New Document available: RIPE-185

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Ref:           ripe-185
Title:         European Internet Registry Policies and Procedures
Author:        RIPE Local Internet Registry Working Group
Date:          26 October 1998
Obsoletes:     ripe-159
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Updates:      
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This document is an update to ripe-159, the European Internet Registry
Policies and Procedures document. It includes policy changes agreed upon by
the LIR working group and the local-ir mailing list. The main change
is that an allocation only needs to be 80% used up before requesting a
new one (used to be 90%). There are also minor changes to make the
text in the document clearer, and to include better examples. These
changes were circulated to the local-ir list several weeks ago.

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