RIPE NCC QUARTERLY REPORT
Issue 7 December 1993
Document-ID: ripe-106
1. Introduction
RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) is a collaborative organisation
open to all European Internet service providers. The objec-
tive of RIPE is to ensure the necessary administrative and
technical coordination to allow the operation of a pan Eur-
opean IP network. Much of this work is achieved through
voluntary effort. RIPE does not operate a network of its
own.
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is a Euro-
pean organisation with a charter to support RIPE. It is
specifically focused on undertaking those activities which
cannot be effectively performed by volunteers from the par-
ticipating organisations.
The work of the RIPE NCC is divided into two areas: Core
Activities and Development Projects. The former are defined
in the RIPE NCC activity plan (document ripe-035) and are
funded by European Internet Service Providers. The develop-
ment projects are defined within RIPE and funded separately
by interested organisations. Currently all development pro-
jects are run under the auspices of the RARE Technical Pro-
gramme.
This is the seventh quarterly report produced by the RIPE
NCC and covers the core activities during the period October
to December 1993. Brief reports on the development projects
is also included, though they are fully reported in a
separate document. Again there has been a conscious effort
to avoid duplication of information by including references
to previous reports. As always, comments and suggestions
are very welcome.
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2. Management Summary
The European part of the Internet as counted by the RIPE
hostcount has grown by 18% during the reporting period.
Internet Registry
The European Internet Registry system is running smoothly.
A number of local registries has been added to the system.
The amount of resources necessary at the RIPE NCC to provide
the registry function is still increasing significantly.
During the reporting period the amount of requests has been
increasing again and their average complexity remains high.
Currently the registry binds about one FTE. This is signi-
ficantly more than expected.
Database
The new automated database software is running well. The
almost immediate response is appreciated by the RIPE commun-
ity, especially by the local registries. The reduction of
manual processing at the NCC has freed some resources which
are now needed by the registry. Due to staff and time con-
straints the database software has not been officially
released yet.
Other Core Activities
All other NCC core activities are being carried out as
usual.
Joint Projects
The PRIDE project is making excellent progress considering
it has not reacheds its final staffing level yet. This will
occur in January 1994. PRIDE has produced the first PRIDE
Tools release.
Staffing
Because of the increasing resources needed by the Internet
Registry, more personnel resources are needed. Arrangements
are being made to obtain temporary help within the 1994
budget as a short-term solution. A structural increase of
NCC staff is needed in 1994 in order to retain the high
level of service the NCC currently provides.
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3. RIPE NCC Core Services
3.1. DNS Coordination
DNS Hostcount
The December 1993 hostcount shows a total of over 553,000
hosts in Europe. During the reporting period more than
84,000 were added, which represents an approximate 18%
increase.
Nothing has changed to the hostcount procedure. In the
hostcount, any machine that appears in the Domain Name Sys-
tem with an A record is counted as a host. Hosts with more
than one A record are counted once, and hosts with the same
A record, but different domain names inside the same top
level domain are also counted just once.
Hostcount History
Below is a table showing the totals of the RIPE DNS
hostcount from October 1990 up till December 1993.All DNS
output, not just the A records, are saved and are available
in the RIPE document store, two files for each country: the
standard output, and the error messages. Please check the
README file for more details.
ftp.ripe.net:ripe/hostcount/README
Hostcount History
1990
Oct 26141
Nov 33665
Dec 29226
1991
Jan 43799
Feb 44000
Mar 44506
Apr 46948
May 52000
Jun 63267
Jul 67000
Aug 73069
Sep 92834
Oct 104828
Nov 129652
Dec 133000
1992
Jan 141308
Feb 161431
Mar 167931
Apr 170000
May 182528
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Jun 196758
Jul 213017
Aug 221951
Sep 232522
Oct 254585
Nov 271795
Dec 284374
1993
Jan 303828
Feb 322902
Mar 355140
Apr 366164
May 385522
Jun 404930
Jul 426827
Aug 451116
Sep 469358
Oct 500018
Nov 533701
Dec 553357
3.2. Internet Registry
NCC Workload and Performance
The number of registry requests received by the NCC has
increased again. Incoming mail messages to the registry are
up from an average 11 per working day to just above 15. The
majority of requests are complex ones asking for delegation
or assignment of significant amounts of address space which
need an indepth technical analysis by engineering staff.
Still we manage to respond to the vast majority of all
requests within one working day.
The registry consumes about one FTE at this point and other
activities are beginning to suffer. Because we expect
further growth, arrangements are being made to obtain tem-
porary personnel for the NCC core activities within the 1994
budget. Currently we plan to combine this with 3-6 months
work experience stays for people from central and eastern
European countries. However this cannot be a structural
solution to the staffing problem.
New List of European Local Registries
There is now a publicly accessible list of European local
registries. It was decided by the Local-IR working group at
the 16th RIPE meeting to publish such a list. Thus, the
draft list was circulated to all the local registries for
verification and subsequently published. It is available
from RIPE document store via
ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-101.txt
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If any of the details are incorrect, please let us know as
soon as possible.
Circulation of the draft list of local registries raised a
discussion concerning the appropriateness of the terminology
used to describe the function of the "nonprovider Local
IR`s". A consensus was reached on replacing "non-service
provider" local IR with "registry of last resort" IR.
Local IR's
As before the number of local registries continues to
increase. There are now 83 local registries allocating
class C network numbers in Europe. Organisations wishing to
become local registries must first confirm that they have
read and understood "European Internet Registry: IP Address
Space Assignment Procedures" (Current doc ID: ripe-104).
There are now a total of 24 "registries of last resort" pro-
viding registry service to organisations not served by an
Internet service provider yet. A new registry of last
resort since the last quarterly report is operating in The
Czech Republic. Again the RIPE NCC is grateful to all those
who perform this valuable service to the community.
Address Space Assignment Policy
The new address space assignment procedures have been pub-
lished as document ripe-105. This recommends to cut down
on address space reservations made to improve aggregation
possibilities (CIDR). This change was made in the light of
experience which shows that the decrease in address space
utilisation caused by these reservations is high while the
aggregation gain is low.
Reverse Name Lookup for 193.x.y and 194.x.y
The procedure document for the DNS delegation in the in-
addr.arpa domain has been published to update ripe-085. The
document ID is ripe-105. This document deals with the dele-
gation of direct subdomains of 193.in-addr.arpa and 194.in-
addr.arpa and gives some guidelines for delegation of
domains below that.
Address Space Usage 193.x.y.0 and 194.x.y.0
During the reporting period from October - December, the NCC
assigned a total of 10 class B network numbers, 6 of which
were referred via local registries, delegated 19 blocks of
class C network numbers and have reserved 1 block of class C
network numbers. During the reporting period the European
registries have assigned a total of 5478 class C networks.
The NCC has also started to delegate blocks of network
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numbers from the 194.0.0 - 194.255.255 address space.
The NCC thanks the following organisations for returning
class B network numbers to the RIPE NCC, some because they
were no longer used, others because they were replaced by
class C network numbers: Norwegian Telecommunications
Administration, Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration, ACOnet and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
As usual class B network numbers returned to the RIPE NCC
remain at the NCC for reassignment in Europe. The NCC wel-
comes any organisation that wishes to return class B network
numbers.
The detailed status of the address space delegated to the
RIPE NCC can be found in Appendix B and C for class B and
class C network numbers respectively.
3.3. RIPE Network Management Database
Database updates
The database software has processed 3575 e-mail messages
containing 42,767 database objects in the past quarter. The
total number of database objects processed at the NCC over
the last quarters is tabled below.
Database Objects Processed Q1 1993 Q2 1993 Q3 1993 Q4 1993
TOTAL 27938 28110 58189 42767
Due to the change of database software at the RIPE NCC, the
detailed statistics of the number of updates, additions and
noops will be available again in 1994.
Database Statistics
Again the number of networks in the database has increased
significantly due to the large number of newly assigned
class C network numbers.
Month Nets Persons Domains Autonomous Systems
Nov 90 643 670 0
Jun 91 1270 1053 845
Jan 92 2728 1792 1254
Apr 92 3365 2242 1360
Jun 92 3797 2736 1422
Sep 92 4172 4594 1549
Dec 92 11080 6116 1680
Mar 93 15281 7846 1894
Jun 93 19523 9423 2134 85
Sep 93 24077 11267 2382 153
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Dec 93 29646 13238 2339 224
For the first time in the history of the RIPE Database, the
number of domain entries has actually decreased since last
quarter. Several reasons can explain this decrease. The
number of domain entries that were in the database with syn-
tax errors was high, and with the new software, the syntax
checking has become more strict. Another -more importan-
treason is that many top level domain administrators do not
see the need to register their domains in the RIPE database.
This is encouraged by the fact that for most purposes the
DNS itself is quite sufficient. Thus the RIPE database has
much less of an operational role with regard to domains as
it has for the other objects. Nonetheless TLD administra-
tors are requested to register at least their immediate sub-
domains. The benefits of registration are easy access to
those responsible for a domain in case of problems, the pos-
sibility of consistency checks and last but not least a uni-
form standard of domain registry data. The RIPE NCC will
provide assistance to TLD administrators if they request it.
Database Coverage
The following table shows the database coverage as compared
against previous quarters. The table is sorted by coverage
percentage in this quarter (Q4 1993). It will not be a
surprise that most of the smaller countries in network terms
appear on the top of the list. Generally coverage seems to
be stable or increasing slightly, which is a good sign.
Coverage is particularly low in Finland and in Denmark.
Czecho-Slovakia (CS) is low due to the name change to CZ and
SK. There are still nets mentioned in the DNS for CS,
whereas they appear in the database as CZ and SK. Also,
special processing is used for UK and SU, since the country
codes that appear in the database for these countries is
usually GB for UK and RU for SU. This has been corrected in
the table and graph for those two countries. Any effort to
attack the low coverage problem requires a high level of
resources which need to be applied constantly. These
resources are currently not available due to other activi-
ties. In our view this is an important area where addi-
tional resources are needed and could have significant
impact and this is one area where effort applied by the
local registries (where resources permit) could have an
impact. The importance of this becomes even more pronounced
as the database slowly assumes its additional function as
European Routing Registry.
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Country Nets in Nets in Perc Perc Perc Perc
DNS Q4 DB Q4 Q4 1993 Q3 1993 Q2 1993 Q1 1993
1993 1993
BG 2 2 100 100 100 100
CY 3 3 100 100 100 100
EG 3 3 100 0 0 0
LI 1 1 100 100 50 0
LV 1 1 100 100 100 100
YU 1 1 100 50 50 50
CZ 79 78 99 96 97 0
PL 59 57 97 100 97 92
FR 885 828 94 93 94 91
HU 64 60 94 97 96 100
EE 43 40 93 90 58 0
AT 148 136 92 92 94 89
IL 80 73 91 87 87 75
CH 182 161 89 90 92 87
DE 740 656 89 89 89 87
SK 18 16 89 100 100 0
BE 48 42 88 80 95 82
ES 59 52 88 92 92 87
PT 100 88 88 83 84 86
IT 236 205 87 80 83 81
NL 186 161 87 87 88 86
IS 36 31 86 81 75 84
UA 16 13 86 80 71 0
UK 596 514 86 84 84 70
TR 14 12 86 80 71 0
NO 146 124 85 78 76 76
IE 56 46 82 80 81 82
GR 30 24 80 80 80 73
RO 9 7 78 100 100 100
SU 82 64 78 2 3 16
HR 4 3 75 80 80 83
LU 11 8 73 80 70 50
SE 285 204 72 74 74 70
SI 23 15 65 67 63 75
FI 435 265 61 47 45 44
DK 53 25 47 35 33 35
CS 43 0 0 0 0 27
Due to time and staffing constraints the full release of the
new database software has not been completed yet. A beta
test version is available to interested parties. Similarly
various enhancements including the new (ripe-081) guarded
attributes and notifications as per ripe-096 could not be
completed. Most of this is expected to be completed in the
next quarter.
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3.4. Document Store
Document Store Statistics
In total the document store contains approximately 6300
documents. By volume, it accounts for over 256 Megabytes.
Some new sections have appeared in the RIPE document store,
and some have been removed. New are the IAB, PRIDE and
current-ietf-docs sections. From the tools section, the
sections with the Internet Resource Recovery Tools WWW, Wais
and Gopher have been removed. It seemed that the software
we had available was out of date, and that there are better
places specialized in archiving and mirroring for obtaining
these tools. Also, the remote conferencing section in the
tools section has been removed because it was outdated.
Below is a table overview of the RIPE Document Store.
Area Files Kbytes
earn 15 1012
ebone 43 546
iesg 78 1041
ietf 1000 7776
internet-drafts 513 19494
internet-society 1019 22590
nsf 157 18321
rare 1170 63587
rfc 945 53346
ripe 1037 57765
tools 38 6057
current-ietf-docs 192 3365
fyi 26 72
iab 14 406
pride 15 287
Total 6276 256565
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RIPE documents
The following new documents, or updates to older documents
were added to the document store during the reporting
period:
o ripe-095
European Internet Network Number Application Form &
Supporting Notes
o ripe-096
Authorisation and Notification of Changes in the RIPE Database
o ripe-097
European Autonomous System Number Application Form &
Supporting Notes
o ripe-098
European Internet Network Number Application Form &
Supporting Notes
o ripe-099
RIPE NCC Review - Final Report
o ripe-100
RIPE NCC Quarterly report Issue 6
o ripe-101
List of Internet Registries in Europe
o ripe-102
General information About RIPE and The RIPE NCC
o ripe-103
Description of Inter-AS Networks in the RIPE Routing
Registry
o ripe-104
European Internet Registry: IP Address Space
Assignment Procedures
o ripe-105
European Internet Registry: Procedures for DNS
Delegation in the INADDR.ARPA Domain
FTP Usage Statistics
The most popular archive sections of the RIPE document store
are tabulated below. This displays the top 15 most popular
sections which were accessed using ftp.The most popular sec-
tion is the RIPE database, with approximately 9300 Megabytes
transferred.
The total of 9.3 Gbytes of transferred data from the RIPE
Database section of the document store actually represents
an average of 10 Kbits/sec continuous traffic, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week over this last quarter. Below is the
table overview of the 15 most popular archive sections.
Much of this traffic can be explained by mirror sites, who
copy this part of the archive daily, and the RIPE database
section changes every day.
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Archive Section Files Kbytes % of % of
Sent Sent File Files
Sent Sent
ripe/dbase 9017 9315337 5.97 72.19
rare/working-groups 2803 462782 1.86 3.59
ripe/as 100409 460554 66.47 3.57
tools/www 1473 354709 0.98 2.75
ripe/docs 7724 338018 5.11 2.62
ripe/hostcount 2516 337097 1.67 2.61
earn 972 310059 0.64 2.40
rfc 3786 262510 2.51 2.03
ripe/archives 4181 141811 2.77 1.10
internet-drafts 2905 139027 1.92 1.08
rare/coa 1005 99161 0.67 0.77
ripe/Next-Meeting 494 79119 0.33 0.61
ripe/maps 1236 77972 0.82 0.60
rare 281 58161 0.19 0.45
tools/gopher 2896 57031 1.92 0.44
The number of Megabytes transferred using ftp per top level
domain is shown below:
Domain Name Files Bytes % of % of
Sent Sent Files Byets
Sent Sent
at 1042 596175298 0.69 4.62
au 50 10776383 0.03 0.08
be 185 18214949 0.12 0.14
bg 1 1403 0.00 0.00
br 9 745991 0.01 0.01
ca 150 28981293 0.10 0.22
ch 2001 677726525 1.32 5.25
com 729 79405921 0.48 0.62
cs 2 169465 0.00 0.00
cz 1036 52431056 0.69 0.41
de 5425 523409812 3.59 4.06
dk 98 20400167 0.06 0.16
edu 1501 291039987 0.99 2.26
ee 2 246226 0.00 0.00
es 592 162729729 0.39 1.26
fi 7936 397830442 5.25 3.08
fr 935 93974220 0.62 0.73
gov 117 30602379 0.08 0.24
gr 2076 78059366 1.37 0.60
hk 1 241184 0.00 0.00
hr 7 30941 0.00 0.00
hu 435 57325309 0.29 0.44
ie 969 202137918 0.64 1.57
il 1139 830660643 0.75 6.44
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in 1 927 0.00 0.00
int 1 235942 0.00 0.00
is 8 845235 0.01 0.01
it 2154 1025872399 1.43 7.95
jp 22588 1396096906 14.95 10.82
kr 1655 100358534 1.10 0.78
lu 10 3573190 0.01 0.03
lv 1 19152 0.00 0.00
mil 66 13677455 0.04 0.11
mx 20 2894243 0.01 0.02
my 32 1420614 0.02 0.01
net 62676 4125009786 41.49 31.97
nl 1087 115618307 0.72 0.90
no 956 59571809 0.63 0.46
nz 1 241184 0.00 0.00
org 75 15891510 0.05 0.12
pl 695 39095032 0.46 0.30
pt 4373 238764631 2.89 1.85
ro 1 7761 0.00 0.00
se 24855 1280339677 16.45 9.92
sg 10 2329137 0.01 0.02
si 379 19623984 0.25 0.15
sk 40 2134658 0.03 0.02
su 375 25803054 0.25 0.20
tr 25 1778614 0.02 0.01
tw 442 25874975 0.29 0.20
ua 61 2351844 0.04 0.02
uk 1102 101331308 0.73 0.79
us 17 2472340 0.01 0.02
za 28 6189179 0.02 0.05
Again these statistics are confirmation that the RIPE docu-
ment store is a very focused resource being used by the
right community.
Interactive Information Server
The NCC Interactive Information Server is still a popular
method of access to the RIPE document store catering for
users with minimal hardware and/or software support to
access information stored by the NCC. Full details on
access methods are given in the RIPE NCC information leaflet
"Interactive Information Server" and in the first edition of
the NCC Quarterly Report. IXI/Europanet X.29 access pro-
vided through NIKHEF has, as announced, been removed in this
quarter. A graph showing the TOP 25 accesses can be found
in Appendix G.
General Service Usage Statistics
Statistics for the use of the various NCC information ser-
vices were collected for the last quarter of 1993. The
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table below shows the total number of connections made for
each service from July 1992 (Whois, IIS, Wais, Ftp and
Gopher) contacted either directly from a user client or from
the NCC Interactive Information Service. The breakdown is
given as total number of connections per month:
As expected, due to the holiday season, the statistics for
December show a lower number of connections than previous
months. In November, the number of whois queries has
reached a maximum of almost 70,000 queries, an average of
3500 queries per working day, or one query every 25 seconds.
Counting weekends as well, this amounts to 2333 queries a
day, or one query every 38 seconds.
A breakdown per service since the start of these services in
July 1992 is shown below in two tables:
Service 1992 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1993 Jan Feb
Whois 7909 7845 8044 12373 9769 19255 24299 26027
IIS 669 591 628 1027 1018 1148 1662 1924
Wais 1040 682 816 2552 2460 2240 2316 3359
FTP 849 645 625 1173 1344 1757 1443 1816
Gopher 371 337 340 1115 1318 1156 1310 1882
Service 1993 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Whois 28961 32660 35215 30721 31655 31150 45410 48687 69383 59353
IIS 2040 1785 2326 2313 1978 1311 1236 2370 2475 2412
Wais 4375 3764 3564 3994 4162 3996 2776 2402 2351 1788
FTP 2067 1735 2038 1891 2693 2610 2521 3845 3578 3562
Gopher 2394 2345 2439 2559 2563 2120 2178 3522 3911 3397
The number of connections to the various servers at the NCC
broken down by the source of the request is shown in the
table below.
Domain Whois IIS Wais FTP Total Domain
IIS 0 0 3296 0 7005 IIS
IXI 0 569 0 0 578 IXI
LOCAL 31532 78 53 177 1035 LOCAL
NCC-X25 0 41 0 0 52 NCC-X25
PSPDN 0 1 0 0 2 PSPDN
UNKNOWN 2070 337 94 228 1180 UNKNOWN
at 1715 65 62 38 428 at
au 18 6 24 6 51 au
be 879 18 0 43 268 be
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br 2 2 0 7 10 br
bg 30 0 0 0 0 bg
ca 424 36 9 45 140 ca
ch 6382 45 15 216 950 ch
cl 2 0 1 0 7 cl
com 519 32 444 380 912 com
cs 9 54 0 20 155 cs
cz 1133 0 0 0 0 cz
de 12523 65 7 257 1090 de
dk 645 4 10 21 124 dk
edu 10975 162 501 432 6624 edu
ee 84 3 0 0 3 ee
eg 17 0 0 0 0 eg
es 413 4 1 12 49 es
fi 4971 11 14 111 278 fi
fr 13723 104 15 86 1058 fr
gov 326 6 16 14 67 gov
gr 382 3 0 55 124 gr
hk 15 0 0 1 1 hk
hr 2 0 0 0 0 hr
hu 235 33 0 13 173 hu
ie 981 33 0 26 252 ie
il 11 13 0 10 31 il
in 0 2 0 1 3 in
int 2 0 0 0 0 int
is 154 0 6 3 49 is
it 20470 38 1 107 493 it
jp 75 1 10 1 20 jp
kr 4 4 0 0 5 kr
lu 264 27 0 5 46 lu
mil 30 41 6 23 90 mil
mx 7 0 0 1 1 mx
my 1 0 0 0 0 my
net 8466 25 32 172 1528 net
nl 9264 138 28 254 1883 nl
no 5476 4 0 8 1955 no
nz 9 0 0 0 1 nz
org 1829 8 5 16 2211 org
pl 188 17 0 36 108 pl
pt 399 10 11 25 253 pt
se 718 29 3 22 814 se
sg 2 0 2 0 11 sg
si 143 0 0 0 0 si
sk 445 0 0 0 0 sk
su 305 3 0 0 3 su
tr 63 0 0 0 0 tr
tw 2 4 0 5 13 tw
ua 34 0 0 0 0 ua
uk 2384 83 124 43 694 uk
us 36540 1 2 1 8663 us
yu 0 15 0 8 33 yu
ve 1 0 0 0 0 ve
za 118 0 0 1 1 za
Total 177423 2175 4792 2930 187320
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3.5. Staff
RARE has signed a contract with Geert Jan de Groot who will
join the NCC team to work on NCC core activities on January
3rd 1994. Mr. de Groot replaces Marten Terpstra who will
join Tony Bates working on the PRIDE project at that time.
Although this means no direct increase in NCC core staff the
whole team will benefit from the added expertise brought in
this way.
The NCC is working to make arrangements to allow 3-6 month
stays of people from local registries and the European
Internet community in general. The intention is that the
people involved work on a well defined project as well as
general NCC tasks and get a good idea of what it takes to
run a local Internet registry and how the Internet works in
general.While aimed at central and eastern European coun-
tries in particular it is an opportunity for anyone
interested We will usually not be able to provide more than
a desk, workstation and a very small expense allowance.
3.6. Publications
Journals/Newsletters
Articles about and relating to the RIPE NCC were published
in the following:
o UNIXWORLD, vol X, no.12, December 1993
o Internet Society News, vol. 2, no.3, Autumn 1993
o ConneXions, vol.7, no. 11, November 1993
RIPE NCC Information Leaflets
As previously reported, the RIPE NCC has produced a series
of information leaflets which comprise the following. These
have recently been thoroughly revised and will be available
from early February 1994.
o Interactive Information Server
o Network Management Database
o Delegated Internet Registry
You can obtain copies of these leaflets by sending email to
ncc@ripe.net stating how many copies you would like to
receive.
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3.7. Presentations
Over the reporting period the following external presenta-
tions were delivered by the RIPE NCC:
o Third Latin-American and Caribbean Networking Conference
"Organizational Overview of European Networking and the RIPE NCC"
- Marten Terpstra
o Third Latin-American and Caribbean Networking Conference
"Internet Routing Protocols" - Tony Bates
o ACOnet Eastern and Central European Network Seminar
"RIPE NCC" and "Resource Discovery Tools at the RIPE NCC"
- Daniel Karrenberg
o INTEROP Europe October 1993
"RIPE NCC and the European Routing Registry"
- Daniel Karrenberg and Tony Bates (session chair)
o IETF Houston
Various small presentations
- Tony Bates and Marten Terpstra
Again the RIPE NCC encourages organisations who feel they
would benefit from a presentation by the RIPE NCC to contact
them.
4. Joint Projects
4.1. PRIDE
The PRIDE project was presented at the September RIPE meet-
ing. For the first three months only one of the two
engineer positions has been filled. However, the second
engineer is expected to join the project in January 1994.
We expect to finish the project within 12 months as planned
by assigning additional resources to it later on.
The first deliverable of the PRIDE project, a release of the
first two PRIDE tools, was released in week 50 following a
beta pre-release. This consists of the following routing
registry (RR) tools.
"prtraceroute"
A version of the existing traceroute tool which will be able
to display whether a route in use is allowed by policy and
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where deviations from policy occur.
"prcheck"
A tool to check the syntax of AS objects and the consistency
of routing policies stored in the routing registry. This
tool will flag if two neighbouring network operators specify
conflicting or inconsistent routing information exchanges
with each other and also detect global inconsistencies where
possible. This way operators can check their AS objects
before actually registering them in the RR.
The feedback and use of the tools has been extremely good
from the RIPE community and a discussion list "pride-
list@ripe.net" has been set up to discuss PRIDE related
issues.
For the coming quarter you can expect to see additional
enhancements and support to the PRIDE tools release. The
next major milestone from the PRIDE project will be the
first PRIDE Guide and PRIDE Course. In conjunction with
this there will be a revision of the current routing policy
representation document, RIPE-81.
The PRIDE team continues to work closely with the RIPE NCC
team.
4.2. Routing Registry
By examining routing tables within Europe we observe some
121 European AS'es in use. The breakdown of their registra-
tion status in the RIPE Database (the current Routing Regis-
try) is shown below (graphics not included).
Breakdown of known European AS (Total: 121)
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Not in RR but known (15.3%)
In RR without RIPE-081 policy (11.9%)
In RR with RIPE-081 policy (72.9%)
We have seen a good increase (up 18%) in the amount of rout-
ing policy information registered in this quarter. However,
it is vital that all European routing policies are docu-
mented in the routing registry and kept up to date.
A "pilot" is also in progress to register non-european
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routing policy information in the routing registry. This
can be seen by using the "-a" flag with the RIPE whois
server. The RIPE NCC and the PRIDE project wishes to thank
ALTERnet for its collaboration in this pilot to date. Other
non-european service providers are also encouraged to regis-
ter their routing policy information.
4.3. Acknowledgements
The RIPE NCC wishes to thank the RARE Secretariat for their
excellent support throughout this quarter.
We wish also to thank the local registries for their excel-
lent work, especially with regard to the allocation of IP
numbers.
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Appendix A
Meetings Attended
The following meetings were attended by NCC staff during
this quarter.
Date Name & Location Attendee(s)
18-21 Oct 3rd Latin-American & Caribbean Marten Terpstra
Networking Conference Tony Bates
Caracas, Venezuela
25-29 Oct INTEROP, Paris Marten Terpstra
France Tony Bates
Daniel Karrenberg
1-5 Nov IETF, Houston Marten Terpstra
Texas, US Tony Bates
23 Nov ACOnet seminar Daniel Karrenberg
Vienna, Austria
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5. Appendix B
5.1. Class B Network Number Allocations to Date
The table below summarises all assignments of class B net-
work numbers made through the RIPE NCC to date. The "Via"
column indicates through which registry the NCC received the
request and solicited the necessary justification.
Network Number Via
129.178 free
130.193 free
138.117 free
155.73 free
141.92 RIPE NCC
141.93 RIPE NCC
141.94 JANET
141.95 JANET
141.96 RIPE NCC
141.97 JANET
141.98 SWITCH
145.224 JANET
145.225 DE-NIC
145.226 RIPE NCC
145.227 JANET
145.228 DE-NIC
145.229 JANET
145.230 DE-NIC
145.231 INRIA
145.232 SWITCH
145.233 JANET
145.234 CH-NIC
145.235 SE-NIC
145.236 HU-NIC
145.237 PL-NIC
145.238 InterNIC
145.239 PIPEX
145.240 ICNET
145.241 EUnet-AT
145.242 RIPE NCC
145.243 DE-NIC
145.244 RIPE NCC
145.245 EUnet-CH
145.246 RIPE NCC
145.247 DATANET
145.248 RIPE NCC
145.249 RU-NIC
145.250 SWITCH
145.251 SE-NIC
145.252 CH-NIC
145.253-145.254 DE-NIC
160.44-160.52 DE-NIC
160.53 SWITCH
160.54-160.58 DE-NIC
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160.59 SWITCH
160.60 DE-NIC
160.61-160.62 CH NIC
160.63 SWITCH
160.219 EUnet/CH
160.220 RIPE NCC
163.156-163.157 RIPE NCC
163.158 CH-NIC
163.159-163.160 RIPE NCC
163.161 SWITCH
163.162 GARR
163.163-163.165 RIPE NCC
163.166 ICNET
163.167 JANET
163.168-163.175 RIPE NCC
164.1 RIPE NCC
164.2 RIPE NCC
164.3 EUnet/AT
164.4 SE-NIC
164.5 RIPE NCC
164.6 PIPEX
164.7 RIPE NCC
164.8 ARNES
164.9 SE-NIC
164.10 SE-NIC
164.11 JANET
164.12 RIPE NCC
164.13 Telecom Finland
164.14 RIPE NCC
164.15 RIPE NCC
164.16-164.34 DE-NIC
164.35 RIPE NCC
164.36 RIPE NCC
164.37 SE-NIC
164.38 PIPEX
164.39 HP
164.40 RIPE NCC
164.61 free
164.128 DATRAC
164.129 RIPE NCC
164.130 RIPE NCC
164.131 RIPE NCC
164.132 GARR
164.133 DE-NIC
164.134 UK-NIC
164.135 SE-NIC
164.136 PIPEX
164.137 PIPEX
164.138 RIPE NCC
164.139 RIPE NCC
164.140 Unisource
164.141 Telecom Finland
164.142-164.143 free
171.16-171.31 free
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6. Appendix C
6.1. Class C Block Allocations to Date
The table below summarises the delegation status of the
class C network number blocks allocated through the NCC and
the number of networks allocated from these blocks. The
"p/n" column indicates whether the block in question is
delegated to the local registry of a service provider or is
used to allocate numbers to organisations without a service
provider.
It should be noted that blocks are reserved based on usage
estimates given by the local registries for a period of
about 24 months. Should the assignment rate differ from the
estimated one, reserved blocks can and will be used for
other purposes if necessary. In cases where it appears that
a block has been assigned to a registry and the registry
does not know, please contact the NCC before allocating from
these blocks. Also in other cases of confusion, please con-
tact the RIPE NCC.
Block P/N Networks Country Registry
Assigned
192.162 N 26 EU Various assignments
192.164 P 238 AT EUnet/AT
192.165 P 208 EU NORDUnet
192.166 N 211 DE DE-NIC
192.167 P 235 IT GARR NIS
192.168 resvd EU RIPE NCC
193.0 N 151 EU Various purposes
193.1 P 26 IE HEAnet
193.2 P 43 SI ARNES
193.3 N 164 DK DK non-provider
193.4 N 104 IS Iceland
193.5 P 211 CH SWITCH
193.6 N 168 HU Hungary general
193.7 N 63 DE German Chambers of Commerce
193.8 N 149 CH CH non-provider
193.9 N 216 EU Pan European Organisations
193.10 P 33 SE SUNET
193.11 P resvd SE SUNET
193.12 P 155 SE SWIPNET
193.13-15 P resvd SE SWIPNET
193.16 N 181 DE DE non-provider
193.17 N 95 DE DE non-provider
193.18 N 254 DE DE non-provider
193.19 N 31 DE DE non-provider
193.20 N 256 DE DE non-provider
193.21 N 256 DE DE non-provider
193.22 N 186 DE DE non-provider
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193.23 N 198 DE DE non-provider
193.24 N 164 DE DE non-provider
193.25 N 164 DE DE non-provider
193.26 N 200 DE DE non-provider
193.27 N 136 DE DE non-provider
193.28 N 159 DE DE non-provider
193.29 N 219 DE DE non-provider
193.30 N 194 DE DE non-provider
193.31 N 252 DE DE non-provider
193.32 N 252 UK UK non-provider
193.33 N 0 UK UK
193.34 N 0 UK UK
193.35 N 254 UK UK non-provider
193.36 N 252 UK UK non-provider
193.37 N 256 UK UK non-provider
193.38 N 256 UK UK non-provider
193.39 N 238 UK UK non-provider
193.40 N 56 EE Estonia general
193.41 N resvd EE Estonia general
193.42 N 129 IT IT non-provider
193.43 N resvd IT IT non-provider
193.44 P 50 SE TIPnet
193.45 P resvd SE TIPnet
193.46 N 187 AT AT non-provider
193.47 N 143 CH CH non-provider
193.48 P 197 FR RENATER
193.49 P 124 FR RENATER
193.50 P 179 FR RENATER
193.51 P 116 FR RENATER
193.52 P 183 FR RENATER
193.53 N 151 BE BE non-provider
193.54 P 130 FR RENATER
193.55 P 154 FR RENATER
193.56 N 170 FR FR non-provider
193.57 N 147 FR FR non-provider
193.58 N 94 BE BE non-provider
193.59 N 97 PL PL general
193.60 P 210 UK JANET
193.61 P 240 UK JANET
193.62 P 116 UK JANET
193.63 P 219 UK JANET
193.64 P 112 FI EUnet/FI
193.65 P 63 FI EUnet/FI
193.66-67 P resvd FI EUnet/FI
193.68 P 20 BG EUnet/BG
193.69 P resvd IS EUnet/IS
193.70 P resvd IT EUnet/IT
193.71 P 111 NO EUnet/IT
193.72 P 124 CH EUnet/CH
193.73 P 5 CH EUnet/CH
193.74 P 68 BE EUnet/BE
193.75 P resvd BE EUnet/BE
193.76 P 0 HR EUnet/HR
193.77 P 27 SI EUnet/SI
193.78 P 107 NL EUnet/NL
193.79 P 106 NL EUnet/NL
193.80 P 171 AT EUnet/AT
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193.81-83 P resvd AT EUnet/AT
193.84 P 216 CS EUnet/CS
193.85 P 179 CZ EUnet/CZ
193.86 P resvd EUnet/CZ or EUnet/SK
193.87 P 62 SK EUnet/SK and SANET
193.88 P 130 DK EUnet/DK
193.89 P 58 DK EUnet/DK
193.90 P resvd NO EUnet/NO
193.91 P 1 PL EUnet/PL
193.92 P 50 GR EUnet/GR
193.93 P 17 LU EUnet/LU
193.94 P 7 TN EUnet/TN
193.95 P resvd TN EUnet/TN
193.96 P 157 DE EUnet/DE
193.97 P 127 DE EUnet/DE
193.98 P 170 DE EUnet/DE
193.99 P 121 DE EUnet/DE
193.100 P 177 DE EUnet/DE
193.101-104 P resvd DE EUnet/DE
193.104 P 90 FR EUnet/FR
193.105 P 108 FR EUnet/FR
193.106 P 99 FR EUnet/FR
193.107-111 P resvd FR EUnet/FR
193.112 P 155 GB EUnet/GB
193.113 P 68 GB EUnet/GB
193.114 P 206 GB EUnet/GB
193.115 P 132 GB EUnet/GB
193.116 P 157 GB EUnet/GB
193.117 P 71 GB EUnet/GB
193.118-119 P resvd GB EUnet/GB
193.120 P 52 IE EUnet/IE
193.121-123 P resvd IE EUnet/IE
193.124 P 231 RU EUnet/RU+xSU
193.125 P 67 RU EUnet/RU+xSU
193.126 P 98 PT EUnet/PT
193.127 P 15 ES EUnet/ES
193.128 P 219 GB PIPEX
193.129 P 238 GB PIPEX
193.130 P 43 GB PIPEX
193.131-133 P resvd GB PIPEX
193.134 P 100 CH SWITCH
193.135 P resvd CH SWITCH
193.136 P 104 PT RCCN
193.137 P resvd PT RCCN
193.138 N 5 SI SI general
193.139 P 254 FR La Francaise des Jeux
193.140 N 123 TR TR general
193.141 P 119 DE XLINK
193.142 N 83 FI FI non-provider
193.143 N 37 FI FI non-provider
193.144 P 208 ES RedIRIS
193.145 P 48 ES RedIRIS
193.146-147 P resvd ES RedIRIS
193.148 N 211 ES ES non-provider
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193.149-153 N resvd ES ES non-provider
193.154 P 0 EU GEC Marconi Group
193.155 P resvd EU GEC Marconi Group
193.156 P 91 NO UNINETT
193.157 P 87 NO UNINETT
193.158-159 P resvd NO UNINETT
193.160 N 152 NO NO non-provider
193.161 N 80 NO NO non-provider
193.162 N 66 DK DK non-provider
193.163 N resvd DK DK non-provider
193.164 N 3 PL PL non-provider
193.165 N resvd PL PL non-provider
193.166 P 40 FI FUNET
193.167 P resvd FI FUNET
193.168 N 49 LU LU non-provider
193.169 P 0 GB AT&T Istel
193.170 P 109 AT ACOnet
193.171 P resvd AT ACOnet
193.172 P 52 EU EMPB/EuropaNET
193.173 P resvd EU EMPB/EuropaNET
193.174 P 227 DE DFN
193.175 P 0 DE DFN
193.176 N 252 NL NL non-provider
193.177 N 155 NL NL non-provider
193.178 N 75 IE IE non-provider
193.179 N resvd IE IE non-provider
193.180 N 237 SE SE non-provider
193.181 N 244 SE SE non-provider
193.182 N 239 SE SE non-provider
193.183 N 255 SE SE non-provider
193.184 P 207 FI Helsinki Telephone Company
193.185 P 0 FI Helsinki Telephone Company
193.186 N 253 AT AT non-provider
193.187 N 254 AT AT non-provider
193.188 N 48 Middle East
193.189 N 64 NG Nigeria general
193.190 P 102 BE BELNET
193.191 P resvd BE BELNET
193.192 N 11 PT PT non-provider
193.193 N resvd PT PT non-provider
193.194 N 3 MA MA general
193.195 P 119 GB DEMON
193.196 P 208 DE BelWue
193.197 P 4 DE BelWue
193.198 N 28 HR HR non-provider
193.199 N 64 FI National Board of Education
193.200 N 0 BG BG non-provider
193.201 N resvd BG BG non-provider
193.202 N 206 EU Pan European
193.203 N 1 YU YU-SPL
193.204 P 126 IT GARR
193.205-207 P resvd IT GARR
193.208 P 241 FI DATANET
193.209 P 146 FI DATANET
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193.210 P 0 FI DATANET
193.211 P resvd FI DATANET
193.212 P 88 NO TELEPOST
193.213-215 P resvd NO TELEPOST
193.216 P 30 NO DAXnet
193.217 P resvd NO DAXnet
193.218 N 7 GR GR non-provider
193.219 N 26 LT LT non-provider
193.220 N 0 LT LT non-provider
193.221 N 224 EU Pan European
193.222 N 172 CH CH non-provider
193.223 N 186 CH CH non-provider
193.224 N 38 HU HU general
193.225 N resvd HU HU general
193.226 N 23 RO RO general
193.227 N 31 EG EG general
193.228 P 0 GB CNS
193.229-231 P resvd GB CNS
193.232 N 91 RU RU+xSU non-provider
193.233 N 13 RU RU+xSU non-provider
193.234 N 253 SE SE non-provider
193.235 N 221 SE SE non-provider
193.236 N 39 PT PT non-provider
193.237-239 N resvd PT PT non-provider
193.240 P 0 GB RACAL
193.241 N resvd SE SE Defense
193.242 N 191 EU Pan European
193.243 P 161 GB ENERGIS
193.244 P 256 EU Kredietbank
193.245 P 256 EU Kredietbank
193.246-247 P resvd EU Kredietbank
193.248 P 255 FR France Telecom Internal
193.249 P 255 FR France Telecom Internal
193.250 P 255 FR France Telecom Internal
193.251 P 255 FR France Telecom Internal
193.252 P 255 FR France Telecom Internal
193.253 P 255 FR France Telecom Internal
193.254 N 3 AL AL general
194.0 N reNsCvCdPrivate Use
194.1 N 0 LV LV General
194.2 P 43 FR Oleane
194.3 P resvd FR Oleane
194.4 N 54 FR FR non-provider
194.5 N resvd FR FR non-provider
194.6 P resvd UK Mercury Communications
194.7 P 8 BE INnet
194.8 N 8 LV managed by NCC temp
194.9 P 0 UK Fastnet Communications
194.10 P 0 EU IBM IP network
194.11 N 36 CH CH Non-provider block
193.12 N 155 EU Pan European
193.13 N 0 NL NL non-provider
193.14 N 0 SE SE non provider
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194.15 N 68 DE DE non provider
194.16 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.17 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.18 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.19 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.20 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.21 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.22 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.23 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.24-31 P resvd EU UniSource Business Networks
194.32 N 188 UK UK non-provider
194.33 N 110 UK UK non-provider
194.34 N 0 UK UK non-provider
194.35 N 0 UK UK non-provider
194.36 P 7 UK UK HEP community
194.37 N 0 AT AT non provider
194.38 N 64 SE SE non provider
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7. Appendix D
7.1. Note on Statistics
The arrangement of categories including country codes in
some statistical tables and figures have been standardised
to make the data more easily comparable between different
tables and editions of these reports. As a consequence some
categories appear with no data and/or seemingly nonsensical
combinations.
7.2. Domain Table
The domain table usually found in Appendix D has been
removed to avoid unneccessary duplication of information. A
complete list of the country codes can be found in the ISO-
3166 list which is available as:
ftp.ripe.net:ripe/docs/iso3166-codes
The other domains are explained as shown in the table below:
Domain Specifying
IXI EuropaNet (formerly IXI)
IIS the Interactive Information Server
LOCAL the NCC itself using IP
NCC-X25 the NCC itself using X.25
PSPDN the Public Data Network
UNKNOWN no mapping between IP address and domain name could be found
com commercial organisations (mainly in the US)
edu educational organisations (mainly in the US)
gov US government organisations
mil US military organisations
net network providers and related organisations
org organisations (mainly in the US)
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