Gestion RIPE
Gestion RIPE is the public RIPE role-contact handle GR11509-RIPE, used by Commune de Lyon for registry correspondence related to autonomous system AS211957 and IP prefix 185.235.8.0/24. It is not a separate institution or person but a functional label that serves as a watchpoint for changes to the city’s network-resource posture and digital-service landscape.
Why It Matters
Changes to the role-contact record or BGP announcements alter how operators assess Lyon’s internet posture. The fate of the open-source migration directly affects municipal data sovereignty, financial trajectory, and the replicability of a non-proprietary collaboration stack for large public bodies, with consequences for staff productivity and resident service access.
What Sources Show
Gestion RIPE is the publicly registered RIPE role contact handle GR11509-RIPE. It appears in administrative and technical contact fields for Commune de Lyon’s autonomous system AS211957 and IP prefix 185.235.8.0/24. It is not a company, institution, or natural person, but a functional registry label maintained by the municipality’s information technology department.
The handle serves as a watchpoint for any change in the city’s network-resource posture. Altered or stale WHOIS records reduce external observability of Lyon’s network boundary. BGP routing updates from AS211957 affect how internet operators assess the city’s connectivity and may signal shifts in the municipality’s infrastructure management.
Actual control rests with Commune de Lyon, which operates its public-facing service surface via lyon.fr. It delivers online procedures for over half a million residents, including civil-status, parking, school-meal, and identity-card services. The municipality manages a €1.18 billion budget, more than 200 applications, 7,000 workstations, and 600 virtualised servers through its DSITN department.
In June 2025, Ville de Lyon announced a digital-sovereignty programme with Territoire Numérique Ouvert, SITIV, and Métropole de Lyon, backed by a €2 million ANCT grant. The city rejected Microsoft 365 and is migrating 5,000 office workstations to open-source tools — OnlyOffice, Jitsi, Nextcloud — hosted in regional datacenters, targeting near-complete migration by early 2026.
The success or failure of this migration directly influences data sovereignty, supplier dependence, and service access for residents. If the city completes the move, it demonstrates a replicable model for municipal open-source adoption. A stall or rollback would signal weakening digital self-determination and could raise operating costs or lock-in.
Monitors should track modifications to GR11509-RIPE in WHOIS, new BGP route announcements or withdrawals from AS211957, and any official completion notice for the office-suite migration. The identification of a named person behind the role would also alter the assessment, shifting it from a functional label to an accountable contact.
Public sources do not reveal the individual or team using the handle; it may be a shared mailbox. No post-migration confirmation is available, and adoption figures vary between seven and nine collectivities across official releases. The evidence does not prove that every resident-facing procedure depends on AS211957, so service-path attribution remains incomplete.
Operating Surface
Commune de Lyon, operating publicly as Ville de Lyon, manages resident-facing digital services and the associated network infrastructure. The GR11509-RIPE role contact is the designated administrative and technical contact in RIPE WHOIS records for AS211957 and 185.235.8.0/24, used for registry maintenance rather than individual authority.
Registry changes to GR11509-RIPE can affect external observability of Lyon’s network boundary. Commune de Lyon’s open-source office-suite migration represents a high-stakes public-sector digital-sovereignty experiment that influences data control, supplier dependence, and service access for over 525,000 residents.
Watchpoints
Monitoring Gestion RIPE provides a low-cost window into Commune de Lyon's internet resource management and its commitment to digital sovereignty. Any discontinuity in the role contact or routing behavior could indicate administrative neglect or a policy shift, while completion of the open-source migration would offer a validated public-sector alternative to proprietary collaboration suites.
Changes to GR11509-RIPE WHOIS fields; new BGP route origins or withdrawals for 185.235.8.0/24; official completion or rollback announcements for the office-suite migration; public procurement awards related to the digital workplace; identification of a natural person behind the handle.
No individual is identified behind GR11509-RIPE. The migration status is unconfirmed past early 2026. Adoption figures vary across sources. No direct linkage between AS211957 and specific resident-facing procedures is proven. PeeringDB or routing RPKI posture data is absent.
Sources
- Registry RDAP / WHOIS record - public-source identity and registry context for Gestion RIPE.
- Registry RDAP / WHOIS record - The 185.235.8.0/24 prefix is associated with AS211957 / COMMUNE DE LYON; the WHOIS details show route origin AS211957 and role 'Gestion RIPE' with nic-hdl GR11509-RIPE.
- Internet registry record - BANATIC identifies Commune Lyon as a French commune with INSEE code 69123, SIREN 216901231, city hall address, mayor, population, and intercommunal memberships.
- Operator website - The official Ville de Lyon website exposes the municipality's resident-facing public information and service-access surface, including procedures, arrondissement sites, publications, and contact paths.
- lyon.fr - Ville de Lyon announced a digital-sovereignty program on 23 June 2025 involving Territoire Numerique Ouvert, SITIV, Metropole de Lyon, regional datacenters, a 2 million euro ANCT grant, and open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office.
- numerique360.banquedesterritoires.fr - Banque des Territoires describes Lyon's refusal to move to Microsoft 365, its shared open-source suite with Metropole de Lyon and SITIV, a 5,000-workstation scale, and a staged migration toward early 2026.
- radar.cloudflare.com - Cloudflare Radar identifies AS211957 as communedelyon in France and provides current routing visibility context for the ASN.
- ipinfo.io - The AS page identifies AS211957 as COMMUNE DE LYON in France, RIPE registry, with 256 IPv4 addresses and the 185.235.8.0/24 IP range.
- lyon.fr - The official procedures page lists high-use municipal workflows such as personal accounts, family quotient calculation, birth certificates, school-meal management, parking rights, event requests, identity-card renewal, recruitment, and Lyon direct contact.
- lyon.fr - Ville de Lyon's budget documents state that the 2026 budget is balanced in expenditure and revenue for a total of 1,183,310,939.17 euros and link to the 2026 budget reports.
- sitiv.fr - SITIV says it supports Ville de Lyon's digital-sovereignty transition, describes Territoire Numerique Ouvert as a suite using Jitsi, OnlyOffice, and Nextcloud, and says it is hosted in regional datacenters and backed by a 2 million euro ANCT grant.
- Registry RDAP / WHOIS record - A RIPE-derived WHOIS mirror displays AS211957 as communedelyon, organisation ORG-CDL18-RIPE / COMMUNE DE LYON, admin-c and tech-c GR11509-RIPE, route-related import/export policy entries, and role Gestion RIPE with NIC handle GR11509-RIPE.
