Introduction to the RIPE NCC

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Introduction to the RIPE NCC

• presented by
• Mirjam Kühne

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Overview

• Why an NCC?
• RIPE NCC in the global context
• Activities
• Internal Organisation

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Why a NCC ?

• RIPE participation was increasing
• Too much RIPE work to be done on a voluntary
  basis
• Some activities need continuity
• Neutrality and impartiality is important
• Contact point inside outside Europe

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What is the RIPE NCC?

• Co-ordination and support service for European
  Internet Service Providers
• Membership Association under Dutch law
• Formal membership
• contract with Local IRs
• voting mechanism
• executive board
• annual activity plan budget
• annual fee

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RIPE NCC Activities (1)

• Registration Services
• IPv4 addresses
• IPv6 addresses
• AS numbers
• Reveres domain name delegation
• Co-ordination
• RIPE database maintenance
• Routing Registry Maintenance (RR)
• RIRs co-ordination

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RIPE NCC Activities (2)

• RIPE support
• Local-IR Training Courses
• Projects
• CENTR
• Test Traffic Project
• Information dissemination

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Vital Statistics

• Statistics 1992
• 3 staff members
• No Local IRs
• 182,528 hosts in European Internet
• 7,955 objects in RIPE database (June 92)
• Statistics Now
• 55 staff (21 nationalities)
• 1,337 participating Local IRs
• 8,428,408 hosts in the European Internet
• 1,834,787 objects in the database

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RIPE NCC Service Region
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RIPE NCC in Global Context
Ultimate global numbers authority Sets policy
and criteria for Regional Registries Regional
Registries Policies and criteria aligned but
differences in local implementation
IANA
RIPE NCC
ARIN
APNIC
RIPE
NANOG
APRICOT
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Internal Organisation (1)

• Role mailboxes
• Registration Services
• lthostmaster_at_ripe.netgt
• RIPE database
• ltripe-dbm_at_ripe.netgt, ltauto-dbm_at_ripe.netgt
• Reverse delegations
• ltinaddr_at_ripe.netgt, ltauto-inaddr_at_ripe.netgt
• Billing
• ltbilling_at_ripe.netgt

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Internal Organisation (2)

• Role Mailboxes continued
• New LIR set-up
• ltnew-lir_at_ripe.netgt
• General Questions
• ltncc_at_ripe.netgt
• Local IR Training
• lttraining_at_ripe.netgt
• Website questions suggestions
• ltwebmaster_at_ripe.netgt
• RIPE Meeting
• ltmeeting_at_ripe.netgt

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QUESTIONS?

• http//www.ripe.net