RIPE has announced the appointment of both a new Chair and a Vice Chair. It's the first time that the selection of Chair has been carried out by the RIPE Community, as explained by RIPE in today's announcement: This is the first time that the RIPE Chair has been selected by the community according to an established procedure. For the first 25 years, RIPE was chaired by Rob … [Read more...] about RIPE Appoints New Chair and Vice Chair
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RIPE 81 Goes Virtual and Shifts Dates
RIPE 81, which had originally been slated to take place in Milan will be held virtually. Not only will the event move to being 100% online only for a second time, they've also decided to push back the event dates. Originally RIPE 81 would have taken place at the end of September. It will now be held at the end of October from October 27th to October 30th. In an … [Read more...] about RIPE 81 Goes Virtual and Shifts Dates
RIPE Board Election Remember to Vote!
While the RIPE meeting like so many other events was forced to go virtual, there will be an election next week for a number of positions on the RIPE Executive Board. Voting is open to RIPE members. Full details of the General Meeting are here. Next week's GM includes an election to fill three seats and there are currently 12 candidates running. You can read their bios … [Read more...] about RIPE Board Election Remember to Vote!
RIPE 80 Goes Virtual and FREE
The upcoming RIPE meeting was originally meant to be held in Berlin. Obviously with the ongoing pandemic that cannot happen, so they've decided to switch to a virtual meeting instead. However the virtual meeting will be an abridged version of the meeting, with only a small number of key sessions being held. The meeting will take place online from May 12th to May … [Read more...] about RIPE 80 Goes Virtual and FREE
Nominations for RIPE Board Open
Nominations for the RIPE NCC Executive Board are now open. The elections will be held during the upcoming RIPE meeting in Berlin this May. There will be elections for three seats, the ones currently held by Maria Häll, Christian Kaufmann and Salam Yamout, whose terms expire in May 2020. If you'd like to find out more about what the Board roles involve there's information … [Read more...] about Nominations for RIPE Board Open
RIPE Hiring Managing Director
As was announced quite recently Axel Pawlik has stepped down from his role of Managing Director of RIPE NCC a role which he held for 20 years. In the last few days RIPE NCC has published the job ad. As you'd expect for a role of this nature they're using an outside employment agency to help find the right candidate. Whoever ends up in the role will be tasked with … [Read more...] about RIPE Hiring Managing Director
Europe has run out of IPv4 Address Space
RIPE NCC has run out of IPv4. This is hardly surprising and they had predicted it would happen early this week. The last IPv4 assignment was made at 1535 CET today: Today, at 15:35 UTC+1 on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses. Our announcement will not … [Read more...] about Europe has run out of IPv4 Address Space
RIPE Region IP4 Waiting List Launched
RIPE NCC, which looks after IP address allocations for Europe and the Middle East (give or take), has launched its IP4 wait list. With the depletion of IP4 address space RIPE and other regional internet registries have put in place policies and processes to deal with recuperating IP address space and then assigning it to members. RIPE expect to run out of their current … [Read more...] about RIPE Region IP4 Waiting List Launched
Axel Pawlik Steps Down as MD of RIPE NCC
Axel Pawlik has been Managing Director of RIPE NCC for 20 years. Over that period of time the organisation and the internet has changed dramatically. As MD of an organisation primarily concerned with IP addresses and networks he's overseen the transition from an IPv4 world to one where IPv6 should be the norm (it still isn't!). Over the past 20 years a lot of things have … [Read more...] about Axel Pawlik Steps Down as MD of RIPE NCC
IPv4 in Europe is Pretty Much Exhausted
IP addresses are probably not a topic that will excite the average internet user, but without them you wouldn't be able to navigate the internet or read an email or watch a cat video. Most internet users are still using IPv4 to access the internet and due to the way that system was designed it's got limitations ie. there is a finite number of IPv4 addresses that can ever be … [Read more...] about IPv4 in Europe is Pretty Much Exhausted