News and Announcements

The RIPE NCC Survey 2016 is now online.

The RIPE NCC General Meeting took place from 25-27 May 2016.

The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 105th meeting on 31 March 2016.

The RIPE NCC Annual Report 2015, including the Financial Report 2015, is now available.

In 2015, the RIPE NCC received eight requests from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). Our transparency report details the nature of these requests and the actions that were taken as a result.

ICANN 55 was held from 5-10 March 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco, and marked another milestone in the march towards transition of the IANA functions stewardship to the global Internet community. RIPE NCC Executive Board members, staff and RIPE community participants took part in meetings throughout the week, discussing issues ranging from IANA stewardship and the accountability of ICANN to the accuracy of RIR whois databases.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place annually in Barcelona. RIPE NCC staff members attended this event.

Yesterday, on 1 March 2016, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) were each allocated the equivalent of a /15 of IPv4 address space from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The RIPE NCC received the IPv4 address ranges 45.65.64.0/18, 147.78.0.0/16, 192.144.0.0/18 and 192.145.0.0/17. We are currently adding these to our available pool.

Vote for the RIPE NCC IPv6 Roadshow to win the WSIS Prize 2016

The RIPE NCC held a Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators on Wednesday, 27 January 2016 in Brussels. The meeting attracted around 50 representatives and public sector representatives from across the RIPE NCC service region.