Summary

  • RIPE NCC counted 39 sanctions-screening alerts not yet started on 1 October, after recording zero on 2 July.
  • Its published procedure pauses new-resource and transfer requests for affected potential matches until staff clear a case.

Thirty-nine files arrived in a queue with no investigator yet assigned. That is the new line in RIPE NCC's Q4 sanctions report: the 1 October snapshot shows 39 alerts in “Not yet started,” against zero in the 2 July report. Total cumulative EU and OFAC alerts moved from 2,172 to 2,339. The registry has 167 more alerts on its ledger and a visible intake tray that was empty at the earlier checkpoint. The publication notice announced the new report on 23 October.

A possible match changes the resource holder's next transaction before the case is resolved. RIPE NCC says it will hold requests for new resources and transfers of existing resources until staff establish whether the alert applies. Its report says most investigated potential matches turn out to be false positives. That makes the 39 unstarted files a service question for the affected holders: the desk has a queue, and a request may be waiting for the desk.

The same table places 119 alerts under investigation on 1 October, up from 110 in July. Confirmed applicable EU-sanctions cases stand at 53, up from 25; those are a different status from the 39 awaiting the first investigation step. RIPE NCC's described action concerns registrations and resource transactions. A frozen registration remains in the database while the network may continue using the resources. The report exposes the queue size at one moment. Its next edition will show whether the intake tray shrinks.