Thanks for sharing this wonderful pieces of history. Cheers!
/Carlos On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 7:43 AM Daniel Karrenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear RIPE colleagues and fellow RIPE NCC staff, > > 30 years ago today the RIPE NCC, the first of the RIRs, opened its virtual > doors. Yes it was on April 2nd and not a day earlier as is often wrongly > reported. This is a fact! I was there. The term 'post-factual' was just > being invented. > > An NCC had already been proposed two years earlier: > https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-019 . Our purpose, our > relationship with RIPE and many of our tasks today are already expressed > clearly in that proposal. The very first RIPE NCC Activity Plan was ready > a year before the start: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-035 > . It took a year to collect the initial funds, a host organisation and > office space. > > Some friends suggested strongly that I should lead the set-up of the RIPE > NCC. I got the job and signed up for one year, fully expecting to return to > an academic career in computer science. The rest is, as the saying goes, > history. > > By the way, the history of the RIPE NCC is well documented in quarterly > and annual reports and other RIPE documents: > https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs . We started with three people and > five computers. I have described the first hours from a geeky perspective > five years ago: > https://labs.ripe.net/author/dfk/25-years-of-the-ripe-ncc-the-first-hours/ > . At the same time we published a short summary of the history with a > photograph of the staff in 1996: > https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/celebrating-25-years-of-the-ripe-ncc > . > > Together we have come a long way. I am proud of all of you, past and > present, who have made the RIPE NCC a success. I am proud of the strong > community we have built and nourished. Recently we have mastered the > challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and we are coping with conflict and > terrible wars in our region. I am confident that with our combined efforts > both RIPE and the RIPE NCC will thrive for a long time to come. > > Thank you all, past and present staff, past and present board members, the > RIPE community, the membership and all other supporters! > > Daniel > -- > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change > your subscription options, please visit: > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-list > -- -- ========================= Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo h <http://cagnazzo.name>ttp://cagnazzo.me =========================
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