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RIPE NCC

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306Stories
115Policies
47People with verified identities
92Source accounts awaiting identity resolution
32Participated in 2+ policies
3Participated in 5+ policies
33.3%Top-five discussion share
UnknownMedian effective participants
12People covering 50%

Participation concentration

Who actually shaped this RIR?

Discussion statistics are still being updated. Figures shown reflect the records processed so far.

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Recurring people and organisations
  1. Gert Doering9 Policies participated · 33 Discussion messages
  2. Nick Hyrka9 Policies participated · 9 Discussion messages
  3. Jordi Palet Martinez5 Policies participated · 4 Discussion messages
  4. Sander Steffann4 Policies participated · 24 Discussion messages
  5. Unknown3 Policies participated · 47 Discussion messages
  6. Remco van Mook3 Policies participated · 15 Discussion messages
  7. Filiz Yilmaz3 Policies participated · 8 Discussion messages
  8. Mark Scholten3 Policies participated · 5 Discussion messages
  9. Geoff Huston3 Policies participated · 4 Discussion messages
  10. Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet3 Policies participated · 4 Discussion messages

Policy records

Start with Policy
  1. 2024-01

    Revised IPv6 PI Assignment Policy

    Withdrawn · Official status: Withdrawn
    Introduced: Aug 13, 2024 · Latest activity: Sep 23, 2026
    3Policy versions
    2Total participants
  2. 2026-01

    Simplify assignment of first ASN

    Under discussion · Official status: Discussion Phase: Drafting document(s)
    Introduced: Jul 7, 2026 · Latest activity: Jul 7, 2026
    1Policy versions
    2Total participants
  3. 2025-01

    ASN assignment criteria revisited

    Withdrawn · Official status: Withdrawn
    Introduced: May 6, 2025 · Latest activity: Jul 6, 2026
    2Policy versions
    2Total participants
  4. 2024-02

    IPv6 Initial Allocations /28 and extension to /28

    Withdrawn · Official status: Withdrawn
    Introduced: Oct 14, 2024 · Latest activity: Feb 26, 2026
    4Policy versions
    2Total participants
  5. 2025-02

    Revocation of Persistently Non-functional Delegated RPKI CAs

    Accepted · Official status: Accepted
    Introduced: Jun 5, 2025 · Latest activity: Oct 15, 2025
    1Policy versions
    2Total participants

Latest stories

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Text-free abstract illustration of a registry reserve pool with member accounts flowing in and two diverging arrows showing reserve accumulation versus member redistribution

Story

The 2019 Excess-Contribution Redistribution: How the RIPE NCC's Own Instruments Authorised and Applied a Contested Remedy

When the RIPE NCC returned EUR 8,365,249 to its members in 2020, the money did not move by improvisation. It moved under Standard Service Agreement Article 7, a Clearing House Procedure that predates the decision, and a General Meeting vote that split hard enough to show how…

Sep 30, 2026
Editorial illustration: a dark map of European networks with one dimmed node representing AS210860's routing silence since late March 2026 and a translucent magnifying layer suggesting mirror-only registry records.

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AS210860 without a first-party witness: what the registry's unreadable endpoint means for DFINFRA

AS210860 without a first-party witness: what the registry's unreadable endpoint means for DFINFRA intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…

Sep 30, 2026
Stylised editorial illustration of an institutional election: a nomination document and ballot set against a map of the RIPE NCC service region with an amber deadline timeline

Story

Call for Nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board: What the 2026 Record Actually Publishes

The RIPE NCC has run a complete Executive Board nomination cycle for its May 2026 General Meeting. Reading the registry's own instruments — the call for nominations, the candidate and nomination procedure pages, and the document submission guidelines — shows a process that is…

Sep 30, 2026
Abstract editorial illustration of an IP registry record under institutional oversight, rendered in muted Nordic-blue and grey tones with no text, letters or numerals.

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The Svea Abuse-Role Record: Validated Contactability, No Documented Processing

The abuse contact recorded and mirrored for Svea's legacy netblock 193.105.138.0/24 is a carrier-era inherited mailbox on the Verizon Business/UUNET lineage — registry-validated for technical deliverability but never documented to have received, answered, escalated or remediated…

Sep 30, 2026