RIPE NCC Status

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RIPE NCC Status

• RIPE NCC Staff
• presented by
• Mirjam Kühne

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Outline

• Statistics
• Services

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RIPE DNS Hostcount
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1,5 New Members/Day
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Closed LIRs

• phase1
• phase2
• phase3
• phase4
• LIRs closed for various reasons

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DB Queries Reach 5/sec
13,091,219 (5 /sec)
(2 /sec)
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10 DB Updates/min
429,884
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DB Objects Exceed 2,5 Million
2,602,809
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New hostmaster Requests
1,452
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Address Space Usage
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AS Numbers
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Services
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Activity Plan 2000 (ripe-197)

• Membership Services
• Registration Services
• Test Traffic Measurement
• Coordination Services
• New Projects
• RIS
• RR Consistency

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Registration Services

• Avg. response time 2-3 days
• Start processing IPv6 requests
• New manager Nurani Nimpuno
• Efficient Procedures
• No radical staff increase

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IPv6

• 20 queries received in total
• 10 address space requests
• 5 sub-TLAs allocated
• 3 ranges reverse delegated
• Good co-operation with RIRs and 6bone
• Smooth Start
• Few open issues (IPv6-WG)

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LIR Training Courses

• 13 courses delivered since last meeting
• 14 courses planned
• SE, DE, TR, IT, FR, RU, UK, GR, NL, SK, IE
• New course material ready soon
• http//www.ripe.net/lir/courses/nextcourses.html

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RIPE Database

• Redundancy improved
• Fully redundant server configuration
• 2nd server near real time mirroring - hot
  swap
• Several performance problems
• Software reached limit for some types of updates
• Sub-optimal use of hardware by the software
• Hardware tuned to the maximum
• DB software tweaked
• New performance features added

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RIPE Database (2)

• Database Consistency Project
• good results (http//www.ripe.net/db/state/)
• Secondary Sites
• rpsl, test, beta
• Re-implementation slightly delayed
• PGP Deployment
• 80 maintainer objects using PGP

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Test-Traffic Measurements

• Membership service in 2000
• 43 sites participating, 36 taking data
• Data analysis in progress
• New services being developed
• Delay alarms small scale tests
• Trends in the data analysis in progress
• Results overview page work starts after RIPE-34

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Where are the test-boxes located?
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Routing Information Service

• RIS collects and stores Routing information
• Usage possibilities
• Debugging/Problem solving
• Statistics
• Compare announced against actual policies
• Prototype setup, used for design studies
• Design document discussed in Routing-WG
• Published early October (ripe-200)

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RR Consistency

• Consistency between RR Reality
• Use RIS data collection
• Concentrate on route/origin authentication
• RIPE community co-operation
• DB-WG, Routing-WG

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RIR coordination

• Excellent cooperation - IPv6
• ICANN ASO
• DB consistency
• We welcome APNIC staff

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Annual General Meeting

• RIPE NCC AGM 19.10.1999
• Members register now
• Agenda
• AP2000
• Budget
• EB elections

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Questions and Answers

• http//www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-34pres/