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RIPE 30 Meeting Announcement
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 25 Mar '98

25 Mar '98

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies for duplicate mails] It is our pleasure to announce the 30th RIPE meeting, which will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on 18th, 19th & 20th of May 1998. The meeting will be held at the 'Royal Institute of Technology' (KTH). Please note the mentioned dates are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. An exception to the Wed-Fri tradition we were forced to make because of Ascension on 21st May. You can register at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html Further details of the venue, its address and directions of how to get there can also be found on this page. The registration fee of 100 ECU includes refreshments and lunch but doesn't include the RIPE dinner. The admission charge including the RIPE dinner event is 165 ECU. Pre-payment facilities will close on May 8th. Registration forms will be accepted after this date, however in that case payment will not be processed and has to take place on site. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE Meeting Registrations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %START Do not change the following field %MTG [ ripe30 ] Please add a value in the 'box' area marked between the square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]" s). If values are already supplied between the brackets, please delete all values except one. PART 1 - Registration Note this is what will be used for your badge and for the attendee list, so please take care to fill it in correctly. 1) Your name Please enter your first name. First name first, surname last. e.g. John , Mary B. %NAME [ ] Please enter your surname next e.g. Doe %SURNAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) The NCC Reg-id of your Organisation %REGID [ ] (Only if you represent a Local Internet Registry) 4) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 5) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] PART 2 - Payment of Registration Fees WARNING!! - Note that sending your credit card information via e-mail is in principle not secure. The payment information will be transmitted in clear via e-mail. If you do not want to do this, please leave your credit card details blank in this form, and send them to us by fax. Please do not forget to mention your name and organisation on the fax, so there will be no risk in us getting confused. Our fax number is: +31 20 535 44 45 1) Method of payment. Payment in advance is greatly preferred. (please delete all choices except one) %PMETH [in advance; credit card at meeting; credit card at meeting; cash ] 2) Type of credit card (please delete all choices except one) %CTYPE [ VISA / American Express / Mastercard ] 3) Card number %CCNUM [ ] 4) Expiry date %CCDATE [ ] 5) Card holders name %CCNAME [ ] 6) Card holders address %CCADDR [ ] 7) Amount to be paid %AMT [RIPE Meeting only; ECU 100 RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner; ECU 165 ] Your payment cannot be processed after May 8th, 1998 with this form. You are welcome to send in your personal data with this form to register, but the payment can only be made at the meeting itself on May 18th, 1998 %END ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Plenary Minutes RIPE 29
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 25 Mar '98

25 Mar '98

RIPE 29 Amsterdam, 28 - 30 January 1998 Plenary Session RIPE 29 Meeting Plenary Session Minutes - DRAFT Chair: Rob Blokzijl Scribes: Julia Edwards, Paula Caslav 1. Opening: Rob Blokzijl opened the plenary session of the 29th RIPE meeting. 2. Agenda This is the preliminary agenda: 1. Opening 2. Agenda 3. From the RIPE Chair 4. Minutes RIPE 28 5. Action items RIPE 28 6. RIPE NCC Association 7. Report from the RIPE NC 8. Restructuring the IANA 9. IPv6 Addressing Policy 10. Secure DNS/BIND 11. Mapping the Internet 12. DB Security Task Force report 13. Reports from the working groups 14. Next RIPE meetings 15. AOB The agenda was agreed upon. 3. From the RIPE Chair Comments from Rob Blokzijl - About Internet drafts RE: IPV6. Daniel and Rob drafted docs w/o consultation with IPv6 wg due to time constraints. Chairs of wg's should keep abreast of what's current. 4. Minutes RIPE 28 No comments/additions. 5. Action items RIPE 28 Actions - Most of the items belong in the WG's instead of overall. Result - No outstanding items that couldn't be dealt with in the WG's. 6. RIPE NCC Association (RNA) First of January first day of RNA. Report from Daniel Karrenberg regarding the RNA, the executive board, etc.. 7. Report from the RIPE NCC (Daniel Karrenberg) Quality Assurance Report (John Crain) (Discussion/questions about auditing) Question (Kurt Kaiser) Does the audit include address space allocated by the InterNIC before the RIPE NCC existed? NO, but addresses allocated by the RIPE NCC earlier can also be audited. In this cases the policies in place then are taken into account. Swipnet - will you have some auditing action when registries change sizes. (I.E. from larger to medium or medium to smaller) There are plans to put down procedures for old assignments. Only reason this could be done is if space becomes a problem or the LIR's bring up concerns of fairness. (Comment) Problems with with PGP, (not possible to use or distribute in France) However, Carol Orange assures that it'll still be possible to submit updates to the database, just not by using PGP authentication. New service agreements had to be signed for new RIPE NCC Association. The RIPE NCC is still processing them. The majority of them has been returned to us. 8. Restructuring the IANA (Paul Ridley) (See presentation IANA Update) Discussion (Wilfried Woeber - We have core activities, but do we have any insight about industry involvement) Why separate the IP and domain registration? Daniel Karrenberg - Different constituencies. The constituency of RIPE NCC is the ISP, but for domain registration is the TLD registrars. Keep the level of politics under control by staying out of Naming. Paul Ridley - if they are separate they can be more focused. No problem with IP activities taking resources from naming. Funding? funding for IANA from US will stop on Oct 98. IANA still holds funds given by APNIC and RIPE NCC. Regional registries have budgets to pay. Mike Norris expressed concerns that the LIR's could be losing something in the separation of these two bodies. (ir's and ntld's) 9. IPv6 Addressing Policy Daniel Karrenberg: 2 drafts were proposed by the IPNG WG of the IETF. They were due to become an RFC when the RIPE NCCs registration services pointed out that the address format described in one of them was very limited and would be enough for all LIRs. The second draft proposed allocation guidelines for these addresses. It was felt that the IETF is not the right place to set address allocation guidelines. This has traditionally and successfully been done by the registries together with the IANA. It would be more appropriate if the IETF would submit a document with engineering considerations for the proposed address formats and the allocation of them. A new version of the draft describing the address format has now been submitted by the IESG. A number of bits are now reserved for possible extension of the addresses. The draft can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-unicast-aggr-03.txt Discussion (Thomas Trede) Is it the duty of IPv6 wg to scan documents regarding allocation policies. At RIPE 20 it was agreed that it not be the wg. Daniel Karrenberg: it is as much part of the WG as the RIPE NCC. Rob: The RIPE NCC and the RIPE WG need to keep contact with each other. Thomas: Should the WG be responsible for keeping track of IETF activities? If the RIPE NCC has questions about IPV6 the WG is the place to pose questions. Community should be grateful to the RIPE NCC and Rob for bringing up objection to drafts since everyone else missed it. 10. Secure DNS/BIND (Carl Malamud) www.isc.org History - Chairman of Internet software consortium. Came in to be chairman and make it a commercial operation. The consortium also produces INN and is working to move Kerberos from beta. They have also worked on Sendmail. Consortium started by Paul Vixie. Funding is by providing software support functions to companies. Secure DNS/BIND Secure DNS - Based upon RSA, to allow for authenticated zone transfers and queries. John Gilmore went to RSA and obtained royalty free perpetual license for DNS authentication purposes. Which allows for export. In the first quarter the first pieces will start showing. By the end of 98 more will be out. Reason for announcement? Strong implication for operation of ISPs and TLDs in use of DNS. It will allow for general purpose key lookup. This will allow for such things as PGP key lookups. Unsecure DNS allows for spamming, spoofing, etc.., this may help stop this. (discussion) Wilfried Woeber - appreciates input, and says thank you for allowing input. Are there figures of percentage of DNS to be secured? 5 to 10% should be able to be secured in the next 12 months. (Question) - Could you perhaps provide comments on problems? If you're not running full version of BIND, then that's the first step. Also, it's better to see some signatures than none at all. If you are signing for your clients, then how much will that mean? So, if the RIPE NCC signs, then this will mean that an object that is submitted will identify. Daniel Karrenberg- What can be expected from RNA is deploying procs for key management. >From history, most of deployment is educating users. Public key encryption, how do you secure your keys? etc... this does not have to be exclusively for DNS, can help in other areas. (discussion) Raza Rizvi - What about ISP customers not using BIND? RSA will extend copyright to other DNS protocol implementations. If you apply to RSA, they will only commit within the next three years for a perpetual license. Does the offer extend to commercial DNS protocol implementations? yes. The most important point, don't wait forever to start looking and implementing security. 11. Mapping the Internet (Carl Malamud) Multi Casting, non profit organization. Talked at RIPE in 92 in PRAGUE about radio. Reset-up multi casting in Amsterdam. This was the right place because of new media artists concentration, and infrastructure. This project is to basically map Internet. How do you map across protocols? how do you construct topological maps? While web is beautiful, visualizing has use for those in the business. So, the question is, what organization has what servers running? With a topology map, you get a picture of this. This is to be a 3 to 5 year project. Structure - coordinating project. RIPE NCC is providing support with an office at Nikhef, and by helping to obtain VISAs. But, they are not providing financial support. This project will return again in a BoF. Other supporters, Sun Labs, and a Japanese consortium, that includes members like Cisco. Right now very low level RIPE support, only admin support. CERT question - Data points that need to be collected. There's going to be a certain amount of traffic doing that collection of information. For every packet taken to search for info, there's another packet created, responding. Yes it has Bandwidth consequences. When I looked for a machine.. I asked for something like 10gigs RAM and 500 gigs into terrabytes disk. Yes, Sun said, it's possible. 12. Database Security Task Force Report (Joachim Schmitz) Meetings * Washington IETF * prior to this RIPE meetings Recent Developments * IETF WGs IDR & RPS Security concerns regarding routing, e.g. hole punching triggered extensive discussion - -> reference needed - -> IRR currently minor security measures - -> increase security - -> populate database - -> educate users - -> change of the IRR - -> more responsibilities with registries Topics * coordination with other RRs * role of the IRR presentations by Gerald Winters, Merit definition for the IRR * database security trust model in development * security suggestions by Curtis Villamizar, ANS * PGP deal: Presentation by Carol Orange, RIPE NCC (discussion) Wilfried Woeber commented that we need a "known" person to acquire a license, but the license will be granted to the organisation, so if the original person leaves or changes position it's no problem. (question) Francis Dupont: Will PGP be added to the authentication mechanisms? Carol Orange: yes, there will then be 4 mechanisms, but no-one will be forced to use PGP or any other strong authentication. (question) Has there been progress in having a referral mechanism in the database? Carol Orange: There has been progress in definition but not in implementation. The RIPE NCC has a lack of programmers, but it's high on the priority list. Wilfried Woeber: We're also thinking of offering checksumming and other security measures, not just authorisation. We're also discussing authentication- who has access to objects, identification, etc.. But we have to have something available now. 13. Reports from the WGs Routing Working Group: Chair- Joachim Schmitz Current Developments * RIPE document on Route Flap Damping -> last call * RPSL -> implementation delayed -> RPSL draft has moved to proposed standard -> several developments around it * Security Issues -> data integrity -> prevention of accidental/malicious misconfiguration -> prevention of improper use of address space Presentations * IRR Authorisation (Carol Orange) Scheme for ISPs which routes to trust Proposal for IRR definition: "The IRR is a place that reflects what is announced on the Internet and what is permitted to be announced" * Using Internet Routing Announcements to identify incorrect IRR data (Gerald Winters) -> PAIR http://www.rsng.net/pair analysis tools -> Examples of (mis)use of the IRR -> Definition of the IRR? Role of the IRR? Actions * 29.R1 Gerald Winters, Carol Orange, Joachim Schimtz Definition of the IRR and an AUP * 29.R2 RIPE NCC, Carol Orange Implementation of notification and aut-num authorisation * 29.R3 RIPE NCC, Carol Orange Implementation of PGP 14. Next RIPE meetings Stockholm, Sweden May 18-20 Edinburgh, UK September 23-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands January (no dates set yet) ---------------------------------------------- DNS Working Group: Chair- Ruediger Volk (discussion) There was further discussion of "jspnrmptgsbssdir" a Microsoft created DNS confusion. The name "jspnrmptgsbssdir" is queried regularly from a Windows NT server or workstation running the Windows NT Remote Access Service. Try creating an entry for jspnrmptgsbssdir in your zone file. ---------------------------------------------- Netnews Working Group: Chair- Felix Kugler Report of the RIPE29 Netnews WG meeting 37 attendees chair: Felix Kugler scribe: Leigh Porter 1. Review of outstanding actions: A26.N3 Upgrade servers to Newsbone standards A27.N2 Newsbone deployment There has been some progress with both actions. However, the WG suggest to drop them from the list as they are ongoing items per definitionem. A27.N1 Tool Support for non-INN servers There have been improvements, though not by WG members. This action will be carried forward. 2. A review of the Netnews-WG As this WG goes into its 3rd year soon, a short review about the activities was given. The WG now focuses aroung three working areas: - feed topology issues - server tuning issues - reliability & QOS The WG's conception is that it is in no position to really coordinate News feeds in Europe. Rather it tries to help coordination efforts by providing information about traffic streams, tools to visualize and monitor traffic, and a discussion forum. The charter has to be updated to reflect this change. A29.N1 Felix Kugler to update charter on WG WWW server The Newsbone document shall be stripped from unnecessary requirements which might have prevented some ISPs from joining. A29.N2 Felix Kugler to update Newsbone document and related WWW pages 3. Presentations and proposals for new projects - Group list maintenance (Gerhard Winkler): Use synchronisation with refernce servers where conventional group maintenance using control messages is not sufficient. A29.N3 WG to provide information about maintainers and reference servers A29.N4 Gerhard Winkler to collect data and edit info page - Article loss measurements (Gerhard Winkler) Proposal to measure article loss with test articles. Will not be pursued, use endusers as indicators instead ! - News admins guide - Building and running a news service (Leigh Porter) Do's and don'ts for qunning backbone News servers. A29.N5 Leigh Porter to write a "News admins guide" - Spam on Usenet (Felix Kugler) Short introduction to Spam in Usenet, differences to email spamming, countermeasures... ---------------------------------------------- Database Working Group: Chair- Wilfried Woeber ---------------------------------------------- Local IR Working Group: Chair- Mike Norris http://www.ripe.net/wg/lir/r29-summary.html ---------------------------------------------- Spam BoF: Chair- John Martin, presentation Roderik Muit (discussion) Antonio-Blasco Bonito noted that in Italy new domains have to sign a nettiquette agreement, this might be something to consider for the Spam working group. ---------------------------------------------- TLD Working Group: chair- Niall O'Reilly (discussion) It was noted that the RIPE NCC will only bootstrap the new RIPE CENTR and the organisation will become independent as soon as possible if feasible. The time frame for RIPE NCC involvement is about 1 year. http://www.ripe.net/wg/tld/summary-29.html ---------------------------------------------- EIX Working Group: chair- Keith Mitchell ---------------------------------------------- MBONE Working Group: chair- Kurt Kayser http://www.ripe.net/wg/mbone/summary-29.html ---------------------------------------------- IPv6 Working Group: chair- Thomas Trede ---------------------------------------------- 15. AOB There was no other business 16. Closing Rob thanked the RIPE NCC for doing a great job in organising this meeting, and thanked everybody for coming.

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by launch＠LAUNCHMASTER.COM 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

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NATO Advanced Networking Workshop: 18-22 May 1998
by Kevin Meynell 16 Mar '98

16 Mar '98

All, Please find appended, information pertaining to the next NATO Advanced Networking Workshop. Apologies to those that receive multiple copies of this message. Regards, Kevin Meynell ---- Application for NATO Advanced Networking Workshop - Promoting High-Speed Networks 18-22 May 1998 Introduction ------------ TERENA is once again organising a NATO Advanced Networking Workshop following the success of previous events in Budapest and Edinburgh. This year's workshop will be held on the 18th to 22nd May 1998 in Kaunas, Lithuania, with a theme of 'Promoting High-Speed Networks'. The workshop is aimed at those who are currently running national networks services, but who will, in the near future, be moving to newer technologies. Content will be practical and technology-oriented, but will also cover the network management and application-level issues that arise with the newer technology. The event will be a single-track workshop with classroom-style lectures complemented by hands-on technical sessions. For more details about the workshop, please see: http://www.terena.nl/conf/nato-anw98/ TERENA is grateful to Bay Networks Inc. for providing equipment and personnel that make this workshop possible. ------8<------8<------8<------ cut here ------8<------8<------8<------ APPLICATION =========== Please complete *all* sections as fully as possible and return to: nato-anw98(a)terena.nl Any additional information should be appended in plain text format. 1. Personal data ---------------- FAMILY NAME: First Name: Sex[1]: Male / Female (please delete) Date-of-birth: Employer: Business Address: Country[2]: Business Telephone: Business Fax: E-mail: 2. Administration ----------------- a) Accommodation - Please note that participants will be required to share twin hotel rooms for the duration of the workshop and conference. If you have any objections to this, please let us know the reasons here: b) Travel - Please indicate the approximate cost in US$ of the cheapest method of travel from your place of residence to Kaunas, Lithunia[3]: 3. Description of the candidate's role in National Networking Activities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a) Please give a brief summary of your educational background: b) Please supply a description of your current employer, position, duties and responsibilities and how they relate to current and future networking activities in your country: c) Please outline details of work you have done with inter-networking, and what you hope to achieve in the future with the help of the knowledge gained at the workshop: d) Upon your return from the workshop, how would you expect to disseminate the knowledge you gain through attendance at the workshop: e) Please give details of any NATO Advanced Networking Workshops you have participated in previously: 4. Please append any additional information in support of your application here, in plain text: -------------------------------- ------8<------8<------8<------ cut here ------8<------8<------8<------ Notes: [1] Please note that participants will be required to share twin hotel rooms for the duration of the workshop and conference. [2] Please note that only residents of NATO Co-operation Partner (CP) countries are eligible to attend this workshop and receive assistance from NATO. Eligible countries are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. NATO countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. [3] Accommodation will be provided for seven nights. Dates of travel should be arranged so that a Saturday night is included (i.e. you should either arrive on Sunday, 17th May and depart on Sunday, 24th May; or alternatively arrive on Saturday, 16th May and depart on Saturday, 23rd May. Please note, should you choose to spend any additional time in Kaunas before travelling home, you must assume any costs incurred. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Meynell, TERENA, Singel 466-468, 1017 AW Amsterdam, Netherlands Tel: +31 20 530 4488 Fax: +31 20 530 4499 E-mail: K.Meynell(a)terena.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * PLEASE NOTE NEW TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS *

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New Document available: RIPE-160
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 12 Mar '98

12 Mar '98

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-160 Title: Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry at the RIPE NCC Author: P. Caslav, R. Muit Date: 11 March, 1998 Format: PS=242055 TXT=49624 Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: See also: Short content description ------------------------- This document aims to provide the necessary information for those who are considering setting up a Local Internet Registry (IR) with the RIPE NCC. In this document, first some guidelines are given on which organisations usually set up a Local IR set up a Local IR are described. Finally, the RIPE NCC's IP address first assignment and allocation policy is discussed. 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-160.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-160.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-160 at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-160.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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Hostcount for February 1998
by Mirjam Kuehne 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for February 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 140,000 (or 2,3%) to a total of over 6,000,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. Be shows the highest increase for February with more than 60,000 hosts more than in January. Some of the zones show a significant decrease this month, but we currently do not have resources to further look into this. This situation should improve as of next month I will hand this task over to Lee Wilmot, one of my colleagues. This means that we will have more resources to analyse anomalies. 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 is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler(a)cc.univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech(a)dns.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster(a)nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)nic.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis(a)forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli(a)cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi(a)cnuce.cnr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek(a)nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net> 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 Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Feb 3 1998 This Count : Fri Feb 27 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 11 129 4 125 + 1 am 70 650 103 547 + 67 at 14887 155886 28915 126971 +16453 az 22 437 15 422 - 2 ba 16 387 3 384 + 23 be 8518 190128 17079 173049 +61166 bg 492 8079 501 7578 + 578 by 60 675 81 594 - 75 ch 27311 225688 27054 198634 + 6451 cy 458 4331 101 4230 + 49 cz 9265 66588 6529 60059 + 258 de 95806 1362095 199611 1162484 +22416 dk 40563 203803 24064 179739 + 7208 dz 2 45 0 45 0 ee 1459 19045 970 18075 + 1194 eg 457 2790 131 2659 + 2297 es 8112 208877 6017 202860 + 1175 fi 6549 424051 11410 412641 -88570 fo 94 311 8 303 + 7 fr 17073 434955 35191 399764 +30404 gb 2 42 0 42 + 2 ge 29 474 28 446 + 45 gr 2515 28414 2262 26152 - 247 hr 1273 10674 1437 9237 + 1073 hu 3917 80180 6873 73307 + 2011 ie 4429 44974 2994 41980 + 1094 il 5122 106223 11072 95151 + 1909 is 973 20319 563 19756 + 516 it 26820 303624 35313 268311 -23119 li 370 1390 425 965 + 97 lt 652 4588 294 4294 + 123 lu 1042 5948 947 5001 + 93 lv 542 9331 1324 8007 + 1537 ma 111 1398 74 1324 + 1 md 30 311 51 260 + 8 mk 47 542 45 497 + 265 mt 159 1157 121 1036 + 18 nl 29554 449887 40411 409476 + 8180 no 15917 317997 12893 305104 + 9989 pl 9933 108021 12388 95633 + 4777 pt 5228 46638 3502 43136 + 511 ro 1111 15307 987 14320 + 377 ru 9912 137295 15719 121576 +11591 se 24547 373916 21269 352647 - 7996 si 2112 22209 2431 19778 + 378 sk 3262 18690 2929 15761 + 515 sm 28 229 9 220 + 6 su 944 43814 1563 42251 - 685 tn 8 174 81 93 0 tr 4787 41801 4264 37537 + 2200 ua 896 21651 5576 16075 + 658 uk 89935 1323362 206006 1117356 +59149 va 2 11 0 11 0 yu 1031 5771 336 5435 + 70 ============================================================ 478465 6855312 751974 6103338 +136246

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Is Your Web Site A Secret?
by owl＠owlseye.com 07 Mar '98

07 Mar '98

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OK to send e-mail?
by site＠siteposter.com 06 Mar '98

06 Mar '98

OK to send an e-mail to ripe-list(a)ripe.net?

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February hostcount later
by Mirjam Kuehne 04 Mar '98

04 Mar '98

Dear all, Due to technical difficulties faced by some of the TLDs in performing the counts, the total hostcount will be published later, beginning of next week. Sorry for the delay. Kind Regards, Mirjam RIPE NCC

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