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RIPE NCC’s new risk register starts with the whole organisation
A top-down view of high-impact risks changes where the discussion begins; the September Board minutes tie some treatments to the right budget.
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RIPE NCC’s 2027 Budget Table Says €2,209 per LIR. Its Notice Says €2,056
The 2027 draft calculates €2,209 in expenses for each LIR, up 7% from the 2026 budget. RIPE NCC’s announcement repeats the €2,056 baseline instead.
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RIPE NCC’s proxy deadline appears as 4 October and 14 October
One RIPE NCC notice lists 4 October as the proxy-vote deadline; the General Meeting and proxy pages list 14 October. The Articles’ two-week rule points to 14 October for a meeting that begins on 28 October, but the published mismatch remains unexplained.
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RIPE Database incident stayed under monitoring for 24 hours after fix notice
RIPE NCC said some web-application requests were failing with 502 responses on 7 October. A fix moved the incident to monitoring one minute after the first public report; resolution was posted 24 hours and 34 minutes later. That interval measures status states, not the length or…
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RIPE NCC makes chair support open-ended; its public procedure still cites 2026
The RIPE NCC Executive Board has removed the scheduled sunset from support for Working Group Chairs’ physical attendance at RIPE Meetings. Yet the published procedure still says the previous extension ends in 2026. Before the next application window, the organisation needs one…
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NRO raises its IGF contribution to US$100,000 after seven years at US$75,000
UN DESA accepted the contribution in August, the NRO says. The latest public donor table records US$75,000 in each year from 2019 through 2025, while acceptance alone does not establish when money was transferred.
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RIPE NCC’s August IPv4 rows barely changed as address volume fell 74%
September’s 1,253,632 matches the POLICY subtotal in four public tables; another 285,184 addresses are labelled MERGER_OR_ACQUISITION.
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EDEKA's organisation object stays live while the AS210860 aut-num record returns no entries
EDEKA's organisation entity stays live while the AS210860 aut-num record returns no entries intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
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RIPE Recovered RRC12’s Files; Its Restart Bug Still Needs a Structural Fix
RIPE NCC says it has regenerated RRC12’s missing BGP files since 2 October. The same incident update says the configuration has been corrected, but the latent restart bug behind the repeated timeouts still awaits a structural fix.
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RIPE NCC designates two Foundation board members after Falk’s notice
The RIPE NCC Executive Board has named two people for the Rob Blokzijl Foundation board after Falk von Bornstaedt said he would step down. The Foundation’s own rules keep a separate appointment decision with its board.
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RIPE NCC members face a CEO Board-vote decision in October
The proposed Articles would keep seven member-elected non-executive seats and place the CEO on the same Board as an executive member with a vote. The Executive Board has approved the text for member consideration; it is not yet in force.
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RIPE NCC’s €10.5m infrastructure plan enters member review
The proposed 2027 budget lifts capital expenditure to €10.5 million for a renewal programme running through 2028. The Board has approved publication of the draft, not the final plan; members are being asked to discuss it and provide feedback before a December version is approved.
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RIPE NCC’s LIR pause also covers pending requests
RIPE NCC’s temporary restriction on acquiring additional Local Internet Registry accounts took effect from 29 September and includes requests already in progress. The decision pauses an intake route; it does not order the closure or consolidation of accounts already held, and it…
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RIPE NCC Reversed a Package Update After Its RPKI rsync Service Went Offline
RIPE NCC restored the named RPKI repository service by reverting an rsync package on 2 October. Its incident record explains the recovery, but does not measure how many relying parties were affected.
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Record Hygiene or Real Movement? What AS210328's 2026 Ledger Edits Actually Changed
Record Hygiene or Real Movement? What AS210328's 2026 Ledger Edits Actually Changed intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
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The Two Companies Holding a Network Nobody Publicly Claims: What AS210057's Upstreams Reveal — and What They Still Cannot
The Two Companies Holding a Network Nobody Publicly Claims: What AS210057's Upstreams Reveal — and What They Still Cannot intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure…
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The Identity Chain Nobody Closes: What Can Actually Be Verified About almazcloud.network, AS210328 and AO ALMAZ
The Identity Chain Nobody Closes: What Can Actually Be Verified About almazcloud.network, AS210328 and AO ALMAZ intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the…
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RIPE’s RRC12 Output Stalled After a High-Volume DE-CIX Peer
RIPE NCC says an unusually large stream of BGP messages from one DE-CIX peer repeatedly timed out the process that turns RRC12 updates into public files. Its archive still ended at 01:00 UTC on 2 October when checked 18 hours later.
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RIPE NCC is changing the RPKI key. The harder question is what it can touch
RIPE NCC is moving its RPKI dashboard and API credentials towards OpenID Connect. The more consequential disclosure sits lower on the same planning page: a proposed routing beacon was held back because its API could edit ROAs across all RIPE NCC space. Together, the two items set…
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DFINFRA's second tier: the live routing that a frozen registry cannot see
DFINFRA's second tier: the live routing that a frozen registry cannot see intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…