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RIPE Already Lists Its Policies. What Would the Manual Add?
The proposed manual would first be an index, but RIPE NCC already publishes a full policy list. Moving the text would then take one proposal per chapter.
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RIPE Calls 2,800 Registry Checks “Sustained.” Its 2026 Plan Says 2,400.
The draft puts a larger assisted-check target on a slightly smaller monitoring team. The missing bridge is the year between those two plans.
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RIPE’s Four Sites Were Back on Friday. The Security Statement Came Wednesday.
The status page reopened the doors on 23 October; five days later RIPE NCC said it had tested and patched the sites and found no sign of exploitation in its systems.
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RIPE’s WHOIS Light Went Green. Which Edits Got Through?
The registry marked an intermittent update fault fixed and resolved in under half an hour on 28 October. Its public clock says when the service recovered, not what happened to each attempted edit.
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Five Votes Put Mick O’Donovan on RIPE’s Routing Agenda
The Routing Working Group chose a new co-chair 39–34 at RIPE 93. Its published selection rule speaks of consensus; the room used a five-minute poll.
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RIPE NCC Gave Attendee Lists 12 Months. Old Rosters Are Still on the Web.
The board drew a line between keeping a record and displaying it to everyone. Three past meeting sites still cross that line in an ordinary browser.
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ENUM's cleanup clock is 60 days. RIPE NCC does not start it alone.
The September decision turns a broad closure scare into a letter to one country at a time. A silent nameserver can raise the case; it cannot sign the withdrawal.
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RIPE Atlas Wants Your Spare Raspberry Pi. It Still Has to Find the Missing Networks.
RIPE NCC is exploring a flashable image that would turn a volunteer's own device into an Atlas hardware probe. The box is easier to find than the network vantage point that makes it useful.
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RIPE NCC Contacted the Holders. 51.7% of Legacy Ranges Still Await a Reply.
The registry says it has contacted all roughly 1,500 legacy holders. Its new range-level tally shows how much verification work remains before anonymous records go public in 2027.
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RIPE NCC Wants Two Independent Data Centres. The Switch Between Them Is the Story.
The registry plans to replace a shared network stretched across two nearby facilities with autonomous sites in Western Europe. Inside each site, systems would run active-active. Between sites, one would stand by. That last handoff will decide whether the rebuild delivers…
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RIPE NCC Wants Two Data Centres That Can Survive Each Other
The registry is replacing a stretched network between nearby facilities with independent sites. Its October design finally says how; the survival test comes later.
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Two Upstreams, Two Clocks: Multi-Homing Speeds the Rescue and Delays the Cutoff
A RIPE 93 measurement found that extra upstreams helped a route recover faster after its ROA became valid, but kept it reachable longer after the ROA turned it invalid. The same spare path can be a rescue line in one direction and an unwanted encore in the other.
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RIPE NCC Keeps the Chain After an Address Moves
The resource can leave its holder. The registration trail stays. RIPE NCC's new privacy clause explains why it keeps that history after a return or transfer, while giving no fixed end date for the trail.
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RIPE NCC’s New EU Evidence Door Comes Without Member Notice
Eight binding Dutch requests crossed RIPE NCC’s desk in 2025. Its new procedure gives EU authorities a second route for electronic evidence, and closes member notification on that route.
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InterLAN’s Robot Has a Rollback Timer. Its AI Has No Router Keys.
At RIPE 93, InterLAN IX put two kinds of automation on the same slide: one can change live network equipment after checks, while the AI assistant can only read. The more interesting number is not the number of robots. It is the 29 physical devices behind a portal whose database…
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RIPE NCC Can Reject a Sponsor for a Public Argument
A new sponsorship rule reaches beyond money and influence. A public dispute with RIPE NCC, its management or another RIR can put a would-be sponsor outside the room.
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RIPE’s Members Face a 2027 Bill. First, They Must Get on the Vote List
If RIPE NCC runs a deficit, this week’s vote decides whether members pay in 2027 or reserves pick up the bill. At 06:24 UTC, 1,239 voting rights had made it onto the register.
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RIPE’s ASPA Lists May Miss Up to 9% of Provider ASNs. The Signature Still Checks.
RIPE NCC’s preliminary analysis has found missing upstreams in signed routing declarations. A neighbour labelled “peer” can carry traffic like a provider; the holder can faithfully sign the wrong list.
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BGPsec Key Rotation Takes Five Acts. RIPE NCC Has Published Its First API Certificate
BGPsec Key Rotation Takes Five Acts. RIPE NCC Has Published Its First API Certificate intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
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RIPE’s Hourly Routing Files Give Researchers 14 Days to Keep the Easy Version
RIPE NCC has made its experimental routing-data files arrive every hour. The fast, query-friendly copy is built for questions that cannot wait for a day-end batch. Its short retention clock starts a second job for anyone who may need to prove the answer later.