1. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 1 RIPE NCC Status Report at APNIC 14 Looking forward to winter…

2. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 2 Headcount 101 Members of staff 22 Nationalities Fully staffed

3. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 3 Registration Activities (1) Number of LIRs –Growth slowing for new members –Industry consolidation New IPv6 requests since 1 July, 2002 –25 New IPv6 Allocations –23 /35s expanded to /32 http://www.ripe.net/ipv6/ipv6allocs.html –7 /32s delegated in ip6.arpa Secure Member Web Portal –Beta launch next week at RIPE 43 All outgoing Hostmaster mail PGP signed New robot for hostmaster@ripe.net under constructionhostmaster@ripe.net

4. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 4 Registration Activities (2) New membership procedure from September –Faster and easier Early Registration Transfer Project –Started with ASNs – 21 August 2002 e164.arpa delegation –ITU – responsible for authorising delegations –RIPE NCC runs DNS on behalf of IAB/IETF

5. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 5 Documentation Renewal All IPv4 and IPv6 documentation renewed DB Operation Manual –Installation, configuration and maintenance guide DB User Manual –A great present from APNIC - "Getting Started" section

6. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 6 Training Activities LIR Training courses –60% increase in courses given since 2000 –est. ~1800 people trained –75–85 Courses planned for 2003 DNS Sec Training Courses –4 given in Q4 2002 –~10 planned for 2003 Routing Registry for LIRs –Currently being developed –~10 planned for 2003

7. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 7 Database Developments (1) Security developments –New MD5-PW authentication scheme –MAIL-FROM auth no longer available –IRT object representing CSIRT Routing Registry –RRCC is fully functional http://www.ripe.net/db/rrcc –IRRToolSet support http://www.ripe.net/db/irrtoolset –latest release available on our ftp site

8. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 8 Database Developments (2) New prototypes –Interactive updates http://www.ripe.net/db/syncupdates –User friendly web interface for updates

9. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 9 Database Plans Further improvement of server software –Error reporting –Performance –Configuration management New features –Support for authorisation checks across multiple registries –IPv6 and multicast support in the RR –Automatic database clean-up

10. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 10 New Projects Routing Information Service & Deployment of Internet Security Infrastructure Routing Information Service (RIS) –First US presence at MAE-West DNS Sec getting ready for deployment –NCC is actively involved in protocol and tool development and testing of implementations Plan to offer DNSSEC on the reverse tree as a service by Q2/2003 Signing procedure will run in parallel with existing reverse-tree delegation procedure

11. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 11 Communications 2nd RIPE NCC Member Survey –Conducted Sept. – Nov. 2002 by independent org. –http://www.ripe.net/survey2002/http://www.ripe.net/survey2002/ Focus on direct Membership needs Annual Report 2001 – published –http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ar2001.htmlhttp://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ar2001.html

12. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 12 RIPE NCC Priorities Respond to members’ needs and lead development in Internet infrastructure See all y’all at RIPE 43 in Rhodes, next week

13. leo vegoda. APNIC 14, 3–6 Sept. 2002, Kitakyushu, Japan. http://www.ripe.net 13 Questions?