete this transaction properly and file it with the relevant governmental authorities. As a company, we're still committed to concepts such as open source and community standards and hope that our efforts will result in something real that you'll be able to use. Invisible Worlds is just a startup, so there is no guarantee that this will be any more successful than past efforts to build the Atlas. However, I'm heartened by the progress made in the last month since I moved back to Silicon Valley. Marshall Rose has accepted a major development contract with the company as Chief of Protocol, Dr. David Clark has agreed to chair the technical advisory board, and Dr. Steve Wolff has joined our board of directors. An award-winning design team, Becky and Larry Pranger, join me as founders and our distinguished panel of advisors on content and design, known as Invisible Fellows, will be chaired by composer Tod Machover. Overall, it is a good start and I'm hoping we'll be able to get some real results out the door in good time. While I did not succeed at building an institute in Amsterdam, I must say it was an extremely rewarding sabbatical. Watching the RIPE NCC function at first hand gave me a new appreciation for what is without a doubt the best registry operation in the world. I only wish the U.S. system was half as rational as the European system for the management of registry functions. In addition to the registry, the RIPE NCC is playing a crucial role in keeping global functions such as the IANA structured in a manner that will actually work. In addition to the RIPE NCC, I saw many other top-notch operations. NIKHEF was extremely helpful and even volunteered to assist us in finding a facility for the institute should it get funded. NLnet corporation is a great ISP and NLnet the non-profit is going to make a huge, long-lasting contribution to the Internet infrastructure through their foundation. Special thanks are due to Rob Blokzijl and Daniel Karrenberg, whom I'm proud to say are both friends and colleagues. They were extremely supportive and gave unstintingly of their time. If the City of Amsterdam ever got serious about doing something real about the information highway, they should fire their platoons of consultants (who never seem to get beyond planning menus for program committee meetings) and ask Rob and Daniel what to do. RIPE is very lucky to have both of them. As always, I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues throughout Europe and I'd like to thank the membership of RIPE for giving me the chance to get to know you better and for your initial vote of confidence. Carl Malamud Invisible Worlds, Inc. http://not.invisible.net/

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RIPE NCC comments on new IANA drafts published on September 17th
by Daniel Karrenberg 20 Sep '98

20 Sep '98

RIPE NCC Statement on the Draft Articles and Bylaws for the new IANA as published on September 17th 1998 Amsterdam, September 18th 1998 The RIPE NCC executive board,representing the RIPE NCC membership, has considered the draft articles and bylaws for the new IANA published jointly by NSI and the IANA on September 17th. We note that there are a considerable number of substantive changes from those previous draft documents published by the IANA which we publicly supported as the basis for further development. Given the number and the substance of the changes there has been insufficient time for due consideration and consultation. Yet the authors of the latest drafts indicate that they wish to proceed 'within a day or two'. With this in mind we have to state now that at this time the RIPE NCC cannot support the current drafts or commit to participate in a new IANA constituted by them. We need sufficient time to consider all the changes and in particular: - Codifying in the bylaws that the new IANA will a-priori respect arrangements between third parties without any knowledge of them. This requires careful consideration because of the far reaching implications such arrangements may have on the new IANA. (IV/1d) - We need to understand and consider the material consequences of art IV/1e in order to determine whether it is acceptable. - We are still concerned about the room for interpretation in art V/6 and would like to see a stronger requirement of diversity than allowing 50% of the board to be from one region. - We need to understand and consider the far-reaching repercussions of codifying, at this stage, aspects of a possible membership structure that previously were left for the Initial Board to define and implement. In this context we also need to re-evaluate the fact that the board members nominated by the supporting organisations have no say at all in how it is implemented (V/4b/iv V/9c). - We need to understand the reasons and the material consequences of the weakening of the language in VI/c which now speaks of recommendations by the supporting organisations to the board. - We need to get clarification that the change in wording of art III/2 does not now imply that minutes of supporting organisation bodies have to be approved by the Board of the new IANA. - We need to fully understand and consider the consequences of the changes made to the requirements for supporting organisations, especially VI/2 and VI/3b. In the area of the address supporting organisation the participation of individuals and individual organisations currently happens at the local and regional levels. We need to understand whether the bylaws allow for this practice to continue or if they constrain the supporting organisations sufficiently to require changes in these structures. We stress that we have no issue with the added openness requirements. We will work to resolve the remaining issues with all parties concerned as soon as possible. The upcoming series of RIPE and related meetings in Edinburgh between September 21st and 25th will provide a good opportunity to make progress in our geographical area. We urge all concerned not to proceed with the current proposal before these concerns are addressed and we have had the opportunity to ensure that the RIPE NCC can participate fully in the new IANA. In the meantime the current IANA should continue to function and provide its services to us. We are willing to immediately and unilaterally contribute US$ 50k towards the operational costs of the current IANA after September 30th.

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RIPE 31 - Plenary agenda - version 2
by k13＠nikhef.nl 18 Sep '98

18 Sep '98

AGENDA RIPE 31 Plenary Session ------------------------------- Draft 2 1. Opening 2. Agenda 3. Minutes RIPE 30 4. From the Chair (R Blokzijl) 5. Report from the RIPE NCC (M Kuene) 6. RIPE NCC 1999 Activity Plan (D Karrenberg) 7. RIPE NCC 1998 Annual general Meeting (K Mitchel) 8. Some aspects of the new IANA (D Crocker) 9. New IANA: Progress reports (RIPR, RIPE NCC, CENTR) 10. European CERT Activities (B Gilmore) 11. Merit Post Routing Arbiter Activities (G Winters) 12. Reports from the Working Groups 13. Next meetings 14. AOB 15. Close

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New Document available: RIPE-187
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

New RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-187 Title: RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 1999 Author: Kees van Draanen, Daniel Karrenberg Date: 16 September 1998 Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: ripe-163 Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- This document defines the 1999 RIPE NCC charging scheme. The companion document 'RIPE NCC Activities & Expenditure 1999' describes the activities and the associated operational costs. The charging scheme is based on the model used in previous years. This model was approved at the 1996 contributors meeting and has met with success. Using the model we have developed the charging scheme presented in section two below. Section three details further steps to implement the scheme. Section four provides details of the reasoning behind this scheme both for the record and those interested. This document is presented for approval at the RIPE NCC 1998 Annual General Meeting on Octuber 15th 1998. 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-187.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-187.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-187 is available at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-187.html Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to <mail-server(a)ripe.net> with "send HELP" in the body text.

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New Document available: RIPE-186
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-186 Title: RIPE NCC Activities & Expenditure 1999 Author: John Crain, Kees van Draanen, Daniel Karrenberg, Mirjam Kuehne Date: 16 September 1998 Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: ripe-162 Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- This memorandum describes the activities to be per- formed by the RIPE NCC and the associated expendi- ture during the year 1999. The companion document "RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 1999" (ripe-187) describes how the necessary revenue is generated. There are formally well defined stages in the cre- ation of this document: It is drafted by the RIPE NCC based on input from RIPE and the users of NCC services. Subsequently it is proposed to the mem- bership by the executive board of the RIPE NCC. The membership discusses it and approves the final ver- sion. This version of the document has been produced by the RIPE NCC menagement. It is presented by the executive board for approval by the membership at the Annual General Meeting on October 15th 1998. Comments from the RIPE community to the authors and the board are encouraged. 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-186.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-186.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-186 is not available from the WWW at this moment, but will be soon, at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-186.html Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to <mail-server(a)ripe.net> with "send HELP" in the body text.

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