RIPE NCC Network Coordination Center

The RIPE NCC Network Coordination Center was established in 1992 as an independent non-profit organization providing support for Internet infrastructure. The office is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The mission of RIPE NCC is to serve the Regional Internet Registry (RIR), provide global Internet resources and related services to more than 7,000 of its corporate members - organizations from 75 countries.

The association includes local Internet registrars (LIR), which, as a rule, are Internetoperators, hosting service providers and large corporations in Europe, the Middle East and certain regions of Central Asia. Members of the association fund its activities through annual contributions. RIPE NCC operates under rules established by the RIPE Public Thematic Forum, which takes place twice a year.

As of June 2021, there are only five regional Internet registrars in the world.

• RIPE NCC is responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.
• North America controls ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers),
• Asia and Pacific - APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information),
• LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Network Information Centre) operates in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
• The fifth registrar is the AfriNIC (African Network Information Centre) for countries in Africa and the Indian Ocean region.

Being one of the 5 regional Internet registries, RIPE NCC performs a number of functions, including:

• Reliable and stable distribution of Internet address resources (addresses and IPv4 IPv6 numbers of Autonomous Systems)
• Administering the Internet Address Resource Registry
• Providing open access to registration information
• Managing the K-root server (one of 13 root zone servers) DNS
• Other technical and coordination services for the Internet community, network operators and service providers.

History

2023: Resumption of IP address issuance to sanctioned Russian companies

The international Internet registrar RIPE NCC has resumed issuing new IP addresses to Russian participants who have come under sanctions. The organization reported this in mid-June 2023.

As RBC writes with reference to a letter published on the RIPE NCC website, the registrar in his database will delete the note "sanctions" for some Russian companies, and will also begin to accept new applications for connection and conclude sponsorship agreements with users who fit the specified exceptions.

RIPE NCC International Internet Registrar resumes issuing new IP addresses to sanctioned Russian participants

At the same time, the restrictions will continue to apply for some companies. In particular, due to the fact that they are not limited to telecommunication services. In order to decide which category the organization belongs to, RIPE NCC intends to contact each company for a separate clarification.

In an interview with the publication, RIPE NCC Director of External Relations Maxim Burtikov explained that the registrar will resume full service to participants against whom investigations into the applicability of sanctions continue, but they will not revise the closure of the investigation. What companies are in question, he did not specify.

The head of the Coordination Center for Domains.ru and.rfAndrei Vorobyov, in a conversation with RBC, found it difficult to say which companies will be affected by the new interpretation of sanctions restrictions, "since there is no list of them in the public space and RIPE NCC works with each such organization on an individual basis." At the same time, Vorobyov called the difficulties with payments to the international organization the main "cornerstone," explaining that "it is not clear how they will be organized taking into account banking sanctions restrictions."

RIPE NCC is one of five global regional internet registrars headquartered in the Netherlands. The organization serves 76 countries, in Russia it has more than 1.5 thousand participants (by June 2023).^[1]

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