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RIPE Appoints New Chair and Vice Chair

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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

RIPE Hiring Managing Director

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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

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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

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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

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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

RIPE RPKI Breaks 1000 Barrier

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RIPE have announced that the 1000th LIR has signed up for RPKI. Considering that only a few months ago there was a distinct possibility that RPKI would be halted entirely in the RIPE region this milestone is of extra significance. Resource Certification offers LIRs validatable proof of holdership. In addition, it allows LIRs to make cryptographically verifiable statements … [Read more...] about RIPE RPKI Breaks 1000 Barrier