Editing RIPE (section)

== History==
The name is a translation of the English title of a diagram to French by [[John Quarterman]].<ref name="How the Name RIPE Came About">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-58/content/presentations/the-origins-of-ripe.pdf|title=How the Name RIPE Came About|date=2009-05-07|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2017-07-09|first=Daniel|last=Karrenberg}}</ref> This was presented in Special Session of RIPE 58.<ref name="RIPE 58">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-58/archives.php?day=thursday|title=RIPE 58 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands &#124; 4-8 May 2009 |work=ripe.net |accessdate=2013-06-21}}</ref>

The first RIPE meeting was held on 22 May 1989 in [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]. It brought together 14 representatives of 6 countries and 11 networks<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-38/presentations/RIPE38-ripenewcom/sld009.html|title=Participants of first RIPE meeting|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411044256/http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-38/presentations/RIPE38-ripenewcom/sld009.html|archive-date=2008-04-11}}</ref> At the time [[European Union|European governments]], standardisation bodies and telecommunications companies were pushing for the [[Open Systems Interconnection|OSI standard]] and [[IP-based network]]s were seen as the wrong way to go. In the academic community (mostly nuclear and particle physics) there was a strong need to work together with colleagues across Europe and the United States. IP provided a standard to allow interconnection and cooperation, whereas the networks offered by the European telecommunications companies often completely lacked that.

[[Image:RIPE office 258 Singel Amsterdam.jpg|thumb|Former RIPE NCC offices at 258 [[Singel]], Amsterdam]]
RIPE as an organisation was established by the RIPE terms of reference, which were agreed on 29 November 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-001.html|title=RIPE terms of reference|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31}}</ref> There were ten organisations intending to participate in  the RIPE Coordinating Committee, along the lines defined by the RIPE Terms of Reference, though some still needed to make a formal decision. These organisations were: [[BelWue]],  [[CERN]], [[EASInet]], [[EUnet]], [[GARR]], [[HEPnet]], [[NORDUnet]], [[SURFnet]], [[SWITCH Information Technology Services|SWITCH]] and [[XLINK (ISP)|XLINK]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-002.txt|title=RIPE: Statement of cooperation|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31}}</ref> At the same time task forces were established to facilitate the interconnection of European IP-networks in the following weeks and months.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-004.txt|title=RIPE Task forces|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31}}</ref> The four task forces were:
#Connectivity and Routing
#Network Management and Operations
#Domain Name System
#Formal Coordination

One of the results was a proposal on 16 September 1990 to establish the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) to support the administrative tasks in the RIPE community<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-019.txt|title=RIPE network coordination centre|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31}}</ref> and the first RIPE NCC Activity Plan was published in May 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-035.txt|title=First RIPE NCC Activity Plan|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31}}</ref>

RIPE asked [[Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne|RARE]] (one of the predecessors of [[TERENA]]) if they would provide the legal framework for the RIPE NCC. After a solicitation procedure, the RIPE NCC began in April 1992 with its headquarters in Amsterdam, [[Daniel Karrenberg]] as manager and only two other staff members. Initial funding was provided by the academic networks (RARE members), [[European Academic Research Network|EARN]] and [[EUnet]]. The RIPE NCC was formally established when the Dutch version of the articles of association was deposited with the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce on 12 November 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/ncc-history.html|title=NCC history|work=ripe.net|accessdate=2008-07-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615143550/http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/ncc-history.html|archive-date=2007-06-15}}</ref>