QUARTERLY REPORT
Issue 8 March 1994
Document-ID: ripe-116
1. Introduction
RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) is a collaborative organisation
open to all European Internet service providers. The objec-
tive of RIPE is to enable the necessary administrative and
technical coordination to allow the operation of a panEuro-
pean 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 organisa- tion 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-110.txt) and
are funded by European Internet Service Providers. The
development projects are defined within RIPE and funded
separately by interested organisations. Currently all
development projects are run under the auspices of the RARE
Technical Programme.
This is the eighth quarterly report produced by the RIPE NCC
and covers the core activities during the period January to
March 1994. Brief reports on the status of the Joint Pro-
jects are also included with pointers to the relevant
reports. Once again there has been a conscious effort to
avoid duplication of information by including references to
previous reports.
Apologies
Due to critical staff shortages at the RIPE NCC, this quar-
terly report has been published significantly behind
schedule. Please accept our sincere apologies for this
delay.
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2. Management Summary
Staff Shortage
Since the start of NCC operations two years ago the size of
the European Internet has quadrupled by number of hosts.
Other indicators for NCC workload have increased by an order
of magnitude. At the same time staff resources for the core
services have remained essentially constant.
During the reporting period the staff shortage has lead to
backlogs of registry requests, causing the typical response
time to increase beyond the one working day target. The
additional staff resources forseen in the 1994 budget need
to be hired quickly to relieve this situation.
It is expected that by autumn one additional technical staff
will be needed to keep service levels where they should be.
This was not anticipated in the current 1994 budget and will
have to be financed from unbudgeted income. This income
should be available as the number of service providers
increases faster than expected.
Should additional staff resources not become available, NCC
core activities will have to be curtailed.
Activities
Despite this critical problem the NCC continues to function
well, with the most important activities being performed
satisfactorily. However documentation and enhancement
efforts are currently progressing very slowly or in some
cases not at all.
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3. RIPE NCC Core Services
3.1. DNS Coordination
DNS Hostcount
The March 1994 hostcount shows a total of 655,164 hosts in
Europe. During the reporting period 101,807 were added,
which represents an increase of 18.4%.
Nothing has changed to the hostcount procedure as previously
reported.
Hostcount History
Below is a table showing the totals of the RIPE DNS
hostcount from October 1990 up till March 1994. 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://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
Jun 196758
Jul 213017
Aug 221951
Sep 232522
Oct 254585
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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
1994
Jan 587135
Feb 623158
Mar 655164
3.2. Internet Registry
The Hostcount increase for this quarter represents 18.4%
growth of the European Internet. In the two years, since
the RIPE NCC started to act as a Regional Registry, the the
European Internet has quadrupled in size. The NCC has set
up a sizeable system of local registries during this time.
Local IR's
At the end of the reporting period, there were a total of 93
delegated Local Registries. This is an increase of 10 local
registries since the last quarterly report. Twenty nine (24
in the previous quarter) are of the "Last Resort" type who
provide a registry service to organisations not yet served
by a service provider or do not wish to connect to the
Internet. New "Last Resort" registries exist for the
Ukraine, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, and there has been a
transfer of the DE-NIC to the University of Karlsruhe. The
DE-NIC is now funded by a consortium of German service pro-
viders. Three "Provider" type registries have been added:
one in Belgium, one in the UK and one in Cyprus.
New List of European Local Registries
There is now an updated version of the list of European
Local Registries. It is also planned to keep an ftp "regis-
tries" directory where individual files for each local
registry will be available by ftp.
The new list contains references to "Enterprise Local Regis-
tries". This new classification of registry is intended to
describe large enterprises that wish to coordinate the
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address space usage of their enterprise internally. Anyone
from within the enterprise concerned who makes an applica-
tion for address space should direct the request to the
Enterprise Local Registry. As with the handling of all IP
requests, the RIPE NCC will, where appropriate, forward
applications to the relevant registry. Any enterprise wish-
ing to make such an arrangement is invited to contact the
RIPE NCC for more details.
The new list of local registries is available from RIPE
document store via:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-111.txt
Once again, thanks to all those running local registries for
their time and effort. It is greatly appreciated by all the
RIPE NCC staff.
NCC Workload and Performance
Following from the figures above, the resulting workload for
this area of the Core Services of the RIPE NCC has been
steadily increasing since the beginning of RIPE NCC Regional
Registry operations. While much of the work is performed by
local registries the NCC needs to coordinate and support
them. Requests for larger amount of address space have to
be reviewed and processed by the NCC in order to ensure fair
and consistent application of the allocation criteria.
All registry transactions are handled by a designated staff
member called the "hostmaster". NCC core staff perform this
duty on the basis of a bi-weekly roster. The number of mes-
sages received by the NCC "hostmaster" role mailbox is a
good measure of the workload incurred by the registry. Dur-
ing the reporting period we received 1342, which is an aver-
age of more than 20 per working day. This is more than four
times the number of messages received one year ago.
Consequently internal procedures at the RIPE NCC for han-
dling the "hostmaster" role were reorganised. Part of this
reorganisation involved prioritising the incoming mail. As
before, every message will be answered as quickly as possi-
ble, but requests from local registries are now answered
with the highest priority. Also a number of additional
tools has been deployed to streamline the administrative
processes: FAX traffic is now fully integrated into the E-
mail system, all E-mail messages are retrieveable via full-
text search and a standard text tool helps answering recur-
ring queries.
Despite these measures typical response times for registry
transactions have increased beyond one working day for the
first time since the NCC started registry operations. We
are building noticable backlogs during peak periods now.
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RFC on Address Allocation for Private Internets
RFC1597.txt has recently been approved. This RFC describes
the use of private address space for those parts of enter-
prise networks that do not have to communicate outside the
enterprise at the network layer. It is hoped that the pub-
lication of this RFC will encourage a wider audience to use
private address space when planning their future networks.
This RFC is available from
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt
Updated Delegated IR Leaflet
The green folder "Delegated Internet Registry" has recently
been significantly updated. If you would like some copies,
please send mail to <ncc@ripe.net> stating how many copies
you would like to receive. It will shortly be available in
PostScript format in the document store.
3.3. RIPE Network Management Database
Database updates
During the reporting period the NCC processed a total of
4838 update transactions with 47796 objects. The update
procedure is running smoothly.
Database Objects Processed Q2 1993 Q3 1993 Q4 1993 Q1 1994
TOTAL 28110 58189 42767 47796
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
Dec 93 29646 13238 2339 224
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Mar 94 38220 16085 3183 315
The table above shows the number of objects in the database
for the last quarter broken down by networks, persons,
domains and autonomous systems.
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3.4. Document Store
Document Store Statistics
In total the document store contains approximately 6618
documents. By volume, it accounts for over 258 Megabytes.
Below is a table overview of the RIPE Document Store.
Area Files Kbytes
earn 16 1204
ebone 45 562
iesg 87 1119
ietf 1021 8088
internet-drafts 636 22863
internet-society 1019 22590
nsf 157 18321
rare 1275 58378
rfc 998 58272
ripe 1164 59111
tools 30 2452
current-ietf-docs 56 1877
fyi 27 121
iab 16 428
pride 26 941
cidr 30 964
Total 6618 258213
A few minor adjustments were made to the ftp directories so
that they are now more streamlined. The following direc-
tories were moved from:
o ripe/docs/ripe-docs to ripe/docs
o ripe/docs/ripe-agenda to ripe/agenda
o ripe/docs/ripe-minutes to ripe/minutes
o ripe/docs/ripe-drafts to ripe/drafts
The ripe-current directory was removed. The file:
o ripe/docs/ripe-docs/iso3166-codes
was moved to was moved to the top level. Apologies for any
(temporary) inconvenience caused.
RIPE documents
The following new documents, or updates to older documents
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were added to the document store during the reporting
period:
o ripe-107
European Internet Network Number Application Form (revision)
o ripe-108
Support of Guarded fields within the RIPE Database
o ripe-109
European Autonomous System Number Application Form &
Supporting Notes - March 94 revision
o ripe-110
RIPE NCC Activity Plan
o ripe-111
List of Local Registries
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 over 9000 Megabytes
transferred.
The total of 9 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.
Archive Section Files KBytes % of % of
Sent Sent Files Bytes
Sent Sent
ripe/dbase 9814 10818759 4.13 68.95
ripe/as 172217 786425 72.41 5.01
rfc 11598 756514 4.88 4.82
ripe/hostcount 4486 711530 1.89 4.53
ripe/docs 8951 438530 3.76 2.79
rare/working-groups 4215 417564 1.77 2.66
internet-drafts 4183 281569 1.76 1.79
ripe/Next-Meeting 697 270386 0.29 1.72
rare/coa 1014 198451 0.43 1.26
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ripe/archives 4806 156916 2.02 1.00
ripe/maps 1820 132803 0.77 0.85
earn 325 90372 0.14 0.58
rare/pub 636 62484 0.27 0.40
rare/technical-programme 907 45159 0.38 0.29
rare/rtc 588 36923 0.25 0.24
The number of Megabytes transferred using ftp per top level
domain is shown below:
Domain Name Files Bytes % of % of
Sent Sent Files Bytes
Sent Sent
at 1088 571657604 0.46 3.64
au 143 4060843 0.06 0.03
be 355 30354724 0.15 0.19
bg 1 26024 0.00 0.00
br 9 1339578 0.00 0.01
ca 122 6598700 0.05 0.04
ch 2833 772318066 1.19 4.92
cl 2 241133 0.00 0.00
cs 760 66926304 0.32 0.43
cy 37 1741096 0.02 0.01
cz 27866 727947153 11.72 4.64
de 4295 895751621 1.81 5.71
dk 6128 218625893 2.58 1.39
ec 1 310718 0.00 0.00
ee 1 26632 0.00 0.00
es 1527 240814906 0.64 1.53
fi 26028 1122486140 10.94 7.15
fr 898 93011634 0.38 0.59
gr 23 4984201 0.01 0.03
hk 47 10626350 0.02 0.07
hr 12 217508 0.01 0.00
hu 454 88405462 0.19 0.56
ie 374 39794288 0.16 0.25
il 2971 363826371 1.25 2.32
in 14 357957 0.01 0.00
is 8 963406 0.00 0.01
it 2602 1095028736 1.09 6.98
jp 10740 724459712 4.52 4.62
kr 260 6444878 0.11 0.04
kw 7 283446 0.00 0.00
lu 8 312828 0.00 0.00
lv 5 173228 0.00 0.00
nl 1656 120747533 0.70 0.77
no 1329 91853835 0.56 0.59
nz 1 235942 0.00 0.00
pl 233 17244217 0.10 0.11
pt 2392 340214630 1.01 2.17
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ro 111 3604308 0.05 0.02
se 41436 1569300431 17.42 10.00
sg 10 120866 0.00 0.00
si 237 12624480 0.10 0.08
sk 54 3085013 0.02 0.02
su 187 16309502 0.08 0.10
th 36 6886035 0.02 0.04
tn 1 3370 0.00 0.00
tr 34 1639875 0.01 0.01
tw 159 13555029 0.07 0.09
ua 30 583843 0.01 0.00
uk 2193 109328092 0.92 0.70
us 5 276734 0.00 0.00
za 39 4242853 0.02 0.03
com 706 41646030 0.30 0.27
edu 595 281199897 0.25 1.79
gov 123 12173703 0.05 0.08
int 2 1172075 0.00 0.01
mil 125 22666900 0.05 0.14
net 94599 5715662969 39.78 36.43
org 38 5003579 0.02 0.03
UNKNOWN 1881 209993647 0.79 1.34
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. A graph showing the TOP 25
accesses can be found in Appendix E. (not available in
ASCII)
General Service Usage Statistics
Statistics for the use of the various NCC information ser-
vices were collected for the first quarter of 1994. The
table below shows the total number of connections made for
each service from August 1993 (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:
The WHOIS statistics have been omitted from this table due
to their distorting effect on the whole graph. They are
however included in the table overleaf which reports the
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actual figures.
A breakdown per service since the start of these services in
March 1993 is shown below in two tables:
Service 1993 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
Whois 28961 32660 35215 30721 31655 31150 45410
IIS 2040 1785 2326 2313 1978 1311 1236
Wais 4375 3764 3564 3994 4162 3996 2776
FTP 2067 1735 2038 1891 2693 2610 2521
Gopher 2394 2345 2439 2559 2563 2120 2178
Service Oct Nov Dec 1994 Jan Feb Mar
Whois 48687 69383 59353 60765 96109 123328
IIS 2370 2475 2412 3527 4072 4108
Wais 2402 2351 1788 2134 2406 2557
FTP 3845 3578 3562 3968 4389 4871
Gopher 3522 3911 3397 4332 4877 4897
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 18730 0 3819 0 22549 IIS
LOCAL 16801 49 155 753 17758 LOCAL
NCC-X25 0 2 0 0 2 NCC-X25
PSPDN 0 7 0 0 7 PSPDN
UNKNOWN 4384 905 196 821 6306 UNKNOWN
at 1518 136 21 253 1928 at
au 34 14 34 77 159 au
be 958 88 25 93 1164 be
bg 17 0 0 1 18 bg
br 56 11 0 9 76 br
ca 390 84 36 102 612 ca
ch 74585 119 12 460 75176 ch
cl 2 1 0 3 6 cl
com 522 217 450 678 1867 com
cs 9 12 0 7 28 cs
cy 0 4 0 10 14 cy
cz 1498 182 8 263 1951 cz
de 17379 511 61 1649 19600 de
dk 893 52 2 211 1158 dk
ec 1 2 0 1 4 ec
edu 12393 540 495 768 14196 edu
ee 164 31 1 8 204 ee
eg 24 5 0 0 29 eg
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es 478 44 10 141 673 es
fi 25981 94 311 251 26637 fi
fr 11099 229 471 647 12446 fr
gov 448 39 54 123 664 gov
gr 353 30 0 30 413 gr
hk 5 0 2 103 110 hk
hr 9 311 1 13 334 hr
hu 399 114 0 101 614 hu
ie 3050 75 3 302 3430 ie
il 15 21 0 273 309 il
in 0 0 0 4 4 in
int 31 7 0 2 40 int
is 156 6 5 7 174 is
it 2530 214 175 445 3364 it
jp 63 10 22 129 224 jp
kr 0 2 0 66 68 kr
kw 0 2 0 5 7 kw
lu 426 29 47 23 525 lu
lv 7 5 0 9 21 lv
mil 48 24 8 54 134 mil
mx 4 4 1 3 12 mx
net 11914 207 60 1348 13529 net
nl 5652 458 96 555 6761 nl
no 3893 54 5 232 4184 no
nz 8 0 0 3 11 nz
org 1857 46 71 35 2009 org
pl 345 69 0 61 475 pl
pt 1203 75 8 291 1577 pt
ro 1 23 0 49 73 ro
se 1586 56 141 932 2715 se
sg 7 1 0 4 12 sg
si 529 36 0 51 616 si
sk 203 56 0 49 308 sk
su 359 53 30 65 507 su
th 0 6 0 25 31 th
tn 0 1 0 1 2 tn
tr 220 59 0 25 304 tr
tw 35 6 0 56 97 tw
ua 101 8 0 21 130 ua
uk 2750 2984 223 514 6471 uk
us 53704 7 3 8 53722 us
za 373 6 35 5 419 za
Total 280200 8443 7097 13228 308968 Total
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3.5. Staff
On January 3rd Marten Terpstra left the NCC core staff to
join Tony Bates on the PRIDE project. Physically Marten
remains at the same desk.
At the same time Geert Jan de Groot has joned the NCC core
staff as a network engineer. Geert Jan joined us from Phi-
lips Consumer Electronics division where he has supported
various development projects by providing an excellent com-
puting and communications infrastructure.
It was outlined in the previous quarterly report that the
NCC was working towards making arrangements to allow people
from local registries and the European Internet community in
general to work at the RIPE NCC for periods of between 3-6
months. The object of the traineeship is to gain some
experience in the operation of a regional registry and to
also work on a small but focused project. Following this
the NCC is pleased to welcome Geza Turchanyi who will be
working at the RIPE NCC for 6 months from mid January 1994
until mid July. Anyone else who is interested in joining
the NCC on a similar basis is invited to contact Daniel Kar-
renberg <dfk@ripe.net> for an informal discussion.
3.6. Publications
Over the reporting period the following was published:
o RFC1597.txt - Address Allocation for Private Internets
Y. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg and G. de Groot.
Further details are given about this publication earlier in
the Quarterly Report in the section on Internet Registry.
Presentations
Over the reporting period the following external presenta-
tions were delivered by the RIPE NCC:
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o Regional Techs Meeting, San Diego, USA
"Routing Registry" given by Daniel Karrenberg
o EARN, Paris France
Tutorial on "RIPE and the Internet Registry System"
given by Daniel Karrenberg
o IETF, Seattle, USA
Various presentations including
"Address Allocation for Private Internets"
Marten Terpstra and Tony Bates
Again the RIPE NCC encourages organisations who feel they
would benefit from a presentation by the RIPE NCC to contact
them.
3.7. RIPE Support Activities
RIPE Meetings
The 17th RIPE meeting was held in Amsterdam from 24 - 26th
January 1994. Once again this was a successful meeting with
approximately 85 attendees present. The following presenta-
tions were added to the presentations directory:
o ripe-m17-dfk-NCC-REPORT.ps.
o ripe-m17-marten-DB.ps.Z
o ripe-m17-tony-LIMERICK.ps.Z
o ripe-m17-tony-PRIDE.ps.Z
o ripe-m17-tony-RS.ps.Z
o ripe-m17-woeber-CEENET.ps.Z
o rep-ripe-17.ps.Z
The draft minutes from this, the 17th RIPE meeting can be
found in the minutes directory:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/minutes/ripe-m-17.{txt,ps}
The agenda from this meeting can be found in the agenda
directory:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/agenda/ripe-a-17.{txt,ps}
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4. Joint Projects
4.1. PRIDE
The PRIDE project now has reached its full complement of
staff and continued to work on tools, documentation and
population of the registry. A new tool to display all pos-
sible external routing paths between two points in the
Internet has been released for a-test. For more details see
the PRIDE progress reports:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pride/reports/pride-rep{3,4}.{ps,txt}
4.2. Routing Registry
The RIPE routing registry continues to be well populated
Breakdown of known European AS (Total: 131)
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Not in RR but known (13.1%)
In RR without RIPE-081 policy (12.3%)
In RR with RIPE-081 policy (74.6%)
A liaison has been established with routing registry efforts
sponsored by the US National Science Foundation with the aim
to establish compatible registries.
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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)
3 Mar RTC, Amsterdam, NL Daniel Karrenberg
8 Mar EARN, Paris, FR Daniel Karrenberg
27 Mar IEPG Marten Terpstra
Seattle USA Tony Bates
28 Mar - 1 Apr IETF Marten Terpstra
Seattle, USA Tony Bates
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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. Eight class
B's were assigned this quarter. The "Via" column indicates
through which registry the NCC received the request and sol-
icited 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
155.73.0.0 RIPE NCC
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160.44-160.52 DE-NIC
160.53 SWITCH
160.54-160.58 DE-NIC
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 DE
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
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164.141 Telecom Finland
164.142 IUnet
164.143 PIPEX
171.16 FR-NIC
171.17 DE-NIC
171.18 FR-NIC
171.19 HU-NIC
171.20 RIPE NCC
171.21 NLnet
171.22-171.31 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 allo- cated 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 6 EU Various assignments
192.164 P 238 AT EUnet/AT
192.165 P 211 EU NORDUnet
192.166 N 211 DE DE-NIC
192.167 P 239 IT GARR NIS
192.168 N 256 EU RIPE NCC - RFC1597
193.0 N 153 EU Various purposes
193.1 P 138 IE HEAnet
193.2 P 62 SI ARNES
193.3 P 207 DK DK non-provider
193.4 N 129 IS Iceland
193.5 P 233 CH SWITCH
193.6 N 197 HU Hungary general
193.7 N 224 DE German Chambers of Commerce
193.8 N 150 CH CH non-provider
193.9 N 236 EU Pan European Organisations
193.10 P 47 SE SUNET
193.11 P resvd SE SUNET
193.12 P 188 SE SWIPNET
193.13 P 32 SE SWIPNET
193.14-15 P resvd SE SWIPNET
193.16 N 181 DE DE non-provider
193.17 N 146 DE DE non-provider
193.18 N 255 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 188 DE DE non-provider
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193.23 N 204 DE DE non-provider
193.24 N 164 DE DE non-provider
193.25 N 163 DE DE non-provider
193.26 N 200 DE DE non-provider
193.27 N 132 DE DE non-provider
193.28 N 167 DE DE non-provider
193.29 N 219 DE DE non-provider
193.30 N 202 DE DE non-provider
193.31 N 252 DE DE non-provider
193.32 N 253 UK UK non-provider
193.33 N 0 UK UK
193.34 N 32 UK UK
193.35 N 254 UK UK non-provider
193.36 N 253 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 73 EE Estonia general
193.41 N resvd EE Estonia general
193.42 N 139 IT IT non-provider
193.43 N 0 IT IT non-provider
193.44 P 71 SE TIPnet
193.45 P resvd SE TIPnet
193.46 N 248 AT AT non-provider
193.47 N 177 CH CH non-provider
193.48 P 250 FR RENATER
193.49 P 188 FR RENATER
193.50 P 205 FR RENATER
193.51 P 169 FR RENATER
193.52 P 183 FR RENATER
193.53 N 205 BE BE non-provider
193.54 P 162 FR RENATER
193.55 P 200 FR RENATER
193.56 N 217 FR FR non-provider
193.57 N 167 FR FR non-provider
193.58 N 104 BE BE non-provider
193.59 N 164 PL PL general
193.60 P 210 UK JANET
193.61 P 240 UK JANET
193.62 P 251 UK JANET
193.63 P 215 UK JANET
193.64 P 132 FI EUnet/FI
193.65 P 63 FI EUnet/FI
193.66 P 20 FI EUnet/FI
193.67 P 52 NL EUnet/NL
193.68 P 28 BG EUnet/BG
193.69 P 59 NO EUnet/NO
193.70 P 162 IT EUnet/IT
193.71 P 121 NO EUnet/NO
193.72 P 131 CH EUnet/CH
193.73 P 137 CH EUnet/CH
193.74 P 94 BE EUnet/BE
193.75 P resvd BE EUnet/BE
193.76 P resvd HR EUnet/HR
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193.77 P 43 SI EUnet/SI
193.78 P 138 NL EUnet/NL
193.79 P 114 NL EUnet/NL
193.80 P 234 AT EUnet/AT
193.81-83 P resvd AT EUnet/AT
193.84 P 257 CS EUnet/CS
193.85 P 191 CZ EUnet/CZ
193.86 P resvd EUnet/CZ or EUnet/SK
193.87 P 138 SK EUnet/SK and SANET
193.88 P 163 DK EUnet/DK
193.89 P 70 DK EUnet/DK
193.90 P 9 NO EUnet/NO
193.91 P 1 PL EUnet/PL
193.92 P 54 GR EUnet/GR
193.93 P 19 LU EUnet/LU
193.94 P 8 TN EUnet/TN
193.95 P 3 TN EUnet/TN
193.96 P 157 DE EUnet/DE
193.97 P 205 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 P 133 DE EUnet/DE
193.102-103 P resvd DE EUnet/DE
193.104 P 136 FR EUnet/FR
193.105 P 122 FR EUnet/FR
193.106 P 101 FR EUnet/FR
193.107 P 136 FR EUnet/FR
193.108-111 P resvd FR EUnet/FRq
193.112 P 171 GB EUnet/GB
193.113 P 254 GB EUnet/GB
193.114 P 206 GB EUnet/GB
193.115 P 240 GB EUnet/GB
193.116 P 188 GB EUnet/GB
193.117 P 212 GB EUnet/GB
193.118 P 54 GB EUnet/GB
193.119 P resvd GB EUnet/GB
193.120 P 115 IE EUnet/IE
193.121-123 P resvd IE EUnet/IE
193.124 P 240 RU EUnet/RU+xSU
193.125 P 160 RU EUnet/RU+xSU
193.126 P 96 PT EUnet/PT
193.127 P 16 ES EUnet/ES
193.128 P 228 GB PIPEX
193.129 P 194 GB PIPEX
193.130 P 141 GB PIPEX
193.131-133 P resvd GB PIPEX
193.134 P 191 CH SWITCH
193.135 P resvd CH SWITCH
193.136 P 145 PT RCCN
193.137 P resvd PT RCCN
193.138 N 8 SI SI general
193.139 P 254 FR La Francaise des Jeux
193.140 N 126 TR TR general
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193.141 P 238 DE XLINK
193.142 N 105 FI FI non-provider
193.143 N 39 FI FI non-provider
193.144 P 236 ES RedIRIS
193.145 P 107 ES RedIRIS
193.146-147 P resvd ES RedIRIS
193.148 N 212 ES ES non-provider
193.149-153 N resvd ES ES non-provider
193.154 P 1 EU GEC Marconi Group
193.155 P resvd EU GEC Marconi Group
193.156 P 104 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 145 NO NO non-provider
193.162 N 91 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 56 FI FUNET
193.167 P resvd FI FUNET
193.168 N 52 LU LU non-provider
193.169 P 0 GB AT&T Istel
193.170 P 122 AT ACOnet
193.171 P resvd AT ACOnet
193.172 P 141 EU EMPB/EuropaNET
193.173 P resvd EU EMPB/EuropaNET
193.174 P 237 DE DFN
193.175 P 113 DE DFN
193.176 N 251 NL NL non-provider
193.177 N 157 NL NL non-provider
193.178 N 95 IE IE non-provider
193.179 N resvd IE IE non-provider
193.180 N 239 SE SE non-provider
193.181 N 244 SE SE non-provider
193.182 N 255 SE SE non-provider
193.183 N 255 SE SE non-provider
193.184 P 243 FI Helsinki Telephone Company
193.185 P 42 FI Helsinki Telephone Company
193.186 N 253 AT AT non-provider
193.187 N 254 AT AT non-provider
193.188 N 51 Middle East
193.189 N 64 NG Nigeria general
193.190 P 108 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 4 MA MA general
193.195 P 194 GB DEMON
193.196 P 270 DE BelWue
193.197 P 7 DE BelWue
193.198 N 43 HR HR non-provider
193.199 N 68 FI National Board of Education
193.200 N 2 BG BG non-provider
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193.201 N resvd BG BG non-provider
193.202 N 208 EU Pan European
193.203 N 4 YU YU-SPL
193.204 P 227 IT GARR
193.205 P 8 IT GARR
193.206-207 P resvd IT GARR
193.208 P 243 FI DATANET
193.209 P 153 FI DATANET
193.210 P 263 FI DATANET
193.211 P resvd FI DATANET
193.212 P 83 NO TELEPOST
193.213-215 P resvd NO TELEPOST
193.216 P 30 NO DAXnet
193.217 P resvd NO DAXnet
193.218 N 12 GR GR non-provider
193.219 N 27 LT LT non-provider
193.220 N resvd LT LT non-provider
193.221 N 231 EU Pan European
193.222 N 172 CH CH non-provider
193.223 N 191 CH CH non-provider
193.224 N 85 HU HU general
193.225 N resvd HU HU general
193.226 N 34 RO RO general
193.227 N 35 EG EG general
193.228 P 0 GB CNS
193.229-231 P resvd GB CNS
193.232 N 134 RU RU+xSU non-provider
193.233 N 31 RU RU+xSU non-provider
193.234 N 254 SE SE non-provider
193.235 N 221 SE SE non-provider
193.236 N 55 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 207 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 resNvCdC Private Use
194.1 N 0 LV LV General
194.2 P 72 FR Oleane
194.3 P resvd FR Oleane
194.4 N 211 FR FR non-provider
194.5 N resvd FR FR non-provider
194.6 P resvd UK Mercury Communications
194.7 P 10 INnet
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194.8 N 8 LV managed by NCC temp
194.9 P 0 UK Fastnet Communications
194.10 P 24 EU IBM IP network
194.11 N 193 CH CH Non-provider block
194.12 N 192 EU Pan European
194.13 N 201 NL NL non-provider
194.14 N 242 SE SE non provider
194.15 N 244 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 1 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.23 P 0 EU UniSource Business Networks
194.24-31 P resvd EU UniSource Business Networks
194.32 N 241 UK UK non-provider
194.33 N 196 UK UK non-provider
194.34 N 256 UK UK non-provider
194.35 N 50 UK UK non-provider
194.36 P 7 UK UK HEP community
194.37 N 239 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 ususally found in Appendix D has been
removed to avoid unneccessary duplication of information. A
complete list of the ountry codes can be found in the ISO-
3166 list which is available as:
ftp:://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/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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