RIPE

Presentation

RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens or European IP Networks) is an informal collaborative group that allows the Internet's technical community to exchange their experiences of the deployment and coordination of IP networks in Europe. It is also one of the sources of information on which the allocation policies of the RIPE NCC are based. RIPE is organised into working groups grouped by theme or by project, for which individuals can register via electronic mailing lists.
Participation is voluntary and the working language is English.

The three main annual meetings held by RIPE last five days. These truly special events, which began in 1989, regularly draw all the key members of the Internet's technical community, from Europe and beyond.
The CENTR makes the most of the popularity of these events to organise its technical working group meetings, which are held over the same period and in the same location.

Project promotion and specific initiatives by AFNIC

The RIPE meetings allow AFNIC's engineers to strengthen their relations with the European and global technical community, to promote specific initiatives (IPv6, ENUM, etc.), to keep abreast of current developments and to participate in their progress. AFNIC is particularly active in the following groups: DNS (formerly DNS and DNR), IPv6, routing, database and addressing policy (formerly LIR and tools).

RIPE website

Calendar of RIPE meetings

Remark on the RIPE NCC:
The RIPE NCC (RIPE Network Coordination Centre) is one of the four Regional Internet Registries (RIR), together with ARIN (North America), APNIC (Asia Pacific) and LACNIC (Latin America and the Caribbean). AfriNIC, for the Africa region, is currently under construction. The RIPE NCC's role is to allocate IP addresses and AS (Autonomous System) numbers to the operators present in the wider European area (see RIPE map).