This directory contains the RIPE NCC statistics exchange files. For the description of the format of a files please see "RIR-Statistics-Exchange-Format.txt". Previous files in this format are grouped by the year of their creation time and located in corresponding subdirectories (i.e. "2003", "2004" and so on). They are compressed with bzip2 (see http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). Files with ".md5" extension contain MD5 signature of original (uncompressed) data files. Files in the old format are in the "old-format" subdirectory. If you have questions about these files, please send an e-mail to .