RIPE NCC Annual Report 1993
Daniel Karrenberg
RIPE NCC Manager
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all Internet service
providers in Europe. The NCC is funded by the European Internet
service providers. RARE provides the formal framework for the NCC.
The main activities center around European Internet coordination.
The following graph shows the number of individual European Internet
hosts registered in the domain name system for 1992 and 1993. The
European Internet roughly doubles in size every year.
RIPE NCC Hostcount 1992-1993
600000++---------------------------------------------------+
| |
550000++ oA |
| oA |
500000++ oA |
| oA |
450000++ oA |
| oA |
400000++ oAo |
| oA |
350000++ AoA |
| o |
| oAoA |
300000++ oA |
| oA |
250000++ oAoA |
| oAoA |
200000++ oAo |
| oAoAoAoA |
150000++ A |
| |
100000++-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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The most visible activity of the NCC is the regional Internet
registry whose task is the assignment of Internet network layer
address space to European enterprises. For this purpose a
distributed system has been set up. 83 local registries operated by
Internet service providers assign address space locally. The NCC as
regional registry delegates address space to the local registries,
supports them and ensures that address space assignment occurs in a
fair and regular manner. The NCC also deals with requests for large
amounts of address space and requests from enterprises for which no
appropriate local registry exists. The European Internet registries
have assigned 16871 network numbers during 1993.
The RIPE NCC maintains the RIPE network management database
containing information about IP networks, DNS domains, Routing
Policies and the appropriate contact persons. The number of entries
in this database is shown in the graph below. It has been
increasing faster since the European Internet registry system has
become fully operational in September 1992.
Entries in the RIPE Database 1992-1993
50000++-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
45000++ A |
| oo |
| oo |
40000++ oo |
| oA |
35000++ oo |
| oo |
30000++ oAo |
| oo |
| oo |
25000++ oAo |
| oo |
20000++ oo |
| Ao |
15000++ oo |
| oo |
| oo |
10000++ oooA |
| oooAooooooAooo |
5000++-----Aooo---+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+-----+
Jan-92 Apr-92 Jun-92 Sep-92 Dec-92 Mar-93 Jun-93 Sep-93 Dec-93
During 1993 the NCC has totally re-designed and re-implemented the
update process for the database. This is now fully automatic for
almost all updates. During 1993 a total of 157004 updates has been
processed.
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The NCC also maintains the RIPE document store which stores all RIPE
documents and a host of related information. It is accessible by
the classical Internet services, common resource discovery tools and
from the public X.25 networks.
During 1993 the NCC has been operating well within its budget. The
unexpectedly low expenditure on travel is due to major meetings
being held in Amsterdam (IETF, RIPE meetings).
1993 NCC Expenditure (in kECU)
Budget Actual
Staff 140 133
Computing Equipment 20 15
Travel 25 9
Rent, Services 29 22
Recruitment 2 2
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Total 216 181
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The NCC staffing level has been constant since the start of
operations in April 1992. Due to the increased workload caused by
the growth of the European Internet more staff will be needed in
1994.
During 1993 the three special projects have been carried out at the
NCC under the RARE technical program. The "European Route Server"
and "Generic Internet Service Description" projects have been
concluded successfully resulting in among other things a European
route server deployed at the GIX. The PRIDE (Policy-Based Routing
Implementation and Deployment in Europe) project has started and
resulted in a well populated European routing registry as well as a
first set of tools to use the information in that registry. PRIDE
continues in 1994. All special projects are funded by interested
parties separately from the NCC core services.
For a detailed description of NCC activities see the NCC activity
plan produced by RIPE and the Quarterly Reports published by the
NCC. These and other related documents are available from the RIPE
document store or directly from the NCC at <ncc@ripe.net> or +31 20
592 5065.
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