Confusion about Network Number Assignments!

Dear NIC people,

some of our local registries are getting confused about recent direct
network number assignments from nic.ddn.mil.  Below you see the third
message of the kind this week.  I have sent you a list of the countries
we cover on July 24th.  Is there any special reason for this?

In order to clarify things even further I append two lists.  The first
is the list of countries we definitely cover.  Please do not assign
network numbers for use in these countries!  This defeats route
aggregation (CIDR) and causes considerable confusion. 

The second list is a list of countries which have ties to RIPE or
countries within RIPE.  These ties very frequently cause common
networking activities in these countries and countries within RIPE.  In
such cases RIPE and the RIPE NCC will be happy to coordinate and provide
service if so requested.  In short: we are willing to help with these on
request either from you or someone within those countries. 
We will coordinate any registry activity concerning countries in the
second list with you.

If you have any questions about the list or the procedures or any 
particular case, please contact us at <ncc at ripe.net>. We would also
like to hear quickly if users have problems with local registries in 
our rewgion.

Regards

Daniel Karrenberg
NCC Manager

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Date:     Thu, 10 Dec 92 13:47:43 +0100
From:     Nandor Horvath <horvath at sztaki.hu>
To:       ncc at ripe.net
Subject:  Class C net number requests

Dear Daniel and Marten,

As far as I know the NIC told, that all the European IP number requests
would be handeld by RIPE, and/or the appropriate national NIC.

I get more and more requests to register domain names, but then they state,
that they do not need network numbers, because they got it already.
It turned out, that they all got it directly from the US NIC, the last
such a response was signed by Jean Gallagher.

Obviously the system, that if the US NIC gets a request from Europe, they
would send it to the RIPE NCC, does not work properly.

Any ideas?

Nandor

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List of RIPE countries:

AD  ANDORRA
AL  ALBANIA
AM  ARMENIA
AT  AUSTRIA
AZ  AZERBAIJAN
BA  BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA
BE  BELGIUM
BG  BULGARIA
BY  BELARUS
CH  SWITZERLAND
CS  CZECHOSLOVAKIA
CY  CYPRUS
DE  GERMANY
DK  DENMARK
EE  ESTONIA
ES  SPAIN
FI  FINLAND
FR  FRANCE
GB  UNITED KINGDOM
GE  GEORGIA
GI  GIBRALTAR
GR  GREECE
HR  CROATIA (local name: Hrvatska)
HU  HUNGARY
IE  IRELAND
IL  ISRAEL
IS  ICELAND
IT  ITALY
KZ  KAZAKHSTAN
LI  LIECHTENSTEIN
LT  LITHUANIA
LU  LUXEMBOURG
LV  LATVIA
MC  MONACO
MD  MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF
MS  MONTSERRAT
MT  MALTA
NL  NETHERLANDS
NO  NORWAY
PL  POLAND
PT  PORTUGAL
RO  ROMANIA
RU  RUSSIAN FEDERATION
SE  SWEDEN
SI  SLOVENIA
SM  SAN MARINO
SU  USSR
TJ  TAJIKISTAN
TR  TURKEY
UA  UKRAINIAN SSR
UZ  UZBEKISTAN
VA  VATICAN CITY STATE (HOLY SEE)
YU  YUGOSLAVIA


List of countries we are willing to help with:

AE  UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
AN  NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
AW  ARUBA
BH  BAHRAIN
CI  COTE D'IVOIRE
DZ  ALGERIA
EG  EGYPT
FK  FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)
FO  FAROE ISLANDS
GF  FRENCH GUIANA
GL  GREENLAND
IO  BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY
KW  KUWAIT
LB  LEBANON
MA  MOROCCO
OM  OMAN
PF  FRENCH POLYNESIA
QA  QATAR
SA  SAUDI ARABIA
SR  SURINAME
TF  FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES
TN  TUNISIA
VG  VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH)