New Document available: RIPE-212

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New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement
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A new document is available from the RIPE document store. 
This document is the update to ripe-160 document.



Short content description
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This document aims to provide the necessary information for those who are considering setting up a Local Internet Registry (LIR in short) with the RIPE NCC. In this document, some initial guidelines are given on which organisations usually set up a LIR. Further, the steps necessary to set up a LIR are described. Finally, the RIPE NCC's IP address first assignment and allocation policy is discussed. 


Accessing the RIPE document store
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The RIPE document store is available via anonymous FTP to
ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. 
The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are:

  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-212.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-212.txt  plain text version

You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW.
RIPE-212 is not available from the WWW at this moment, but will
be soon, at the following URL:


  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-212.html