Quick Overview RIPE NCC Membership RIPE NCC Activities and Services Training Services
The RIPE NCC is an independent, not-for- Anyone can become a member of the RIPE Membership Services RIPE NCC General Meeting The RIPE NCC provides the following training In 2010, the RIPE NCC gave 89 training profit membership organisation based in NCC. Most members are Internet Service courses to its members: courses in 35 countries in the RIPE NCC Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It was formed in Providers (ISPs), telecommunication Allocation of IP addresses – IPv6 and General Meetings (GM) are held twice a year service region. Over 1,700 Local Internet 1992 and now supports over 7,150 members organisations, corporations, academic IPv4, Autonomous System Numbers and all members are strongly encouraged Local Internet Registry (LIR) Training Registry (LIR) staff participated. The RIPE in 78 countries in its service region (see map). institutions and government bodies. (ASNs) – and the management of reverse to attend. During the GM, members vote to Course – a one-day introduction to NCC also gives customised presentations DNS delegations accept the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme and can administrative procedures and policies and seminars for industry events and As the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Members manage and distribute the Internet Provision of RIPE NCC Training Courses elect a candidate to a vacant seat on the RIPE related to obtaining and distributing conferences. For more information, or to Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central number resources they receive from the RIPE Support for new Local Internet NCC Executive Board. More information about Internet resources and operating an host a training course, please contact: Asia, the RIPE NCC provides Internet number NCC at a local level. Members are referred Registries (LIRs) the GM can be found at: LIR. training@ripe.net resources, such as IPv4 and IPv6 address to as “Local Internet Registries” (LIRs). More Regional support, such as RIPE NCC www.ripe.net/membership/gm IPv6 Training Course – a one-day space and Autonomous System Numbers details on how to become a member are Regional Meetings course about the need for IPv6, The RIPE NCC E-Learning Centre is a free (ASNs), to its members. It also offers other available at: The LIR Portal, a web portal for RIPE NCC Annual Report including basic information on how to online resource enabling users to access services related to the technical coordination www.ripe.net/membership/new-members members that enables them to plan your IPv6 deployment. online courses on a variety of topics. You of the Internet. manage their information online. More The RIPE NCC Annual Report offers an Routing Registry Training Course – an don’t have to be a RIPE NCC member to use Fees information is available at: overview of the RIPE NCC’s financial position introductory course covering Internet the E-Learning Centre. For more information, The RIPE NCC provides administrative support https://lirportal.ripe.net and the activities it carries out each year. To Routing Registry (IRR) usage, related including which courses are available online, to Réseaux IP Européens Network (RIPE), a As Internet read the current annual report, see: tools and Routing Policy Specification please see: Yearly Fee 2011 collaborative forum open to all parties with number resources Internet Coordination Activities www.ripe.net/info/ncc/ar.html Language (RPSL). https://e-learning.ripe.net an interest in wide area IP networks and the do not have (EUR) technical development of the Internet. commercial value, RIPE Database maintenance and RIPE NCC Member Update Extra Small 1,300* members are development RIPE NCC Service Region The RIPE NCC is an open and transparent, charged a yearly Small 1,800* Administrative support to Réseaux IP The Member Update newsletter is distributed neutral and impartial organisaton. It has fee based on the Européens (RIPE) by the RIPE NCC to inform its members Medium 2,550* no commercial interests or influences and services that they Operation of K-root, one of the of industry related news, policy and The RIPE NCC service region incorporates Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Other operates as a bottom-up and self-governing receive from the Large 4,100* 13 Internet root name servers developments. To read the latest Member regions are supported by the following Regional Internet Registries (RIRs): organisation. This means that the policies RIPE NCC. The Reverse DNS delegation Update, see: Extra Large 5,500* and procedures that govern the way the annual service Mapping of telephone numbers www.ripe.net/membership/newsletter RIPE NCC operates are proposed, discussed fee charged to Sign-up Fee 2,000 in the DNS (known as ENUM) and accepted by its members and the RIPE each member is € Deployment of Internet Security Open and Transparent community. related to the * Additional 50 EUR Infrastructure (DISI) workload involved per independent All RIPE NCC activities and services are More information about the RIPE NCC can be in providing the resource assignment Information Services openly defined, discussed and evaluated found at: services requested by the RIPE NCC members and the RIPE www.ripe.net/info/ncc by that member. Routing Information Service (RIS) community. Each year, the activities that the DNS Monitoring (DNSMON) RIPE NCC proposes to perform in the coming There is a one-time sign-up fee for new Test Traffic Measurements (TTM) Service year are detailed in the RIPE NCC Activity members. All new members are assigned to Collection and reporting of statistics on Plan. Input for the Activity Plan is collected the “Extra Small” category for their first year Internet use and availability from the members and the RIPE comunity. of membership. All first IPv6 allocations to The RIPE NCC Activity Plan is available to the a member do not incur an additional charge. public at: www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ap.html For more information, see: www.ripe.net/membership/billing/procedure. AfriNIC – serving Africa ARIN – serving North America html APNIC – serving the Asia LACNIC – serving the Latin American Pacific region and the Caribbean region Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) Associated Contact
Organisations About the RIPE NCC
RIPE is a collaborative forum open to all RIPE Meetings also encourage participation AfriNIC (African Network Information By post: parties with an interest in wide area IP in the RIPE Policy Development Process Centre) RIPE NCC networks, the technical development of (PDP). www.afrinic.net P. O. Box 10096 the Internet and the way it is managed, 1001 EB Amsterdam structured or governed. It has existed since Information about RIPE Meetings is available APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information the Netherlands 1989. The “RIPE community” is the collective at: Centre) term for any individual or organisation, www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings www.apnic.net By registered and courier mail: whether members of the RIPE NCC or not, RIPE NCC participating in RIPE. Policy Development ARIN (American Registry for Internet Singel 258 Numbers) 1016 AB Amsterdam Although similar in name, the RIPE NCC The RIPE community develops and sets www.arin.net the Netherlands and RIPE are separate entities that are policies for the technical coordination of highly interdependent. The RIPE NCC the Internet and the distribution of Internet IAB (Internet Architecture Board) Email: [email protected] Information about the RIPE NCC, provides administrative support to RIPE, number resources in the RIPE NCC’s service www.iab.org Tel: +31 20 5354444 such as the facilitation of RIPE Meetings and region through a long established, open, Fax: +31 20 5354445 membership, fees, services and activities providing administrative support to the RIPE bottom-up process of discussion and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Working Groups. There are no membership consensus-based decision-making. This Authority) For more information about the RIPE NCC, requirements for participation in RIPE. All process is called the RIPE Policy Deve- www.iana.org see: activities are performed on a voluntary basis, lopment Process (PDP). Anyone in the RIPE www.ripe.net except those performed by the RIPE NCC. community can suggest a new policy or a ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned change to an existing policy. You do not have Names and Numbers) Facebook: RIPE Meetings to be a member of the RIPE NCC to do this. www.icann.org www.facebook.com/ripencc
RIPE Meetings are held twice a year and are Proposals can be viewed at: ISOC (Internet Society) Twitter: open to anyone. The meetings bring together www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/policies/proposals www.isoc.org www.twitter.com/ripe_ncc key industry players, network operators, www.twitter.com/ripemeeting governments, regulators and individuals to More information the about RIPE PDP can be LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean discuss technical, administrative and policy found at: Internet Address Registry) YouTube: issues surrounding IP networking. www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html www.lacnic.net www.youtube.com/user/RIPENCC
NRO (Number Resource Organization) www.nro.net
RIPE Meetings bring together key industry players, network operators, governments, regulators This information sheet is current and individuals. as of 6 January, 2011.